86 m. ago Undiagnosed entertainment: how Hollywood awkwardly dodges autism

Eccentric, blunt-speaking characters who present as being on the spectrum are everywhere on our screens – but why are their creators so reluctant to state it openly?I received my autism diagnosis about a decade into my career as a comedian and about three decades into being alive. In the eyes of some of the frothier comment section trolls, being a comedian means that I can’t be autistic, despite the likes of Fern Brady and Stewart Lee proving otherwise. This is because people are keener on stereotypes than admitting they know nothing about autism – why is the general level of knowledge so poor?With Elon Musk and Robert F Kennedy Jr doing their best to make autism terrifying again, either by implying that it causes sieg heiling or by bringing back the MMR autism panic of the 1990s (along with actual measles), it struck me that we autistic people don’t have a lot of reliable representation to fall back on. There’s Rain Man, of course, and Ben Af...

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6 h. ago Musk hands out $1m checks to voters amid Wisconsin supreme court election race

Musk denied he was buying votes but said the court election outcome would be critical to Trump’s agenda and ‘the future of civilization’Elon Musk gave out $1m checks on Sunday to two Wisconsin voters, declaring them spokespeople for his political group, ahead of a Wisconsin supreme court election that the tech billionaire cast as critical to Donald Trump’s agenda and “the future of civilization”.“It’s a super big deal,” he told a roughly 2,000-person crowd in Green Bay on Sunday night, taking the stage in a yellow cheesehead hat. “I’m not phoning it in. I’m here in person.” Continue reading...

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6 h. ago Elon Musk hands out $1m checks to voters amid Wisconsin supreme court election race

Musk denied he was buying votes but said the court election outcome would be critical to Trump’s agenda and ‘the future of civilization’Elon Musk gave out $1m checks on Sunday to two Wisconsin voters, declaring them spokespeople for his political group, ahead of a Wisconsin supreme court election that the tech billionaire cast as critical to Donald Trump’s agenda and “the future of civilization”.“It’s a super big deal,” he told a roughly 2,000-person crowd in Green Bay on Sunday night, taking the stage in a yellow cheesehead hat. “I’m not phoning it in. I’m here in person.” Continue reading...

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14 h. ago Arizona elderly woman is boxed in and beaten up by callous man because she drives a Tesla

It's unclear what events caused the physical altercation, but the woman believes that she was targeted because she was driving a car made by Elon Musk's company.

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22 h. ago Wisconsin's attorney general asks the state Supreme Court to stop Musk's $1 million payments

Wisconsin’s attorney general has asked the liberal-controlled state Supreme Court to stop billionaire Elon Musk from handing over $1 million checks to two voters

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25 h. ago Were the Pyramids built by aliens? Inside the bizarre conspiracy theory 'backed' by Elon Musk

In 2020, Elon Musk attracted scorn from experts when he took to Twitter - the social network that he bought in 2022 for $44billion - to write: 'Aliens built the pyramids obv'.

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27 h. ago Striving for efficiency is all very well, but it leaves no time to live | Eva Wiseman

Efficiency slices and barges its way through delicate structures, leaving the most vulnerable flailingA recent Apple update saw people waking up to their emails summarised for efficiency, thus creating light uproar, amusement and a series of small domestic mysteries to be untangled on the bus. A man in America shared a message from his mum, who’d told him, “That hike almost killed me.” Unfortunately, he’d read the summary first: “Attempted suicide, but recovered and hiked in Redlands.” Another Apple user opened his phone to find himself, in summary, dumped: “Not feeling romantic spark; apologises for ending things.”I find myself today, against efficiency. I find myself against efficiency at a time when inefficiency is framed as, if not yet criminal then certainly immoral. Since Elon Musk attached himself to the Trump campaign, his Department of Government Efficiency (Doge) has been gutting the federal government in the same way he did with Twitter, slashing contracts, getting rid of...

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34 h. ago Elon Musk's daughter blasts her father's ambitious plan to colonize Mars with scathing two

Vivian Wilson, 20, appeared on the live stream of left-winger Hasan Piker and spoke at length about her upbringing and Musk.

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40 h. ago Protests hit Tesla dealerships across the world in challenge to Elon Musk

From Australia to Europe and the US, demonstrators rallied against carmaker’s dismantling of US federal governmentThousands of people worldwide protested Elon Musk and his efforts with Donald Trump to dismantle the US federal government on Saturday, with rallies held in front of nearly every Tesla showroom in the US and many around the world – a concerted effort to go after the billionaire’s deep pockets as the CEO of the electric vehicle maker.Protest organizers asked people to do three things: don’t buy a Tesla, sell off Tesla stock and join the “Tesla Takedown” movement. Continue reading...

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40 h. ago Protestors Stage Elon Musk Posters On Tesla Charging Stations In London

Protestors Stage Elon Musk Posters On Tesla Charging Stations In London  MSN

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41 h. ago Protesters rebelling against Elon Musk's purge of US government swarm Tesla showrooms

Crowds protesting billionaire Elon Musk’s purge of the U.S. government under President Donald Trump began amassing outside Tesla dealerships throughout the U.S. Saturday in the latest attempt to dent the fortune of the world’s richest man

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41 h. ago Greenlanders blast JD Vance's claim that Donald Trump wants to help the country

Angry Greenlanders have pointed out that Donald Trump's right hand man doesn't seem to know what his other right hand man is doing.

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42 h. ago Protest at Scots Tesla Centre as anger over Elon Musk sparks boycott calls

Activists joined picketers from across the globe in targeting Elon Musk's Tesla Centres.

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44 h. ago Trump says US will help Myanmar after the earthquake – his cuts will make that difficult

The Trump administration, working with Elon Musk's teams, has gutted foreign assistance since Trump took office

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46 h. ago Wisconsin supreme court race a litmus test for Elon Musk’s political power

The high-stakes race will determine which party will control a court that will rule on abortion and voting rightsA race to determine control of the Wisconsin supreme court that has profound stakes for voting, abortion and labor rights in the state, is also shaping up to be a litmus test of Elon Musk’s political power, making it one of the most consequential elections of Donald Trump’s second term.Liberals currently hold a 4-3 majority on the state supreme court, but the liberal justice Ann Walsh Bradley is retiring. Susan Crawford, a liberal judge, is facing off on Tuesday against the conservative judge Brad Schimel for the seat. The winner will determine which party has control of a court that is set to rule on the future of the state’s 1849 abortion ban, collective bargaining rights and the makeup of the state’s six congressional districts. Continue reading...

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47 h. ago Tesla Takedown protests LIVE: Demonstrators rally outside London Tesla dealership in global anti

Events are taking place in cities including Edinburgh, Glasgow, Bristol, New York, San Francisco and Berlin

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51 h. ago Tesla Takedown protests LIVE: London rally to join global wave of anti

Events are taking place in cities including Edinburgh, Glasgow, Bristol, New York, San Francisco and Berlin

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53 h. ago ‘Love the car, not the CEO’: how Europe’s Tesla owners feel about their cars

Some voice regret over Musk’s backing of Trump, but others say CEO’s views do not detract from the car’s appealTesla showrooms across the world are expected to face anti-Elon Musk protests on Saturday, as Musk’s senior role in the Trump administration has contributed to a European consumer backlash by some Tesla owners and prospective buyers.It follows a 44% drop in Tesla sales in Europe on average last month, according to the research platform Jato Dynamics. Tesla’s European market share fell to 9.6% last month, the lowest it has registered in February for five years. Continue reading...

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60 h. ago Reform UK echoes Trump with ‘make Britain great again’ aired at election launch

Nigel Farage said he wanted to create a British form of Doge, a US cost-cutting programme led by Elon Musk.

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61 h. ago Wisconsin AG moves in court to block Elon Musk’s $1m voter giveaway before state Supreme Court election

Attorney General Josh Kaul asked the Dane County Circuit Court to issue an emergency injunction to stop a giveaway event hosted by the world’s richest man over the weekend

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