Thinking about how the automotive industry forced us all to accept a fundamental amount of harms as everyday (injury, death, environmental damage…), and how this set the stage for the AI industry to try to do exactly the same thing.

This is exactly it. Uber and Lyft exploded the number of cars on our streets, by creating additional access and then demand for taxi service. No one gave up their car. Waymo is likely to do the same, just adding more vehicles and more demand for being chauffered around the city unnecessarily.

I’m reposting the broth video because sometimes I just need to see it

1. Your goal is to retrieve your treasure from a monstrous entity. 2. All you need is a pen and paper, but expensive software makes it much easier. 3. The rules are constantly being updated, but they’re still shackled to a system from the 1970s.

I love it when we refuse to settle for the way things are as the way they have to be. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/13/n...

It’s profoundly ignorant to suggest that the Pope should be fighting crime on behalf of the Catholic Church. Anyone who was remotely familiar with Roman Catholicism would know that that’s what Daredevil is for

"Moon joy" is real, but it has an important lesson for us too: Public service and public life is a gift and something to treasure—the uncommon chance to do something for a cause bigger than yourself. www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/the-pure-j...

This!! Why would some fake plastic fantasy version of your restaurant make me want to go there more? It makes me want to go there less.

“Why aren’t college students protesting” stories are almost always wrong (they are protesting), omit crucial context (they were brutally punished for protesting before), and somehow suggest that 19 yr olds have more moral responsibility than elected officials three times their age

The use of “hallucinate” is a stroke of true evil genius in the AI world. In ANY other context we’d just call them errors & the fail rate would be crystal clear. Instead, “hallucinate” implies genuine sentience & the *absence* of real error. Aw, this software isn’t shit! Boo’s just dreaming!

10k steps is a very average workday for me! Walk to subway, go out to grab lunch, meet a friend for dinner, take the subway home. That's 10k steps without even thinking about it.

Community-oriented government services led by community-oriented people! I love that 311 is staffed by real New Yorkers who have real knowledge of our city.

Doomsday Averted

Gen X collectively reliving Challenger, Columbia and Cold War nuclear holocaust anxiety all in the same week is a fucking lot, y'all.

Simultaneously pleased I’m on a corporate account so I’m not paying for it, but annoyed that I won’t be able to downgrade on principle

How many thousands of people are gonna get charged $70 a month because they didn't read to the third paragraph of this fucking email

A terrific essay on this matter

The Print Shop was my first graphic design software, on the Apple IIgs

Social movement scholar here again. So, why protest? Nihilists were out yesterday arguing that "protests don't do anything." A short 🧵:

Yes, it is deeply frustrating that our politicians have continued on their destructive course with no substantive opposition from a democratic system that is meant to keep them in check, and the visible protest and rage from millions of citizens doesn’t seem to push them at all. But even so—

patiently explaining to national political reporters that the people who organize No Kings are also doing the daily advocacy, voter registration, mutual aid, and immigrant defense, and that just because the cameras show up for the big crowd does not mean that work did not exist before and after

"Hobbyless behavior" really does nail a certain type of person!

Plenty of people call 311 with reasonable requests and questions. There are also people who call with slightly more... memorable inquiries. Here are some of our favorites from the NYC 311 20th Anniversary Report 👇

ME: oh a little Zohran video for St Patrick's Day, probably just celebrating Irish culture, maybe a few green beer jokes ZOHRAN (2 minutes in): ...and that's why King Leopold I of Belgium is a big wet bitch. Furthermore...

okay, a happy holidays video, we see those all the time *ten seconds in* "a british warlord named coroticus" you have my attention sir

I ADORED Firefly when it first aired. There is a lot about it that still resonates with me. But this is right on.

THIS LINE, though: “The western often plays into American fantasies about the rugged individual conquering a harsh landscape through sheer cussedness, which is a narrative that is actively killing us all right now.” Yes. Yes. Yes.

I am starting to develop a physical cringe reflex to the way some people say "AI." There's this noticeable open-throated California-rooted upturn with a trailing clarion question mark. "What if we could do X with... AI?..?!"

Yes, hello, is that God? Yeah, hi. I have a complaint. You gave me this brain that’s designed for finding berries and avoiding lions and now people are ‘just circling back’ to see if we can ‘move the needle’ on ‘key initiatives’? NONE of those things are berries.

Whoooof

Made it to Friday but at what cost

One was a cab driver and then NYPD. The other was a neighborhood pharmacist. They couldn’t have been more opposite!

Oh hell yes 🔥

new mcmansion hell to cleanse the horrors: mcmansionhell.com/post/8099372...

I am capable of object permanence and am able to be enraged about, it turns out, hundreds of things simultaneously.

Suddenly thinking about Rome at least once a day..........

Can we just not

Post a pic you took, no context, to bring some zen to the feed.

I ❤️ Brooklyn

The broken social compact escalates so quickly! There are too many people who see one guy getting away with something so they figure it's OK for them to get away with it too. Why bother being decent if your neighbor isn't bothering? (........BECAUSE IT'S BASIC DECENCY, DIPSHITS, THAT'S WHY)

i read that stupid blog about the left "missing out" on AI and got big mad aftermath.site/anthropic-cl...

This episode on "crusadercore" and the fetishization of medievalish stuff going on in current pop and political culture is terrific and fun and chilling all at once.

Random discovery is so important everywhere in life! A song in a genre you never normally listen to, a book on a display at the library, an old movie on the TV in your neighborhood bar, someone on the train wearing cool boots you suddenly kinda covet...life becomes so flat without these encounters!

“Is there a technology the left is excited about?” High-speed rail! MRNA vaccines! New cancer treatments! Solar and wind energy collection! Better and longer-range EVs! That wood that's harder than steel! New apples! Fibermaxxing! Buldak Swicy ramen! Muppets! Muppets are too a technology, shut up!

Gung hay fat choy! May the Fire Horse trample all of the injustices and abuses that slithered in with the snake year.

"My husband complains about the cold," the man said. "Can you teach me a spell to keep him warm?" "I can teach you to bind hair into a net to catch heat," the wizard said, "using arcane counting and a pair of fine wands." After a while, the man said "Isn't this knitting?" "This, too, is magic."

Democratizing the arts looks like universal income, low-barrier grants for both emerging and working artists, well-funded municipal arts & recreation programs, vibrant third spaces, and a well-funded public school system with progressive curriculum. Not a free pass for corporate-owned slop engines.

We don’t have a GREAT track record with this tbh but I was delighted to see it happen here

It was transforming the biggest NFL stage in the world into a sugar cane plantation that did it for me. Like, the multiple layers of turning an American icon into a plantation and highlighting the history of exploitation of Black and Brown bodies by the NFL and American colonialism simultaneously?