Like most of the half-assed plans he comes up with the middle of the night and has an underling launch, it gets abandoned.

Renee DiResta@noupside.bsky.social · 17h ago

Grokipedia hasn’t been updated in 3 months. Edit requests land in a queue and stall “In Review”. The autonomous edit bot is not editing itself, either. We did an analysis of edits, page view counts, and more. Auditability matters as agentic systems become reference infrastructure.

Maybe Connecticut residents won't kill America's dreams of fast trains this time. Maybe. ctmirror.org/2026/07/14/a...

Amtrak launches new study on New Haven-Providence route

The new study of Amtrak rail lines between New Haven and Providence will put more emphasis on public input than a 2016 proposal.

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There’s a fascinating alternate reality where Trump turned into his Democrat leanings instead of his Republican leanings to run for President, since he was pretty much unclassifiable beforehand. Do establishment Dems cave in the face of popularity? Or eject him like the GOP failed to?

Josh Marshall@joshtpm.bsky.social · 2d ago

Trump Launches Into Extraordinary Rant About ‘Disgusting’ Blue Cities: ‘Their Trees Are All Gross’ talkingpointsmemo.com/news/trump-l...

President Skroob.

Sophia_Nyx 🏳️‍⚧️@sophianyx.bsky.social · 5d ago

Name a villain who was actually right.

Someone please let me bet money on this.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 6d ago

GRUBER: I made a prediction that before you left office, Greenland would be under our operational control. TRUMP: You'll be right. They want to do something. Greenland is important from our standpoint, not theirs. You should make that bet.

This week on ‘You Are Here’ we time traveled to 1982 with ‘The Thing.’ Key takeaways: 1. Kurt Russell loves bomber jackets. 2. Keith David's second greatest role. 3. AI was pretty sophistamacated in 1982. rss.com/podcasts/you...

You Are Here: The Time Travel Podcast | Podcast on RSS.com

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Did you know that the first Web browser developed by Tim Berners Lee let any user edit any website? There was no technical reason why the Web couldn't support that. But then he figured out really fast that it was the STUPIDEST FEATURE IMAGINABLE.

Joseph Cox@josephcox.bsky.social · 6d ago

New from 404 Media: Google Earth has introduced an AI feature that lets anyone fabricate completely bullshit satellite images. In our own tests, we added a “bomb blast and crater” to an area of Los Angeles. This is a misinformation time bomb, will 100% be abused www.404media.co/google-earth...

I used to get doxxed by the phone book constantly. It was always out to expose my address to my enemies.

Second Ave. Sagas@2avesag.as · 6d ago

Doxxing is not when I look you up using a public database that doesn't even require a user account. I have no idea if Galloway is being ignorant or intentionally obtuse here.

I have a lot of questions about this movie and it better answer. Is sex illegal because of a Gilead-style takeover? Isn't everyone just breaking this law anyway, like Prohibition and weed? Are these two only respecting the law because they're zealots? editorial.rottentomatoes.com/article/moni...

Monica Barbaro and Callum Turner Sang On Screen and Ran Around NYC for One Night Only

The two stars talk building chemistry and the joy of returning to the movies on the latest episode of the Seen on the Screen Podcast.

editorial.rottentomatoes.com

Ever wonder if you’d have survived John Carpenter’s ‘The Thing’? We time travel to 1982 to find out. The second episode of ‘You Are Here: The Time Travel’ podcast is now available. Apple: podcasts.apple.com/podcast/id67... Spotify: open.spotify.com/show/033R4p2...

You Are Here: The Time Travel Podcast

Society & Culture Podcast · Updated Weekly · New podcast hosted by E.J. Kalafarski. Each episode we'll time travel to a different year through the lens of a movie and use what we learn to process toda...

podcasts.apple.com

It's really dumb that I have to show my license to buy Sudafed.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 7d ago

Rep. John McGuire on need for the SAVE America Act: "You can't go anywhere, you can't get medicine, you can't go to the Obama museum without a photo ID."

So we're up to the U.S., Israel, Iran, Yemen, Saudi, Jordan, Egypt, and Iraq pulled into the war so far? www.nytimes.com/live/2026/07...

Iran War Live Updates: U.S. and Saudi Airstrikes Drag More Countries Into Fighting

The U.S. and Saudi Arabia said they carried out airstrikes on Iran-backed militias in Iraq, Iran targeted sites used by the American military in Jordan and a U.S.-owned ship was hit in an Egyptian por...

nytimes.com

Yeah, the headline is dumb because Mamdani ISN'T asking his mom to pay a pied-a-terre tax. If it was a clerical error, it would have been great to put that in the headline… but then it wouldn't have been good clickbait.

Steven Alleyn@stevenalleyn.ca · last wk.

The reaction to the headline is a bit overblown - the writer mentions that her mom’s townhouse is her full time residence and she received the tax bill because of a NYC clerical error. The way to correct the error is in fact not very accessible to the elderly.

Duffy's threat to defund bike lanes doesn't mean much… those are paid for locally. But the rest of this is dumb and DOA, including renaming Penn Station for Trump and making it illegal to toll an "area" instead of a "road" to try and kill congestion pricing. nystateofpolitics.com/state-of-pol...

Transportation secretary wants to cut funding for bike lanes

Secretary Duffy wants to essentially eliminate funding for green transportation infrastructure.

nystateofpolitics.com

For all that we like to complain, we're in a period of astoundingly competent leadership at MTA. After decades of atrophy, 2016 really started a period of building in NYC that it should not let up on. youtu.be/SejOzIVNR7U?...

Construction complete on the Park Avenue Viaduct

YouTube video by mtainfo

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I love this kind of innovation within a constrained space, like improving these ubiquitous but annoying devices with software and design.

Scott McGrath@smcgrath.phd · last wk.

A Two-Person Startup Has Fixed One of the Most Hated Sounds in Modern Life www.wired.com/story/a-two-...

Never good when regional conflicts and complex webs of alliances start colliding. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/28/w...

Ukraine’s Strike on an Iranian Ship Could Bring Two Wars Closer

The attack in the Caspian Sea was an unusually direct encounter between two countries that have been on opposite sides for years.

nytimes.com

Our stockpiles are not depleted. But they're depleted because Biden. But also, they're not depleted.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2w ago

WELKER: Is America backing away from a larger attack bc our stockpile has been depleted? WALTZ: We have to take a step back. A lot of our stockpiles were depleted because of Biden WELKER: But you acknowledge they're depleted? WALTZ: No. And the people leaking this nonsense deserve to be in jail

Our Amtrak train is being held because the bridge over the Norwalk River is open, like an old-timey steam locomotive. The bridges and grade crossings in Connecticut are why we can't have nice things.

Guess things are not going much better in Nicaragua these days. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...

Nicaragua’s president says country will not hold any more elections

Daniel Ortega, the 80-year-old authoritarian leader, says move will ‘build a wall’ against the opposition

theguardian.com

Just one more surge of troops into Fallujah/the Tet Offensive and our boys will be home in months.

Carl Quintanilla@carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 2w ago

Escalation trap.

Tell me that you don't know what you're talking about by claiming Penn Station is "named after Pennsylvania." 6abc.com/story/stop-t...

Next stop, Trump Station? Administration wants to rename New York's Penn Station

U.S. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy, in a letter to leading Senators this week, said a name change was among the "administration priorities" as it seeks federal funding for the renovation work.

6abc.com

It's a war, Michael, how much could it cost, 18 deaths?

Apparently my questions to AI have a high evidentiary standard.

Today I launched You Are Here, my time travel podcast where we'll use a different movie each episode to transport to another year that helps explain what's going on today. It would mean a lot to me if you check it out! podcasts.apple.com/podcast/id67...

You Are Here with E.J. Kalafarski

Society & Culture Podcast · Come time travel with us. Each week, we’ll use a different movie and other pop culture touchstones to travel to another year and use what we learn to process today’s techno...

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Hot take: I like that the trailer sucks and is just a bunch of characters meeting each other. Means they're not spoiling Acts Two and Three!

Centuries later, historians would note that the complex cascade of Middle East conflicts that rewired the world's taste for oil was ironically initiated by a pro-oil figure they called Archduke Trump

Carl Quintanilla@carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 2w ago

Here come the Houthis. Oil goes green. * YEMEN'S HOUTHIS DECLARE A MARITIME EMBARGO AGAINST THE CRIMINAL SAUDI ARABIA -- STATEMENT @reuters.com #BabElMandeb

Hopefully this would also apply to the Wegmans in Astor Place, which inexplicably is collecting facial recognition data on everyone who enters it. www.politico.com/newsletters/...

The push to ban facial recognition at MSG

politico.com