I just wanna hang out and have a nice time, not log in to 24/7 Egomaniac Debate Club. I wanna read interesting and well-written work, laugh at your jokes and see your cool photos. I am a very simple person.

I’m in the Preamble - talking about how delusional John Roberts claim that the justices aren’t political actors is. As the justices keep showing us day in and day out thepreamble.com/p/of-course-...

Hydrology Paper of the Day @hmgarciaaa.bsky.social on a spatial geography of flooding from 1996-2020 in eastern North Carolina: a novel Flood Extent Archive obtained from sociologial and geospatial predictors; application of a Random Forest Model; sensitivity analyses; and model performance.

Yesterday Kier Starmer announced Labour will nationalise British Steel, and save 2700 jobs. Today, the Uni of Nottingham put 2700 staff at risk of redundancy. This is just one university. Across the UK 15,000 higher education jobs need saving. Where is the rescue package for our universities?

Talked with Nithya Raman about her climate plan, which was finally released today. It didn't knock my socks off, but she has a strong track record and she's leagues better than Karen Bass on climate. Details in CLIMATE-COLORED GOGGLES: www.climatecoloredgoggles.com/p/nithya-ram...

Might have to post this annually until we do something.

People think that car companies intentionally destroyed Southern California's streetcar system, but in reality, cars monopolize roadway space and make all other transportation modes impossible -- just as they do today.

THIS MORNING: McDonald’s workers are on strike due to excessive heat - temps in the kitchen reached 98.2 degrees and management claimed they didn't know how to turn on the air conditioner! The heat gives many of us horrible headaches, and exacerbates symptoms for those of us who have diabetes. 🧵

This evening a driver in a vehicle struck a 32 y/o cyclist at S 344th St & 16th Ave S in Federal Way. Injuries to the cyclist were described as significant as the vehicle stuck him going 35-40 mph. This intersection is next to a Walmart parking lot entrance.

Calling protected bike-lanes “vanity projects” should be automatic evidence that a political candidate has no idea what they’re talking about when it comes to public safety, urban mobility and congestion, geometry and urban space, fiscal responsibility, or the successful positioning of cities.

None of us alive will experience climate better than what we have now. How much worse it gets is up to us.

Firing the city’s heat officer right as we’re about to stage a summer megaevent where tourists will be wandering LA’s shadeless streets what could go wrong

This is great.

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Adding: instead of building apartments on loud, noisy, polluted stroads -- thereby proclaiming to the world that we don't give a shit about the quality of life of working people -- let's build them on quiet side streets, to give them the same quality of life we offer single-family-home owners.

Superb report from @sightline.org: "Apartments Are the Climate Solution Hiding in Plain Sight" Yes. Don't overcomplicate things, just build a bunch of f'ing apartments.

SCOOP: Los Angeles just fired its chief heat officer ahead of the hot summer months. Also LA's climate office is down to one staffer. Total silence from Mayor Karen Bass, who's up for reelection and already had a mediocre climate record. My story: www.climatecoloredgoggles.com/p/karen-bass...

Atmospheric CO₂ of 340 ppm

I get the need to address affordability for lower income folks who need their car to get to work. But could we reduce the price per gallon more by taxing windfall profits and using that income to provide rebates on purchases?

The City of Ottawa posted the raw speed data from before and after Doug Ford banned speed cameras and the effect is so obvious it's not even necessary put a line marking when that happened. This chart shows the percentage of drivers going 15km/h or more over the posted limit.

Linden Kemkaran of Reform there... head of a council that spent £600k of taxpayers money on eight free parking spaces for her and her colleagues

And frequent, reliable transit so they don’t have to spend so much of their time chauffeuring kids around!

All of these things--casualization of academic labor, censorship, the insistence that academic research of any kind can be done by AI--are part of a longer project of devaluing academic work, especially in the humanities. You only work this hard to DEvalue something if it's valuable--and a threat.

If the driver isn't mentioned because we think the car could somehow have done this without the driver intending it to, the only proper response would be an urgent investigation into how this was possible and how it can be prevented in future (perhaps halting all driving until we know it's safe?)

Tomorrow night at the SEIU Union Hall, 517 Mission Street, Santa Cruz.. free and also on Zoom. reelwork.org/schedule.htm

My book is very very quickly turning into a treatise on how the targeting of immigrants is a vehicle for fascism. It’s happening before our eyes and every day it’s getting worse.

Once upon a time I bought programs that came in a box. I would install them on the computer and there they would stay until I uninstalled them. They worked the same way every day. I didn’t have to worry about some guy in Seattle or San Francisco rearranging the buttons and menus overnight.

This is, perhaps, the end of the beginning

Our bicycle adventure ends today. Tandem breakdown and packing dockside in Cuijk. No idea l how to pronounce this

Mood (Sunset while dining on a ship in a canal somewhere in NL)

Hot off the press. A well referenced high quality statement from the International Hantavirus Society. High level: - Andes strain is different - some spread will occur - pandemic potential is tremendously low - lots to learn - what happens next is up to us zenodo.org/records/2007...

I think it’s much less that the LLMs “hallucinate“ (I know, everyone hates the term) and much more that the LLMs are themselves best understood as a series of hallucinations.

"from 2020 to 2024, GM sold driver data, including names, contact information, location data and driving behavior data, to data brokers" $12.5M is too little punishment & has no deterrence value

I don’t think it’s sufficient for Democratic officials to treat these rulings like partisan acts from an out of control activist court. They should be regarded as part of a criminal conspiracy against the republic.

Don’t run universities like a business run it as a public good

One of NOAA's true gems - which could be at risk under POTUS' FY27 budget - are its testbeds which test & evaluate NOAA research for how it can improve its operations. I wrote today about my experience participating in a NOAA winter weather forecasting testbed experiment. tinyurl.com/35pua9cc

Kim Eung Hwa & Korean Dance Company warming up the crowd before the D Line ceremony We’re t-minus 3 hrs until D Line opens at 12:30pm 🎉

Every suspected hantavirus case took a commercial flight to get home. They were in crowded airports and on airplanes. They weren’t isolated. They weren’t instructed to mask. No precautions were taken. The lack of precautionary principle is maddening. If you’re traveling, wear an N95.

"the market" : vast majority of land bans apartments, the city drags permits out for months or years. Charges absurd fees and neo-liberal IZ. Huang needs to actually follow in Mamdani's footsteps and stop attacking the potential of private housing. belonging.berkeley.edu/greater-la-r...

The sooner Democrats realize Republicans’ only governing principle is Calvinball, where they make up the rules as they go to ensure they always win, the sooner we’ll finally have an opposition party ready to do what it takes to beat them.

Talking a look at the full line shows its potential: the D can deliver workers from dense core areas to abundant Westside jobs faster than driving! Planned as LA's first rail line in 1980 before rich NIMBY's delayed it, I'm glad everyone finally has the chance to ride the D

Greetings from the NEW Wilshire/La Brea @metrolosangeles.bsky.social D Line Station!! 💜🚇

Greetings from Wilshire/La Brea Station! Preview ride on the @metrolosangeles.bsky.social D Line extension!! So grateful for this!!! 💜🚇

Who remembers #StopthePurpleThreat ?!?! Beverly Hills fought the D Line for about a decade. Spending $10M+ on lawsuits - only petering out c. 2018.

We’re thrilled to be bringing ‘Women Changing Cities’ to Tirana, Albania—the 11th country on this global tour. There’s something especially meaningful about returning to a city that features in the book itself, where the story is still unfolding on its streets in real time. Reserve: bit.ly/4f1NiOi

This sounds similar to Trump's approach to COVID, it will magically go away...

Morning commute traffic in Maastricht and bike/pedestrian bridge

My dudes, the Monterey Fmt ain’t all that. The Central Valley population’s environmental burden, on the other hand…

Fantastic example of how a leading question can shape the electorate. Newsom signed that literal bill last summer. I defy these candidates to specify how, exactly, new legislation squeeze more oil out of the Central Valley, and what budget items they'd cut to do it.

Photo by @nicolehester.bsky.social for The Tennesseean www.tennessean.com/picture-gall...