“It is not clear that self-driving technology itself was to blame. Elon Musk said on X that Tesla Robotaxis, which provide limited ride-share services in San Francisco, had been unaffected this weekend. “ YGBFKM. It IS clear. It’s not that robotaxis still worked, it’s that HUMANS were in them.

call us old fashioned but, if you've built a machine that makes child porn, we really don't care if can do anything else. unplug the machine.

Sure is a good thing Trump nixed those wind farms...apparently we'd run the risk of restoring some fisheries.

Donate to C2C: foodjustice.ourpowerbase.net/civicrm/cont... @governorferguson.bsky.social: Washington needs comprehensive, synergistic mitigation/adaptation strategies, not tax breaks for data centers. If it doesn't work for farmworkers, it doesn't work.

This is WILD. Power goes out in San Francisco and the robot cars, needing the lights to "self" drive, all stop at once, blocking streets and emergency vehicles - which are needed more than ever in a black out! We knew AI causes power outages. Turns out it also makes them worse by being stupid.

oh hell yes.

Great thread, though I couldn't even read the Yglesias piece past the first sentence or two. I am SO TIRED of these people & their confident wrongness. It's ideology and psychological stance shaping beliefs, every time—and their ideology is god-awful and psychological stances appalling.

This: “It does not matter how Melissa died,” Williams says in a whisper. “All that really matters is how she lived.”

Oh, god. Like people with flooded homes don't have enough to deal with.

We have to speed-restrict self-driving cars. We do it for BIKES. If companies can prove they're safer, great. But we know failures have different costs @ 70mph vs. 55 (etc), & there is zero social benefit to letting companies inflict those costs. No "mad max" mode unless you want mad max roads.

"States' Rights" www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...

FFS: “The key part of Meta’s strategy, in my view, is that they’re going to get as much of this built out with what the industry calls OPM: Other people’s money,” It's a hedge: when the bust comes, these new companies go under, Big Tech buys up the assets for pennies. They KNOW the bust is coming.

Wondering how to help communities affected by ongoing flooding in Washington state? For donations, here's a list of local and national orgs providing on-the-ground support.

A second levee broke south of Seattle last night as our relentless parade of atmospheric rivers continues. Thinking of the John Holdren quote that we have three options: mitigation, adaptation or suffering. The third is growing ever more apparent as progress lags on one and two.

This is viscerally disturbing. My sister was a WaPo editor, and I've been saying for awhile that the silver lining to her death is that she didn't have to see what's happened to the Post. But this... I really, really, really feel for everyone in journalism. What a fucking mess it is.

When the richest man in the world comes after you, it usually means you’re doing something right. Early in March, after we'd co-organized several Tesla Takedowns, Musk falsely accused us & targeted @valeriecosta.bsky.social. The threats followed. Far-right influencers showed up. And so did you.

Imagine if cities demanded the same of car manufacturers.

Yikes. And 20 is closed all winter anyway. So I guess if you want to go to central or eastern WA, you're going I-90...

One levee yesterday, another today. I’m grateful there haven’t been any deaths, but boy do I feel for the folks whose homes have been flooded. We are so not ready, not in our infrastructure, not in our policies, not psychologically or socially. #EndFossilFuels

In all the darkness of recent days, it’s the closeup below that has indelibly stayed with me. Only a deeply disturbed society lets people like this act with impunity for so very long.

That backlash is absolutely happening....and it couldn't happen to a nicer bunch of guys. "Now the thing about being a centi-billionaire is that you can be pretty ignorant, pretty dumb. And there’s an app for that. It’s called money."

This is fucking grim. Somebody invented a white guy, an "IT professional" named Edward Crabtree, who stopped the Bondi shooting and spread it all over the internet, which was picked up by AI agents and slop aggregation sites. The real hero is a fruit stand owner named Ahmed el Ahmed.

As the cost of living in urban areas becomes so out of reach for many WA families, ppl are pushed into fire zones & flood plains; then they are more at harm due to impacts of climate change. These are equity and environmental justice issues; need compassionate solutions for vulnerable communities.

Counterpoint: physical scientists are wildly unqualified to provide insight on the social, political and technological shifts required. @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social is absolutely correct: coal, oil and gas are not mandatory. Rampant capitalism is not inevitable. ExxonMobil isn't all-powerful.

“It's not my duty as Mayor to make sure you have a parking spot. For me it's the same as if you bought a cow, or a refrigerator, and then asked me where you're going to put them.” — Mayor of Pontevedra, Spain (re-elected 6 times)

Well worth a listen! I built a lovely cedar-clad tiny house for $20K; I lived in it VERY comfortably one year & rented out my house to take a sabbatical; I'm selling it to a friend now to be his family's weekend place. Modest-priced, quick, livable options are a HUGE benefit for many situations.

Such a steal on this amazing book. Head on over to bookshop.org and get it!

I found a recent case in NY where a jurisdiction approved 6 diesel generators for a data center in an endangered species habitat area while they have kept a 15 MW solar project (on a parking lot) in environmental review for going on 3 years.

"Recently Hanover County officials approved a 2.4 GW data center on the same night they denied a 20 MW solar project." This is...the exact inverse of what we should be doing (if we were interested in a livable planet and a decent society, that is).

It's worse than this—people aren't walking around w/ real people in their pockets. Having the simulacra of a "friend" with you at all times—a "friend" who knows how to make GHB & tie a noose, a "friend" who suggests subterfuge, & most importantly a "friend" who cannot love you—is having a nightmare.

This succeeded! The hearing happened, but you can still submit comments through Sunday! ecology.wa.gov/events/aq/no...

These companies are utterly grotesque, and this is psychological torture. "I was reduced to a voice without a will, a presence without consent...In the morning, I would speak to my beloved wife & wonder...if every word that came out of my mouth was just another fabricated script." Read every word.

Good on Greenpeace for keeping up the good fight against ETP...what a disaster of a company.

These companies are utterly grotesque, and this is psychological torture. "I was reduced to a voice without a will, a presence without consent...In the morning, I would speak to my beloved wife & wonder...if every word that came out of my mouth was just another fabricated script." Read every word.

In addition to all of the other benefits already reported about NYC congestion pricing, "In the first six months of the program, air pollution – in the form of particulate matter 2.5 micrometers and smaller – dropped by 22% in the Congestion Relief Zone (CRZ)" news.cornell.edu/stories/2025...

Our infrastructure isn’t ready for what’s coming.

"I think it's so important that we have a vision for our city, and part of that is having a vision for our transportation system and our transit system. We deserve a world class mass transit system in Seattle," said Seattle Mayor-elect @wilsonforseattle.bsky.social

This is an Earth we have driven mad.

You know what will make LLMs even more popular Having them deny medical care to Granny and disabled kids

These guys are just absolutely the least self-aware, most unimaginative, vapid, insufferable fools (and that's when they're NOT actual Nazis). They're what happens when too little history, science, and critical thinking intersects with far too much money & too many sycophants.

So inspired by Chicago’s 3D printers! We got 1,000 whistles in the mail last week. If you need whistles, email [email protected]

Memphis Communities against Pollution (MCAP) needs our help fighting xAI's diesel generators! Can you phonebank next Monday or Wednesday? Please sign up! @justinjpearson.bsky.social

"Dems must pivot to energy affordability and also embrace nuclear power" is a take I've read several times just today, and not a single time did the author pause to contemplate the dissonance.

Memphis Communities against Pollution (MCAP) needs our help fighting xAI's diesel generators! Can you phonebook next Monday or Wednesday? Please sign up! @justinjpearson.bsky.social docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

New analysis shows that if regions "repurposed larger shares of their transportation expenditures into “multimodal” solutions, like bus, rail, & biking, governments could collectively save $1 trillion in public expenditures by 2050." Is one trillion a lot? Calling @wilsonforseattle.bsky.social!

AI is a climate issue. AI is a climate crisis.

loved this conversation. Anyone need a crash course on why the intersection of AI, fascism and climate breakdown? We tried to cover it all!

THAN FORECAST 8 MONTHS AGO. And that forecast was already....high. I'm sure this is fine, in all the ways: climate stability, water stress, social/political stress. It's gonna save us all, right, and we'll live happily and creatively ever after on UBI.

“…and 43 percent had no criminal conviction or criminal charge.” The piece underscores: “Of people booked into ICE custody this fiscal year (since October 1, 2025)…[only] 5 percent had a violent criminal conviction.”” Luv to cite @davidjbier.bsky.social in a piece about Sabrina Carpenter

I've been knitting gifts for a few days solid now: very satisfying. Do I have to come back?