Torching the Google car: Why the growing revolt against big tech just escalated
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Torching the Google car: Why the growing revolt against big tech just escalated
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#2“Maybe we should become a better moral actor” is a thought that will never be entertained in a corporate meeting room.
Re: Torching the Google car: Why the growing revolt against big tech just escalated
#3“Maybe we should become a better moral actor” is a thought that will never be entertained in a corporate meeting room.
Not while there's any other option.
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#4I hope that more revolts happen. I'm sick of this "trends" BS that Big Tech pushes and makes others follow.
Unrelated but IMHO, web bloat will also kill the internet more than IE at this point.
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#5People are reading way too much into the Waymo incident.
It was Chinese new year. There was a bunch of drunk people in the street. Somebody messed with the car, and then somebody else did, and so on. Until somebody threw a firework in there out of memetic one upmanship and it caught the thing on fire.
You can see this in the videos. This was not ideological, it was just mob revelry gone awry.
Re: Torching the Google car: Why the growing revolt against big tech just escalated
#6People are reading way too much into the Waymo incident. It was Chinese new year. There was a bunch of drunk people in the street. Somebody messed with the car, and then somebody else did, and so on. Until somebody threw a firework in there out of memetic one upmanship and it caught the thing on fire. You can see this in the videos. This was not ideological, it was just mob revelry gone awry.
Yup, similar things happen after major sporting events.
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#7I hope that more revolts happen. I'm sick of this "trends" BS that Big Tech pushes and makes others follow. Unrelated but IMHO, web bloat will also kill the internet more than IE at this point.
I'm even more sick of losing friends to human driven cars. I've been to too funerals of children in my life. I see no hope of fixing human drivers while maybe they can make cars work.
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#8This pretty standard in France after a soccer game. A single car destroyed is kinda lame.
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#9> We don’t yet know exactly why a group of people very publicly graffitied, smashed, and torched a Waymo car in San Francisco
Having been to San Francisco lately, I would not be surprised to see all cars and houses smashed and burned. The city is basically that CHAZ thing in Seattle.
Re: Torching the Google car: Why the growing revolt against big tech just escalated
#10People are reading way too much into the Waymo incident. It was Chinese new year. There was a bunch of drunk people in the street. Somebody messed with the car, and then somebody else did, and so on. Until somebody threw a firework in there out of memetic one upmanship and it caught the thing on fire. You can see this in the videos. This was not ideological, it was just mob revelry gone awry.
This. Going from one act of vandalism to an escalating revolt against big tech sounds like quite a stretch.