CaptObvious

Short of visiting their newsroom and asking to see the documents in question, which no self-respecting journalist would share, we’ll have to trust them.

However, having directed a newsroom in a previous life, I can tell you that a retraction is the last thing any editor wants to do. A minor error would be chalked up to working under a deadline and corrected in the next follow-up. A major error would get a stand-alone correction. The error has to be egregious to get a retraction.

Libel might be a threat, but it’s devilishly difficult to prove that a news outlet has libeled a corporation. So long as the story were factually accurate, there’s nothing Google could plausibly threaten that would prompt a retraction.

I do sometimes enjoy being an agent of chaos. :D

LOL! I hadn’t really considered that. Maybe I should consider changing it. :)

While there’s no doubt that something is going on to make Google searches garbage, news outlets don’t publish retractions lightly. I’m inclined to believe that they are convinced that the story was substantially inaccurate.

Good news from Texas? Shocking

The carpet is one thing. What about the pink bathroom fixtures?

I have good luck self-hosting on a Raspberry Pi and on a Linode Nanode server.

Bookmarking this site.

I’m not planning on viewing Reddit in the foreseeable future. But I rather like the idea of taking up space in their database while giving them nothing in return.

True. And I’ve done that. I’m just wondering if it’s time to clean up an unused social media account.

Except that Tesla does claim that they’re autonomous self-driving. They’re even among the group pushing to be allowed to sell cars with no driver controls.

Not only should Tesla’s executives be held personally liable, I’d probably also jail whichever regulator let them get away with it.

A better idea. I already tried to change my email to a European provider, though, and Reddit refused.