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it's a lot easier to measure lead in the body!

Two interesting things I've learned through collaborating with air quality scientists: 1. Measuring exposure to air pollution is really hard. 2. A lot of the harmful effects of air happen due to indoor air - a lot harder to measure than ambient air pollution.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 6h

the reason “AI will create so much abundance we will have a utopian society” rhetoric falls so flat is that the people building it will never, ever share their bounty unless it is taken from them and we all know it

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matty @mattio.bsky.social · 6h

the irony being, of course, that you can only read the slip of paper once you find your car.

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matty @mattio.bsky.social · 6h

ha, that happened in Philly when my car was towed for being on a parade route. they just relocate it, and then they leave a slip of paper on your windshield saying, "We have relocated your car to [new location]."

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matty @mattio.bsky.social · 8h

This is wild - somebody did a deep dive into the real stories behind this famous XKCD: sheets.works/data-viz/hol...

an XKCD comic showing a precariously assembled tower of blocks. much is labelled "all modern digital infrastructure." a thin leg down at the bottom is labelled "A project some random person in Nebraska has been thanklessly maintaining since 2003."

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matty @mattio.bsky.social · 11h

she was seriously the best

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matty @mattio.bsky.social · 11h

and said, "All you did was blow leaves off of their property and onto mine! Well, you can clean it up. And HERE - you can use a BROOM." And she came in so hot that the worker meekly accepted the broom, looked at the foreman, who shrugged, like, better do what she says .

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matty @mattio.bsky.social · 11h

My Nana once watched a neighbor's landscaping crew at work, with one guy just leafblowing all of the leaves off the neighbor's hard, through the fence, and into her driveway. She watched, and waited until they were done, and then she stormed out -

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matty @mattio.bsky.social · 11h

modelling the data

image of a woman wearing a dress with lots of numbers on it

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matty @mattio.bsky.social · 12h

rage bait ass shit in the free press

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Antonio E. Porreca 🐳 @aeporreca.org · 07/10/2026

The Association for Human Mathematics (AHM) statement on OpenAI’s October 6 release of mathematical documents just dropped! www.ahmath.org/statements

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matty @mattio.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

It was dramatic, but also really ordinary. It's a big city but people don't get lost in the anonymity of it. New Yorkers love being helpful, they love sharing advice and opinion and utility.

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matty @mattio.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The conductor comes and is attentive, quick, competent. "There will be EMS at the next stop - we'll wait there." We get there, the train stops, there's an announcement, nobody complains about the delay.

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matty @mattio.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

"Can somebody go alert the conductor?" At the next stop several people go off to the conductor. "Here, I have a bottle of water." The woman who fainted looks ok, but says, "I just feel so strange suddenly" because she slumps again, twitching, unconscious for a few moments.

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matty @mattio.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I get up. People make room. Somebody identifies themself as a doctor. They help the person to her feet, slowly, and get her into a seat. The train is very crowded, but both the doc and the person have all the room they need.

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matty @mattio.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Anyway: woman, standing on the subway, appears to fall asleep, and then slowly slumps to the ground. I take my headphones out. Immediately one person is calling "Do we have a doctor or a nurse here?"

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matty @mattio.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I've gotten really sensitive to the whole "oh nobody cares about each other in The Big Bad City" narrative, because it's wrong, it's nuanced, and it's also part of a false narrative about how big cities are More Dangerous than other places.

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matty @mattio.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

On the subway this morning, right in front of me, a woman collapsed. I'm not sure if she fainted or had a seizure. What happened was one of those moments of New Yorkers helping New Yorkers that I wish more people from not here knew about.

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matty @mattio.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Hell yeah dawg congrats

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Cosmo Catalano - How The Race Was Won® @howtheracewaswon.com · 26/09/2026

Heard a major sponsor of the US (men’s) TdF coverage passes on ad buys at the TdFF because “no one watches the women.” Skill issue, tbh.

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matty @mattio.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Man Bless the sweet people who run home visit pet euthanasia services.

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matty @mattio.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Perhaps the best example of the rare feat of creating intellectually complex jazz that is also a total bop that you do not need an advanced degree to enjoy

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matty @mattio.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

"That one hit bush"?????

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matty @mattio.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I bought food the other day and the Nutrition Info said: Serving size: about 1/4 package Servings per container: 3.5 Bro

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Jose Pagliery @josepagliery.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

The ICE agent who shot a man in Minneapolis, left the state, was given refuge in Texas by Gov Abbott, and eventually got criminally charged by the feds... is now at a Hennepin County jail over state charges.

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matty @mattio.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Ooh that makes sense. I've got no insight to offer but good luck!

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matty @mattio.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

When I dig into google maps it appears that they successfully got the car down one flight of steps before getting stuck on the second (barely visible, under the tree)

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matty @mattio.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

this coterie of top shelf idiots argued about what to do. as the bickering reached a crescendo, the driver said something that has stuck with me ever since: "Trust me, bro. I got us this far, didn't I?"

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matty @mattio.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

this was the start but not the end of their problems. after some bickering they continued forward (CRUNCH) until their front wheels were at the bottom of the staircase. but CRUNCH, the undercarriage had bottomed out against the stairs... and the rear wheels were still at the top.

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matty @mattio.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

it should be clear that this was not a good idea. i watched as they crept down, one step at a time, arguing the whole way. but then the stairway narrowed, and they started scraping the front headlight against the adjacent building.

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matty @mattio.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

the whole "AI slowdown" thing reminds me of something that I saw outside of a party in college. i was smoking a cigarette and watching a group of drunk fratboys try to slowly drive an SUV down a flight of stairs and into a courtyard.

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matty @mattio.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

May even be a moral imperative.

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matty @mattio.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I would imagine that the more established an org's processes are, the harder it might be to have one foot on each horse. Whereas being somewhere more flexible (small org, or government?) might give you the ability to carve out that dual role. fwiw.

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matty @mattio.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Oh, I think this happened in the beforetimes too. Maybe it's so visible in LLMs because they're trained on a lot of corporate artifacts - and are deployed in those environments too?

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matty @mattio.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Peace activists? THEY DIDN'T GET THE RIGHT KIND OF PERMIT! ::dons gas masks:: Nazis? MUST PROTECT FIRST AMENDMENT

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matty @mattio.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

it's really interesting to see what protests get met with police violence and what ones get met with police protection

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matty @mattio.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

wake up babe, new favorite data visualization just dropped

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matty @mattio.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

There's been one for 25 years: www.nyc.gov/site/911heal...

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matty @mattio.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

academic journals flail around wondering how to increase their readership, and then encourage some of the worst writing techniques as a matter of policy. thanks for sticking to your guns!

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matty @mattio.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Around the time of European colonization of NYC, the NY harbor / Hudson River Estuary was estimated to be home to half the world's population of oysters.

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matty @mattio.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Appreciating @hellgatenyc.com's takedown of 7SoulsDeep's undergraduate millennial AOL instant messenger away message ass 'poetry' hellgatenyc.com/7soulsdeep-s...

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@7SoulsDeep Must Be Stopped

Someone...anyone...help. Plus, more news for your Wednesday morning.

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matty @mattio.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Great illustrative visual here. #datavis

A chart showing change in emergency response time, by distance to congestion zone boundary.

Locations outside the congestion pricing zone show mostly no change.

Locations within the congestion pricing zone show a drop of around 60 seconds after congestion pricing - with greater drops further inside the zone.

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matty @mattio.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

not sure if this is what you're going for but Graeber's stuff on Bullshit Jobs may qualify?

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