How do you know a neighbor owns a Tesla? Fire and smoke suddenly appears, destroying quality of life for everyone around. The fire was first reported on the Nextdoor app by someone with the username KP Reilly, whose post also included video of the fire. Reilly said the owner of the car had left it … Continue reading Neighborhood Spends Thanksgiving Fighting Yet Another Tesla Fire →

An iPhone owner sent the asset protection forces of America (e.g. slave catchers) after his missing electronic assistant (e.g. digital slave). How could that even be a thing? Let’s take a look. The owner had showed police a massive four block diameter circle on an Apple map, vaguely estimating location of interest. More to the … Continue reading Apple’s “imprecise” Blue Circle on Map Used by Police to Violently Target and Abuse Innocent Retired Woman →

As I warned back in April, we now are exactly where anyone could have predicted. Hate Speech’s Rise on Twitter Is Unprecedented, Researchers Find. Problematic content and formerly barred accounts have increased sharply in the short time since Elon Musk took over, researchers said. Before Elon Musk bought Twitter, slurs against Black Americans showed up … Continue reading Twitter Code Quality Crashing, Hate Speech Exploding and Unregulated →

People often falsely believe the private sector always delivers better technology than a government. The public sector instead is capable of delivering dramatically better results, if you measure properly (safety). First, let’s just set aside the point that terrible public sector technology is truly terrible. Boston is home to Harvard, MIT and… the MTBA. In … Continue reading Simple Economics Explains Why Gov Tech Safer Than Private Sector →