Wait until the angry mobs find out that human drivers cause 92% more accidents in San Francisco per mile driven than even Cruise's vehicles...

"There’s cause for alarm with TikTok — but is it enough to justify building America’s own Great Firewall?"

https://www.theverge.com/23653141/tiktok-ban-bytedance-congress-hearing-first-amendment-open-internet

Holy moly!! Lightning caught mid-strike as it hits a tree. ⚡ 🌳 😲

I hope the photographer was using an extremely long-range telephoto lens, as lightning will travel along root systems, which can extend some distance away depending upon the type of tree.

Vertical photograph; click to see the full strike and whole tree (or what's left of it).

Photographer — Debbie Parker of West Virginia.

#Photography #Tree #LightningStrike #AmazingNature

@dangoodin strong disagree. Being able to sleep, relax or work during my commute in the comfort of my own car would be a huge benefit for me. I also have no doubt that it will be a lot safer than average human driving.

U.S. border officials copy the contents of up to 10,000 phones and computers every year and save them to a big database for 15 years, as we first reported in September: https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/09/15/government-surveillance-database-dhs/

Following pressure from Sen. Wyden, the agency, CBP, now says it's considering shrinking that 15-year save time and plans to give people more details about what they're doing: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/01/31/abraham-accords-expand-with-cybersecurity-collaboration/

Dream product: AWS, but fast. Where provisioning an instance or task takes 1 second instead of 1 minute. Deploy a service in 10 seconds instead of 5 minutes...

Research seems to indicate that pay transparency laws do reduce pay inequality - but by lowering the high end of salaries. https://www.economist.com/united-states/2023/01/05/pay-transparency-laws-do-not-work-as-advertised

RT @BostonJoan
I can’t believe we gotta go over this again, but here we go…

This article, featuring excellent commentary by @wphillips49, illustrates how the trolls capitalize on outrage to create a media attention.

Don’t take the bait.

(P.s. miss you Whitney!!)

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/oct/03/ok-sign-gesture-emoji-rightwing-alt-right

@jessitron clearly there needs to be a balance of the two. Lots of joining, a little bit of starting.

@MarkRuffalo should have included the ID of the account on the sign. Any (fake) account could post this picture now.

@rreverser am I the only one who reads WASM as Watcom Assembler? Maybe I'm too old.

@chipotle I'm using tooot right now on Android. Ivory looks nice though! Just a lot of things don't seem to be working yet...

Finally a clear, consistent illustration of the relationship between God, father, son and the holy spirit. (found on Wikipedia)

@Viss somehow it doesn't surprise me that Andrew Tate would be arrested for abducting women...

Writing more about #LastPassBreach feels like beating a dead horse. But I had a look at the official statement again and it is highly misleading. I felt the need to provide some context that #LastPass is willingly omitting.

“Again, it seems that LastPass attempts to minimize the risk of litigation (hence alerting businesses) while also trying to prevent a public outcry (so not notifying the general public). Priorities…”

https://palant.info/2022/12/26/whats-in-a-pr-statement-lastpass-breach-explained/

What beautiful footage. Microscopic life forms in single drops of water: https://youtu.be/JTLNXdG-sG4

Some exciting progress from #commaai - autonomous drive, including some (very short) city street driving: https://blog.comma.ai/taco-bell/

Not close to Tesla's, Cruise's or Waymo's level yet, but awesome to see what end-to-end learning from a small team can get you in autonomous driving.

BREAKING: The Taliban have banned women from universities.

This is a shameful decision that violates the right to education for women and girls in Afghanistan. The Taliban are making it clear every day that they don't respect the fundamental rights of Afghans, especially women.