Idle thought: When a government decides to start making Waymo pay for the road wear this causes through higher taxes, how much does their ridership model collapse and how unaffordable (and unprofitable) do they become?

This is one of those things that just makes you want to stare at a wall

Perhaps if industry has particular research needs, they should prioritize and fund research aimed at meeting those needs, rather than expecting academics to do that for them while industry has no skin in the game but is poised to take advantage of positive developments.

"have Japanese crews operate dual-capable aircraft" ... publications have really gotta stop letting people who have never spoken to someone from a country write about it

New Mastodon: www.youtube.com/watch?v=pQ65...

A new Finnish study by authorities and research institutions on the benefits of bicycle mobility: It reduces societal externalities up to 73 %, especially when it replaces driving short distances. 53 % of 1-3 km trips are by car in FIN, 65 % of 3-5 km trips as well. traficom.fi/files/media/...

One of the good ones in our field bsky.app/profile/raul...

La Sociedad Mexicana de Sociología lamenta profundamente el fallecimiento del Dr. Raúl Pacheco-Vega, profesor del CIDE y FLACSO. Nuestras más sinceras condolencias a sus familiares, amigos y colegas cercanos. Descanse en paz

This is also a testament to how much air pollution in the region has been curbed, even over my lifetime -- scrubbers were installed on coal plants (to address acid rain), and then Ontario phased out coal-powered electricity plants entirely between 2003 and 2014. A better world is possible.

This piece by Jack Watling is as good as many of my colleagues are saying it is. And a signal that policymakers in the EU need to start considering how Putin's potential strategic failure could affect Russia's long term trajectory www.foreignaffairs.com/ukraine/ukra...

the disc horse bot has finally achieved the apotheosis of blueskyism

Oh, damn. I never got to meet him, but his work (and his resources for how to do research, aimed at students) has been incredibly helpful as I've figured my career out.

this is the most laughable thing I've ever seen put in print, and it's not even remotely funny

At what point do we simply acknowledge that the United States refuses to regulate itself?

<thousand yard stare, eye twitching> A Conservative politician in Canada has never projected harder than this man.

Good news! You live in a movie. Bad news: CHILDREN OF MEN

Sometimes I think “hey, Canada can fix its over reliance on U.S. science & research if it really wanted to.” And then my colleague reminds me of stuff like: the NIH budget is 46x bigger than the CIHR budget, and more than 1 in 4 Canadian science pubs are collabs with US researchers.

launching a new edition of Haldeman's THE FOREVER WAR where every five pages it includes an Axios report that a peace deal is imminent

Japanese crude oil inventory chart is one of the wildest through the Hormuz crisis thus far.

www.economist.com/business/202... I’ve gone on about how Japan fumbled its semiconductor industry but it’s about to fumble its car industry as well. Toyota’s big bet on Hydrogen has been an absolute disaster, and Japanese carmakers now are heavily behind Chinese manufacturers.

One day, I would very much like someone who knows the subject to dig into just how much anti-Trudeau sentiment was being driven by propaganda and influence. I think he made a lot of mistakes. Those lows are still deeply irrational. (The reversal is extremely funny, though)

Devan using social media for what it's for: correcting misinformation in niche interests. (this is a genuine post)

The shinkansen, the "train of the future", first carried passengers in 1964.

The trope that this or that Asian city is “futuristic” is annoying and Orientalist; they aren’t futuristic they are presentistic

Seriously, as someone with lots of cancer in their family, we live in a time of miracles, if we let them happen. 💉💉💪

While we seem stuck innovating better ways to burn through tokens, actually exciting shit is happening in China. insideevs.com/news/797182/...

The romanticism of failed movements is a serious problem for addressing real social harms emerging from societal changes, especially in an age of populism, mass manipulation, and the lowest-cost, highest-volume propaganda ever produced.

... I just had a vision of the dumbest repeat of the Berlin Airlift in history, given population dynamics in the province.

always funny when the most 37 year old man alive's clips get posted to the everyone's-37-years-old social media site and all the 37 year olds rush to agree with him (as i, a 37 year old, do)

If this isn't prevented by Americans, global science is going to have to completely reorient. And everyone, not just you, will be poorer for it.

Florida was the model for this, as my recent @fpajrnl.bsky.social article discusses academic.oup.com/fpa/article/... Educational links is NOT just soft power and it CAN be weaponized!

simultaneous global relaunch of fully-featured, fully-modernised Battletech Center arcade centers in every city of >1 million people on earth complete with refilming and updating the Jim Belushi FMV intro videos

A hegemon is a single point of failure

Wab Kinew on fact-checking Danielle Smith: "Somebody's got to stick up for Canada. And I love this country so much ... if there is going to be a referendum, I don't want fake news to be framing it up."

In Canada: Wendy's chicken strips. In Japan: Nakau oyakadon.

<whispers> Joyce Messier is Pierre Elliott Trudeau with a yacht.

Put yourself in shoes of someone in a oil & gas importing country Its triage: which hospitals get fuel, which industries shut, which crops get fertilizers? Those who don't have deep pockets in a bidding war pay in increased hunger, lost wages and shrinking economies. tinyurl.com/PolycrisisWesleyan

if you need a new computer, the best time to buy it is two years ago. the second best time is, uh, never

(given values of "funnier")

dredging this one back up both to flatter Howie and to call out how absolutely incredible this render technique he developed is

Wab Kinew has entered the chat. With truth on his side. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Lots of terrible things happen in every war but I’m not going to soon forget the dozens of little girls killed in the opening salvoes of this war. The recourse to war—even “just” airstrikes—should be regretted by leaders and citizens because every war kills innocents.

The Hormuz crisis highlights a concerning contradiction for Japan, writes Helen Cecile Nowatka. "Many of the supply chains underpinning Japan’s decarbonization strategy remain tied to the same vulnerable energy networks and maritime chokepoints the transition is meant to reduce dependence on."

Average European planning a vacation in Canada:

One of the most persistent rumours across time and place is back in a big way. Everyone “knows” it is happening, nothing firsthand www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

guys I've met the cat who knows about human suffering

Four-ish cultural artworks to answer Why You Are Like This: William Gibson's The Peripheral. Porcupine Tree's In Absentia. Command & Conquer: Tiberian Dawn (yes, seriously). And while less specific it's probably worth saying I was exposed to Battletech and Warhammer 40K at age 5 lmao.

technically this thread is about horror but a funny anecdote: on my fifth birthday my father sat me down and said "You're old enough to watch Bond now." And then he put on Octopussy. For a five year old.

I have pointed this out many times but Bluesky is not a forum, it's Tumblr with shorter posts and fewer gifs.