I've added that explanation to the top of Slashdot's story.

Thanks Gravis!

(I just hope nobody skims the headline, and thinks that it's a dupe.) :D

Good catch. I think the reporters at the Salt Lake Tribune swapped in one four-syllable word for another (changing "distribution" to "deviation"!) We'll correct that in Slashdot's excerpt from their article.

What about that guy ">who was married to Betty Boop?

Corrected.

Thanks for spotting the video. I added it to Slashdot's story...

Haven't they been doing this fund-raising campaign since March?

Thanks for suggesting the story!

I think the EFF post is talking about the same drone company that we covered in this blog post. But I'm always glad when Slashdot readers share stories...

Thanks for sharing the article.

But I think this is the same story we covered in August.

Thanks for sharing the story. I think Slashdot already covered Wyden's remarks last week. But I'm always glad when people let us know whenever Wyden says something interesting.

Slashdot really is "powered by your submissions." So thanks again for sharing the article.

Yeah, I'd wanted to call it an electric SUV -- but BMW insists on calling their cars "SAVs" (for Sports Activity Vehicle). That felt weird too. But I think it's really still pretty obvious -- from the 500-mile range, windshield wipers, etc. -- that it was not a German vibrator.

It's also not an ad. (I assume people know this already, and it's just a fun ongoing meme to accuse Slashdot editors of running stealth advertisements.) Hope you were wildly entertained...

But seriously: new electric car. Some physical controls. AI-enabled software. Lots to talk about. If you really need me to help kick things off...

"It's a car."

Slashdot followed Dave Barry in its early days. I see this story as an update on an icon from the early days of the web.

And I also thought it was just really cool that Slashdot reader #43,288 submitted the story...

I do wonder how many people are still reading his column - but 25 years ago he was one of web publishing's bigger stars...

I think you read that wrong. The Reddit user said they found Threads worthwhile. (They were just responding to someone who'd asked why people used Threads...) Then Mashable also cites consumer research company GWI (which found a much larger trend of Thread users saying the liked how it's "community-focused"). And finally Mashable points out the executive who launched the big experiment in running less political content [which may or may not reduce its "flair" -- but it's worth considering its impact].

I mean, you can agree or disagree with all of that -- but it's not just one Reddit user that Mashable is citing.

Maybe people are just reacting to the headlines and skimming the top of the articles... But I was really hoping to see people talking about how Threads supports ActivityPub's decentralized protocol (so it's integrated with the fediverse). Slashdot has supported open-ness and decentralization for decades. Mashable mentions support for the decentralized ActivityPub protocol in their article, and it's in Slashdot's excerpt as well. I just don't think that can be perceived as "absolutely nothing."

Yeah, I debated whether to use quotation marks in the headline. But the thing is, the word blizzard means a snowstorm. So when you read the words "Microsoft's Blizzard..." -- that literally sounds like Microsoft has some weather-controlling, blizzard-provoking.... Oh no wait, it's just talking about their gaming studio.

That's what I was trying to avoid.

Slashdot ran a story about new Model F models back in 2023...