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Unless the new trick is making the subway free (it's not) I bet they won't!
Subway and bus fare evasion cost New York City’s transit system nearly $1 billion last year. Will an arsenal of new tricks turn things around? trib.al/BzbS2FD
December 5, 2025 at 1:45 AM
Unless the new trick is making the subway free (it's not) I bet they won't!
Infinite money calculation must have gotten a sign wrong somewhere along the way. Embarrassing, but can happen to anyone.
HSBC forecasts that OpenAI is going to have nearly a half trillion in operating losses until 2030
November 27, 2025 at 6:56 PM
Infinite money calculation must have gotten a sign wrong somewhere along the way. Embarrassing, but can happen to anyone.
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I really hate it when scientists keep saying that “we need to rebuild trust in science,” because it implies that scientists are to blame for the mistrust rather than the millions of dollars of dark money that have funded political attacks on science in order to advance a far right agenda.
November 19, 2025 at 9:48 PM
I really hate it when scientists keep saying that “we need to rebuild trust in science,” because it implies that scientists are to blame for the mistrust rather than the millions of dollars of dark money that have funded political attacks on science in order to advance a far right agenda.
"The purpose of a system is what it does."
Applying Beer's Maxim we can clearly see that the purpose of the Lurie administration is to make housing more expensive and to make transit worse. abc7news-com.cdn.ampproject.org/v/s/abc7news...
Applying Beer's Maxim we can clearly see that the purpose of the Lurie administration is to make housing more expensive and to make transit worse. abc7news-com.cdn.ampproject.org/v/s/abc7news...
Too good to be true? SFMTA scales back on affordable housing, transit project | abc7news.com
abc7news-com.cdn.ampproject.org
November 25, 2025 at 4:15 PM
"The purpose of a system is what it does."
Applying Beer's Maxim we can clearly see that the purpose of the Lurie administration is to make housing more expensive and to make transit worse. abc7news-com.cdn.ampproject.org/v/s/abc7news...
Applying Beer's Maxim we can clearly see that the purpose of the Lurie administration is to make housing more expensive and to make transit worse. abc7news-com.cdn.ampproject.org/v/s/abc7news...
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donald trump endorsed zohran mamdani before chuck schumer lmao
November 21, 2025 at 9:01 PM
donald trump endorsed zohran mamdani before chuck schumer lmao
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he charmed that demented old man so hard he could’ve gotten into his will lmao
Q: Are you affirming that you think President Trump is a fascist?
MAMDANI: I've spoken about--
TRUMP: That's okay. You can just say yes. I don't mind.
MAMDANI: I've spoken about--
TRUMP: That's okay. You can just say yes. I don't mind.
November 21, 2025 at 9:10 PM
he charmed that demented old man so hard he could’ve gotten into his will lmao
absolutely incredible work
turning aftermath into a hockey website (i spoke to the skilled lehigh valley phantoms creative staff who put together this incredible evangelion intro!!)
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A Hockey Team Recreated The Evangelion Intro For A Stadium Full Of Fans
Here's how an American Hockey League team embraced anime—then went viral.
aftermath.site
November 21, 2025 at 3:39 PM
absolutely incredible work
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If releasing the Epstein files would end your presidency, then your presidency must end. It’s that simple.
November 12, 2025 at 8:42 PM
If releasing the Epstein files would end your presidency, then your presidency must end. It’s that simple.
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“Tell your children who the cowards were.”
October 27, 2025 at 10:19 PM
“Tell your children who the cowards were.”
Musk says Tesla can't replicate a human hand but sure let's say the imaginary robot can do surgery
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if your story on Elon musk's robots doesn't mention the very real possibility that thus is all stock fluffing vaporware somewhere in the first four paragraphs you are not doing journalism
Elon Musk says Optimus will be an 'incredible surgeon'
Musk said Optimus could become an"infinite money glitch" capable of driving Tesla's profits to new heights.
www.businessinsider.com
October 23, 2025 at 2:08 PM
Musk says Tesla can't replicate a human hand but sure let's say the imaginary robot can do surgery
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“We’re here peacefully protesting, looking as ridiculous as we can, just so maybe we appeal to the president because he’s a ridiculous leader that is normalizing abuse of power. And we cannot stand and act like nothing is happening.” 🦄
October 19, 2025 at 2:00 AM
“We’re here peacefully protesting, looking as ridiculous as we can, just so maybe we appeal to the president because he’s a ridiculous leader that is normalizing abuse of power. And we cannot stand and act like nothing is happening.” 🦄
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Again, this is a liquidation of the union in all but letter of the law. This is reverse secessionism engineered by a central government.
NEW: White House announces it's going to pause, and potentially cancel, $11 billion in infrastructure funding (via the Army Corps of Engineers), specifically citing cities, like New York, represented or led by Democrats. More to come.
October 17, 2025 at 7:12 PM
Again, this is a liquidation of the union in all but letter of the law. This is reverse secessionism engineered by a central government.
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we should all go out on October 18 and it's good that so many of us are planning to. but we should all start talking to each other about what we're going to do next, too - what we will withhold together if the abuses continue. we can go on offense, too!
time.com/collections/...
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Why Protests Should Be Promises
Modern movements that aim to advance racial equity should withhold and promise, rather than perform, writes Olúfẹ́mi Táíwò
time.com
October 16, 2025 at 2:29 PM
we should all go out on October 18 and it's good that so many of us are planning to. but we should all start talking to each other about what we're going to do next, too - what we will withhold together if the abuses continue. we can go on offense, too!
time.com/collections/...
time.com/collections/...
Big thanks to Marc Benioff on this one!
October 15, 2025 at 10:07 PM
Big thanks to Marc Benioff on this one!
Tired: AI is a bubble, but maybe it can do some things to make life easier for some folks
Wired: AI is a bubble butt
Wired: AI is a bubble butt
October 15, 2025 at 12:55 AM
Tired: AI is a bubble, but maybe it can do some things to make life easier for some folks
Wired: AI is a bubble butt
Wired: AI is a bubble butt
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Hey look, Israel broke the cease-fire, twice, in two different ways, within 24 hours - again.
NEW: Israel informed the UN it will permit only 300 aid trucks into Gaza daily, not the 600 mandated by the ceasefire it just signed.
October 14, 2025 at 11:34 PM
Hey look, Israel broke the cease-fire, twice, in two different ways, within 24 hours - again.
What if we just Theranos'd the whole economy? Wouldn't that be fun?
October 15, 2025 at 12:29 AM
What if we just Theranos'd the whole economy? Wouldn't that be fun?
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Sam Altman went from “AI will cure cancer" to "ChatGPT porn" in less than a month
October 14, 2025 at 6:07 PM
Sam Altman went from “AI will cure cancer" to "ChatGPT porn" in less than a month
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Dissertation ideas for people working in AI Ethics:
- Let’s Not: a thorough exploration of “What if we didn’t though?”
- This Seems Bad, Guys: providing a critical analysis of The Stuff We Are Doing.
- I Think We’ve Done Enough: why contemporary approaches are probably bad enough already.
- Let’s Not: a thorough exploration of “What if we didn’t though?”
- This Seems Bad, Guys: providing a critical analysis of The Stuff We Are Doing.
- I Think We’ve Done Enough: why contemporary approaches are probably bad enough already.
October 14, 2025 at 4:11 PM
Dissertation ideas for people working in AI Ethics:
- Let’s Not: a thorough exploration of “What if we didn’t though?”
- This Seems Bad, Guys: providing a critical analysis of The Stuff We Are Doing.
- I Think We’ve Done Enough: why contemporary approaches are probably bad enough already.
- Let’s Not: a thorough exploration of “What if we didn’t though?”
- This Seems Bad, Guys: providing a critical analysis of The Stuff We Are Doing.
- I Think We’ve Done Enough: why contemporary approaches are probably bad enough already.
Not an expert in this field by any means, but David Graeber's account of this period is compelling. Cortes and the conquistadors were in debt up to their eyeballs and had to keep turning to new frontiers (and subjugating/enslaving their people) to satisfy their creditors.
"Sapiens" is so normal for the first 70,000 years of human history but then goes absolutely buckwild as soon as it gets to colonialism
October 14, 2025 at 3:16 PM
Not an expert in this field by any means, but David Graeber's account of this period is compelling. Cortes and the conquistadors were in debt up to their eyeballs and had to keep turning to new frontiers (and subjugating/enslaving their people) to satisfy their creditors.
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You can just share my video from me instead of sharing a screen recording of my video from a content farm account that isn’t on the scene btw.
October 13, 2025 at 3:02 AM
You can just share my video from me instead of sharing a screen recording of my video from a content farm account that isn’t on the scene btw.
This goes so hard
Chicago priest Fr. Larry Dowling describes procession to ICE facility: “No one had the courage to speak directly to us. No one from Homeland Security could stand in the presence of the Monstrance holding the Blessed Sacrament. No wonder. Evil is repelled, recoils in the presence of Christ.”
October 12, 2025 at 4:17 PM
This goes so hard
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FUCK ICE FOREVER
After spending 43 years in prison for a crime he didn't commit, evidence hidden by the prosecution reversed his conviction. Rather than finally enjoying freedom, ICE abducted him for deportation
Depraved.
www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...
Depraved.
www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...
He was wrongfully imprisoned for 43 years. Moments after being released, ICE took him
Subramanyam “Subu” Vedam now faces deportation.
www.miamiherald.com
October 12, 2025 at 3:08 AM
FUCK ICE FOREVER
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Has lived in the US since he was NINE MONTHS OLD.
After spending 43 years in prison for a crime he didn't commit, evidence hidden by the prosecution reversed his conviction. Rather than finally enjoying freedom, ICE abducted him for deportation
Depraved.
www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...
Depraved.
www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...
He was wrongfully imprisoned for 43 years. Moments after being released, ICE took him
Subramanyam “Subu” Vedam now faces deportation.
www.miamiherald.com
October 12, 2025 at 3:17 AM
Has lived in the US since he was NINE MONTHS OLD.
I seem to recall a plausible thesis that they like trump and want him to rule us like a king
A classic case of irresponsible both-sidesism from the NYT. The story is that Trump and MAGA propagandists are lying about Portland to incite a conflict, not that there are different views of the matter.
October 11, 2025 at 3:55 PM
I seem to recall a plausible thesis that they like trump and want him to rule us like a king