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Joanne Mcneil

@jomc
20 posts
2025-12-26
Waymo has trained 25,000 *humans* to assist its 3,000ish cars on the road. waymo.com/blog/2025/12...  [image]
2025-12-26 View on X
Washington Post

A look at the humans employed to rescue robotaxis; Waymo uses the Honk app to pay $20 to $24 to manually close robotaxi doors and $60 to $80 to tow its cars

“While the Waymo Driver is designed to handle dark traffic signals as four-way stops, it may occasionally request a confirmation check to ensure it makes the safest choice.”  —  wa...

2025-12-25
Waymo has trained 25,000 *humans* to assist its 3,000ish cars on the road. waymo.com/blog/2025/12...  [image]
2025-12-25 View on X
Washington Post

A look at the humans employed to rescue robotaxis; Waymo uses the Honk app to pay $20 to $24 to manually close robotaxi doors and $60 to $80 to tow its cars

A recent power outage in San Francisco shows how vulnerable self-driving vehicles can be when problems arise.

2024-09-29
Must-read reporting on how the Internet Archive struggles to survive. It's a crucial resource for me, and as I said in the story, many of the books I read through the Open Library are nearly impossible to access otherwise https://www.wired.com/...
2024-09-29 View on X
Wired

A profile of Internet Archive founder Brewster Kahle, as the service fights existential battles over copyright, including from music labels like UMG

the crunchy side, before it got all tech bro.  It's utopian, it's idealistic.”  🔗 https://www.wired.com/... Mastodon: Pete Ashton / @pete@social.coop : I am occasionally asked why ...

2023-07-24
Excellent work by Brian threading the needle & offering a concise history of how Hollywood became Silicon Valleyfied https://www.latimes.com/... [image]
2023-07-24 View on X
Los Angeles Times

Studio executives embraced Silicon Valley's magical thinking of hypergrowth and disruption for the past 10 years, only to slash worker pay as the boom times end

In one respect, the actors and writers of Hollywood uniting on the picket lines in a historic, industry-shaking strike is a tale as old as time …

2022-09-06
Wonderful remembrance of Peter Eckersley. He was so kind, idiosyncratic and full of life, it's still hard to believe I can't drop him a line next time I've got a long layover in SFO to meet for a quick coffee at Ritual https://twitter.com/...
2022-09-06 View on X
Electronic Frontier Foundation

Peter Eckersley, who worked at EFF for 12 years, including as its chief computer scientist, and founded the Let's Encrypt certificate authority, has died at 43

With deep sadness, EFF mourns the loss of our friend, the technologist, activist, and cybersecurity expert Peter Eckersley.

2022-02-02
And here's danah's defense of productizing this data. https://www.zephoria.org/...
2022-02-02 View on X
Politico

Nonprofit suicide chat service Crisis Text Line ends its data sharing relationship with for-profit spinoff Loris.ai and asks the company to delete existing data

and it's striking to be offered so much inside info about the CTL/Loris debacle — but it also doesn't fully connect the dots. A few thoughts/questions: https://www.zephoria.org/......

2022-02-01
And here's danah's defense of productizing this data. https://www.zephoria.org/...
2022-02-01 View on X
Politico

Nonprofit suicide chat service Crisis Text Line ends its data sharing relationship with for-profit spinoff Loris.ai and asks the company to delete existing data

The nonprofit mental-health hotline Crisis Text Line ended its data-sharing relationship with a for-profit spinoff Monday …

2021-10-10
remember when Facebook ordered all the women in the office to wear a t-shirt with Mark's face on it for his birthday.
2021-10-10 View on X
Washington Post

Ex-members of Facebook's integrity team speak of demoralization as management ignored their work; at least 10 members now work in a similar division at Twitter

because if you're underpaid it's that much harder to store up the financial power to speak. https://twitter.com/... David Sacks / @davidsacks : Did anyone else notice that the Face...

Facebook culture and mission haven't changed: it's always been an evil clown show but now it's an evil clown show trillion dollar company.
2021-10-10 View on X
Washington Post

Ex-members of Facebook's integrity team speak of demoralization as management ignored their work; at least 10 members now work in a similar division at Twitter

because if you're underpaid it's that much harder to store up the financial power to speak. https://twitter.com/... David Sacks / @davidsacks : Did anyone else notice that the Face...

Zuckerberg at once wants you to believe that the FB company culture isn't what it used to be (a frat party) and that the FB mission has always been pure but they've made a few missteps in recent years.
2021-10-10 View on X
Washington Post

Ex-members of Facebook's integrity team speak of demoralization as management ignored their work; at least 10 members now work in a similar division at Twitter

because if you're underpaid it's that much harder to store up the financial power to speak. https://twitter.com/... David Sacks / @davidsacks : Did anyone else notice that the Face...

2021-10-09
Facebook culture and mission haven't changed: it's always been an evil clown show but now it's an evil clown show trillion dollar company.
2021-10-09 View on X
Washington Post

Ex-members of Facebook's integrity team speak of demoralization as management ignored their work; at least 10 members now work in a similar division at Twitter

Dissidents within the company endured personal and professional setbacks for their criticisms of the powerful social network

remember when Facebook ordered all the women in the office to wear a t-shirt with Mark's face on it for his birthday.
2021-10-09 View on X
Washington Post

Ex-members of Facebook's integrity team speak of demoralization as management ignored their work; at least 10 members now work in a similar division at Twitter

Dissidents within the company endured personal and professional setbacks for their criticisms of the powerful social network

Zuckerberg at once wants you to believe that the FB company culture isn't what it used to be (a frat party) and that the FB mission has always been pure but they've made a few missteps in recent years.
2021-10-09 View on X
Washington Post

Ex-members of Facebook's integrity team speak of demoralization as management ignored their work; at least 10 members now work in a similar division at Twitter

Dissidents within the company endured personal and professional setbacks for their criticisms of the powerful social network

2021-10-04
The Boy Kings should be selling thousands of copies everytime there's another Facebook whistleblower or major story in the news. A smart publisher would be looking to reissue a 10th anniversary edition.
2021-10-04 View on X
CBS News

In a 60 Minutes interview, WSJ's Facebook Files whistleblower says Facebook is misleading the public on progress against hate speech, misinformation, and more

Frances Haugen says in her time with Facebook she saw, “conflicts of interest between what was good for the public and what was good for Facebook.”

2021-02-25
Amazon's ownership of Twitch seems vastly underreported given its influence and that it will do something like this: https://twitter.com/...
2021-02-25 View on X
VICE

Amazon is sending postal mail to warehouse workers in Bessemer, Alabama urging them to “VOTE NO” on unionization, and has also pushed anti-union ads on Twitch

A mysterious new USPS mailbox has appeared on Amazon property amid a historic union drive in Bessemer, Alabama.

2020-08-30
grateful for @juliacarriew's phenomenal reporting because she understands and clarifies the stakes. This is a new low for Facebook and it is terrifying. https://twitter.com/...
2020-08-30 View on X
BuzzFeed News

At an all-hands, Zuckerberg said Kenosha Guard's Page remained online after the shooting due to “an operational mistake” as some staff questioned his leadership

🌊 Technically soup Jack Morse / Mashable : Mark Zuckerberg blames Facebook contractors for Kenosha militia fiasco John Gruber / Daring Fireball : Facebook's Kenosha Guard Militia E...

2020-08-29
grateful for @juliacarriew's phenomenal reporting because she understands and clarifies the stakes. This is a new low for Facebook and it is terrifying. https://twitter.com/...
2020-08-29 View on X
BuzzFeed News

Internal report: Kenosha Guard Page was flagged at least 455 times before Facebook took it down, with four moderators saying it didn't violate any rules

In a companywide meeting on Thursday, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said that a militia page advocating for followers to bring weapons …

2020-05-02
“This is what we should remember about Amazon whenever the pandemic recedes: It punished concerned workers for trying to support each other, it left them exposed to a deadly virus, and it withheld easily provided crucial support” - @bcmerchant https://onezero.medium.com/...
2020-05-02 View on X
The Verge

Workers at Amazon, Whole Foods, Instacart, FedEx, Target, and Walmart join together in striking on May 1, demanding better workplace safety conditions

not now, not ever. https://onezero.medium.com/... @munchies : “I'm a number on a body bag. They don't care if I live or die working this job. There are more people who can replace ...

2020-05-01
“This is what we should remember about Amazon whenever the pandemic recedes: It punished concerned workers for trying to support each other, it left them exposed to a deadly virus, and it withheld easily provided crucial support” - @bcmerchant https://onezero.medium.com/...
2020-05-01 View on X
The Verge

Workers at Amazon, Whole Foods, Instacart, FedEx, Target, and Walmart join together in striking on May 1, demanding better workplace safety conditions

Demands include better cleaning services and 14-day shutdowns at affected locations  —  On May 1st, workers from Amazon, Whole Foods …

2019-10-01
There's so much more in the Zuck audio leak but I can't get over him calling Facebook “existential” https://www.theverge.com/...
2019-10-01 View on X
The Verge

In leaked audio from open meetings in July, Mark Zuckerberg talks about Facebook's challenges and potential breakup, politics, competitors, content moderators

In two hours of leaked audio, Mark Zuckerberg rallies Facebook employees against critics, competitors, and the US government.