But seriously, news from Enron not very long ago was that scores of upper management were let go because of performance needs. In reality, Enron executives were firing anyone who could see and document the fraud, let alone whether any dared to speak out.
In a similar vein Tesla today is so awash with egregious fraud that it’s halting their supercharger team (which was a huge scam from the start), stopping the gigacasting team and their obvious nonsense, throwing out the “new model” team, and even service teams are being let go… as the list goes on and on.
It’s all crazy not least because there is a skyrocketing demand for repair expert technicians to clean up the mess.
If Tesla hadn’t tried to use “environmentalism” and “reliability” fraud to hedge and corner the EV market, they instead could be heavily profiting right now just from training electrical engineers to repair or replace battery packs.
Honestly, the amazingly successful Nissan LEAF becoming the most popular EV in the world in 2019 seems like not that long ago, given that we can see clearly now how much Tesla basically lied to steal the market and blew itself out in just five years.
What’s left of this fraud balloon?
Remember a long time ago when I used to call Tesla a culture of “free speed extremism“?
Of course he refers to himself as a “free speech extremist”, but really how different is that from extreme thinking that vehicles shouldn’t be regulated (shouldn’t have any suspension or brakes) and allowed to repeatedly stupidly crash instead?
“As the brakes never really worked anyway, we figured the team’s existence was redundant. Going forward, none of our models will be outfitted with brakes. Instead, we will shift our efforts to making fart noises louder.”
Perhaps most notable is the expansion of scope to any health related apps that are handling unsecured personal data.
“Protecting consumers’ sensitive health data is a high priority for the FTC,” said Samuel Levine, Director of the FTC’s Bureau of Consumer Protection. “With the increasing use of health apps and connected devices, the updated HBNR will ensure it keeps pace with changes in the health marketplace.”
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The revised definition makes clear that the final rule covers entities that offer products and services through the online services, including mobile applications, of vendors of personal health records. It also makes clear that only entities that access or send unsecured PHR identifiable health information to a personal health record — rather than entities that access or send any information to a personal health record — qualify as PHR related entities;
Also worth considering is a new notification requirement, which seems to recognize effective breach response team needs.
For breaches involving 500 or more individuals, covered entities must notify the FTC at the same time they send notices to affected individuals, which must occur without unreasonable delay and in no case later than 60 calendar days after the discovery of a breach of security
That’s a huge difference from the often threatened 72 or even 24 hour rule from lawyers, which risked undermining evidence gathering and therefore deny successful investigations.
They’re very happy about President Eisenhower in 1958 formally declaring May 1 as “Law Day”, as in an American law enforcement day.
If you aren’t celebrating this as a holiday of “individual freedom” in America, you’d be excused. A lack of celebration on May 1st every year, the complete lack of anyone paying attention to history or what happened, is ironically by design.
“Law Day” proclamation in 1958 was an anti-holiday tactic from the U.S. government. The idea literally was to prevent people from gathering and talking about injustice and excessive force that has been applied under the law (e.g. prevent May Day being celebrated in America).
It’s a bit like how the state of Arkansas in 1985 officially combined a day to celebrate slavery with the federal Martin Luther King Jr. (MLK) Day. This came after two years of requiring state employees wanting a day off of work to declare affinity to either MLK or a secessionist domestic terrorist known for raping black women (with a third option being they could refuse both and choose their own birthday).
Nobody in America remembers or talks about either May Day and Law Day anymore because… that’s the whole idea.
…the protests [calling for an eight hour workday] turned violent when police — “which were basically the armed force of the capitalist masters,” according to historian Linebaugh — attacked workers demonstrating near the McCormick Reaper plant. The following day, a meeting held in the city’s Haymarket Square turned even bloodier. Again, the police intervened, said Linebaugh, triggering clashes that killed both officers and civilians.
A bomb exploded among police ranks in the melee, but historians say it’s unclear whether it was intended for the police or the crowd of civilians.
“There was a trial of eight men who were found guilty of conspiracy to murder,” Linebaugh said. “Even though no evidence was ever produced that any of them had any relationship to this bomb, and four of them were eventually hanged despite a worldwide campaign in England, Europe, Mexico to save their lives.”
Linebaugh points to the influential words of August Spies, one of the convicted men, who just before his execution cried out the famous words: “There will come a time when our silence will be more powerful than the voices you strangle today.”
His words “swept the globe,” Linebaugh said. “Throughout Latin America, throughout Europe and in North America, to many, the day became this holiday to celebrate working people.”
To honor the Chicago workers, the International Socialist Conference in 1889 named May Day a labor holiday, birthing what many nations now call International Workers’ Day.
By 1893 the governor of Illinois pardoned the men convicted, calling the trial unfair and a menace to the Republic because “the law was bent to deprive” Americans of civil liberties.
As a result of the 1886 deaths and false convictions, people worldwide observe May 1 as a holiday to commemorate labor protests against abuses of power. A kind of “no taxation without representation” theme, if you will.
Though the movement celebrating May Day originated in the United States, it is not a recognized holiday there. May Day commemorates the mass protests on May 1, 1886, for the eight-hour day, when sixty thousand workers went on strike in Chicago, and the subsequent Haymarket Affair, where eight labor organizers were hanged by the state.
However, in the United States, there’s very intentionally no May Day holiday; instead, the very specifically named “Law Day” was established by the President to quell remembering and fighting for what’s right. This initiative aimed to encourage Americans to stay out of the streets, avoid gatherings, focus on work and above all stop discussing events where the law was unfairly used against those advocating for justice.
I just noticed a series of nine rare interviews were posted in June 2023 by the Polish Embassy in London.
Each has only a couple hundred views on YouTube despite significance of the subject. They feature war hero Marian Rejewski, the 1st person to crack the Enigma code, describing major breakthroughs before and during WWII (which the British rarely, if ever, gave proper credit to Poland):
1) French X, British Y, Polish Z (0:42)
2) Wiretap collection amounts needed to break Enigma (1:00)
3) Breaking the Enigma code in 1932 (0:56)
4) Enigma “banal” A-A-A, Q-W-E keyfinding (1:31)
5) The “Bomba” machine (1:16)
6) Enigma codebreaking process and how the Bomba automated the work of over 28 codebreakers (1:30)
7) Manual codebreaking with the primitive “grill method” and then the “cyclometer”, processing over 100,000 Enigma key possibilities (26x26x26)6) in a few minutes (1:56)
8) Handing over Enigma codebreaking and Zygalski sheets to the British in 1939 (2:07)
9) Polish-British cooperation on Enigma codebreaking. Poles in Paris would send cracked German Enigma keys over wires to Bletchley Park using “almost comical” protection… encrypted with the German Enigma (1:18)
