"The author fails to consider..." :-|

New BIAD interview🔥

@lindsaygibbs.bsky.social and @classicjpow.bsky.social w dive into the WNBA’s game changing offseason, from CBA talks to the 2026 draft and the era of million dollar deals.

Watch here: youtube.com/watch?v=98ap...

A Career in Technology Policy: How to Get Started and What to Expect Technology policy sits at the intersection of law, technology, and politics. This post describes ways of entering the field, developing relevant skills, and building a sustainable career.

If you're early-career /a student /new grad wanting to pursue tech policy, @christopher-parsons.com has given you an incalculably valuable gift: a comprehensive guide, w/ his trademark thoroughness, on how. Also contains good advice for aspiring tech lawyers, & I'll add a few notes on that front 🧵:

child smiling I ride perfectly when biking to school so my councillor doesn't need political courage to build in systems where I can make mistakes. - Sarah, Age 9

the reality of road safety campaigns

@thebikinglawyer.bsky.social

A Newly Discovered Recording Lets You Hear Delta Blues Legend Robert Johnson in Stunning Clarity Great swathes of rock music since the nineteen-sixties would never have existed, we're sometimes told, were it not for the recordings of Robert Johnson. Certainly the likes of Keith Richards, Eric Cla...

A Newly Discovered Recording Lets You Hear Delta Blues Legend Robert Johnson in Stunning Clarity

As long as most other people aren't also riding them? :-)

7 Mass. shelters are waiving adoption fees for dogs of all ages this weekend Adoption fees for dogs of all ages will be waived this weekend at seven animal shelters across Massachusetts as part of a spring-themed adopt-a-thon called “Find Your Best Bud.”

7 Mass. shelters are waiving adoption fees for dogs of all ages this weekend

The Simpsons - No Homers Club YouTube video by Simpsons Best Moments

www.youtube.com/watch?v=W7rS...

The best part is the misspelling of his name. :-)

Yeah; it was certainly one of the spikier SchadenFridays that I can remember!

He keeps ridiculously restating your "Most of this is because of Rs" as if you'd said "All of this is only because of Rs."

Poster for the event at BU listing information in my post, with more available on the website linked in the first comment. WIth a picture of Koritha Mitchell

Thrilled that @profkori.bsky.social will deliver a Keynote address at Boston University in just a few weeks!!

Readings from her current project, "Blissfully Childfree: A Memoir in Letters"

Joins us if you are in town! April 29, 4pm.

As it turns out, @mayorwu.boston.gov possessed more robust polling data that debunked those claims. There is, in fact, broad support for bike and bus lanes among Boston residents.

We're now making that polling data public for the first time. Read it here:

mass.streetsblog.org/2026/04/09/i...

We're on strike! Don't visit propublica.org on April 8

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Tell ProPublica’s management you won’t cross the picket line: actionnetwork.org/petitions/te...

This Spring, Pedal Boston’s 1,100-Acre ‘Emerald Oasis’—With Free Bike Rentals, Noshes, And Scenic Blooms Get your pedal pushers ready! The Emerald Necklace Conservancy’s annual “Pedal the Necklace” spring bike ride series returns on April 18! The leisurely community bike ride is a way to get outside, exp...

Boston Uncovered: This Spring, Pedal Boston’s 1,100-Acre ‘Emerald Oasis’—With Noshes And Scenic Blooms thanks to @emnecklacebos.bsky.social

Ride Dates (10 AM):
• April 18: Franklin Park → Jamaica Pond
• May 2: Jamaica Pond → Shattuck Visitor Center
• May 9: Shattuck Visitor Center → Boston Common

North Star Data Center Policy Toolkit This policy toolkit is primarily geared toward stopping, slowing, and restricting rampant data center development in the US at the local and state level.

datacenters.ainowinstitute.org

Gilead refuses to sell groundbreaking HIV prevention drug to MSF Blocking humanitarian organizations from accessing a medical breakthrough puts vulnerable people across the world in danger.

Today, MSF is going public with something we've been fighting behind closed doors for months: Gilead will not sell us their new HIV drug, lenacapavir.

The sticking point isn't even price, they just refuse to sell.

Open letter linked + explainer 🧵1/

www.doctorswithoutborders.org/latest/gilea...

nine inch nails pretty freight machine

Best railcar graffiti I've ever seen

It was clear that you didn't agree on what the problem is, though maybe because of the lawsuit he was trying to alter the topic while pretending not to. He seems to think the problem was that the feature didn't resemble your (and the other "experts"') editorial guidance *enough*.

Homepage Anthropic Copyright Settlement

A reminder to authors: If your book was among the many titles pirated by Anthropic to train their AI, make sure to file your claim by March 30th. Your publisher will be filing, but my publishers tell me that the only way to *ensure* payment is by submitting your own valid claim. #AcademicSky 🧵1/n

They'll be visiting one of my classes this week. Yours is one of a few concerns/questions my students have prepared!

That's great! I have to remind some peers that Facebook is still a monster, in terms of account numbers and activity, even if *they* think it's terminally uncool.

I'm glad that these aren't only on TikTok!

"Deep Thinker worries about malingerers" is evergreen on these topics.

His quoted comments come immediately after a few paragraphs detailing the range of ways in which a person could be disabled and all of the con$ultation they'd have to take to receive an accommodation. The editors certainly did him no favors! :-)

The site is currently returning a 404 error. I'm excited to see what comes next! :-|

What If the Gang from Derry Girls Grew Up to Solve Mysteries? How to Get to Heaven from Belfast is a good bit of craic.

The producers and editors (and cohosts) let one of the cohosts repeatedly pronounce Roisin Gallagher's first name as "Royzin".

slate.com/podcasts/cul...

So, it's a real thing and not (just) pranking?

Yes -- in both senses of that phrase :-|

The tone seemed to be one of incredulity.