Detroit’s water affordability crisis tied to the uneven distribution of stormwater management costs michiganadvance.com/2026/05/14/d... From @theconversation.com

The Research Council addressed this issue last year. EGLE's new permitting approach may not be perfect, but monitoring ag pollution is critical to protect Michigan's waters. crcmich.org/cafopermitti...

Data centers in Michigan are fighting in court to overturn regulations that would monitor and prevent water pollution and depletion of groundwater aquifers. Oops, did I say data centers, I meant farms. michiganadvance.com/2026/05/19/f...

Slate pickup 1.0

YO PLEASE WATCH THIS IM FUCKING SCREAMING

3. Even fewer outlets picked up on Popular Information's report that Trump promoted several companies shortly after buying their stock at public events, but Vance was confronted with a question about it yesterday. His response of sarcastic and incoherent.

I'm not a plumber. But I'm pretty sure that's not how sinks work.

terrible. 20 years ago, the internet was full of hobbyist blogs and forums. over time, these have been replaced by paywalled substacks and private discord channels, each a walled garden. google's decision to prioritize AI just makes it less likely people will create free, public info

Did he just say, "America's turning 50 years old."?

Every graduation speech about AI

Got a notification from a medieval copyright lawyer

This is one of the wilder satellite animations I've seen in a minute... Wildfires produce their own thunderstorms while smoke wraps around a low pressure. What a fascinating view out of southern Kansas this evening.

this the shit I been up to

Sandwoem origin story.

We’ve looked at snails with one shell and slugs with no shells. Now let’s have a look at a snail with two shells, because Nature laughs at our puny attempts to pigeonhole. In today’s #AtoZ – J is for Julia (Juliidae) (1/9) Pic: © uwkwaj CC BY-NC

The world’s biggest bike parking in Utrecht didn’t happen overnight. And it didn’t fall out of the sky. It’s the product of decades of effective urban and transport planning. Long-term political decisions. Sustained public investment. Great cycling cities aren’t miracles. They are policy outcomes.

This is even weirder than Trump doing it himself.

SCOTUS: "Totally legal."

How naive I was when a new 2 way bikeway was painted near my home shortly after we moved here w/ a similar layout. I emailed 311 thinking we’d made a mistake and would want to fix it. They informed me it was on purpose bc of course we count gutters & grates as part of the bikeway. 🫠

"Energize."

This is an actual lifesaving device as most of the time, it was someones job (mostly kids on family farms) to poke grain in silos to stop it from clumping up.

“The Highway Lobby spends millions to make sure we spend billions.” — Union of Concerned Scientists. Their profit, your cost. Pleased to support @ucs.org in sharing/boosting their important new article below, with our newest @urbantruth.bsky.social poster. #UrbanTruth

"In all, the state has invested [at least] $67 million in the site, a former General Motors facility, and already has forgiven an earlier $15 million loan." bridgemi.com/business-wat...

I can imagine policy improvements that would include repealing the fuel tax but no politically feasible policy that includes repealing the fuel tax would be an improvement.

My unpopular opinion is that $5 /gallon is an appropriate price for gasoline.

This is Spear. He is being forced to leave his grandma's house against his will. You know who would never do this to him? Grandma. 13/10 (TT: daddymaddy19)

4/ So I made a spreadsheet, containing the same information: all people burned alive inside a Tesla Grok is now programmed not (!) to read my spreadsheet ;) Ask Grok and it'll insist it's 'only' 80 people or so, not 169 If you show it my spreadsheet: "sources say 80" ;) bsky.app/profile/tona...

Shout out to trees. Let’s give them some help with more solar panels. Shade is good.

How much time has he spent doing that?

Look, it's not that hard. Want tariffs? Convince Congress to pass a law. If you do that, the Supreme Court has no quibble. And if you don't, then we get tariffs that are on-and-off, and unpredictable, and their unclear legality yields little leverage.

Holy shit. We hit our first goal in 6 hours. I’m speechless. This will still cost a fortune but I feel like I can breathe a little for the first time in weeks. I can’t thank all of you enough. I don’t know how much we’ll be able to raise but oh my god, thank you.

still thinking about that Goldman Sachs “analysis” that predicted we would be at 120% of normal traffic in the strait of Hormuz by now

COLBERT: How dumb do you think it is for people to say that I should run for president? OBAMA: Well, you know, the bar has changed. I think you would perform significantly better than some folks we've seen. COLBERT: Is that an endorsement? OBAMA: It was not

Also the best photo editors it seems. Really captured the "seize him, you fools!" vibe of Andreesen

About the same brainpower as an oyster, vegans could eat them with no guilt

2010 called. you just got Onion’d

Reacting to Bluesky discourse today.

Over at the newsletter I wrote about the growing number of people deluding themselves into believing their computer software has attained human-level consciousness:

Most farmers in the US are millionaires with a six figure income. Median household income: $116,493 Median household net worth: $1,244,229 www.ers.usda.gov/media/5698/u...

Appreciate it but no, we don't agree here! Farmers were not lied to! I'm a farmer. I would know. Trump did a trade war in his 1st term. We cannot claim"he lied to us!" when he literally already did the thing. That's... what the video linked in this tweet is talking about. bsky.app/profile/sara...

"Americans are going to extraordinary lengths to get their hands on Indian mangoes. “I literally stop whatever I'm doing.” www.wsj.com/us-news/amer...

Thinking about that ALS cluster in the French Alps that baffled scientists until they learned that all the people with ALS had been purposely eating poison mushrooms.

Birds are probably the world champions at breathing. They can extract up to twice as much oxygen from air compared to mammals. Their respiratory systems take up 3-5 times as much body volume as those in mammals of similar size. And for good reason—flying high requires extreme ways to breathe. 2/6

Southwest Airlines hedging the price of oil for 40 years then giving up right before the biggest supply shock in a half-century www.barrons.com/articles/sou...

I'm fascinated by these relatively smart people who anthropomorphize software despite being told repeatedly that the "sentience" and "personality" of "AI" are an algorithmic card trick

"For years, suppliers large and small have asked automakers to help them recover stranded capital from lower-than-expected EV production, with talks often growing contentious." I wonder how many supplier casualties there will be when the dust settles.

Hittin one of these contemplatively at the spot where they tore down AC Spark Plug in Flint

Never forget that when Seoul, Korea removed the Cheonggyecheon expressway in 2003 and replaced it with a restored stream, 1000 acre park and improved public transit, not only did it TRANSFORM the city’s public life and economic success, but the car traffic got better. The car traffic got BETTER.

For 110 years, the Citizens Research Council has sought to give Michiganders a shared set of facts michiganadvance.com/2026/05/02/f... From @kdailey.bsky.social