Another motorcyclist has been killed by Tesla, apparently by abruptly turning left in front of them. Boca News Now has reported it as “DEATH BY TESLA”.
According to investigators, the Tesla began to make a left turn into the path of the Kawasaki Ninja. The front of the Ninja impacted the passenger’s side front fender of the Tesla. As the crash ensued, the Tesla rotated counterclockwise and came to an uncontrolled final rest within the outside northbound lane of Seminole Pratt Whitney Road.
Driverless is suspected, given Tesla sensors have a long and tragic history of failing to see motorcycles and violently running into them.
It’s curious that honey quality detection is only just beginning to happen. How much fraud has there been before now if 100% is suspected?
In March 2023, the European Commission found that 46% of sampled products (including all 10 samples from the UK) were suspected to be fraudulent – meaning they had likely been bulked out with cheaper sugar syrups. Scientists at Cranfield University then said in August this year that they had found a way to detect fake honey products without opening the jar.
Or perhaps more to the point, why is the UK fraud (given nearly £100 million/year is imported) suspected at something like double the EU rate?
The “new” method of detection mentioned is actually Spatial Offset Raman Spectroscopy (SORS) with machine learning. It’s a light analysis technique used in pharmaceutical and security diagnostics that can ID sugar syrups.
New research confirms Instagram’s ongoing betrayal of child safety, yet again.
When Danish researchers investigated teen self-harm networks, they found Instagram is actively plugging vulnerable kids into entire networks of self-harm content. Once connected with one member, the algorithm deliberately pushed teens toward all harmful members and far worse risks.
After Vic Langenhoff’s daughter was killed, he wrote the dramatic 1972 headline ‘Stop de Kindermoord’ (Stop the Child Murder) and called for children to be protected from harmful automation.
This harm formula isn’t accidental or an oversight in 2024 — it’s the algorithm working exactly as designed, expanding danger to children while Instagram’s executives rake in profits on hollow promises about “teen safety”.
The Danish study, however, found that rather than attempt to shut down the self-harm network, Instagram’s algorithm was actively helping it to expand. The research suggested that 13-year-olds become friends with all members of the self-harm group after they were connected with one of its members. This, the study said, “suggests that Instagram’s algorithm actively contributes to the formation and spread of self-harm networks”.
I hear the former Chief Security Officer of Facebook, who allegedly facilitated genocide in Asia, has a lovely mansion in the hills near Palo Alto to show for it.
CNN points out that Elon Musk is overtly threatening his own users, declaring all Twitter accounts are now owned by him and him alone.
…the platform is ultimately Musk’s domain, where he can do as he pleases. Musk has shown a willingness to take over accounts in the past, threatening NPR after the public broadcaster stopped posting to its account and seizing the @America handle for his political action committee that supported President-elect Donald Trump during the campaign.
“What conceivable motivation does a company have for destroying the value in their users’ accounts, and implicitly threatening all other users?” Butterfield said. “It becomes an individual person’s playground, rather than a functioning marketplace of ideas.”
The motivation for destroying value in accounts is overthrowing democracy and repealing governance. It’s not that hard to figure out.
Like asking what motivation does the air force have for dropping a bomb, given it destroys the value of the bomb. Destruction is kind of the whole point.
Reframe the question from “why would someone destroy value?” to “what strategic objective might this destruction serve?” This reveals broader patterns we’ve seen historically where controlling information flow and destabilizing existing power structures often involves accepting or even intentionally causing certain kinds of damage.
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