Mac the squirrel :)
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Thread of all the public transit I’ve ridden in the world
macsquirelera.bsky.social
Singapore Chinese are definitely ethnically Chinese (Singapore Airlines flight crew has the most luggage I’ve seen outside of China)
macsquirelera.bsky.social
Economic* so focusing on getting people registered as workers, raising minimum wage etc
macsquirelera.bsky.social
Lowkey it seems like China needs a Claudia Sheinbaum style explicit focus
beijingpalmer.bsky.social
it's a good day to read about how the two stories of the Chinese economy - a booming tech sector and stagnant growth - are really the same story.

foreignpolicy.com/2025/10/10/c...
China’s Tech Obsession Is Weighing Down Its Economy
A decade of cutting-edge investment hasn’t translated into growth.
foreignpolicy.com
macsquirelera.bsky.social
I understand doing some stricter background checks and increasing security near the border, but this is just ethnic discrimination. It should not be tolerated.
macsquirelera.bsky.social
It’s simply too easy to make up anything for any reason. Put it behind a professional and ethical license
macsquirelera.bsky.social
They gotta ban AI video ASAP
jennbudd.bsky.social
Seems like they are going after reporters who are women. They hit one w/pepper spray ammo in her car, the WGN reporter and now this.
macsquirelera.bsky.social
The EU should be more forceful in minority language protection rules for Russian in the Baltics.
tendar.bsky.social
After refusing to learn the Latvian language, Latvia has ordered 841 Russians to leave the country by October 13, 2025. They also did not pass security and background checks.

Around 30,000 Russian citizens are affected by the new rules. While most managed to comply

Source: Politico
macsquirelera.bsky.social
Im pretty meh about the language models but governments (really counting on the EU) to just straight ban AI gen video without a license. It’s a neat tool for some work but the public ramifications of it are really bad
macsquirelera.bsky.social
It might change how we do some things. Especially like coding and general information searches. But I just don’t see there being large structural changes because of it
macsquirelera.bsky.social
I doubt it’ll happen in the US (for scrubs) since most staff have to wash them at home. Instead of being something you only wear at the hospital
macsquirelera.bsky.social
Why didn’t either Germany have a large bunker building program? You’d think that both would have done it since they would have been the frontline if the Cold War went hot
macsquirelera.bsky.social
I do think that the current big LLM push will mostly fall flat. There’s lots of really interesting machine learning things, but honestly language without thought just isn’t that valuable on a macro scale
macsquirelera.bsky.social
Robot arms actually are transformative too lmao
macsquirelera.bsky.social
Im not going to download your app just let me watch a single video in the browser you’ll be fine
macsquirelera.bsky.social
I would caution against trying to compare international homelessness statistics. They’re a disaster
macsquirelera.bsky.social
There’s nothing railroads love more than not having working safety systems
macsquirelera.bsky.social
I would simply fix the ATC issue
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pastoralpunk.bsky.social
Earlier this week there was a serious accident on the Tokyo Den-en-Toshi Line. This accident took place late in the evening, when a local train inbound to the Hanzomon Line sideswiped an out-of-service train parked on a tail track at Kajigaya station, not far from the major junction at Mizonokuchi
A still from a recent YouTube video showing the damage caused by one train sideswiping another train
macsquirelera.bsky.social
You really are Canadian you love the bus
macsquirelera.bsky.social
Someone decided Bart should be left hand running? What else could a routing issue be?
bart.gov
BART @bart.gov · 7h
BART service has stopped between Richmond and MacArthur in the Antioch, Berryessa, Richmond and SFO directions due to routing issues.
macsquirelera.bsky.social
Wonder why they chose Manila instead of Seoul, a similarly dense city to compare to SF
macsquirelera.bsky.social
every time I learn more about how any aspect of it I just get really confused