A container ship hit an important bridge in Baltimore, and the bridge collapsed.

The bridge was not designed to survive such a collision, as such large ships did not exist when it was built.

What caused the ship to go off course. and whether that was anyone's fault, is a side issue. Accidents will happen and mistakes will happen. We should design systems so that mistakes and accidents won't turn into disasters. The replacement bridge should be designed so that ships traveling near or under it cannot possibly damage it no matter what strange things they may do.

GM's response to being caught massively collecting data on drivers' actions is to say it will stop providing that data to two particular data brokers. That minor change is intended to avoid change in GM's fundamentally unjust basic decision: to track drivers and collect data about them.

It appears that GM did not provide drivers' location data to those data brokers, but that data is being collected by the network through which the data are transmitted. I would expect that GM collects GPS data from the GPS receiver in the car. It should be illegal for a car's systems to record that data.

*Tech firms poised to mass hire factcheckers before EU elections.* Too bad for the US that they won't do this in the US.

When referring to the platform formerly known as Twitter, please don't use the name that its fascist purchaser wants us to use. I recommend calling it Ex-Twitter.

* The US abstained in a vote for a resolution that “demands an immediate ceasefire for the month of Ramadan”. It also demanded the release of hostages by Hamas, but did not make the ceasefire dependent on hostage release,*

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez points out that it is illegal, by US law, to provide weapons to armies that block US humanitarian assistance. Israel's army is doing that now.

She calls for cutting off immediately the supply of US weapons to Israel. I support this.

San Diego is trying out a software system to recognize "homeless encampments".

They define "encampments" more broadly than you might expect. For instance, they define "vehicles that people are living in" as "encampments". While breaking up an encampment in the usual sense of that word is likely to bring attention from the press, forcing someone who lives in an RV to move it is not big enough to do that, which means they could get away with it without even reproach.

San Francisco went to the absurd length of prohibiting parking an RV in the city. As a result, people who live in houses but own an RV can't leave the RV nearby in order to prepare for a trip.