hi! he was going to Tulum on vacation and rented his room out on Airbnb. I didn’t realize that’s the word for partying in Bosnian/etc! thanks for reading so closely!! love this kind of question xx

My mistake. Deleting

Everyone treats "autonomy" as a singular technological problem, that once "solved" will simply create a profit-generating machine, but the hard reality is that this technology is a constant negotiation between profits on one hand and the level of safety and behavior society will tolerate on the road

and no, you won't going to get away with a New Directions book in translation or NYRB reissue (both of which sold 10k copies already) on your best of list as a wildcard anymore

they did get 6 figure salaries for working part time. presumably their oversight didn't extend to the deplorable conditions of content moderators

And the people who should have been criticizing its formation were instead scheming how to get on that board. where are all those "data ethicists" now?

I was on @techwontsave.us talking about the human labor Waymo depends on and disavows. And how the charade launders accountability for its mistakes, scapegoating everyone and everything but the machine.
www.thenation.com/podcast/arch...

jaywalking pedestrians, your destiny awaits

now listening to this @techwontsave.us episode with @jomc.bsky.social about autonomous vehicles and delivery robots, particularly relevant following the recent tragedy of a waymo taxi killing a locally beloved bodega cat

@jomc.bsky.social was just on “Tech Won't Save Us” and part of the discussion was about the behavior of delivery robots like this techwontsave.us/episode/299_...