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You literally cannot find a better commuter for the price well done well done

Which ones did you get?!

I saw a version with two unders! They must have switched it and then switched it back; there was a battle in the headline booth and courage won

If only they had had the courage. “He finished under three hours and a false name” is worthy of a noir monologue

4.6 directly under Berkeley according to the MyShake app, which alerted me exactly one comic beat after the shaking stopped. That said I still highly recommend it

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Very upset to discover that what I would actually do in a real earthquake is sit still do nothing and feel bad about stuff falling from the shelves

Tumblr post by rollercoasterwords: i'm literally the priest's favorite sacrificial lamb because i am so docile and sweet and i hold very still when they put the rope around my neck and i trot along so happily while they lead me to the altar and they do not even have to tie me down because i lie so very still and only bleat once or twice in my lovely lamb voice and when the knife comes down it cuts through me like butter and i offer no resistance and i bleed so prettily all over my new white wool and my guts all unspool like the most beautiful shining yarn and my eyes are animal and dumb and hold no accusation and every time i die i come right back as another little lamb because the priest loves me so so much and he always chooses me for the sacrifice every time and he always places one hand on my small and twitching nose to calm me while he lifts the knife and he doesn't do it for the other lambs only me because i'm his favorite

Schumerism, I suppose

I will never understand how Sarah McBride could vote to honor the life and legacy of someone who views her as an unperson

The cover of Tomie dePaola’s children’s book titled “Strega Nona”, with “-graphy” appended to the end

You can get pretty good passive noise cancelling with foam eartips/thick earpads.
That said, I’m a nerd about this stuff and I can’t tell the difference between Bluetooth and wired audio quality. The only place it still matters is latency.

This looks kinda like a species of sowbug— isopods in the same family as pillbugs and woodlice. You can tell because it’s flattish and has those twin tails (uropods) at the back. If it can’t roll into a ball then I’d be pretty sure. They’re cute and some people keep them as pets.

This brand is one of the originals that bet on the early studies and now they’re ready to get in on FSA money. They’re probably also trying to parlay their history and reputation into making their masks a consumer status symbol, which is why they’re charging three to five times as much

The body of evidence in favor of red light therapy for skin renewal/hair growth reached some tipping point a few years ago and after spas started buying the first boutique light panels for thousands of dollars every factory that could glue LEDs to molded plastic wanted a slice of the pie

IEMs: the Moondrop Chu 2 and Tangzu Wan’er have better tonality than most earbuds on the market, and going up a price bracket the Truthear Pure will out-resolve them too.

Headphones: commuters are limited by being closed back—the Shure SRH440 or 840 are good options along the lines of the above.

I wouldn’t mind regulated image generation; you need a license to manufacture explosives or cars or bridges or all sorts of things that can help or harm a lot of people at once. The issue is that image models are math and math is really easy to mass produce and impossible to regulate

Car exhaust is largely PM 2.5 and NYC has urban freeways everywhere; I don’t know anything about York but everywhere that’s not London scans to me like rolling hills of sheep or whatever

Protector @bookprotectors Introducing Patrol. Homeowners in LA can now book off-duty police officers to help protect their homes. Now available in Brentwood, Beverly Hills, Bel Air, Holmby Hills, and Malibu — more areas coming soon.

In Virtual Light the opening narrative is a cop killing someone, getting suspended, and then signing on to a private security outfit for rich people whereupon he promptly floors his six-wheeled patrol tank through a subscriber’s gate and into their living room after a false alarm

Wait, order of operations and relative magnitude matters a lot here. Can a sufficient price overcome a negative narrative? Are certain people impervious to everything except narrative?

This liquid glass stuff is interesting but I just know it’s gonna leave me squinting at menus while my phone stutters and burns my hand

You’re right that the whole thing was a shitshow but the business case for standard gauge was still page after page of burning money. If this was supposed to be punishment for BART and Capitol Corridor then it’s just cutting off your nose to spite your face

BART is pissed at the state agency for changing Link21 to standard gauge, forever capping transbay service to 30 trains per hour. Being the most effective regional transit agency in the state, they’re probably wary of a no child left behind situation with state-gated construction funding

BART Investigates Second Track Fire in Two Weeks | KQED Damage from blaze forces all-day slowdown on route to SFO and Peninsula.

Was trying to find out more about the recent fires but my search results were drowned out by articles about all the previous fires. This is from 2016

If I had a nickel for every time BART has caught fire twice in two weeks, I would have two nickels, which isn’t a lot but it is weird that it’s happened twice

Wait, you think institutions like the UW Center for an Informed Public and the Stanford Internet Observatory are off-the-book feds who do censorship? Like, Twitter Files stuff?

left-pad for GIS, a dependency in 300,000 software projects,

Valve’s Source engine is a tower of hacks from 1999: cobbled together modules on top of GoldSrc, itself forked from Quake. They announced Source 2 10 years ago and still haven’t released it. And Valve is Graeber’s like, ideal company, with no bosses and no schedules. Duct taping is important!

there is only one. Beauty of Joseon Relief Sun: Rice + Probiotics. This stuff is lighter than my moisturizer and I buy it for everyone I know. Beware the many imitators and American reformulations; you’re probably going to have to buy this from kbeauty retailers e.g. stylevana or yesstyle:

Opinion | Larry David: My Dinner With Adolf When a private meeting goes unexpectedly.

The same organization that not even two weeks ago published Larry David’s My Dinner with Adolf has decided to do it again, but this time be entirely sincere

It goes both ways. Even if your job used to be to just look pretty in pictures, now your job is also to have opinions for people to hear and judge. Even if you don’t say anything people will take that as a message! People demand to be influenced!

The journalist as influencer: how we sell ourselves on social media After the summer of Caroline Calloway’s Instagram infamy and Jia Tolentino’s huge book launch, where is the line between author and lifestyle celebrity?

@allegrahobbs.bsky.social called it almost six years ago: everything is online, and everything online is about being an influencer, everyone you’ve heard about is an influencer