Aurora over Icelandic Waterfall
Image Credit & Copyright: Cari Letelier
@ElonMusk my guess is during Google cloud payment negotiations he threatened to increase the price of Firehose API access that Google uses to search index public tweets, and someone on the call either threatened to or straight-up prototyped doing it via scraping so he did this to win the argument.
Pure self-immolation.
Norfolk Southern, the company whose train derailed in Ohio and unleashed chemicals, made a record $12 billion in revenue last year.
Instead of investing in better safety measures, what did the company do? It authorized a $10 billion stock buyback.
Corporate greed, folks.