From the archives: In November 2022, the Research Council assessed Michigan's investments in connected/autonomous vehicle technology. crcmich.org/a-reality-ch...

"Americans have been dragged, tackled, beaten, tased and shot by immigration agents. They’ve had their necks kneeled on. They’ve been held outside in the rain while in their underwear. At least three citizens were pregnant when agents detained them." (Published Oct. 2025)

In my last job, I practically begged the Michigan Economic Development Corp not to blow money on this. bridgemi.com/business-wat...

Michigan has a new road funding package. Years ago, policymakers tried to spend $ better rather than more. It didn't work, but that doesn't mean it can't work. share.google/GsT3AEaGY4iT...

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Which kind of land use is the most financially productive: roads, parking, or buildings? Looking at this comparison, it isn't even close. Info courtesy of our friends at Urban3.

this is how every outlet should refer to X

Prosecuting Elon Musk and finally bringing down his empire of fraud is a good goal in itself, but the message it would send is even more important.

"Every new piece of technology, whether that's a laptop, graphics card, mouse, keyboard, BBQ, whatever, is now presented as being powered by AI or comes with an AI assistant, or just has an 'AI' sticker on the box."

“When stationary, a software glitch can cause the wheel to turn itself back and forth without any input from the driver. It’s basically one step away from a nightmare scenario on the highway.” Firstly, let’s all agree that 2026 will be the year to stop using the word “glitch” to describe bugs.

Officer Daniel Hodges narrates his body camera footage from January 6: "That's me screaming because someone…is reaching underneath my visor and trying to gouge out my eye with his thumb while other people hold me down."

And then there's this video, of officers talking with each other about what they just witnessed. "We didn't have a chance," one officer said. "[Trump] was still giving his speech, and I just had to leave, because he's basically just telling people to come down here and rip this place down."

Why didn’t Bill & Ted kill Hitler?

Sorry, but triumphant claims about autonomous vehicle safety are wildly exaggerated. It's an open question whether today’s self-driving cars are any safer than those driven by humans. And if reducing crashes is the goal, that isn’t even the right question. My deep dive, in Bloomberg 🧵

“Donald Trump has been quietly plotting the seizure of Greenland in some way, shape, or form for nearly eight years. We listened to his private rants about it in the first term, but we weren’t willing to carry out a takeover of an allied nation on his behalf.” www.defiance.news/p/why-i-warn...

So many good lines in this episode

I really miss the days when they wouldn’t show a penis on basic cable television.

Do non-Detroit ppl know about 'bumpy cake?'

Bet it's more than 10% www.cnbc.com/2025/11/06/m...

Polymarket really has become the ultimate place to engage in insider trading on privileged information. I'm not sure we're prepared for what happens when any outcome -- including violent ones -- can be wagered on.

"A newly created account appeared to invest $30,000 Friday in Maduro's exit. After Maduro went into custody Saturday morning, that same investor netted $436,759." www.axios.com/2026/01/03/m...

the mcgruff the crime dog psas are so unhinged I'm crying laughing

Disclosure: I wrote the subject story. Agreements now mean little to the executive branch. Congress has abdicated its role as an equal partner as has segments of the judiciary. In the story, note the lack of a response from Michigan, Ohio, Wisconsin and Ontario, overseers of the Great Lakes.

I cannot believe the FIFA World Peace Prize winner would stoop to this level

I don’t carry “immigration documents” with me at all times. Americans have not had to produce “their papers” for police without cause. Is this the new standard, given Kavanaugh stops? reason.com/2025/12/31/d...

Here are the Top 5 Dogs of the week!

Man Spends Whole Day Dreading Fun Activity He Signed Up For https://theonion.com/man-spends-whole-day-dreading-fun-activity-he-signed-up-1819579571/

One thing I wrote about here is how technology has made buses *way* more convenient while techno-futurists were obsessed with flying taxis and self-driving cars.

Hey so I was doing chores and threw a movie on to play in the background. I chose the John Candy doc, "I like Me." Ended up sitting down and crying for over an hour.

What I'm getting from this is that after deportations we will no longer have the expertise to build or maintain technology such as digitally-controlled cars or tsunami warning networks.

if tumblr dies I need this video to make it's seasonal rotation here instead just in case, Happy holidays 🎄

the correct way to end the year, especially this year, is the ritual burning of xmas trees in the street in south philly. every time one finished burning, the crowd gleefully chanted, “ONE MORE TREE! ONE MORE TREE!” until, as if summoned, someone else came , parting the crowd & dragging another tree

This is very disconcerting.

Out of curiosity, I just ran a few paragraphs from The Butchering Art through an AI checker and it got flagged: 88% AI. This book was released in 2017, and AI machines were subsequently trained off it. How many writers are getting flagged for AI because of the literal theft of their work(s)? Insane.

“after signing this there will be no changing y’all two’s minds and to never contact again.” www.syracuse.com/us-news/2025...

They knew. Replacing buttons with touch screens was actually cheaper and consumers thought it looked high-tech. The auto industry is collectively sociopathic.

Super low hanging safety fruit. US regulators have had a decade plus to get manufacturers to make safe door handles and still they haven’t. www.autoblog.com/news/china-i...

"What is not widely recognized is that intercity buses are the most cost-effective, least subsidized, and most fuel-efficient mode of long-distance travel." usa.streetsblog.org/2025/12/23/t...

A significant amount of safety research has existed for decades on Human Machine Interfaces proving exactly this. It's exhausting to watch money and effort wasted in a tech hype cycle to constantly undo and redo what we already know in safety engineering.

America's richest 10% now hold 60% of the nation's wealth. The bottom half of America? It holds just 6%. Wealth inequality is eating this country alive.

Big Tech these days in a nutshell

Corruption so pungent, it wafts right off the page: Lobbyists who do pardon deals “say their going rate is $1 million. Pardon-seekers have offered some lobbyists close to the president success fees of as much as $6 million if they can close the deal.” Gift link www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

The deepest living vertebrae in the world www.forbes.com/sites/scottt...

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It's not as if we weren't warned.

A russian Shahed drone got caught on power lines in Kyiv and crashed. I’ve been staring at this video for good several minutes. The more I look at it, the more surreal our lives feel. Drones in the cities, people not even trying to run, that fearless doggo…