What will disappear first, Chrysler or the phrase “Merry Chrysler?”

“Every bike in a bike lane is a car you don’t have to wait behind”

Imagine how effective this would have been if they’d actually charged the full toll.

One thing that is under-evaluated in the “rise of the luxury Chinese car” is the fact that people who are rich are expected to pledge fealty to the government and demonstrate national pride. Domestic cars are a huge part of that.

Maybe we can finally discard the spurious argument that congestion pricing was racist because it would pollute the Bronx.

People often think I’m being elitist when I draw a distinction between myself and people who use bikes as transportation. The opposite is in fact the case.

Bloomberg very carefully branded himself as “the mayor who took the subway” and it won him three elections. Somehow people forgot that? It’s a city of transit wonks.

Cute.

Brooklyn sounds happy.

All door boarding in NYC would cost $0 to implement. The hardware is already installed in every bus, the contracts to operate it are signed. It is simply turned off because of the moral panic about farebeating.

There is a parallel reality out there, where politicians are more daring and US road engineering norms less rigid and car-centric, where a treatment of Manhattan's grid like this wouldn't be not only thinkable but maybe actively explored for its feasibility.

@mmasnick.bsky.social is famous — this is the launch screen from OpenVibe

Road use taxes based on vehicle weight, parking fees based on vehicle footprint. Larger vehicles have *costs* that drivers are currently allowed to freely externalize.

The fundamental attribution error that everyone seems to make in America is that we discount soft power.

This isn’t even a controversial take. Using watch time as their North Star metric was a mistake.

It’s really cool when I see globally famous DJs play the same tiny local venues my friends have played. It helps if you live in New York and your tiny local venue is The Lot Radio, but still…

This aged poorly

Mercedes product managers: we know our big coupes are historically known for their pillarless construction, so how can we add even *more* pillars to the next one?

Spoken like someone who has read a lot of Tom Clancy. A lot of the right-wing technothrillers from the ‘80s and early ‘90s read totally differently today.

I did the domain-identity thing. We continue to build features that require normal humans to understand DNS, thus bringing us further from god’s light.

This makes me mad that I laughed. (only a small number of people will get this joke)

Canoo is Schrödinger’s EV startup. Perpetually both alive and dead until you see one in the wild

we have been calling the ethics disclosure 'the hardest launch'

A day in which @caseynewton.bsky.social outdoes everyone with his hard launch.

“Cooking with fresh groceries is cheap” uhhh do you have any idea how much it costs to get four ubers to bring me four tomatoes? And that’s only one ingredient

Woke up this morning with this guy on my mind and thought "I simply must cross stitch him" and so, hours later, here he is.

"I will take fewer discretionary car trips into the congestion zone" yes good

Leaving the congestion zone at 12:01am. As you do.

As usual, @nickheer.com has the sanest take on the internet. pxlnv.com/linklog/appl...

A good thread.

Ok but hasn’t Meta’s durable and lasting advantage come from the network effects of your real friends existing on the platform? This feels a lot like filling your moat in with concrete just because there aren’t any enemies at the gates right now.

For security, we are requiring that you add a second factor. For security, that second factor must include a phone number we can text. For security, that phone number cannot be a virtual provider, such as Google Voice. I wonder if the ‘security professionals’ actually are this stupid.

Birthday treat: potato bureka and car spotting with @bluebookvalue.bsky.social

Not me noticing that the DOT’s own contractors are illegally concealing their license plates.

I wish more AI tools were like the RAW denoise in Lightroom - a wild technological improvement that breathed new life into my old cameras, made me love taking photos all over again, and which feels like all the training is in service of making new art, not merely stealing the old

The Escalade IQ or a Lucid Gravity for ⅔ the price. Really not a difficult choice.

A bunch of the internet is going to have a ton of trouble with tomorrow’s NYTXW 50 down

Dad is on BlueSky. It has broken through. 👀

So excited. No notes. www.theautopian.com/a-kendrick-l...

Lego™ Formula 1™ Ferrari™ Pitstop set, so you can forget a whole wheel/tire just like the pros!

Undersold benefit of NACS is it means you can fit an entire DCFC port in what used to be a fuel filler neck.

It’s giving Volvo 850 Wagon

10 years ago: London is not Amsterdam 5 years ago: Paris is not Amsterdam Today: New York is not Amsterdam

I think it’s cheating to increase your social media time by just adding more social networks.

Previa alert @bluebookvalue.bsky.social

You know what? @mergesort.me was right, this is the good place.

Why is Flavor Flav continuously a wholesome dude on the internet????

Posting this because I was fondly remembering this weekend in California nine years ago.