wow! i really should have proof-read more on that last post. just to preface, I wasn't planning to write anything today, and at this point i'm just waiting for it to warm up this morning so i can finish the touch-up on my asphalt deck weatherproofing project. It has occured to me the reason why starship keeps exploding(and why that is still considered success). and the rise of musk is more complex than just NASA wanted to subcontract launching rockets. none of this would have been possible without various dot-com shinanigans, or EV-tax-credits, or probably also crypto-coins and various other scammy stuff.

anyway, here is this:

Tesla said it didn’t have key data in a fatal crash. Then a hacker found it.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2025/08/29/tesla-autopilot-crashes-evidence-testimony-wrongful-death

https://archive.ph/s1psp

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45062614


p.s. asphalt is such a messy material to work with. or maybe i'm just doing it wrong

also, i feel like saving this for later(found in a YT video, but saving here): https://ntrs.nasa.gov/api/citations/19720005243/downloads/19720005243.pdf