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Roberto Baldwin
Roberto Baldwin
@strngwys.bsky.social
SAE International Sustainability Editor. Automotive and tech journalist that sings in far too many bands. Let's be friends. Bad at posting. Good at tamales. Signal: strngwys.01 Drastic Cats: https://drasticcats.bandcamp.com/
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Senatobia Police Officer Hunter Foster has resigned after the release of his bodycam footage depicting his fatal shooting of 1-year-old Kohen Wiley on June 14. The Mississippi Attorney General's Office announced the shooting was justified on Oct. 19. buff.ly/wJ6Jlqq
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I’ve been informed that this show is very likely to sell out. So if you enjoy the Talking Heads, Joy Division, and New Order you should buy tickets now bottomofthehill.com/20261030.html
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The New York Times wrote articles that were like "the impossible-to-characterize elusive politics of Elon Musk / he's lost interest in politics" right before he became *literally the largest GOP donor in history* the next election cycle. Twice. Two times!
This would be the most any person has donated in any election cycle. And #2 is also Musk, in 2024.
I’ve been informed that this show is very likely to sell out. So if you enjoy the Talking Heads, Joy Division, and New Order you should buy tickets now bottomofthehill.com/20261030.html
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This video camera study showed that less than 5% of people on bikes broke traffic laws while riding bikes, yet 66% of people did so while driving. And perhaps even more importantly, if you REALLY want even MORE bike-riders to obey laws, build more protected bike infrastructure. Via @carltonreid.com
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Me a person that's pretty much been straight edge all my adult life: NOPE! You do you kids. I guess when society is collapsing it's good to be in shape to fight off the road warriors
Some college students are trading keggers for saunas and supplements. CNN's Julia Vargas Jones takes us inside a "wellness darty," Gen Z's sober, daytime workout party.
ahh yes, the whole "lets make a dog for a certain thing super quick" that totally never ends with the poor dogs having a whole host of genetic problems. those poor dogs. fuck these people and their scams
*NEW* Colossal Biosciences’ Ben Lamm and Anduril’s Palmer Luckey team up on a new startup to genetically engineer war dogs for the military. Warhound comes out of stealth at $1.2B valuation For @forbes.com with @iainmartin.bsky.social and @mhunterhart.bsky.social www.forbes.com/sites/amyfel...
We use Airbnb because we take our dogs with us on our mini vacations. Because of my job, I stay in a lot of hotels every year. I always make fun of Airbnbs because I have to do fucking chores and pay the host a cleaning fee. Which, WTF man. One asked us to take the garbage up the road WHAT?!?
Airbnb is banning its hosts from making guests do things like “stripping the bed, taking trash offsite, or washing and putting away dishes.” The hosts....are not taking it well: www.wired.com/story/airbnb...
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Oh well if the *Hoover Institution* thinks it's wrong to tax billionaires, well, I guess we should check in with the Howard Jarvis Taxpayers and the California Chamber of Commerce for independent confir www.sfchronicle.com/california/a...
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Do they even understand how much they’re pissing people off by doing this. Whatever research that convinces them that spamming everyone is all upside is bullshit. It is like they’d rather have all my contact info to sell to other campaigns forever than receive my donation. It sucks.
I gave AOC a recurring donation and it’s a nightmare in my emails and texts and i don’t even know who half the candidates are
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Fun fact, Laika movies very rarely make their budgets back at the box office, but they keep putting out bangers entirely because they have the one good rich boy in the entire ecosystem.
‘Wildwood’ director Travis Knight on AI: “A pencil is a tool. A paintbrush is a tool. A 3D printer is a tool. A digital capture is a tool. AI is not a tool. AI can go fuck itself.”
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a cool thing about indie animation is that it's expected to save the entire industry, every show has to look better than the things the fans grew up on or it's a waste of time, there's no union to be found anywhere, no budget for any of it, and asking the audience to pay anything to watch is illegal
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Protestors Criticized For Looting Businesses Without Forming Private Equity Firm First https://theonion.com/protestors-criticized-for-looting-businesses-without-fo-1843735351/
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I got to live in LA as a marginally-employed skateboard photographer for 10 years because I slept on a couch for the first 2 years, split a 5br house with 7 roommates for the next 5, then moved in with my now-husband. Thanks to the housing shortage, that isn’t possible anymore. We have to build.
My most personal essay yet. Creative people need slack - time and space to try things and fail for a while. LA used to be cheap enough to give us that, but no more. All the tax credits and other efforts to save Hollywood will be for naught if there are no creative people left here to hire.
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