That One Other Guy
@jeffluck.org
Regardless of whether I agree with you or not, if your post contains AI slop, that's an automatic block.
As Measles cases hit a 35 year high, as a senseless war rages on with no exit plan, as gas climbs to record highs, and the Epstein files remain secret, the U.S. Senate is holding a hearing today to yell at Dr. Fauci and again push horse dewormer on the American public.
We've been in the ripping-the-copper-wiring-out-of-the-walls era of society for awhile now. There's no attempts to make anything better. There's no attempts to make anything people want. It's just syphoning gas out of cars and burying people in gambling debt from rigged betting markets.
Sacrifice! At the Harvest Festival@theharvestmaid.bsky.social · last wk.Why is everything so transparently evil now?
!["Print books from the pre-LLM era are structurally guaranteed to be free of this contamination. That alone is a significant advantage," it explains in an article on its website, as quoted by
404. "Physical books published before this date [pre-2022] are structurally clean of modern poisoning tools."
Once focused on helping libraries, distributors, and book shops find and sell books, ISBNdb now helps Al companies bulk-buy anywhere between 1,000 to one million books per order, according to 404.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:pxunhtt4zdl4rkkjub54m5ia/bafkreic7burhqtyy3mrqnzzf5gwr3pokwr6gznvg7p5htr4gz3mghh4hny)
My explanation of how climate change is amplifying these wildfires ended up entirely on the @npr.org cutting room floor. Instead they included an extremely misleading of the supposed role of fire suppression and human alteration (expertly debunked here: www.theclimatebrink.com/p/canadas-bo... )
Michael E. Mann@michaelemann.bsky.social · 3w agoI’m will be on @npr.org All Things Considered this afternoon talking a about the new @nationalacademies.org climate change/extreme weather report and the current wildfires and apocalyptic haze
Guy who's too cowardly to ride a subway ridden every day by hundreds of thousands of school kids has opinions about bike lanes.
Jess Piper@piperformissouri.bsky.social · 4w agoDEI bike lanes…
"Extreme Heat Isn’t the Only Climate Impact Shocking Scientists" by Eric Roston for @bloomberg.com: www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...
Extreme Heat Stuns Even Climate Scientists Who Saw It Coming
Record-breaking heat waves are even stunning scientists monitoring the acceleration of climate change.
bloomberg.com
Hey @chicagotribune.com Editorial Board: Why did you describe me as a “bomb-throwing influencer”? This is wrong, inflammatory, and racist. Change it. www.chicagotribune.com/2026/07/05/e...
prepare to have your daughter accused of being a boy and face demands that her gentials be inspected if the dad on the other team thinks that she fouled his special snowflake too hard
Nancy Armour@nrarmour.bsky.social · last mo.The ban is heinous for what it does to transgender athletes. But if you think cisgender girls and young women won’t be caught up in the fallout, too, you are woefully ignorant
Wild how you can watch this with the sound off and know instantly, just from the look on his face and the crowd responding to him, that he is saying the most bigoted shit imaginable.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last mo.Tom Emmer: "Minnesotans are so afraid that you're gonna call us a racist, you're gonna call us an Islamophobe. You know what? I'm done being even the least bit careful. Somalis don't assimilate. And if they don't assimilate, then they should go the hell back to where they came from."
For years we've been told families 'need' cars. A UK e-cargo bike trial found over half of participant e-bike trips replaced car trips, mostly school runs, shopping & commuting. 1 in 5 went on to buy an e-cargo bike. Give people practical alternatives & a surprising number reduce their car use 🧵 1/
Trial shows e-cargo bikes can replace cars
A major trial of e-cargo bikes which saw dozens of families use them for shopping, leisure and commuting shows they have the potential to reduce car use and improve health, say researchers.
leeds.ac.uk
"They're all going into the pool and they're cutting it. You see it, they take a big knife and they slice the pool. Slice the bottom. And no one does anything, they just let them do it. Cutting and then they're pulling." "And to be clear, this is a movie that you saw?" "Well, I don't know,"
Absolutely incredible that people went months here arguing MARTA was going to explode during the World Cup & then it happens and we get a world class performance, easily in the top 3 for all host cities.
The $499 "American-made" Trump Mobile phone finally shipped. But repair experts at iFixit just tore it apart and found the exact opposite: a 2-year-old phone made in China, spray-painted gold, with a fake flag on the back. Read the full investigation: 👇 www.dworkinsubstack.com/p/so-much-fo...
The Dutch mobility system isn't just built around cycling. It's built around bike-train intermodality: cycling solves the train's convenience problem and the train solves cycling's range problem. Together, they offer an attractive alternative to driving on a mass scale. WATCH: youtu.be/jq93DgLvmFc
The strait is not open, every country dependent on oil (basically everyone not named France) is gobbling through their reserves and the only thing bailing us out of an economic catastrophe at the moment is that China's reserves appear to have been far larger than thought. This is not tenable.
A court in Munich declared that Google is liable for their "AI summaries" and all its hallucinations. This brings "AI" slop in line with all other products: "AI" is basically the only product where a provider can deliver unchecked garbage and put all liability on the consumer.
Landmark German ruling declares Google's AI Overviews are Google's own words and makes it liable for false answers
A German regional court has ruled that Google is directly liable for the content of its AI search overviews. According to the court, previous limited liability protections for search engine operators don't apply to AI overviews. In this case, Google's AI had falsely linked two publishers to fraud and made claims that didn't appear in any of the linked sources. The ruling could set a precedent for AI-generated content liability worldwide.
the-decoder.com
Here's another old Centre Region pitch that didn't go anywhere. Signal coordination can be used to incentivize complying with speed limits (for both bikes & cars).
Miser@misernyc.bsky.social · 2mo agoGreen Waves make it so you never have to stop on a bike, eliminate red light running, and massively improve pedestrian safety. We just got 3 more on major NYC Avenues. This is huge:
There is something brutally psychically injurious to being constantly told "just do good work and you'll be successful" while watching people who do the most dogshit work possible do all the succeeding.
"RAV4 Prime drivers plug their cars in on seven out of 10 driving days, with Lexus NX owners plugging in more frequently, between eight and nine times out of 10 driving days. They say that only 9 percent of Toyota PHEV drivers and 4 percent of Lexus PHEV drivers “rarely” plug in."
Plug-in hybrids get plugged in more than you might think
Toyota is the latest automaker to report PHEV charging stats, and they're encouraging.
arstechnica.com
I've been warning about this moment for two decades over at Techdirt The U.S. is too corrupt to regulate data brokers (and their exploitation and sale of location data) and the check has come due
Raphael Satter@raphae.li · 2mo agoScoop: Central Command is getting reports that military personnel are being targeted using commercially available location data. Few details available, but it’s a sign that the tech industry’s advertising-surveillance complex is having consequences on the battlefield. www.reuters.com/business/med...
I know it gets talked about a lot, but the impact of the #Beltline on #Atlanta is tremendous. I took this picture at Irwin Street in 2012 or so, and here's the streetview from 2024. #urbanism #walkability
I once asked an IT VP why the university was outsourcing projects that we could do in-house and he said "you might want to consider that if the project goes bad, the consultant takes the blame." This is a post about management enthusiasm for AI.
WATCH: ProPublica obtained records from the Department of Agriculture that detail the 94 million pounds of food, down to the number of eggs, that never reached food banks because of the Trump administration’s cuts to The Emergency Food Assistance Program. ➡️ Read more: https://propub.li/4odsKnn
A Cornell University researcher has been developing an artificial heart for children for more than 20 years. Now, his research is on hold and his lab is shut down. n.pr/3KIfcSn
This 4-year-old's heart is failing. A federal grant that might help him was canceled
A Cornell University researcher has been developing an artificial heart for children for more than 20 years. Now, his research is on hold and his lab is shut down.
n.pr
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EZPass payment system down for two days but support says they won't push back the due date as a result. They fired all the toll takers so you're required to pay online via toll-by-plate. Just complete but unsurprising incompetence for a state-sanctioned monopoly that sometimes can't be avoided.
