Tyler

<imagining being a Yarvinist billionaire tech CEO> Gimme that money.

I saw pancakes and got excited.

Eat. Pray. Takis.

Live, Laugh, Doritos.

I don’t hate it, if it means better transit and access overall. It could be stepping stone, but we need more investment regardless.

Fuck.

@andrefor40th.bsky.social I'd be interested in seeing car related incident stats for our ward in addition to other public safety data

Incredibly stupid

Keep up the good reporting, you’re going to be one of a few that are focusing on Trump’s national politics through the lens of greater Chicago. There’s a high bar to reach.

NOW: More than 98% of #Costco shareholders have just rejected an anti-DEI measure

The attempt to force Costco to audit their #DEI work was by an anti-inclusion lobby group:

"The proponent's broader agenda is not reducing risk for the Company but abolition of diversity initiatives." - Costco Board

Rates of Motor Vehicle Crashes, Injuries and Deaths in Relation to Driver Age, United States, 2014-2015 - AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety This Research Brief presents updated data on crash risk using data on crashes from the US DOT in conjunction with data on driving mileage from the AAA Foundation's American Driving Survey.

“drivers age 80 and older had crash rate higher than those of drivers ages 30-79” and “drivers age 80 and older had more than six times the death rate of drivers ages 30-49 and nearly double the death rate of teens”

This seems like a bad idea.

literally, yes

looks a lot like drones

Metra zooming by

Repost if you love trains

okey dokey

your brain is miserably broken if you think that failing to believe in wild conspiracies (not even creative ones) is the reason Dems lose elections

it is delusional to believe any of this

Trump’s former FDA commissioner warns RFK Jr. could ‘cost lives’ if confirmed Scott Gottlieb said he’s worried that Trump’s pick to run HHS, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., will follow through on past antivaccine rhetoric.

It's a Pro Death Movement.

Trump’s former FDA commissioner warns RFK Jr. could ‘cost lives’ if confirmed

www.washingtonpost.com/health/2024/...

Vermont snow covered, tree lined hill-scape

Good Morning Bluesky from Vermont

Pete Buttigieg told Democrats to not allow themselves to be so outraged by the Trump administration that they would neglect working for their constituents. “We cannot be mesmerized by the worst things that we see happening,” Buttigieg said. nyti.ms/3ZiKILz

In the TPM Weekly newsletter, I wrote about the concept of “winning the internet” and how it’s ridiculous to critique liberals leaving Twitter as “abandoning the battlefield of ideas.”

Given its relevance to Bluesky, I've threaded it below to bypass the paywall.

Bluesky Announces Series A to Grow Network of 13M+ Users - Bluesky Bluesky now exceeds 13 million users, the AT Protocol developer ecosystem continues to grow, and we’ve shipped highly requested features like direct messages and video.

“…We will begin developing a subscription model for features like higher quality video uploads or profile customizations like colors and avatar frames. Bluesky will always be free to use…. We won’t uprank accounts simply because they’re subscribing to a paid tier.”

Judge strikes down Wyoming abortion laws, including an explicit ban on pills to end pregnancy A judge has struck down Wyoming’s overall ban on abortion and its first-in-the nation explicit prohibition on the use of medication to end pregnancy.

apnews.com/article/wyom...

New here? Welcome. Here’s my journalism starter pack. go.bsky.app/MSpRDbp

they actually discussed this last night on their twitch stream, @pfrazee.com agreed that a layered approach with additional verification methods made sense. they also discussed other features that may be on the roadmap, including community notes.

Graph of posts and likes per day over the past 11 days showing growth from 2.2M posts per day to 6.5M posts per day and 11.7M likes per day to 37.5M likes per day.

Graph of follows per day and unique users following someone per day over the past 11 days showing growth from 2.1M follows per day and 417k people following someone to 41.5M follows per day and 2.9M people following someone. The growth is clearly exponential.

Bluesky by the Numbers today:

1.3M people Posted 6.5M posts
2.3M people Liked 37.5M posts
2.9M people Followed 41.5M people (!!!!!)

Over 1,000,000 people joined the network!!!!!!

We broke all-time traffic records by over 30% today across the board.

Follows are up 20x from 2 weeks ago!

Holy Moly

OII | VOX-Pol Network of Excellence The VOX-Pol research project is designed to comprehensively research, analyse, debate, and critique issues surrounding violent online political extremism (VOPE).

“The VOX-Pol Network of Excellence (NoE) is a European Union Framework Programme 7 (FP7)-funded academic research network focused on researching the prevalence, contours, functions, and impacts of Violent Online Political Extremism and responses to it.”

for sure, and maybe there is a model other states can consider there. but, it doesn’t negate the added state costs associated with reducing the federal burden, and California won’t be immune to this