clara

Tolls would fix this in days

it's like every year they put out a survey "do u like bus🥺" YES I FUCKING LOVE THE BUS RUN EM MORE DAMMIT

a serious problem tbh

YOU - I'm currently in-between names.

Josh Mark just authored a terrific piece about Chicago’s bizarre system of putting 50 mini mayors in charge of infrastructure procurement for each of their districts. With an equal budget! citythatworks.substack.com/p/the-city-d...

"Also if you do anything to lower property value, even if that will be good for delivering on my demand for lower property taxes, you are disadvantaging me, so don't build apartments near me ever" "hey all the kids grew up why is school enrollment sagging" "what do you mean close the school"

(The top left hole has two pigeons) #critterposting

I did my part! Took the @nitachicago.bsky.social survey cc: @starlinechicago.bsky.social

Imagine if instead of regulating drone risks the normal way (which we did), we instead paid weird bloggers lots of money to worry about superintelligent dogs sprouting thumbs and using drones to kill us. This is pretty much how the US is approaching AI risks and regulations. My latest:

please ignore the pile of disposed of women

I think this scene preys hard, both intentionally and unintentionally, on people who have stuff resembling morality OCD

although: finding Scott Alexander more "likeable" and accessible than Yud? couldn't be me, I'm built different (Yud is my Wario)

Once of the biggest issues we face right now is lack of snake capacity.

existential risk from AI is Srs Business 🤡

like, what would matter to *you* if you needed to take the bus to work every day? what would matter to *you* if it was your kid in that classrom? what if it was *you* that was waiting in holding to talk to a public defender?

Wait a minute! This lesbian bar doesn’t require KN-95 masks!

Right now, WAY too many resources and way too much attention are going to largely silly Hypothetical Futuristic AI Doom Scenarios - because that's what the AI Millenarian Death Cult cares about - instead of actual, right-now, AI harms. And they've been getting away with it for too long.

igiWA g

phew. glad that's over.

I almost forgot this part: Here's Eliezer Yudkowsky in Time Magazine in 2023, advocating in favor of risking nuclear war over his hobby subject.

the old world came in a fluffer. the new world struggles to pass the autofilter. now is the time of monsters.

sickos_yes.jpg blockclubchicago.org/2026/09/15/a...

not to be dramatic but this is one of the stupidest things i’ve ever read news.wttw.com/2026/06/30/w...

if you ever wonder how Americans became the richest major country on the planet but most of us still feel so poor, looking at what we spend on cars — not just directly but in tax money for infrastructure and space in the built environment — is the answer.