US House's proposed transport bill—endorsed by GOP & Dem committee members: —Would increase highway funds by 8% but reduce transit/rail funds by 20% compared with 2021's transport law —Cuts funding for EVs, bike/ped infra, disaster resilience —Imposes an arbitrary fee on EVs not applied to gas cars

Lrt: YES!!! I don't get vibe coders because I **wanted to learn how to code**. It isn't about churning out a finished product, it's about learning a new skill that I can now apply to countless tasks!

It's just a bunch of lazy and incurious people hoping you'll join them in the lazy and incurious world and sorry buddy, I love to read and write. I love to problem solve. I like to paint. I find joy in these things.

omfg Paris Baguette is carb heaven

Quince came through (shirt, shoes) 🙌🏼 Super fast shipping too, way faster than I expected.

A proposed national #EV registration fee starts at $130/year. That compares to $80-$90 in federal gas taxes paid by an ICE vehicle driver. The proposed national fee is on top of existing state fees. Michigan's $267 charge is the highest in the U.S. Hey, let's punish those damn EV owners MORE!

just remarkable that this keeps happening with, so far as I can tell, no major national developments in terms of police, courts, or anything else

The world’s largest sand battery got through Finland’s harshest winter in years. 2,000 tonnes of sand, heated to 500-600°C by cheap power, feeding district heating in Pornainen. And it worked. Result from one install: oil down 100%, emissions down 70%. Industrial process heat is the real prize.

Well uh yeah. That's what's over there 🤷🏼‍♀️

“I find that a majority of households in the bottom income decile experienced declines in real food-at-home purchasing power between 2019 and 2023. I likewise document similar divergences between conventional measures and the experiences of households across the broader income distribution.”

"I ask all of you to think of it, graduates and families alike, let yourself dream of a future in which we can harness this amazing new technology to eliminate entry-level jobs entirely. Indeed, that work has already begun, and that future is now." /college kid booing intensifies "Wow okay,"

Arizona, the model for voucher programs across the country, spent so much money paying private schoolers’ tuition that it faced hundreds of millions in budget cuts to critical state programs and projects. (Published July 2024)

this week's This American Life made me so sad and mad. shit being run by the absolute cruelest MFs in our society.

I GET LOGGED OUT. BUT I LOG IN AGAIN

When a federal agency tasked with protecting all Americans decides to mandate a specific religious worldview, it ceases to protect democracy and begins to threaten it.

Just a periodic reminder that this obscene-wealth-to-scale website exists and should be viewed by everyone eattherichtextformat.github.io/1-pixel-weal...

omg footage featuring Geo Soto has no right to look this *old* 💀

And how much of this problem just goes away if they stop growing alfalfa and other incredibly low-value cattle fodder with Colorado River water? More than all of deficit. 46% of all withdrawals. 75% of all ag use. 3x more than all the urban water use combined. www.latimes.com/environment/...

dropped a cool $500 at Quince last night. hopefully it ends up being worthwhile!

There's two big factors and both of them are the administrations fault. 1. Everyone is broke and shit is too expensive 2. Trump picked fights with our global trading partners and Bourbon is as American as can be

As a guy with half a trillion dollars, I have lots of options: 1. Enjoy a 100% stress-free life doing whatever I please in unfathomable luxury all over the world with people of my choosing 2. Have 87 meltdowns a day on a website

There is absolutely no reason for prediction markets to exist. None.

Do what you love, kids.

Calling this the “rats and sinking ships” moment for AI. This is when you watch people jump from company to company to whoever is subsidizing that day until there’s nobody left

fml #cubs

HELL YEAH CONFORTO!!!! #Cubs

You ever been to an anniversary party for a couple and everyone there knows they’re having problems, so it’s a little awkward? This is more or less how I feel about America 250.

I just want to repeat again: The American people saved 26 million lives — because we could It something we should be proud of. Our leaders should tell us about it. Not decry it as some budgetary sin while signing our names to a slaughter.

LANDMAN is ripe for this because it routinely has Billy Bob Thornton go off on wholly-untrue pro-oil rants. His most famous one is about wind turbines not offsetting any carbon over their 20-year life cycle. In reality, they're fully offset within an average of 5.3 months.

The current API revenues of Anthropic and OpenAI are driven predominantly by AI companies subsidizing their users' compute by 300% to 1000%. Once the industry moves away from that, API revenues may face a horrifying collapse. www.wheresyoured.at/premium-what...

lol

good thread!

Do not. Under any circumstances. Connect your bank to ChatGPT.

oh so we're doing the true classics now, huh? Ben Franklin era anti-German bullshit? in the guise of being progressive? lmfao

Every time you drink out of a straw you’re giving a tiny blowjob

THE IVY TECH BANNER 💀💀💀💀💀💀

oh my god this Marquee booth is so fucking annoying

My man looks like he directed an arthouse biopic about the Pillsbury Doughboy.

I really do think Trump misheard Talarico saying "cisgender" as "six genders," and that's just a thing he says now. The first person I saw make this observation deleted the post saying it, but yeah.

Now this is satisfying youtu.be/eBKWKu2Rqxc

This is a form of psychosis. These people will burn the world if they have their way.

A thing Congress should have, as many state legislatures do, is compulsory attendance where you have to ask to be excused and disclose a good reason for why you should be.

U can pry my SPF 70 out of my cold dead hands

and here I thought religious liberty was the end-all-be-all

New Kids on the Block had a bunch of hits.

Gwen did a fantastic job reporting on what has genuinely become an internal refugee crisis among trans people. I know I complain about Sound Transit and bike infrastructure or whatever a lot but like, making my move to Seattle when I did saved my life.

Genre glitching: a new sign of AI-assisted writing? Thanks to @doremus-schafer.bsky.social and @srettberg.bsky.social who shared the two examples of this that I discuss in today's blog post. Please please please send me any other examples you see of this! jilltxt.net/genre-glitch...

I'm sure this is fine

oh my god lmao