“Wait, let’s go in order.” They are saying it out loud.

In the 1920s, LA had the largest rail system in the world! When we dismantled it, we also gave away the space it took up to cars. As a result, some of our streets are overly wide, often with dangerous slip lanes. It’s time to reclaim this extra space for people.

The fact that the Ontario government recommended AI summary systems with such obvious and potentially patient-harming flaws should give pause to any doctors (or their patients) making use of them.

of course, all of this pales in comparison to the sheer size of the old red car system. (this was the first map i designed for "the lost subways of north america.")

This is pretty cool. Downed Ukrainian FP-1 drone with FPVs mounted on the wings. The FPV-2 was being used as a mothership drone to deploy FPVs further into the rear.

Elon Musk, to OpenAI's attorney: "Your questions are not simple. They’re designed to trick me, essentially.”

it’s not even close (this is from 1985)

Remembering Amal Khalil

Nithya Raman, elected as DSA candidate on explicit "defund the police" promises. 2020: LAPD budget: $1.71B 2021: Voted YES to increase LAPD budget to $1.76B 2022: Voted YES to increase LAPD budget to $1.88B 2024: Voted YES to increase LAPD budget to $1.98B 2026: LAPD budget now $2.1B

Giraffes, not whales

NEW: Flight data reveals that the LAPD's "Drone as First Responder" program—sold to the public as a public safety measure—is in fact being used to spy on anti-ICE/anti-Trump protests in Los Angeles. theintercept.com/2026/04/20/l...

not many people know this, but Barilla has a line of 3D printed pasta it sells mostly to the fine dining industry. I don't want the pasta. I want the pasta printer

What I like best about the Artemis II photos is that it was taken by actual humans. An actual person had to frame it and manually adjust settings. It's their own artistic rendition of what they thought looked best at the time, something no probe, rover or unmanned spacecraft can take. it's art

They asked to meet with her and their requests went from "support a ceasefire" and that got whittled down and whittled down and finally it was like "let us have one speaker at the DNC, and you can vet the speech," and they could not even get that.

For my last stop, a little after 1 AM, I met with the DEP Leak Detection team. They listen to the city’s pipes, block by block, to catch leaks before they become major breaks.

Confident in my ability to properly ship, I take the strait. I smile at my opponent. Supreme Leader Khamenei does not return the gesture. He’d be prettier if he did, I think. He fires. The rocket passes cleanly through my bridge, killing me instantly

Every election post tonight is like "Wow the Democrats won the mayoralty in Racismville. Trump didn't just win Racismville but all of Klan-Guntruck County by 42."

The US going on a killing spree of civilians in Iran in the same manner Russia does in Ukraine by targeting civilian infrastructure, is not only an illegal war action, it is a display of strategic impotence and in fact terrorism

Yes, and I suspect part of this is to stop people like us looking at whats being blown up.

Apollo mission control -> Artemis mission control

LOOK AT THIS

Bluesky introduces Attie, a new AI slop app that lets users vibe-code their own social feed Launched yesterday, it has overnight become the SECOND-MOST blocked account on Bluesky, behind JD Vance at 180,684 blocks. Attie has 138,880 blocks in 24 hrs. You can block it here: bsky.app/profile/atti...

Everyone needs to stop what they’re doing and watch this video. “It seems like there’s a lack of diversity here today, and it’s mostly people who look like you and me, and I just…?” This lady’s response is🔥

Man with his dog flees from bombs in Tehran. (Photo by Pooria Hatami)

Here's another perspective on Saturn. This JWST image shows how auroras on the planet heat the atmosphere, which drives winds, which generate electrical currents, which help create more auroras... It's an endless dynamic cycle that we've just discovered. 🧪🔭 www.northumbria.ac.uk/about-us/new...

Heading to a protest this weekend? We’ve got resources for you. 🧵 (1/7)

I think journalism's job is to skewer obviously pretentious nonsense, but so much food writing opts to rationalize and celebrate it instead.

An unaccounted for part of the economy is how much young people virulently hate AI, despite how aggressively it's being forced on them. They realize it's making their friends dumber and ruining the world and they want nothing to do with it. From the Penn student paper: www.thedp.com/article/2026...

57 of my fellow students were arrested, academically disciplined, and barred from campus 2 weeks before finals. And then the visas of some of those students were quietly revoked. And then the DEI office was killed. And then we watched our mentors’ grants evaporate over “woke”.

The US Attorney's offices are filing doomed misdemeanor cases because it allows them to keep migrants detained for months, which fills up beds, which makes money for GEO Group and CoreCivic, which gets returned in the form of kickbacks to politicians and lobbyists. Simple as.

Seen tacked to a community board on my walk

eid mubarak everyone ♥️ free palestine

Report from the Target on Hiawatha is that leadership is Extremely Annoyed by people filling carts with stuff and then abandoning them at the front with a note

Republicans are using kids as a smokescreen for what Big Tech lobbyists want: a national surveillance program to harvest our data with zero protections for people and their privacy. We must fight this dangerous expansion of surveillance technology.

I wrote about how the US and Israel carried out an attack on an Iranian girls school on par with the OKC bombing and US media relegated it to a back page story. No stand alone evening news segments, no front page stories, it made A11 in the NYT then everyone moved on.

damn they really made Operation Epstein Fury so fucking easy

Doozy of a story from @kieraevebutler.bsky.social One expert “referred to Taylor and other nuclear start-up founders as “nuke bros” who “don’t know what they don’t know.” “ www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Kat Abughazaleh: "We need to, first off abolish and prosecute ICE and DHS and we return DHS' responsibilities to Departments of Justice, State, of Treasury, of Transportation. All of these responsibilities that were taken from those departments... We need to repeal the Patriot Act."

Others may forget, but I will never stop talking about who is responsible for the largest crime of my lifetime "DOGE employees demanded control over the USAID computer system, getting Musk on the phone. Once they had it, USAID was gutted. The world's richest man was live-tweeting the demolition."

and that, my fellow academics, is one reason not to hire war criminals: so they can't show up years post (their) war arguing in favor of the scaffolding behind their own atrocities with the imprimatur and status of your university

I was quoted in this 2019 article about the risks of troves of biometric data collected by CBP from travelers. Six short years later and our data is being used against us, just like pretty much everyone warned it would be.

The National Science Foundation’s entire budget is $10 billion.

Thousands of institutions abandoned programs, ended or rewrote scholarships, closed down clubs and publications, all in pre-emptive compliance. And you know why? Mostly because they wanted to do it if they thought they could blame someone else for it.

I spent my childhood inside of American concentration camps. I know one when I see one. And that is what ICE is building.

"Americans are feeling powerless to thwart the Trump admin’s assault on our nation’s values. Praised by tech CEOs, surrounded by sycophants, & enriched by his return to the WH, [Trump's] actions march on unchecked. Americans, however, have a powerful weapon that has been hiding in plain sight." 👇

GlobalBuildingAtlas: an open global and complete dataset of building polygons, heights and LoD1 3D models #climaterisk essd.copernicus.org/articles/17/...

It doesn’t matter what they plan to do. They do not have the power they are trying to project. Do not let them bully you psychologically into accepting their premises.

With tax season in full swing, here's our reminder that TurboTax owner Intuit spent two decades fighting to prevent Americans from filing their taxes online for free. (Published 2019)

Chomsky’s casual misogyny with Epstein says a lot about what counts as left wing. This is a guy who co-wrote an entire book about the press manufacturing consent without once mentioning patriarchy (or white supremacy). We need a definition of ‘left’ that doesn’t center the concerns of white men.