1/ A longtime Wired editor just wrote a mush-brained essay about how he totally missed the political rot of Silicon Valley (& still doesn't get it). But in the late 1990s, a Wired journalist warned of a toxic ideology bubbling up from tech. Paulina Borsook has largely been erased. Let's change that

On Twitter my entire 133+ thread of all documented 'Burned alive in my Tesla' cases is now .. completely & deliberately fucked up No one can even view it anymore. And I was the only one keeping track So I just published that, along with this spreadsheet #TeslaFire docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

@edzitron.com here's a fun Rot Economy anecdote. Facebook ads are getting through my adblocker this week and literally every single Facebook ad is a financial scam involving Canadian PM Mark Carney, often deepfakes, that lead you to a pretty convincing fake CBC website.

@edzitron.com This poses no issues at all, right? www.theverge.com/openai/66130...

@niedermeyer.online Tesla has to rebrand FSD in China, I imagine if he were forced to do this in America there would be a tantrum. driveteslacanada.ca/news/tesla-r...

@edzitron.com This is what is generally referred to as an "IPO-pop", right?

@edzitron.com Hey, just noticed you’re at #9 on the trending chart on Pocketcasts. Congrats!

@edzitron.com As someone whose employer pays for GH autopilot, I've noticed a trend where it started out shitty, then actually became semi-useful (full of crap but could speed up coding somewhat) and now within the last ~2-3 months has reverted back to being borderline useless. Is this a trend?

Newsletter: The CrowdStrike disaster is just the first of many tech industry calamities, a direct consequence of the growth-at-all-cost mindset that drives companies to grow with no regard for safety, sustainability, or responsibility to society. www.wheresyoured.at/crowdstruck-2/