came across this article where a guy is moaning about how yes, he does need a pickup truck, because he had to cart a single toilet to the dump and you wouldn't want it on the carpet. you could also do this job with a plastic tarp and a two-door mini cooper www.roadandtrack.com/car-culture/...

even if you accept that a huge building boom drives down rent (which it basically never does long-term [austin had decreases for what, 2 years?]), people justifiably hate being told "you have to move because you are poor/your landlord feels like it". being forced to move is awful!

you all have fun, I'm moving to the only real social network:

been dealing with AI x compliance a lot lately and it’s only getting worse with every passing week

computer, make me a two eggs (this is apparently real?) www.cheffy.ai

I bought the game expecting there to be more and there just. wasn’t. like anything else. you get a tiny bit of city building and some barely-minigames but it feels to barren and empty

Every system that was regulated, either explicitly or implicitly, by the fact that they were effortful for humans (letters of recommendation, government filings, essays, or, as this paper finds, lawsuits) will break under a wave of AI.

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the penne opticon

Extremely normal and fine for a company to put this in a public statement

Did you know you can watch a masterpiece of 2D animation from China that came out last year on youtube for free? it’s called Nobody and it’s incredible youtu.be/BaFyvWjEyJQ?...

"A ... federal judge has dismissed a writer's lawsuit accusing a bestselling fiction author of stealing her romance-fantasy book drafts to create the popular 'Crave' series, issuing a lengthy opinion finding tropes of the genre —such as 'hot, sexy, dangerous boys'— are not protected by copyright."

not too sure about that slogan gang

I saw someone mention the arc de trump on here and thoight they were kidding; i should have known better

trying hard to sell my friends on the "crawl through a rainwater discharge tunnel and perhaps see a big turbine" outing on our japan trip. bit of a tough sell but we're working on it

big news: DSA now offers website (WordPress) hosting for chapters and national bodies discussion.dsausa.org/t/announcing...

it's crucial to understand how systematically surveillance companies like Flock just ignore the requests and demands of local governments they contract with; once you've signed that contract, you lose so much control

I came across this book which reviewers seemed to think was a very evidence-based analysis of migration but also mentioned it "debunked" the idea that climate change will cause mass migration. I wondered how. Thankfully, someone on the r/neoliberal subreddit explained: we'll just figure out!

gallup sends me a poll periodically to ask me what I think about the armed services

wake up babe new neil cicierga just dropped youtu.be/fwq8AtmZnjA?...

twitter, in particular, was known for being up all the time and never having issues. they celebrated this uptime record with the "success whale"

Heartwarming: Sociopathic AI CEO Just In It for the Love of the Game

who is asking for fireplaces where the TV goes in every single new condo. why is this a thing. what did we do to deserve this

braver than the troops

Rem is so fun it got me back into deadlock

fun fact: the Community Notes discord is still up. It lasted just over a year before Elon presumably killed it or just fired everyone running it

it's so cool how our politicians landed on the stupidest, worst possible solution to this problem

help stop a parking lot from being a drain on lakeview: actionnetwork.org/letters/stop...

good god this is demonic

the best DSA 404 is DSA SV

most cypto-hating social network funded by Bain Capital Crypto lol

computers are becoming too powerful

might be a few years late on this one

I need to find someone to rant about Pillion at/with more i feel like I watched a different movie than everyone else

this was going to go into production in less than a year and now it's dead because of Trump

probably the best humiliation ritual I've seen

this senate election is such a disaster jesus

Me whenever I see an article about oil prices

people on here really need to read articles because it's very much not a glowing profile lmao

incredible stuff

downloaded obsidian again

Wow

okay maybe DOD should destroy Antropic www.anthropic.com/research/dep...

Waymos are substantially safer than human drivers, but I hope rideshare drivers will get a better deal than taxi drivers did. but i hope the left can figure out how to message technological change better than the dems have in the past

I’m on a third floor apartment and I will never not have a heart attack when i look out the window in the morning expecting to see the cityscape unfolding before me and there’s just a guy in a high vis vest making eye contact with me instead

I want to get a pair of real, not-$20 sunglasses and taxes need to be higher. found a company that I love tons of the styles of but they only sell in store. I did some digging and was not prepared for the price.

most honest tech bro award: harpers.org/archive/2026...

is there anything that would stop illinois from suddenly having a $20 toll on any road into the new bears stadium on game days?

New blog post: How realtime transit data gets to you, the rider! A conceptual summary of how data is published and processed to hopefully help empower riders to better understand and diagnose issues they experience. lauriemerrell.com/posts/realti...