Google has turned Fitbit app into Google Health and enshitified it. Now the scale will only tell me my weight, not lean mass and fat composition.

Trump institutes UBI for insurrectionists

As we write in the book, we need less focus on adults who scream "I've lived in the city for the last 50 years and don't need bike lanes" and more focus on kids who say "I am going to live in the city for the *next* 50 years and want to be able to get around safely."

A Harvard study just published estimates Elon Musk's destruction of USAID has already caused 600,000 deaths 2/3 of them children. That is his legacy in this world.

@albomp.bsky.social how about it? Can’t let these peanuts destroy our country for profits

every time I am sad about my career, I remember I have done amazing things and a layoff does not change any of them

Buttiigieg: "Look, when you are this deep into your second year, if your reflex is to still be trying to blame the previous administration, it really shows that you are out of ideas, out of solutions, and unwilling to take ownership of your own choices."

Great, thanks. Found the link

Mike Luckovich

With Spring in the air it seems like a good time to tend to your yard. 📸 Stephen Heuer

Absolute S tier communication from the NYC mayor continues. Few politicians have done a better job of so quickly showing what good government can be capable of. I hope it continues and inspires those in other cities.

When Madge is the voice of sanity, you’re in trouble.

This is absolutely fantastic. ht: @maddenifico.bsky.social

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Same energy

Cosplaying working class Rafael Cruz went to Princeton and Harvard. When he flees his constituents without power, he stays at the Ritz-Carlton. His wife, Heidi, is Managing Director at the fancy investment firm Goldman Sachs. They are not men & women with callouses on their hands. They are elites.

To be clear with how I feel about it. Anyone in the military who directs or carries out strikes on desalination plants should be in prison when this is over.

"The panic now visible in British Columbia is not evidence that reconciliation has gone too far. It is evidence that reconciliation has begun to have material consequences." @khelsilem.bsky.social in @macleans.bsky.social: macleans.ca/politics/can...

Breaking: It’s revealed SA One Nation candidate AOI Baxter has a warrant out for his arrest in the UK for failing to attend court after being charged with sexual assault. Where does One Nation find these predators? 🙄 #auspol

The wrong guy died today.

Reminds me of this minimalist take of states as constellations of their major cities, which I adore

“But, as you see, it's a beautiful day, the Strait of Hormuz is open and people are having a wonderful time.”

Sure it's ugly but what a dumb move from Honda, pivoting AWAY from EVs at a time like this www.autocar.co.uk/car-news/new...

THREAD: I got laid off from NYMag/Vulture after 14 years. The family lost 75% of income + medical. Now mzs.press bookstore, once a side project. is do-or-die for Judith & I. I feel weird telling you this because others are doing much worse. But if you could like or share this, we'd be so grateful!

Maybe some genius should figure out how AI is going to get them out of this mess of their own making www.news.com.au/world/middle...

Hmmmm, smells like Suez

For about $2.5 billion a day, we could provide a $500 per month UBI to every American — adults and kids. Poverty would be reduced by 65%. Child poverty would drop by over 80%. Extreme poverty would be essentially eliminated. Inequality would drop by about 20%. We can do/be so much better than this.

The promise of OpenAI and Grok being used in war is that no human can be held accountable for the war crimes it commits, all the way up to where it sits on the chain of command. The total abdication of any kind of accountability, any kind of "am I following an unjust order" moral hesitation, etc.

This guy gets it.

In some cases there will be no company to send the refund to because the tariffs broke them

I teach a middle schooler like Tim. Vainglorious, flamboyant, emotional, bulletproof ego, as thick as a brick. Although utterly unworthy, he will go places because of his capacity to ooze into fissures and explode a structure from within.

Maybe somebody at CNN can explain the difference here because I don’t qwhite understand it 🤔

I disagree - I think they should all attend and then one at a time stand and call him a traitor, rapists, child rapist, criminal, etc. and then leave. One at a time might just give him the jolt he needs.

"More than 3,000 people attended the Mass and walked in the procession. "Families affected by immigration enforcement were among the first to receive ashes from Cupich, in a highly symbolic reversal of the marking and tracking many say defines their daily lives." www.ncronline.org/news/god-doe...

DM me for pre-orders. We’re hoping to feature Senile Satan next in the series.

This is exactly right. Fare-free buses are a particularly bad idea in cities with decent subway service. From @alonlevy.bsky.social, who knows what they're talking about re: transit policy. pedestrianobservations.com

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I see that that John Birmingham bloke @birmo.bsky.social has written another “Axis of Time” novel. cheeseburgergothic.substack.com/p/world-war-...

Two years ago, Ethiopia did something no other rich country has yet. It banned the import of new fossil fuel cars. In that time, the country went from less than 1% of its vehicles being electric to more than 6% — higher than the global average. Read our feature: 🎁🔗 www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

And then the new Two MAGA Stooges

you should replace “used an llm” with “hired a guy on fiverr” and see if the idea’s still good if you have a set of systems in place and granular enough tasks that are fuzzy enough where fudging it is still better than nothing, yeah it might be fine — in respect of quality — to use an llm to do it

What a broke-a$$ country. In Australia everyone would keep running as-is and the whole country would be off to the polls to vote on a new government.