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Andy @chiashurb.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

AV's aren't just Waymos though. It's also (eventually) autonomous buses, delivery trucks, long-haul trucks, etc

Andy @chiashurb.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

As a former bus operator, most of my passengers never spoke to me, though I enjoyed the human interaction. In many cities the operator is so walled off w/ plexi etc that it's hard to imagine a robot being more anti-social.

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Andy @chiashurb.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

IDK that trucking or delivery drivers are a particularly social position--most of my deliveries show up at my door w/o even seeing the driver.

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Andy @chiashurb.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Most of auto safety in past 100 years has been about compensating for the fact that humans tend to crash cars. I don't know if AVs are currently safer, but expect they will be. Automating ppl out of a job is generally good for society, but we have to make sure those ppl are taken care of.

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Andy @chiashurb.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Imagine the 911 call from the prison. “We tried to kill her and it didn’t work.” “Okay what do you want emergency services to do about that?” “Medical attention” “Why?” “So we can kill her again later”

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Andy @chiashurb.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Really glad to see somebody calling this out. As soon as the DA said he planned to present the case to the GJ I knew it was CYA—DA’s don’t use grand juries to “find out” if the new evidence is any good, and they DEFINITELY don’t publicly trash the V when they’re reopening a case in good faith.

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Andy @chiashurb.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Maybe we should also pay social workers more. It would be okay if a job that requires a master’s degree, that everyone* seems to agree has value to society, paid better than what they could get with an HS diploma.

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Andy @chiashurb.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I’d be lucky to get to Chicago in six hours by air! (I live in Boston)

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Andy @chiashurb.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Why would you disqualify a candidate for having a beverage?

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Starfire’s Deranged Neocon Foreign Policy Podcast @irhottakes.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

It’s very simple. A reality TV host became dictator because he turned down a role for Sharknado 4 and that’s why the king of outer space, who cheats at Diablo, got to kill Africa. Now the economy is controlled by a sex cult that has something to do with Harry Potter fanfic because of robots.

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Colette Delawalla, PhD @cdelawalla.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Democratic strategists: Ahhh! What's the right message!!?? Where do we moderate!?!? The Science Victory Fund: Data centers are bad! Cancer research is good! You should be able to see a doctor! Salad shouldn’t make you shit your pants! Voters: YES! Strategists: I can't figure it out!!!!!

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Andy @chiashurb.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Guys, it’s so easy to get stuff. All you have to do is attack people and take their stuff. It’s amazing!

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Andy @chiashurb.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Also hilarious on a road bike in snow. But that’s a special case, arguably outside the usual scope of “road bike.”

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Andy @chiashurb.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Rice only does this when in extreme distress.

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Alex @alexh666.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Cyclists sharing the road: holy shit holy shit please don’t kill me holy shit is it safe to go holy shit please don’t kill me im just trying to get home Drivers sharing the road: GET THE FUCK OUT OF MY WAY RIGHT NOW I WILL FUCKING KILL YOU I WILL BREAK EVERY TRAFFIC SAFETY RULE TO SAVE 5 SECONDS

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Andy @chiashurb.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Meanwhile automotive journalists be like "sales data show a revealed consumer preference for not-EVs. Clearly, hybrids are the answer!" Nah bro, "keep burning fossil fuels" *cannot* be the answer.

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Andy @chiashurb.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

The one exception to the blue blazer and tie rule is Home Depot, where you will be CONTINUOUSLY accosted by people who want to know if "you've heard what we're doing for our homeowners today." At other retail stores, you'll just be mistaken for a manager and asked where to find things.

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Andy @chiashurb.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

@garmin.com helpful help text here (garmin connect iOS app)

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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 08/09/2026

For years, New Yorkers have demanded access to City records about the lasting health impacts of the horrific September 11th attacks. For years, they have been denied and ignored. That ends today. nyc.gov/sept11docs

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September 11 Docs

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Andy @chiashurb.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

No. Men, as a group, do not realize this. For the most part, they don’t have to.

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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Jensen Huang just claimed the Singularity hit and we have achieved AGI. So two years from now, when we don't have fusion power and intergalactic travel etc because The Singularity is a fantasy, I assume everyone will admit they've been had.

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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Central planning doesn't work because a few bureaucrats can't allocate resources efficiently for a massive country. That's why we love the free market, where a few billionaires do that

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Andy @chiashurb.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

For anybody who needed a reminder: CEOs are not oracles

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Andy @chiashurb.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

5) one software engineer operating an AI system can multiply their output by some unknown number, x. However, it also multiplies their employer’s costs by something like x.

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Andy @chiashurb.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Software engineer here. You nailed it with the machine gun analogy. My only note: there *are* machine learning systems that are revolutionizing bio/health research. They are not LLMs.

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Space Weather by SolarHam @solarham.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

After 2 weeks of fundraising, I am now just shy of 79% to my goal. Thank you to everybody who have donated this year or in the past for the continued support. If you would like to support the website and my future upgrade plans, please visit the link below. Thanks! www.solarham.com/donate.htm

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Neil Tangri @tangri0.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Good thread on the new UNEP report and the continuing fantasy of large scale carbon dioxide removal. Methane is a better bet.

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Andy @chiashurb.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

I use Ghostery private browser. As a result I cannot view @opensecrets.org

Screenshot displays HTTP error 406, “not acceptable.” The subtext reads “your browser is not supported. Please upgrade your browser to continue.”

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Andy @chiashurb.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Sorry not sorry. Markey’s age requires SUBSTANTIALLY less nose-holding than Moulton’s having boarded the anti-woke train as soon as it left the station in 2024.

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Andy @chiashurb.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

If he had principles on trans rights, no amount of misreading the political moment would cause or permit such a statement.

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potion of @candlestick.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

(AI New Yorker): Hello—I'm not just here, I'm walking

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

* CARNEY SAYS U.S. TERMS IN TRADE TALKS MEANT CANADIAN INDUSTRIES EITHER WOULD BECOME U.S. SUBSIDIARIES OR BE WOUND DOWN * CANADA SAYS WE CAN START HAVING TRADE DISCUSSIONS WITH THE U.S. WHEN "AMERICANS STOP DOING MEMES, STOP THROWING SHADE, STOP TRYING TO BE TOUGH AND START BEING SERIOUS"

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Andy @chiashurb.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Not to worry though, we seized their domains!

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Andy @chiashurb.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

That’s a thing I’ve missed after moving from Iowa to MA. Iowa *always* had an opposition party looking over the government’s shoulders, and no matter who was in power that was a good thing. MA has deeply dysfunctional one-party (D) rule.

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Andy @chiashurb.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

On-farm processing doesn’t have to mean unregulated. It’s been allowed for chicken for a long time, and it’s a longstanding complaint of small-farm beef, lamb, and pork producers that they are obligated to take their animals to third-party processors who are usually giant industrial plants.

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Andy @chiashurb.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

My first time hanging out in NYC with New Yorkers was always like this. If we had our entrees by 9 PM we were lucky. And then they got up at 5 AM for work with no siesta at any point during the day. Since I was not working at the time, I went and napped in Central Park every afternoon.

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Andy @chiashurb.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

At that point you better hope you can argue with a straight face that the defendant before the court is not the owner of that username

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Andy @chiashurb.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Awesome! We did not need you to become "Melanoma, she wrote"

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Andy @chiashurb.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

I’m willing to pay that if enough of them zap themselves while scratching their nose or trying to urinate.

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Andy @chiashurb.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Anyway hence why I was pre-conditioned to have an adverse reaction to your first post. Really appreciate the ability to have a constructive dialog on here.

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Andy @chiashurb.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

meaningful public debate. I don't *think* it passed, but we're not so hot on legislative transparency (that's changing, allegedly), so that is hard to verify. And when I hear cameras at the 11th hour I start imagining that Axon or Flock will gladly provide these cameras while hoovering up data...

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Andy @chiashurb.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

... where cameras are not allowed, thanks to a 1970s anti-corruption law requiring that citations be given in-hand, at the place and time of the violation. But here the camera proposal came up in an 11th-hour amendment to the state budget before the end of the legislative session, w/o time for...

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Andy @chiashurb.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

My town (Somerville, MA) has been building bike infra like a house on fire for 6 years, and has had zero traffic fatalities (cyclists, peds, or car occupants) in the last 5. Neighboring communities working toward Vision Zero are not as far along, and we are also in the minority of jurisdictions..

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Andy @chiashurb.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Ooooof. So sorry for the news.

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Andy @chiashurb.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Not to worry, if the cyclist who was killed did not make any identifiable errors in their final encounter, opponents will simply cite vague notions of bad behavior by unspecified cyclists.

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Andy @chiashurb.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Okay, that's a persuasive argument. I'd like to go and read the studies you cited, but that's not a today problem. The structural protections you cite in the Minneapolis program are also important, and not something I take for granted when I hear bike activists argue for cameras.

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