2025-09-24
this is an example of a trend I've noticed where the kinds of internet and telecoms scams you used to only see in poor countries are now common within the US. Fraud has become completely normalized www.cbsnews.com/news/u-s-sec...
Bloomberg
The US Secret Service says it has dismantled 300+ SIM card servers in the NYC area that could have disrupted communications ahead of the UN General Assembly
NYTimes https://www.nytimes.com/... Anthony Guglielmi / @ajguglielmi : While investigating threats against senior officials, the @SecretService uncovered & dismantled a telecom net...
2024-12-18
Domain name verification is dumb and it pains me that some people continue to defend this obviously dumb idea. It was a cute thought experiment in the mastodon days but it's actually bad for all the same reasons we abolished “extended validation” SSL certificates bsky.app/profile/cono... [embedded post]
Tedium
Bluesky using domains to verify users has led to cybersquatting and impersonation, as domains don't offer enough social proof for the average person
Bluesky, until now, has had a reputation as being a more moderation-friendly alternative to X, Threads, Mastodon, and other social networks.
2022-11-08
elon is just out there shooting from the hip without even knowing the sign on these effect sizes https://twitter.com/...
Platformer
Sources: Elon Musk pitched charging most or all Twitter users for a subscription; internal estimates show Blue could lose the company ~$6/user/month in the US
Will he go through with it? PLUS: Botched layoffs, how the new Blue could lose money, and more
2022-06-20
color me skeptical that they're going to be here in 2023. Although interstates seem like an easier AV problem they're not. Some of our worst most confusing road work is interstates https://twitter.com/...
Wall Street Journal
A look at the safety and economics of autonomous trucks as Aurora and TuSimple say they plan to have commercial-trucking services in the US by the end of 2023
2022-06-19
color me skeptical that they're going to be here in 2023. Although interstates seem like an easier AV problem they're not. Some of our worst most confusing road work is interstates https://twitter.com/...
Wall Street Journal
A look at the safety and economics of autonomous trucks as Aurora and TuSimple say they plan to have commercial-trucking services in the US by the end of 2023
Autonomous trucks that mostly stick to highways could make sense, both technologically and economically, in ways robotaxis have not. Tweets: @herbgreenberg , @hyperplanes , @mims ,...