Bikes aren’t the reason why traffic is bad. Cars getting in the way of other cars are. The best way to reduce traffic is to give people other options to get around. That means bikes. And transit. And pedestrian-first streets.
LMAOOOOOOOOOO somebody finally asked the transphobes if they know any WNBA players besides and NOPE
Is ESPN making a pivot into gay porn? I guess the annual bodies issue was an indication, but this feels next level. Anyway, good on them.
For me, LLMs are clearly powerful machines, but everything about their construction and deployment in society by the people constructing them appears oriented around achieving a political project that deeply conflicts with my values or a vision of a future I want to live in and dont have a choice in
The Great Pumpkin Papers 🎃🎃🎃@professormusgrave.bsky.social · 2mo agoThis is what is driving me nuts. So many posters around here keep haw-hawing about R’s in strawberry and clearly have NO idea that these are extremely powerful machines *already* that we have not yet figured out how to utilize fully. If we stopped development today, they’d still be astonishing
At Tanglewood for the Sunday afternoon concert, and I think the piano soloist’s encore was a piano arrangement of the theme to The Last of Us?
Congratulations to Spike Lee who endured as a Knicks fan all these years
Having overheard folks discussing their plans to go to this, I can confirm that this is correct language in which to have written this post.
Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani@mayor.nyc.gov · 4mo ago¿Va a asistir a la Copa Mundial en el estadio de Nueva York–Nueva Jersey? Utilice el transporte público, salga con tiempo y visite nynjfwc26.com para más información.
Showers, thunderstorms, and flooding already happening at MSG
Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani@mayor.nyc.gov · 4mo agoScattered showers and thunderstorms may continue through Friday. Stay vigilant for potential flooding. Stay safe, New York.
In honor of today being Friday, I’d like to observe that for all its flaws, Rebecca Black’s “Friday” is a more human piece of artistic creation than an AI, by definition, will ever be able to produce. youtu.be/kfVsfOSbJY0?...
Rebecca Black - Friday
YouTube video by rebecca
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I switched to using Ecosia years ago, and it’s been great. It’s a search engine that uses their profits to take action on environmental concerns, mostly planting trees. www.ecosia.org
Ecosia - the search engine that plants trees
Ecosia uses 100% of its profits for the planet and produces enough renewable energy to power all searches twice over.
ecosia.org
maybe: annie rauwerda@annierau.bsky.social · 4mo ago"why use google?" webpage from 1999
it surely doesn't help that every single figure in power for most of the last 10 years has been a grifter without principles and no one is ever punished for it
Norm Charlatan@normcharlatan.bsky.social · 4mo agoI am curious about the effect that almost everyone I know, even people who are doing relatively well, thinks they would be more successful economically if they sacrificed their ethical principles and just became a grifter of some sort.
I am curious about the effect that almost everyone I know, even people who are doing relatively well, thinks they would be more successful economically if they sacrificed their ethical principles and just became a grifter of some sort.
Ectoplasma Ring@plasmaring.bsky.social · 4mo agoso like lemme weigh in on this as someone who is more financially comfortable than many in my generational cohort: everything I have gained seems precarious and temporary because I know the people with real money will take it all from me the second they get an opportunity and no one will protect me.
I don't think about the day I get to stop working and travel or enjoy my projects and garden. I think about the day I can no longer work and lose my health insurance and stable income.
That's part of the broken social contract that I don't think the no-take-only-throw-ass economics overlords don't get. I now see any funds I have as my only defense against indiscriminate predation. I have figured out you will kill me and drain my corpse.
also like, my measure of "wealth" now is how much of things going wrong you can bounce back from and maintain a basic standard of living. It is not about improving said standard of living. I want a house so I can't be priced out of my apartment. I want retirement money so I'm not homeless at 70.
I'm doing well! I never could have dreamed I'd be doing this well ten years ago. I'm still not spending more than $100 on anything without wanting to cry about it because I expect to be destitute the moment literally anything goes wrong.
The Economy being good means nothing to me because it's a measure of how confident assholes feel in their line going up, and everything they do to make the line go up hurts me and devastates everyone who's doing worse than me. This isn't fucking rocket surgery.
They will lay me off, they will end my health insurance, they will raise my rent until I can't afford it anymore, they will destroy the tools I use by making them shittier or subscription-based or both; everything I depend on or enjoy will be Disrupted for some boy-king dipshit's funding round
so like lemme weigh in on this as someone who is more financially comfortable than many in my generational cohort: everything I have gained seems precarious and temporary because I know the people with real money will take it all from me the second they get an opportunity and no one will protect me.
The Atlantic@theatlantic.com · 4mo ago"People have stopped believing that the economy can be good, and have lost the willingness to admit that they are doing well. That pessimism might be harder to fix than an actual downturn," @annielowrey.bsky.social argues.
i cant believe tom steyer is the first dem politician (that ive seen) to proudly and forcefully make this correct and obvious counter argument to the bigotry but im glad he did
Alex@alxlndomountain.bsky.social · 4mo agoAdding to Tom Steyer discourse
OKC winning the rebound battle on both ends of the court.
Spurs half-court offense seemed sluggish in the second quarter. Not much ball movement, not much off-ball movement, lots of dribbling out the shot clock before a desperation heave.
"We're so fucked" - Every NBA player watching this game
Vassell has to stop it with these three attempts. It isn’t working, he’s gotta drive or pass.
Spurs look like they’re still hungover from Game 1. Which is understandable, to be sure, but they just seem flat tonight.
Wemby’s numbers aren’t even the story. It’s the way his mere presence kept OKC out of the paint. It won’t show up on any scoresheet, but his just being there prevented at least double-digit points.