increasing numbers of things are going to increasingly polarize into two main directions: moar computer or anti-computer. a lot of thought is being put into how to make things moar computer, but less into how to make things anti-computer. but there's a big future in anti-computer.

Also worth noting that public health capacity really hasn't recovered in the US since the Great Recession ... and now this!

KPD Max von Sydnow@mpdeejay.bsky.social · 4h ago

Really can't emphasize enough how DOGE and AI psychosis have been a one-two punch for everyone in the public health field.

Cars turn people into sociopaths, example ∞

Zach Lipton@zachlipton.com · 9h ago

I, personally, would not go on the record with a reporter to announce I’m in favor of destroying the playground my kid is currently loving because I drive to work once a week (and the road still wouldn’t go there anyway), but everyone lives their lives differently I guess

🚨 New study 🚨 Decarbonization has a public health bonus. Three U.S. energy models: PM2.5 mortality rates down 28 to 73% by 2050 under net zero.

We all know all trends are forever, right?

Reconstructionist@unavaleable.bsky.social · 8h ago

regarding discourse about the future

The suburbs dream of violence. Asleep in their drowsy villas, sheltered by benevolent shopping malls, they wait patiently for the nightmares that will wake them into a more passionate world.

There's really only one rational frame of mind left to have at this point

Mike Black@mikeblack114.bsky.social · 9h ago

given the fact that european security is now apparently dependent on the voters of Saxony-Anhalt and the most braindead people on either side of the Channel, maybe this isn't an entirely bad thing

The extent to which Trump just overly breaks laws left and right and often gets away with it is why I keep coming back to how Trump 2.0 is just a ramshackle, authoritarian, kleptokakistocratic 3rd World shithole regime we'd recognize instantly if it was happening in Uganda or Venezuela or Yemen.

Andy Craig@andycraig.bsky.social · 10h ago

It's already illegal. Congress banned it near-unanimously in 2022. That law allows the ban to be lifted only if Russia withdraws from Ukraine. He's simply breaking the law that's already on the books.

Remarkable achievement especially given how busted China's rail system was as recently as the mid-1950s

Yonah Freemark@yonahfreemark.com · 15h ago

China’s railway system provided 25 million rides on a single day, October 1. For comparison, the US aviation system serves about 3 million travelers daily. Amtrak serves about 35 million riders per year.

Cities where car ownership is a de facto requirement to participate in economic and civic life are essentially levying a hidden tax on the public. It is so important to build and maintain infrastructure and systems that make it feasible for residents to choose to opt out of these costs.

AAA's Your Driving Costs 2026 report came out last month. Unsurprisingly, the researchers found that the average cost of owning and operating a new vehicle has shot up—it's now estimated at $12,863/yr or $1,072/mo. newsroom.aaa.com/2026/09/aaa-...

as a treat !!

Katelyn Burns@katelynburns.com · 21h ago

He's just like me FR

These turkeys know what’s up

New open-access paper: Direct File showed that govt could build its own user-centered platform without relying on contractors. But the product was killed after a DOGE lead spoke with the private tax preparation industry lobbying against a private option. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Here is my pitch for anyone who has worries about rail: I think that building out rail is a necessary (but not sufficient) step in transforming American cities from totally car dependent to slightly walkable, in a way that no other form of transit is.

Courtney Milan@courtneymilan.com · 2d ago

I GOT TO VOTE FOR TRAINS! Fuck yeah Front Range Passenger Rail!

sometimes something bad happens to you and it's not entirely your own fault. it might only be 70% your fault, or even as low as 40% your fault

truth nvke :/

Eleonu@eleonu.bsky.social · 2d ago

Big reason for the attack on “woke” these last few years was to diminish racial and ethnic self-awareness in advance of an assault from a government captured by white nationalist scumbags. They want you to think about Oberlin students complaining about bahn mi while they build concentration camps

treat your body like a data center. consume as much water, art and literature as possible. upset local municipalities with your existence.

Good things will happen soon, and those good things are the beginning of a lot of hard work, not the end.

Snowden St.@snowden.st · 2d ago

no shade to the folks who need it the positive stuff, and I know that doomer media exists, but we need a middle ground media that doesn't bang on Hope or Doom, but embraces the slog. I don't need someone to tell me it's gonna be good, tell me it's gonna be a mess, I know that, that's familiar.

An interesting aside about the death penalty in Iowa. It was abolished under a Democratic trifecta in 1965 that disappeared the following year -- but the decision has endured since then. www.bleedingheartland.com/2018/02/14/i...

@tmbhmltn.bsky.social · yesterday

Also if you’re talking about the state level

Last week I stumbled across a once-classified report from 1971 that listed the actual times for SLBM attacks and warning systems. What hooked me from the onset was that all the times are listed in *seconds*. This week for DOOMSDAY MACHINES, I try to unpack all that a bit...

The speed of war

The short times of nuclear warning and attack (1971)

doomsdaymachines.net

Donald Trump had over 2M followers on Truth Social in 2025, including institutional accounts representing every major media organization in the USA and many of their reporters as individuals.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2d ago

Trump tries to start a race war: "The once Great State of Minnesota is being taken over by Somali Immigrants ... The Somalians should not be allowed to get away with what they are doing. They view you as weak and stupid people. Fight back Minnesota, fight back!"

never go with an engineer to a second analogy

tbh I don't want to play into the whole "we used to MAKE things" narrative but I also don't think that it's good that 10-20% of economy growth since 2005 has been funneling the most brilliant technical minds into making marginal improvements in predicting what kind of ads people will click on

It's like saying "well, the Nazi's might've won WWII if only they were reliable diplomatic partners, law-abiding & respectful of the democratic process, & not reliant on slave labor." Yeah, but then they wouldn't be Nazis.

absolutely terrible, stupid framing. DOGE could have *only* been a "missed opportunity" if it had been conceived, planned, & implemented exactly opposite of how it was, by people who did not think like they did, for goals antithetical to their actual goals.

The Economist@economist.com · 2d ago

DOGE was a huge missed opportunity

Doge was not a "missed opportunity." It did *exactly what it set out to do* - slash and burn programs deemed inconvenient, soyjak, "too gay," any any mechanism that was within reach that might slow down "project 2025" with maximal trauma inflicted on the federal workforce & left-leaning pops

big day for me, Morse Market's strongest Bluesky soldier chicagoreader.com/food/chicago...

Mapping Chicago’s independent grocery stores  - Chicago Reader

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Laurie! Live!@laurie-merrell.bsky.social · 5mo ago

pretty confident that I'm the preeminent Bluesky source for Morse Market news & updates bsky.app/profile/laur...

Extremely easy to picture a rebellion that paints Dooku as a martyr cut down by the very Sith Lords he tried to get the Jedi to take seriously Like half the rebellion is ex-CIS worlds anyway

Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li@sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 4mo ago

live feed of liberal currents headquarters

Also I know the abundance bros like to hate on historic preservation for gumming things up, but have they considered how documentation requirements produce troves information for local history sickos like me to sift through

Yo Un-hyong Appreciator@mongyang.bsky.social · yesterday

I'm curious on where the vibe shift on school bonds took place -- I'm most familiar w/ my hometown (where I attended schools mostly built in the midcentury) where they both seemed to be uncontroversial + frequent cms8.revize.com/revize/cedar...