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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 10h

NYC is opening 160 car-free (but treat-filled) streets and plazas to enjoy fun and safe fall festivities this spooky season. Find one near you at nyc.gov/trickorstreets.

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Tony Jordan @tonyjordan.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Never forget when Shoup taught us that the value of parking spaces in the USA is likely more than the value of all the roads and all the cars that drive on them.

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Enrico🐀 @redbassett.com · 12h

I mean, betting sites and social media sites are competing pretty hard for how negligent the can be too!

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Enrico🐀 @redbassett.com · 12h

Additionally the context of it being an automated block is even worse. It doesn't matter how much data you have to back up why a block was done, the takeaway of "ToS head posts about decisions and then auto-blocks users responding" is what is seen regardless of how accurate you think that is.

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Enrico🐀 @redbassett.com · 12h

There's no job description req to discuss policy decisions on personal accounts - in fact doing so is not a good choice at all. Aaron can block whoever he wants from a personal account but what we have now is the company representative blocking users from a de facto official moderation account.

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Joey Politano🏳️‍🌈 @josephpolitano.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Sort of insane fact about how broken US urban planning is—America now spends more building *just the lights for roads and highways* than on all subways & ground mass transit combined Spending on roadway *pavement* is 18x transit spending

a graph of roadway and mass transit lights

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pixelatedboat aka “mr bluesky” @pixelatedboat.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Sad news everyone. Our beloved friend the computer has now become a hated enemy

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Enrico🐀 @redbassett.com · 21h

Also the DeLorme, but I honestly didn't use paper maps because I didn't really navigate anywhere I wasn't familiar with on my own until after GPS was standard.

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Enrico🐀 @redbassett.com · 21h

I just solved this by growing up in a town with only a few dozens total roads (of which maybe six to ten were main roads that went anywhere?) so it was simple. If you had to go far, you just drove an hour down a set of memorized routes to the single interstate in the state.

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Enrico🐀 @redbassett.com · 02/10/2026

(Side note, I led the flight team for a production of Peter Pan many years ago and the best stunt we did in the whole show was to fly Peter from the stage edge up, over the audience to land her on the balcony rail where she would lean out on her cable over the crowd for "do you believe in fairies".)

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Enrico🐀 @redbassett.com · 02/10/2026

This extends to blocking too. Aisle entrances/exits are good, but actual show taking place out into the audience feels far more interactive and adds so much depth to the experience.

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Enrico🐀 @redbassett.com · 02/10/2026

Don't do house lights, do festoons (cafe string lights) over the audience. (The arena tour of Quidam did this to amazing effect.)

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Enrico🐀 @redbassett.com · 02/10/2026

As a professional theatrical designer (trained in lighting), breaking the proscenium (real or metaphorical) is one of my favorite design elements. Scenic and lighting elements that extend into the audience break down the physical divide between the house and the stage.

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Enrico🐀 @redbassett.com · 02/10/2026

Not just a Sean Duffy special, this is Duffy looking at what Hegseth is doing and wishing he could be that too

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Enrico🐀 @redbassett.com · 02/10/2026

Now *that's* scenic design

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Enrico🐀 @redbassett.com · 02/10/2026

No reason you can't put cargo in a family bike *but* I wish we had more utility cargo bikes on North American streets!

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Enrico🐀 @redbassett.com · 01/10/2026

Reading this while waiting around on site sitting on the parked lull

A green sunbelt rental lull parked with its boom up

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Doug Gordon @brooklynspoke.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

"Zero of those people have been killed by e-bikes or e-scooters,” said Brooklyn Borough President Antonio Reynoso. “Yet here we are at a hearing [on] 21 bills aimed at regulating e-bikes and e-scooters. None are about regulating dangerous driving and only two are about infrastructure.”

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NYPD's Tisch Skips City Council E-Bike Hearing Despite Focus on Enforcement

NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch blew off Wednesday’s City Council hearing about e-bike safety — sending subordinates in her stead.

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Enrico🐀 @redbassett.com · 01/10/2026

They're technical people. I can describe the evolution of the infrastructure all I want. The damage has been done to the reputation and they have no reason to trust the platform regardless of the technology.

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Enrico🐀 @redbassett.com · 01/10/2026

In early days there was a lot of misinfo on other platforms (especially Mastodon) about how bsky couldn't ever be decentralized and was exclusively for-profit. This couldn't be won by technical arguments, many potential users saw it as a company problem. I have many friends who will never try bsky.

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Enrico🐀 @redbassett.com · 01/10/2026

Unfortunately a common attitude for the company is "people are only angry at us because they don't understand the tech well enough". It's been said about "vibe coding", "decentralization", and now "trust and safety".

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Enrico🐀 @redbassett.com · 01/10/2026

Especially as ToS leadership, if you're seeing actual abusive interactions or spam, great, follow your ToS policies and enforce. But having a major company rep say "yeah, I block a small vocal part of our userbase" is really a bad look for the whole brand.

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Enrico🐀 @redbassett.com · 01/10/2026

If bsky employees want a more curated usage I don't have any issue with them running alternate accounts that don't advertise their affiliation with the company. Can't have cake and eat it too.

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Enrico🐀 @redbassett.com · 01/10/2026

We don't have any open records requirements for bsky employees like we do for politicians but it's a very slippery slope to both advertise your association with leadership of the company on a profile and also to block people from that profile.

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Enrico🐀 @redbassett.com · 01/10/2026

The issue here isn't that people don't understand the nuances of the blocking decision making properly, it's the optics of blocking users when you are a public face for the company.

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Enrico🐀 @redbassett.com · 01/10/2026

(The wear marks should be noted visually on inspection, I know they aren't seeing the wing with slats and reverser deployed on a normal walk around)

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Enrico🐀 @redbassett.com · 01/10/2026

Don't know enough on the specific aircraft to analyze the dark photo myself, but that *should* be noticed by walk around and maintenance inspections if it's an issue, *but* generally crew don't mind someone flagging something that looks wrong, so I don't see any reason not to.

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Enrico🐀 @redbassett.com · 30/09/2026

The onion is writing this as a joke, but I actually owe a large portion of my career to a deep desire for large amounts of cables.

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victoria scott @victoriascott.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Generally speaking I do need AI boosters to understand that I’ve lost my career and future plans entirely to AI-based cost cutting. so any time you’re talking about tech you have to understand people whose livelihoods were destroyed by a thing they didn’t choose to adopt they’re gonna be prickly lol

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tef @tef.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Film-Noir Author: In my book I invented the Toontown Freeway as a cautionary tale. Robert Moses exiting a time machine: At long last, we have created the Toontown Freeway from classic sci-fi novel Don't Build The Toontown Freeway.

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Enrico🐀 @redbassett.com · 30/09/2026

It's that time of year again where I get to professionally block Storrow drive so we can take trucks down the famous "No Trucks" road

The front of a Penske box truck across the entry lanes into Storrow Drive, blocked traffic waiting behind.

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Enrico🐀 @redbassett.com · 29/09/2026

As a professional user out in the field I use Aputure gear over Amaran (metal housings and water resistance matter to my daily use), but everything Aputure makes is such a change from where we were not long ago. I'm amazed at what we can do with LEDs now.

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Enrico🐀 @redbassett.com · 29/09/2026

I used to actually enjoy writing software and I hate how much the industry as a whole has made it clear there's no place for me anymore

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Enrico🐀 @redbassett.com · 29/09/2026

I would spend so much more time in NY if hotels were reasonable there.

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josh boo-erman 👻 @bosh.worstpossible.world · 29/09/2026

i did earlier today and it broke me. started to write something about it but couldn't finish it because any attempt at communicating the scale of the thing felt trite. i found a google street maps listing for a local coffeeshop and art gallery and seeing this picture, from 2021 or so, broke me

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Enrico🐀 @redbassett.com · 29/09/2026

I really don't think articles with "we couldn't actually verify any solid numbers" reporting on companies with a history of funny accounting is exactly a huge gotcha.

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Enrico🐀 @redbassett.com · 29/09/2026

Looking at a map it seems that Rhode Island Ave kinda points towards Rhode Island, so kind of like extendny.com you could calculate what number on Rhode Island Ave in LA your current home is!

extendny.com

ExtendNY - New York City Extended

The Manhattan Grid extended to every point on Earth.

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Enrico🐀 @redbassett.com · 28/09/2026

I'd also go for "class 3 on road only, no bike lanes" over a full ban, licensed/moped or not, but this does conflate with emotos and road licensing rules.

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Caræsten 🇵🇸 @cara.city · 28/09/2026

yeah in fairness this is the main reason why I don’t think they should make class 3s illegal right now. NJ fucked it up so badly that it’s made it very hard to use *any* e bikes

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Enrico🐀 @redbassett.com · 28/09/2026

Also if we're restricting vehicles actual equipment to test is good, NYPD is famous for calling anything they want an ebike or moped and I really don't want cops anywhere trying to determine what should be classed as what by eye.

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Enrico🐀 @redbassett.com · 28/09/2026

I'd support banning emotos except licensed motorcycles while keeping class 3. I'd also probably back class 3 sales restrictions and maybe consider bans. What I definitely fear is a NJ-style outlawing of normal bikes because people picture kids on electric dirt bikes when they hear "ebike".

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Enrico🐀 @redbassett.com · 28/09/2026

First, all states should be fixed to the same definitions - outlawing a bike in NY that's within a class (in other states) that NY says is legal is bad. Second, I wish both the lawmakers and the journalists would address emotos. These gets considered "ebikes" by most and derail actual bike policy.

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Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

yes my bull went rogue in your china shop but I think we can all agree there’s no liability here it’s an agentic being

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Enrico🐀 @redbassett.com · 28/09/2026

Also side guards. Better to not hit anyone in the first place, but keeping them out from under the vehicle if they are hit is key. (And speaking as someone who drives trucks professionally, the American stigma against cabovers is really dumb, they are so much better for city driving)

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Enrico🐀 @redbassett.com · 28/09/2026

There has been some good improvement and expansion of ML tools in the "AI is here" years but exactly, nothing getting actual use is all that different from what was being developed before genAI took off.

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Enrico🐀 @redbassett.com · 28/09/2026

Also most of the "we used AI" business success stories are editors having a few new ML powered audio or transcription tools.

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Enrico🐀 @redbassett.com · 28/09/2026

Aside from the press box (which is actually a nice office building inside) I've never felt more outdoors while working in a stadium than that place.

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