Fuck Mozilla and fuck the Firefox developers.

Something very, very important that this article doesn’t mention is that humans often crash into large, immobile objects where they aren’t supposed to be all the time. It is extremely, extremely common. This is not (just) a computer issue. In fact, I suspect autonomous vehicles will eventually be better at avoiding these sorts of accidents than humans.

One I remember is that a tractor trailer jackknifed on a highway. It was clear weather. Nevertheless, 20 cars smashed right into the trailer without braking. They simply did not see it because their minds were not expecting it to be there.

Most people have probably heard of the invisible gorilla experiment. The tractor-trailer crash and resulting pile-up is an example of that sort of inattentional blindness. Like the autonomous vehicles, the humans were on the lookout for other moving vehicles. The saw what they expected to see, and were looking for, and all else was not visible.

In this instance, we — as we should — are holding our robots to higher standards than we hold ourselves.

The judge in the Larry Nassar case is beyond awesome.

Aly Raisman (one of Nassar’s victims) is one of my favorite athletes because she can do this:

And because she seems like a cool human being in general. Those are all double layouts, and among the most difficult moves in gymnastics. She makes them look so easy.

Incredibly sad to hear her testimony, to hear her recount the monstrous evil that Nassar got away with for so long. Fuck that guy. I wish he were dead. I’d kill him myself and not feel the least remorse nor would I ever think about it again.