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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo put her vision for the city like this: "A city where you can get let go of your child's hand"

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JD @loworderlogic.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I’d also recommend any of Ted Chiang’s short story collections. one of the best currently doing it

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JD @loworderlogic.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Kind of a shotgun approach, but Clarkesworld does an annual best-of list for short sci-fi. There are always some great ones

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Editor's Desk: 2025 Readers' Poll Finalists by Neil Clarke

Clarkesworld Science Fiction and Fantasy Magazine and Podcast.

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JD @loworderlogic.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

“We have Louisville at home” Louisville at home:

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JD @loworderlogic.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

That chart is from AAA, the link is in its alt text. Their most recent cost of ownership report has a bottom line of $11,600 including financing

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JD @loworderlogic.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Fuel is still ~20% of overall costs, but depreciation is the real elephant in the room

Chart from AAA breaking down average annual car ownership costs by category. Source: https://www.aaa.com/autorepair/articles/breaking-down-the-cost-of-car-ownership

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JD @loworderlogic.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Very Christopher Morel. I really thought the Cubs would get him figured out, but it looks like it wasn’t their fault after all

Screenshot of Christopher Morel’s 2026 Baseball Savant page

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JD @loworderlogic.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

If you’re considering getting an e-bike, here’s a back-of-the-envelope method for deciding whether a certain model is worth the price: Price / $.76 [IRS driving reimbursement rate] = miles needed to pay for itself. If you can credibly ride that many miles in a few years, go for it!

Screenshot of a calculator app showing that a $1,500 e-bike will have paid for itself after being ridden 1,974 miles

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JD @loworderlogic.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Wish granted. It is now day 13 of nationwide transport gridlock as 10-mile long CSX trains trundle all cargo across every level crossing in the US at 0.2 mph

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JD @loworderlogic.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

This has been roughly my experience with Foundation as well. A bit slow with some interesting ideas, then a huge mindblowing setpiece in the season finale

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michael lutz @ztul.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

in a sense my entire experience of being a man has been watching other men feed themselves into threshing machines and having the guys look at me like i'm stupid when i ask why

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Dumb Megan @dmbmeg.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

It’s crazy now because that I just mostly bike I can see how many people are on their phones and we all just treat this as a non-issue

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JD @loworderlogic.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

My current best shot at this is “we’re gonna buy everyone’s healthcare at Costco”. Trying to get the idea of a bulk discount in intuitively

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JD @loworderlogic.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Never understood why saving seconds of delay was worth spending real money on. What am I gonna do with those 30 seconds, put them in the piggy bank and save them up for a vacation? That’s not how time works!

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Michael Druker 🇨🇦 @mdruker.app · 17/08/2026

People on here will really be like “you believe in speed cameras? that pales in effectiveness to my strategy, rebuilding the entire road network” and then not rebuild the entire road network

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 17/08/2026

every speed camera has a big ass sign before and next to it, and they're punched into Google maps. they do not want you paying that ticket, they want you driving in a safe and sensible manner

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balrog bongcloud @balrogbongcloud.silmarillionaire.moe · 09/08/2026

I don't know how easy it is to keep AI models that can write zero days contained, but I expect it's a lot *easier* if everyone involved isn't a part of a California New Religious Movement who considers "the AI escapes" to be advertisement for their company and their NRM simultaneously

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JD @loworderlogic.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Let’s start the bidding at “Your Starting Rotation, Yes All Of It”

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Peter Norton @norton.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

“‘Jaywalker’ was a tool in this reconstruction effort. It implied a new answer to the question ‘What is a street for?’ – an answer that carried a sting.”

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JD @loworderlogic.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Free campaign platform idea: Universal Basic Boulder. Anyone who wants a boulder to put on the edge of a road gets one for free

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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

So far this year we've had: the warmest winter on record in the mountain west, a record-shattering heat wave in Europe, once in a thousand year rainfall and flooding texas and forest fire smoke blanketing the mid west and the north east. Feels like something's going on with the climate!

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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

my most authoritarian belief is probably that I'm basically fine with passive automated surveillance in public spaces especially wrt to cars. I think the backlash to speed cameras and automated license plate readers is mostly stupid given the clear public safety benefits.

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patrick.kennedy @thedotcity.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Aside from *everything else* (which is A LOT plz dont reply with what I'm externalizing bc im aware), I just looked up prime rents normalized to per square foot in prime neighborhoods in Dallas and Paris and added average annual transportation costs... Dallas:$25.8k annually Paris: $26.2k annually

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JD @loworderlogic.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Is it weird that the river is still so low?

NOAA chart showing relatively consistent levels for the Ohio River at McAlpine Lower measuring station over the past few weeks

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Ken McLeod @kenmcld.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

"[A speed camera enforcement] system is designed to document a single traffic violation and then erase the record – not to build a searchable database of where Californians have been [like Flock]." Appreciate this op-ed and hope that folks understand this distinction

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Dr. Jonathan Foley @globalecoguy.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

I especially love this diagram.

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David Zipper @davidzipper.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

NYT investigates US car bloat: “About 200 to 400 pedestrians a year would not have died if vehicles had remained approximately the same size over the past quarter-century. That represents about 10 percent of the recent increase in pedestrian deaths.”

nytimes.com

The Deadly Rise of Giant Trucks and S.U.V.s

The vehicles on American roads have grown larger — and they are killing thousands more pedestrians, a Times investigation found.

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Jonathan Koomey @jgkoomey.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

I really liked Jeff's thread, but as one of the early originators of the carbon footprint concept, I want to address this misconception because I've heard it often.

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JD @loworderlogic.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

Voters: yes I would like the middle one please

Three-way Venn diagram labeled “I want stable services”, “I want low density”, and “I want low taxes”. The central area where all three intersect reads “Does not exist”

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Zach Wilson @televisionaryzw.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

This chart remains undefeated

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JD @loworderlogic.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

I had no idea! That’s great news, I thought something might have happened to Doc. Glad you’re still active somewhere, I always appreciated your comments

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David Zipper @davidzipper.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

Robotaxis are grabbing headlines, but autonomous vehicles that are owned, not shared, could dominate our self-driven future. That would be very bad news for cities, the environment, and anyone in a human-driven car. Me, in @bloomberg.com 🧵 (Gift Link)

bloomberg.com

The AV Future Might Not Be Shared

Right now, self-driving cars are used only for shared fleets of autonomous robotaxis. What happens when anyone can buy their own?

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Josh Fruhlinger @jfruh.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

crimes you do with a car aren’t really crimes and fines assessed for them exist solely to raise revenue

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JD @loworderlogic.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

Move Fast and Break Everything

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JD @loworderlogic.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

This is a tack I’d love to see Dems take more. Harken back to FDR

Photo of FDR alongside text reading:

"Government by organized money is just as dangerous as government by organized mob. Never before in all our history have these forces been so united against one candidate as they stand today. They are unanimous in their hate for me - and I welcome their hatred."
- Franklin D. Roosevelt at a campaign speech in New York City on Oct. 31, 1936

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JD @loworderlogic.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

[faintly, over a radio]: No one was left who could remember how it had happened, how the world had fallen under darkness. At least, no one who would do anything

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The Protomen: Hope Rides Alone (Animated Music Video)

YouTube video by The Protomen

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David Zipper @davidzipper.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

"Waymo has told advocates that expecting it to respect bike lanes is 'too high a bar' because customers expect to be dropped off in them." To be crystal clear, it's illegal for a car to be in a bike lane. It doesn't matter what Waymo's customers expect; the company shouldn't be doing it.

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Waymo Is Not In The 'Vision Zero' Toolbox: Data - Streetsblog New York City

At least two of the cities where Waymo operates have not experienced declines in traffic-related injuries and deaths.

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JD @loworderlogic.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

Free idea: the Monday after the time change

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lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

Folding Ideas just one of the best to do it. This is fascinating, and I can honestly say I went in expecting it would be too meta to be of interest to me. No! A cool look into a weird little (huge) world. www.youtube.com/watch?v=0dwa...

youtube.com

Why was I invited to Beast Studios?

YouTube video by Folding Ideas

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fredesque @fredtaming.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

[reading a book in first person] i dont remember doing any of this

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JD @loworderlogic.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

The GG1 WTYP ep legitimately got me into old trains. Just put that on all the radio stations

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

People think that what Wall Street guys fear is being in the market as it crashes, but the thing that's in all of their heads is the opposite - fear of missing out on the fast market rebound as Trump turns everything around, as many did in 2020 during Covid.

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JD @loworderlogic.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

Are the books worth reading if I’m up to date on the show? I’ve really enjoyed it so far

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