I picked up some new pieces of “art” over the weekend. I’ve given them backstories. These are portraits painted in the 1980s of son and grandson of the TailSpin version of Shere Khan. They might be the most ridiculous things I own now.

The test that too many people aren’t applying to AI generated work is: ‘…if I can’t be bothered checking this crap why would anyone else be bothered taking it or me seriously’.

Grant Henninger@granthenninger.com · 4d ago

Whenever someone sends me AI-generated work, it always increases my workload at least 2x. However, the biggest problem is that they’re completely incapable of discussing their work as I try to make heads or tails of it, largely because they didn’t do the work in the first place.

This was incredibly long (blog post & thread, both), but a worthwhile read if you’re dealing with AI slop at work. Increasingly, I’m finding folks completely offloading their thinking to AI, generating documents & plans without any critical thought of their own. Universally, the work is nonsensical.

By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C)@doctorow.pluralistic.net · 4d ago

Suresh reports on his experience talking with hundreds of executives (and, more importantly, their subordinates) about what (if anything) AI is doing for business in an essay entitled "AI Mania Is Eviscerating Global Decisionmaking": hermit-tech.com/blog/ai-mani... 11/

1/3% of all residents of the City of Los Angeles are currently in line to borrow Emily Wilson’s translation of The Odyssey from the LA Public Library. Who says movies dissuade people from reading?

What’s missing here is that we still need subsidized housing. There are some people who will never be able to afford housing, no matter how much is built. Market rate housing should be affordable to people way down the income spectrum, but it’ll never be affordable to everyone.

Max Dubler 🏳️‍🌈@maxdubler.com · 2w ago

A lot of people in housing policy and subsidized Affordable Housing finance spaces simply do not believe that markets can work to benefit poor and working people. The best available data proves them wrong: market rate housing construction benefits everyone, including the poor.

For the past couple of years, I've been working to set up the South Bay Cities Regional Housing Trust. At the first Board meeting for the Trust, I presented on Affordable Housing 101. This was my very first slide, "Building housing costs money."

Max Dubler 🏳️‍🌈@maxdubler.com · 2w ago

The two hardest and most unforgiving facts in housing policy are that it actually costs a lot of money to build new homes and that the rents that poor people can afford are not enough to pay off the cost of construction.

Please, Mr. Traffic Engineer, may I cross the street?

Pern Pla just rolls off the tongue.

kim@kimmymonte.bsky.social · 3w ago

your baseball pitcher name is your grandfather’s first name and the last thing you bought i’ll go first mine’s Dominic Sandals

I mentioned the other day that LA is on the cusp of becoming the best transit region in California. That transformation is only accelerating too. Envisioning realistic plans for future transit development like this is a powerful form of advocacy because it gives folks something to rally around.

Nick Andert@nickandert.bsky.social · 3w ago

This looks like a useful tool for folks cross-posting between Bluesky and Mastodon.

Michael Pusateri@cruftbox.com · 3w ago

Posting to multiple Bluesky & Mastodon accounts was becoming a headache. So I built Broadside. Write a post once, add your images and alt text once, then publish to every account you've got with a single click. https://cruftbox.com/2026/07/14/broadside-cross-posting-app-for-bluesky-mastodon/

The most frustrating thing about the LAX Skylink delays is that as soon as it opens, LA becomes the best transit-served city in California. SF’s only advantage over LA is BART access to SFO. Skylink will finally solve that deficiency for LA. (Although, closing the Norwalk Gap would be nice too.)

Nick Andert@nickandert.bsky.social · last mo.

The people in charge of your city’s streets do not care if their road designs kill people, so long as traffic flows freely.

Grant Henninger@granthenninger.com · 4w ago

Two years ago, I was removed from the Anaheim Planning Commission because of a fight with the city’s traffic engineer. I wanted him to prioritize safety. He wanted to ensure cars could move quickly through our city. The city council of the largest city in the county backed his vision of our roads.

Email newsletters are the devil. RSS is great but most readers are designed for completionists. I live in Discord, so I built Wireburst: an RSS-to-Discord bot that puts my feeds into channels. No algorithms, just a clean stream I can scroll. Open source, runs in Docker. cruftbox.com/2026/06/30/w...

Wireburst: RSS feeds in Discord, because email is the devil

I have a complicated relationship with information. I want a lot of it: what's happening in tech, the world, culture, and the corners of the internet I care about. What I don't want is my inbox turnin...

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I’m in San Francisco this weekend, and for the first time I’ve seen a significant number of Waymo driverless taxis out in the wild. After watching them for a while, I’m now of the opinion that they should be banned outright. They do nothing but make traffic worse & are a danger to other road users.

I think the California Bluesky Housing folks have convinced me to vote for Steyer for governor. I have real misgivings about voting for a billionaire with no experience in public office, government should not be run like a business. However, depressing Republican turnout in the general sounds good.

Today is mine and @onetwobre.bsky.social’s anniversary. She got me a first edition, first printing of Death and Life. Of course, I’ve had the same paperback copy that every planner owns for years, but it’s pretty neat having a first printing. It looks good on my urban planning shelf.

I’ve never seen a copy of Neighborhood Defenders in a bookstore before. The Henry Miller Memorial Library in Big Sur was incredible. It was probably the most well-curated bookstore I’ve been to, full of classics and other influential work. I’d love to do nothing but read through the entire store.

For the past year, I’ve really been struggling with the in-fighting amongst people who should be allies for creating better cities. Specifically, there was an instance last year in the @thewaroncars.bsky.social discord where I was called racist for saying street takeovers by cyclists are bad.

This may be the world’s shortest no parking zone.

Since the weekend, a fire has been burning on Santa Rosa Island. I had plans to go backpacking there next month, which won't be happening now. (Channel Islands is the last National Park I need to visit in California.) More importantly, the fire is devastating island fox habitat on Santa Rosa.

It’s Indie Bookstore Day! @onetwobre.bsky.social and I are headed into LA by train to take transit around LA, visiting as many indie bookstores as we can. Folks say you need a car to get around LA, but that seems less and less true. Let’s see how well this works.

A dozen years ago, I worked for a now-defunct bike share company that tried to do bike share for Los Angeles. Unfortunately, company leadership was completely incompetent and I think they poisoned the well for bike share in LA. Otherwise, it should be number 2 on this list.

Oh The Urbanity!@ohtheurbanity.bsky.social · 2y ago

Top bike share systems in the US & Canada by yearly rides (2023): 1. New York City (35 million) 2. Montreal (12M) 3. Toronto (6M) 4. Chicago (6M) 5. Washington, DC (4M) 6. Boston (4M) 7. SF Bay (3M) 8. Miami Beach (2M) 9. Vancouver (1M) 10. Philadelphia (1M) nacto.org/wp-content/u...

The average American has three friends.

M. Nolan Gray 🥑@mnolangray.bsky.social · last yr.

The average American has three friends

For the past couple of years, I've been tracking Tadej Pogačar's campaign to become cycling's GOAT. He's making advances on Eddy Merckx's record, but isn't there yet. If he can keep his current dominance for another few years, he will be the GOAT, but he's not there yet.

You know it was a wet bike ride when you have to put the hairdryer in your shoes after you get home. (And yes, I know they make shoe dryers, but I live in Southern California and this is a rare occurrence.)

I’m thinking about making videos for Orange County like @nickandert.bsky.social does for LA. OCTA is a disaster and seems to only want to widen freeways. I’d like to show an alternative vision for transportation in OC. Somebody, please tell me that this is a bad idea and that I shouldn’t do it.

I don’t know why folks want the US to go back to being a manufacturing economy. I love making things, but I’d never want to work in a factory. Look at the export economies around the world. They’re poor, crowded & can only dream of achieving the American standard of living. Why would we want that?

Ed@ed3d.net · last yr.

The really funny thing is the comments being absolutely full of cope from absolute dumdum losers. “They’ll just make things here” no they won’t “America has to go back to making things” we are years away from a screw factory, let alone mass fabrication of caps, chips, boards…

I did my third FTP test this year. I haven't been the best at eating or exercising over the past six weeks, and it shows. My weight had been slightly down before the kids' spring break, but bounced back up on our vacation. Thankfully, my power has continued to progress & is where I want it.

Grant Henninger@granthenninger.com · last yr.

One of my goals this year is to double my power to weight ratio on the bike. I started the year at 2.0 W/kg, with a goal of 4 W/kg. I'm planning on doing this by getting my weight down by 35 lbs and my power up by 110W. Today was my first check on my progress. I'm right on trend for my overall goal.

Why did LA28 suddenly relocate a bunch of sports to venues along major rail lines? My hunch is that with this much uncertainty — Trump, tariffs, the very real possibility that no one will even want to come — everyone realized we need to work with what we've got

Alissa Walker@awalkerinla.bsky.social · last yr.

My look at LA28's final venue plan — pending Tim McOsker's threatened arbitration, of course — including some last-minute swaps for venues that are even *more* transit-friendly

People are pretty good at figuring out how to get where they want to go and will use the transportation mode that is most convenient for them; so you should just go ahead build your city’s transportation system for the mode share that you want.