James Hupp
@jameshupp.bsky.social
Feel like dancin' on my own, to a record that I do not own, in a place I've never seen before
Good morning.
Ratboys - Go Outside - 7/29/2021 - Paste Studio CHI - Chicago IL
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December 15, 2025 at 1:57 PM
Good morning.
It’s the size of the cars and the enforcement of laws and the car dependence and the speed and probably some other stuff too, stupid
It’s important to contextualize just how much less safe American drivers are than everywhere else in the world, and it’s getting worse!
December 13, 2025 at 5:31 PM
It’s the size of the cars and the enforcement of laws and the car dependence and the speed and probably some other stuff too, stupid
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Residents of Lower Manhattan have been demanding pedestrianized streets for decades, but the city and Big Business keep thwarting them. Sounds like a job for Mayor Mamdani.
'No Better Place': Mamdani Must Pedestrianize Financial District - Streetsblog New York City
Residents of Lower Manhattan have been demanding pedestrianized streets for decades, but the city and Big Business keep thwarting them. Sounds like a job for Mayor Mamdani.
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December 13, 2025 at 1:08 PM
Residents of Lower Manhattan have been demanding pedestrianized streets for decades, but the city and Big Business keep thwarting them. Sounds like a job for Mayor Mamdani.
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More than anything else, it’s just sad that people start with an impression that NYC isn’t safe for humans, impressed upon them by the nastiest lying humans to ever walk the earth
December 13, 2025 at 12:53 AM
More than anything else, it’s just sad that people start with an impression that NYC isn’t safe for humans, impressed upon them by the nastiest lying humans to ever walk the earth
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imagine a world where business owners did some basic arithmetic and realized they got more business from transit users than drivers
Good data alert coming through! NYCEDC reports that business activity in the congestion relief zone is outpacing the rest of NYC: 4.8% foot-traffic growth in the zone vs. 1% citywide.
www.eenews.net/articles/bus...
www.eenews.net/articles/bus...
Business may have picked up in NY tolling area, economic development report says
According to the study, despite job and business growth in the city, there are still affordability challenges facing city residents.
www.eenews.net
December 12, 2025 at 3:13 AM
imagine a world where business owners did some basic arithmetic and realized they got more business from transit users than drivers
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This is your city on traffic engineering.
Look at the central city riverfront of Portland. It's just so shocking and embarrassing that we tolerate this.
December 11, 2025 at 9:34 PM
This is your city on traffic engineering.
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I’m sorry what are WHAT
WHAT
WHAT
Explainer: What are credit default swaps and why are investors watching Oracle's? reut.rs/3YkoQOG
Explainer: What are credit default swaps and why are investors watching Oracle's?
The cost of insuring Oracle's debt against the risk of default has shot up after its latest earnings reignited worries about how much the broader corporate sector is spending on AI and the borrowing surge to fund it.
reut.rs
December 12, 2025 at 12:27 AM
I’m sorry what are WHAT
WHAT
WHAT
This man has the correct energy about sweaters.
The Only Wool Sweaters I’d Buy.*
YouTube video by The Iron Snail
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December 11, 2025 at 11:19 PM
This man has the correct energy about sweaters.
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the thing is there really is a epochal tech revolution happening, it’s called renewables and green industry
Really refuse to let the worst people have ownership of techno-optimism
December 11, 2025 at 12:01 PM
the thing is there really is a epochal tech revolution happening, it’s called renewables and green industry
Abundance!
Instacart got caught running real-time price experiments on shoppers — same groceries, different prices.
Workers know this game well: Instacart’s algorithm does the same thing to their pay.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/09/b...
Workers know this game well: Instacart’s algorithm does the same thing to their pay.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/09/b...
Same Product, Same Store, but on Instacart, Prices Might Differ
www.nytimes.com
December 11, 2025 at 3:37 PM
Abundance!
Good morning.
Historic Times
YouTube video by Allo Darlin' - Topic
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December 11, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Good morning.
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There obviously needs to be accountability for these parents, but until the purveyors of this misinformation start facing consequences we will continue to see these problems.
A 5-month-old baby died, & 3 surviving children, ages 2, 4, & 5, had to be hospitalized with rickets, osteopenia, vitamin D deficiency, & significant developmental delays bc their parents put them on “alkaline diets.”
Anyone saying alkalization has health benefits is a murderous liar & a charlatan.
Anyone saying alkalization has health benefits is a murderous liar & a charlatan.
December 10, 2025 at 10:13 AM
There obviously needs to be accountability for these parents, but until the purveyors of this misinformation start facing consequences we will continue to see these problems.
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Our new study provides rare causal evidence about NYC’s speed camera program. We find large reductions in collisions (30%) and injuries (16%) near intersections with cameras. www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1... @astagoff.bsky.social ky.social @brendenbeck.bsky.social nbeck.bsky.social 🧪
Can speed cameras make streets safer? Quasi-experimental evidence from New York City | PNAS
Each year, approximately 40,000 people die in vehicle collisions in the United States,
generating $340 billion in economic costs. To make roads saf...
www.pnas.org
December 8, 2025 at 8:08 PM
Our new study provides rare causal evidence about NYC’s speed camera program. We find large reductions in collisions (30%) and injuries (16%) near intersections with cameras. www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1... @astagoff.bsky.social ky.social @brendenbeck.bsky.social nbeck.bsky.social 🧪
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Every legal story now is either
Ancient Circuit Judge Delivers Crystal Clear 100 Page Rebuke To Trumpist Overreach
or
In Unsigned Shadow Docket Decision, 6-3 Majority Declares Trump Can Hunt People For Sport
Ancient Circuit Judge Delivers Crystal Clear 100 Page Rebuke To Trumpist Overreach
or
In Unsigned Shadow Docket Decision, 6-3 Majority Declares Trump Can Hunt People For Sport
October 3, 2025 at 10:26 PM
Every legal story now is either
Ancient Circuit Judge Delivers Crystal Clear 100 Page Rebuke To Trumpist Overreach
or
In Unsigned Shadow Docket Decision, 6-3 Majority Declares Trump Can Hunt People For Sport
Ancient Circuit Judge Delivers Crystal Clear 100 Page Rebuke To Trumpist Overreach
or
In Unsigned Shadow Docket Decision, 6-3 Majority Declares Trump Can Hunt People For Sport
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COVID broke everyone's brains, now they're slowly getting their shit together
"Deaths from traffic accidents, drug overdoses, and alcohol-related causes are all falling fast in a similar manner to homicides based on data from the CDC." open.substack.com/pub/jasher/p...
It's Not Just Murder That Is Falling Rapidly
Death rates from several causes in the US are falling fast.
open.substack.com
December 8, 2025 at 3:16 PM
COVID broke everyone's brains, now they're slowly getting their shit together
Prediction: zero of the people who are certain New York is some sort of post-apocalyptic chaos zone will find this news at all comforting.
Because they don't want it. They want to be scared of the Big Bad City. It's validating to them.
Because they don't want it. They want to be scared of the Big Bad City. It's validating to them.
New York City went 12 days without a murder in November / December. That's tied for the longest stretch in history, according to the NYPD. As someone who was here when there were 6+ murders per day in this town, it continues to amaze me how safe the place is.
December 8, 2025 at 3:16 PM
Prediction: zero of the people who are certain New York is some sort of post-apocalyptic chaos zone will find this news at all comforting.
Because they don't want it. They want to be scared of the Big Bad City. It's validating to them.
Because they don't want it. They want to be scared of the Big Bad City. It's validating to them.
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Elon Musk is worse at hiding it but this is the problem with all billionaires: they are a threat to democratic governance. They have an insatiable need to own and control everything. If you want to be free you have to curb their power, and demand political leaders who understand that
Elon Musk is against the European Union being the European Union —he posted this after X (fka Twitter) was fined for violations of the EU’s Digital Services Act.
December 6, 2025 at 9:07 PM
Elon Musk is worse at hiding it but this is the problem with all billionaires: they are a threat to democratic governance. They have an insatiable need to own and control everything. If you want to be free you have to curb their power, and demand political leaders who understand that
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It's the 160th anniversary of the United States' refounding, the ratification of the 13th Amendment.
December 6, 2025 at 12:38 PM
It's the 160th anniversary of the United States' refounding, the ratification of the 13th Amendment.
When the IAC Building was first built, there wasn't much height around it. As far as I can recall it was the first of his buildings I'd seen. I took cabs past it at night occasionally, and I found it so beautiful. It was fun and a bit ethereal, and I loved how it seemed to twist and follow the cab.
December 5, 2025 at 8:20 PM
When the IAC Building was first built, there wasn't much height around it. As far as I can recall it was the first of his buildings I'd seen. I took cabs past it at night occasionally, and I found it so beautiful. It was fun and a bit ethereal, and I loved how it seemed to twist and follow the cab.
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a lovely obituary but this in particular really got me
December 5, 2025 at 5:05 AM
a lovely obituary but this in particular really got me
The people who have been the absolute worst about this in my experience are, of all people, ISPs. What do you think I was trying to do? You think I WANT to be on the phone?
December 4, 2025 at 10:36 PM
The people who have been the absolute worst about this in my experience are, of all people, ISPs. What do you think I was trying to do? You think I WANT to be on the phone?
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![Comic. Doing a task using a company or organization’s website: [flowchart] Go to website, try to log in → Did it work? → Yes → Try to do your task. → Did it work? Yes → Nice! Done! If logging in did not work → Spend hours troubleshooting account / login. If that works, go to Try to do your task. If no → Give up and call customer service. If spending hours troubleshooting doesn’t work, also give up and call customer service. After calling customer service: Hold message: “Did you know you could do all this more quickly and easily on our website? Just go to w-w-w dot…” → Throw phone and laptop into the sea.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cz73r7iyiqn26upot4jtjdhk/bafkreiewqnkcrrc4tgla7j5skyz2djf3mrrvre3577c4xcgzurvq33bw4y@jpeg)
December 4, 2025 at 10:33 PM
Good morning.
Valerie June - Workin' Woman Blues
YouTube video by Glowing Bulbs
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December 4, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Good morning.
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The reason this ends in tragedy is that financialized news is the most convenient tool for fraud in human history. There’s a not a single newsworthy topic that’s possible to bet on that isn’t also possible to manipulate or insider trade.
Watch what happens when we start betting on celebrity deaths.
Watch what happens when we start betting on celebrity deaths.
Wtf are we doing?
"CNN partners with Kalshi to integrate prediction markets into its global newsroom. The first major news network to embrace Kalshi prediction markets."
"CNN partners with Kalshi to integrate prediction markets into its global newsroom. The first major news network to embrace Kalshi prediction markets."
December 4, 2025 at 3:25 AM
The reason this ends in tragedy is that financialized news is the most convenient tool for fraud in human history. There’s a not a single newsworthy topic that’s possible to bet on that isn’t also possible to manipulate or insider trade.
Watch what happens when we start betting on celebrity deaths.
Watch what happens when we start betting on celebrity deaths.
Good news for me I have been Zissoucore for a while
Red alert, boys. WSJ says it’s time to start dressing like Steve Zissou.
November 30, 2025 at 6:52 PM
Good news for me I have been Zissoucore for a while