semiquaver
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LA quietly stopped repaving all streets last July to avoid fulfilling its ADA obligations. The federal govt says when you repave a street, you have to update all the curb ramps. LA has tons of out of date curb ramps, so the rule makes repaving much more expensive. The city's solution: stop repaving!
LA has stopped repaving our streets
The reason why is probably illegal
futureis.la
December 9, 2025 at 4:44 PM
LA quietly stopped repaving all streets last July to avoid fulfilling its ADA obligations. The federal govt says when you repave a street, you have to update all the curb ramps. LA has tons of out of date curb ramps, so the rule makes repaving much more expensive. The city's solution: stop repaving!
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I'm at the combination
December 4, 2025 at 3:17 AM
I'm at the combination
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Donald Trump’s first appearance in the NYT—
“Major Landlord Accused of Antiblack Bias in City” from 1973
“Major Landlord Accused of Antiblack Bias in City” from 1973
Major Landlord Accused of Antiblack Bias in City | DocumentCloud
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December 4, 2025 at 3:41 AM
Donald Trump’s first appearance in the NYT—
“Major Landlord Accused of Antiblack Bias in City” from 1973
“Major Landlord Accused of Antiblack Bias in City” from 1973
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45 minute timelapse of Vredenburg in Utrecht, which can only be used by people on public transport, walking or cycling. Buses do not get delayed in queues or behind people cycling and people cycling are kept safe. You get safer cycling, faster transit, quieter streets, and a city that actually works
December 3, 2025 at 1:47 PM
45 minute timelapse of Vredenburg in Utrecht, which can only be used by people on public transport, walking or cycling. Buses do not get delayed in queues or behind people cycling and people cycling are kept safe. You get safer cycling, faster transit, quieter streets, and a city that actually works
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directly before it produces a word, it has a layer representing ~the probability of every word in the keyboard. when you are making the "raw" model, this can vary to better represent your dataset.
but if you start any of the specialist training, from a different distribution... you get this.
but if you start any of the specialist training, from a different distribution... you get this.
December 3, 2025 at 10:21 PM
directly before it produces a word, it has a layer representing ~the probability of every word in the keyboard. when you are making the "raw" model, this can vary to better represent your dataset.
but if you start any of the specialist training, from a different distribution... you get this.
but if you start any of the specialist training, from a different distribution... you get this.
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idk not to mention how very nuanced and normal the actual response here was
November 29, 2025 at 3:45 PM
idk not to mention how very nuanced and normal the actual response here was
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If you want a good summary of the legal issues, this is a good overview. But even before this horrific attack, it's an open question whether any of these strikes were legal. www.execfunctions.org/p/a-dishonor...
November 29, 2025 at 3:02 PM
If you want a good summary of the legal issues, this is a good overview. But even before this horrific attack, it's an open question whether any of these strikes were legal. www.execfunctions.org/p/a-dishonor...
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How low we have sunk as a country. The US Department of Defense is now run by a rabid war criminal.
Ordering the execution of helpless survivors of an attack is ALWAYS a war crime, whether they civilian or military.
Pure, mindless, barbarism.
www.thedailybeast.com/pentagon-pet...
Ordering the execution of helpless survivors of an attack is ALWAYS a war crime, whether they civilian or military.
Pure, mindless, barbarism.
www.thedailybeast.com/pentagon-pet...
Pentagon Pete in Legal Peril Over ‘Kill Them All’ Orders
A follow-up missile allegedly killed survivors of a U.S. strike on a drug boat.
www.thedailybeast.com
November 29, 2025 at 6:06 AM
How low we have sunk as a country. The US Department of Defense is now run by a rabid war criminal.
Ordering the execution of helpless survivors of an attack is ALWAYS a war crime, whether they civilian or military.
Pure, mindless, barbarism.
www.thedailybeast.com/pentagon-pet...
Ordering the execution of helpless survivors of an attack is ALWAYS a war crime, whether they civilian or military.
Pure, mindless, barbarism.
www.thedailybeast.com/pentagon-pet...
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From Frederick Douglass's 1867 "Composite Nation" speech, a defense of Chinese migration to the United States at a time when anti-Chinese sentiment was intensifying.
teachingamericanhistory.org/document/our...
teachingamericanhistory.org/document/our...
November 28, 2025 at 7:01 PM
From Frederick Douglass's 1867 "Composite Nation" speech, a defense of Chinese migration to the United States at a time when anti-Chinese sentiment was intensifying.
teachingamericanhistory.org/document/our...
teachingamericanhistory.org/document/our...
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The boycott is today
November 28, 2025 at 4:11 PM
The boycott is today
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In every aspect, this is on Trump and Miller. If Trump wasn't pushing martial law in the US, those kids would not be there. If Trump honored the judges order, they would be at home. If Trump hadn't thrown allied Afghans in the US to the wolves for ICE show, this would not have happened.
November 27, 2025 at 6:53 PM
In every aspect, this is on Trump and Miller. If Trump wasn't pushing martial law in the US, those kids would not be there. If Trump honored the judges order, they would be at home. If Trump hadn't thrown allied Afghans in the US to the wolves for ICE show, this would not have happened.
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JD Vance's ideal America is a place with half the GDP where everyone with potential and options gets the fuck out, a shithole that people from countries with actual dynamism visit to watch chintzy 'traditional' dances before going home.
November 27, 2025 at 8:45 PM
JD Vance's ideal America is a place with half the GDP where everyone with potential and options gets the fuck out, a shithole that people from countries with actual dynamism visit to watch chintzy 'traditional' dances before going home.
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2/ nor can we forget Thomas Fugate, the 22 year old Trump campaign worked appointed as the lead counter terrorism coordinator at DHS.
November 27, 2025 at 4:09 AM
2/ nor can we forget Thomas Fugate, the 22 year old Trump campaign worked appointed as the lead counter terrorism coordinator at DHS.
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With DC shooter now identified as an Afghan national not the antifa secret agent White House hoped for a good time to remember the Trump admin has gutted domestic anti-terrorism capacity and reassigned many to finding grandmothers to arrest at immigration hearings.
November 27, 2025 at 4:06 AM
With DC shooter now identified as an Afghan national not the antifa secret agent White House hoped for a good time to remember the Trump admin has gutted domestic anti-terrorism capacity and reassigned many to finding grandmothers to arrest at immigration hearings.
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i’m not sure how but this is real antipolygraph.org/blog/2025/10...
November 26, 2025 at 3:18 AM
i’m not sure how but this is real antipolygraph.org/blog/2025/10...
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Udo took a chance on my rinky-dink festival in Vancouver back in 2000 - he went on TV interviews with me, carried 35mm film prints up stairs, went to get me coffee and even live-dubbed Giancarlo Giannini's voice when BLACK BELLY OF THE TARANTULA showed up without subs. RIP Udo, you were a star 🌟
November 24, 2025 at 3:42 AM
Udo took a chance on my rinky-dink festival in Vancouver back in 2000 - he went on TV interviews with me, carried 35mm film prints up stairs, went to get me coffee and even live-dubbed Giancarlo Giannini's voice when BLACK BELLY OF THE TARANTULA showed up without subs. RIP Udo, you were a star 🌟
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Low income countries are enduring the worst sovereign debt crisis ever….debt service absorbs an average of 43% of budget revenues paid to foreign and domestic creditors. Germany got debt relief after World War 2 benefitting both Germany & EU.
Africa needs the same.
www.ft.com/content/1637...
Africa needs the same.
www.ft.com/content/1637...
Letter: Can Africa’s creditors learn from Germany’s debt deal?
From Ann Pettifor, Ex-Director, Jubilee 2000 campaign, 1997-2000, London NW1, UK
www.ft.com
November 23, 2025 at 8:20 PM
Low income countries are enduring the worst sovereign debt crisis ever….debt service absorbs an average of 43% of budget revenues paid to foreign and domestic creditors. Germany got debt relief after World War 2 benefitting both Germany & EU.
Africa needs the same.
www.ft.com/content/1637...
Africa needs the same.
www.ft.com/content/1637...
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Thread. Venezuela.
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The US has issued a new NOTAM (Notice to Air Missions) for the entire Venezuelan Flight Information Region, advising of a hazardous security environment amid worsening conditions and heightened military activity in and around Venezuela.
November 21, 2025 at 8:23 PM
Thread. Venezuela.
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Insane but true fact: making US roads as safe as Canadian, Australian, or European roads would save more lives than eliminating murder from the US.
November 21, 2025 at 3:01 AM
Insane but true fact: making US roads as safe as Canadian, Australian, or European roads would save more lives than eliminating murder from the US.
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👇🎯 The total failure of elite accountability is the of American politics dating back at least to 1865.
bsky.app/profile/mcop...
bsky.app/profile/mcop...
I think wealth inequality is part of it for sure, but its also a legal and political culture of elite impunity that is more than just about money
We don’t spend enough time talking about how massively increasing wealth inequality has insulated our oligarchic class not just from consequences but from reality, too. This is true whether we’re talking about Thiel ranting about the anti Christ of Summers trying to coerce a grad student.
November 17, 2025 at 5:07 PM
👇🎯 The total failure of elite accountability is the of American politics dating back at least to 1865.
bsky.app/profile/mcop...
bsky.app/profile/mcop...
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I made an ascii art moon phase tracker that runs whenever I open a new terminal window, and it makes me aware of the passage of time more than any calendar. github.com/asweigart/as... and github.com/asweigart/as...
November 15, 2025 at 10:19 PM
I made an ascii art moon phase tracker that runs whenever I open a new terminal window, and it makes me aware of the passage of time more than any calendar. github.com/asweigart/as... and github.com/asweigart/as...
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My most woke opinion is that "woke" at root is a beautiful concept: active socio-political consciousness in the context of the Black American liberation struggle. And the way it's been turned into a sneering pejorative is one of the ugliest things I've ever seen in Western political discourse.
"my least woke opinion is---"
That's enough. We've had enough people indulging in the "thrill of a little conservatism", as a treat. Of considering reactionary thought to be a salacious and taboo in a world descending into reactionary mania.
Give me your MOST woke opinions. We're bringing it back.
That's enough. We've had enough people indulging in the "thrill of a little conservatism", as a treat. Of considering reactionary thought to be a salacious and taboo in a world descending into reactionary mania.
Give me your MOST woke opinions. We're bringing it back.
November 14, 2025 at 12:54 PM
My most woke opinion is that "woke" at root is a beautiful concept: active socio-political consciousness in the context of the Black American liberation struggle. And the way it's been turned into a sneering pejorative is one of the ugliest things I've ever seen in Western political discourse.
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Stepping in to play Rachmaninov 2 and Prokofiev 3 with the @philharmonialondon.bsky.social and Lawrence Foster on Monday at @southbankcentre.bsky.social! Two of my favourite concerti in one evening 🥰
If you’re in the are and free that evening, do come 😀
philharmonia.co.uk/whats-on/bor...
If you’re in the are and free that evening, do come 😀
philharmonia.co.uk/whats-on/bor...
November 14, 2025 at 3:11 PM
Stepping in to play Rachmaninov 2 and Prokofiev 3 with the @philharmonialondon.bsky.social and Lawrence Foster on Monday at @southbankcentre.bsky.social! Two of my favourite concerti in one evening 🥰
If you’re in the are and free that evening, do come 😀
philharmonia.co.uk/whats-on/bor...
If you’re in the are and free that evening, do come 😀
philharmonia.co.uk/whats-on/bor...