Craig

well it's not about the camera per se, but who is controlling the camera. if it's a passive security camera that's always recording that's different from software deciding when to produce an image. who audits the software? who decides if it's fair? can the accused see the source code?

also, you're probably the perfect person to weigh in on this issue: what about the concept of being able to confront your accuser? i'm generally pro traffic camera, but when you get a ticket from one you are ultimately getting penalized by an opaque piece of software

whoa where is this? in town for the next week if you wanna grab a coffee!

It's not quite as online as something like Today in Tabs, but kind of a deeper dive in to broader cultural issues, almost all of which are internet related

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I like tellthebeees.substack.com

hell yeah i love when you make these

pretty good!

i’m learning a lot about the trade war

It's hard not to let my little kid fantasies of "omg you worked at the baseball card factory!" run wild, but also I imagine most of the people working there just have Normal Jobs

So you did actually work for Topps?!

is he actually talking about banning short selling?

A 6-inch sub roll with grill marks. Chocolate and creme drip from the sides, behind a halved Cadbury egg. In the right corner is an image of a foil-wrapped Cadbury Creme Egg

Subway Cadbury Creme Egg Submelt (2023-2023): A 6-inch sub roll, filled with Cadbury Creme Eggs and grill-pressed until toasty golden brown. Was available for free, for one day only, at 4 Subway locations in the UK, with only 500 subs available at each location.

I haven’t! Gotta go find it, and wow, I’m impressed they’re actually making that a thing

this made me immediately go check if there was a new one

@dinalab.bsky.social i think there's a certain radical power in "just put all your shit that you're an expert in on wikipedia"

It has come to my attention that most of bluesky has never laid eyes or ears on the greatest full motion video intro in game history.

I am here to remedy this.

What is the longest street name in the world? Depends on how you measure... news.wandrer.earth/2025/03/30/l...

and his video shows a US patent being granted on it as of 11 days ago 😤

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I'm laughing so hard at this email from the place I ordered transformers for my kid last year

This cyclist is the first to ride every road and trail in San Mateo County — all 2,800 miles of them What began as a pandemic project to explore her neighborhood grew into a five-year obsession to conquer an entire Bay Area county.

100% completed today! www.sfchronicle.com/outdoors/art...

All you nerds thought I was joking... I WAS ONLY HALF JOKING!

See if you can figure out what this ad from 1984 is selling before the reveal…

what is the fluffy thing?

Really enjoying this classic Sesame Street segment, two minutes of freestyle jazz riffing on saxophone factory footage

most recent post from him says no on cloture

United States invasion of Panama - Wikipedia

This notably omits references to "Operation Just Cause", which greatly colors Panamanian perception of the US to the present day: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_...

gotcha -- so there's a realized/unrealized component too.

what is the distinction? they seem like they would be the same on an annualized basis