I'd love it if someone did a deep dive into the "silent plurality" (36%) of young teens that do not use chatbots at all. Who are they? Why don't they use chatbots? How are their parasocial relationships? What are their academic and professional aspirations?

Wow -- Russia reportedly plotted last year to plant bombs on US-bound flights (gift link) giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

Modern air travel is really a long story about advancements in material science that make it affordable - higher fuel efficiency through increased combustion gas temperatures (right up the limit of physics) and higher reliability through materials that don't deform at these temperatures.

The annoying thing is that the distinction between the internet and the web broke down very fast, because the most commonly used webpages were very soon just interfaces for you to do things on someone else's internet-connected computer service. The html is most oft just wrapping paper, not content.

note also it's only within the last ~20-30 years, shorter than the lifecycle of a lot of home heating equipment, that the northeast became particularly more 'liberal' than the midwest

People get really mad at you when you tell them homes in Boston emit way more carbon than homes in Phoenix do

Heating fuels in the USA. Bizarrely, liberal states in the NE USA prefer the most polluting choice, fuel oil, which also emits the most carbon dioxide.

At base, the issue with Humphrey's Executor is the same issue as with impoundment: Is the federal government required to follow federal law, as described in the Federalist Papers and in Article 2's take care clause? Or is the entire federal lawmaking process merely advisory?

Our constitutional text and our consensus national traditions say one thing (federal law binds the federal government), but in the last 40 years, a group of elites came up with a strange, convoluted theory that amounts to basically "What if the words in the Constitution meant the opposite?"

> getting rid of jury trials [Labour] > deporting anyone found guilty of a crime [Conservative] > getting rid of ILR [Reform UK] does uh. no one see the gestalt policy that is being formed here?

IMO this also gets at another fundamental MAGA divide which is that most of them like Noem primarily want to pump out deportation content, which is going very well, while Miller genuinely wants to permanent reshape the demographics of American society, which is not

a lot of this shit might make more sense if trump were going to live another decade or two in power, but he isn't going to. these people are all behaving as if trump at 79 years old is putin when he was 48 years old, and that there'll never be any negative consequences.

And you can have eyes on half the length of the train. And more eyes means better behavior! This is, unironically, why the cops doing roving subway patrols like them. They can check and clear a train in two stops and move on.

CONGRATULATIONS PETE 🎉🎉🎉

Not to mention that growing capacity by 10% is a great way to grow fare revenues; ditto improving the reliability of the system (no one falling off between train cars, no more subway surfing) and quality of life the system (no more smoking, urinating between cars)! Take the win!

The A division is the most capacity constrained in the system and writing off a 10% boost in space for straphangers on the 1/2/3 and 4/5/6 for 30-40 years (nevermind making it harder to subway surf, nevermind making it easier to cops to patrol trains) is a *huge* and *avertable* mistake.

I have not been a fan of the Dem antitrust agenda but I do think anti-corruption is a bigger tent message and would also appeal to the same kinds of people who support the antitrust agenda.

Something every 2026/28 Dem should commit to is investigations of any company that did deals with Trump. A kind of forward guidance to get companies to think twice in advance of what’s coming.

In Europe the trains have playgrounds - maybe try that?

It is newsworthy that the president of the United States is increasingly verbally abusive of women reporters and he should be asked about it.

By not enforcing traffic laws, we've done the opposite. People see no consequence in speeding/running lights/blowing crosswalks if there is no expectation of being held accountable.

I’ll re-up the offer: I’ll pay for a weekend for 2 anywhere in the world to the 1st media member who publicly defends their colleague with a variation of “fuck u sir, shame on u, she asked a legit question, you’re out of line, apologize to her” the next time Trump personally insults their colleague.

We're just a couple of steps from the conservative members of the Supreme Court citing in their rulings things they heard AI founding fathers say on podcasts.

DUFFY: You should wear a tuxedo to your flight. ALSO DUFFY: But the airport will be a gym.

The law allows property owners to help solve our housing crisis by converting nonfunctional parking into homes for people. www.nbclosangeles.com/news/local/k...

Difficult to reconcile the end of the republic with the strong performance of the American economy and the country’s attractiveness to people around the world over the last 25-50 years.

ok talarico must win

30% of Americans are living along and 30% live with a spouse and no children, but 13% of our housing stock is studios and 1brs

This does bring up a good question. This type of journalism is easy to do, but does it only serve to give the impression of a bigger freak out than actually exists? Yes, people don't like change, you will always find strong voices. Do they actually indicate anything bigger, however?

This morning, the MTA swapped the F/M trains at 8 stations in Manhattan & Queens. This is an example of "deinterlining," a technique which improves the frequency & reliability of subway service. Read ETA on why deinterlining is so valuable & where else it can be used: www.etany.org/statements/d...

If there's a block that's very well shoveled, it's much more likely that one dude raced out, fired up his snow blower and did the whole thing than 40 property owners collectively did a good job without exception.

One thing that's made obvious by sidewalk shoveling is how many things happen due to super contributors.

Updated TTC Subway reduced speed zone map.

LMAOOO, it's just a new merch line

I’m sorry, the idea that Netflix owning a studio is somehow more anti-competitive than Paramount owning a second studio plus a second tranche of cable networks — including ~half of the national television news output — is laughable.

it's a mistake to compare the cost of your newsletter or podcast to a cup of coffee. that cup of coffee is the best treat i'm allowed to have every single day. no podcast is comparable to the beverage that justifies staying alive. instead market your newsletter as two thirds of a sweetgreen salad

A lot of it needs to be understood in terms of deterrence. Trump stared into the leaders of Europe and saw in them people who are too afraid of confrontation, so why wouldn't he openly call for the dissolution of the EU? They refuse to ban anti-constitutional parties or levy serious fines on Musk.

I think the bipartisan housing bill might actually change the manufactured housing building code (removal of the chassis requirement), so he might end up altering it!

After the Donald J Trump administration I have a new found appreciation for states rights

Your refusal to engage the evidence is not proof of its non-existence.

It's not only that your advocacy drives up the cost of housing for market-rate renters/owners (the vast majority of people), it also drives down the supply of market-rate AND subsidized homes. I think I'm clear in hearing you that you're OK with this as long as a handful of homes are subsidized.

You said you don't like incentives for market rate housing, which is not only where 90% of Americans live, but is close to 100% of all future homes that will ever be built. And I've encountered plenty of "affordable housing" advocates who talk a good game -- until it's time to actually build.

The median voter in the United States has either Medicare, so “universal healthcare” just means “pay more in taxes” or employer healthcare that is good enough they’re leery of major changes This is not a big mystery!

Sometimes you come across a stat that stops you in your tracks. Today I learned that TransLink's 555 has the 8th highest rate of boardings per hour, which is mindblowing. Why? Highway express routes like this aren't supposed to do well on that metric. They usually don't have a lot of ons and offs

Tinkering with how to apply a Swiss/Dutch bi-hourly pulse pattern to intercity coaches + the Hiawatha in Wisconsin…

vendors, but there's basically only one serious one, and they take us for granted and treat us like garbage as a result. They ignore our feedback, and their product roadmap sucks - when we don't want to buy their crap, they go over our heads.

I forget where, I read a thread the other day about OMNY being canceled for commuter rail and recall comments about how Cubic basically has a monopoly. It seems weird, but I work for a large company, and in a very, very prominent B2B SAS space we use - there technically are other

Being a little more serious about this: I don't have proof that the ACA set out to abolish nightlife, but the institutions they created and cultural paradigm they pushed really eradicated a lot of pre-WWI street life and to this day makes cultural entrepreneurship difficult.