Have you ever noticed that most self-driving cars don't have any passengers?

"Deadheading" is an industry term for keeping driverless cars in constant motion, even when they have neither a passenger nor a destination. Waymo & Cruise rely on deadheading to avoid paying for parking.

Why pay the city for public parking when you can store your car on the road for free (as long as it's moving)?

Since I've started keeping track, I've noticed that over 90% of the self-driving cars I see are empty...

Megacorp execs were interviewed about the #WGA strike & were quoted saying their goal was to "break the WGA," and to drag things out "until #union members start losing their apartments and homes"

After corporate counsel reminded the execs of *labor laws*, an update was released saying that actually the execs did not want to make workers homeless in retaliation for exercising labor rights because that would violate #labor laws so its all a big misunderstanding

https://deadline.com/2023/07/writers-strike-hollywood-studios-deal-fight-wga-actors-1235434335/

Film companies demand names of Reddit users who discussed piracy in 2011

Reddit urges US court to protect anonymity of six users who mentioned piracy.

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/07/film-companies-demand-names-of-reddit-users-who-discussed-piracy-in-2011/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

I sometimes wonder whether the plastics and other chemicals permeating all of our food and drink are having a significant effect on behaviour both at the individual and the social levels, i.e. upswings in political violence and so forth.

It's just a theory, and one I'm not sure I believe myself. But I can't imagine this situation is good for us.

https://apnews.com/article/pfas-forever-chemicals-drinking-water-813c1323f74d5adb798047eea39c778a