Removing all the buildings would do wonders for emergency response times.

Of course they are concentration camps. And @anatosaurus.bsky.social is right that once you accept the euphemism you are halfway to normalizing the thing.

SLC wants to make it safer to cross the street to a long-awaited park. A new state law adds a hurdle to improvements. A new state law is complicating efforts to get pedestrian safety upgrades around Glendale Regional Park, a neighborhood leader says.

The first victim of Utah’s SB 242 is a road narrowing and crosswalk to give access to Salt Lake City’s newest regional park. It’s a dangerous street where a 6 year old was recently hit by a driver. I hope our GOP legislators feel proud

We are still murdering people in the Caribbean almost daily.

Personally, I would rather see green public parks and dry home lawns... But maybe that's just the socialist in me. /s

Air it all out.

There's a Lord of the Rings neighborhood in Kearns

Years from now there are going to be pop-econ bros getting book deals and television spots with titles like "the guy that predicted the AI crash" as if it wasn't straightforwardly obvious to anyone standing more than ten feet away from a boardroom already.

The study also shows that CEOs were prone to overinflating estimates of how AI would change their company, while daily workers (who actually have a more detailed understanding of what tasks CEOs think the LLMs could take over) were much more skeptical.

Firm Data on AI Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, an...

Related: NBER study shows 90% of CEOs admit AI had no impact on productivity or employment.

www.nber.org/papers/w34836

There may yet be an unemployment spike because of LLMs, but it's more likely to be caused by the ultimate collapse of massive over-investment into the AI bubble.

These CEOs are playing Jenga with the economy and bragging about the how tall the tower is getting.

The US has a car bloat problem, and it is costing Americans billions.

The average cost of a new car in the US is $50K.

The average EV in China costs $25K, with options available on the market (new!) as low as $7,500.

A question for American historians: were the Robber Barons of the 19th century as corrupt as the technofascist billionaires of the 21st century?

I know it’s probably hard to calculate, but someone should calculate the excess deaths associated with the second Trump presidency. Defunding mRNA research and other medical research, defunding USAID, ICE’s actions, wars overseas, defunding healthcare and social services… the list goes on

Scientists warn that no adaptation measure can sustain Venice as rising sea levels threaten to swallow the city.
➡️ https://l.euronews.com/ZzbG

Far Side comic: “through a gross navigational error, the Love Boat steams into the Strait of Hormuz.

Gary Larson was joking about this almost 40 years ago!

Did the Legislature break the law by disclosing complaint against Supreme Court justice? The governor and legislative leaders plan to investigate allegations against Supreme Court Justice Diana Hagen that were dismissed by the Judicial Conduct Commission. But did the House break the law when it released the confidential investigative report?

The governor and legislative leaders plan to investigate allegations against Supreme Court Justice Diana Hagen that were dismissed by the Judicial Conduct Commission. But did the House break the law when it released the confidential investigative report?

I don’t think we talk nearly enough about the fact that corporations like Amazon, don’t pay a single cent to maintain the roads they use, the transportation system they use, the courts they use, they pay nothing for the infrastructure that is absolutely critical to their business.

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The Inside Story of Five Days That Remade the Supreme Court

All right, this piece has triggered me so I have to yell a bit (though this is bluesky, so I realize I'm just preaching at the choir):

Zero-sum games are a poor way to think about urban planning and growth.

Utah has the 2nd highest per-capita water use in the nation. Maybe revisit that before telling people that their grandkids have to leave the state because you aren't willing to water your lawn less?

Why are Koch-funded activists trying to derail a US city's public transit? Phoenix will vote Tuesday on a light rail system expansion. It faces opposition from business owners backed by activists affiliated with the Koch network

“Koch brother groups have tried to derail public transit plans in other cities around the country, from Little Rock, Arkansas and central Utah, to Nashville and Michigan. They have frequently called such projects ‘wasteful spending’. The Koch organization is also heavily invested in fossil fuels.”

Worth clicking through for the context 😆

Even then—it's always worth packing extra! I can carry an extra ounce or two for comfort

Trump, IRS In Talks To Settle U.S. President's $10 Billion Lawsuit Trump's adult sons, Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump, and the Trump Organization are also plaintiffs.

Trump is reported close to a "deal" with himself under which US taxpayers would pay him $10 billion.

I served in multiple communist and authoritarian dictatorships, but I never witnessed corruption on this scale or this blatant.

Judge Orders Colorado to Stop Throwing Prisoners in Solitary for Refusing to Work Years after voters amended the state’s constitution to ban forced labor in prison, a court ruling could finally make Colorado change how prison guards “compel and coerce” work.

An advocate to end forced prison labor hopes a recent court ruling will finally stop Colorado prisons from sending people to solitary confinement for refusing to work. But, she cautions, “there’s going to have to be a lot more pushing.”

Trump illegally coerced Apple and Facebook into removing ICE tracking devices that citizens have every right to use, rules federal judge. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

We Forget About ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ at Our Peril The abuses are piling up, and Democrats and activists are desperate to get the word out.

"'It’s a vile, disgusting place that you would never want anyone you care about to spend five minutes in, let alone be warehoused in cages there.'"

Do you want more money for fixing roads? For better schools? Improved parks? Then stop fighting infill development.

‘Very little credibility’: Claims against Supreme Court justice found to be ‘misleading’. Cox, GOP lawmakers investigating anyway. Republican lawmakers and Gov. Cox are investigating if Justice Diana Hagen had an inappropriate relationship — claims a Utah commission already found to have “very little credibility.”

The bipartisan Judicial Conduct Commission investigated and found allegations against Supreme Court Justice Diana Hagen to be “speculative, overstated, and misleading” and to have “very little credibility.”

Spencer Cox and GOP leaders say they’ll launch their own investigation anyway.