Aurora Begins Commercial Self-Driving Truck Service in Texas (Without Safety Drivers)
May 2nd, 2025Via: TechCrunch:
Autonomous vehicle technology startup Aurora Innovation says it has successfully launched a self-driving truck service in Texas, making it the first company to deploy driverless, heavy-duty trucks for commercial use on public roads in the U.S.
The launch comes just as Aurora hits its deadline; in October, the company delayed its planned 2024 debut to April 2025. The debut also comes five months after rival Kodiak Robotics delivered its first autonomous trucks to a commercial customer for driverless operations in off-road environments.
Aurora says it began running freight this week between Dallas and Houston with its launch customers Hirschbach Motor Lines and Uber Freight, and that it has completed 1,200 miles in a single self-driving truck without a driver so far. The company plans to build up to “tens of self-driving trucks” and expand to El Paso and Phoenix by the end of 2025.
Aurora will also continue to haul “more than 100 loads of commercial freight” for customers every week with a fleet of more than 30 supervised autonomous trucks, according to a company spokesperson.
Trump Posts AI Generated Picture of Himself as Pope on Truth Social
May 2nd, 2025Where does one even start???
Trump Posts AI Generated Picture of Himself as Pope on Truth Social
Screenshot and source: https://t.co/EfRKgkfxCz pic.twitter.com/oXYfDgloxV
— cryptogon (@cryptogon) May 3, 2025
Related [???]: Trump Gaza
Drones Attack Gaza Aid Ship in International Waters
May 2nd, 2025I wonder who would do such a thing? Hmm.
Via: Al Jazeera:
A ship carrying aid to Gaza in a bid to break Israel’s blockade has been hit by drones in international waters off Malta, according to the Freedom Flotilla Coalition (FFC), the group that organised the mission.
The FFC said in a statement on Friday that the vessel, now located 14 nautical miles (25km) from Malta, was the target of two drone strikes while on its way to Gaza. The ship had been seeking to deliver aid to the besieged enclave, where aid groups warn people are struggling to survive following a two-month total blockade by Israel.
“Armed drones attacked the front of an unarmed civilian vessel twice, causing a fire and a substantial breach in the hull,” the group said.
The statement did not directly accuse Israel of carrying out the attack.
Trump Terminates NPR, PBS Federal Funding
May 2nd, 2025I’ve always thought of NPR as The New York Times on the radio and PBS as The New York Times on the TV.
It’s what would be pumped into those nutrient agar tanks in The Matrix. Professionally educated ignoramuses bathe in that system maintaining schlock and think of themselves as well informed intellectuals.
Get that NPR handbag out for the recumbent bicycle ride to Trader Joes. Tenure in the next five years. Maybe ten. Harris Walz 2024 sticker. Even now. Especially now. Rebel.
I have to stop. The schadenfreude is making me giddy.
I know it won’t last long. My guess is more corporate sponsorships will ooze into the works to fill any void caused by these cuts (assuming they happen at all).
Via: New York Post:
President Trump signed an executive order late Thursday terminating federal funding for National Public Radio (NPR) and the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS).
NPR and PBS, which have long been targeted for cuts by conservatives, both receive partial funding through the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB), which the president argued is unnecessary in the current media environment.
“Government funding of news media in this environment is not only outdated and unnecessary but corrosive to the appearance of journalistic independence,” Trump wrote in the order.
Hal Puthoff on Joe Rogan
May 2nd, 2025The significance of this has more to do with the scale of Rogan’s audience than the content itself, which has been available for decades to anyone willing to look for it.
Why is this type of information being mainstreamed now?
Via: Joe Rogan:
Two Young Runners Die Just After Finishing Oregon Half Marathons This Month
May 2nd, 2025So it goes…
Via: Oregon Live:
Two young adults collapsed and died shortly after crossing the finish lines of half marathons in Oregon this month — apparently from unexplained cardiac arrest.
Tulsi Gabbard on Investigation Into Fauci, Gain of Function Research
May 1st, 2025?BREAKING: DNI Tulsi Gabbard is investigating Dr. Fauci for perjury and his role in funding Wuhan gain-of-function research tied to COVID-19.
Justice is coming.
pic.twitter.com/qmZwq5WgYd— Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) May 1, 2025
RFK Jr.: “During the Biden administration, HHS became a collaborator in child trafficking and for sex and for slavery”
April 30th, 2025“During the Biden administration, HHS became a collaborator in child trafficking and for s*x and for slavery” – RFK Jr
HOLY SHLIT pic.twitter.com/3ApHHRt3LS
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) April 30, 2025
Imagine my shock:
‘Modern-Day Slave Traders’: Hawley Demands Probe Into 85,000 ‘Lost’ Migrant Children
HHS Whistleblower Says Government Complicit in Trafficking; Child Admits Being ‘Pimped’ by Sponsor
Biden Secretly Flying Underage Migrants Into NY in Dead of Night
U.S. Waives FBI Checks on Caregivers at New Migrant Facilities, Alarming Child Welfare Experts
Audio Appears to Reveal Sexual Abuse at Fort Bliss Facility for Migrant Kids
Tucker Obtains Whistleblower Report on Military Flying Illegal Immigrants
DHS Insider Blows Whistle on Int’l Child Sex Trafficking Gangs Exploiting ‘Reasonable Fear’ Loophole
“Whistleblower” Matthew Brown on Immaculate Constellation
April 30th, 2025Here’s the full interview:
46 minutes later, what did we get?
Almost nothing, as usual. It’s more of the same CIA orchestrated limited hangout “disclosure” that ramped up back in 2017.
That said, I hadn’t heard the one about the Russian vessels and the triangle before. While totally unsubstantiated, at least it wasn’t the Tic Tac for the 100,000th time.
Via: Liberation Times:
Brown told Corbell and Knapp that the report then got “very interesting, very quick.”
The page that came afterwards, according to Brown, details “a collection incident in the Pacific Ocean” at night off the coast of Kamchatka, involving “several Russian naval intelligence vessels.”
One slide includes a still colour image, which shows, according to Brown, “a large black triangle floating in the air.”
Brown says the image appears to have been taken “close to the waterline” – meaning it was possibly taken by a U.S. clandestine submersible asset.
Describing the accompanying summary of the event, Brown said:
“They’ve [the US. collection asset] been hanging out in the middle of the ocean in this place, apparently, for a few days. And this night, while they are observing the Russian vessels, a large black triangle materialises or de-cloaks.
“The point is, it did not move. It appeared directly above these ships, probably no more than 200 meters, pretty close. And interestingly, as noted in the report itself, there was no visible reaction from these vessels, from what would almost certainly be considered a hostile approach.”
Brown went on to state that according to the report’s analysis, “the Russian Navy had foreknowledge that this vehicle would appear in that area of the ocean, and they were there specifically to either collect on it themselves or to interact with it in some way.”
Florida Passes Legislation to Ban Fluoride in Public Water Supplies
April 29th, 2025Via: USA Today:
The Florida House on Tuesday gave final approval to a bill that would prevent local governments from adding fluoride to water supplies and take aim at labeling of plant-based products as milk, meat and eggs.
The Republican-controlled House voted 88-27 to pass the bill (SB 700), which also includes a series of other issues related to the Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services. The Senate passed the bill April 16, which means it is now ready to go to Gov. Ron DeSantis.
