A treasure trove of "124,000 leaked emails, texts, invoices and internal documents" during Travis Kalanick's infamous reign at Uber have been dissected by The Guardian in what they call "The Uber Files". I tried to find juicy bits to quote here, but honestly, it's rather stereotypical capitalist bully stuff we already knew. Befriending politicians and regulators (possibly bribing them? No evidence here), ignoring laws, growth at all costs, using protestors as pawns even if it meant they got hurt in fights, deleting data before law enforcement could get their hands on it and just being distasteful humans. Every executive involved in Uber's growth should be in jail, but they aren't, so now what?
Elon Musk has officially called off his bumbling attempt to buy Twitter, filing papers with the SEC. He is still claiming that Twitter isn't giving him enough information to do "an independent assessment of the prevalence of fake or spam accounts on Twitter’s platform" despite Twitter bending over backwards to give him any data he asked for. Twitter's board said they're "committed to closing the transaction on the price and terms agreed upon with Mr. Musk and plans to pursue legal action to enforce the merger agreement". One theory floating around is that this is a cover for Elon to sell a shitload of overvalued Tesla stock (US$8.5b!) without spooking the market.
Regular expressions are one of those computer things that if I understood properly would make me way more productive. Alas, I am a dumbo idiot and after years still struggle with the most basic of regex. AutoRegex might be a salvation for people like me. It's a website that uses the GPT-3 language AI to turn plain English into a regex statement you can paste where needed. I signed up (it's free) and have bookmarked it for the inevitable day I run into a situation where I need match some patterns.
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