The other day, Google Maps told me it was safe to walk across a four-lane highway. No overpass, no underpass, no crosswalk.
In my latest newsletter, I muse about what it means that tech companies are trying to warp our sense of reality itself.
https://buttondown.com/charliejane/archive/google-told-me-to-walk-into-traffic/
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