Scott Trudeau
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Scott Trudeau
@sstrudeau.bsky.social
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Ann Arbor. AADL Board of Trustees. CTO Listings Project. Lorcana dad. Bollard fan. he/him
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New AAA study finds that pedestrian detection systems are only 60% effective at night (which is when most pedestrians are struck).

Lesson: Car tech will not "solve" the crisis in US pedestrian safety. Addressing car bloat, deadly street design, etc is also necessary.
AAA: Nighttime Safety Improved with Pedestrian Detection Effective Rates Rising from 0% to 60%
Media B-Roll ORLANDO, Fla. (Oct. 15, 2025) – AAA evaluated vehicles equipped with pedestrian automatic emergency braking (PAEB) systems, building on
newsroom.aaa.com
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It makes you think
Here's a gift link to the New York Times' coverage of the initial Tea Party rallies in April 2009 which inspired the media to treat it like a massive movement.

Check out how tiny the crowds were:

Philly: 200
DC: "several hundred"
Boston: 500
Austin: 1,000
Houston: 2,000
Tax Day Is Met With Tea Parties (Published 2009)
www.nytimes.com
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A lot of centrist commentators who genuinely got worked up about the unforgivably insulting nature of "cling to guns and religion" or "basket of deplorables" are weirdly silent about Trump portraying himself as literally shitting on American cities
Top 4 - top seed

2-1 OTP vs 🟣🔵 (opponent missed ramp one game)

2-1 OTP vs rd 2 🟡⚪️ opponent
Rd 3
2-1 OTP vs 🟡🟣 princesses

Rd 4
ID to top 4
Running it back a Loot

Rd 1
2-1 OTD vs 🟡🔴 princesses

Rd 2
2-0 OTP vs 🟡⚪️
Round 2
2-1 OTD vs 🟡⚪️

Round 3
1-2 OTD vs 🟣🔵

One game away from the mat!
#DisneyLorcana Sylvan Factory set champs

Round 1
2-1 OTD vs 🟡🟢 (sea dogs)
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This is perfect.
LLMs are just another (mostly boring) technology. We can do some interesting things with them but every channel is absolutely flooded with shit.

Either AI farts cancer or AI is miraculously curing cancer but never just "ChatGPT is stupid. AI makes it easier to search my blog. Zzzz"
Okay, for the folks who asked: here's the majority AI view, writing up the reasonable, thoughtful view on AI that the vast majority of people in tech hold, that gets overshadowed by the bluster and hype of the tycoons trying to shill their nonsense. anildash.com/2025/10/17/t... Please share!
The Majority AI View - Anil Dash
A blog about making culture. Since 1999.
anildash.com
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For sure some of the legacy media outlets are downplaying the protests because they’re aligned with Trump, but I think an even bigger factor is how many elite journalists have a patrician disdain for the idea that politics can happen in the streets and not just the CNN green room.
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this rocks. when indiana edu killed the student newspaper, Purdue stepped up, printed the forbidden issue, drove it to Bloomington and stocked the boxes.
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Holy crap. 👀 #NoKings

Houghton, MI: Population 8,386.

OK, more realistically perhaps ~15,000 since it's a college town w/Michigan Tech located there.

Even so, that's still 3.3% of the total residents in a city which voted for Trump by 17 pts.
Upwards of 500 people in *checks notes* Houghton fucking Upper Peninsula fucking Michigan
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I have to say I find it...pretty annoying when people who were fine with targeting college protestors for extreme violence a year ago are now asking why more young people aren't protesting. 1
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“You can win elections by tacking to the middle; lots of people have. But you can also win elections by staking a moral position and convincing people to agree with you. You can earn support by demonstrating what is important to you instead of just being determined to nod along with what you hear.”
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The Declaration of Independence:
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Over 300,000 in Chicago for No Kings today

Under 20,000 ICE enforcement on the ground in the entire USA

We don't have to comply, and they should be scared of us
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WOW! Protesters created a HUGE human sign on San Francisco’s Ocean Beach reading “No Kings YES on 50” to support California’s Prop 50 and stand up against Donald Trump’s fascist regime
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Mike Johnson & other Rs argue that Dems should open the government first and then negotiate over extending the Obamacare premium subsidies later this year.
But with open enrollment starting soon, some states say it's *already* too late to add back the enhanced subsidies
It’s ‘too late’ to extend ACA subsidies without major disruptions, some states and lawmakers say
States are worried Congress missed its opportunity to extend enhanced ACA subsidies and lower premiums before consumers start picking plans in a few weeks.
www.politico.com
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One of the main things I look for is whether someone has a platform

When people run with a platform, it makes it seem like they’re running because they have to be in office to make the changes they care about. When they run without a platform, it makes it seem like they just want the office
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1) Know your values, frame the debate

2) Repetition is key to persuasion

3) Communication, public speaking, and on-camera performance are skills you need to train at to be good at bsky.app/profile/theb...
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Zohran Mamdani is a trained performer who has an extremely disciplined and laser-focused ability to recite on-message talking points in response to any question, and yet voters overwhelming praise him as being especially "authentic" compared to other politicians. There's a lesson here!