What I've been up to the past year: make it dead simple for US companies to offer health benefits. Now it's even easier to see the potential cost savings (or better coverage at similar price) with ICHRA before signing up:

In this PSA, Richmond RCMP equates [nearly] killing someone with negligence while operating a multi-ton machine with *being* killed while following all requirements and having the right of way. Acceptance of this framing requires that we become moral imbeciles.

Amazing. After 27 days of continuous action blockading the A12 highway in the Hague, and 9.000 arrests, the Dutch Lower House has asked the cabinet for a pathway toward decreasing fossil fuel subsidies. Excellent work everyone for getting this on the agenda.

Police showed up at Porsha Woodruff’s door in Detroit to arrest her for carjacking. She was 8 months pregnant. The suspect in the crime, committed 2 weeks earlier, was not. Police still charged her in another case of facial recognition tech gone awry. 🧵nytimes.com/2023/08/06/tec…

Moving past passwords is 🔑 for better account security. Today we’re launching passkey support on GitHub.com - you can enable passkeys today and ditch that password. github.blog/2023-07-12-int…

Meta turned over their DMs, used as evidence to convict them on felony charges for accessing criminalized healthcare. Meta had no choice -- they had the data so had to hand it over.

End-to-end encryption keeps people safe. jezebel.com/nebraska-mom-p…

ben nu onze directie mailen of ze wat soepeltjes om kunnen gaan met de rechten op dit fragment zodat ik met een crowdfunding kan zorgen dat het tot de verkiezingen te zien is in elk primetime reclameblok.

'No way to create a backdoor that only the good guys can walk through.'

Signal President Meredith Whittaker says the Online Safety Bill will cause 'unprecedented paradigm-shifting surveillance' - in a discussion with Cathy Newman and former UK Tech minister Damian Collins.

Tip: don't have your only investor update in the past 6 months be 'we're shutting down'.

The future of AI code assistants is open-source, private, secure, and on-device. That future starts today. We’re excited to release Rift, an open-source AI-native language server and VSCode extension for local copilots.

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The city of Montreal’s straight-up interpretation of the language law is working pretty well to highlight some absurdities of it. montreal.ca/en/articles/bi…

What happened with Shop app needing to reauthenticate Amazon multiple times a day instead of every other week? Defeats the purpose this way.

Awesome read: 'Healthy orgs are characterized by minimal politics, minimal confusion, high morale, high productivity, and low turnover. Health begets — and trumps — intelligence.' 💯

Fed up with how the airlines treat you?

Sign and share the petition in support of Bill C-327:
petitions.ourcommons.ca/en/Petition/De…

The Strengthening Air Passenger Protections Act (Bill C-327), introduced by Taylor Bachrach, is endorsed by Air Passenger Rights, Public Interest Advocacy Centre, and Option consommateurs.

In December we introduced Passkeys on Shop and Shop Pay. Passkeys are phishing-resistant, generally a lot stronger than existing auth methods, and allow for a frictionless sign-in process. A perfect fit for Shop! A summary in the 🧵, but see our blog post shopify.engineering/supporting-pas…

In writing my bill, I consulted with Canada’s leading consumer advocates including Air Passenger Rights, Public Interest Advocacy Centre and Option consommateurs, and heard from hundreds of air passengers.

We’ve done the work. I urge Omar Alghabra to bring this forward as a government bill as soon as possible.

“Musk was unconvinced & overruled his engineers. In May 2021 Tesla announced it was eliminating radar on new cars. The company began disabling radar in cars already on the road. The result… was an uptick in crashes.” A gift article, no paywall wapo.st/3YXBP6P