August US transit data is in today, & all of the largest US rail networks are growing! Cali leads the way, with ridership up 15% on BART, 14% on Muni, & 10% on LA Metro PATH (NY/NJ) & MBTA (Boston) also have strong growth at 8%, while MTS (San Diego, +1.7%) is the slowest🧵
The richest man owns X. The second richest man owns The Washington Post. The third and fifth richest men control Google. The sixth richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. And the eighth richest man now owns both Paramount and Warner Bros. See the problem here?
Paramount takes over Warner Bros in $110bn Hollywood merger
The merger of two of Hollywood's biggest movie studios comes after months of legal disputes and concern over competition
bbc.com
Every night I go to bed thinking I have seen the dumbest shit I’ll ever see in my life and every morning I am wrong before I’ve even finished my coffee
Alert ⚠️ An ICE officer shot 28-year-old Wilber Rafael Garces Perez in North Austin today after a traffic stop. He was shot in the torso and hospitalized in serious but stable condition. His attorney says Perez, a Venezuelan national, entered the U.S. legally and had a valid work permit.
Cool, cool. Almost started WWIII because of stupid fucking AI. Will anything AT ALL happen to that AI, the coders, or the company’s CEO? Of course not, not with this regime. I guess my personal silver lining is I live close enough to a major city to get vaporized and not survive for the aftermath.
Wednesday Auto Art. 1925 Rolls Royce Phantom 1 Jonckheere Coupe. Now resides at the Petersen Automotive Museum in Los Angeles, California.
you can mask the pain, but can you truly hide the scars?
Asking for a bit of help from you that costs nothing but a bit of time. Access Sacramento is having a film festival entitled “A Place Called Sacramento” and one of the “filmmakers” has chosen to submit a completely AI made video, totally against the purpose of the festival go.ipetitions.com/ilaSsF
Keep AI-Generated Content Out of Access Sacramento Festivals
Urge Access Sacramento to ban AI-generated films from their festivals to protect original, human-made art and local talent. Add your name to support artists.
go.ipetitions.com
I saw a meme today that said that books are proof that strangers can meet across centuries and still understand each other. That really resonated.
Hmmm... Turns out, food regulations were really important for regulating food.🤔
is this a definition of justice prevails or how long it takes our system to prosecute perpetrators? you tell me
The New York Times@nytimes.com · 2mo agoBreaking News: Nearly 30 years after Tupac Shakur’s death, Duane Keith Davis was convicted of murder for orchestrating the drive-by shooting. Follow live updates.
One way you know Dolly Parton lived life the right way: I don’t think anyone’s going to get fired for accurately quoting Dolly Parton today.
TV writers, please use this thread to introduce yourself. Tell people what level you are. What you write. And if there is a dream staff you’d like to work on right now. I don’t have a huge following on here but who knows? Maybe the right person will see this and give you the boost you need.
How do I explain to small business owners that the menu on the left is one billion times more appealing than the one on the right
"So where do you see yourself in five years?" Becoming some survivalist like I'm Sarah Connor in The Terminator.
