#jalopnik

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(via Jalopnik's Best Car Photos Of 2024)

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MANTHEY RACING PORSCHE 911 GT3 RS

[puipui-official]

Beyond the lack of demand, Elon Musk's decision to cozy up to Donald Trump and open DOGE — an organization that has systematically disassembled multiple public institutions that millions of American citizens love and rely on for employment and for services — has negatively impacted the public image of his company. 

Now, Tesla owners are trying to get rid of their Teslas in order to distance themselves from Musk's politics, and people around the globe are boycotting the brand. These numerous yet easily avoidable challenges have led to a decline in Tesla resale values and a massive surplus of undesirable new Cybertrucks, enough that the company will allegedly no longer accept its own Cybertrucks on trade-in.

[snkrfnd]

hey we wanna re-think this at all or

[makingcontact]

An Interview with Summer Intern Alex Corey

This was an exciting and eventful summer at Making Contact, especially as we had Alex Corey join us as our summer intern! Like the journalists we are, we had to interview him about his time at Making Contact. Be sure to check out his answers below! 1.Tell us about your journalism background. How’d you get into it and why? Well in the past I’ve done a wide variety of reporting, from in-depth…

[petnews2day]

At $60,000, Is This 1959 Jaguar XK150 FHC The Cat’s Pajamas?

New Post has been published on https://petn.ws/gosUJ

At $60,000, Is This 1959 Jaguar XK150 FHC The Cat’s Pajamas?

It was announced this week that Jaguar has produced its last F-Type, thus ending the company’s run of sports cars. Today’s Nice Price of No Dice XK150 goes back almost to the beginning of that run. Let’s see if it’s priced to keep on running. What Is The Most American Car? | Jalopinions The seller […]

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[automotiveamerican]

AMC's Amazing Experiment In Cheapness - Jason Torchinsky @Jalopnik

AMC was the perpetual underdog of America’s motor industry, and the only reason they survived as long as they did was because they were so damn clever. And by “they” I mostly mean designer Dick Teague. AMC was always strapped for cash, and Dick was a master of cost-cutting. His masterpiece of cost-cutting was the AMC Cavalier. Back when AMC was still Nash/Rambler, they were already trying to cut…

[heelcody]

two of my very dear friends got interviewed for freaking JALOPNIK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! please check it out I luv them so much I'm so proud of them

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Jalopnik editors if you're reading this please hire me I have a degree in journalism and I love the car

[ralfmaximus]

Apparently the trucks did not leave New Orleans unscathed, either, as many parade goers threw beads and other projectiles at the trucks driving down the parade route. Again, from jobles 95, the damage included "one broken window, and one chipped pretty bad. I know they got scratched up a lot, but I don't know the full extent."

Cybertrucks in a parade were loudly booed and pelted with beads & projectiles, some hard enough to damage the vehicles. Begging the question: how fucking hard do you have to throw Mardi Gras beads to break glass?? Holy shit.

The assholes driving them were, of course, mystified by the hate.

Video in the linked Jalopnik article.

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jalopnik is becoming one of my favorite sites

[mcnutcase]

my gods, someone is proposing to make a truck that does truck things in a reasonable amount of space.

[mckitterick]

The End Is Near: "News" organizations using AI to create content, firing human writers

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an example "story" now comes with this warning:

A new byline showed up Wednesday on io9: “Gizmodo Bot.” The site’s editorial staff had no input or advance notice of the new AI-generator, snuck in by parent company G/O Media.

G/O Media’s AI-generated articles are riddled with errors and outdated information, and block reader comments.

“As you may have seen today, an AI-generated article appeared on io9,” James Whitbrook, deputy editor at io9 and Gizmodo, tweeted. “I was informed approximately 10 minutes beforehand, and no one at io9 played a part in its editing or publication.”

Whitbrook sent a statement to G/O Media along with “a lengthy list of corrections.” In part, his statement said, “The article published on io9 today rejects the very standards this team holds itself to on a daily basis as critics and as reporters. It is shoddily written, it is riddled with basic errors; in closing the comments section off, it denies our readers, the lifeblood of this network, the chance to publicly hold us accountable, and to call this work exactly what it is: embarrassing, unpublishable, disrespectful of both the audience and the people who work here, and a blow to our authority and integrity.”

He continued, “It is shameful that this work has been put to our audience and to our peers in the industry as a window to G/O’s future, and it is shameful that we as a team have had to spend an egregious amount of time away from our actual work to make it clear to you the unacceptable errors made in publishing this piece.”

According to the Gizmodo Media Group Union, affiliated with WGA East, the AI effort has “been pushed by” G/O Media CEO Jim Spanfeller, recently hired editorial director Merrill Brown, and deputy editorial director Lea Goldman.

In 2019, Spanfeller and private-equity firm Great Hill Partners acquired Gizmodo Media Group (previously Gawker Media) and The Onion.

The Writers Guild of America issued a blistering condemnation of G/O Media’s use of artificial intelligence to generate content.

“These AI-generated posts are only the beginning. Such articles represent an existential threat to journalism. Our members are professionally harmed by G/O Media’s supposed ‘test’ of AI-generated articles.”

WGA added, “But this fight is not only about members in online media. This is the same fight happening in broadcast newsrooms throughout our union. This is the same fight our film, television, and streaming colleagues are waging against the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers (AMPTP) in their strike.”

The union, in its statement, said it “demands an immediate end of AI-generated articles on G/O Media sites,” which include The A.V. Club, Deadspin, Gizmodo, Jalopnik, Jezebel, Kotaku, The Onion, Quartz, The Root, and The Takeout.

but wait, there's more:

Just weeks after news broke that tech site CNET was secretly using artificial intelligence to produce articles, the company is doing extensive layoffs that include several longtime employees, according to multiple people with knowledge of the situation. The layoffs total 10 percent of the public masthead.

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Greedy corporate sleazeballs using artificial intelligence are replacing humans with cost-free machines to barf out garbage content.

This is what end-stage capitalism looks like: An ouroborus of machines feeding machines in a downward spiral, with no room for humans between the teeth of their hungry gears.

Anyone who cares about human life, let alone wants to be a writer, should be getting out the EMP tools and burning down capitalist infrastructure right now before it's too late.

[corporationsarepeople]

Despite producing the Tesla Model Y, the most popular new car on the planet last year, Tesla has had a rough time so far in 2025. The American EV maker faces "Tesla Takedown" protests and other boycotts from citizens across the globe thanks to the inflammatory words and actions of the brand's CEO, Elon Musk. 

Though the company previously declared that there were over a million Cybertruck pre-orders, Tesla can't find buyers for the current backlog of nearly 2,400 Cybertrucks, or about $200 million worth of inventory. Not only that, but Tesla is allegedly refusing to accept its own Cybertrucks as trade-ins since it can't sell them, and is reportedly even forcing some owners to Lemon Law their cars instead. That's an ominous sign for the model that was supposed to revolutionize the pickup market and revitalize the automaker's aging line up.

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The only thing going for Tesla sales right now is that their cars are all old models that haven’t been updated in a long time. New buyers can pretend they got them years ago and don’t support a Nazi.

When your biggest positive is that your tech is old, that’s not promising.

And of course, the collapse needs to grow: