Morgan Clendaniel
@mclendaniel.bsky.social
Digital executive editor at Fast Company
I've just discovered that Microsoft teams is unable to upload a file with a question mark in the file name. $3.63 trillion market cap company right there.
December 24, 2025 at 8:16 PM
I've just discovered that Microsoft teams is unable to upload a file with a question mark in the file name. $3.63 trillion market cap company right there.
You learn a lot of hard truths about your California running shoes when you take them out on icy roads.
December 24, 2025 at 3:07 PM
You learn a lot of hard truths about your California running shoes when you take them out on icy roads.
I am a mediocre piano player and can’t read music and don’t have a great ear, so learning a new song usually takes me forever. But now when my kid asks me to learn a song for her to sing to, I can bang it together in like 30 minutes.
December 23, 2025 at 9:51 PM
I am a mediocre piano player and can’t read music and don’t have a great ear, so learning a new song usually takes me forever. But now when my kid asks me to learn a song for her to sing to, I can bang it together in like 30 minutes.
The context-adding post is great because it seems like people need it but I have to say, if it was not instantly apparent to you that this Epstein doc is from an random anonymous tip just based on context clues, you need to sit in a dark room and contemplate your reading comprehension skills.
December 23, 2025 at 8:22 PM
The context-adding post is great because it seems like people need it but I have to say, if it was not instantly apparent to you that this Epstein doc is from an random anonymous tip just based on context clues, you need to sit in a dark room and contemplate your reading comprehension skills.
Fast Company on the Waymo outage in San Francisco: I believe we’re the first to confirm that network issues stemming from the pandemic prevented the company’s remote human operators from being able to connect with some vehicles.
www.fastcompany.com/91465377/way...
www.fastcompany.com/91465377/way...
Why Waymo went down in San Francisco
For self-driving cars, the human in the loop can't always answer the phone.
www.fastcompany.com
December 23, 2025 at 6:55 PM
Fast Company on the Waymo outage in San Francisco: I believe we’re the first to confirm that network issues stemming from the pandemic prevented the company’s remote human operators from being able to connect with some vehicles.
www.fastcompany.com/91465377/way...
www.fastcompany.com/91465377/way...
Reposted by Morgan Clendaniel
one of the things to think about with AVs is that things like this will happen EVERY time something out-of-sample happens; they have absolutely no ability to respond to novel inputs (no ML or 'AI' does) so this particular issue will never happen again but ??? will with absolute certainty
Robotaxis can’t handle out of sample conditions and behave inexplicably causing traffic chaos and making people hate them?!? Who could have predicted?!?!
Waymo has halted service in San Francisco after numerous videos & images showed its autonomous cars snarling traffic during the blackout.
With traffic lights down, Waymos across the city stopped dead in their tracks at intersections.
missionlocal.org/2025/12/sf-w...
With traffic lights down, Waymos across the city stopped dead in their tracks at intersections.
missionlocal.org/2025/12/sf-w...
December 21, 2025 at 9:40 PM
one of the things to think about with AVs is that things like this will happen EVERY time something out-of-sample happens; they have absolutely no ability to respond to novel inputs (no ML or 'AI' does) so this particular issue will never happen again but ??? will with absolute certainty
A funny thing from this story about Trump admin's national security argument against wind farms: if you can't fly your planes around wind turbines, you're not gonna make it in a war against China. www.fastcompany.com/91464931/tru...
December 23, 2025 at 1:39 PM
A funny thing from this story about Trump admin's national security argument against wind farms: if you can't fly your planes around wind turbines, you're not gonna make it in a war against China. www.fastcompany.com/91464931/tru...
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if they had just shown it on 60 Minutes nobody would have seen it
December 23, 2025 at 12:54 AM
if they had just shown it on 60 Minutes nobody would have seen it
Look, I’m not vain enough that I’m about to give myself a shot to get super shredded. But a pill…
December 23, 2025 at 12:49 AM
Look, I’m not vain enough that I’m about to give myself a shot to get super shredded. But a pill…
I would simply have not allowed the content I was attempting to suppress become publically available.
December 22, 2025 at 11:00 PM
I would simply have not allowed the content I was attempting to suppress become publically available.
Last year, the gym I stopped at over the holidays sent me a survey. I said the gym was great but if they wanted to improve, they could get some bars that were better for heavy deadlifts.
Got any incredibly defensive and vitriolic email response.
Anyway, this year they have deadlift bars.
Got any incredibly defensive and vitriolic email response.
Anyway, this year they have deadlift bars.
December 22, 2025 at 4:06 PM
Last year, the gym I stopped at over the holidays sent me a survey. I said the gym was great but if they wanted to improve, they could get some bars that were better for heavy deadlifts.
Got any incredibly defensive and vitriolic email response.
Anyway, this year they have deadlift bars.
Got any incredibly defensive and vitriolic email response.
Anyway, this year they have deadlift bars.
Not the main point here, but “The Times already did it” as an editorial rubric will doom your news organization and cedes far too much to the Times (all due respect). You have no idea how many people read that Times article you happen to have seen.
Bari Weiss this morning on the 60 Minutes segment: "We need to be able to get the principals on the record and on camera."
Of course, most journalists know that oftentimes people who are the subject of negative reporting don't want to speak on camera or on the record.
Of course, most journalists know that oftentimes people who are the subject of negative reporting don't want to speak on camera or on the record.
December 22, 2025 at 3:52 PM
Not the main point here, but “The Times already did it” as an editorial rubric will doom your news organization and cedes far too much to the Times (all due respect). You have no idea how many people read that Times article you happen to have seen.
Well, that’s odd.
December 21, 2025 at 10:01 PM
Well, that’s odd.
There are a lot of unique road scenarios on the roads I can see being hard to anticipate and you just hope your software can manage it. “What if we lose contact with all our cars due to a power outage” is something you should have a meeting and a plan about ahead of time.
Last night there was a mass blackout in SF; thousands of homes still w/o power. Waymos were malfunctioning all over the city, stopping dead in intersections. Extremely dangerous. What if there’s an earthquake, fire or other major disaster? Are SF residents just Guinea Pigs for private companies?
December 21, 2025 at 9:02 PM
There are a lot of unique road scenarios on the roads I can see being hard to anticipate and you just hope your software can manage it. “What if we lose contact with all our cars due to a power outage” is something you should have a meeting and a plan about ahead of time.
As a generally pro-autonomous cars person: "What does our network of automous cars do in a large blackout?" does not really seem like an edge case. Seems like it would be in roughly top 5 obvious catastropic things that might happen that you'd have a plan for.
So we found out today in San Francisco that autonomous cars don't work in a blackout (Waymos shut down, wherever they were, all over city)
Participating in live experiments is fun! I still wish I'd been asked beforehand. But it is pretty wild and kind of cool to see them discover their edge cases.
Participating in live experiments is fun! I still wish I'd been asked beforehand. But it is pretty wild and kind of cool to see them discover their edge cases.
December 21, 2025 at 6:49 AM
As a generally pro-autonomous cars person: "What does our network of automous cars do in a large blackout?" does not really seem like an edge case. Seems like it would be in roughly top 5 obvious catastropic things that might happen that you'd have a plan for.
Very boomer opinion: the New York Times should not use the phrase “clap back” in a serious politics article as if its standard parlance
December 21, 2025 at 1:13 AM
Very boomer opinion: the New York Times should not use the phrase “clap back” in a serious politics article as if its standard parlance
Half-formed theory: a combination of the end of rock as a top 40 staple with the end of radio means that people aren’t unexpectedly forced to sit through complicated, downbeat songs? Like we’d be in the car and have to listen to Brick or Hurt? Maybe bad that it doesn’t happen anymore.
December 20, 2025 at 11:09 PM
Half-formed theory: a combination of the end of rock as a top 40 staple with the end of radio means that people aren’t unexpectedly forced to sit through complicated, downbeat songs? Like we’d be in the car and have to listen to Brick or Hurt? Maybe bad that it doesn’t happen anymore.
There seems to be basically nothing substantive in the files so far? If you’re going to do a limited hang out, you have to actually hang out some stuff!
December 19, 2025 at 10:46 PM
There seems to be basically nothing substantive in the files so far? If you’re going to do a limited hang out, you have to actually hang out some stuff!
Reposted by Morgan Clendaniel
Oh my god I was right
Bondi is gonna release the Epstein Files and it's gonna be a PDF that just says Bill Clintin 400 times with random dates and times
December 19, 2025 at 10:08 PM
Oh my god I was right
We called Sequoia to ask what they thought of Shaun Maguire's failed gumshoe act on Twitter. They didn't have anything to say: www.fastcompany.com/91463942/seq...
Sequoia's Shaun Maguire accused an innocent Palestinian of being the Brown shooter. Then he doubled down
Online sleuthing is not, it turns out, among the noted VC's talents.
www.fastcompany.com
December 19, 2025 at 10:17 PM
We called Sequoia to ask what they thought of Shaun Maguire's failed gumshoe act on Twitter. They didn't have anything to say: www.fastcompany.com/91463942/seq...
As with the age limits on holding elected office, this is a great idea but only if coupled with an age ceiling as well.
December 19, 2025 at 2:58 PM
As with the age limits on holding elected office, this is a great idea but only if coupled with an age ceiling as well.
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not to sound like an old person, but contra this headline it seems like a significant fail state for society if people eschew *actually providing information to authorities on an at-large murderer* for making posts on social media about it
A Reddit Post Led to a Breakthrough in the Brown Shooting Investigation
www.nytimes.com
December 19, 2025 at 2:52 PM
not to sound like an old person, but contra this headline it seems like a significant fail state for society if people eschew *actually providing information to authorities on an at-large murderer* for making posts on social media about it
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Cars are now being programmed to violate traffic rules. What could go wrong?
Me, in @fastcompany.com. (no paywall)
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Me, in @fastcompany.com. (no paywall)
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Tesla’s ‘Mad Max mode’ points to a big problem for self-driving cars
Mad Max mode exposes a risk for AV innovation. To stay competitive, computer-powered cars are emulating human drivers.
www.fastcompany.com
December 19, 2025 at 1:18 PM
Cars are now being programmed to violate traffic rules. What could go wrong?
Me, in @fastcompany.com. (no paywall)
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Me, in @fastcompany.com. (no paywall)
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