Mary Branscombe
Omnivorous technology journalist. girl with the USB earring; author of the Cassidy At Large technomysteries. Like my writing? Buy me a ☕ ko-fi.com/marybranscombe. she/her. Warning: contains opinions. signal marypcbuk.44
- and the things Substack funds with preferential publishing deals are fascism and transphobia
- jaywalking is not 'permitted' in London'; there is literally no offense of jaywalking in the UK because we did not get as car-brained as the US and allow the car makers to have the law changed. stop using American words for things that are illegal in the US to describe normal British life
- “Jaywalking is permitted in London. In 1966, the police tried to crack down on it, but gave up after three months.” People walk and cycle on roads by right, people drive under licence. Jaywalking is not a thing in English law and Waymo must not change that. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
- for my own mental health I'm not going to look for cites on these, just remark that these are absolutely the kind of things we normally put down to conspiracy theories and it's so on point that it's not a shadowy official cabal, it's a charismatic creeper and gobs of money behind it all