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BeMore BaiLan @bemorebailan.bsky.social · 12h

there's also a kind of shameless comedy for douthat to interview someone who wrote a book called, and we are not making this up, "papa dont pope"

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BeMore BaiLan @bemorebailan.bsky.social · 12h

thinking about the douthat interview with wilson... both wilson and richard butler left the catholic church right after vatican 2. we wish people would think about both people in similar terms, in part b/c wilson regularly platforms people at related institutions that call jews "christ killers"

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BeMore BaiLan @bemorebailan.bsky.social · 12h

construction physics is a great blog, but we also have to sneer that it attracts a comment section that's the worst overlap of abundance bros that will hatecrime you and orange-site-poisoned fash-rationalists 😩

BeMore BaiLan @bemorebailan.bsky.social · 12h

is the implicit joke on this "deep dive" supposed to be that it doesn't cite tyndall '24 and then only talks about the "big suv hypothesis" obliquely to cite it later in a sequel piece? lol

David Zipper @davidzipper.bsky.social · 13h

Deep dive into the surge in US pedestrian deaths:

"It’s not that more pedestrians are getting hit by vehicles; it’s that the ones that are getting hit are more likely to die."

"[That] seems like fairly strong evidence for the theory that the rise in large SUVs is behind the uptick in ped deaths."

Why Are So Many Pedestrians Killed by Cars in the US?

It’s unfortunately not uncommon for pedestrians to be killed by cars in the US.

www.construction-physics.com

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BeMore BaiLan @bemorebailan.bsky.social · 18h

this is a bit wilson has been on for a while, one of maryland's worse exports of all time.

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BeMore BaiLan @bemorebailan.bsky.social · 18h

convinced the most hilarious fix (culturally and politically untenable ofc) to destroying the us soybean market would be a civil defense style program to convince farmers to love tofu. booklets on curd and miso prep with packets of bittern and koji sent to every american soybean farmer.

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BeMore BaiLan @bemorebailan.bsky.social · 1d

the banner already ran a big puff piece for nino mangione within the last few weeks... 😬

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BeMore BaiLan @bemorebailan.bsky.social · 1d

this is both in the first order how we should be getting things improved now (want benches? sell land to politically connected people) and how to make improvements in the future (figure out who the next mayor's planning on enriching; surely cohen will helpfully disclose their favorite developers)

BeMore BaiLan @bemorebailan.bsky.social · 1d

we need to scrounge together some land next to herring run for the city to sell the david bramble so that mayor scott will care about fixing sewage sooner than in a quarter century.

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BeMore BaiLan @bemorebailan.bsky.social · 1d

we have other things to say about this but there's a number of deaths that can and will be attributable to delay and there are a number of people who will never be held accountable for this 😌

BeMore BaiLan @bemorebailan.bsky.social · 1d

the thing is that the last few years of bmore dot's fecklessness has shown that bruner-settle's gaslighting about lack of engagement *did* successfully derail rapid expansion of the bike network. so in this way, she got what she wanted (more potential dead cyclists)

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BeMore BaiLan @bemorebailan.bsky.social · 1d

sorry, typo, sloshed on teawine, s/platform/oust/g, we still want to interview bruner-settles she was a particularly cursed kind of car-deranged

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BeMore BaiLan @bemorebailan.bsky.social · 1d

the shit ass city council member who tried to platform dorsey explicitly did this double bind as a whole bit, like "wow he's not wearing a helmet and high viz while biking on harford at all hours of the day, this is why we must grind your children underneath cars"

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BeMore BaiLan @bemorebailan.bsky.social · 1d

the great double bind of cycling is that you will be told to wear a helmet and high viz outfits, but doing that will also make motorists view you as less human and thus antagonize you more.

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BeMore BaiLan @bemorebailan.bsky.social · 1d

😌 of all people, drivers are the coolest and the normalest 😌

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BeMore BaiLan @bemorebailan.bsky.social · 2d

the Organisation Internationale de Normalisation did not create ISO-8601 and sun microsystems did not create RFC 3339 for you to be this wrong on al gore's internet

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BeMore BaiLan @bemorebailan.bsky.social · 2d

we keep getting too disabled to finish a full writeup on this but cannot understate the levels of embarassment that should flow to every representative and employee of our city that believed in this grift. (one wyominc pilot ended in less than 2 years and the other never started)

screenshot of letter on overstock.com letter head dated 2018 from ceo (at the time) patrick byrne. text reads:

To the wyoming blockchain task force:

It is my honor to write this letter of support for the effort to put Wyoming's property records onto the blockchain. Wyoming has a long history of valuing freedom and of forward-thinking vision; it has been fantastic to watch the Forever West state proactively welcome blcokchain. as you know, this technology is going to revolutionize the future as much as and more than the internet and web have impacted our lives today. Property records on blockchain is a particularly important topic.

Medici land governance (MLG) is an subsiduary of my company Overstock that is focused on putting property records on blockchain. The initial goal of our work at MLG was to empower people in countries who don't have access to formal property records, and while that remains a focus of our work, we see great value and efficiency gains in property records being available on blockchain regardless of the geographic location of the property of the owner. The power of blockchain to increase accuracy, efficiency and access of property records, and the impact this will have on economic growth will be readily apparent in the near future and the State of Wyoming's trailblazing work could very well set an example for the rest of the country

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BeMore BaiLan @bemorebailan.bsky.social · 2d

😭 we had just weakly skimmed your dissertation a few days ago but there's so many particulars here in an area we've barely read up on aaaaaa. hunch is the big problem is the difference in the nature of the right under coartacion vs maryland's manumission law will make it hard to find da lies in full

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BeMore BaiLan @bemorebailan.bsky.social · 2d

😭 mood, we were like "oh no ,this is surely something they've already read" lkjlkjkl our cursory search also brought up fede's "roadblocks to freedom" but the shadow library pdf download was too big.

getting the % of lies in manumission documents seems hard given they wouldnt have to be recorded

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BeMore BaiLan @bemorebailan.bsky.social · 2d

lmfao we're dying patrick byrne is the same overstock ceo that boosted the crypto grift that baltimore city paid into. incredible.

Josh Gerstein @joshgerstein.bsky.social · 3d

JUST IN: Overstock founder Patrick Byrne formally defaulted by court in libel suit Hunter Biden brought against him. Biden lawyers to propose size of default judgment in coming weeks. Earlier: www.politico.com/news/2025/09...

Hunter Biden seeks arrest of former Overstock.com CEO in defamation case

Attorneys for the ex-president’s son ask a federal judge to issue a bench warrant against defendant Patrick Byrne for failing to respond to court orders.

www.politico.com

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BeMore BaiLan @bemorebailan.bsky.social · 2d

😌 guthrie was paid to write songs about grand coulee dam, the city of baltimore should pay people for cultural ✨content ✨ encouraging the decommissioning of the local incinerator

BeMore BaiLan @bemorebailan.bsky.social · 2d

we would have to shed some cynicism but we'd love to be paid like @markgongloff.bsky.social for writing "oh surely this one graph will convince people who cannot be convinced" pieces. www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti... there's enough graphs to write up that it'd constitute a federal jobs program

A Chart Climate Denialists Can’t Ignore

Every now and then you come across a piece of evidence that feels strong enough to cut through the noise and change minds.

www.bloomberg.com

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 3d

If we had responded to Covid by normalizing masking, providing respirators in healthcare & adopting clean air standards…we could have beaten the virus.

We would also be seeing less measles, colds & flu.

We would all be healthier.

I believe history will see it as one of our greatest failures.

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BeMore BaiLan @bemorebailan.bsky.social · 2d

we're out of our depth on this 😭: ch 4 in Whitman's '97 "The Price of Freedom: Slavery and Manumission in Baltimore and
Early National Maryland" discusses so many moving pieces for manumission, mentions how little info was required, and draws some comparison to coartacion in cuba, but dsnt answer q

screenshot from pg 98 on wilson "The price of freedom", text reads:

"for such freedom," then that person could remain in Maryland. Since
Maryland law did not otherwise acknowledge a slave's legal personal-
ity in manumissions, most were in law deeds of gift and not contracts.
However, the master manumitting prospectively could not revoke his
or her action without challenge once the deed was filed with the county court; a slave thus denied liberty could file a petition of freedom.
But the slave could not formally participate in establishing the terms
of manumission or insist on their being recorded. This explains why a
transaction as critically important to slaves as manumission, which might be expected to occur in many different modes and terms, takes on such a bland and uniform aspect in the deeds actually filed: masters were required only to identify the slave being freed, testify to his or her ability to earn a living, set the date of freedom, and have the deed signed by two witnesses.
Nevertheless, we can occasionally glimpse a hint, a shadowy out-
line, of negotiations between master and slave preceding manumission and occasionally continuing during and after the filing of a deed. "

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BeMore BaiLan @bemorebailan.bsky.social · 3d

trying to keep projects seperate but catching up on coverage and feeling great that our angle was not scooped :3