These machines fight traffic. Our @thebikinglawyer.bsky.social billboard is live.

This is great. And I’m also struck that Tom Flood and a lawyer appear do be doing more pro-bicycle comms work than the entire US cycling industry (per the point that P. Flax has often made)

An underrated addendum to the Bowling Alone story is that North America's largest bowling operator (Bowlero) is a publicly traded company whose business model involves buying mom and pop alleys, shutting down the leagues, and trying to attract casual, higher paying, one-off players.

My kid describing something that happened at school and honestly it’s pretty good social media advice. “There’s this kid that was being kinda weird and we were trolling him a little and he got mad and the teachers told us to problem solve, so we decided to be neutral with him.”

The whole thing about Democrats searching for a winning message for the midterms is infuriating because it is staring them in the face: Rule of Law — People who do illegal shit should face consequences. For insider trading. For illegal wars. For ignoring court orders. For being a pedophile.

The funny thing about these kinds of predictions is that they always assume these things will happen within the predictor’s current set of political preferences. Like what if AGI says we can provide cheap energy through a 90% top marginal tax rate and mandating a maximum speed limit of 40 mph.

This is delusional, and reflects a level of disconnection from knowledge about internal American political debates that actually explains some of Israel's behavior over the past few years. The Iran War is going to harm Israel's standing in the US, on right and left, like nothing else ever has.

A majority of Jewish Israelis across the political spectrum are of the misconception this war will strengthen Israel-US relations, based on Reichman University Institute for Liberty & Responsibility data. 87% of coalition voters and 61% of opposition voters. @chrislhayes.bsky.social

This ain’t it…

San Diego rents dropped 5.6% for 1-bedroom homes, while listings rose 15%. Proof that supply works. Yet, at $2,200 median, affordability remains out of reach for many. That's why we need to build more and faster. www.kpbs.org/news/economy...

There are no rules to this thing.

Stayed at Hope Springs Resort near Palm Springs this weekend and they had this F. Scott Fitzgerald quote up on the wall and man it got me:

The Wire, S5:E9

Man, It’s like Bad Driver-Con in San Diego right now. Be careful out there folks.

hey, if AI proponents hadn’t been making up nonsense about AI tools while forcing them on us, then maybe people wouldn’t reflexively block AI tools, even when they actually work. that’s not on normies for being rational consumers. that’s on AI proponents for being systematically full of shit

It’s a small thing in the big picture but had this thought when I was buying gas yesterday. Was paying a lot more and for what?

Happy non-alignment of spring breaks to all who celebrate! 🤡

#Cycling people of BlueSky, buy this book otherwise I will hunt you down. I won't really. This is BlueSky. I'll just post polite nudges. But seriously, buy it. It is good.

9.1C in a ten kilometer radius would imply that an average data center has a heat and energy density on par with some of your cooler stars, and I dont think thats likely?

All right #bikesky, the news from the bike shop was that my trusty Easton alloy wheels are done. Hunt has a great deal going on their Carbon 40s. Tell me why I shouldn’t pull the trigger.

Yeah! The joy in the American resistance is not appreciated enough. We're having a blast being out there and slowly reclaiming what it means to be American. I fucking love these fellow patriots. ❤️🤍💙

Honestly, based on the pics on here, just at the level of people having a rousing good time when most things pretty much suck, the No Kings protests seem like a success.

And there was much rejoicing throughout the land.

I’m not the first to ask this, but how can you run a profitable gambling business while allowing rampant insider trading?

If you picture in your head what the 25-year old looks like, you’re right.

FML

Americans aren’t nearly as polarized as the conventional wisdom says we are.

Like I've said so many times, if you're on the right, the way to get clicks is to bash someone on the left. If you're on the left, the way to get clicks is to bash someone on the left.

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Part of the reason I think economists should stay in their lane instead of trying to create world peace or cure covid or whatever, is they can do really cool stuff in their lane.

There’s a Pascal’s Wager element to the sneering at the protests. 1) There’s zero chance that the protests harm the fight against authoritarianism. 2) There’s a non-zero chance they help. 3) There’s a non-zero chance sneering at them when you have a audience undermines them. Do the logic.

My god the Spurs are a shitshow.

this is a handy “what’s fascism anyway”cheat sheet

Americans aren’t nearly as polarized as the conventional wisdom says we are.

If nothing else, redefining fascism to include the modern nation-state and free-market capitalism seems to render it pretty much useless as a term, purely categorically.

A great deal of our current struggle is the inability of too many folks to understand that there are bad things, worse things, and really, really terrible things. (And this does not make the bad things not bad)

FML

Fascism is worse than neoliberalism in literally every way

There’s a Pascal’s Wager element to the sneering at the protests. 1) There’s zero chance that the protests harm the fight against authoritarianism. 2) There’s a non-zero chance they help. 3) There’s a non-zero chance sneering at them when you have a audience undermines them. Do the logic.

lol

This is an honest question because I’ve never been a CEO. What work does a CEO do that’s not a meeting?

\\angry goose meme\\ “Why does it remain unclear…”

From this point on in the war, the U.S. will be effectively negotiating and managing the terms of a strategic defeat. Even the wholly improbable outcome of regime collapse would be classified as such.

\\angry goose meme\\ “Why does it remain unclear…”

SCOOP — Select State Department offices will start moving into the US Institute of Peace building as early as next week, The Handbasket is first to report, with Kristi Noem’s “Shield of the Americas” among them. This is despite ongoing litigation since the DOGE raid on the building last March.

This was always the fear when I was at USIP. That someone powerful would simply say, we want that building.

Thought leader

@darth I’m so sorry to be the bearer of bad news. The Afeela is dead.