Link: The Human Override
My Health Insurance Denied My Cancer Treatment – and My Humanity, So I Emailed the CEO ↗ — Elizabeth Nicholas, Vanity Fair
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A Few More Names
A thank-you for reading Toxicity Is Genderless, and some more names readers sent my way.
Link: Distrust isn’t discernment
Why is Everything a Conspiracy Now? ↗ — Hannah Glenn, Hannah is Spiraling
And I often wonder if conspiracy theories are actually comforting to people, because the idea that there is no plan, might be far worse.
There are plenty of good reasons to be suspicious of powerful people and institutions. But there’s a difference between questioning what you’re told and deciding that whatever you’re told must be a lie. The second one can feel like critical thinking without requiring much thinking at all.
I also keep coming back to the entertainment part. Are we trying to understand what happened, or are we hoping the next detail makes the story more interesting?
Cybercab Is Joining the Robotaxi Service. But Hard Questions Remain.
Tesla set September 4 for Cybercab’s public opening in Austin. Its new documents answer what passengers can do when something goes wrong, but leave the fleet’s boundaries, remote assistance, and federal compliance partly unresolved.
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A Smaller Circle Is Not a Stronger One
MacStories returned to X and parts of the open web turned on it. Staying on a compromised platform is not morally neutral. But implication is not endorsement, and treating bridges as betrayals will only make the alternative smaller.