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I watched all six hours of the RTA board meeting where the service boards talked about how closely they coordinate with each other and now I get to wait 55 minutes for a bus after I get off the last inbound train of the night. Mission accomplished, things are great!

NITA needs to clean house.

Bellingcat’s contact email has always been a magnet for people with fairly unusual views; paranoid delusions, sprawling conspiracies, the works. But recently, the pattern has shifted, we’re seeing more and more emails clearly written with ChatGPT.

the nuzzi story is fun and all but at the center of it is the elevation of a man who has dedicated his life to making children catch preventable diseases to a position where he can enact harm at enormous scale

(I will say the bamboo business kind of suggests something they have in common as far as “oh my god put that metaphor down.”)

Enough brainpower at this meeting to light up a poorly functioning LED

“With great power comes great responsibility” is the core moral of what is fundamentally a famous picture book for children. It is quite naturally far too complex a text for our media betters to comprehend.

Why the fuck is this framed as “teenager chose to prostitute herself and ruined the career of innocent congressman”

Also isn't this in US scientists collaborating with overseas scientists a US influence operation?

Which show is this?

Yet more evidence that any given specific NIMBY objection to a project is, more often than not, a shell game for generalized opposition to change—it's merely the most compelling sounding argument—and addressing such individual concerns will usually not meaningfully reduce opposition.

CPL is an absolute palace to the people and these proposed cuts are abominable. Artificial austerity. Chicago folks, read this, check the links to bug the mayor and your alders—this can be fought and won.

Between keeping the Loop towers vacant for overnight track work and adding late night frequency to the busiest part of the Red Line (Roosevelt-Fullerton or Belmont) running late night Orange up to Kimball should be a no-brainer

this is the craziest thing I've read in a long time???? Meta projected that 10% of its revenue last year, $16 billion, came from scams. Meta intentionally charges the scammers MORE and knows that people who click on scams are more likely to see more of them www.reuters.com/investigatio...

ah, america

My frents, we have #RevenuesAndReform

Working overnight is a real cheat for me.

“Higher tolls will force my family onto arterial streets” come on man

@govpritzker.illinois.gov a train crawl would be a great signing ceremony for the transit bill, just putting that out there for you

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA NATIONAL TRANSPORTATION SAFETY BOARD ***************** Investigation of: LOSS OF THE SUBMARINE TITAN IN THE NORTH ATLANTIC OCEAN ON JUNE 18, 2023 * * * * * * Accident No.: *********** * * * * * * Interview of: Co-designer/Pilot Deepsea Challenger DCA23FM036 via Microsoft Teams Friday, July 26, 2024

INTERVIEW OF 10 BY LCDR 11 Q. So how did you get yourself started into submersible 12 operations? 13 A. Well, I'm sure you're familiar with my film Titanic. When I 14 set down the path to make that film, the first thing that I did 15 was arrange to be introduced to the head of the submersible 16 program at the P.P. Shirshov Institute in Moscow, a guy named 17| Professor I. I did that through a mutual friend 18 of ours, a guy named , who is one of the preeminent underwater cinematographers in the world. And had been on a 20 submersible expedition out to Titanic the previous year with the 21 Russians. And that was organized by a Canadian company that was 22 doing an IMAX film which was released under the title Titanica.

Learned that an anonymous outside expert on submersibles did an interview with the OceanGate Titan investigation, and they released a transcript, with all the names redacted. The first line of his first answer? "I'm sure you're familiar with my film Titanic."

and as usual, I am being glib here but tons of people have done incredible work to clean up the river and human swimmability isn't the main point, the ecosystem is coming back and that's great

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huh two people that coauthor a lot that I've cited a bunch got married (one of their names changed to the other one's name). inadvertently broke a bunch of citations in a working paper a little due to Zotero weirdness.

Sept 6 (Reuters) - A federal judge said he turned to artificial intelligence programs like ChatGPT to help interpret a key legal term in a man's appeal of his more than 11-year prison sentence — and while he was initially "spooked" by slight variances in the answers they generated believes the software could be a "valuable" tool. U.S. Circuit Judge Kevin Newsom detailed his research in a concurrence to a Thursday opinion by the Atlanta-based 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals rejecting a defendant's appeal of his sentence for an armed robbery of a Florida convenience store.

Nope. Absolutely the fuck not. www.reuters.com/legal/transa...