Biked home in the rain just to feel something, and what I felt was wet and out of breath.
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Hi there, an educator here. We don’t need training on AI. We know what it is. We’re holding on for dear life until private equity decides to move on to the next shiny thing. I just hope there are enough of us still around to pick up the pieces.
Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 13h ago“Teaching educators about AI is a ‘moral imperative’, said Randi Weingarten, the AFT president.” “And without outside funding, it was a choice between taking big tech’s money or doing nothing, she said.”
I’m told the Pittsburgh sinkhole bus, which had been in a dead line to be scavenged for parts to keep other buses running, was instead fixed and put on the road yesterday. It needs a special wrap, which basically just covers the part of the back that sank, maybe an animated pavement/dirt thing.
over the last decade ive watched every important music media outlet get swallowed up and shit out by private equity. it’s depressing, doubly so because no one offered a fat check for toilet ov hell.
As a former Revolver and Invisible Oranges writer, this is deeply fucked up. More like Bad Charlotte
BrooklynVegan, Alt Press Hit With Mass Layoffs
Music publications Revolver and Goldmine have also been gutted by owners Veeps and Live Nation
pitchfork.com
Matt D (he/Him)@legionaod.bsky.social · 9h agoLive Nation essentially killing off Brooklyn Vegan SUCKS. The Madden brothers selling Veeps to that shit corporation also really sucks.
This is one reason alt publications and satire have become so indispensable — instead of being like "Fetterman raises questions with pro-Israel stance," I could just be like "wtf are you doing bro"
John Brown stan account@johnbrownstan.bsky.social · 12h agoJournalism has become the art of stubbornly refusing to draw the obvious conclusion
Happy "Down Goes Anderson" Day to all who celebrate Cleveland's greatest player. www.youtube.com/watch?v=7oac...
Tim Anderson & Jose Ramirez Brawl, Extended Call by Tom Hamilton
YouTube video by Tom Hamilton MLB Calls
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On this day in 1930, people using the date to gamble got an unexpected payout...
New speakeasy pays tribute to August 5, 1930, a legendary day in Pittsburgh gambling
On this day in 1930, people using the date to gamble got an unexpected payout.
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Research consistently shows that the reliability of speed safety cameras compels drivers to slow down. In comparison, police-based enforcement is spotty and biased. NHTSA awards the tactic 5 stars, declaring it has been “demonstrated to be effective by several high-quality evaluations.”
New report: SF drivers slowed down around cameras
Pilot program’s first year a success, transportation officials said.
sfexaminer.com
Yeah, its on the website now. Here is your WNBA Cleveland logo for the Cleveland Sirens.
Lotte Reiniger's silhouette animation in THE ADVENTURES OF PRINCE ACHMED (1926), the earliest surviving full-length animated feature. Her attention to detail was stunning, note the wobble of the chess piece.
How ICE and a data center turned a small Pittsburgh suburb into a civic battleground buff.ly/vlVE80P
How ICE and a data center turned a small Pittsburgh suburb into a civic battleground
At the intersection of two major issues in the United States, Springdale stands divided. Now residents, organizers and local leaders are asking about policing, power and accountability.
publicsource.org
Lucy: The Critics Are Wrong About How I Hold the Football
Editing the Blue-Gray Lady@nytdiff.bsky.social · 2d ago
This is the WNBA & Indiana Fever’s fault. This is from XX XY Athletics’ IG account—that’s Sophie Cunningham with Riley Gaines & Jennifer Sey. The worst transphobes. I haven’t written about it bc it’s gutting how unprepared the league was for this & now we have explicit hate visible at games.
You can now find our August print editions all over the region. Our new interactive distribution maps will show you exactly where to find Pittsburgh City Paper. We are actively updating this map each month, adding more distribution sites in street boxes, at your favorite cafes, and more...
I love baseball as much as anyone, but I also fully recognize that most of its players are demiliterate failsons who would be dogshit at literally any other job.
Razzball@razzball.bsky.social · 2d agoThe whole Mariners' pen believes Babe Ruth didn't exist. Kinda want all MLB players to believe this and make the owners agree to it in next CBA
i genuinely hate it when pittsburgh is in headlines for any reason because it unlocks the most loser ass mouth breathers in the comment section. you shut tf up about my city, or i will come to your house and shit in your hvac.
An initiative on the ballot in Washington state in November would require all athletes seeking to play girl's sports from kindergarten to high school to undergo "genetic screening, a testosterone-levels test, or an examination of their reproductive anatomy" before they can play
This is pretty gross! Vergangenheitsbewältigungsbewältigung needed
Cihan Çelik@cihancelik.bsky.social · 3d agoDass diese Partei von vielen Deutschen nicht mehr als Nazipartei wahrgenommen wird, ist eine Glanzleistung der politischen Grenzverschiebung durch die Partei selbst, ihres Vorfelds und öffentlicher Stimmen, die ihre Normalisierung vorantreiben. Diese Aufnahmen holen die Realität zurück.
There's still a ton of repaving going on in Pittsburgh. This website has weekly updates on where:
Paving Schedule
Upcoming dates of street resurfacing work. All streets and dates are subject to change or being postponed based on the weather and other factors.
pittsburghpa.gov
It's kind of insane that it took until my late 30s to make enough to properly save money.
The fact that it’s poisoning Black people is not seen as a negative to these folks.
SpaceX won’t remove all of xAI’s unpermitted turbines for another year | TechCrunch
SpaceX is building a new power plant for xAI's Colossus data centers, but it won't remove existing, unpermitted turbines for many more months.
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A timely look at a lawsuit that could snuff out one of Pittsburgh's last remaining DIY venues:
Punk venue 222 Ormsby hit with mosh pit lawsuit
A May civil suit could shut down the longstanding DIY space.
pghcitypaper.com
This is wildly irresponsible of Google - allowing people to create AI generated satellite images. Satellite imagery has always been such a useful and reliable source because it came from reliable sources, but now Google is messing with it at source. www.digitaldigging.org/p/how-to-pla...
How to plant a nuclear plant in Iran
The question is: what on earth is Google doing?
digitaldigging.org
Sen. John Fetterman is so unpopular that he would lose his hypothetical re-election by nearly 20 points to a generic “someone else” choice if the election were held today, new polling finds.
Fetterman Is So Unpopular That He Loses to “Someone Else” by 18 Points in Poll
Nearly 60 percent of respondents said they’d go for anyone other than him if the Senate race were today.
truthout.org
I just got sent a Business Times article for a toilet camera called Throne that scrutinizes your poop using AI and this just might be my Joker moment