The New York Times had a chance to earnestly grapple with a serious critique of its trans coverage by a serious group of professionals, including journalists The Times believed were credible enough to have a byline in the paper or contribute in other ways. Instead, it decided to demean them as activists who aren’t truly […]
Next week the Supreme Court will hear the biggest Internet case in more than a decade: Gonzalez v Google. At issue is Section 230; the law that empowers all of us to create and engage with online…
The broken Twitter everyone warned us about is finally here.
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"Beta" is a term of art in the software biz, meaning pre-release, buggy, unfinished, and not suitable for production use, among other things. FSD has been in beta since October 2020. I won't speculate about whether Tesla attorneys are advising the company to maintain the 'beta' label as a hedge against liability, but a.) that's a really long time for a beta version, and b.) it's outrageous that any company would be permitted to test this kind of tech on public roads. https://arstechnica.com/cars/2023/02/tesla-to-recall-362758-cars-because-full-self-driving-beta-is-dangerous/
More importantly, you are never, and I mean never, supposed to push beta to production (or, push beta to prod, as we say in the biz). And public roads and your customer base, as opposed to your QA team and beta test team, are about as prod as it gets. So Tesla, and by Tesla I mean Elon, has been deeply irresponsible to put it in the most charitable way possible.
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This bizarre episode in social-media history proves that it’s well past time for meaningful tech oversight.
Although a full collapse is unlikely, a different kind of death is possible.