Good tech gets caught up in bad tech abusing users’ and the public’s trust, and I think that’s a shame and as a technologist myself it feels discouraging. But I don’t think complaining about people being underinformed about a still small company like Waymo is very useful.

March 17, 2026 - 00:22 UTC

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To be clear, I'm not complaining about people being underinformed, I'm complaining about someone actively pushing misinformation that makes accurately informing people actively harder.
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This isn’t misinformation. That’s an over-application of that word.

It’s a piece of art expressing some feeling or belief about a potential future, based on their observations of the past and present. That distinction is very important.
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I think we’re better off trying to clean up the tech industry and earn trust than complain that the public doesn’t make fine enough distinctions between products/companies. Tech is like the very early days of aviation still, before it earned its reputation for safety through rigor and quality.
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You’re in no way wrong; the comic does only act to decrease trust in something I personally also believe properly deserves user trust.

But Valve, for example, didn’t earn trust by claiming to be trustworthy…it did it by demonstrating trustworthiness in ways people could judge for themselves.
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