On one hand, reducing car use reduces urban pollution. But on the other, everyone likes it and cities become more livable

Good.

A boat carrying migrants capsized off the coast of Mauritania earlier this week, killing at least 49 people, with around 100 likely missing, officials told AFP. u.afp.com/SA2H

Call for Papers! "Technology and Inequality in Culture, Media, and the Arts"-a special issue of Poetics, coedited with @jticona.bsky.social + Angèle Christin www.ias.edu/stsv-lab/pla...

"While ChatGPT use has been linked to suicides and mental-health hospitalizations among heavy users, this appears to be the first documented murder involving a troubled person who had been engaging extensively with an AI chatbot."

This guy just sounds like he had deeper issues. This is like blaming Catcher in the Rye for that psycho who shot John Lennon*. And I hate AI but come on *Google MK Ultra

"The Meta AI chatbot built into Instagram and Facebook can coach teen accounts on suicide, self-harm and eating disorders, a new safety study finds. In one test chat, the bot planned joint suicide — and then kept bringing it back up in later ‭conversations." www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

Two unnamed companies spent $10.7B and $7.5B respectively on Nvidia chips last quarter. These two companies are essentially carrying the entire US stock market.

Death: A Black band from Detroit making music that has all the sonic attributes we associate with punk, in 1973, two years before the Sex Pistols formed. Wild. youtu.be/A_WiJscW1ko

For comparison, Mattel sold $374 million worth of Barbie toys and $626 million worth of Hot Wheels products during the same period. Do you think Labubus could become as iconic as Barbie or Hot Wheels? Read the full article: www.wired.com/story/labubu...

"They made #Superman woke now!"

“There is no clear precedent for what DeSantis and the president are doing." Experts question the legality of deploying National Guard officials as immigration judges.

Korea just got slapped with a 25% tariff—because of trade barriers that don’t exist. They already have a free trade deal with the U.S. Zero tariffs. Nothing. Nada. Zilch. A kimchi donut.

A truly tireless reporter lost all sleep to bring you this. Story posted at 3:55 am. www.inquirer.com/politics/phi...

Yall asking Grok questions like it’s not pumping out 1000 cubic meters of poison gas into South Memphis every 15 minutes all so MFs can get a corny ass screenshot to dunk on.

Experts say the disruptions will result in more children dying from hunger. “Stock is running critically low,” Clement Nkubizi, the country director for the nonprofit Action Against Hunger in South Sudan, tells WIRED. “People are going to die.”

My Bloody Vinyl Time gotta be a Top 5 record shop name

The thing to understand is that district court judges have to follow the law and Supreme Court Justices get to just make up the law.

I'm an "A.i." abolitionist. No consumer-facing LLMs or generative "A.i." in anything. Sure, machine learning in science and a few other limited applications is fine. But consumer-facing LLMs and generative "A.i." that are based on theft, push disinfo, and can be manipulated by billionaires? No.

Every student in every corner of Illinois deserves a quality education — we need to leave no stone unturned and no barrier unbroken.   We're streamlining the application process for college-bound seniors and making it easier than ever to get financial aid.

new pronunciation of my last name just dropped

Overacting to the point of artistry. Classic John Woo double gun ballet and dove flocks. A plot so absurd it deserves an Oscar. I mean it has it all.

The Chemical Safety Board has an annual budget <$15 million and with that produces gold-standard failure analyses that can be extended across industries. Only reason to get rid of it is if you genuinely want more billion-dollar disasters that kill and maim blue collar workers.

The builders behind Alligator Alcatraz and other detention sites are top DeSantis donors. They scored no-bid or “emergency” contracts worth tens of millions—while funneling cash into his political machine. Pay-to-play isn’t just speculation—it’s backed by the paper trail. 🧵

Isn’t there already research showing using AI basically makes users dumber?

Turns out Noem has experience botching a flood response: In June 2024 as Governor of South Dakota, she underplayed a record rainfall forecast and hopped on a plane to a fundraiser in TN. When the rainfall caused devastating flooding, she refused to send in the National Guard to help with recovery.

NEW from me — FEMA staffers say the response to the Texas floods is horrifyingly slow, and it may be because of DHS Secretary Kristi Noem's recent increased control over how the agency spends money. "If this is how they are going to do a major hurricane response, people are fucked.”

Unions out here helping the move to replace labor with AI?

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it's amusing to me to see Trumpers banging on about Bondi orchestrating an Epstein coverup while refusing to devote an extra thought to who she would be trying to protect

An international call for action just got louder: Today, 7 Nobel Laureates have issued a powerful call for a minimum tax on the ultra-wealthy in Le Monde Here’s a quick breakdown of the debate—and where things stand globally 🧵 www.lemonde.fr/en/opinion/a...

A global minimum tax on the ultrarich could change planetary politics. Right now South Africa, Chile, France, and Spain are pushing for it

France could raise around €20 billion per year from this tax That’s half of the €40B the government is looking for this year Globally? $302–377 billion could be raised—every year From the ultra-rich. Who currently pay very little. gabriel-zucman.eu/files/report...

It’s honestly so disrespectful and irresponsible that the national media has mostly ignored the DC33 city worker strike in Philly so far. It’s a huge story with massive implications for the 6th biggest city in the country. Hell, I’ll write about it for ya! Email me! www.inquirer.com/politics/phi...

Lack of new U.S. power capacity could double blackouts by 2030, says Energy Department

And Jewish space lasers aimed at a flat Earth.

NEW: The Department of Veterans Affairs will REDUCE staff by 30,000 - one-third of whom are Veterans themselves - by the end of September.

A reminder: FEMA is no longer going door-to-door to assist disaster victims [From our Climate Desk partner @wired.com]

DOOCY: The report says there's no Epstein client list. So what happened to the Epstein client list that the attorney general said she had on desk? LEAVITT: She was saying the entirety of all the paperwork was on her desk

Q: What happened to 90 deals in 90 days? LEAVITT: This administration is doing what's best for the American worker

You know what would have been a good story, @nytimes.com, is that a member of the board of trustees of a public university was using private student data hacked and stolen from another university You could have published that! You had all the information you needed to publish that!

We are NYC rabbis who support Zohran Mamdani – Here’s why His platform reflects the Jewish call for justice and also offers a clear plan to address antisemitic violence. That's what real protection looks like blogs.timesofisrael.com/we-are-nyc-r...

In Gdansk, I stayed in a single-stair point access block on a pedestrian street and made a quick video to show how much light, cross-ventilation, and quiet you get from this type of building.

The best paragraph in the entire detective genre and it’s Calvin and Hobbes

To wit, I met the first Black Republican i had ever seen in my life in college. First Black person studying rocket science too. I went to an HBCU and even there you’ll find diversity.

TOMORROW: A federal district court in Boston will consider whether the arrests & deportations of students & faculty for peaceful pro-Palestinian speech are consistent with the 1st amendment. How the court answers this could determine the future of American higher education for generations.

So Mexico have sent in people to help with the search and recovery in Texas. Where are the marines who were sent to CA Where are all those ICE agents. Can they not divert their attention to saving people rather than beating them up and putting them in a van.

Austin, Tx meteorologist @ KXAN responds to Q’s about the role federal Hiring cuts played by pointing out local NWS vacancies and how clearly relevant they are

When I met Ryan Coogler several years ago, we were standing in a group of people chatting, when a woman with visible hearing aids walked up, and he casually began to sign the whole conversation so she could participate. She mouthed “thank you”. He nodded and just kept doing his thing.