That One Other Guy

Not even by a far shot.

Daniel Pemberton and David Byrne wrote a song about Elon Musk for Alex Gibney's documentary. TikTok took it down and canceled the entire account for the film. So Pemberton encouraged those of us lucky enough to see him perform today to share it. youtu.be/WAvdN-JSUFU?...

❗❗❗Mark Zuckerberg's meta just suspended the No Kings Instagram account. I just rushed back from my local No Kings to jump on this. Bottom line, would be helpful for all pro-No Kings folks to elevate the issue and help us get the word out about No Kings today. The Nerd Reich strikes again.

As Measles cases hit a 35 year high, as a senseless war rages on with no exit plan, as gas climbs to record highs, and the Epstein files remain secret, the U.S. Senate is holding a hearing today to yell at Dr. Fauci and again push horse dewormer on the American public.

We've been in the ripping-the-copper-wiring-out-of-the-walls era of society for awhile now. There's no attempts to make anything better. There's no attempts to make anything people want. It's just syphoning gas out of cars and burying people in gambling debt from rigged betting markets.

See you in court, creep.

My explanation of how climate change is amplifying these wildfires ended up entirely on the @npr.org cutting room floor. Instead they included an extremely misleading of the supposed role of fire suppression and human alteration (expertly debunked here: www.theclimatebrink.com/p/canadas-bo... )

Welcome to the meritocracy, Sen. Graham’s Sister

Guy who's too cowardly to ride a subway ridden every day by hundreds of thousands of school kids has opinions about bike lanes.

"Extreme Heat Isn’t the Only Climate Impact Shocking Scientists" by Eric Roston for @bloomberg.com: www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...

Hey @chicagotribune.com Editorial Board: Why did you describe me as a “bomb-throwing influencer”? This is wrong, inflammatory, and racist. Change it. www.chicagotribune.com/2026/07/05/e...

prepare to have your daughter accused of being a boy and face demands that her gentials be inspected if the dad on the other team thinks that she fouled his special snowflake too hard

Wild how you can watch this with the sound off and know instantly, just from the look on his face and the crowd responding to him, that he is saying the most bigoted shit imaginable.

For years we've been told families 'need' cars. A UK e-cargo bike trial found over half of participant e-bike trips replaced car trips, mostly school runs, shopping & commuting. 1 in 5 went on to buy an e-cargo bike. Give people practical alternatives & a surprising number reduce their car use 🧵 1/

"They're all going into the pool and they're cutting it. You see it, they take a big knife and they slice the pool. Slice the bottom. And no one does anything, they just let them do it. Cutting and then they're pulling." "And to be clear, this is a movie that you saw?" "Well, I don't know,"

Absolutely incredible that people went months here arguing MARTA was going to explode during the World Cup & then it happens and we get a world class performance, easily in the top 3 for all host cities.

The $499 "American-made" Trump Mobile phone finally shipped. But repair experts at iFixit just tore it apart and found the exact opposite: a 2-year-old phone made in China, spray-painted gold, with a fake flag on the back. Read the full investigation: 👇 www.dworkinsubstack.com/p/so-much-fo...

The Dutch mobility system isn't just built around cycling. It's built around bike-train intermodality: cycling solves the train's convenience problem and the train solves cycling's range problem. Together, they offer an attractive alternative to driving on a mass scale. WATCH: youtu.be/jq93DgLvmFc

The strait is not open, every country dependent on oil (basically everyone not named France) is gobbling through their reserves and the only thing bailing us out of an economic catastrophe at the moment is that China's reserves appear to have been far larger than thought. This is not tenable.

A court in Munich declared that Google is liable for their "AI summaries" and all its hallucinations. This brings "AI" slop in line with all other products: "AI" is basically the only product where a provider can deliver unchecked garbage and put all liability on the consumer.

Here's another old Centre Region pitch that didn't go anywhere. Signal coordination can be used to incentivize complying with speed limits (for both bikes & cars).

There is something brutally psychically injurious to being constantly told "just do good work and you'll be successful" while watching people who do the most dogshit work possible do all the succeeding.

"RAV4 Prime drivers plug their cars in on seven out of 10 driving days, with Lexus NX owners plugging in more frequently, between eight and nine times out of 10 driving days. They say that only 9 percent of Toyota PHEV drivers and 4 percent of Lexus PHEV drivers “rarely” plug in."

I've been warning about this moment for two decades over at Techdirt The U.S. is too corrupt to regulate data brokers (and their exploitation and sale of location data) and the check has come due

I know it gets talked about a lot, but the impact of the #Beltline on #Atlanta is tremendous. I took this picture at Irwin Street in 2012 or so, and here's the streetview from 2024. #urbanism #walkability

They think you're stupid.

I once asked an IT VP why the university was outsourcing projects that we could do in-house and he said "you might want to consider that if the project goes bad, the consultant takes the blame." This is a post about management enthusiasm for AI.

WATCH: ProPublica obtained records from the Department of Agriculture that detail the 94 million pounds of food, down to the number of eggs, that never reached food banks because of the Trump administration’s cuts to The Emergency Food Assistance Program. ➡️ Read more: https://propub.li/4odsKnn

A Cornell University researcher has been developing an artificial heart for children for more than 20 years. Now, his research is on hold and his lab is shut down. n.pr/3KIfcSn

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Eating is woke

EZPass payment system down for two days but support says they won't push back the due date as a result. They fired all the toll takers so you're required to pay online via toll-by-plate. Just complete but unsurprising incompetence for a state-sanctioned monopoly that sometimes can't be avoided.

Sycophants can never become leaders, no matter how desperately their organizations or communities need them to become leaders.

idk man i've been shoved into what basically amounted to high pressure sales seminars for block chain, MOOCs, NFTs, and god knows how many CMS tools every year since i started this job. in some ways unis are resistent to change and in a lot of other ways they are the most gullible mark in the room

there’s a funny paradox to me in creative work which i call “the horse shaped box.” basically: lead wants to give IC a space to work within, with constraints. but the constraints are extremely specific; “you can put anything you brainstorm into this box!” but the box is shaped exactly like a horse

US farmers sold $2 billion of food to USAID. Not any more. - US farmers provided 41% of food delivered by USAID - $340M of purchases/shipments are now paused. Over 680,000 tonnes. - Food stranded in Houston - Aid stopped in transit. The world’s poor starving, food rotting & US farmers screwed.