Saw a Substack post in my feed regarding a so-called “Nona maxing” trend and folks, people are just making things up.

@mayorwu.boston.gov @wutrain.bsky.social @streets.boston.gov There used to be flexposts turning from Arlington St to the bike lane beside the Public Garden. This is what happens when they're gone. A truck driver drove into the bike lane, and two drivers blindly followed. Please fix this.

Fiber artist Janel Echelman creates large-scale aerial sculptures that blend art, architecture and engineering. Her new book, “Radical Softness,” is now published and features a stunning compilation of her work. https://bit.ly/4mWTXLS

Science! bsky.app/profile/adap...

Dad of two grade-schoolers here: can confirm that the kids are using “AI” as a synonym for “fake”

Friend of a friend needs help after a terrible fall due to a pothole.

Affordable college tuition

HELL NO. via @flipsidenews.bsky.social #bospoli #mapoli

For the Monday crowd: please circulate this widely. It may be hard to find the perfect candidate (an experienced data engineer/architect generalist with an interest in cultural heritage willing to take a state salary), but it's a great group/mission/city and we know the right person is out there.

Hello privacy concerns and a pipeline to accessing sensitive information. Even if the company is dead, there is enough there to at least doxx people, I would guess. www.forbes.com/sites/annato...

It’s a secret third thing?

The term "private credit" is about to show up in public discourse. When paired with "special-purpose vehicle" (SPV), it's a loan type that doesn't show up on the borrower's books...and is backed by your 401k, IRA, or life insurance plan. bsky.app/profile/just...

This is going to sound snotty, but the most depressing insight from having a Kindle is that within the last few years, Amazon has gamified reading. It‘s patronizing (and kind of insulting, tbf) to be congratulated for my “streak.”

folks, check your app passwords and make sure you have 2FA enabled, the spam network is apparently compromising larger accounts now and deleting all the posts then using them for spam (see full thread)

THE POWERPUFF GIRLS WAS SUPER POPULAR WITH YOUNG BOYS WHAT ARE WE DOING HERE

Believing in the funniest version of reality where there is a God, but that this was still an accident

“She seemed proud to be the first state to do this, when no one was clamoring to do this." #mapoli theshoestring.org/2026/04/08/m...

Signal has a setting to stop this (Settings > Notifications > Notification Content). It's likely not an issue limited to just Signal, but more fundamental friction between secure chat apps and phones. Very interesting data point when talking about forensics www.404media.co/fbi-extracts...

Resident Advisor: there are signs that Boards of Canada might release some new music soon. Please let this be true, we need this! [ra.co]

Might print this out and hang it above my bed.

I can’t take this seriously. Councilor Flynn also was in favor of inviting Federal troops to Boston to “fix” Mass and Cass (I witnessed this particular idea be expressed in person). He habitually argues for weirdly absolutist solutions that nobody wants. bsky.app/profile/.bsk...

nuance is lost on ed flynn, but here's the actual problem: ebikes and mopeds are literally the perfect tool for food delivery and are 100x preferable to the same trips made in cars. but food delivery services incentivize them to behavior that makes everyone else's life worse. fix that.

Hey to all my Creator friends out there: Ya might want to check your Adobe subscriptions before the next billing cycle.

April 1st is not a good time for brands to test out "hey, what if we were funny?"

The man made a campaign promise about protecting trans healthcare! Everyone stop saying there’s nothing he can do! @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social LITERALLY SAID “HERE’S WHAT I WILL DO IF THIS HAPPENS” then it happened and he isn’t doing it! We are obligated as constituents to demand he follow through!

Synanon doesn't get talked about enough. The troubled teen industry (the thing that Paris Hilton testified about) also uses its methods, which are extremely abusive. "The Game" is a whole thing. bsky.app/profile/beye...

If past is prologue on the Southie waterfront, this “Massport Viewing Area” will indeed be publicly accessible during the Tall Ships Parade of Sail (as I’ve been assured), but only those “in the know” will know about it. No public info available. My radar for good ol’ boy BS has been finely tuned.

Please remember that dandelions are not truly weeds. They are the bees first meal in the spring. Grow and protect the dandelions, save the bees and you save the world. ✌🏻🥰

It's a pattern. As women move into the majority of a career field, the annual salary takes a steep nosedive. It's called occupational feminization. Women's work is not valued in the United States. The patriarchy wants everything a woman has to offer—but for free. It's why the ERA must pass.

Hey everyone! You have until MARCH 30, 2026 to file a claim in the Anthropic Settlement. If you have questions about filing--or if you aren't sure if you've filed correctly--call the settlement administrator at 1 877-206-2314.

“Engagement at all costs,” now with costs www.nytimes.com/2026/03/25/t...

Thing about Platner is that even if you grant him maximum grace on his various issues, you can’t erase the fact that he’s just a credulous slopulist dummy who isn’t built to be a senator

So, um... this is bad. Really bad. I looked at the letters that were translated by the AI, and the very first one I found was almost entirely hallucination. Thread:

Happy Birthday to Sister Rosetta Tharpe, and a massive thank you to her for inventing rock and roll She was born on March 20th, 1915

To future-proof my book contract (better safe than sorry), I added an AI clause that says AI tools of any kind cannot be used in the review or preparation of my book (also no genAI art can be used for cover, etc) Very grateful to @slstalter.bsky.social for example from her most recent contract.

Fantastic news in the UK today - the government has apparently ditched its plan to force creatives to 'opt out' if they don't want AI companies training on their life's work. www.thetimes.com/uk/technolog... 🧵 1/4

It turns out that basing a product strategy on your favorite sci-fi book is a bad idea www.theverge.com/tech/881647/...

The fact that the girls and women decided to not come forward "for the good of the movement" was a feature, not a bug. He used it as leverage. bsky.app/profile/angu...

Cause the racism

A new @bostonglobe.com report cites City Hall employees who accuse @mayorwu.boston.gov of personally blocking long-planned street safety and @mbta.com transit projects in @boston.gov. #mapoli Click through for a list of some the projects she's delaying: - mass.streetsblog.org/2026/03/16/g...

There's no data whatsoever to support the anecdotes at the center of this piece. The real crisis is that people are leaving this state because they can't afford to live here.

Uh, what? www.yahoo.com/news/article...

Meta is ending end-to-end encryption for Instagram DMs. If you support your work with Instagram and use the messaging function frequently, you may want to think about having people message you on a different platform. www.androidpolice.com/instagram-is...

The issue isn't fraud, it's that many veterans are unaware of the benefits that they are fully entitled to in the first place. This is performative at best. www.stripes.com/veterans/202...

I'm suing Grammarly over its paid AI feature that presented editing suggestions as if they came from me - and many other writers and journalists - without consent. State law requires consent before someone's name can be used for commercial purposes. www.wired.com/story/gramma...

Maine suffers from very bad pollution in a number of spots. This one isn't a surprise, unfortunately. bsky.app/profile/shan...

Bob Kraft is *singlehandedly* responsible for allowing this standoff with Foxboro to drag on for weeks. Marty Walsh was *singlehandedly* responsible for so poorly vetting the #Boston2024 bid and IndyCarBoston. Shame on the Globe for turning this on Bostonians. www.bostonglobe.com/2026/03/10/m...

outdoors in Cambridge is very confusing right now

“There are people like us in every neighborhood and every downtown. All of these projects dance on a knife’s edge. All of them do. If you made it slightly easier, you might trip someone over into saying, ‘I’m doing this,’ versus not doing it.” www.bostonglobe.com/2026/03/10/b...

it's wild because companies want so badly for "cool" to be top down—something nike actually made happen for damn near 20 years!—when in order for it to be legit it needs to be bottom up. and it should be 17 year olds driving trends, not 45 year olds