“Democratic candidate X is going to deservedly lose in November because (right wing talking point)” is a pretty bad thing to say pre-primary but it’s immensely dumb and toxic to say post-primary
Deepower, the company that manufactures the illegal e-moto involved in Wednesday’s fatal crash, thinks it can just change its website to make its “bike” seem legal. Luckily, we have the receipts.
Quick Change: E-Moto Maker Altered Website After Fatal Crash - Streetsblog New York City
The company that sold the e-moto a 17-year-old was riding when he died in a traffic crash tried to change the online specs. Luckily, we have the receipts.
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Lindsey Graham died last night of cardiac arrest. This is the major reason the fire service has won the requirement that every elevator in buildings over three stories (or apartment buildings of any height in some states) must accommodate a 7-ft. hospital stretcher. But the uncomfortable…
hot take: no one actually wants 'authenticity' in politicians: people want a performance that is both competent and has them as the target audience. lots of politicians derided as wooden and stiff are being more 'authentic' than politicians who are personable and likable, who are performing
perhaps we should view nazi tattoos as disqualifying from here on out. i kind of assumed we'd already view them as disqualifying but was unpleasantly surprised so maybe from here we could all agree not to downplay nazi tattoos since they seem pretty indicative of broad disregard for human dignity
This picture goes in the Ocean Hall of Fame * primary: 3rd sighting of T672793C * secondary: buff dude in a suit on a @citibikenyc.bsky.social * tertiary: @mayor.nyc.gov riding his bike to work (ie trying to photobomb Oceans)
@cmarkv.bsky.social · last mo.Super pumped to get @mayor.nyc.gov passing this Ocean on his bike in the pic
in addition to every other problem here, mamdani spends the vast majority of his time in the public eye speaking about hyper-local new york city governance issues. the idea that he is preoccupied with israel at all times is based on nothing other than the fact that he is muslim
brent sewer socialist🚰🌹@therealbrent.bsky.social · last mo.I hate this guy so much
Observation: at some point the Detroit People Mover switched from Arabic to Spanish as the second language for signage. (First image from Wikipedia, second one taken today)
Like, I really think the onus is on urbanists to confront the fact that Strong Towns was founded and is lead by a guy who opposes marriage equality and no-fault divorce. As well as consider how this reactionary worldview shapes his perspective on cities, development, and political economy generally.
Urban Land Rent 🇸🇴🚰@urbanlandrent.bsky.social · 2mo agoLike they oppose abortion, marriage equality and even no fault divorce. It’s pretty extreme.
The European mind cannot comprehend
LOWρUFO 🇺🇦🇵🇸🌍@lowrhoufo.bsky.social · 2mo agoA different German in Chicago has discovered a rainforest cafe
"What the Wounds Tell" just won this year’s European Press Prize. "Doctors in Gaza observed a disturbing pattern: children with a single gunshot wound to the head or chest, a sign that they had been deliberately targeted." www.volkskrant.nl/kijkverder/v...
Gunshot wounds in Palestinian children indicate targeted fire
Doctors in Gaza observed a disturbing pattern: children with a single gunshot wound to the head or chest, a sign that they had been deliberately targeted. This emerges from research by de Volkskrant, ...
volkskrant.nl
"Welcome to Mohawk and Hudson Railroad Takes, what's your take?" "The degraded Black Irish swarming into our fair cities of New York and Brooklyn from their wretched Papish isle to take jobs and apartments from the Anglo-Saxons who grew up here shall never be real New Yorkers." "100% agree"
I'm sorry but if you do this you deserve to be separated from your money. What sort of company (1) would have $500 million extra to spend (2) would have so few financial controls not to notice this and (3) would have such bad ops that they wouldn't put (easily placed) limits on Anthropic setup?
Boing Boing@boingboing.net · 2mo agoAn AI consultant told Axios one of their clients accidentally spent half a billion dollars on Claude in a single month. Nobody had set a spending cap.
> looking at tech sector layoffs > ask the hr manager if the layoffs are from ai or from the end of zirp > she doesn't understand > pull out illustrated diagram explaining what is ai replacement and what is zirp > she laughs and says "they’re good layoffs sir” > check the data > its zirp
A lot of AI criticism makes me feel like someone says “the automobile has been disastrous for society” and I’m nodding along like “yeah I actually really agree, I think that car centric urban design has-“ and then they add “also it’s a scam, cars break down after more than ten miles anyway”
*Tennessee* politics has been *dominated* dawg what
Neil Kornutick@neilkornutick.bsky.social · 3mo agoThey (a big loser) are calling the urbanism bros cosmopolitan communists now.
the thing is I like all this stuff. I like the hot honey and ricotta slices. I like the turmeric brussels sprouts. I like the corporate slop bowls. it's either my least or most pretentious opinion that most of this food is actually pretty good.
They also had a fondness for barbecue spaghetti and blues music
David Bowman@dlbowman76.com · last yr.One of the ancient pharaohs developed a tremendous fondness for hockey. This led to the construction of the Great Pyramids of Edmonton.
for a while now i've bene thinking that even if the tech keeps getting better, none of this industry looks sustainable if power users decide they're at a "good enough" point running a local model on their mac studio
9. OK I need to go into my more niche and weird stuff now.
