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“TikToker Fixes Potholes with Amazon Money | Giga Gears”
Amazon is a massive company that makes unfathomable amounts of money selling products made by exploited workers, driving local businesses to bankruptcy and generally doing nothing to help local communities. So what if we told you that one TikToker figured out a weird trick to make Amazon pay to fix the potholes in…
“Fisker Fire Sale and Amazon Electric Delivery Vans in the News | Giga Gears”
Fisker officially filed for bankruptcy last month, and despite a “going out of business” sale that saw prices of its Ocean EV slashed by thousands, the automaker still has a few thousand leftovers that didn’t sell. Fisker may have found a buyer for all those EVs and, as TechCrunch reports, it’s willing to let them go…
Interview with We Deserve This Author Victoria Scott: Be Genuine, Make Art
Right now is a weird time to be a trans person in the United States. We’re being attacked on all sides: Legislators are banning our IDs, corporations are discriminating against us, even our own enthusiast communities often shun us. They’d prefer it if we’d just disappear from public life, stop telling our stories and…
“Speeding Tickets and Tungsten Cubes in Car Culture Roundup | Giga Gears”
The Tesla Cybertruck is unlike most trucks that have come before it, and thus it has attracted a new set of buyers who wouldn’t normally drive a big pickup. Owning and driving a truck that’s over 18 feet long, nearly 8 feet wide, and built like a Frigidaire isn’t for the faint of heart, as one Salt Lake City man…
Elon Musk Prioritizes Twitter and xAI Over Tesla | Giga Gears
It really seems like Tesla CEO Elon Musk is pushing his automaker’s needs by the wayside in favor of Twitter and his artificial intelligence company, xAI. It also looks as if Musk is going back on his April promise that Tesla will drastically increase the number of Nvidia H100 (the company’s flagship AI chip) it uses…