Washington Metro @wmata.com board this morning unanimously approved the agency's $913 million plan to automate the Red Line, which will also include platform screen doors at 20 of 27 stations. Automation could come online by 2032 at the earliest. The plan needs federal funding support.

Networking nerd: The Internet is an internet.

Farewell, DC Streetcar. You deserved so much more than what you got - extensions east to Benning Road and west to Georgetown, as well as dedicated lanes that would have provided great benefits to the District.

Pathetic. If only Microslop spent their time making products people liked (hint: Windows 7 with modern security/internals) and not wasting their time with slop generators. www.windowslatest.com/2026/03/02/m...

Well, this sucks. Bezos could fully staff this thing and get it back into profitable fighting trim with what for him would be pocket change. www.npr.org/2026/02/04/n...

LLMs should never be used in any application where it is important that they be accurate. They are only appropriate for situations where it doesn't matter whether the task fails.

Disney/ABC have a responsibility to refuse to participate in corruption. Kimmel must be reinstated. If Disney/ABC agree to this extortion then perhaps creatives + workers should consider collective action to push back. Same w/buying park + cruise tickets if they bow. People have power. Ask Target

Colbert’s & Kimmel’s firings are a reminder that corporate media consolidation is a key battery for the creation of state media. State media = authoritarianism State media ≠ democracy Once we scrape the Mad King & his crew out of office, let’s break up media conglomerates.

NEWS: The D.C. Council just passed an emergency bill allowing anyone to get a COVID-19 vaccine without a doctor's prescription, which have been requested recently due to changes in federal vaccine recommendations. (And some D.C. residents have had to go to Maryland or Virginia.)

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Tennessee's governor sent the state's National Guard to DC. Apparently it wasn't about DC's crime rate: Both Memphis and Nashville have higher violent crime and property crime rates than DC does.

I assure you that I don't need to be cautioned that LLMs are not sentient. That said, LLMs have the "bear-proof garbage can" quandary, which is that the apparent intelligence of the best LLMs significantly overlaps the actual intelligence of the most willfully stupid humans.

This is your reminder that no one in Congress should be trading stocks. Who’s with me?

The sooner this so-called "AI" bubble bursts, the better.

100% certain my work was copied, in more than one language, which means that in addition to my work, the work of translators was copied, so that's a double theft right there

This is ultimately my concern with "free" transit. There's always a limited pot of money for transit investments, and dropping the fare to $0 means other elements of bus service are at risk.

If Birmingham had the same murder rate it has year to date but the same population as NYC, they’d be up to 2200 murders this year. NYC has recorded 188 murders this year.

Americans are being conditioned to think of crime as an urban issue. Ask why. Alabama's murder rate is far higher than New York City's. Urban crime is not worse than rural crime. It's just more visible. In cities everything is more visible. So be careful what you blame city leaders for.

Or maybe it’s a shitty tool and you shouldn’t spend money on it.

Fantastic news and a great step towards improving democracy in the District! Thank you to all the councilmembers who supported implementation of Initiative 83 and all the activists who helped this happen. Let's keep that support up for the final budget vote!

ChatGPT will do for your ability to think what GPS and navigation software did for your ability to remember a map of your city.

This needs to be nipped in the bud. Doesn't matter if you're pro or anti, or whether you think they're viable. We can agree that robot cars must meet a safe systems standard that does not imitate human aggression, scofflawing, or "oopsies."

When Lyft or Uber asks you to contact elected officials to "keep rideshare affordable" remember that they profit from undermining public transit and increasing congestion. Use them where necessary, but don't let them use you.

The Del Mar Tunnel CEQA comment process is now open, but NIMBYs want to shut down the US's #2 rail corridor instead of saving it from falling into the sea. Tell SANDAG by June 30th to support the fast Crest Canyon alignment and #LeaveRoomForCatenary! @ridesd.org docs.google.com/document/d/1...

More slop, but from an (alleged) news organization

While I have sympathy for the newsroom having to deal with fuckery from the ad side of the organization, the problem with this is that the Sun-Times' name is there in the header and it's not immediately clear where editorial ends and "advertorial" begins. Imprimatur implies responsibility.

Sesame Street is officially UNION! Workers at Sesame Workshop, the nonprofit behind Sesame Street, have voted 55-19 to join @opeiulocal153.bsky.social Huge congrats to @sesameworkersunion.bsky.social! “We can officially say that today, May 15th, is brought to you by the letter U!”

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While I'm on the general subject of "AI," let me just say that it's a real dickheaded maneuver to tell an actual artist that their work "looks like AI." Their work doesn't look like "AI" because they're aping what "AI" does; it looks like "AI" because the "AI" company fucking stole from them.

Using a LLM to write a term paper is useful in a similar way t using a forklift for weightlifting at the gym. Yes, it may be efficient in completing the task, but the value is in the hard work

I said my main goal of this trip was to meet with Kilmar. Tonight I had that chance. I have called his wife, Jennifer, to pass along his message of love. I look forward to providing a full update upon my return.

Californians continue to strongly support high speed rail. The decades-long propaganda campaign against it simply hasn’t worked. People know it’s absurd that California doesn’t have a true statewide rail system. That’s going to change. We’re working to make it much easier & faster to get it done.

This is such a delightful post that was actually quite informative for something I'm working on this week. I especially loved the bit at the end about Molex connectors being a reliable way to supply power that doesn't melt 😆

Normally I reassure myself that something like this is just a presidential request, not an actual budget, but the end of the article has a chilling possibility (in screenshot) for it becoming reality by circumventing Congress. arstechnica.com/space/2025/0...

No lava lamps required

It’s weird* that the president can just decide to put a huge tax on American businesses without congress even being a little bit involved. * very unconstitutional

Sean Duffy is the living, breathing version of Conservative Guy Scared of Cities.

There's a lot of good stuff in here. There are certainly still improvements to be had, and ideally the parkway would be replaced with just a two-lane local (not commuter) road, but plans for widening the trail, ending the bizarre reversible lanes, and putting in more roundabouts are all fantastic.

Fantastic news, keep it up!

Wrote this into the Martian Revolution back in Dec when I was concerned people wouldn't accept a character being *that* stupid.

They’re not going to get out of this by playing semantics. Sending detailed information about an upcoming military strike on unclassified channels (and even to the wrong guy) is wrong, reckless, and obviously a threat to American troops.

Half of business owners on this Toronto street estimated that more than 25% of their customers arrived by car. In fact, it was 4%. And the % of customers who who walked or cycled? 72%. Retailers routinely overestimate the # of “car customers.” Via @carltonreid.com www.forbes.com/sites/carlto...

Pete Hegseth must resign or be fired immediately.

The NATIONAL SECURITY ADVISER added the EDITOR OF THE ATLANTIC to a PRINCIPALS COMMITTEE TEXT CHAIN set up for the DEFENSE SECRETARY about PLANNED MILITARY STRIKES. Here's a thread of involved parties talking about the need for secure communications (when Dems are involved):

The Twin Cities’ $505 million Gold Line BRT opens today. It will run every 10 to 15 minutes on a mostly dedicated right of way, allowing speed and reliability. It will extend to downtown Minneapolis in 2027 along I-94.

Secretary Duffy now has a whole extra month to read Streetsblog's coverage of how congestion pricing is benefiting New Yorkers -- and working better than predicted. 🧵