Because of the choices made by the state legislature, the MBTA spends a quarter of its annual revenues just on debt service.
"It's basically Klarna, for public transit."
To make our transit system work, we need to fix that. And we need state reps who will push for change to make it happen.
Schools are like "hey lock up your cell phones they're too damaging to the learning process. now please open up your lying plagiarism machine and start generating content"
Data centers are way less offensive than people currently seem inclined to believe right now.
Yeah, I do not understand what the idea behind giving tax breaks to data centers at all. Completely counter productive.
ooh, where did you race?
I grew up near a half mile dirt track, and it makes me sad that there's nothing within driving distance that compares.
it's kinda funny that my response to this is "you are considered to have *more* patience with idiots being idiots?" and also "Oh, right, I know who we're talking about here, nevermind" ;)
(no real shade, talking to idiots thoughtfully is an extremely hard to develop skill. just chuckling.)
heads up to @rahaeli.bsky.social that this passed the house 129-25, so it feels like a foregone conclusion that this passes, for your tracking list.
I think that the core reason for having the bill is bad *and* the implementation is bad. Thankfully, my rep voted no, but it's not even close (129-25 in favor), so that isn't particularly relevant.
This is garbage law.
Why do you think this will be thrown out in court? Can you point to a similar law hich has been thrown out in court?
“Better on average, with worse outliers” (e.g. bad interactions with emergency vehicles, bad interactions when cell service breaks down are both failure modes that are worse than human drivers)
Screenshot of a statistics page, showing "Highest Rating: 1003", and a graph heading steadily up over the past 7 days.
eyyyy.
(First time I've had a rapid Elo of over 1000 in Chess on chess.com.)
I think they’re doubling the number of e-bikes this year, from what I’ve heard.
You establish legislative requirements for the grid costs to be borne by the user, as the local government did in this case.
"AES will supply power to the 75-megawatt center, with Metrobloks agreeing to pay for 100% of fiber and energy infrastructure upgrades needed."
Station density is absolutely the key element to effective bikeshare usage. You can see from a density plot of where Bluebikes travel that having highly connected/interlinked stations creates opportunities for travel, while more remote areas with fewer stations simply can't compete.
More stations!
A random meme image with text on top of it "Shout out to Civic minded Camberville Residents named Chris. Gotta be one of my favorite genders."
The Somerville discord knows where it's at.
yeah, and acyn and aaron rupar are largely "reporting on the things that trump says", so they're kinda blue-coded but mostly they're repeating right-wing generated (mis)information, so they're not really all that blue either.
Like, it sucks that these people's water is fucked. But it kinda makes me angry that the people *responsible for putting the chemicals in the ground in the first place* are probably going to get away with it scot free, even while Amazon actually helps a little towards solving the problem.
So, there's been 40 years of increasing nitrates in groundwater because of fertilizer/chemical plant runoff in this area, but Amazon (which does neither) is footing the bill because using the groundwater is claimed to make it worse.
Seems to me more like they found someone with deep pockets.
Sometimes! I don't know that Google actually charges anything for sites.research.google/gr/greenlight/ , I think it's just a "Research partnership" without any direct costs to the cities (though I could be wrong).
tbh, "AI-powered signal timing" is a great way to tell people that the signal timing is based on Science(tm), and build political will from an appeal to authority. Sure, you could have done it before, but now you can pay a vendor $200k and claim it's better (even if it's exactly the same).
(which doesn't mean that your assessment is wrong, just that the timing of this preparation does not give us an indication that this is happening *now*; it could happen any time, but this policy has already been in place for weeks.)
This policy was already in place on March 13th of this year. (I went looking for imagery from Planet after the strike on Kharg, and the fact that Iran was being voluntarily restricted was on the website then.) I'm assuming that Eliot just got it because he asked for something that was in the AOI.
No better time to get an e-bike!
o/~ The study behind this article is bullshit o/~
The points it makes about "urban heat island" effect have nothing to do with data centers at all.
(I'm just gonna say this again every time I see this study come across my feed. I know no one cares, but it's all I can do.)
I think it is believed to be true of Reddit. Video platforms are a different beast.
i mean, have you seen the vibes of the world right now? hardly a surprise that there's a lot less to "like" going on at the moment!!
tbf, outlook is a desktop mail client? i used it with my own mail server back in the day.
@somershade.bsky.social is right there with you, i think.
incredible comment on one of my youtube videos
I think it's unlikely that they got an AI-hallucinated dataset of 11000 data centers, with lat/lngs *and* construction dates. I'm sure that they have a dataset they got from somewhere, and who knows, maybe the IEA report used to have a different download. But I don't think it's reproducible now.