Papa Capellini con Manzo VIII

It's no longer a question of if authoritarianism comes to America; now it's just a question of how bad it gets, and how long it lasts.

It's here. We can get rid of it if we fight together.

Man on cargo bike in gray suit with small child on back, hauling flowers and other wedding decoration.

There’s something so charming about seeing people dressed up for special occasions choosing to take a bicycle instead of a car—and it can be done even if you have to transport things like flowers and a kid. Photo courtesy of @paparidesabike.bsky.social, used with permission.

elizabeth warren constantly trolling cnbc with her appearances gives me life. its a hostile booking i endorse.

Palantir Is Extending Its Reach Even Further Into Government Palantir has become one of the few winners in the Trump administration’s cost-cutting efforts, offering other contractors a lifeline while consolidating its own reach and power.

NEW: After massive contract terminations for consulting giants like Accenture, Booz Allen, and Deloitte, Palantir has emerged ahead. Now the data analytics firm is partnering with those companies—offering them a lifeline while consolidating its own power.

www.wired.com/story/palant...

Erdogan gov't pushes people to use ‘Next’ app as Turkey moves toward China-style digital control - Nordic Monitor Levent Kenez/Stockholm

Selçuk Bayraktar, Erdoğan's son-in-law, was in charge of creating 𝘕𝘦𝘹𝘵 𝘚𝘰𝘴𝘺𝘢𝘭.
His team admitted that it's based on Mastodon, but refused to release their modified source code. (AGPL requires transparency and attribution.) Open-source advocates assert that this is "a violation of legal obligations."

I just don’t think about it

A Radical Idea for Fixing Polarization Can proportional representation save American democracy?

Gerrymandering only works because the US still uses winner-take-all elections, where 51% of the vote = 100% of the power. It's the water we're swimming in here in America, but it's really a crazy way to elect representatives. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

Road curving around the trees of Washington Pass

A road making a hairpin turn in Washington Pass nestled between trees and rocks

Diablo Lake, with an intense turquoise color and surrounded by trees

A dam in a narrow canyon with trees and an empty riverbed below

The North Cascades Highway is such a gem. Never gets old.

Some kind of symbols here for LA’s failing #VisionZero approach: install wimpy inadequate plastic stuff, then let drivers destroy it - and don’t replace or maintain

Highland Rim : le paradis secret réservé aux startupeurs croyants Des startupers religieux rêvent de bâtir dans les zones rurales des États-Unis, des enclaves chrétiennes ultra-connectées. Soutenu par New Founding, un fonds d’investissement conservateur, le projet H...

Pour @numerama.com j'explique comment le projet Highland Rim s'inscrit dans une dynamique "d'exit" (dévoiement de la thèse d'Hirschman) d'une société inclusive.

Merci Eitanite Bellaiche.

www.numerama.com/politique/20...

A bunch of guys hanging with JD Vance. They all have jerkfaces, but the jerkfaces are not identical

It is a 'shop job. Here's the original:

Meet the out-of-state investors funding a Christian nationalist community in Tennessee For the politically connected investors behind the project, our NewsChannel 5 investigation has now discovered, it’s about business, power and creating an alternative view of America.

Quick search says Marc Andreesen (one of the funders for this) is funding another Christian nationalist enclave in Kentucky. The tech bro/theocrat alliance is one of the weirder products of Trumpism.

www.newschannel5.com/news/newscha...

panacea*

This graphic alone is like a fucking dissertation. Incredible stuff. Master class.

Blows a massive hole in every govt's excuse that their level of gov't has no control over freeway spending.

We've all heard this:
"It's (current yr)! How is it possible... (outrage over hatred for marginalized groups)"
*sigh*
Folks may take progressive values for granted, but this past 6 mths have shown their faith in the inevitability of progress is unfounded.

𝘛𝘪𝘮𝘦 𝘪𝘴 𝘯𝘰𝘵 𝘢 𝘱𝘢𝘯𝘦𝘤𝘦𝘢 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘤𝘭𝘰𝘴𝘦-𝘮𝘪𝘯𝘥𝘦𝘥𝘯𝘦𝘴𝘴.

A staged photo that shows Bob Odenkirk leaning forward from his recliner chair by the pool

Call me dorky all you want, but as a guy with large calves, I could never pull off crew/tube socks. IMO that's the domain of skinny chicken legs.
My calves need room to do their thing!

"Cars get you from pt A to pt B, sealed up in a metal box and disconnected from the city" "..riding a bike, you can interact w/ the world, stop ... if smthg / s/o catches your eye, chat ..., and go off route" "𝗕𝗶𝗸𝗲𝘀 𝗴𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗶𝗿 𝗿𝗶𝗱𝗲𝗿𝘀 𝗳𝗿𝗲𝗲𝗱𝗼𝗺 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝘀𝗼𝗰𝗶𝗮𝗹 𝗼𝗽𝗽𝗼𝗿𝘁𝘂𝗻𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗲𝘀 𝗶𝗻 𝗮 𝘄𝗮𝘆 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗰𝗮𝗿𝘀 𝘀𝗶𝗺𝗽𝗹𝘆 𝗰𝗮𝗻'𝘁."

6AM City acquires Good Daily’s network of more than 350 AI-generated local newsletters 6AM City will continue to operate its "core" newsletters with human editors, but will treat Good Daily’s AI-generated newsletters as "seed markets."

In January, I uncovered a network of AI-generated newsletters, called Good Daily, that was targeting hundreds of small towns and cities across the U.S.

This week, the newsletter company 6AM City announced it had bought Good Daily and brought its founder on board. www.niemanlab.org/2025/07/good...

It's time for clear eyed thinking about the potential for the large-scale destruction of public transit in American cities. It could happen in the next two years. Thread... 1/

Europe Can Build Its Own Social Media Sebastian Vogelsang thinks policymakers are overlooking the potential for developing platforms on decentralized, open protocols.

European policymakers should designate open-source frameworks like the AT Protocol, the foundation for Bluesky, as critical infrastructure and invest in developing social-media apps on them, argues Sebastian Vogelsang.

Rear window of car with a palm tree, a clear sky, and structure in its reflection. In the middle is a sticker styled after Smokey the Bear but with the word RESIST on its hat and aviator glasses reflecting a tall peak and a cactus-filled desert

My current mood:
(spotted in Ventura, CA)

On the other hand are we about to get ten months of unhinged Stephen Colbert with nothing to lose?

🇫🇷🇫🇷 Happy (belated) Bastille Day to those who celebrate! 🇫🇷🇫🇷

At some point, voters need to learn not to be influenced by what money buys or you’re gonna keep ending up with shakedowns like this & the resulting legislation that we all know is bad.

Actually I think most cyclists are like "we'd like to not die while going about our daily business" -- is that being smug?

Et tu, Nuntii AP? Et tu?