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Lights, trains, cameras, software, bikes, kayaks, drones, micromobility, and probably a bunch more I'm forgetting about. #BanCars #BuildTransit He/Him Signal: @redbassett.01
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When we finally got a smaller fiber ISP in town Spectrum not only started lowering prices to compete but also finally upgraded our local cable infrastructure to support residential gigabit plans.
Comcast has historically capitalized on a lack of competition for high-speed wired broadband, but a new class of fixed wireless providers and fiber providers has made things more difficult for the company: arstechnica.visitlink.me/ysdOq6
There are nuances to everything, but this list of technologies do not have nearly the same physical resource or cultural and political externalities as generative AI. You will be hard pressed to use the major AI tools available without relying on stolen art and information and funding more of it.
I wish more people understood that using AI and being generally in favor of a technology does not equate to supporting any and all usage/implementation of that technology. We all already understand this about computers, the internet, software, cameras, GPS, pharma, etc.
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More Red Line passengers can soon expect faster travel times. The MBTA will increase speeds from North Quincy to JFK to 50 miles an hour, MBTA General Manager and Interim Transportation Secretary Phil Eng said Thursday, as he also touted higher top speeds on the Orange Line.
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Business Insider confirms it: Amazon has warehouses of GPUs that can’t be installed, and is buying them so far in advance that a supply chain team said they “didn’t have a clear forecasted path” to installing them. www.businessinsider.com/amazon-220-b...
Free newsletter: I estimate that ~50% of AI chip sales - $200bn to $300bn+ - are sitting in warehouses, with NVIDIA selling hundreds of billions of GPUs years in advance. Data centers take way longer to build than hyperscalers are leading us to believe. www.wheresyoured.at/wherere-all-the-ai-chips/
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Fun fact about roads: there are far more overhead obstructions than most people realize, many of them not clearly visible from inside a vehicle.
I think the funniest thing about the flying tesla is the assumption that people wouldn't use the product to try to skip traffic and destroy the cars in front of them with the jets while taking off. that's literally all people would use it for!
I can actually partially answer why so dark. One of my clients that had a bad habit of taking the under-paid video jobs asked me to work as a gaffer on a gig in western Maine. Due to previous experiences, I asked them if it was a political gig and they admitted it was for Carlson at his home studio.
i mean the horse thing aside he looks and acts pretty bonkers here why is he so sweaty why is the room so dark
Charitably this covers scraping data to generate link previews, but also this is Meta we're talking about, there's gotta be an AI training play here too.
you can't be serious. This reads Meta/Facebook/Insta is looking to grant itself the rights to scrape websites across the open web - and train Meta's AI - if a company after Oct 30, 2026 uses Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp or other Meta services. So every biz. Read that again. Outrageous. 1/5
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I've struggled for years in how to effectively do my job covering Starlink's impact on the inflight connectivity world against the backdrop of Musk's behavior. That keeps getting harder.
Nobody at SpaceX with an ounce of self-awareness can be surprised to see the EU prioritizing tech sovereignty when Elon Musk can't resist treating Starlink as an instrument of his personal foreign policy.
Phrase uttered by @rhgarner.bsky.social, one of the few people I would expect to say this sentence.
Good point here, all those unlicensed and uninsured bike riders must be racking up millions of dollars in uninsured damages! Will they continue to take no responsibility for the carnage they cause?!
This won’t be popular but I don’t care - as a driver I am tired of having people who may or may not have a DL pretend that the rules of the road do not apply to them, while carrying no insurance & taking no responsibility for whatever happens. Bike lanes are just a beginning.
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Replying to @kavi.bsky.social
When I first heard about AI being used for menus and advertisements, my concern was largely that it would be used to idealize the food and make it look better than it actually was. At no point did I imagine that restaurants would willingly put out horrific looking images of their food on purpose
Riding a vehicle the width of your body powered by your own muscles at a speed that would be hard pressed to kill anyone? Don't take up too much space!
I move over or slow way down for cyclists, as I understand you have very little protection. Are you the type of cyclist that is respectful to car drivers and take up as little of the road as possible or the type that is offended we are on the same roadway you are traveling?
This week at work the team out in multiple Uber Eats orders for crew meals and as the one team member who has a modern phone and uses Firefox but doesn't have an Uber account (meaning I'm ordering via website rather than app), the whole experience was unusable and someone else had to enter my order.
it’s 2026 how are we still doing the thing where website content popping into place during page load pushes buttons down the screen causing misclicks
Listening to the @nogodsnomayors.com Stuyvesant episode in interactive audio guide mode: Started while passing through Hudson Yards so The Vessel is mentioned right as I walk by it, pausing it for a few hours, resuming on my train north so Hartford is mentioned as we depart New Haven for Hartford.
Weirdly, yeah, I would call the guy who intentionally hit my bike with his massive pickup truck because he was angry at being told he couldn't park in a bike lane "violence"
Cycling activists would get a ton more public support if they avoided framing debates over things like bike lanes like this. Emphasize SAFETY, yes. Bike lanes make cities better. They can even make DRIVING better, by reducing congestion. Invoking 'violence' in ways most people won't buy isn't it.
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Harvard just dropped a study AI productivity in software engineering and it found the average increase in productivity from using Claude code is.....zero and for exactly the reasons you'd think fion.ac/jellyfish.pdf
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RIP Margret Hamilton aka rope mother. Thanks for getting us to the moon. And she did it all without an LLM or even stack overflow. A true legend. news.mit.edu/2026/margare...
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NYC is opening 160 car-free (but treat-filled) streets and plazas to enjoy fun and safe fall festivities this spooky season. Find one near you at nyc.gov/trickorstreets.
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Never forget when Shoup taught us that the value of parking spaces in the USA is likely more than the value of all the roads and all the cars that drive on them.
Sort of insane fact about how broken US urban planning is—America now spends more building *just the lights for roads and highways* than on all subways & ground mass transit combined Spending on roadway *pavement* is 18x transit spending