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The Phantom Menace | The Empire Strikes Back
#swedit#starwarsedit#padme amidala#leia organa#tpm*#tesb*#starwarsblr#thestarwarsdaily#theforcegifs#swsource#swladies#femaledaily#femalegifsource#femalecharacters#ladiesblr#ladiesofcinema#gifs#*#river
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he’s getting flashbacks
#esteldraws#yoda#master yoda#qui gon jinn#osha aniseya#anakin skywalker#the acolyte#the phantom menace#tpm#sw#star wars
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estou cansada de deixar que todos tenham o meu melhor enquanto recebo qualquer coisa.
alessandra braga — saciada.
#lardepoetas#liberdadeliteraria#projetoversografando#pequenosescritores#escritos#não leia na tpm#poemas para não ler na tpm#saciada#espalhepoesias#carteldapoesias#mentesexpostas#desamor#escrita#mardeescritos#clubepoetico#projetoflorejo#autorias#projetoalmaflorida#julietario#reflexão#poetaslivres#projetovelhopoema#meusescritos#projetosonhantes#clubedaleitura#projetonaflordapele#projetosautorais#pensamentos#cnepv#cartasnaoenviadasparavoce
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i’m having a maul moment
#aren’t we all though?#star wars#darth maul#maul opress#tcw#the clone wars#sabeldraws#the phantom menace#sw tpm#fanart#digital art
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@pscentral event 28: throwback
THE STAR WARS PREQUEL TRILOGY on VHS [in/sp] All three prequel trilogy films were officially released on VHS in April 2000, November 2002 and October 2005 respectively. They were the last Star Wars films to be released on the format.
#pscentral#star wars#swedit#starwarsedit#the phantom menace#tpmedit#attack of the clones#aotcedit#revenge of the sith#rotsedit#prequel trilogy#prequelsedit#userlumi#starwarsblr#*mine#*gifs#*2024#[complex]#pscentral events#2k#until today I thought I saw somewhere only tpm had been released on vhs but no it was all three haha these are based on the actual ones!#I considered making this set - but all 9 films - for may 4 but I didn't want to make all nine lol so this is a perfect prompt for it haha
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911 + text posts (more)
#evan buckley#evan buck buckley#tommy kinard#tommy 911#buck x tommy#bucktommy#911 edit#911 meme#911 on abc#911 abc#buck#memes#tpm#mine
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Tesla's Dieselgate
Elon Musk lies a lot. He lies about being a “utopian socialist.” He lies about being a “free speech absolutist.” He lies about which companies he founded:
https://www.businessinsider.com/tesla-cofounder-martin-eberhard-interview-history-elon-musk-ev-market-2023-2 He lies about being the “chief engineer” of those companies:
https://www.quora.com/Was-Elon-Musk-the-actual-engineer-behind-SpaceX-and-Tesla
He lies about really stupid stuff, like claiming that comsats that share the same spectrum will deliver steady broadband speeds as they add more users who each get a narrower slice of that spectrum:
https://www.eff.org/wp/case-fiber-home-today-why-fiber-superior-medium-21st-century-broadband
The fundamental laws of physics don’t care about this bullshit, but people do. The comsat lie convinced a bunch of people that pulling fiber to all our homes is literally impossible — as though the electrical and phone lines that come to our homes now were installed by an ancient, lost civilization. Pulling new cabling isn’t a mysterious art, like embalming pharaohs. We do it all the time. One of the poorest places in America installed universal fiber with a mule named “Ole Bub”:
https://www.newyorker.com/tech/annals-of-technology/the-one-traffic-light-town-with-some-of-the-fastest-internet-in-the-us
Previous tech barons had “reality distortion fields,” but Musk just blithely contradicts himself and pretends he isn’t doing so, like a budget Steve Jobs. There’s an entire site devoted to cataloging Musk’s public lies:
https://elonmusk.today/
But while Musk lacks the charm of earlier Silicon Valley grifters, he’s much better than they ever were at running a long con. For years, he’s been promising “full self driving…next year.”
https://pluralistic.net/2022/10/09/herbies-revenge/#100-billion-here-100-billion-there-pretty-soon-youre-talking-real-money
He’s hasn’t delivered, but he keeps claiming he has, making Teslas some of the deadliest cars on the road:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/06/10/tesla-autopilot-crashes-elon-musk/
Tesla is a giant shell-game masquerading as a car company. The important thing about Tesla isn’t its cars, it’s Tesla’s business arrangement, the Tesla-Financial Complex:
https://pluralistic.net/2021/11/24/no-puedo-pagar-no-pagara/#Rat
Once you start unpacking Tesla’s balance sheets, you start to realize how much the company depends on government subsidies and tax-breaks, combined with selling carbon credits that make huge, planet-destroying SUVs possible, under the pretense that this is somehow good for the environment:
https://pluralistic.net/2021/04/14/for-sale-green-indulgences/#killer-analogy
But even with all those financial shenanigans, Tesla’s got an absurdly high valuation, soaring at times to 1600x its profitability:
https://pluralistic.net/2021/01/15/hoover-calling/#intangibles
That valuation represents a bet on Tesla’s ability to extract ever-higher rents from its customers. Take Tesla’s batteries: you pay for the battery when you buy your car, but you don’t own that battery. You have to rent the right to use its full capacity, with Tesla reserving the right to reduce how far you go on a charge based on your willingness to pay:
https://memex.craphound.com/2017/09/10/teslas-demon-haunted-cars-in-irmas-path-get-a-temporary-battery-life-boost/
That’s just one of the many rent-a-features that Tesla drivers have to shell out for. You don’t own your car at all: when you sell it as a used vehicle, Tesla strips out these features you paid for and makes the next driver pay again, reducing the value of your used car and transfering it to Tesla’s shareholders:
https://www.theverge.com/2020/2/6/21127243/tesla-model-s-autopilot-disabled-remotely-used-car-update
To maintain this rent-extraction racket, Tesla uses DRM that makes it a felony to alter your own car’s software without Tesla’s permission. This is the root of all autoenshittification:
https://pluralistic.net/2023/07/24/rent-to-pwn/#kitt-is-a-demon
This is technofeudalism. Whereas capitalists seek profits (income from selling things), feudalists seek rents (income from owning the things other people use). If Telsa were a capitalist enterprise, then entrepreneurs could enter the market and sell mods that let you unlock the functionality in your own car:
https://pluralistic.net/2020/06/11/1-in-3/#boost-50
But because Tesla is a feudal enterprise, capitalists must first secure permission from the fief, Elon Musk, who decides which companies are allowed to compete with him, and how.
Once a company owns the right to decide which software you can run, there’s no limit to the ways it can extract rent from you. Blocking you from changing your device’s software lets a company run overt scams on you. For example, they can block you from getting your car independently repaired with third-party parts.
But they can also screw you in sneaky ways. Once a device has DRM on it, Section 1201 of the DMCA makes it a felony to bypass that DRM, even for legitimate purposes. That means that your DRM-locked device can spy on you, and because no one is allowed to explore how that surveillance works, the manufacturer can be incredibly sloppy with all the personal info they gather:
https://www.cnbc.com/2019/03/29/tesla-model-3-keeps-data-like-crash-videos-location-phone-contacts.html
All kinds of hidden anti-features can lurk in your DRM-locked car, protected from discovery, analysis and criticism by the illegality of bypassing the DRM. For example, Teslas have a hidden feature that lets them lock out their owners and summon a repo man to drive them away if you have a dispute about a late payment:
https://tiremeetsroad.com/2021/03/18/tesla-allegedly-remotely-unlocks-model-3-owners-car-uses-smart-summon-to-help-repo-agent/
DRM is a gun on the mantlepiece in Act I, and by Act III, it goes off, revealing some kind of ugly and often dangerous scam. Remember Dieselgate? Volkswagen created a line of demon-haunted cars: if they thought they were being scrutinized (by regulators measuring their emissions), they switched into a mode that traded performance for low emissions. But when they believed themselves to be unobserved, they reversed this, emitting deadly levels of NOX but delivering superior mileage.
The conversion of the VW diesel fleet into mobile gas-chambers wouldn’t have been possible without DRM. DRM adds a layer of serious criminal jeopardy to anyone attempting to reverse-engineer and study any device, from a phone to a car. DRM let Apple claim to be a champion of its users’ privacy even as it spied on them from asshole to appetite:
https://pluralistic.net/2022/11/14/luxury-surveillance/#liar-liar
Now, Tesla is having its own Dieselgate scandal. A stunning investigation by Steve Stecklow and Norihiko Shirouzu for Reuters reveals how Tesla was able to create its own demon-haunted car, which systematically deceived drivers about its driving range, and the increasingly desperate measures the company turned to as customers discovered the ruse:
https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/tesla-batteries-range/
The root of the deception is very simple: Tesla mis-sells its cars by falsely claiming ranges that those cars can’t attain. Every person who ever bought a Tesla was defrauded.
But this fraud would be easy to detect. If you bought a Tesla rated for 353 miles on a charge, but the dashboard range predictor told you that your fully charged car could only go 150 miles, you’d immediately figure something was up. So your Telsa tells another lie: the range predictor tells you that you can go 353 miles.
But again, if the car continued to tell you it has 203 miles of range when it was about to run out of charge, you’d figure something was up pretty quick — like, the first time your car ran out of battery while the dashboard cheerily informed you that you had 203 miles of range left.
So Teslas tell a third lie: when the battery charge reached about 50%, the fake range is replaced with the real one. That way, drivers aren’t getting mass-stranded by the roadside, and the scam can continue.
But there’s a new problem: drivers whose cars are rated for 353 miles but can’t go anything like that far on a full charge naturally assume that something is wrong with their cars, so they start calling Tesla service and asking to have the car checked over.
This creates a problem for Tesla: those service calls can cost the company $1,000, and of course, there’s nothing wrong with the car. It’s performing exactly as designed. So Tesla created its boldest fraud yet: a boiler-room full of anti-salespeople charged with convincing people that their cars weren’t broken.
This new unit — the “diversion team” — was headquartered in a Nevada satellite office, which was equipped with a metal xylophone that would be rung in triumph every time a Tesla owner was successfully conned into thinking that their car wasn’t defrauding them.
When a Tesla owner called this boiler room, the diverter would run remote diagnostics on their car, then pronounce it fine, and chide the driver for having energy-hungry driving habits (shades of Steve Jobs’s “You’re holding it wrong”):
https://www.wired.com/2010/06/iphone-4-holding-it-wrong/
The drivers who called the Diversion Team weren’t just lied to, they were also punished. The Tesla app was silently altered so that anyone who filed a complaint about their car’s range was no longer able to book a service appointment for any reason. If their car malfunctioned, they’d have to request a callback, which could take several days.
Meanwhile, the diverters on the diversion team were instructed not to inform drivers if the remote diagnostics they performed detected any other defects in the cars.
The diversion team had a 750 complaint/week quota: to juke this stat, diverters would close the case for any driver who failed to answer the phone when they were eventually called back. The center received 2,000+ calls every week. Diverters were ordered to keep calls to five minutes or less.
Eventually, diverters were ordered to cease performing any remote diagnostics on drivers’ cars: a source told Reuters that “Thousands of customers were told there is nothing wrong with their car” without any diagnostics being performed.
Predicting EV range is an inexact science as many factors can affect battery life, notably whether a journey is uphill or downhill. Every EV automaker has to come up with a figure that represents some kind of best guess under a mix of conditions. But while other manufacturers err on the side of caution, Tesla has the most inaccurate mileage estimates in the industry, double the industry average.
Other countries’ regulators have taken note. In Korea, Tesla was fined millions and Elon Musk was personally required to state that he had deceived Tesla buyers. The Korean regulator found that the true range of Teslas under normal winter conditions was less than half of the claimed range.
Now, many companies have been run by malignant narcissists who lied compulsively — think of Thomas Edison, archnemesis of Nikola Tesla himself. The difference here isn’t merely that Musk is a deeply unfit monster of a human being — but rather, that DRM allows him to defraud his customers behind a state-enforced opaque veil. The digital computers at the heart of a Tesla aren’t just demons haunting the car, changing its performance based on whether it believes it is being observed — they also allow Musk to invoke the power of the US government to felonize anyone who tries to peer into the black box where he commits his frauds.
If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this post to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:
https://pluralistic.net/2023/07/28/edison-not-tesla/#demon-haunted-world
This Sunday (July 30) at 1530h, I’m appearing on a panel at Midsummer Scream in Long Beach, CA, to discuss the wonderful, award-winning “Ghost Post” Haunted Mansion project I worked on for Disney Imagineering.
Image ID [A scene out of an 11th century tome on demon-summoning called 'Compendium rarissimum totius Artis Magicae sistematisatae per celeberrimos Artis hujus Magistros. Anno 1057. Noli me tangere.' It depicts a demon tormenting two unlucky would-be demon-summoners who have dug up a grave in a graveyard. One summoner is held aloft by his hair, screaming; the other screams from inside the grave he is digging up. The scene has been altered to remove the demon's prominent, urinating penis, to add in a Tesla supercharger, and a red Tesla Model S nosing into the scene.]
Image: Steve Jurvetson (modified) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Tesla_Model_S_Indoors.jpg
CC BY 2.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/deed.en
#pluralistic#steve stecklow#autoenshittification#norihiko shirouzu#reuters#you're holding it wrong#r2r#right to repair#range rage#range anxiety#grifters#demon-haunted world#drm#tpms#1201#dmca 1201#tesla#evs#electric vehicles#ftc act section 5#unfair and deceptive practices#automotive#enshittification#elon musk
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One Piece + Luffy text posts [8/?]
#one piece#monkey d. luffy#monkey d luffy#luffy#luffy one piece#roronoa zoro#zolu#luzo#east blue polycule#wano spoilers#egghead spoilers#just to be sure#mine#gif:op anime#gif:op tpm#tpm#gif:tpm#i just love him. suddenly i compiled few text posts that were so luffy themed that i decided just for a post for him. our pirate king <33#tama#otama#smoker#koby#one piece text post meme
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Child of the force
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#I may have gone overboard with the christian symbolism on this one#but this was one of those ideas that you have to get out of your system by drawing them#star wars#my art#anakin skywalker#sw aotc#sw tpm#shmi skywalker
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quick padaobi sketch request ✨
#obi wan kenobi#obi-wan kenobi#star wars#star wars prequels#star wars clone wars#star wars the clone wars#star wars fandom#star wars fanart#star wars au#star wars art#sw fandom#sw fanart#sw au#sw art#obi wan#padawan obi wan#obi wan art#obi wan fanart#obi wan kenobi fanart#sw obi wan kenobi#obi wan kenobi art#sw tpm#the phantom menace#artists on tumblr#art#artist#digital artist#drawing#my art#sketch
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if you are to leave, your highness, it must be now.
KEIRA KNIGHTLEY AND NATALIE PORTMAN in STAR WARS: THE PHANTOM MENACE (1999) dir. George Lucas
#sw#swedit#star wars#starwarsedit#padme amidala#padmeamidalaedit#sabe#sabeedit#tpm#tpmedit#starwarsblr#swsource#swladies#theforcegifs#userlumi#ours#gif#padme#padme x sabe#by em#the phantom menace#thephantommenaceedit
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Ahsoka (2023) // The Phantom Menace (1999)
#star wars#the phantom menace#ahsoka#ahsokaedit#starwarsedit#tpmedit#mauledit#swedit#maul#darth maul#shin hati#starwarscolors#starwarsblr#usernik#*#gifs#tpm*#ahsoka*#constance
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Happy 25th Anniversary to The Phantom Menace → May 19, 1999
#obi wan kenobi#swedit#our gifs#please do not repost#starwarsblr#userlumi#prequelsnet#thestarwarsdaily#swsource#kenobisource#star wars#the phantom menace#tpm#sw tpm#tpmedit#prequel trilogy#sw prequels#anakin skywalker#padme amidala
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sempre te tive como quem soubesse que ia te perder.
— saciada.
#lardepoetas#liberdadeliteraria#projetoversografando#pequenosescritores#escritos#não leia na tpm#poemas para não ler na tpm#saciada#espalhepoesias#carteldapoesias#mentesexpostas#desamor#escrita#mardeescritos#clubepoetico#projetoflorejo#autorias#projetoalmaflorida#julietario#reflexão
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Nothing like the best Star Wars character to celebrate May the 4th.
No, you can't change my mind.
#anakin skywalker#darth vader#star wars#sw#canon#hayden christensen#matt lanter#james earl jones#david prowse#sebastian shaw#jake lloyd#tcw#swr#prequels#aotc#tpm#rots#ot#anh#esb#rotj#rogue one#totj#owk#ahsoka series#skyguy#vader#anakin#skywalker#ani
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Phantom Menace Poster 1999 | Empire Magazine 2024
#oh fuck yeah#whoever came up with this i love you#also I am once again asking Disney#give hayden a Vader series#he would crush#give him any role get him off that farm#we need his face#hayden christensen#anakin skywalker#darth vader#jake lloyd#tpm#empire magazine#photoshoots
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