Michigan has a certain type of sign. I could tell a Michigan sign from a picture. Can’t put my finger on it

Lots of excitement over SB 79—understandably. I would add, every single bill California YIMBY sent to the governor was signed today. www.gov.ca.gov/2025/10/10/g...

The #1 piece of advice that TransLink's CEO offers other North American transit agencies: Provide frequent service

love showing visitors around campus

warm October until today. new flowers still blooming.

proud of transportation academia as regards ffpt. a policy idea started to gain interest, and new studies came out to inform the discussion with fairly consistent results. sort of how you envision academia is supposed to help things.

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slow growth final boss: Loudoun Co VA is cutting data center taxes explicitly to raise less revenue, so as to lower government spending. it isn't to encourage data centers: they're restricting them w/ regulation. they just want the "i cut spending" merit badge. www.loudounnow.com/news/county-...

he made a trumpcoin crypto and they called it crass. now he mints a metallic trumpcoin and they’re STILL mad! The guy can’t win! www.nytimes.com/2025/10/06/u...

a very well-written intro.

the nobel committee called today and asked which one i wanted. i said "none" because i "dont crave the limelight." they said they understood but were disappointed. so when they announce the prizes next week, please act extra excited. say "great choice yall. good job."

good case of how competitive markets can get "trapped" in an equilibrium due to lack of info. dearth of family-sized new-build apartments means little data to convince lenders, so those don't get built, which leads to lack of info. tough problem.

looking forward to this www.bbc.com/news/uk-wale...

@zohrankmamdani.bsky.social as mayor could you please address the public regularly on any spooky or chilling goings-on in gracie mansion

Denmark is becoming the new Norway! Electric vehicles in Denmark follow a text book S-curve. In August: 69% of new sales were full battery electric vehicles. Source @leraffl.bsky.social

Taking a melatonin and having exactly 30 minutes of slides left to finish: the most dangerous game

@zohrankmamdani.bsky.social as mayor could you release a shot for shot remake of the video where eric adams shows how to search a kid's room for crack pipes and small caliber weapons

honestly sad to see Mayor Adams go. listening to Bro Hymn w/ a single tear running down my face.

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Chinese EVs makes me think the watch industry is in an unstable equilibrium. the potential domestic market is huge, but a challenge is marketing a story and aesthetic. www.hodinkee.com/articles/qin...

salience is underrated in policy. "Almost two-thirds of Florida seniors who own their homes currently have no mortgages...They are “more attentive” to a rising tax bill than homeowners whose taxes are paid through their bank mortgage escrow account." www.tallahassee.com/story/news/l...

been reading about chinese EVs a lot. concerning that so much reporting on chinese products uses menacing language. "dominating," "juggernaut," "warning," "flood." it's natural to use analogies, but the martial language is overdone. selling a lot is not *really* equivalent to "dominating."

maga has an aesthetic that was underrepresented in politics. I call it “unembarrassed.” lights, photoshop, uppercase, smiling, thumbs up, genAI, flags. sort of Pentecostal. you see it in local commercials.

my first German and first manual watch. the Stowa Marine Classic with Arabic numerals. It has a Swiss ETA 7001 hand-winding movement thats only 2.5 mm thick, and blue hands. got on r/watchexchange two years old.

I thought my Bloomberg article today was about transit in the US. But it turns out it was also about Spain.

I have a major piece in Bloomberg Citylab today. Should the US let transit fail, as Pennsylvania is already doing? And if not, what are the arguments we need to let it succeed? www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

The new ggplot2 4.0.0 now supports absolute plot dimensions 🤩 #rstats #dataviz #phd

the hat trick

"If AVs become the norm, the Teamsters won't exist anymore.” www.businessinsider.com/josh-hawley-...

Hybrid Adoption to Rise as Electric Vehicle Momentum Slows www.goldmansachs.com/insights/art...

thuja are back at Costco. always a tough choice. about a third will die after planting, but they’re only $35

chinese austerity fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/?g=1MfF0

You remember the dire predictions about congestion pricing inducing more traffic and higher emissions in the South Bronx. Well none of them have come to pass, according to data analyzed by Charlie Komanoff.

I agree with this. it’s like if they made it faster to check luggage then the average wait before the gate wouldn’t change.

“the reform also establishes a priority dispatch into the grid by CFE and mandates that it produces at least 54% of the electricity that is generated in Mexico.” www.reuters.com/business/ene...

kazakhstan catches another stray. this is crazy bc it makes the opposite point intended! Kazakhstanis are citizens of the republic including russians, greeks, koreans, tatars, kyrgyz, uzbeks, azeris, caucasians etc. he means Kazakhs. go on wikipedia one minute! www.dailysignal.com/2025/09/02/s...

i would travel to attend an exhibit of weird stuff on alibaba. reminds you how big the world is. out there, somewhere, are people making these bikes, or a suitcase that goes 18mph. electrek.co/2025/09/06/a...

austerity is sort of "the water we swim in" for reporting on china and clean energy. "surplus solar." every number is surplus relative to a smaller one. likewise "overcapacity." you don't hear about "underdemand" much. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/26/c...

bees work hard fr. they really rise and grind for that pollen! 🐝 🌼 @estupi.do #normal #posting

cool new timex 1983 automatic reissue for $250 timex.com/products/tim...

they should let Curtis Sliwa be mayor for one day every year, probably on Halloween. a zany day. the purrrge. nypost.com/2025/08/31/u...

off road

sunflowers

what is Benedict Wong’s accent in weapons?

off-street parking lots

interesting to read this article from 2013. how things change. "Consumers are not comfortable with electric vehicles." www.usatoday.com/story/money/...

"The ideal bus stop spacing on most routes is approximately every 1/8 to 1/4 mile. One-eighth-mile spacing is sought in order to maintain neighborhood connectivity to a route. Wider spacing of up to one-quarter mile can be used in areas with very low ridership..." --CTA service standards

bondholders for congestion relief www.amny.com/nyc-transit/...

"I say two things to Europe. Stop the windmills...On immigration, you better get your act together or you’re not going to have Europe any more." it's telling that trump ranks windmills up with migration, maybe his biggest issue.

“The first thing to be completed will be a 100-acre organic farm.” @estupi.do www.craincurrency.com/lifestyle-an...