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A blood test number drifted slightly over twenty years, and nobody adjusted for the fact that the labs kept swapping out the machines used to measure it. The number went up, a scary headline was spread around, but why? The body keeps blood acidity within a very strict band, and bicarbonate is part of the Continue reading Lab Machine Integrity Gaps or Atmospheric CO2 in Blood?
Elon Musk has promised imminent full autonomy every year since 2014. Think about that. For over a decade he hasn t delivered his very specific promise made each year of it. The deadline is usually the end of the current year. Each promise is dated and public. So is what Tesla actually did while he flapped Continue reading Technopuff of Broken Promises: An Elon Musk Timeline
Every time someone says surveillance capitalism is a novel theory recently discovered, I think about decades of science like this: The more scientists know about a particular species, the easier it is to protect. So in an effort to eventually track how these pollinators use their overwintering habitat and nectar flowers close by, staff from Continue reading Scientists Fit Surveillance to…
Open Source Storage, without any warning, abruptly quit business and left PBS looking for all of its archives. Open Source Storage, abruptly cut off access to Nine PBS’ data earlier this year without warning. It states OSS, which had a separate relationship with Iron Mountain to provide data storage, went “defunct,” leaving Nine PBS’ archives Continue reading Storage Service Threatens Loss of 70…
I was sent a link to a comment with a clear case of pro-Nazi disinformation on the Euro News site. Imagine the kind of person who comments that the end of genocide wouldn t be called by the many a liberation. Their comment fails on the most obvious facts: Operation Margarethe, the German invasion of Hungary Continue reading How EuroNews Comment Launders Nazi Occupation of Hungary That Murdered…
Trump s federal enforcement spending in the billions is justified on public safety grounds, and a new study shows the evidence contradicts that justification. Enforcement actually targets the population that the data identifies as victims. Check out Kubrin, Christopher, Hodgen, Luo, and Hipp, Does unauthorized immigration drive community crime rates? Evidence from 11,500 U.S. neighborhoods,…
Googleyness was a formal screening criterion, and it selected for people like her who wanted mythology to be real. Claire Stapleton s new book, Don t Be Evil , recounts her journey from company cheerleader to outspoken dissident. A workforce chosen for belief-based loyalty produces exactly this enablement arc at scale: late disillusionment narrated as betrayal, with Continue reading Evil Doer:…
The police officer calmly explains that Tesla design defects are still the responsibility of the driver. Issues a speeding ticket, and says Tesla autopilot often breaks the law. Do you have a driver s license? The car doesn t have a driver s license. The Tesla driver doesn t want to accept responsibility, says he wasn t driving, and the Continue reading Tesla Autopilot Caught Speeding 64 in a 45:…