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Sam Abuelsamid
Sam Abuelsamid
@sam.abuelsamid.com
VP Market Research @ Telemetry, host of Wheel Bearings podcast, husband, dog and human dad, car guy
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New Podcast Episode: This Week in Tech: Spicy Hinges Apple's 1st Foldable, GM Forward 2026, & PHP Vulnerabilities with @mikahsargent.com, @glennf.com, Allison Johnson, @sam.abuelsamid.com
Lots of Toyotas Jill put a bunch of miles on the Toyota GR Corolla and a few on the Rivian R2. Stephanie Brinley joined us this week and drove the new Audi A6 and the Lexus IS 350 F-Sport. Sam drove the Toyota Rav4 Woodland PHEV Links Inside GM's Plan for Its Next-Gen EVs | GreenCars Meet Mustang…
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Check out how easy this is.
Kansas Dem Sen. nominee Adam Hamilton on trans rights: “I don’t think we should take a small group of people and bully them, pick on them, and hurt them. I understand one thing really clearly when it comes to transgender people, and that is Jesus told me I was to love my neighbor as I love myself”
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The 5-year cancer survival rate is up to 70% SIDS deaths have decreased by over 50% 89% decline in tornado deaths All thanks to federal investment in science and OUR tax dollars at work!
Social media loves talking about how everything is getting worse. But what’s something that you’ve seen get _better_ in your lifetime?
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NEW: A bird flu outbreak has been raging uncontrolled on a Utah mink farm for two months. Flu experts fear it could spark a devastating human pandemic. But officials haven’t acted — instead prioritizing the financial interests of the fur trade.
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Yesterday GM had a tech event in NYC and I wrote up some highlights www.greencars.com/news/inside-...
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Replying to @marisakabas.bsky.social
Huge follow-up reporting to my scoop: The Guardian confirmed America Next—the conservative nonprofit founded by Bobby Jindal that was offering students $ to disrupt El-Sayed events—paid a firm registered to Tommy Teepell’s dad Timmy $250k for “canvassing and influencer marketing” against El-Sayed.
Hopscotch Car Jill has been driving Mazda CX-90 plug-in hybrid but it came without a charging cord so she couldn't plug it in. She also took a flight in the HondaJet Elite. Back in 2018, Rebecca and Sam also got to try out the original HondaJet Sam drove the Hyundai Palisade Hybrid and the Subaru…
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I don't give a damn if the tech and AI experts are talking on X, I will not go there. I killed my account completely back in 2023
On X, users have circulated nonconsenual AI videos created by Grok of a woman they think is Jane Doe. They continue to spread her name. People have praised X for staying relevant for AI and tech conversation. But it also is the main vector for a doxing. That is X. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/16/n...
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WB 474 Sam has been driving the Kia K5 GT-Line, Jill had the Toyota Tundra TRD Pro and Robbie had the Subaru Trailseeker and Ford Expedition. This week Jaguar unveiled its first new product in a decade, BMW has killed what was once a top-selling 3 series, a Chinese SUV is the UK's top-seller.…
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No, apparently we let ourselves become Nazis and refuse to do anything to stop it.
"Jon Ossoff, my advice to him is, if you start calling your political opponents Nazis, maybe it's time to shut up. That's just not what we do here in this country." -- David Brooks, this evening. Remember, Brooks still gets very handsomely rewarded by the fossilized media for saying shit like this
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If you didn't already hate both AI and the American private health insurance business, then watch this and you probably will www.youtube.com/watch?v=Znue...
The current season of the GreenCars podcast is a wrap with a fun conversation with Kia's James Bell about where the brand was and where it's going www.youtube.com/watch?v=wX12...
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gosh, I wonder why some criminal rich guy doesn't want a system where normal people might potentially be able to have a voice
“Democracy has been hailed as, like, the holy grail for the last couple hundred years, but democracies are inefficient,” said the crypto billionaire. “If you get a benevolent dictator, it’s actually extremely efficient." Hmm, where have I heard this before? www.nytimes.com/2026/10/01/b...
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I genuinely hoped the revival and reengineering of the Chevrolet Bolt would start a wave of affordable EVs. Unfortunately between announcing that production would be revived and delivering a host of things changed that shifted the business case www.telemetryagency.com/post/how-the...
Welcome Jill Of Many Places This week our new co-host Jill Ciminillo joins the show and she's been driving the Ford Ranger. Sam had the new 2026 Mazda CX-5. Our whole team converged on New York for the debut of the new Hyundai Tucson and Sam had a conversation with Eric Wood, head of product…
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