He’s the son of a NYT journalist/Slate podcaster/Yale fellow and a Yale professor. Not even precocious, just straight up nepo baby.

Murderbot, Foundation

Cars driven by people pollute more than the new self-driving cars, and when they are parked they are empty and take up tremendous amounts of valuable public space. We are already filling out streets with empty, polluting cars.

When someone drives their own car in the city, they contribute to traffic and use space on the road in two segments: 1) going somewhere (normal contribution to traffic) and 2) driving around crowded areas for 5-30 minutes looking for parking. Waymos etc. only contribute to #1.

In cities where street parking is underpriced (which is to say, most of them), there are plenty of cars driving around looking for parking at any given moment.

Mood Ring was/is my “coping with fascism” song 🫠

My work laptop has one and it’s not all it’s cracked up to be. To get it to fit, the overall keyboard is smaller and the key spacing is weird. I have a hard time typing on it.

I have doubts about my MAGA family members changing their minds but I would like to have some gracious words ready if they do. I haven’t figured out what those words are yet.

Is this real? I can’t find it…

I’m dying to know if you interact with Douthat in any capacity as colleagues.

On the other hand, tying coverage to employment makes leaving your job a lot scarier, taking power from employees to demand better wages, conditions etc.

Spicy fried chicken sandwich is a top tier fast food experience.

BART cut-and-cover standard-gauge Geary subway, please and thank you!

Honestly I think this is something AI would be so good for. Operator dictates, AI tidies it up so it can be put up on the screens and announced in a clear voice.

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