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"No doubt about it: Climate change made Hurricane Melissa way worse"
#Climate #ClimateChange
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No doubt about it: Climate change made Hurricane Melissa way worse
An analysis of the storm found “all aspects of this event were amplified by climate change, and that we'll see more of the same.”

When "self-driving" cars were first getting some hype back in ~2015 or so, I told people who asked me that I didn't think they'd be safe, and that I wished the same money were being invested in driver-assistance systems instead.
At the time, advocates were claiming that self-driving cars would be safer than human drivers.
We now have both self-driving cars and some nifty new driver assistance things, and it turns out that the self-driving cars are in fact being developed by corporations whose attention to the bottom line results in danger to others on the road pretty regularly. I don't actually have stats here for whether they're "safer than human drivers" or not, but the opportunity for one bad software update to make *all* self-driving cars dangerous at once kinda makes me doubt that.
Here's an example of Waymo cars getting "more aggressive" as they try to balance between being too timid and obstructing traffic (including emergency vehicles) and being too dangerous:
https://archive.ph/JJuGv
Here's another example of passing stopped schoolbusses leading to a software recall:
https://abcnews.go.com/GMA/News/waymo-issue-voluntary-software-recall-after-close-calls/story?id=128207776
In the first article, Waymo claims 91% fewer serious accidents per mile. Obviously an independent audit would be actually trustworthy, but even if we take that claim at face value, it's meaningless if an update tomorrow causes 100,000 accidents.
Note that they could be using better engineering practices, and the fact that they aren't shows that they don't care enough about the risks. They could be deploying new software versions incrementally and slowly, letting new versions rack up lots of miles only on a few vehicles before pushing them to a fleet. The should also have the equivalent of a simulation unit test for "schoolbus is stopped, what do?" and if a software version fails that test, it doesn't make it to the fleet. Clearly they don't have that.
I feel pretty vindicated in my earlier prediction that this tech is a bad idea in the hands of the current advocates.

National Park Service drops free admission on MLK Day, Juneteenth while adding Trump's birthday (David Klepper/Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/national-parks-free-trump-birthday-juneteenth-mlk-225b10728a9df22d54407ecaec1e5e5f
http://www.memeorandum.com/251207/p10#a251207p10

Myles Garrett should be 2025’s NFL MVP https://insidethestar.com/myles-garrett-should-be-2025s-nfl-mvp

Inflection Risk Solutions provides false information when employers seek background checks on prospective new hires.
I know because I was a victim of their criminal negligence. I got my class action settlement check this week.
FUCK Inflection Risk Solutions, for all the opportunities they cost me, and everyone else who was erroneously listed as a criminal sex offender.

Meta launches Vibes, its short-form video feed of AI-generated videos, in Europe through the Meta AI app, following its US debut six weeks earlier (Aisha Malik/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/11/06/meta-brings-its-short-form-video-feed-of…

Meta brings its short-form video feed of AI slop to Europe | TechCrunch
Meta says that since the launch of Vibes, media generation in the Meta AI app has jumped more than tenfold.

Meta launches Vibes, its short-form video feed of AI-generated videos, in Europe through the Meta AI app, following its US debut six weeks earlier (Aisha Malik/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/11/06/meta-brings-its-short-form-video-feed-of…

Meta brings its short-form video feed of AI slop to Europe | TechCrunch
Meta says that since the launch of Vibes, media generation in the Meta AI app has jumped more than tenfold.

Dynamic mounds made of methane at a depth of some 3,640 meters
act like “frozen reefs” for a bizarre array of deep-sea creatures, new observations reveal
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/bizarre-ecosystem-disco…

Bizarre Ecosystem Discovered More Than Two Miles beneath Arctic Ocean
Dynamic mounds made of methane at a depth of some 3,640 meters act like “frozen reefs” for a bizarre array of deep-sea creatures, new observations reveal

Der #Hurrikan „Melissa“ trifft #Jamaika mit Windgeschwindigkeiten bis zu 280 km/h und bedroht rund 1,5 Millionen Menschen.
Der Sturm hat sich binnen eines Tages extrem verstärkt. #Klimawandel…

Wie der Klimawandel den Jahrhundert-Hurrikan Melissa antreibt
Der Hurrikan bewegt sich mit rasender Windgeschwindigkeit auf Jamaika und Kuba zu. Die steigenden Wassertemperaturen der Meere befeuern ihn.

Cowboys Get Bad News on Javonte Williams, Malik Davis Injuries Before Finale https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/dallas-cowboys/javonte-williams-malik-davis-injury-update-week-18/