Paul Swartz

John Dickerson To Depart CBS News In First Major Talent Exit Under New Paramount Owners John Dickerson, co-anchor of CBS Evening News who has been with the network since 2009, said that he is exiting at the end of this year.

dickerson is one of the best broadcast journalists in the game, and someone who would clearly be a real asset to a new leader interested in strengthening the network's journalism. but, of course, we know weiss isn't actually interested in journalism as such.

“If you live in a 15 minute city but your barista can’t afford to live there too, you don’t live in a 15 minute city, you live in a theme park.“

As of October 20, a total of 273 people have been killed on Massachusetts roads this year alone, including forty pedestrians and seven cyclists. These deaths are preventable, and we will not accept any loss of life on our roads.

the average millennial man has gone through a phase where they make riding bikes their whole personality. It’s a very normal part of life

If there's one thing I loved about being in a No Kings protest today, it was the feeling of solidarity giving me hope for this nation and its people.

If there's a second thing, it's how all the various dogs had NO idea what was going on, but LOVED it.

No kings. More trains.

I LOVE TAKING THE BUS!!!!!
I LOVE RIDING THE TRAIN!!!!!
I LOVE PUBLIC TRANSIT AAAAAAAA

the cast of Hackers (1995) posing in a series of adjacent phone booths

Today is the 30th anniversary of Hackers

Mamdani: We need to make public transportation so good that “no matter how much money is in your pocket, you say: I’m gonna use this.”

I feel like one of the many effects of LLMs on our industry is going to be making it really clear that the coding was never the hard part.

text on black background THE BICYCLE DOESN'T HAVE TO BE FOR EVERY TRIP IN EVERY CIRCUMSTANCE FOR EVERY PERSON. YOU CAN USE IT AS NEEDED AND REPLACE THE CAR TRIPS THAT ARE DOABLE FOR YOU. ROVÉLO

My least popular (and most correct) view is that cars should be automatically limited to the local speed limit. Put the pedal to the floor and you still can't go over 25mph in a residential area.

(15 in Manhattan btw)

These are the bike lanes that @edflynnforboston.bsky.social wants to rip out. Meet Antonia Sanchez who relies on these new lanes to move safely in her neighborhood using her mobility scooter.

Boston Children's Hospital says it won't be bullied into abandoning trans youth - LGBTQ Nation The hospital has faced bomb threats, hate campaigns, and threats to funding over the years but has never wavered in supporting gender-affirming care.

"We are here to affirm, uplift, and advocate for transgender and gender diverse youth...and we remain committed to doing all we can to support their care and well-being.”

Boston Children’s Hospital says it won’t be bullied into abandoning trans youth www.lgbtqnation.com/2025/07/bost...

If you write bad code that fucks shit up you're a "genius". If you write high quality code that fixes problems and insist on that from other people you're a "bitch" who "isn't a team player" and "lacks relatability"

A screenshot of the Admired vs Desired Web Framework results of the 2025 StackOverflow survey. 1st place goes yet again to the Phoenix framework, closely folled by the Axum framework, which is written in Rust.

A screenshof of the "Admired vs Desired" Programming languages results of the StackOverflow 2025 survey results. 1st place goes to Rust with 72.4% developers admiring the language, Gleam comes in 2nd with 70.8%, and Elixir follows closely with 65.9%. Erlang comes in at 50%.

The results of the StackOverflow Survey 2025 are out!

Phoenix is yet again the most admired web framework! 🎉

Elixir fell from 2nd to 3rd place of most admired language because another BEAM language, ✨Gleam✨ took over the 2nd spot this year! Congrats Gleamers!

#ElixirLang @gleam.run #GleamLang

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among the many things they don’t tell you about having kids is the amount of money you will shell out to buy various berries

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