It's basically offensive to suggest replacing the iconic and functional pedestrian tunnel with what I can only generously call Gen AI slop.
Feel very free to send your comments
about Project No. 0301-0522
to UnionStationPlatforms@ct.gov
www.newhavenindependent.org/2026/04/17/4...
Dear @papajohnspizza.bsky.social,I do not need an AI assistant to order pizza on an app. I do not need AI anywhere near my pizza.
It's basically offensive to suggest replacing the iconic and functional pedestrian tunnel with what I can only generously call Gen AI slop.
Feel very free to send your comments
about Project No. 0301-0522
to UnionStationPlatforms@ct.gov
www.newhavenindependent.org/2026/04/17/4...
A crate on the front of a bike with a sticker that says “my other bike is a bike” and another sticker of a running greyhound dog that says “zoomies”
New sticker day.
Loving the Suicidal Tendencies lyrics on side of abandoned cinema in Hartford
six volume collection rainbow themed covers Purple: In These Dark Machines Blue: We Rewrite the Future Green: In the Garden of Our Friends Yellow: Where the Sun is Also Fire Orange: There Will Be Weirdness Red: There Will Be Hope
One of the great things about self-publishing is that you can just decide to do something...like make a six volume collection of short stories with rainbow covers that spans your 15 year journey writing cyberpunk to solarpunk (and a little weirdness and subversive lit along the way).
#selfpublishing
I wish it was more common for people to listen to the cyclists in their life, rather than say things like, "Aren't you scared? Isn't it dangerous?"
Sign at Village Square Drive and Route 71 that reads "PEDESTRIANS CROSS AT CROSSWALK"
There is something extra shitty about telling pedestrians to cross at crosswalk and then not bothering to provide a walk signal.
It goes without saying that motorists are allowing to turn right on red.
Anyone have suggestions for where to build a new personal academic website these days, preferably for free or cheap? I had a beautiful web page on weebly but it was costing too much.
Disgusting stroad.
Drivers have killed 10 pedestrians/cyclists so far this year in Connecticut.
The most recent preventable death happened last night on Route 71 in New Britain at the intersection with Village Square Dr. by Target.
www.realhartford.org/pedestrian-m...
#CrashNotAccident #VisionZero #SafeStreetsCT
baby near staircase with no baby sign and white line in front of stairs. City transportation official opts for white line and signage instead of gate to keep their baby off the stairs.
City transportation official opts for white line and signage instead of gate to keep their baby off the stairs.
Disgusting stroad.
Drivers have killed 10 pedestrians/cyclists so far this year in Connecticut.
The most recent preventable death happened last night on Route 71 in New Britain at the intersection with Village Square Dr. by Target.
www.realhartford.org/pedestrian-m...
#CrashNotAccident #VisionZero #SafeStreetsCT
Until 2023, this is how it was commemorated. This is why monuments matter. www.nbcnews.com/news/nbcblk/...
Map showing where motorists have killed 8 pedestrians and 1 cyclist in Connecticut so far this year.
Three things you can do to reduce fatal pedestrian and cyclist crashes in Connecticut:
www.realhartford.org/2026/04/16/s...
Screenshot of website showing post title "Riding Rapid Transit to Coffee Shops" with picture of green and gray CTfastrak bus using busway
Scone and iced beverage in mug on table with vase of flowed and the book "Let This Radicalize You"
Overflowing foamy hot beverage in mug on table in coffee shop with exposed brick walls and people in background
You actually don't need a car when there's the People's Limo.
Here's how to use CTfastrak to reach coffee shops
www.realhartford.org/2026/04/12/b...
Macro photo of two young fiddlehead fern fronds, tightly curled, which recently pushed through the mulch. Tiny pinnules are tightly compacted inside the spiral fronds
A top view of one of the fronds from the previous image. The macro lens has a very shallow depth of field, so the only things I’m focus are the tightly curled pinnules
Emerging
The fiddlehead ferns are making an appearance in the backyard #spring #wisconsin #nativeplants #nature #EastCoastKin #ECK #photography #bloomscrolling #macrophotography
Map showing where motorists have killed 8 pedestrians and 1 cyclist in Connecticut so far this year.
Three things you can do to reduce fatal pedestrian and cyclist crashes in Connecticut:
www.realhartford.org/2026/04/16/s...
(It did pass, and is on to the House. Posting this article because it gets more into the details of the bill and what got cut)
The photo contains a graphic of a laptop with Earth Day & climate protesters, animals, plants, and the Earth emerging from the screen. The photo reads: "BIG ANNOUNCEMENT! VIRTUAL & ACCESSIBLE EARTH DAY 2026 RALLY, ORGANIZED BY STAND UP FOR SCIENCE, Wednesday, April 22, 2026 - 8PM ET. LINK IN BIO" The photo also contains the Stand Up for Science and EARTHDAY.ORG logos.
Stand Up for Science is organizing a Virtual & Accessible Earth Day 2026 Rally!
Wednesday, April 22, 8PM ET.
Hear from lawmakers, scientists, advocates, activists, and diverse intersectional voices as we fight to defend our planet and save our science.
Register at zurl.co/PLSj5
#EarthDay
Creative grievances against AI art aren’t just “AI Art Bad”.
It’s the social, personal, political, and aesthetic costs of substituting human creativity with algorithms trained on stolen work - while imposing these tools and content on us without consent.
Screenshot of website showing post title "Riding Rapid Transit to Coffee Shops" with picture of green and gray CTfastrak bus using busway
Scone and iced beverage in mug on table with vase of flowed and the book "Let This Radicalize You"
Overflowing foamy hot beverage in mug on table in coffee shop with exposed brick walls and people in background
You actually don't need a car when there's the People's Limo.
Here's how to use CTfastrak to reach coffee shops
www.realhartford.org/2026/04/12/b...
Nobody should be looking at anything except the road when they're behind the wheel. Memorize the directions like we did back in the day or find another way get around.
This ad where the Secretary of Transportation, who could regulate touch screens in cars in a way that would make driving safer, instead tells people to pay more attention. Woo. It's some shit.
A John Wick style movie but it's just a driver getting revenge on every bicyclist who passed them in traffic
La Pausa in GastroPark by Elmwood Station
Latte in a ceramic mug by a potted plant at La Pausa inside GastroPark in Elmwood section of West Hartford
New coffee shop:
- by BRT
- in an existing building
- that uses real mugs and cups
- and is good
I Work Very Hard, And I Would Like To Try Cake By A Horse Hello. I am a horse. I work very hard at my job of being a horse. When humans say move the heavy thing, I move the heavy thing. When humans sit on top of me and pull on my head, I carry them where they want to go. The main food the humans give me is hay and oats. But I am thinking it would be nice to have a different food. I am thinking I would like to try cake. Yes, yes. Cake. I know all about it. When humans eat cake, it is in glad times. It is the food for a celebration, such as when a woman becomes 47. I have seen cake on the Fourth of July. When humans have a cake, they stand around it and clap hands and smile and say happy birthday at each other. Sometimes there are beautiful markings on a cake, such as balloons or a pink shape. Sometimes the top of a cake is on fire and a boy must blow on the fire with mouth wind. This is the scariest cake. I do not want this kind. But I will eat any other cake. Any cake that is not the fire cake that tries to kill the boy. Please understand: I do not get money for doing work. I do not get to go inside the house. All I am either doing my horse job or standing in my pen or eating food off the floor. I always do these things. But I have never once gotten cake and I would like it very much. I have noticed that human children get to eat cake. But I am bigger than the children. I am more helpful to the farm. Children do not move the heavy things like me or let anyone ride on them. And yet they get cake. Maybe the humans will realize this. Maybe they will say, "You know who deserves cake? That horse. That horse whose back we are always on." Every day I dream about what it will be like if I get to eat cake. Here is what will happen. First, I will walk to the cake and putt my nose at it like hrrfff to make and stomping my hooves to make sure it is not a snake. Then I will trot in a circle to show that I am a horse and I am large. After that, I will nuzzle the cake to …
The horse op-ed is an instant classic. I can't tell you how much joy this piece gives me.
It should be taught in every introductory writing class in no small part because the horse arguments are so compelling. "I have noticed that human children get to eat cake. But I am bigger than the children."
🚨New preprint and our results are rather concerning..
We find the "boiling frog" equivalent of AI use. Using large-scale RCTs, we provide *casual* evidence that AI assistance reduces persistence and hurts independent performance.
And these effects emerge after just 10–15 minutes of AI use!
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