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🏎️ Tesla makes it hard to get $50,000 Roadster deposit refunded after 8 years

Electek

Tesla charged between $50,000 and $250,000 in deposits for the Roadster, depending on whether customers opted for the “Founders Series” or not. Some people had placed that money in Tesla’s hands for eight years without the automaker delivering anything.

Wild that they can just hold on to your money for so long without delivering anything or refunding people without them having to waste a bunch of time going through the hassle of dealing with customer service. I’m sure they are putting all of that money to good use.

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📰 The Nerve

The Nerve

We are a group of former Guardian and Observer journalists who think our turbulent times call for a different kind of media title: courageous, independent, diverse and built around a community of readers and journalists.

New independent, female-founded news site alert! They’ll be covering politics, culture, and tech. I’ll be curious to see how things split between UK/US coverage given they are based in the UK, but have covered things like Cambridge Analytica and Silicon Valley.

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🧪 Ready for vibe VLOOKUP?

Microsoft launches ‘vibe working’ in Excel and Word
Vibe working is all about Office’s new Agent Mode.

I can't help but laugh a little at the timing given that the term 'workslop' was coined last week. Beyond the giggle, the writeup is worth it to learn about SpreadsheetBench and how Microsoft thinks about evaluating accuracy when it comes to 'vibe work'.

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🏈 Why Defector is intervening to make public a confidential document in the Tyreek Hill case

Defector

Marks said he received threats from Schneiderman saying that if any financial harm came to Hill because of the court document, “his client will pursue all available remedies against me, my client, and my firm, and me, personally.” A second person on Hill’s legal team, Marks said, made similar threats to him as well.

Similar to the last one from 404, another example of these small independent outlets shining a light on things that the powers that be would rather have kept on the shadows.

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🦹 Countering domestic terrorism and organized political violence

White House

This “anti-fascist” lie has become the organizing rallying cry used by domestic terrorists to wage a violent assault against democratic institutions, constitutional rights, and fundamental American liberties. Common threads animating this violent conduct include anti-Americanism, anti-capitalism, and anti-Christianity; support for the overthrow of the United States Government; extremism on migration, race, and gender; and hostility towards those who hold traditional American views on family, religion, and morality.

We obviously already have ICE acting like the gestapo in masks, and now the administration is literally putting us into a police state where being against fascism or not being Christian

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🛠️ OmniTools: free web-based tools for every day tasks

OmniTools
Boost your productivity with OmniTools, the ultimate toolkit for getting things done quickly! Access thousands of user-friendly utilities for editing images, text, lists, and data, all directly from your browser.

OmniTools has quickly become one of my favorite websites because of how many different problems it can solve. Since there are so many utilities in OmniTools, you'll have to explore a bit to identify how this might fit into your workflow. The utilities I use most often are Compress Image, Create a transparent image and Convert Time to Seconds. Since all of the processing happens in the browser

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