A Nissan Sentra weighs a little more than 3,000 pounds (I picked a small, common car)
An Aventon Level 3 E-bike weighs 67 pounds (plus rider weight)
These things do not pose remotely the same risk when traveling at 28 mph. I am begging people to understand basic physics.
I am in awe of how low the hood is, it's startling after all the giant six-foot-high front grilles now.
Happy Earth Day.
Nothing has killed more soldiers in the history of humanity than disease. While worst is a more complicated question Hegseth is absolutely the dumbest secretary of defense the United States has ever had. bsky.app/profile/ones...
I keep hearing that we are expecting an exponential growth in energy use due to AI like it's some phenomenon that we have no control over and it makes me so fucking angry. We don't have to do it!! We can choose not to do this and not to lose all we've gained in the clean energy transition! fuck!!
Naming my security company after the giant evil eye that, crucially, was too distracted to see the actual threat sneaking in
Hey, Beshear, Lis Smith, & associated Majority Dem-types:
If you want to kill group-speak, how about we start with “officer-involved shooting,” “ice agent involved-shooting,” “weaponized vehicle” & other mealy-mouthed obfuscations of state-sanctioned murder?
I’ll never forget watching The Wicker Man with my outer Hebridean mum. “I just don’t know where there got all that wicker from”
This is a valid point: whenever you see this sort of high-pressure sales tactic turned on a technology, you can be CERTAIN that it's a fake—actually useful new tech sells itself!
And don't underestimate the effectiveness of FOMO as a tool in the hands of a con artist.
When the Nats get behind, they do not just lay down and go to sleep, which is more than I can say for certain other teams in their current miseries.
As a tall person I cannot offer to reach something on a high shelf for a stranger, yet if they ask me I must oblige. This is the law of the giants
We're watching the open web as it existed die in real time.
OpenAI: We’re burning money like the Joker. A miracle needs to happen for us to turn a profit
Microsoft: Please please use our AI systems, we’re teetering on the edge here
Anthropic: I wonder what’ll kill us first: lawsuits, regulations or model collapse
Media and universities: AI is here to stay
i've started taking notes again on paper, fountain pen and paper.
it really helps me stay organized
the cat is standing down in memory of his past life as an Italian anti-fascist guerrilla
Ole stands in Heirot bearing a great severed arm before him.
Lena looks up from salting cod and asks, “Ole, how do you have that smelly old thing now?”
“Well Lena,” Ole replied, “when I caught the beast Grendel in a grip o strong he could not break free, he says, I really gotta hand it to you!”
I respect anyone trying to be happy and make a living in the current global horrors, but I've got to say I get an ick at "this is Native Welsh Traditional Wellbeing" and what it primarily seems to be is...Yoga?
You do not have an inalienable right to be governor of California! That right is in fact extremely alienable!
not a SINGLE goddamn ONE
I could not come up with a more perfect way to state the rot at the core of US society than "But I do have a feeling sometimes I'm just gonna make this one not apply to me”
Somewhere freedom morphed into entitlement and entitlement morphed into impunity and impunity gave rise to fascism
A+
as @profgabriele.com says ... PLEASE STOP MAKING MEDIEVALISTS SO RELEVANT
All bloody principles and practices, as to our own particulars, we utterly deny; with all outward wars and strife, and fightings with outward weapons, for any end, or under any pretense whatsoever; this is our testimony to the whole world.
The Luddites were the good guys!
Technically skilled masters of their textile crafts, they opposed wealthy industrial speculators who forced workers (including children) to give up control over their future and toil in Blake’s “dark satanic mills.”
In this AI moment, we can learn a lot from them.
Mind you, federal income taxes are the lowest they’ve been in generations AND we have the biggest income and wealth gap since the Napoleonic Wars AND the social safety net in America is an absolute shambles
in australia there are beetles which are not mating because beer bottles look more like their ideal mate than any beetle. donald trump is like that but for guys who watch fox news
the Weezer "Buddy Holly" video is a (now 3-decade-old) 90s artifact nostalgically referencing a 70s artifact that itself is nostalgically referencing the 50s and i have a headache
maybe the time has come to just greenlight some new IPs ffs, it's a great story, people have also written other stories since 1954
