AOTY

How long do they get to do the same bullshit over and over again and call it success?

oopsies

The world’s first trillionaire initiated a move that has left more than half a million people dead, most of whom are children.

Noooo you're too beautiful to be employed

jack dorsey got lucky and is an unremarkable idiot, episode 7,000

The truly maddening thing is that, unlike when I was a young man in science and the materials and engineering just weren’t there yet, the future is *right there.* The problem is *solved*. What’s holding us back is not just greed, but this bizarre nostalgia, an obsession with petro- masculinity.

I hope the people who dig up our civilization take our satirical texts at face value like, “well it seems outlandish but it’s a contemporaneous account so it must be true”

Mamdani Brings Lina Khan Onto His Team After Historic Election Win Zohran Mamdani has named his transition team—and it’s amazing.

New York City Mayor-elect Mamdani is kicking off with a big move: bringing former Federal Trade Commission Chair Lina Khan to co-chair his transition team.

It's a strong suggestion that he’s willing to take on powerful corporate interests as mayor. trib.al/99csETK

Wow. This is the first reported case of Perplexity ever paying anyone

Still processing this information

In February, 7-year-old Dolma Naadhun was crossing the intersection of Newtown Road and 45th Street in Astoria with her mother and sister when the driver of a 2021 Ford Explorer blew through a stop sign, striking and killing Dolma. One month later, New York City Department of Transportation commissioner Ydanis Rodriguez visited the crash site with other officials, met with community members demanding a traffic signal be installed, and promised to make changes to the street - including "daylighting" the intersection using curb extensions and plastic bollards. State assemblymember Zohran Mamdani also visited the scene that day and realized that something else needed to change. "When you take a step back and think about traffic violence in New York City," he said, "you start to understand that this is a systemic issue that is incentivized by the policies that we have in place with regard to the design of our streets and what kind of vehicles we allow to be on our roads." Whether a driver runs a stop sign or a red light, statistically, certain cars - namely, bigger SUVs and trucks - are more likely to kill a 7-year-old. This is why Mamdani is co- introducing legislation for a weight-based vehicle-registration fee intended to discourage people from purchasing heavier vehicles. "The car industry is pushing the sale of heavier and larger vehicles," he says. "The state has to make it clear that these types of vehicles come with a certain kind of cost."

soar above adult shoulders. But there may be another way to disincentivize the purchases of such vehicles, says Edwards. "One other potential idea would be for someone, maybe a city's DOT, to start keeping a list of the different makes and models of vehicles that are killing pedestrians and cyclists, or kids specifically, and post that publicly," he says. "That could bring awareness to which cars are more dangerous and also potentially affect insurance rates, which would possibly convince people not to buy certain cars." There's a bit of accountability in New York's bill, which would require the State DOT to track all fatal crashes by vehicle weight. But the other encouraging aspect of the proposal is that the collected fees stay local, by county, and, after the annual dedications to highway, bridge, and transit trust funds are met, a full 75 percent of the funds raised will go toward safety improvements like bike lanes, bollards, road diets, pedestrianization of streets, and raised crosswalks. This means the neighborhoods most impacted by large vehicles are likely to see the biggest changes. And that might be the most important part of the legislation, says Mamdani. "This is an initiative to make our streets safer for our children," he says. "And we are making sure a significant portion of this funding goes toward creating the very streetscapes that we know will save their lives."

Two years ago I interviewed a 31-year-old NY state assemblymember about a 7-year-old girl killed by an SUV driver in his district. I hung up the phone, astonished that I'd talked to a legislator who so thoughtfully articulated what actually needs to change on our streets.

He'll make a great mayor

this was fun. let’s do it again.

Trump: "Hear me, President Trump, when I say this: to get to any of us, you will have to get through all of us."

Strip of white paper with an orange dot and the words,"Keep your existing" on a wooden surface.

I thought a strip of paper on the floor was a misplaced fortune from a fortune cookie and picked it up. Turned out it was from the paper shredder, but it still offers good advice. "Keep your existing."

inside you there are two wolves

“So you agree. He is getting unconstitutional preferential treatment.”

The sun at 5pm:

get more higher

Welcome to Derry is incredible so far

Kids at Halloween parties locking themselves in the bathroom and saying Nancy Mace’s name three times in the mirror

YouTube video by Caitlin Reilly The Over-active Listener

absolutely

Pop Base tweets: "Kim Kardashian said on ‘The Kardashians’ that she believes the moon landing was fake: “They’re gonna say I’m crazy no matter what, but like, go to TikTok. See for yourself. […] There’s no gravity on the moon. Why is the flag blowing? The shoes that they have in the museum that they wore on the moon is a different print in the photos. Why are there no stars?”"

"go to TikTok. See for yourself."

If you ever feel insecure, just remember that someone asked ChatGPT how to replace sodium in their diet and it told them to use swimming pool cleaning chemicals instead of salt and they did

i really enjoyed it too!

Chimpanzees are natural scientists Humans and chimpanzees share the potential to rationally revise their beliefs

RIP Jane Goodall, you would've loved this research 😔

omg i need to do this

ladies and gentlemen...we got him

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