I hadn’t considered self driving cars as part of the expanding corporate panopticon

Not perfect, but a pretty good analogy about AI art.

Says officials in the state that epically failed to build enough housing over two decades for all that population growth that everyone apparently foresees.

NEW: Austin Energy is doubling rebates for customers who buy electric bicycles. Starting January 1, 2023: 🚲 $500-$999 e-bike = $200 rebate 🚲 $1,000-$1,999 e-bike = $400 rebate 🚲 $2,000+ e-bike = $600 rebate Electric scooters/electric mopeds are included.

Love that Seattle Department of Transportation has the capacity to remove crosswalks in days but building one takes years

"Regulating crypto would confer legitimacy on a system that does little to support real economic activity. adds a seal of approval to a system that poses no threat to financial stability and would lead to calls bailouts when crypto erupts again." ft.com/content/ac058e…

The Old God prepares for final battle

Hit me up at +macjustice on G+

Getting kinda into distributionism, ngl en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distribut…

“Traffic is up!” Do you know how many people showed up to watch my local sports stadium be demolished in 2000

I like imagining that this is some Leto Atreides II situation and this is all part of the Golden Path

I actually think you can explain a lot of the reactionary turn among VC types and their railing against the “laptop class” in these terms: they have to deal with a workforce that has relatively high amount of leverage over them and knows it, and they fucking hate it.

Elon Musk's Twitter just suspended the account of antifascist researcher Chad Loder likely to suppress reporting on right-wing extremists. As I reported, Loder's painstaking research identifying a Proud Boy who attacked police on Jan 6 was cited by the DOJ theintercept.com/2021/11/10/pro…

Hours after documenting Andy Ngo's vocal support for known pedophiles, journalist Vishal P. Singh (Vishal P. Singh 🏳️‍⚧️ (they/he)) has been suspended from Twitter.

I'll miss this account

Everything happens so much