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@pfhlick.bsky.social
Rhode Island, bicycle stuff, bla bla bla
Pinned
Yo #bikesky I GOT MY OWN BICYCLE SNOW PLOW
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OP: is there a technology that "the left" is excited about?
lots of answers and quote tweets mention a subset of these tech. May all these technological systems be shaped with democratic control and for the public good!
bsky.app/profile/did:...
lots of answers and quote tweets mention a subset of these tech. May all these technological systems be shaped with democratic control and for the public good!
bsky.app/profile/did:...
speaking for myself:
* mRNA
* solar power
* battery improvements
* electric vehicles (+hybrids)
* glp-1s (& related)
* crispr
* meat alternatives (plant-based + lab-grown)
* high-speed rail
* e-bikes
* 3d printers
* led lighting
* smartphones
* guitar amp modeling (home recording generally tbh)
* mRNA
* solar power
* battery improvements
* electric vehicles (+hybrids)
* glp-1s (& related)
* crispr
* meat alternatives (plant-based + lab-grown)
* high-speed rail
* e-bikes
* 3d printers
* led lighting
* smartphones
* guitar amp modeling (home recording generally tbh)
is there a technology that "the left" is excited about?
www.transformernews.ai/p/the-left-i...
www.transformernews.ai/p/the-left-i...
February 18, 2026 at 2:23 AM
OP: is there a technology that "the left" is excited about?
lots of answers and quote tweets mention a subset of these tech. May all these technological systems be shaped with democratic control and for the public good!
bsky.app/profile/did:...
lots of answers and quote tweets mention a subset of these tech. May all these technological systems be shaped with democratic control and for the public good!
bsky.app/profile/did:...
TRAINS. SOLAR. HEALTH TECH. MEDIA. GAMING.
WE'RE JUST NOT FUCKING NAZIS
WE'RE JUST NOT FUCKING NAZIS
is there a technology that "the left" is excited about?
www.transformernews.ai/p/the-left-i...
www.transformernews.ai/p/the-left-i...
The left is missing out on AI
As a movement, it has largely refused to engage seriously with AI, ceding debate about a threat and opportunity to the right
www.transformernews.ai
February 18, 2026 at 3:56 AM
TRAINS. SOLAR. HEALTH TECH. MEDIA. GAMING.
WE'RE JUST NOT FUCKING NAZIS
WE'RE JUST NOT FUCKING NAZIS
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It’s $20k on a million! If you make A MILLION DOLLARS A YEAR and aren’t dropping twenty big ones at a charity gala a couple times a year just as an excuse to dress up and hang out, you should get the fuck out of New York City.
February 18, 2026 at 12:13 AM
It’s $20k on a million! If you make A MILLION DOLLARS A YEAR and aren’t dropping twenty big ones at a charity gala a couple times a year just as an excuse to dress up and hang out, you should get the fuck out of New York City.
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Sowing fear of "ICE at the polls!" could do more to suppress votes than any actual ICE at the polls. Here's an explanation of the right's strategy on this, along with my recommendations for what to do instead of playing along.
katestarbird.substack.com/p/effective-...
katestarbird.substack.com/p/effective-...
February 17, 2026 at 8:45 PM
Sowing fear of "ICE at the polls!" could do more to suppress votes than any actual ICE at the polls. Here's an explanation of the right's strategy on this, along with my recommendations for what to do instead of playing along.
katestarbird.substack.com/p/effective-...
katestarbird.substack.com/p/effective-...
@weatherishappening.com 75% chance of what now
February 17, 2026 at 10:11 PM
@weatherishappening.com 75% chance of what now
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great piece
I have a new piece out today in Phenomenal World, on the economics of a freeze in NYC regulated rents. www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/aft...
February 17, 2026 at 8:55 PM
great piece
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In fairness to beer....
You don't look down to stare at the beer for 8 out of every 10 seconds
You don't look down to stare at the beer for 8 out of every 10 seconds
You would be freaked out if you saw 25% of drivers drinking a beer, right?
Using a phone is no different.
Using a phone is no different.
February 17, 2026 at 7:04 PM
In fairness to beer....
You don't look down to stare at the beer for 8 out of every 10 seconds
You don't look down to stare at the beer for 8 out of every 10 seconds
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You would be freaked out if you saw 25% of drivers drinking a beer, right?
Using a phone is no different.
Using a phone is no different.
February 17, 2026 at 5:04 PM
You would be freaked out if you saw 25% of drivers drinking a beer, right?
Using a phone is no different.
Using a phone is no different.
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I think it's very depressing that there is simply no social stigma against distracted driving. When people join a Zoom meeting from their cars everyone should be deriding that sort of behavior, and yet it's just accepted.
Ride in a bike lane and glance into every car that you pass and you'll see an extremely high percentage of people staring at their phones. It's terrible and frightening
You would be freaked out if you saw 25% of drivers drinking a beer, right?
Using a phone is no different.
Using a phone is no different.
February 17, 2026 at 7:21 PM
I think it's very depressing that there is simply no social stigma against distracted driving. When people join a Zoom meeting from their cars everyone should be deriding that sort of behavior, and yet it's just accepted.
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Question for the transportation nerds:
Whom (or what) do you turn toward when you have a question about the psychology and physics of roadway congestion?
Whom (or what) do you turn toward when you have a question about the psychology and physics of roadway congestion?
February 17, 2026 at 3:39 PM
Question for the transportation nerds:
Whom (or what) do you turn toward when you have a question about the psychology and physics of roadway congestion?
Whom (or what) do you turn toward when you have a question about the psychology and physics of roadway congestion?
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This is the future Big Bike wants
February 17, 2026 at 2:20 PM
This is the future Big Bike wants
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Would love to know if anyone has done this research...
Has anyone done a study to model how many lives could be saved by say, an 80 mph governor? I'd personally go even lower, but I know some states have 80 mph speed limits.
February 16, 2026 at 10:13 PM
Would love to know if anyone has done this research...
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It drives me nuts to hear people hear about how safe AVs are going to be when the one technology that would be relatively easy and cheap to put in regular cars is something that drivers absolutely won't accept.
February 16, 2026 at 10:02 PM
It drives me nuts to hear people hear about how safe AVs are going to be when the one technology that would be relatively easy and cheap to put in regular cars is something that drivers absolutely won't accept.
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“Not only will I pointedly refuse to hire a young journalist who objects to having AI write his stories, I will also write a self-righteous column about this in which I imagine that readers will see me as the wise and reasonable one here.” You are a dumbass.
February 16, 2026 at 12:48 AM
“Not only will I pointedly refuse to hire a young journalist who objects to having AI write his stories, I will also write a self-righteous column about this in which I imagine that readers will see me as the wise and reasonable one here.” You are a dumbass.
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America's attitude toward car dependence in a nutshell
After explaining how teen driving is dangerous and expensive, the solution presented is not for the parents to advocate for making car-free transportation alternatives more available but to push the young people to drive by making them overcome their fears.
February 15, 2026 at 7:03 PM
America's attitude toward car dependence in a nutshell
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MUST READ:
The best synthesis I have seen so far of things I knew or had put together from various sources but had not really seen pulled together 🧪
Importantly, I don’t think these academics were an aberration. I think a lot of scientists would have entered these circles, given the option.
The best synthesis I have seen so far of things I knew or had put together from various sources but had not really seen pulled together 🧪
Importantly, I don’t think these academics were an aberration. I think a lot of scientists would have entered these circles, given the option.
The billionaires' eugenics project: how Epstein infiltrated Harvard, muzzled the humanities and preached master-race science
Edge - Jeffrey Epstein's favourite intellectual salon - was sold to me as a gathering of the world's finest minds, writes Virginia Heffernan. The files reveal it was something far darker: a decades-lo...
www.thenerve.news
February 15, 2026 at 7:05 PM
MUST READ:
The best synthesis I have seen so far of things I knew or had put together from various sources but had not really seen pulled together 🧪
Importantly, I don’t think these academics were an aberration. I think a lot of scientists would have entered these circles, given the option.
The best synthesis I have seen so far of things I knew or had put together from various sources but had not really seen pulled together 🧪
Importantly, I don’t think these academics were an aberration. I think a lot of scientists would have entered these circles, given the option.
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There was a spate of these pieces a decade ago re the millennials.
But this is a very messed-up sentiment: "Falling behind" by not engaging in lots of sex or serious relationships before you're ready? By not engaging in unhealthy behaviors like drinking, driving, and drinking and driving? What?
But this is a very messed-up sentiment: "Falling behind" by not engaging in lots of sex or serious relationships before you're ready? By not engaging in unhealthy behaviors like drinking, driving, and drinking and driving? What?
February 15, 2026 at 6:57 PM
There was a spate of these pieces a decade ago re the millennials.
But this is a very messed-up sentiment: "Falling behind" by not engaging in lots of sex or serious relationships before you're ready? By not engaging in unhealthy behaviors like drinking, driving, and drinking and driving? What?
But this is a very messed-up sentiment: "Falling behind" by not engaging in lots of sex or serious relationships before you're ready? By not engaging in unhealthy behaviors like drinking, driving, and drinking and driving? What?
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I will say again that all headlines now are just Evil Madlibs, and increasingly this applies to by-lines as well
The @bostonglobe.com opinion page this morning is headlined by white supremacist Richard Hanania, whose racist views have been smoothed over in recent months by centrists
February 15, 2026 at 4:42 PM
I will say again that all headlines now are just Evil Madlibs, and increasingly this applies to by-lines as well
I do not regret to inform you that we are going to win
February 15, 2026 at 12:19 AM
I do not regret to inform you that we are going to win
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When they say "millions" here, they mean over $100M!
Together these awards totaled to:
Wilmington Safe Streets: $32M
Skid Row Connectivity Project: $39M
Boyle Heights Connectivity Project: $32M
(it's notable that the motion omits the embarrassing total)
Together these awards totaled to:
Wilmington Safe Streets: $32M
Skid Row Connectivity Project: $39M
Boyle Heights Connectivity Project: $32M
(it's notable that the motion omits the embarrassing total)
The City of LA is about to give back millions of dollars of previously won money for active transportation projects because it can’t build things in any reasonable amount of time.
February 14, 2026 at 7:03 PM
When they say "millions" here, they mean over $100M!
Together these awards totaled to:
Wilmington Safe Streets: $32M
Skid Row Connectivity Project: $39M
Boyle Heights Connectivity Project: $32M
(it's notable that the motion omits the embarrassing total)
Together these awards totaled to:
Wilmington Safe Streets: $32M
Skid Row Connectivity Project: $39M
Boyle Heights Connectivity Project: $32M
(it's notable that the motion omits the embarrassing total)
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Doom scrolling is doomed
The EU moves to kill infinite scrolling
Brussels is going head-to-head with social media platforms to change addictive design.
www.politico.eu
February 14, 2026 at 9:47 AM
Doom scrolling is doomed
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"as few as 2,000 automated vehicles could slow downtown San Francisco traffic to under two miles per hour – not through malice, but through the simple economic logic of avoiding parking fees by circling slowly"
Two mph is probably too slow, but this sounds like a powerful tool for slower speeds
Two mph is probably too slow, but this sounds like a powerful tool for slower speeds
Seems bad:
"Our current roadspace regime—free driving lanes here, metered parking there—is a patchwork that autonomous vehicles will arbitrage relentlessly."
From @reillybrennan.com, sharp thinking here about AVs' impact on streets of the future.
"Our current roadspace regime—free driving lanes here, metered parking there—is a patchwork that autonomous vehicles will arbitrage relentlessly."
From @reillybrennan.com, sharp thinking here about AVs' impact on streets of the future.
The Pauking Edition
On curb patience, slow-rolling Waymos, and the price of presence.
whyisthisinteresting.substack.com
February 13, 2026 at 3:46 PM
"as few as 2,000 automated vehicles could slow downtown San Francisco traffic to under two miles per hour – not through malice, but through the simple economic logic of avoiding parking fees by circling slowly"
Two mph is probably too slow, but this sounds like a powerful tool for slower speeds
Two mph is probably too slow, but this sounds like a powerful tool for slower speeds
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They made Mamdani into a communist jihadist for being a Muslim democratic socialist. He could NEVER get away with something like that.
somehow I get the feeling that if Mamdani had a nazi tattoo we'd have simply never heard of him again about 15 min after it was revealed instead of having to read a new piece every 5 days about how he's just a smol bean
February 13, 2026 at 3:51 PM
They made Mamdani into a communist jihadist for being a Muslim democratic socialist. He could NEVER get away with something like that.
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I’ve been wanting to write about William Gibson’s “Jackpot” books, and the concept of "slow disasters" in general, for a while… and now I have, for DOOMSDAY MACHINES: doomsdaymachines.net/p/hitting-th...
Hitting the jackpot
William Gibson's disturbingly plausible 21st-century slow disaster
doomsdaymachines.net
February 13, 2026 at 4:01 PM
I’ve been wanting to write about William Gibson’s “Jackpot” books, and the concept of "slow disasters" in general, for a while… and now I have, for DOOMSDAY MACHINES: doomsdaymachines.net/p/hitting-th...
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anyone notice how so-called "liberals" have turned their backs on Kamala Harris for gavin newsom? makes you wonder who really elected trump.........
February 13, 2026 at 4:25 PM
anyone notice how so-called "liberals" have turned their backs on Kamala Harris for gavin newsom? makes you wonder who really elected trump.........