Automattic CEO Matt Mullenweg sparred with a trans Tumblr user over an account ban, revealing her side blog names, which are private, sparking community outcry
I wanna emphasise prev tags and ramble cuz it hits the nail on the head exactly. Exactly!! elerium on Tumblr : moscovium enthusiast — it almost goes without saying but for posterity's sake i want p...
Internal documents: Cruise knew its cars struggled to detect large holes and sometimes had problems recognizing kids, prior to its California permitting crisis
In Phoenix, Austin, Houston, Dallas, Miami, and San Francisco, hundreds of so-called autonomous vehicles, or AVs …
Amazon's third-party “seller services”, a large and growing part of the company's revenue that is also profitable, has filled its Marketplace with junk products
its drift from anything resembling shopping or informed consumption — is becoming harder for Amazon's one-click magic trick to hide.” https://nymag.com/... Maya Kosoff / @mekosoff : retail in 2023 inv...
Inside Ovarit, an invite-only Reddit-like site founded by members of the “trans-exclusionary radical feminists” subreddit r/GenderCritical that Reddit banned
Mary Kate Fain, a 27-year-old engineer and writer living in Houston, has always considered herself a feminist. Tweets: @sullydish , @elongreen , @sullydish , @fake_minnesotan , @katymontgomerie , @ali...
As US COVID-19 cases surge, public health officials are battling broken, fragmented data systems, some relying on fax, that are seriously impeding progress
Before public health officials can manage the pandemic, they must deal with a broken data system that sends incomplete results in formats they can't easily use. Tweets: @sarahkliff , @bymikebaker , @l...
Investigation shows how easy it is to register .gov domains using forged credentials; many US cities including LA, Houston haven't registered their .gov domains
Many readers probably believe they can trust links and emails coming from U.S. federal government domain names …
Small local social networks get usage boost during Harvey; opens of walkie-talkie app Zello rose 600%, and NextDoor memberships increased 650% in affected areas
On Wednesday morning, with floodwaters still rising in Houston, voices bubbled inside the relatively obscure walkie-talkie app Zello … Tweets: @jcstearns Tweets: Josh Stearns / @jcstearns : Really int...