Can one of you nerds tell me what the smaller gauge rails in between the N/W tracks were for?

@repmarcykaptur.bsky.social you disgust me

A SOCETY WHERE YOUR NOT ALLOWED TO RIP A PISS IS A SOCIETY THAT CAN RIP IN PISS - dashare.zone ADMIN

This is such a pure distillation of circa 2010 tech-optimism into 2026 tech-fascism. Did they get t-shirts?

Everyone in charge loves to say this is "new." New technology they can't keep up with. Nothing about this is new, except that there's no longer anyone to victim blame. www.404media.co/radnor-high-...

I do want to live in a world where we can differentiate between always-on fascist surveillance tech and common-sense speed-enforcement tech that only writes speeding tickets and nothing else. I'm just not sure that is possible

It would be cheaper to give every coal miner $5m every year than it is to keep them employed in coal mining. Not even joking; there are maybe 40k coal workers, but annual economic burden of U.S. coal is $200B-$500B (climate change, public health, water & ecosystem damage, dispatch inefficiency).

The news I keep reading feels like a lot of companies/investors are maneuvering to cash-out from the AI peak, or distribute risk so that other entities are left holding the bag when the bubble pops

Baltimore’s parks are the legacy of its streetcar riders. In 1925 Baltimore’s streetcar riders paid $1,121,584 to fund their city’s parks, or about $21 million in 2026 dollars.

the fuck it will

The best time to stop using Google search was 3 years ago, the second best time is now

Ah, Plex is enshittifying and forcing people to their subscription model. I haven't given them any money yet since ive just been playing with the free tier, but I think I'm gonna have to figure out jellyfin and VPN to my home network for everything

Which is perfectly in line with the outcomes of experiments already run and published by the frontier AI companies themselves (cf the automated vending machine that went broke), and yet the culture of suspended disbelief just keeps on chugging the slurp juice

I do think lockers are an import piece of infrastructure with a lot of good applications, this is one of them

It's almost like police and the criminal justice system are not the primary driver of trends in crime

"At first, it was just an alien concept to me. I never considered biking to work," Thompson said. Thompson is a planner at Columbus' Department of Public Service on projects that can help pedestrians, bicyclists and commuters get around without using a car." 🫠🫠🫠

Oh no, my coast to coast mass surveillance network I built to fight "cRimE" is going to be weaponized by the feds, who could have ever predicted this outcome

Somebody shared a TED Talk YouTube link, the top comment is "besides everything, can we just appreciate how amazing his communications skills are?" Ironically a fantastic analysis of all TED Talks: "if you ignore the actual usefulness of the content, boy howdy it's a fantastic talk!"

I know I'm a weirdo and a crank in most ways but it is still so absurd to me as I dip my toe into left/organizing spaces again after a bit of a hiatus and see a bunch of people posting links to X dot com. I'm not going to click on that shit

Unrelated-ish but I'm trying to figure out what the hell "prewritten" software is? I guess it's synonymous with "off-the-shelf" as in standard, generic, not customized, usable without specific prescriptions of a software professional? Weird use of the English language but TIL

Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt was booed throughout this commencement speech at the University of Arizona for his praise of AI. This comes just a week after another commencement speaker who mentioned AI was booed at a school in Florida. Read more: www.404media.co/ucf-ai-comme...

Yes, this is by design!!! Their only mistake was dialing up the knob a little too far into "will anyone notice" territory and now they'll shift things around but continue filling your streets with congestion and pollution

Having a little pre-coffee coffee

I ORDER MY COFFEE BLACK. NO SUGAR. NO MILK. NO WATER. NO CUP. THEY HAND ME THE BEANS. I EAT THEM IN THE PARKING LOT LIKE A HORSE. THE BARISTAS HAVE STOPPED CHARGING ME. I HAVE NOT SLEPT SINCE TUESDAY. I CAN HEAR THE WIFI

A median salary of $125k for an LIRR worker is less than the median salary for the counties they serve: - Nassau County: $143k - Suffolk County: $131k A cost efficient agency with workers earning less than median wage seems ripe for a raise

Voters be like “we hate every single idea Republicans have, we will only vote for them 65% of the time”

There’s a long list of reasons to boo this man.

I do feel like the past 6 months or so the antisemitism on Instagram, or at least what I'm exposed to, has ramped up to an insane degree

That several major California transit agencies are preparing to scale back service or even declare bankruptcy while the state continues to expand highways is a failure on an almost indescribable scale.

Incredible organizing in Wisconsin. Check out this story.

There is nothing shocking anymore in 2026. I was already turned off by any slightly click baity headlines but any "new SHOCKING thing" is just an outright lie, stop saying that

We no longer need 80% of efforts focused on 8% of emissions

Learning about SS7 vulnerabilities today. A bit out of my depth but seems like anyone that 1) Has your phone number 2) Has an SS7 node (mostly telecom companies but also like, probably every nation state, many criminal organizations) Can pretty trivially determine your location within 50-500m

I know there’s a lot going on in the world, and we don’t have enough attention to pay to any of it. But the throttling of Cuba by the US should be a bigger story than it is. There are about 10 million people in Cuba, subjected to horrendous collective punishment. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

This has been such a persistent issue with the @nytimes.com in particular, and criticized so often, that you really can't see it as an oversight anymore, but as a deliberate policy of contempt towards other media outlets.

Many people have a vested interest in pretending otherwise, but the US research university is globally dominant to an almost unbelievable degree. The typical state university is a football team stapled to a R&D lab with a budget bigger than the entire nation of Belgium.

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Mayor Mamdani restores library funding after public outcry gothamist.com/news/mayor-m...

evergreen

"I have a finite time on this earth that I mostly want to spend interacting with other human beings. I don’t want to be the person arguing with a robot, or wasting my time reading something that a real person couldn’t be bothered to write."

Its frustrating that I can't have an RSS feed of posts from my patreon subscriptions. I'm not even asking to break out of your enshittifactory platform, I'll come to your site to view the posts, just make an RSS feed to notify me of something new. I refuse to fill my email inbox with your spam

Not to be all "this is economics 101" but this is just economics 101, right?

I think it's worth noting that the comp sci labor market apocalypse is "because of AI" in a similar way that like, police department budgets keep going up "because of violent crime"

Something that speaks incredibly well to college students today is we gave them a tool to cheat on literally all their class work and their response has been “yes we will cheat but we still hate this thing”

this graduation speech moment is notable, and her amazed shock at having failed to read the room feels instructive. when you're inside the bubble, you think everybody else is. but everybody isn't.

I will say that I don't know that I was fully aware of just how corrosive flattery could be before AI came along. Just watching AI suck people into this whirlpool of motivated reasoning and cognitive collapse has really been something.

I think any time a car ever crashes it shouldn't be allowed to be towed for a whole week, as an exhibit. Sooooooooo many violent crashes happen and get cleaned up such that an hour later nobody can tell it happened. If we were constantly passing wreckage we'd all have a different perspective.

Meet the academics refusing to eat shards of glass

i PROMISE you want to watch the video interview with this hero