The recently imposed inability to ban ads - and in some cases even to flag them as “Not interested” - is an annoying development, particularly as the ads are increasingly right-wing propaganda you can’t block or respond to.
Pfffffft
Twitter-X competitor Post News closed shop in April, and I only noticed yesterday.
I still have 2 Mastodon accounts, a threads account and Bluesky. I have Spoutible as well, which is an embarrassment.
I had never even heard of Post News. Where did that come from? I have a Threads account I occasionally check, but not really. I wasn’t really a Twitter user, either, so this form of social media is not a natural match for me. I also have Mastodon and Blue Sky accounts in theory out there, somewhere, though I can’t remember checking them for at least six months.
Here’s a Dec 2022 article about Twitter’s competition.
My impression was that Post was journalism oriented. I had not heard of Narwhal and it is 404 now. Over at Mastadon, one of the servers I signed up for folded shop (econtwitter). Musk began his reign of Twitter-X with a mass firing so a tip of the hat to the crew that kept that website from 404ing.
The big weakness with the competitors is that they don’t have a critical mass of people I want to follow. A clever app that cross-posts, one that resists attempts to thwart it, could solve that problem. It might post via a browser to disguise its automated origins. Maybe it could be as straightforward as scraping a pre-existing twitter post, then cross posting to Threads or Bluesky. The latter are unlikely to put up high barriers and Mastodon has explicitly open standards.
Meanwhile…
According to the story, this wasn’t a case of “leave the kid in there, they’ll be fine with the air conditioning on”. This was “momentarily close the door on the kid and then discover the 12-volt accessory battery was dead and there was no way to open the door again.”
So, Tesla “fail fast, fail forward” engineering at its failiest.
So it’s literally impossible to open the door from the outside if the battery dies? There’s no manual entry whatsoever?
That’s what the article implies.
At least, none that the owner and the first responders knew about, since they wound up bashing in a window with a fire axe.
Thank Elon it wasn’t a Cybertruck; they’d have NEVER gotten in. 
Maybe one of our local Teslarati can clarify or confirm this.
According to the article you’d basically have to jumpstart it. Not sure how that works with an electric car.
Not sure how that works when you can’t get in the car, either.
I think there’s hidden jump points to pop the frunk, and inside the frunk there are jump points from which you can supply power to the rest of the car.
I hate Tesla for making simple things like opening the door electrical nightmares, but it’s an industry trend.
“Frunk”?
Front trunk.
Just think of it as another reason to hate Tesla.
Lots. Fire Axe, Hammer, Mattock, Baseball Bat, Pulaski…
Everything except Elon’s machine gun…
Firefighters had to use an ax to smash through the window.
We should be thankful that Elmo isn’t yet building fire trucks. Or axes. Though I understand that he’s invented a really cool flamethrower. Its major attribute is that, much like Elmo himself, it’s completely useless.
Calling the front trunk of mid- or rear-engined cars a “frunk” dates back to the 1960s.
Feel free to hate Elmo as you will, but this isn’t a valid reason for that. Not that any of us are casting about to find that rare and oh-so-slender reed upon which to hang our Elmo-hate; he provides plenty of giant Sequoia-sized trunks to grasp. Plus a fresh one every few hours if somehow we can’t see the existing giant forest.
As to the trapped toddler, it seems there must have been some manner of malfunction or (less likely) operator configuration error to end up in a situation where the main power source battery had charge, but the 12V accessory / standby battery did not.
There is mention somewhere of a Tesla becoming inoperable when the 12v battery dies, so it’s something that definitely can happen. Something I can identify with due to my fairly new non-EV battery suddenly and unexpectedly experiencing catastrophic failure earlier this year. Working fine one day, then a few days later, completely flat – not enough power to even turn on the interior lights.