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jstoner.bsky.social
In knowledge is power; in wisdom, humiility.
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Wild how the Fed chair saying that *entire regions of the United States* won’t be able to get a mortgage in the next decade barely registered as a news event

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Car crashes have killed or seriously injured roughly the same number of people as shootings in Chicago this year, but only one of these things is treated as a public safety crisis.

submitted 10 days ago • 9 comments

kinda cool www.404media.co/ukraines-mas...

submitted 14 days ago • 0 comments

When Lyft or Uber asks you to contact elected officials to "keep rideshare affordable" remember that they profit from undermining public transit and increasing congestion. Use them where necessary, but don't let them use you.

submitted 16 days ago • 16 comments

a bit of a misleading title (Hilarious). I'm reminded of my own family: my mom's Irish parents came here a century ago, had four kids, three of whom started successful businesses. www.youtube.com/watch?v=QoFL...

submitted 20 days ago • 0 comments

so... is current generative AI the opposite of the Singularity? As in, producing middle-of-the-road, conventional content instead of revolutionary world changing stuff? Maximizing predictability instead of destroying it?

submitted 26 days ago • 1 comment

🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕 consequence.net/2025/05/immi...

submitted 33 days ago • 1 comment

the headline of 2025 has been written arstechnica.com/security/202...

submitted 42 days ago • 0 comments

Just got word, a friend of mine just passed. Carl Harris, also known as Chopper Carl, who I knew through the Chicago bike community, was having health problems for a while. I hate that he's gone. Such a good guy. I wrote about him almost exactly ten years ago today. wp.me/p14iN5-ev

submitted 44 days ago • 1 comment

but her emails

submitted 45 days ago • 0 comments

yikes, but in context it makes a lot of things make sense. But yikes arstechnica.com/health/2025/...

submitted 49 days ago • 0 comments

the Constitution mentions 'citizens' three times, and they're all about offices. The president, representatives, and senators have to be citizens. The word person occurs 46 times, and people 7 times. That's not an accident.

submitted 50 days ago • 0 comments

I see the already historically unpopular president is exploring how to get the military invovled in “assisting” local law enforcement just a few weeks before the real shortages caused by his inept economic policy start hitting. Probably nothing to worry about.

submitted 52 days ago • 416 comments

Interesting. We already grow corn for energy. PV solar would be a lot more space efficient www.anthropocenemagazine.org/2025/04/new-...

submitted 55 days ago • 0 comments

no surprise, fully predicted outcome www.jezebel.com/risk-of-mate...

submitted 56 days ago • 1 comment

Making America Great Again www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

submitted 58 days ago • 0 comments

I need to take the bus more. There was a Brazilian woman giving away tea bags. Nice.

submitted 66 days ago • 0 comments

I love Weird Al youtu.be/KaiyQ7jJMaI?...

submitted 67 days ago • 0 comments

Untamed howls 🐺 #SaveTheLobo

submitted 68 days ago • 154 comments

So NBA stars are gonna transition and take a pay cut so they can... what?

submitted 73 days ago • 0 comments

www.404media.co/big-tech-bac...

submitted 76 days ago • 0 comments

Trump's 3/27 executive order targets the Smithsonian for advancing "the view that race is not a biological reality but a social construct." Trump argues that the exhibit's statement, below, is unscientific. He's wrong. As a biology professor and population geneticist, I agree with every word of it.

submitted 80 days ago • 72 comments

I've had this exact thought

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@jimgress.bsky.social saw this and thought of you... you ever follow Scott Manley? www.youtube.com/watch?v=llDE...

submitted 82 days ago • 1 comment

This is good

submitted 106 days ago • 2 comments

so, tried this demo: arstechnica.com/ai/2025/03/u... Now, I have a fairly severe speech impediment, to the point that I prefer textual communication over speaking even in face to face interactions. This demo sounds amazing, but it doesn't have the ability to say 'I don't understand.' 1/

submitted 106 days ago • 1 comment

I almost died laughing

submitted 109 days ago • 0 comments