A new report from @frontiergroup.bsky.social shows how some states have reduced vehicle miles traveled per capita: frontiergroup.org/resources/wh... One key explanation: Land use! ⏬ States with higher population densities have less car travel! And states that grew through density reduced driving!

It’s not just that due process doesn’t apply to political candidates—it’s literally the opposite of the evidentiary standard for political candidates. The burden is entirely on *them* to prove to *us* that they possess the integrity and good sense to hold office.

I’ll take a million Mamdanis (earnest dorks with big smiles and earned confidence) over performative working class farmer machismo any day.

on a recent trip to Cincinnati I noticed this fine bldg in Covington: simple ground floor, two main façade planes w/ expressed piers, clean fenestration w/ simple sills, tripartite scheme w/ simple stringcoursing, & a grand but restrained cavetto cornice - would be cool if planners allowed this

Lupita Nyong’o's beauty sparks social media war about whether her beauty would have sparked actual war

Inspiration is theft (laudatory)

there is a cohort of men who resent the responsibilities and obligations of adulthood — of the fact that you owe things to other people. it is a fundamentally childish impulse that they have reconfigured as the height of masculinity, and i think it informs the parasocial attraction to platner.

worthwhile set of anecdotes about the tech job market

Mostly unrelated but hating the “Democrats” is such midwit shit. Real heads have a long list of democratic politicians they know and hate by name. Why would I hate a publicly managed ballot line when Ro Khanna and Steve Glazer exist.

I suspect the actual mechanism here is that Twitter's algorithm systematically promotes left voices who hate Democrats and the Democratic Party and all those people loved Platner vs Bluesky which doesn't have an algorithm at all.

the platner situation is a good reminder that when everyone with the worst political instincts in the world all line up behind one candidate that’s actually a bad sign

My take designed to offend the maximal number of people is that most politicians left of the GOP are not built to navigate this because they have imperial brainworms

Internally I have been seeing Jevon’s Paradox playing out among all of our engineering work. We’ve increased our ambitions and our correctness testing for our software. Some things have shipped faster but a lot of the new capacity goes to “better” Whole video is interesting

A bunch of dudes liked Platner because they enjoyed the vicarious thrill of watching a privileged man get away with bad behavior. They thought they had found a left Trump who would give them permission to reject scolding women and indulge their worst instincts. They were largely correct.

Were these design standards written by a drop of water trying to get inside?

Under LA's new "Objective Design Standards" for historic districts, the building on the left would be prohibited, and the building on the right would be encouraged

It's a real problem that cannabis is so cash-based.

Argentina does not deserve this

Possibly the first SB79 project in existence is a proposal to turn an old motel on .38 acres of land near the California Avenue Caltrain Station in Palo Alto into a 76 apartments. 200 units per acre, on a parcel where housing was not previously allowed. We absolutely love to see it!

God DAMN lmao. Feminism most vindicated social movement in history?

i don't want to say that i know for sure that platner is a bad drunk but a guy who identifies as a Man of Violence and has a history of extremely bad judgment while loaded is going to have a worse story than a bad skull tattoo

Buck up, US fans. The women’s World Cup is less than a year away.

stupidest possible outcome is that belgium just beats the shit out of the usa and wins like 5-1 despite all the shenanigans so that's probably what we're getting.

I’m blaming that all on Trump

Anyway, if the USMNT ever want to be world class we need MLS academies to be much bigger and have way more openings for lower- and middle-class children. It's true but makes you a bore at parties so it's the perfect fact for Bluesky.

CONCACAF gonna CONCACAF

sorry but this is objectively the funniest way this whole situation could have happened (soccer)

Everything. Trump. Touches. Dies.

Thank god Pulisic is out

This is embarrassing

Take Pulisic out this is embarrassing

Among other things, the latest turn in the Platner story is a good example of why journalists need to get off X for professional and personal reasons, not just ethical ones. The writers who gassed his campaign up and now need to walk it back are mostly people who cooked their brains on X.

They look like 10 strangers who are playing together for the first time today.

It would be nice if our mid field stopped giving possession to the Belgians

so that was nine of the worst minutes of football the US has played in quite a while, no focus weirdly low intensity, very poor on the ball

When you try to "preserve neighborhood character" in a neighborhood that burned down, you are admitting that "neighborhood character" is entirely about the socioeconimcs of the people that live there and has nothing to do with buildings.

there are very few jobs in the world where you can disappear for weeks without providing an explanation, and "member of congress" should not be one of them, imo

This is almost exactly the reasoning Dolores Huerta had about not saying anything about how Cesar Chavez sexually assaulted her

Gallego pulls his Platner endorsement.

its somehow always the ones you suspect.

Less a chess move than the only rational response to all the very obvious signs of his poor judgment and low moral character. It's the behavior of Sanders, Warren, Gallego, the Pod Save Boys et al that has been truly remarkable (derogatory).

Can Portugal and Spain both lose so we can give the berth to Cabo Verde?

Paul Pelosi is 86 years old and has the money to afford a driver. There is no reason why he should still be behind the wheel. www.politico.com/news/2026/07...

Single most valuable trait in the world right now is character judgement

literally every time, without fail, these stats come from a “research“ produced by marketing departments of startups selling the idea of more effective AI use! hello! it’s straight up bullshit and there is zero reason to believe it entelligence.ai

I've argued that LLMs facilitate man-in-the-middle attacks on representative democracy, whereby malefactors flood legislators with text and voicemails, preventing them from ascertaining what their actual constituents want and need. The US is uniquely vulnerable because face-to-face is impossible.

there is a problem in policy analysis i'm going to try to dub the "half-assed apocalypse" issue. which is that people make apocalyptic pronouncements about something but fail to behave in any way consistent with the implications. the "AI will take all the jobs" thing is a good example.....

ok I'm sorry but the 'Americans don't get what a DISHONOR this is to the integrity of football' pearl clutching is a little funny, like you know we can read the FIFA wikipedia entry, right