Therapist said that biking is inherently dangerous after I shared how biking is now becoming a source of anxiety for me - then followed up with she can't treat me. Still reeling from that conversation. Because that is the biggest case of car brain I have ever experienced.

The world would be a better place if we all said “daddy” instead of “dude” #MakeSomeNoise (Jacob Wysocki)

Dr. Jim goes on CityCast Media to talk about Psychiatric Holds and inpatient mental health treatment. Please share and listen! lasvegas.citycast.fm/podcasts/how-c…

sending 🫶🏾 to all the folks laid off from bandcamp today. you’ve done so much for all of us.

"Bicyclists think they own the road." x.com/i/status/17163…

A sign that the time has come to retire this 21st century use of "platform"

I think we need to just eliminate the word “engineer” from “traffic engineer.” I’ve talked to dozens of real engineers who are incredulous about how our traffic “engineers,” who deliberately build the deadliest system on earth, approach basic ethics/safety protocols.

gpt recommended I call a method I hadn't heard of in a library I'm using. so I googled it. 1 other result. turns out, it doesn't exist. gpt hallucinated it. but someone had asked about it on github... because an llm had hallucinated the same method name before. it begins.

NOTABLE: Google announces dramatic changes to its "location history" function that should nullify all geofence warrants going forward—and I wouldn't be surprised if that is the point. Code is law, as they say. blog.google/products/maps/… (h/t fourthamendment.com)

A thing I think a lot of people don't understand about e-bikes is that, unlike a car, it's actually not that easy to get to the top speeds — and that's *a good thing.* Thanks to Trek Glowacki for letting me test ride one and pfbpolicy for talking me through the laws around this mode.

Why tell this story now? Because what happened to President Gay was not about plagiarism. Harvard doesn't give a f about plagiarism, not the kind she was accused of anyway. This was about money, power, politics and race. Don't kid yourself, like the student I had to give an A

Prediction: The bulk of data science work will shift from creating algorithms to verifying the algorithms created by AI are correctly aligned. This will lead to a massive increase in the demand for data scientists.

It’s the “and their heirs” for me. Sit with that for a second. How easily it’s acknowledged. This is why reparations for African Americans is such a litmus test for me.

I'm a big believer in therapy. Think of yourself as a very complex self-writing program. A good therapist figures out where to insert the print statements (gets you to talk about the right things out loud to yourself), which then sets you up to debug your own software.

I grew up in a Jersey suburb and the only thing I did NOT go into NYC for was diners. For. Fuck’s. Sake.