DraftKings closing their Wrigley sportsbook and blaming Illinois wagering laws is genuinely a huge win for those laws

When there isn't enough housing, it gets rationed, and in a world where lots of people own brownstones, we ration it by price. And thanks to the weight of racism and history, white people are richer on average. This is downstream of inadequate construction throughout NYC and the whole metro area.

This is genuinely evil.

As a librarian, archivist, and historian, this is utter nonsense. Most materials - text, images, and sound are not in digital format and most are not catalogued or described in detail. Archives especially do not work that way.

Retractions never get proportional attention. This one should.

Great thing of cities, nyc in particular: it's 8:45 pm, you forgot wine and an ingredient for dinner; no problem, just walk 2 minutes and you'll get them.

"A.i." is gonna fuck up family historians for generations to come. Falsifying people's voices, introducing misinformation and pure bullshit. We're losing so much.

Biking Boston since 1980. Comic artist, designer, developer. On March 5th I hit a pothole in Kenmore Square and fractured both tibial plateaus. Five weeks in rehab. Facing eviction from my home of 17 years. I don't ask for help easily. I'm asking now. www.gofundme.com/f/help-dave-...

History departments need to be pressing the case that history is *the* best prep for a JD which is the best way to make a lot of money if you are not into the sciences

I'll say again that deleting this app from my phone was a terrific decision and long overdue. There's a time and place for social media, but we don't need to carry around the Hot Take and Misery Matrix everywhere we go.

This is a stunt. A car ran faster than a horse? Yeah, it’s a machine. Vehicles can go faster and farther than living things and also carry more stuff. That’s why we have them! No one needed the problem of people running in a race to be “solved”

Facing mounting allegations of misconduct, Lori Chavez-DeRemer is stepping down from her position as America’s labor boss.

advertising technology in the 1990s: look at this “website” you can “surf”. it has an image of a cat on it advertising technology in the 2020s: you must adopt this now or die. we are going to completely kill you if you don’t download this app immediately

John Korir of Kenya wins 1st place and broke a new record in the 130th Boston Marathon Men's Professional Race. wbznewsradio.iheart.com/content/john...

To defeat the extreme right an economics for the common people is indispensable. Honored to be part of a new Global Council for progressive economics under the leadership of @mazzucatom.bsky.social and Spain‘s Minister of the Economy @carloscuerpo.bsky.social. Spain’s success is showing the way.

Gonna spend the next two years spamming every elected Dem about the concept of "damnatio memoriae." Chisel his name off every inscription. Build over the various Trump Towers like they're Nero's Golden House. Remove him from physical memory, not to forget but as a sign of disrespect to the man.

Also! I cannot figure out how this trend is compatible with democracy. How can citizens be engaged, informed, and participatory if they are unable or unwilling to critically and thoughtfully engage with new ideas/info? Which, BTW, is why I consider AI to be antithetical to the needs of democracy.

Just a professor standing in front of BlueSky demoralized because exams my students used to get a mean of 83% on prior to 2020 are now failed in large numbers. It seems that their ability to APPLY concepts to new contexts/domains has all but disappeared. I love these students & I am worried.

I've gradually come to realize that I am much more tolerant of bus-to-bus transfers than some folks. What's the maximum number of buses you take on a trip you take on a somewhat repeated basis? For me, it's four, although the red line getting faster has reduced the competitiveness of that trip

Years ago @mikeduncan.bsky.social told me "you can rewrite shit but you can't rewrite nothing" and it's made every draft easier since.

Every elected official in California: Democrats, Republicans, MAGA people, moderate conservatives, centrists, liberals, progressives, and “socialists” alike are lockstep on this one issue: “Insurance markets are not facing systemic climate risk, insurance companies are simply too greedy”

Imma let you finish but the Debate Between Date Palm and Tamarisk is the hardest rap battle of all time. (Because they are trees.)

They don’t always get everything right, ok, but this kind of minor stuff is what it looks like to have a government entity working to actually make it easier to live in its territory

This is deeply fascistic in the axiomatic, Umberto Eco checklist way, but also emotionally and culturally, in a Male Fantasies way...

I'm not joking when I say mRNA technology is more important than "AI" and it's a tragedy we're throwing billions into one while our government is aggressively defunding the other.

This design is 10000x better than an on-street painted bike lane and a poorly maintained sidewalk. In rural and suburban contexts with few pedestrians, it's ok for bikes and peds to share space.

“Balls and strikes” Performative public lying is a hallmark of far right authoritarian parties This lying was obvious a quarter century ago, at the hearings, but no one wanted to hear or believe it.

👇🎯 Yes but it needs to go further: - No shadow docket - No clerks - No building - Riding the circuit We can debate necessary structural reforms like more seats & such. But first, immediately, the next Congress needs to strip these Wizards In Robes of every perk & power not explicitly in Art. III.

The guy knew how to use an adjective

the prisons that held Öztürk are still operating and they should be torn down tomorrow

"Was it worth the carbon?" seems like the wrong question for truly singular buildings. You can make the case for concrete for the single most important museum building in a metro or 13 million people. It's every other building where you need to find carbon savings www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...

The pied-à-terre tax will ruin New York's economy by (checks notes) encouraging superrich visitors to stay in hotels instead. I think these scare stories need a little more workshopping. www.ft.com/content/02ac...

Uber says that it is not worried about Waymo cutting into its business because the self-driving taxi startup is driving a massive expansion in *all* app taxi use, not just driverless.

Welfare helps people participate in society. It also moves money around the economy, keeping it healthy. They call it a “cost”. AI cuts jobs, makes useless un-copyrightable content, raises the energy bills of anyone living near them, and makes no money. They call it an “investment”. 🙃

This is a really odd argument because I think at the heart of it, there is a deep misunderstanding about what writing is for. I write to communicate my thoughts and ideas, and to bring people along with me, which AI cannot do for me because it isn't me.

We wrote a Japanese noise band LP

Not once in the 80s, 90s or 00s do I recall a politician urging the public to embrace email, mobile phones, texting, two factor authentication, online banking, air fryers, or to replace all their cassette collection with a CD collection. So forgive me if I smell a rat.

last week i filed my Norwegian taxes (i have income there). It was 6 clicks and 1 2FA entry. Less than 5 minutes to check the prefilled numbers, et voila. It should be this simple for the millions of USians who file the minimal 1040. Of course public health and pensions simplify reporting.

BPS needs an AI moratorium. This is one of my more strongly held beliefs.

@mayor.nyc.gov: "If you are a Mario Kart fan, government is Yoshi and philanthropy is the Golden Mushroom, that edge we need to beat Bowser on the Rainbow Road. To belabor this metaphor even further, Bowser is corporate greed in this scenario."

If the hardcore band’s guitarist looks like this you’re about to die in that pit

they got the Church of England supporting the Pope now

WTF? Was GPT-Henrietta taken?

The optimistic take on this is that Senate Rs who won in '22 will come up in an all-time blue wave year, & there's at least a decent chance IMO that '30 will still have high D enthusiasm. So there's 4 years of trifecta, & the '32 R primary will be a shitshow; maybe 2 more trifecta years.

as far as i can tell pope leo has never mentioned trump by name hes just like “killing people is wrong” or “concentration camps arent good” and theyre all taking it personally

This is probably not good, given the pathways that people are discovering religion through these days

I overheard a neighbor explain this as "voting isn't like getting married. It's like taking the bus. You aren't choosing a life partner. You're picking the fastest route that will get you closest to where you want to go."

It may seem paradoxical but a key to accomplishing (1) will be to deflate the psychological importance that Americans attach to their voting decision. Casting a particular ballot in a particular election needs to become understood as a small practical matter, not a titanic moment of self-expression.