@dairyqueen.bsky.social
sf bay swimmer, knitter & inveterate reader. not the franchise!
this this this 👇
“There’s a public health imperative to quickly expand the adoption of autonomous vehicles.”
Would the author say the same about building bike lanes? Installing automatic traffic cameras? Requiring Intelligent Speed Assist?
All of those are proven to save lives — and at a fraction of AVs' cost.
Would the author say the same about building bike lanes? Installing automatic traffic cameras? Requiring Intelligent Speed Assist?
All of those are proven to save lives — and at a fraction of AVs' cost.
Opinion | Don’t Fear Self-Driving Cars. They Save Lives.
www.nytimes.com
December 2, 2025 at 3:10 PM
this this this 👇
funny - in our house we spell that "stuffed quail"!
All you need to make turkey delicious is Peking duck
November 22, 2025 at 6:00 PM
funny - in our house we spell that "stuffed quail"!
this halloween in the midst of an unrelenting torrent of bad news here in the u.s. we've had a small bright spot in our building.
one of our neighbors is in the first grade & has really embraced the holiday. he waylaid my partner in the lobby a week ago to catch him up on the countdown of days
one of our neighbors is in the first grade & has really embraced the holiday. he waylaid my partner in the lobby a week ago to catch him up on the countdown of days
October 28, 2025 at 11:35 PM
this halloween in the midst of an unrelenting torrent of bad news here in the u.s. we've had a small bright spot in our building.
one of our neighbors is in the first grade & has really embraced the holiday. he waylaid my partner in the lobby a week ago to catch him up on the countdown of days
one of our neighbors is in the first grade & has really embraced the holiday. he waylaid my partner in the lobby a week ago to catch him up on the countdown of days
hmmm maybe @golikehellmachine.com might boost this?
hi @golikehellmachine.com ! presto is an alternative streaming service for those who listen to classical & jazz, they pay per second listened. there's a link below to an article, from them, discussing the difference this can make.
hi @golikehellmachine.com ! presto is an alternative streaming service for those who listen to classical & jazz, they pay per second listened. there's a link below to an article, from them, discussing the difference this can make.
if you listen to classical or jazz, i recommend checking out presto, they pay artists per second of play:
www.prestomusic.com/classical/ar...
www.prestomusic.com/classical/ar...
Fair play - How much do different streaming services pay?
We've been analysing the various payment rates of different streaming services. Read about our discoveries and find out who pays the most (spoiler alert - it's not even close)
www.prestomusic.com
October 28, 2025 at 11:26 PM
hmmm maybe @golikehellmachine.com might boost this?
hi @golikehellmachine.com ! presto is an alternative streaming service for those who listen to classical & jazz, they pay per second listened. there's a link below to an article, from them, discussing the difference this can make.
hi @golikehellmachine.com ! presto is an alternative streaming service for those who listen to classical & jazz, they pay per second listened. there's a link below to an article, from them, discussing the difference this can make.
& we aren't (yet! i live in hope!) charging them by weight for the excess wear on our streets.
waymo has a limited rollout because it is a bad business, not a bad technology. just depreciating $60k worth of optics per car is comparably expensive to paying a guy $10/hr to drive it.
It's fascinating to me that there's a whole "AI skeptic" misinformation ecosystem out there that somehow continues to deny that Waymo exists. Like, this is easy to fact check! Waymo runs publicly-available service in 5 cities, you can just go look up how it works and see it's not planned routes!
October 7, 2025 at 6:13 PM
& we aren't (yet! i live in hope!) charging them by weight for the excess wear on our streets.
before my sardinia trip in september i had a gel manicure & damn if that auto paint esque shit did not hold up astoundingly well to 7! straight days of 1) long swim early in the morning, & 2) every additional swim i could finagle among strolls, figs, gelato & insanely good seafood.
October 5, 2025 at 9:27 PM
before my sardinia trip in september i had a gel manicure & damn if that auto paint esque shit did not hold up astoundingly well to 7! straight days of 1) long swim early in the morning, & 2) every additional swim i could finagle among strolls, figs, gelato & insanely good seafood.
finder of fact finding his whole voice here.
![And there’s the issue of masks. This Court has listened
carefully to the reasons given by Öztürk’s captors for maskingup and has heard the same reasons advanced by the defendant Todd
Lyons, Acting Director of ICE. It rejects this testimony as
disingenuous, squalid and dishonorable. ICE goes masked for a
single reason -- to terrorize Americans into quiescence. Small
wonder ICE often seems to need our respected military to guard
them as they go about implementing our immigration laws. It
should be noted that our troops do not ordinarily wear masks.
Can you imagine a masked marine? It is a matter of honor -- and
honor still matters. To us, masks are associated with cowardly
desperados and the despised Ku Klux Klan. In all our history we
have never tolerated an armed masked secret police. Carrying on
in this fashion, ICE brings indelible obloquy to this
administration and everyone who works in it. “We can not escape
history,” Lincoln righty said. “[It] will light us down in
honor or dishonor, to the latest generation.” Abraham Lincoln,
Second Annual Message to Congress (Dec. 1, 1862).](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:maiw2rfujepnphhrejytvuu5/bafkreicdotnqas7vodrueuxzi2cjg54znecjps5vjnbpgyzzxxxzf4qeya@jpeg)
September 30, 2025 at 5:52 PM
finder of fact finding his whole voice here.
@cwarzel.bsky.social @adamserwer.bsky.social as writers who publish in the atlantic, i urge you to use your access to amplify @kathleenbelew.bsky.social 's scholarship, which i frankly wish was less relevant to the moment.
www.csis.org/analysis/lef... This report is framed irresponsibly and distorts the reality of extremist violence. The header is that left-wing terror is on the rise, and of course that will be the bite-sized takeaway. (1)
Left-Wing Terrorism and Political Violence in the United States: What the Data Tells Us
The Warfare, Irregular Threats, and Terrorism Program examines the state of political violence, finding left-wing violence has risen in the last decade but from very low levels and still well below hi...
www.csis.org
September 29, 2025 at 1:30 PM
@cwarzel.bsky.social @adamserwer.bsky.social as writers who publish in the atlantic, i urge you to use your access to amplify @kathleenbelew.bsky.social 's scholarship, which i frankly wish was less relevant to the moment.
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I encourage all the media outlets who are about to send people to ”war ravaged” Portland to think twice. Some of the strongest extremism reporters in the country live in this region; journalists who understand the culture of the Northwest and the history of activism here. Do it right this time okay?
September 27, 2025 at 3:28 PM
I encourage all the media outlets who are about to send people to ”war ravaged” Portland to think twice. Some of the strongest extremism reporters in the country live in this region; journalists who understand the culture of the Northwest and the history of activism here. Do it right this time okay?
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You can blather all you want about right of way, but our infrastructure gives right of way to cars by default. They might be legally wrong when they kill me, but it doesn’t make me less dead.
September 25, 2025 at 4:33 PM
You can blather all you want about right of way, but our infrastructure gives right of way to cars by default. They might be legally wrong when they kill me, but it doesn’t make me less dead.
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Caught 2 people breaking 5/7 of your rules!
-not looking left or right
-not visible in those dark clothes
-distracted by eating
-not wearing helmets
-put themselves in danger even with the right of way
-not looking left or right
-not visible in those dark clothes
-distracted by eating
-not wearing helmets
-put themselves in danger even with the right of way
September 25, 2025 at 2:08 PM
Caught 2 people breaking 5/7 of your rules!
-not looking left or right
-not visible in those dark clothes
-distracted by eating
-not wearing helmets
-put themselves in danger even with the right of way
-not looking left or right
-not visible in those dark clothes
-distracted by eating
-not wearing helmets
-put themselves in danger even with the right of way
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Italy has moved me to tears for 3 days straight. Bravo ❤️
September 25, 2025 at 1:07 PM
Italy has moved me to tears for 3 days straight. Bravo ❤️
i didn't lend it, but my anton karas lp was not in its sleeve the morning after my pre-move-to-paris swan song party 😢😢😢
Whats a record you lent and never got back that haunts you still?
For me, my original French pressing of The Stooges “Funhouse” with the gatefold sleeve.
For me, my original French pressing of The Stooges “Funhouse” with the gatefold sleeve.
September 24, 2025 at 10:28 PM
i didn't lend it, but my anton karas lp was not in its sleeve the morning after my pre-move-to-paris swan song party 😢😢😢
one of the lasting joys of my recent trip to italy was discovering & following the soc media account of a roman yarn store, cafilan. in the end i didn't trek out to visit in person but it never fails to delight when their endless parade of glittery, fluffy, blingy yarns pops up in a feed.
September 24, 2025 at 2:03 PM
one of the lasting joys of my recent trip to italy was discovering & following the soc media account of a roman yarn store, cafilan. in the end i didn't trek out to visit in person but it never fails to delight when their endless parade of glittery, fluffy, blingy yarns pops up in a feed.
could we get the list of those who've told chotiner "thanks, but no thanks"? feel like it would be useful as an aide to talent spotting.
September 23, 2025 at 7:17 PM
could we get the list of those who've told chotiner "thanks, but no thanks"? feel like it would be useful as an aide to talent spotting.
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September 20, 2025 at 8:35 PM
i have such simple, achievable, sensible, boring desires that yet appear utterly out of reach in my lifetime in this absurd country. like why is it crazy utopian to want to board an actually *slow* train at 9 p.m. in sf, tuck myself into a sleeper berth, & wake up in union station l.a. at 7 a.m.???
September 19, 2025 at 1:25 PM
i have such simple, achievable, sensible, boring desires that yet appear utterly out of reach in my lifetime in this absurd country. like why is it crazy utopian to want to board an actually *slow* train at 9 p.m. in sf, tuck myself into a sleeper berth, & wake up in union station l.a. at 7 a.m.???
hi @marisakabas.bsky.social excellent follow up question below 👇
I’m told by a vet that armed often doesn’t include ammunition. Seems like an important question for a reporter. Huge escalation either way, but we need as much precision as we can get.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has ordered National Guard troops patrolling the streets of Washington, D.C., to be armed
August 22, 2025 at 4:30 PM
hi @marisakabas.bsky.social excellent follow up question below 👇
California needs to compete in Eurovision.
The United States is taking part in Russia’s version of the Eurovision Song Contest, alongside a sizable number of dictatorships.
US to take part in Russia’s answer to Eurovision
Singer B. Howard will join acts from Belarus, Cuba and Venezuela at event in Moscow.
www.politico.eu
August 21, 2025 at 7:22 PM
California needs to compete in Eurovision.
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I am one of the 14 authors who chose to leave the Polari Prize, and I find myself frustrated and saddened at the way this entire story has been represented. 1/
John Boyne says LGBTQ+ fiction prize backlash brought him ‘close to the edge’
John Boyne says LGBTQ+ fiction prize backlash brought him ‘close to the edge’
Gender critical novelist urges writers to reenter prize they boycotted and may ask judges not to shortlist his novella
The gender critical Irish novelist John Boyne has said he has been brought “very close to the edge” by the backlash to his inclusion on the longlist for a literary prize for LGBTQ+ authors.
Ten authors and two judges withdrew from the Polari prize and more than 800 writers and publishing industry workers signed a petition calling on Polari to remove Boyne’s novella Earth from its longlist. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
August 15, 2025 at 9:58 AM
I am one of the 14 authors who chose to leave the Polari Prize, and I find myself frustrated and saddened at the way this entire story has been represented. 1/
eternally grateful that my 84 yr old dad sends cc his children on emails to the local pu radio station re the credulousness of the morning/interview call in show hosts towards rightwing bs. 💓💓💓 know so many who've lost parents to the rightwing/conspiracist swamp
August 12, 2025 at 5:08 PM
eternally grateful that my 84 yr old dad sends cc his children on emails to the local pu radio station re the credulousness of the morning/interview call in show hosts towards rightwing bs. 💓💓💓 know so many who've lost parents to the rightwing/conspiracist swamp
@walterscheidel.bsky.social 's escape from rome is an extremely interesting though (in this moment) nerve-wracking read, found this particularly alarming 👇
August 11, 2025 at 1:17 AM
@walterscheidel.bsky.social 's escape from rome is an extremely interesting though (in this moment) nerve-wracking read, found this particularly alarming 👇
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It would be inaccurate to say that at least one person is dead because the secretary of health and human services is a conspiracist creep. Partly because 80 Samoan children are also dead because of that fact
August 9, 2025 at 11:11 PM
It would be inaccurate to say that at least one person is dead because the secretary of health and human services is a conspiracist creep. Partly because 80 Samoan children are also dead because of that fact
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One of the more under appreciated events that made possible the explosion in small-scale touring radical fringe theatre of the late sixties and seventies was the invention of the Ford Transit in 1965. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Beloved by bands and bank robbers, the Ford Transit turns 60
The world's best-selling van has been in production since 1965.
www.bbc.co.uk
August 9, 2025 at 10:47 AM
One of the more under appreciated events that made possible the explosion in small-scale touring radical fringe theatre of the late sixties and seventies was the invention of the Ford Transit in 1965. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
this is a very short & extremely important thread, please read 👇
NYT reporting today that the admin. is planning to use the U.S. military ag/ cartels. This has actually been in the works for awhile as I argued in this Foreign Affairs piece from April.
It's part of what I see as an effort to politicize the military and transform it into a partisan force. 1/
It's part of what I see as an effort to politicize the military and transform it into a partisan force. 1/
August 8, 2025 at 4:26 PM
this is a very short & extremely important thread, please read 👇