Tech writer Milo Yiannopoulos tweeted his medical collapse, until the mean old ambulance man insisted he stop. Compassion is truly dead.

Former Tesla exec Darryl Siry waited until after his medical crisis had passed to microblog it.

The Washington Post's Ezra Klein was treated with basic human decency by one of his subjects. Very sneaky, that.

NBC's Dan Abrams, whose new company pays journalists for advice, wants to see our ponies. No. (Not without a consulting fee, at least.)

Jason Pontin of MIT Technology Review couldn't find a press contact at Google. If only the operating system company would develop some sort of effective internet finding-things technology for this kind of problem!

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Last December, we'd heard his departure might have something to do with wrongful-termination lawsuits Tesla was facing. (Our sources had told us the employee lawsuits been settled at considerable expense; in fact, they're still pending. And Siry, who was subpoenaed in a case, ended up not being asked to testify.)

What actually prompted his departure: Siry learned last fall that CEO Elon Musk planned to collect deposits from customers for Tesla's Model S Sedan, a car that exists only in prototype.

Why would that drive Siry to quit? Tesla has no factory to build the car, and no financing for it. Musk recently said that Tesla had gotten $350 million in loans from the government; in fact, it hadn't, a reality even Musk's own flack had to acknowledge. Taking deposits from customers under those circumstances in the hopes that everything will come together amounts to a fraud, Siry believed, and he wanted no part of it.

Valleywag first reported Musk's plans to take deposits from customers for the Model S. And sure enough, he's going ahead with them — taking $40,000 deposits starting next month, for a car he may never be able to deliver.

Silicon Valley has a bit of an honesty fetish. But there's such a thing as being too honest, and that may have been Siry's flaw. Siry's a voluble sort; he blogs about cars and marketing. As a corporate flack, he's relatively forthright — which is fine when, say, arguing the technical merits of Tesla's $109,000 Roadster sports car, the preferred ride of geeks from Google founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin to Mahalo CEO Jason Calacanis. But when it comes to talking about personnel matters, that bluntness may be what cost him his job — and Tesla millions of dollars.

Siry writes in his blog that he quit over "disagreements in strategy." But here's what two Tesla insiders claim: After Siry made comments in the press about the reasons why the company laid off or fired certain employees, some of them threatened to sue. It's not clear what, exactly, Siry said that was so incendiary, though back in January, he told a tech blog that some laid-off workers were "not the best on the team" — the kind of evaluation that could jeopardize a job search. Tesla, we're told, settled the lawsuits for $2 million — and told Siry it was time to motor on.

Update: Siry says he had no knowledge of any settlements and that he left for unrelated reasons. So why are two unrelated sources saying he did? Curiouser and curiouser.

Update: We've learned the real reason Siry left.