A quick word on Taco Bell: That's where we found the suspected lettuce, and it's not bc Taco Bell is gross. It's bc Taco Bell is REALLY GOOD at tracing product! Keeping track of exactly where they got their ingredients, & exactly what restaurants each shipment of ingredients went to!

Yo quiero contact tracing

The 1.5GB Android update. I do not want any of those features.

Situational Awareness 7/16 — STILL HOT 🌡️ 🚫 No matches 🚫 Which is kind of a good thing because it was downright blistering on the pavement at the fan zone in Pomona yesterday. Luckily, they had everyone watching the matches indoors in these very fun beer hall-esque viewing areas

Brits are like “Look who’s boiling vegetables now.”

Trees! 🌲🌳🌴🎋🪾 I'll be downtown next week hanging out with some tree people, join me.

really the heuristics are straightforward: if an automated classifier system is purporting to do a task where -- trained humans can't reliably do it -- the classes are hugely imbalanced in the real world (e.g. one outcome is very rare) -- collecting a massive dataset is impractical it's ~bullshit

So, let's talk about Lindsey Graham's now open senate seat. South Carolina has elected only 2 men to this U.S. Senate seat since 1954. Over 70 years. Let that sink in for a minute. Before... Disneyland (1955) The Interstate Highway System (1956) The Beatles (1960) Barbie (1959) ZIP codes (1963)

Wondering what else you need to know after Instagram pulled their deepfake feature? Here's 24 headlines small business owners should pay attention to this week

This thing where Mitch McConnell is either dead or unconscious, and has been for a month, has left an information void that will only be filled with conspiracy theories, some of which may well be true. This is not something that happens in a healthy democracy.

More signs like this. @parkingreform.org

In 2023, Providence secured a $27.2M federal grant to expand its bike lane network. Rather than immediately moving forward, the Smiley administration paused implementation of new bike lane and street safety projects for a citywide review. So frustrating. 🙃 pbn.com/27m-grant-co...

How many human lives is a parking space worth?

Safer streets shouldn't be delayed, watered down, or treated as a political inconvenience. Every day we wait is another day people risk their lives just trying to get around. www.bostonglobe.com/2026/07/10/m...

DID YOU KNOW IF YOU FIND A HORSESHOE CRAB THATS BEEN TAGGED BY THE FISH AND WILDLIFE SERVICE AND SUBMIT THE LOCATION YOU SAW IT USING THE FORM ON FWS DOT GOV SLASH CRABTAG THEY SEND YOU A BEAUTIFUL CRAB PIN

The Venice fan zone organizers handed out these fake city flyers using the official FIFA typeface. A few vendors I talked to yesterday were given these flyers and did end up moving out of the way of the main gates, but most didn't move. Here's CM Traci Park celebrating how much of the area is fenced

I also host free meetups for indie publishers on monetization. Next one is August 25

This is Hansen Dam pool, the largest municipal pool in the U.S. Imagine not being able to use this pool on a long holiday weekend due to a deal made with FIFA to turn it into a fan zone. Now imagine having to pay $28 to attend the fan zone. That’s just to get in the door — and not use the pool

They're doing fare checks on the D line right now checking TAP cards -- I'm the only person in my card that pulled out a credit card. They asked if I used it to pay, I said yes, and they moved on. Seems like staff don't yet have a device in the field to validate open-loop fare payment.

Sorry my mistake. They believe stories filed by men on Politico.

Where is the small business media coverage as the US rolls back 30 year old legislation on support for minority-owned/women-owned businesses? What happened in North Carolina yesterday is also being proposed at the federal level

People who rave about Chinese infrastructure never talk about the bike lanes. Glorious, shady, tree-lined bike lanes that'll take you anywhere* and you could ride a dozen abreast in. Being part of a murmuration of Beijing cyclists beats a phajazzled skyscraper any day.

DAWG WE'RE DOING STATE-RUN GAS PRICES AT PRICE CONTROLLED RATES DESPITE INCREASING SHORTAGES TO PACIFY THE PEOPLE AND THEY'RE SCREAMING ABOUT HOW THEIR OPPONENTS WANT COMMUNISM I AM GOING TO LOSE MY ENTIRE GODDAMN MIND

Depressing last headline of the day for you: North Carolina eliminated its 25 year old Office for Historically Underutilized Businesses with the signing of their state budget bill. It truly sucks living through the era of Historically Overutilized Businesses.

It was 98F in Santa Clarita today vs 72F in El Segundo (LAT HQ). SC is car-dependent sprawl but ES has 3 rail stations and frequent buses, the 4th largest job center in LA County. Due to housing allergy, the daytime population of El Segundo is 10x the nighttime one. @cayimby.bsky.social

Over here having a delightful Tuesday evening thanks to this long read www.wheresyoured.at/the-era-of-t...

What kind of sociopath has EVER looked at a PDF document and said to themselves, "This could be a podcast?"

I'll summarize this: Mamdani asked NYers to keep air conditioning at 78 degrees. A wave criticism hit online. A MSNBC broadcast pointed out the US Department of Energy recommends that 78 degree figure. Immediately after, the US Department of Energy deleted 6,000 web pages related to energy saving.

Your Prime Day reminder that half of Amazon warehouse workers struggle with food & housing costs. A third have had to rely on government assistance like SNAP — which was gutted last year. If Bezos can spend $500M on a yacht, Amazon can afford to treat its workers with dignity.

Moving the SNES to the parents bedroom was real circling the wagons hours. Had to be 90+ in PA to get away with it

25-26C is a good balance between indoor comfort and outdoor heat dumping in a dense urban environment

That was gross. Just checked in to my American Airlines flight tomorrow on my phone and in the check flow there were three up sale flows. This first was real nasty they made it seem like I was doing something wrong by not upgrading even showing a popup cancellation confirmation when I didn't select

Who wants to host one of these in LA with me?

E-bike and e-cargo bike curious? The 40th Ward's annual bike-a-palooza is this Saturday, June 28th from 5-8p. You can test ride many types of cargo and e-bikes, get a safety check-up, and chat with advocates about achieving safe infrastructure. 📍 Welles Park (2333 W Sunnyside) ⏰ June 28th from 5-8p

what are some websites that do fun, dynamic things with favicons and social cards?

Always interesting to see bar owners raising concern about transit improvements bc they’re worried less people will be able to drive to grab a drink. www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/m...

sometimes i am struck by the sheer wickedness of this man

Across NY & MD, I'm counting 12 Democratic incumbents who lost (or, in one case, are trailing) to a challenger to their left. —2 congressmembers (both NY) —4 state senators (2 in NY, 2 in MD) —6 state house members (5 in NY, 1 in MD) A thread to break this down.

Situational awareness, 6/24: another big day in LA — and kind of a repeat of last Thursday? *There are now 6 games happening per day* South Korea vs. South Africa at 6 p.m. AT THE SAME TIME Mexico vs. Czechia at 6 p.m. How are LA officials preparing for crowded venues? How about opening streets?

They’re going to try to cheat. We’re going to win anyway. But only if we do our jobs. We can’t afford for anyone to take this election off - this needs to be the biggest midterm defeat in history.

Your regular reminder that cities aren’t loud. Cars are loud.

I was in Toronto over the weekend. Great city. I was thrilled to see FedEx delivering by bicycle. Can we have this in Chicago please!?

Walking on a trail with our dog with the soundscape of the American sized vehicles drowning out the forest 💔

Some really crazy cases in here - cop looked up ex-girlfriend and family in Flock 100+ times - cop stalked wife giving "test" as reason - cop searched one plate 395 times in 10 months; was later fired Cops keep getting arrested for using Flock to stalk people www.404media.co/cops-keep-ge...

Strike averted! A tentative agreement has been reached with SoFi workers. "Notably, it includes an explicit right to strike if ICE or Border Patrol activity at the worksite threatens worker safety — a provision legal experts say is unprecedented in modern American labor history"

OPD is spending good money on alerts to ignore

You thought #largeasphaltrepair was bad? Now L.A. city has inexplicably shifted to repaving streets already in good condition in rich neighborhoods... because where there are no sidewalks, there's no requirement for wheelchair ramps. #youcantmakethisshitup

seems bad

The BART dragon dance started as a whimsical idea for a wall scroll painting a few years ago, and is now a real life prop that I bring to Bay Area transit-related rallies and celebrations. 🚃🚃🚃

Resonate was a stream-to-own music platform and multi-stakeholder co-operative which divided its governance between: - artists 45% - listeners 35% - workers 20% Is this the ideal distribution for platform coop governance, why or why not?