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antonymous driving technology
Ah, thereâs the problem! /s
No wonder these "tech"bro billionaires are cryptocoin fetishists! The stuff they got rich on is only slightly less vaporware than EFTs. (Luminar does have real products, but this guy got rich off the hyped stock value, like Musk, rather than company profits.)
(Fuck, another Thiel protégé.)
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Iâm sure itâs a coincidence. 
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I was going along with that until this point:
The solution to the modern worldâs explosion of tech challenges, he argues, is not government, but in personal choices and responsibility.
Erm, how bout âcollective actionâ? Including governments that arenât subject to elite capture?
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[clutches pearls dramatically]
âCollective action you say?â [faints]
/s
Yeah, I found the article forensically interesting but not hopeful. This âpersonal choicesâ thing in the context of this article especially sounded a lot like code words for some libertarian-esque article of faith that tHiNgS WiLl SoRt ThEmSeLveS oUt If oNLy.
If anyone here wants a case study of âpersonal choices and responsibilityâ with a big olâ helping of FreedomÂź rhetoric, please take a good look at how the state of Texas, where I have lived since 1990, has been running things, including but not limited to our gun problem, and the deaths of so many innocents:
Lest we forget:
1966.
ETA:
My son, back from college, has accused me of nut-picking:
In the spirit of full disclosure, hereâs my accepting that term applies to me, but in my defense, yâall canât swing a dead armadillo around here without hitting a⊠Texas Freedom Thinker⊠including us nutjobs in Austin, which is a kind of Nut Collector for the rest of our state.
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I guess every day is Monday in Texas. 
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Damn. Quite cutting.
This one amused me though.
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Sounds like a good start.
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I feel like this belongs here:
