I missed the point of Field of Dreams 😂😂😭😭

We must used these moments of clarity to help educate the people around us. There's a reason only the U.S. and the Philippines have for-profit commercial money bail industries. It kills people, separates families, and is one of the worst public safety policies imaginable.

They think their machinery would crumble if they even had to consider everyone as a human being and make individualized decisions about whether people needed to be in jail or not. I explained how it works here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=EO5J...

But in the news, prosecutors, police, and politicians talk about this system as if it were about safety. Everyone who works in the assembly line knows that this myth is a cruel joke. It's about bureaucracy.

It's not specific to this piece of infrastructure, but I am struck by how many pedestrian/bicyclist conflicts arise because those of us not in cars are fighting over the tiny scraps of space that our leaders have not handed over to drivers.

“I love the bicycle for the oblivion it gives. No matter how much I walk, I think. On my bicycle, I go in the wind, I no longer think, and nothing is as deliciously restful." -Émile Zola

“Car bloat”—increasingly oversized automobiles—worsens road safety, affordability and the environment. Here are some of the stories I wrote in 2025 examining the trend and proposing solutions. 🧵 In @vox.com, I likened car bloat to secondhand smoke (which helped bring down the US tobacco industry).

Barack Obama was no left wing firebrand but particularly because of his opposition to the war he got more progressive support than HRC the establishment candidate. In the general election this was a plus not a minus and he won. We’ve spent the next 18 years pretending this didn’t happen.

“Why do you think it is possible to improve cognition by doing less of it?” — the perfect question for this age.

I didn't know about the bicycle designer behind so many of Tern's amazing inventions. www.velowerk.ch and translate for a good read!

Amazingly, reaction times using screens while driving are worse than being drunk or high—no wonder 90 percent of drivers hate using touchscreens in cars. Finally the auto industry is coming to its senses.

@peopleforbikes.bsky.social bike commuters taking matters into their own hands

A little late to plow the virgin snow, but I'm plowing now. Will have to wait to get @pfhlick.bsky.social out so we can get more good video content.

parking is a nuisance use because it inherently attracts car traffic, which everyone hates

Why bomb Sokoto? Trump’s strikes baffle Nigerians ft.trib.al/2KW7bDZ

Robotaxis make urban transportation more fragile. If you want resilience, invest in transit.

This is genuinely horrifying. Fact-free far-right agitprop given accolades by credible media across the political spectrum.

the fact that there is free parking at all in manhattan is wild to me

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Americans have been cursed with center mount kickstands that crush chainstays and block your cranks when you try to roll you bike backwards. Ebikes, which almost uniformly come with a rear, direct mount kickstand, are finally changing this. Rear mount kickstands ftw

Very much enjoying @ifbookspod.bsky.social's deep dive on Elon Musk. @michaelhobbes.bsky.social: "There is no other physical object that screams 'I am an asshole' like a Cybertruck."

To me this was the most haunting story about a work commute. I can't believe people block housing here in Boston and we've created such a punishing existence for folks like this who clean up after us www.bostonglobe.com/2022/07/11/b...

As someone who used to have a long car commute, I can just feel the crushing weight of that in so many of these comments. It takes a toll. And yet we still have not built the requisite housing or transit connections to reduce this commuting burden.

Turning the corner 🌅

12 cup v-60. I make coffee

Do I think that there are members of Gen Z espousing those views? Sure. But I think the goal of that piece is to further mainstream those views, and make people think that you have to move to the center in order to not alienate younger voters.

It’s not just Tesla. Self-driving car companies are also turning up the aggression dial. In San Francisco, Waymos have recently been documented blocking cycle lanes and nudging into crosswalks where children are walking.

calling for the ban all travel from Europe because of a single murderous Voyager who crossed the Atlantic from Portugal is poetry

Reading "Stop Treating ‘AGI’ as the North-star Goal of AI Research" by Blili-Hamelin et al and particularly struck by this passage: icml.cc/virtual/2025... Short 🧵>>

Bostonians Wanted More Bike Lanes: Now They Have Them, and Traffic Is Down www.goodnewsnetwork.org/bostonians-w...

China may have hit their peak oil overall this year! But it's more likely that they will hit it by 2027. But their shift is already dropping demand for crude oil globally. Which amplifies the current over-supply "problem." Which drops the price of crude oil even further.

Luca can afford any ebikes in the planet, and he chose this trash. For shame

To be fair, that's exactly how the mafia would run a broadcast tv network - use it as a toxic mouthpiece, while extracting as much money as possible from it, for as long as possible until it collapses

Brown University released a statement about a Palestinian student that's being smeared online as the shooting suspect. Not going to share his post because it includes the student's personal info but one of those spreading this harmful rumor was the spokesperson for Turning Point USA, Andrew Kolvet.

lately I have been thinking about the Paramount bid for Warner Bros. mostly I have been thinking about how it doesn't make any goddamn sense www.theverge.com/entertainmen...

Let me save y'all reading long articles on long-termism: Imagine the most annoying philosophy majors at your college debating right in front of your dorm room: "If you could bring about artificial general intelligence 5 years sooner, would you be willing to trade 2 billion African lives for that?"🤡

The Chinese Government has stepped in to drive up standards on e-bikes. A new China Compulsory Certificate overrides prior standards and these will be applicable to batteries & chargers separately. Plus, there's action to prevent tampering of e-bike speeds. www.cyclingelectric.com/news/chinese...

Law Enforcement is releasing the "person of interest" in the Brown University shooting. He’s not the guy. The search is ongoing, and this isn’t over. This is why I never reported on the person's name. Getting stuff like this wrong can ruin lives.

This is fucking grim. Somebody invented a white guy, an "IT professional" named Edward Crabtree, who stopped the Bondi shooting and spread it all over the internet, which was picked up by AI agents and slop aggregation sites. The real hero is a fruit stand owner named Ahmed el Ahmed.

couldn't agree more. there's nowhere in Seattle RRFBs are good replacement for a 4-way stop. I especially dislike them where greenway routes cross arterials. Drivers do not yield unless you aggressively step or roll into the road even with lights activated. and sometimes, they don't even stop.

Mass deportation is a stupid and inhumane policy in its own right but I still think it's important to say, this isn't mass deportation. This is the creation of a national police force that can be sent to anywhere Donald Trump orders under the pretence it is about immigration enforcement

I am off work for the next two weeks and feeling anxious today that I should be covering this story instead of going on holiday

As a Purdue alum, this is a shameful move. What I valued about my Purdue CS education was the intentionality given to thinking about process, how to treat programming as a set of idioms to be thoroughly understood and implemented, no matter the programming language. >>

On The Media has a handbook for just this situation. www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm...

An Astoria mom demands that the city appeal Judge Cheree Buggs's ruling ordering the removal of the 31st bike lane.

Nope! You will have to drive slower so that people do not die. This is the reason the policy is unpopular.

I'm never going to stop posting these

This chart should be on the driver's license test.

i have been radicalized into agreeing with the car speed governor idea michael expressed at the top of this thread more or less entirely on the basis of the totally garbage responses to it. everyone who complains should also lose 1mph per complaint.

Ban guns