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David Zipper @davidzipper.bsky.social · 15h

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

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 14h

It makes you think

Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 15h

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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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 2d

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

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Scott Trudeau @sstrudeau.bsky.social · 1d

Top 4 - top seed

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

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Scott Trudeau @sstrudeau.bsky.social · 1d

Rd 3
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Rd 4
ID to top 4

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Scott Trudeau @sstrudeau.bsky.social · 1d

Running it back a Loot

Rd 1
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2-0 OTP vs 🟡⚪️

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Scott Trudeau @sstrudeau.bsky.social · 1d

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Round 3
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Scott Trudeau @sstrudeau.bsky.social · 1d

#DisneyLorcana Sylvan Factory set champs

Round 1
2-1 OTD vs 🟡🟢 (sea dogs)

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asura @asura.dev · 1d

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"

Anil Dash @anildash.com · 3d

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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Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 2d

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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Silky @silkyweineck.bsky.social · 2d

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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Charles Ghoul-ba ✡️ @charlesgaba.com · 2d

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.

James Goodwin @jamesgoodwin.bsky.social · 2d

Upwards of 500 people in *checks notes* Houghton fucking Upper Peninsula fucking Michigan

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Noah Berlatsky @nberlat.bsky.social · 2d

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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Scott Trudeau @sstrudeau.bsky.social · 2d

🙋‍♂️ leather, cotton, synthetic or velvet?

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 2d

“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.”

Philip Bump @pbump.com · 2d

Yesterday I wrote about the effort by center-left pundits to police what people are passionate about.
www.pbump.net/o/sincerity-...

Sincerity is not the problem

As is inevitably the case after an election — and is especially the case after an election with an unexpected result — allies of the losing presidential candidate in 2024 looked for people to blame. O...

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Thom Hartmann @hartmannreport.com · 2d

The Declaration of Independence:

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fox noises (red means recording) @jjbbllkk.bsky.social · 2d

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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Marco Foster @marcofoster.bsky.social · 2d

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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Welcoming Neighbors Network @welcomingneighbors.us · 3d

New housing is good, actually.

New Housing Slows Rent Growth Most for Older, More Affordable Units

The nationwide housing shortage has driven rents up more in low-income neighborhoods than in the U.S. overall, but in areas that have recently added large amounts of housing, rents have fallen the…

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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 3d

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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Wizard Hazel @rudbeckiahirta.bsky.social · 3d

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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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 3d

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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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 3d

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!

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Eric Umansky @ericumansky.bsky.social · 4d

BREAKING from PP

We found immigration agents have held more than 170 *citizens*

The govt doesn't track citizens held. So we did. We tallied:

Nearly 20 kids, two w/ cancer

More than 20 citizens held for day or more, incommunicado

www.propublica.org/article/immi...

by @nicolefoy.bsky.social

More Than 170 U.S. Citizens Have Been Held by Immigration Agents. They’ve Been Kicked, Dragged and Detained for Days.

The government does not track how often immigration agents grab citizens. So ProPublica did. Our tally — almost certainly incomplete — includes people who were held for days without a lawyer. And near...

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🗽LOLGOP🗽 @thefarce.org · 4d

"The fact that the GOP is unwilling to defend the role of the GOP-controlled Congress is the GOP’s problem to solve."

There is no budget "deal" to be made

President Trump has so broken the constitutional framework as to make joint normal, responsible government impossible.

www.doomsdayscenario.co

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