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one of the reasons to ban airbnb rather than try to regulate it is that they respond with millions of dollars of campaign spending against anyone who proposes regulating them.

submitted 14 days ago • 21 comments

Interesting: scientists found an ancient protein that's bisexual.

submitted 19 days ago • 2 comments

What a great conversation! "These rules are arbitrary everywhere. They're causing problems everywhere. You just need the right collection of people with the right messengers to make this politically possible." - Catie Gould

submitted 19 days ago • 0 comments

my takeaway from reading 150 years worth of historical transit and planning documents is that the solutions have been known the entire time and studies are just a way for people who don't want change to waste time

submitted 20 days ago • 7 comments

A pior cena do dia pra mim foi Marina sendo atacada de forma misógina na defesa da pauta ambiental e o senador Jaques Wagner dando risadas. Restou a Eliziane Gama, do centrão, na linha de frente da ministra. Assustador...

submitted 21 days ago • 20 comments

Everything we do in cities seem to be designed to create the least inconvenience for fast moving cars at the expense of everything else, including drivers like me when we aren’t driving.

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Ehud Olmert: "What we are doing in Gaza is a war of extermination: indiscriminate, unrestrained, brutal, and criminal killing of civilians." archive.ph/3vvOi#select...

submitted 22 days ago • 0 comments

A Shattered Nation Longs To Care About Stupid Bullshit Again theonion.com/a-shatt...

submitted 22 days ago • 322 comments

Please read. We hoped that one of the many members of the Bluesky community from Gaza could be first to share this letter, but we were worried that their account would get taken down if they did. This letter is for @moderation.bsky.app, Bluesky leadership, and the wider community here. Thanks!

submitted 24 days ago • 31 comments

🤔Can we rethink housing as a common good? IIPP Director @mazzucatom.bsky.social and Visiting Professor @cityofsound.bsky.social propose a bold rethinking of housing as a human right and as a way to achieve social & environmental justice. ✍️Read their paper here: buff.ly/06pQuJI

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Nearly half of British youth would rather be young in a world with no internet. It’s a damning indictment of what social media has become. As its harms continue to grow, governments need to act — but they must take the right measures instead of reaching for easy fixes.

submitted 27 days ago • 32 comments

O antigo seminário da Penha, edifício que está atualmente abandonado na Zona Leste de São Paulo, tem potencial para ser o novo centro cultural da região.

submitted 25 days ago • 1 comment

Impossible to watch this video without weeping. What these people have gone through I simply cannot imagine.

submitted 26 days ago • 1 comment

“Elon Musk’s Grok AI Can’t Stop Talking About ‘White Genocide.’ In response to X user queries about everything from sports to Medicaid cuts, the xAI chatbot inserted unrelated information about ‘white genocide’ in South Africa.” It only sounds like a “glitch” if you haven’t figured out Elon by now.

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Using AI to fake your resume and cover letter for a job you aren't qualified for sounds like a good idea, until you're actually hired and suddenly you're expected to make Grok racist and you don't have the skills to pull it off

submitted 34 days ago • 5 comments

apparently Elon's gotten so mad about Grok not answering questions about Afrikaners the way he wants, xAI's now somehow managed to put it into some kind of hyper-Afriforum mode where it thinks every question is about farm murders or the song "Kill the Boer"

submitted 34 days ago • 238 comments

“Our results suggest that traditional gender norms, particularly those linking masculinity with red meat consumption and car use, play a significant role in shaping individual carbon footprints."

submitted 34 days ago • 12 comments

Today on Volts: are we moving inexorably toward a "hydrogen economy"? No, says Joe Romm in his newly updated book. "Clean hydrogen" faces all the same limitations it always has, which will almost certainly confine it to expensive niche applications. Direct electrification is always preferable.

submitted 34 days ago • 9 comments

At least 10 people, including children, died in Gaza on Saturday after a drone strike hit the school they were sheltering in, according to local health workers.

submitted 388 days ago • 39 comments

I can't top this one.

submitted 37 days ago • 294 comments

this is not an exaggeration

submitted 37 days ago • 64 comments

When self proclaimed environmentalists refer to taxis as public transportation, you know they are missing something fundamental. Hint: it's about the scarcity of space in cities in the need to use that space efficiently.

submitted 37 days ago • 6 comments

Where does Pope Leo stand on climate change? He believes it's time to move "from words to action" (he's right on that!) and has previously highlighted the actions the Vatican is taking to reduce its own emissions through solar panels and electric vehicles. Read more:

submitted 40 days ago • 8 comments

Cybertrucks are piling up -- apparently no one wants to buy them -- but they can't stop making them, b/c shutting the factory down is too expensive. Great work all around.

submitted 40 days ago • 428 comments

One of the first and largest Nazi book burnings targeted the world's first trans clinic, destroying its irreplaceable library of over 20,000 books. Great story about it here: www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-...

submitted 42 days ago • 1 comment

That one stoned friend who hits you up at 2am with his new revelation

submitted 42 days ago • 29 comments

New books for review!!! Looking forward to these.

submitted 43 days ago • 0 comments

This is a metaphor for my life on social media

submitted 46 days ago • 13 comments

A highlight from the (excellent) new Ben Affleck Criterion Closet vid.

submitted 50 days ago • 46 comments

Idea: the "reverse yenta." When it's become distressingly clear to everyone except for themselves that a couple should divorce, the reverse yenta swoops in on behalf of the community to start the breakup process.

submitted 50 days ago • 2 comments

“Far more ominous” than the current taste for things dystopian & post-apocalyptic is “how seldom, today, we see the phrase ‘the 22nd century’”- William Gibson bostonreview.net/literature-c... The 21stC is the Age of Consequences, one way traffic into unknown phenomenalworld.org/analysis/glo...

submitted 51 days ago • 0 comments

Watching the first episode of Andor s.2 right now and I love how its already asking the bold question - what if Star Wars were good?

submitted 56 days ago • 5 comments

New episode is up! We talked with @katelynburns.com about her article in @theflytrapmedia.com, asking the question "Why are so many trans people into urban planning?" It was such a great conversation! Check it out! thewaroncars.org/2025/04/22/e...

submitted 57 days ago • 14 comments