"Important: We do not recommend searching for eclipse glasses on Amazon, eBay, Temu, or any other online marketplace and buying from whichever vendor offers the lowest price. Before you buy a solar viewer or filter online, we recommend that you make sure that (1) the seller is identified on the site and (2) the seller is listed on this page." #eclipse#safety#glasses
Washington Post: Using AI to spot edible mushrooms could kill you
"Now, a new assortment of AI-powered mushroom identifiers are popping up in the Apple, Google and OpenAI app stores. These tools use artificial intelligence to analyze photos or descriptions of mushrooms and compare them to known varieties....With its high stakes and frequent mess-ups, mushroom identification is a bad candidate for automation, but companies are doing it anyway..."
(maybe paywall)
The U.S. Needs Wildland #Firefighters More Than Ever, but the Federal #Government Is Losing Them
Highly skilled firefighters are the last line of defense against #wildfires, but that line is fraying because the government decided long ago that they’re not worth very much.
Someone giving away a free crib locally... complete with baby-strangling hazard (can you spot it?) -- fashion over function (and safety). #crib#safety#babies
A friend of mine, who is an airline #pilot, asked me why I took a rather harsh stance against #Boeing in their recent "troubles". The short answer is that I loathe their profit-driven #management philosophy.
The long answer is this. #Engineering inevitably affects lives, and engineering disasters kill not by ones and twos but by the thousands. A company who, for almost a century, have been manufacturing aircraft must hold itself to a higher standard than a fly-by-night web development sweatshop, when it comes to processes, especially those that affect safety. But Boeing, for the past 30 or so years, have raised #profits above #safety. This, I detest, as an engineer.
What’s Missing From #Railroad Safety Data? Dead Workers and Severed Limbs.
Thanks to #government loopholes, rail companies haven’t been scrutinized by the Federal Railroad Administration for scores of alleged #worker injuries and at least two deaths.
Another billionaire dead at the bottom of a body of water due to their own stupidity and laziness? Couldn't be happier for them, or Elmo, who should get some heat for (indirectly) killing the sister-in-law of the Senate majority leader.
@etherdiver I'm puzzled. Was she so busy trying to call for help that she didn't try to get out of the car, or was it that she couldn't get out of the car?
#Safety tip for all #car owners: Keep a tool in your car for cutting seat belts and breaking car windows for emergency escapes. Even if you don't land in water, you might want to escape a fire!
“As the Times reports, the European New Car Assessment Program (NCAP) is warning that as of January 2026, automakers will have to include physical controls to achieve a full five-star safety rating.”
One of the most interesting, and at the same time disturbing (due to the sheer amount of hair raising #chemical#safety – uh – "issues") videos about the most extreme #rocketry#experiments done in the mid 20th century. I can thoroughly recommend watching the whole thing.
> add LLVM CFI and cross-language LLVM CFI (and LLVM KCFI and cross-language LLVM KCFI) to the Rust compiler as part of our work in the Rust Exploit Mitigations Project Group. This is the first cross-language, fine-grained, forward-edge control flow protection implementation for mixed-language binaries that we know of.
I hope #safety rating bodies in other parts of the world follow suit.
I also hope points will be deducted for cars without rear wipers. Those cars’ rear view mirrors become unusable if dust, mud, or rain accumulates on the rear windscreen while driving. Especially if the glass has shallow slope causing faster buildup. Among others, recent Nissan Versa, Toyota Corolla, & Tesla models, in some markets, have this safety flaw.
For folks who have friends/family that still use X/twitter perhaps this latest privacy issue will finally convince them to leave
"New X feature can leak your location without you realising"
"A matter of life and death: Activists, researchers and campaigners warn the ability to see a user's IP address on X could have huge implications for the safety of vulnerable communities on the platform"