A Tesla employee who worshipped Musk died in a fiery crash on a road trip in which he relied heavily on Tesla's "full self-driving technology." Tesla has never publicly acknowledged his death and quickly replaced him. His widow says she now feels like "we were just guinea pigs."
A @washingtonpost investigation: https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/interactive/2024/tesla-full-self-driving-fatal-crash/ by Trisha Thadani, @faizsays, @rachellerman et al.
I followed up on death threats to Colorado Secretary of State #JenaGriswold after reading @foser article on how the media is disconnected from threats to judges & election officials.
Still no arrests on her #Swatting attempt from over a month ago.
Her request for more funding for security for her office was rejected.
There were 2 arrests from earlier threats. One led to 2 years probation the other 18 months in prison.
When threats aren't seriously prosecuted it sends a message, Keep doing it!
Meta is downranking/hiding political content on Threads. The company says Threads will “not recommend any content/accounts that post about politics.”
Here’s the issue: what counts as “politics” is often any news abt people who have had their whole existence politicized, such as news about Black people, LGBTQ people, disabled ppl, women, etc. Climate scientists, public health experts etc also considered “political” https://www.axios.com/2024/02/09/meta-political-content-moderation-threads
❌ One of the biggest mistakes I made when I first started building #PowerBI reports:
I only used charts and colors that I thought looked cool.
👇 Do this instead
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