"Every Louisiana Kitchen not forbidden is compulsory."

contrary to his mercantilism, Trump wants to help Russia compete against American LNG and oil drilling patriots. www.wsj.com/world/europe...

champaign mentioned

bluesky is good for asking transit questions. both times i've done it i got good and useful responses within hours.

does anyone know of an R or python package that snaps gtfs shapes onto OSM street networks?

Two Bloomberg Intelligence notes this morning on BEVs very interesting. Chinese buyers are flocking to electric even as subsidies roll off, while in Europe price pressure on the entire market but BEVs especially make ICE-BEV price parity increasingly likely. BMW & Mercedes already at parity.

Coen brothers plot. a law professor’s hobby of shooting rats with a bb gun goes horribly wrong. nypost.com/2025/12/05/u...

to think I made fun of my mom for taking the “most handballs” novelty trophy I got in third grade to the talladega goodwill.

“all-electric (EV) and plug-in hybrid electric (PHEV) vehicles continue to be troublesome…However, hybrid models…continue to shine as reliable“ is this effect real? why we need multilevel modeling. many hybrids are made by Toyota, the most reliable brand. www.consumerreports.org/cars/car-rel...

“Over the last 10 years, 17 of the nation’s 20 largest transit agencies have undertaken network redesign projects” good overview of bus network redesigns. enotrans.org/article/bus-...

our progress toward full argentina continues apace. what did netflix know when they greenlighted el eternauta

in April MARTA will launch its redesigned higher frequency bus network. surprised to see how many routes now have 30+ headways. they are also belatedly connecting and protecting bike lanes. itsmarta.com/nextgen.aspx

the y axis tells how high above the corolla the sea lion is flying

the vax nurse had good dialogue lined up about rock salt. a few jokes, where has good prices, an intro: "i hope you're done with your shoveling cause it's gonna be sore." she knows what the people wanna talk about. in spring i'm going back, and i bet she's got mulch discourse on tap.

The birds dont know the heroism it took to refill the feeder today.

RIP Tom Stoppard, I always forget he’s Czech We are tied down to a language which makes up in obscurity what it lacks in style.

To all Airlines, Pilots, Drug Dealers, and Human Traffickers

🚨 new research at @findingspress.org this is sure to generate discussion, and everyone can read it bc it’s to-the-point and 100% Open Access (w/ only $150 fee). Find more findings like this at Findings.

enjoying gemini 3. no personality, less wordiness than claude.

“I don’t want any more dollar stores. I don’t want high-density housing in my neighborhood.” “you bribed a fucking county commissioner to build more garbage.” nimbyism is in a negativity/narcissism place. only bribery explains why they don’t get their way. www.yahoo.com/news/article...

it was prophecied Lehe & Pandey (2025)

it actually is a third space! concerts, ghost tours, haunted house, weddings.

easy to forget how big and varied this country is. Only seen one of these once in my life. “In all, there are roughly 10 million wood-burning stoves in the country, or one for every 35 people.” news.oregonstate.edu/news/new-tec...

mamdani promised to appoint Barron “deputy mayor of gamers“

what’s a good video game thing for an older lady who has to sit in a hospital room a lot (not as a patient)? my mom loves bridge, wordle, crosswords, etc. her vision is okay. we saw an older lady enjoying Nintendo switch. while we respect gamers, we know nothing about the esport lifestyle.

24-Point Epstein Peace Plan

it's a happy coincidence that BEVs are apparently easier to automate at L4 (for city driving at least). ppl gave me different reasons why. (i) w/ no transmission, control is smoother and thus easier for computer direction. (ii) can link computers/sensors into already-elaborate electrical system.

In our model here, it’s optimal for small systems to have lower farebox recovery if they do charge. So if charging itself is costly, then small-enough systems should be free. but an exception would be crime problems. in IC hasn’t been the case www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

great to see more attention for small systems. i expect to see more and more small systems go free. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/18/c...

interesting how unintuitive falling aggregate demand is, and how relentlessly appealing the alternative explanations are. when I was young, nobody wanted to work due to video games. now AI Is taking the jobs. China, the extreme case, says it’s “involution.”

anyone know of an algorithm that makes offsets of overlapping routes like this automatically? couldn't find anything that did exactly this, so a student is developing one for gtfs. note in gtfs, the overlapping portions linestrings probably won't be identical.

China is bringing the hammer down on hyper-fast EVs, setting a minimum 5 seconds for accelerating from 0 to 100 KMH (62 MPH). For context, the Rivian R1S hits 60 MPH in 2.6 seconds, as does the Tesla Cybertruck in "Beast Mode." (H/t @reillybrennan.com)

In France they’ve got automated meter maids now – Waymo-looking cars that fine you if you don’t feed the meter. This article says that while a human can check a few dozen cars per hour, these can check up to 1,500 in an hour leocare.eu/fr/blog/sulf...

Birmingham Alabama. it’s still got problems. But has it massively improved? Yes! They got good leadership. Especially compared to when I was a kid. I am proud when I hear someone was impressed with Birmingham. www.ajc.com/travel/birmi...

can verify: cows HAVE been interacting with me more, and more fondly. but i have a different take: since i got my costco card, i drink much more milk. now they think i am a cow, but with incredible powers (eg, pressure-washing, ebike). you are NEVER "too old" to become someone new (eg a cow).

a historian of the future can have a good book about Politics at the Dawn of Email. Hillary’s emails, Epstein‘s emails. Email death threats. Email writing style. and so on.

GMax. Ok

playing around with something. difference b/w the mpg's of the hybrid vs. the mpg of the regular "gas" version of models w/ both versions.

Fun for all road tolling advocates! (And yes, I suspect that from a wildlife perspective this is probably not ideal.) www.bbc.com/reel/video/p... #dktrp

this is cool. someone out there is very happy. my.cee.illinois.edu/announcement...

new music from buscabulla: dónde están los @estupi.dos? www.instagram.com/reel/DQ9fbpb...

always post the same. happy Veterans Day to surviving borinqueneers 65th infantry. they had a very tough time at chosin reservoir. even my grandfather, wounded twice in the pacific, found the fighting especially bleak. they were also discriminated against. theres a nice mural in chicago.

it could happen

I cannot recommend this piece by @maxdubler.com enough. It articulates very well some of the key differences between the YIMBY and Strong Towns movements regarding housing. It mostly comes down to state preemption and political strategy. Ideology vs. pragmatism.

OutKast is inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame: “We started in a little room. Great things start in little rooms”

around Cambridge MA, you remember people used to be small. the doorways in old buildings are smaller. a little manhole cover. wish i could go back and play basketball with the founding fathers. I would win, and they’d call me the ulster leviathan or some other name with an ethnic reference.

(knowing I‘ll be the 100kth person to make this joke) diva down!

went to try grok, asking it about Chinese ev subsidy fraud. it made up statistics wholesale. I went to check the sources it cited. they had been written by LLMs and included quotes from unlinked Bloomberg coverage. but the quotes weren’t in any Bloomberg articles.