Saw this adorable French animation ad and I had to share it over here! The style looks familiar but I can’t my finger on what group it is. Any ideas?

The most revolutionary thing you can do is getting to know your neighbors

LA quietly stopped repaving all streets last July to avoid fulfilling its ADA obligations. The federal govt says when you repave a street, you have to update all the curb ramps. LA has tons of out of date curb ramps, so the rule makes repaving much more expensive. The city's solution: stop repaving!

Problem with the homework example is the value of homework is not really in the product, which is indeed near-worthless. The point of the task is *the process of doing the task*, which is how someone learns to do the task better. It's like proclaiming your dumbbells worthless b/c forklifts exist.

this is similar to what I've come to think of as the "reverse turing test" when people find synthetic text is "good enough" to complete a task (homework, business report, email) it doesn't mean the machine is smart. it means they were asked to produce something that didn't matter it's diagnostic

The Land of Giants, a conceptual proposal to build power line towers so that they look like people. [choishine.com]

Bad framing: ACIP voted to scrap the universal hepatitis B vaccine recommendation for newborns. Accurate framing: Anti-vax conspiracy theorists appointed to ACIP by Robert Kennedy Jr., who made a fortune as an anti-vax profiteer, voted to expose babies to a preventable, incurable, deadly illness.

Christmas is coming, and the Black Friday sales signal we’re in peak gift-buying season. When you’re picking out gifts for friends and family this year, there’s a whole slew of tech products that are better to avoid. I put together a guide to help you through it.

Remember that striking Starbucks workers are asking you not to buy Starbucks right now

It’s good a huge portion of the world’s population (almost half) is not desperately poor.

Spoke to a number of devs about how, in the face of CEOs claiming gen-AI is the future, their declaration of being genAI free is making waves.

🚨 New working paper! How well do people predict the results of studies? @sdellavi.bsky.social and I leverage data from the first 100 studies to have been posted on the SSPP, containing 1,482 key questions, on which over 50,000 forecasts were placed. Some surprising results below.... 🧵👇

This study show that using poems to jailbreak LLMs is... super effective? What the heck.

Lack of Congressional oversight and action over new and powerful technologies since 1996 and the data generated by them that point to new assets or extractable resources is not a bug but a feature. northdakotamonitor.com/2025/03/30/t...

This is fucking rad

I’m convinced mathematics is taught wrong. Its beauty is buried under technical jargon and lifeless formulas. It should be be: clear, visual, practical. My mission is to get you fluent in the math that will still be useful in 50 years. thepalindrome.org/p/the-palin...

If you have been framing your work as involving/in relation to "AI", what do you mean by "AI"? How would you describe your work without using that phrase? >>

The Mamdani political sign generator is kinda fun https://homes.luddy.indiana.edu/ccshan/for/for.html

I hope the pope does a speaking tour of Silicon Valley.

Starbucks' union members have voted to strike at U.S. stores next week unless the company finalizes a contract agreement.

Mamdani going so hard for trans right and winning is some juicy proof that every dem that abandoned us didn’t do it for politically advantageous reasons. They did it because they’re transphobes and they will lose for it

I love that Zohran did not praise Cuomo in his speech. You absolutely do not have to say nice things about bad people. We should normalize that in “polite” politics: Praising bad people is not actually “civility.”

this was for a colorado measure guaranteeing universal free lunch for kids. funny how a short two-column table can say so much in so little space.

this result sticks out as deserving more attention!

It’s starting to feel like we are so fucking back.

JUST IN: Soren Stevenson, who lost an eye due to a projectile fired by the police during the BLM protests of 2020 in Minneapolis, has won a seat on city council. @pascalsabino.bsky.social reported on his candidacy last month in a must-read: boltsmag.org/minneapolis-...

Early Mamdani with an amazing policy idea.

Charlotte's transport referendum has won. 1% sales tax increase is expected to generate $19 billion/20 years, funding: —Transit (40%): Red Line commuter rail, Silver Line light rail, Gold Line extension, Blue Line extension —Road projects (40%) —Bus improvements, creating frequent bus network (20%)

How did Drake manage to lose the NYC mayoral race?? bsky.app/profile/airb...

Fourteen years later, I *still* think one of the best ways for us to repudiate Cheney's legacy of torture would be to recognize and honor the courageous soldiers and public servants who exposed the torture policies and tried to end them. www.nytimes.com/2011/04/28/o...

Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House. Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity. They are not the same.

This reminds me of the Warren Wealth Tax Calculator from 2020 but showing voters what they'll save from progressive policy. The reason why this is effective is because you're empowering people to inform themselves with information they input, not telling them random numbers based on the average.

I am honestly horrified at how common it seems to be to feed medical test results into ChatGPT for interpretation. We need to find ways to provide better patient-facing interpretation in a timely manner. People are making decisions about their health, diet, etc. based on a babble generator.

Not-so-fun fact: $150 million is enough to add nearly 30 journalists to each of the 50 states with a $100K total compensation package. www.axios.com/2025/10/06/p...

We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.

An incredible legacy and a reminder that we can tackle tough global problems if we choose to

This is why we fund scientists to study things like oyster slobber even if you don’t think it sounds important

Had a prosecutor joke that she could use AI to make a video of me saying my client was guilty. It definitely brought home the reality of how dangerous this technology is

If you live in California, stop what you’re doing and take 2 minutes to call Newsom’s office in support of SB79. Building more housing near transit is good.

"Modern apartments have fire death rate of just 1.2 per million residents, six times lower than older apartments (7.7) or single-family homes (7.6). "Building modern apartments is also one of fastest ways to reduce housing shortage." @governor.ca.gov sign SB 79!! www.linkedin.com/pulse/why-bu...

A lot of people think that every international student admitted means one fewer spot for domestic students, when the opposite is more likely true - the tuition revenue international students bring allows public universities to provide substantial discounts to domestic students, improving access.

This is amazing: @ladwp.com, the Los Angeles utility, has launched a program that will install solar+battery systems on qualifying low-to-moderate-income households, *for free*. Yes: free. If you know someone eligible, tell them to apply!

Proposal for how to fix family wise error rates. For every uncorrected p value you must add an extra letter to the claim. “Eating chocolate maaaaaaaaay be associated with lower rates of stroke”

New Mexico's economy is a fraction of the size of New York City's. If they can enact universal childcare — and relieve working families of a crushing cost burden — surely we can too. It's just a question of political will.

Sedation dentistry is no longer weird. Phone cameras are really good. The price of solar panels has dropped by tens of thousands. Southern white rhinos, giant pandas, Arabian oryx and Stellar sea lions are no longer endangered. And, I can testify, modern cancer treatments are fucking amazing.

For the people in the back, bigotry is not an opinion…

When people ask, "Right before the Republic crumbled, who was doing the best 19th century literary pun stencils?" remember my name.

"Go to an old cemetery. See all the baby graves from before the 1950s & 60s? After that, hardly any. That's when people started vaccinating their children. If you're unsure what to do to protect your kids, the answer is literally written in stone." — Michael Okuda How quick we forget.

Vaccines save lives. Mandates have been used for hundreds of years in the US for that reason. And they've been deemed constitutional. Mandates are used because people tend not to consider the entire community. Because infectious diseases impact more than just a single person. 3/