Not a ghost bike, but a ghost auto shop

Is archeology perhaps the most successful social *science*? Certainly the most improved player since the tomb raiding days.

Around both the world and the US, one-person train operation is standard—with many places looking to move to more frequent automated systems. Given this ubiquity, there's no serious argument for requiring two-person trains. This bill would lock NY in the past. www.nydailynews.com/2025/11/17/v...

I've been wondering a lot about this, and also the total lack of permeability for pedestrians in the City Hall area

National democratic leadership is getting so bad that it is becoming a self censoring fact in the same way that Trump’s evil and incompetency becomes self censoring

Last protest was No Kings. The next one is No Senators.

(Although I did have a fun bicameral trip to Iceland a few years back where their head of parliament told us they briefly adopted that structure but quickly got rid of it because it didn't work. House members of the delegation cheered. Senators pouted. It was fun.)

Genuinely what is even the purpose of the Democratic party as an institution? It can't consolidate the liberal lane in elections (eg NYC mayor) and it can't create a united liberal negotiation front without being undermined by some members (shutdown negotiations)

Or the other way I’ll put it is they fail because they default themselves to only having a portfolio of bad assets.

[on pre-K] “Working-class and low-income New Yorkers come up to me and say thank you with great sincerity,” he said. “But upper-middle-class people come up to me, grab my arm, and say thank you emphatically.” That's right!

After following a few links I got to www.youtube.com/watch?v=gfi8... woo!!!!

Across the developed world, big city conservative mayors and council majorities are quite common—except in the US. Why are Republicans are so much less relevant in cities than their peers in every other developed country? My latest: mnolangray.substack.com/p/why-are-re...

Garibaldi was like, "Hey Mr. Lincoln, I'd be happy to lead your forces to victory if you free the slaves. "

What could make a community of white, affluent boomers so livid? In a shocking twist, the reason is exactly what you think it is. www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/open...

@chittimarco.bsky.social if you don't mind me asking, should Milano Centrale run through any time soon, and if so, to where? Porto Genova?

Trump's fundamentally a Maxis Kid and Vance is a Paradox Interactive kid and I'd take the former over the latter in a heartbeat.

[VICTORY ALERT] Governor Newsom has signed SB 79, which will make it legal to build multi-family housing near high quality transit! Our statement: cayimby.org/news-events/...

Hope he's right

Probably dumb as hell to publish this on a Friday afternoon, but the clock is ticking to get @gavinnewsom.bsky.social to sign SB 79. Please share — and, if you're a Californian, please call the governor's office at (916) 445-2841 to ask for his signature. publiccomment.blog/p/newsom-s-f...

Most shade thrown in a museum description, ever!

ny post editors so mad they inadvertently made kathy hochul look cooler than she's ever had any right to lol

It's entirely this. That's it. There's nothing else. Everyone go home now.

This is undemocratic and brazenly illegal. This Board of Elections coup could deny NYC voters the chance to help end our housing crisis.

This from @aarmlovi.bsky.social is the best path forward with AVs. It's also @johnericson.me thought iirc. Labor, congestion, vehicle utilization, and safety are all constraints on mobility (and hence growth). Let's use automation to tackle all and enhance our transit systems.

South Korea, please do Belt and Road in America, we are a primitive people and wouldn't even have real sunscreen without your leadership

luminocity3d.org/WorldPopDen/... Wow, Egyptian land use is the GOAT. This is just some random stretch of the Nile. I knew of course that the desert--farm/people boundary was sharp. What I *didn't* know was the town--farm boundaries are *also* super sharp.

Imagining a parallel universe in which the Brits did not only "Londonderry" but also "Londondelhi" for New Delhi

The 1 open platform (other is closed for construction) at Harlem 125 really feels like the Berlin S-Bahn today - every train stops - very frequent - urban - above ground - 3rd rail

I was walking around the 5 points / city hall area, and god between the urban renewal and post 9/11 security theater it's so pedestrian hostile. Mamdani should fix that shit because right now I'm sure it's rotting city politicians brains and making them car simps.

Democratic turnarounds after episodes of authoritarianism (or illiberalism) have proven to be increasingly fleeting in nature. "Authoritarian holdovers from the previous government often prove harder to reverse than expected." muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/a...

Sickos haha yes … but also the cartoon here is … odd.

I'm in the town of Dobbs Ferry, where in a few hundred years historians will believe that Joanna Brown fought a last stand for abortion rights

Please email Kathy Hochul and tell her this. She will ultimately be making the decision. The union is going to lobby hard against driverless, so the governor needs to hear from New Yorkers that we want better service and lower costs: www.governor.ny.gov/content/gove...

He knew literally everything

Here's Newsom back to sucking ass

This new rail line, the most ambitious in 90 years, could change the face of New York City. We hopped on a freight train to film the route, and show its potential. Take a look! 🚂 www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Unironically the biggest thing Dems could do unilaterally to weaken fascism is to pass mixed member proportional elections for the house with multi-member districts.

Port Authority should hand the PATH and the toll subsidy for its operation and upgrade to the MTA. The PA clearly has zero interest in running a subway and moving PATH to an agency that does care would help immensely.

It's too far to the right

Found it.

news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4468... Pix being so good that is causes Realization over Dollarization is a dream

the anti-hero has come out of the TV, the hollerers and tut-tutters all sing in unison that we should should do anything but stop watching

There is no longer a monolithic tv show where one set of fans watch it as devout Protestants careful to point out how they feel not one iota of libidinal desire towards the iconoclastic behaviour of the main character, and the other form a cult fandom around a dumb guy that does evil each week

The mass starvation & killing of Palestinians in Gaza at the hands of the Israeli gov’t is a chillul hashem, a desecration of God. Jewish leaders who criticized Zohran Mamdani for three words he doesn’t use should raise their voices loudly here as well. forward.com/opinion/7575...

blog.obsidian.systems/compiler-boo... I wrote a thing (It's celebrating two recent changes in Nixpkgs, addressing things I wanted for the better part of a decade!)

the only way to achieve a world without gerrymandering is for Dems to pass their own extreme gerrymanders. unilateral disarmament never works

This is why, though I have my disagreements with a lot of DSA members on housing, I see them as a part of My Side. Because mod dems hate urban middle class renters, haven’t done shit for us, and balk at the idea public policy should address our concerns. “Team gentrification?” Go fuck yourself.

Yeah NYC DSA has more in common with Grüne than Die Linke or SPD. The leftwing party for educated professionals. It isn't a given that such a demo is avowedly socialist at all.

Genuine Paul Klee vibes. This is infuriating