Former Uber self-driving chief crashes his Tesla on FSD, exposes supervision problem

https://electrek.co/2026/03/17/former-uber-self-driving-chief-tesla-fsd-crash-supervision-problem/

#tesla #crash

“Thirty years ago, while basking in the dawn of U.S. hyperpower, imperial policymakers liked to say that ‘superpowers don't do windows’—that is, the unglamorous, menial tasks of hegemony, which ought to be performed by client states. We are a long way from that now. The Iraq War showed that even at the height of U.S. unipolarity, there were serious political limits to the participation of partner militaries in unpopular American wars of choice. Now, at the historical end of U.S. unipolarity, there simply was never going to be any appetite to save the Americans from their own mistakes.”

https://www.forever-wars.com/none-of-these-people-i-insulted-want-to-die-for-me-in-the-strait-of-hormuz/

I suspect most people outside of the UK won't have heard about the post office scandal, but it seems highly relevant to learn about now (given *waves* this):

For over 15 years, the software post offices in the UK had to use contained severe bugs, particular in accounting, that everyone at Fujitsu/horizon and the post blissfully ignored. Over 900 (!!!) postmasters were sentenced for alleged theft and fraud, some went to jail, some committed suicide. All because the software was shit and everyone who could do something about it didn't care and swept it under the rug.

Everything, including how it was uncovered, about this seems bizarre and Kafkaesque, but we better prepare for it to happen more often.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Post_Office_scandal

https://types.pl/@pigworker/116211919028571818

In today's #wth... At the trailhead I found a burning fire in a loose "fire pit" and trash strewn about. Not a person in sight.
I was so pissed. There's dry grass everywhere. Got lucky that today's winds weren't as bad as the past few day's.

I dumped my spare water on it and got my avy shovel out of my truck to bury it. #BendWX #PineMountain #Fire #peoplearestupid