"lowest amounts" - still not zero.

"We appreciate our collaboration with the security research community"

...the T-Mobile spokesperson said through gritted teeth.

Another issue is the lack of affordable public charging. Especially here in Europe with our sky high petrol excise, an EV might be a bit more expensive to purchase but a lot cheaper to run than an IC car. If you can charge at home, that is. Charging at a public charger can be twice as expensive, and if you're forced to use a fast charger it's even more. That changes the economics of EVs rather a lot.

... are something that I visit with a browser. I don't need them baked into the browser.

You really can't compare insurance liability to "Slop as a Service" liability (or however we want to describe the robot rental companies.)

Insurance is one of the most heavily regulated industries around. (This is US-centric, but insurance is heavily regulated in all advanced economies except, arguably, Florida.)

Most folks tend to think Regulated Industry means they can "get away" with less than other companies. And that's true in certain ways. But it also means they can absolutely do things that would leave them exposed to liability if they were unregulated. It ends up being both restrictive and freeing in different ways, and the details invariably end up being really complex, arbitrary at the margin, and enraging when it bites you. It isn't even all the insurers' fault - in the US every state has their own regulator, and the rules vary quite a bit. (Florida has very few.)

That's how you end up with home insurance that covers squirrel damage but not raccoon damage.

Which all means that the abusive behavior insurance companies get away with ends up looking a lot different than that in other industries. Each industry is its own special tapestry of grift.

This is more speculative, but I think we are gearing up for one hell of a moral panic over LLMs. Most recent moral panics have been legacy media creations, and they're captured by robot-money, so we won't see Fox or ABC running with it for now. But I'd give even odds someone does something spectacularly awful because their robot friend told them to* within the next year, and then there will be buckets of organic "won't someone think of the children" for demagogues to exploit.

*details and nuance won't matter

I suspect we're about to find out how much liability these outfits can legally disclaim.

"LOL we didn't mean really do kratom" is going to be catnip to some eager AG with a dead blond.

This pattern gets rediscovered every so often, I'm really surprised Zendesk doesn't have mitigations. They have to have seen this before.

This used to happen to self-hosted bugtrackers and some other types of apps, too. Anywhere you want to be able to send mail to arbitrary groups of people.

Opt-in is not just a good idea. Zendesk may not want more UI friction, but the alternative is going to be blocking them - if you can't control your mail servers, I am not going to accept mail from you.

Whatever else the shortcomings might be, "insufficiently race obsessed" is not one of them.

Bad idea. When evil fights evil, evil always wins.

Everyone = enough in a democracy to change policy, eg a majority.

The rest are just whining bitches in the shadows.

Nope it really doesn't, except in your little self-justifying universe.

Ah, that makes substantially more sense.

Thanks for the history.

My first Bay Area job (and first tech job) was at an also-ran database company. One of the people I worked with was this crusty older man who had worked at Atari and didn't have a single good thing to say about it - claimed there was a lot of self-dealing, nasty behavior and general shittiness. (I have no idea, just relaying the story.)

But really I'd rather talk about him - he was a character. Said he grew up in Montana (I have no reason to doubt it), he'd also been a rodeo rider in his teens, walked with a limp. Wore cowboy boots & hat, jeans and pearl-snap shirts, never saw him in anything else. He held Very Strong Opinions about Coor's Beer and the Coors family. But my favorite was when he got in trouble with office security because somebody saw a gun in his truck. His explanation was, "Hell yes there's a gun in there, I don't drive in a city without one." I I thought that was the thing that was going to get him fired, but no, he was still there when I left.

... better, but not perfect?

Somebody call the waaah-mbulance.

What does that even mean? Whose biases? What sort of bias, exactly?

I could have sworn I played this game on an Intellivision:

Take the Money and Run

But it's not listed as a system for this game. Maybe my rich friend with the Intellivision also had an Odyssey 2, lol