Josh Krahn

Is this the same system they use at central grounds (which seems very ignorable)

Pedestrian street in Naples, Italy.

Streets function better with more people and fewer bulky dangerous machines.

"These ebikes are out of control and we need to regulate them now!"

This. This was the formative event of my generation & our entire politics in 🇺🇸. The structural break after which we were no longer a full democracy, when 5 Wizards In Robes decided they were a super-legislature & counting all the actual votes didn’t matter. The rest has been 25 years of commentary.

Dril drunk driving tweet

A sizable portion of this website today

Just gutting. The IID is itself an attempt to mitigate the economic harm of a DUI charge/conviction relative to the logical sentence — taking away the driving privilege.

See also: debates about speed cameras.

There's a problematic reflex among some progressive reformers to move from "conventional criminal legal responses are bad" to something too close to "accountability in general is bad."

I think (as Jamelle argues here) it's rooted in not thinking abt victims.

As I never tire of reminding people, the two plausible alternatives to automated traffic enforcement are that we either rely on the discretion of individual police officers or we simply don't enforce traffic laws at all. We have been trying both alternatives now and they are failing us.

Part of the disconnect is that car-brained nonprofit types think they're simply preventing state violence when they oppose commonsense attempts to deter reckless driving. Doesn't occur to them that what they're doing is maintaining the current, very bad society-wide distribution of violence.

There's a thing I think is going on that we don't have a word for yet, at least I don't. I think it's one of the less noticed themes of 2025, actually.

this is where i am. speed cameras. interlocks. license revocation. but i am told this is carceral. so it’s like, okay, we wait for a decades-long project to fundamentally reshape the built environment?

I said that backwards. But you know what I mean.

Letting drunk drivers keep drunk driving isn’t carceral. Cmon man get real.

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Newly Unsealed Batch Of Epstein Estate Photos Contains Rare Holographic Dershowitz

4:49 on my stopwatch app

Can’t stop won’t stop

YouTube video by ekompilation The Fall, Totally Wired.

Got me a semi-auto espresso machine and can make a flat white, beans-to-cup, in under 5 minutes 🫨 youtu.be/sk1TP5EkLS4?...

I want it for meeeeeee

Basically where I’m at on this stuff at this point: bsky.app/profile/opin...

Co-sign

If SCOTUS lawlessly overturns birthright citizenship, and the country wants it back it will have to pass a Constitutional Amendment and that Amendment would say the exact same thing the 14th Amendment says.

YouTube video by Tom Waits Tom Waits - "Earth Died Screaming"

Tom Waits is so funny to me. Why does he sound like that (positive). Top ten human voices of all time. He sounds exactly the way this album cover looks
youtu.be/C7I4kSpS43o?...

Look at the central city riverfront of Portland. It's just so shocking and embarrassing that we tolerate this.

Let them fight

Most people who say "I'm bad with names" mean they can't remember them. But I'm bad with names in another way. Anyway, meet my son Dipshit

Yeah this has def been an evolution for me as well “markets” and “regulations” are just dumb things to have strongly held views about in the platonic abstract! They’re both social tools, the actual normatively substantive question is the outcomes they produce.

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Screenshot from a page where the only information not redacted is the Maryland Department of Transportation/State Highway Administration log, the heading Accident Data/Analysis Request Form, and the footer Accident Data Request Form 03A TDSD.doc.

Good morning to everyone who has received redacted records in response to a public records request.

This is the real reason Prime is so successful - driving everywhere to get stuff sucks ass

I don’t want 2 day shipping. I want a store I can walk or bike to in 15 minutes.

I’ve been pretty tuned out to this whole miserable saga, but… what in the world????