Tom Maszerowski @tommasz@mastodon.technology

This just in: Billionaire attempts to act like a non-billionaire, fools no one, continues to treat workers like sh*t.

https://www.geekwire.com/2022/buff-bezos-burger-binge-amazon-founder-grabs-a-bite-at-mcdonalds-where-he-first-worked-as-a-teen/

I can’t decide if this is ingenious or dumb. But the visually impaired will certainly appreciate being able to hear an EV approaching.

https://www.engadget.com/dodge-all-electric-charger-concept-092156218.html

Someone is trying desperately to get into my Instagram account. Just another day in the Internet cesspool.

To bring back a Bell Labs, you’ll have to bring back planning more than a fiscal quarter ahead. Good luck with that.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s42254-022-00426-6

Funny how cryptocurrency is such a magnet for crime.

https://decrypt.co/106590/multiple-wallets-including-sol-and-usdc-drained-in-unfolding-attack

What is it about bike share companies?

https://techcrunch.com/2022/07/31/bolt-mobility-has-vanished-leaving-e-bikes-unanswered-calls-behind-in-several-us-cities/

This explains everything.

http://smbc-comics.com/comic/enginomics

Crypto just breeds corruption. As befits its origin.

https://www.sec.gov/news/press-release/2022-127

The serotonin theory of depression: a systematic umbrella review of the evidence.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41380-022-01661-0

I dunno, maybe someone should have said something like this before millions of people downloaded it. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

https://blog.malwarebytes.com/privacy-2/2022/07/tiktok-is-unacceptable-security-risk-and-should-be-removed-from-app-stores-says-fcc/

Smalltalkers: Squeak 6.0 is out! And it’s got hi-DPI support!!

https://squeak.org/

To its credit, MS has postponed implementation of its new open source policy pending clarification. It’ll be interesting to see how they can stave off price gouging without shutting out open projects entirely.

https://techcrunch.com/2022/07/15/dissecting-microsofts-delayed-policy-to-ban-commercial-open-source-apps/

“You can’t be speaking truth to power if you don’t speak truth and you are the powerful.”

https://www.vox.com/recode/23207361/elon-musk-twitter-narrative-billionaire

A neat site showing the difference between the Hubble and JWST with a slider to make comparison easier.

https://johnedchristensen.github.io/WebbCompare/

What a (totally predictable) shit show.

https://slate.com/technology/2022/07/elon-musk-twitter-deal-peril.html

I’m shocked, shocked I tell you to find out the 9,000 lb. Hummer EV generates more CO2 per mile than a gasoline-powered Chevy Malibu.

And it’s probably worse off-road as well.

https://www.aceee.org/blog-post/2022/06/9000-pound-electric-hummer-shows-we-cant-ignore-efficiency-evs

All big companies are the same.

https://www.theverge.com/23196764/netflix-culture-ted-sarandos-employee-feedback-dave-chappelle-controversy

Does hot water freeze faster than cold? Science says: Maybe yes, maybe no.

https://www.quantamagazine.org/does-hot-water-freeze-faster-than-cold-physicists-keep-asking-20220629/

We banned GitHub Copilot in the courses I teach based on our academic honesty policy. We re-use assignments from year to year and it wouldn’t take long for them to appear in the corpus. (bird site link)

https://twitter.com/ReinH/status/1539626662274269185