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@scottmstedman Different era. Same rule. This is not hard.
@owasow Incredible. And unconscionable.
“It sounds like you’re driving a jalopy from the 1970s,” Curry said. “It defeats the purpose of the high speed if you’re afraid that your front wheels are going to fall off if you accelerate quickly.” https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/tesla-musk-steering-suspension/
“How do citizens respond to extreme violations of democratic institutions, such as the Jan 6 insurrection at the Capitol?…those interviewed just hours after insurrection were about 10% less likely to identify as Republicans, reported greater dislike for Trump…” https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/1532673X231221987
“The F.B.I. released data this fall that gives us a glimpse of how policing in America has changed since the disruption of the pandemic years. The evidence is clear: Police departments across the country are solving far fewer crimes than they did before 2020.” https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/05/opinion/police-crime-data.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
Opinion | Police Departments Are Struggling to Solve Crimes

New data reveals that crime-solving rates are at record lows.

The New York Times
“Noise is ‘a slow killer.’ It isn’t dropping people on streets, but it’s slowly affecting people. If you’re having to adjust to a high level of noise when you move to a loud part of the city, your brain is using energy to effectively ignore that high level of noise.” https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/05/nyregion/nyc-noise-cameras.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
Quiet, Please: New York’s ‘Noise Cameras’ Are Listening

New York City, not exactly known for its peace and quiet, is expanding its use of technology to ticket the drivers of loud cars and motorcycles.

The New York Times
“X employees said on Thursday that they had gotten calls from advertisers wondering why Mr. Musk was making comments seen as antisemitic and why their ads were showing up next to white nationalist and Nazi content. IBM cut off about $1 million in advertising…” https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/16/technology/elon-musk-endorses-antisemitic-post-ibm.html?unlocked_article_code=1._Ew.a4IB.qsKl9J9LYKUz&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
X Races to Contain Damage After Elon Musk Endorses Antisemitic Post

IBM, a major advertiser on X, has pulled its spending from the social media platform, whose employees are grappling with what to tell its other advertisers, according to internal messages.

The New York Times
there is no justification for this
@scottmstedman You're absolutely right, though. It's been broken a long, long time. I was bitching about Boeing ads on CNN and MTP almost ten years ago. Those aren't for viewers. And the concept is the same all the way through. Advertising-based journalism has too many imbedded conflicts of interest—even just broadly, in wanting to be “friendly”—to really serve the public.
@scottmstedman ProPublica is absolutely killing it.