Remember all the hype about how Uber and Lyft would allow people to live car-free? Well, it turns out ridehail has no discernible impact on car ownership at all. Analysis from Glenn Mercer's excellent newsletter: glennmercer.substack.com/p/the-impact...

Not a good prompt: www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...

On the left, the refurbished Lincoln bathroom. On the right, picture I took in Saddam Hussein's palace in Basra in 2005.

AI is the capitalist endgame of renting our own thoughts back to us.

“We all know what the lobbyists want,” he said. “It’s to increase their profits, with the price being paid by humankind.” www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Google is turning on the gas for its data centers

“By 2035, data centers globally are projected to use about as much electricity as India…according to the International Energy Agency. A single data center can also use more than 500,000 gallons of water a day, nearly as much as an Olympic-size swimming pool.” 🎁: www.nytimes.com/2025/10/20/t...

😍 Boston, you are beautiful. #NoKings

"No AI" is the new "No Filter"

Planet’s first catastrophic climate tipping point reached, report says, with coral reefs facing ‘widespread dieback’ www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Call for Papers: Special Issue of Global Media and China AI and its Environmental and Labour Implications: China and Beyond journals.sagepub.com/pb-assets/PD...

POLITICO: “.. They referred to Black people as monkeys and ‘the watermelon people’ and mused about putting their political opponents in gas chambers. They talked about raping their enemies .. and lauded Republicans who they believed support slavery. @politico.com www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

I first wrote about Denver’s ebike rebate program in 2022 and it’s been very cool to watch the trajectory since www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

I started a new series of articles dedicated to the risk/benefit equation of #AI through the lens of everything we (hopefully) learned from "social media": www.linkedin.com/pulse/naviga...

I first read about this in @karenhao.bsky.social's "Empire of AI" www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Peer review is broken. Academia broke it with publish or perish, and AI is picking over the carcase. markcarrigan.net/2025/09/26/p...

The national network of Climate Adaptation Science Centers met this week in Juneau, AK. Our visit coincided with a glacial outburst flood, atmospheric river and landslide - hazards becoming more frequent and severe as climate warms. CASC science addresses these risks & more, but is under threat.

Thank you to the 14,000+ people who shared feedback on our community guidelines! We’re updating our rules for clarity, strengthening enforcement, and introducing product changes for healthier conversations. New guidelines kick in Oct 15. bsky.social/about/blog/0...

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www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s... #micromobility ;-)

Reminder that 100,000 people marched for Trans Pride in London earlier this year, but because they weren't violent fascists, there was minimal press coverage, unlike the Nazis today. https://www.them.us/story/london-trans-pride-march-turnout-record-uk-transphobia

Thank you, @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social

Today people went around my neighborhood in north east London spray painting St George’s crosses onto people’s homes. Many of these houses have non British people living in them. This is getting very dark, very quick.

Gen Z in Nepal burned down the parliament, burned down the homes of government officials, forced the prime minister to resign, and paraded the finance minister through the streets nearly naked.

At its heart is a simple but radical idea: reconnecting a fragmented city divided by wide roads and fast traffic. A dramatic reversal is proposed, turning asphalt into attractive tree-lined streets and squares—where people can stroll, meet and linger—allowing them to function like a living organism.

Aiming to reverse the damage inflicted on the city by post-war traffic engineers, the Nowe Centrum Warszawy project is urban renewal for the 21st century: rebalancing public space, reducing car dominance, and making Warsaw’s centre more welcoming to pedestrians, cyclists and public transport users.🧵

"Thousands take to the streets of the nation's capital as regime declares war on third largest city" should be a bigger deal all around tbh.

The streets of Chicago are full with tens of thousands of people standing up to ICE and Trump. Join us.

The lack of mainstream coverage of regular huge protests reminds me of a talk from a Twitter employees who explained that they had to drop BLM off the Trending Tags section because otherwise it would have been there permanently. The modern media environment has no appetite for sustained movements.

"[T]he final amount could be higher, if the total is higher than 500,000 works, Anthropic will pay an additional $3,000 per work. Anthropic must also destroy the original files it downloaded and any copies." www.theverge.com/anthropic/77...

“We have observed approximately 90% of the workers targeted for terminations due to a perceived association with diversity, equity and inclusion efforts are women or nonbinary,” said an attorney representing federal staffers. (Published June)

www.theguardian.com/travel/2025/... @noxmobility.bsky.social