Bring us back major concert tours from Hole, Veruca Salt, Garbage, the Breeders, and the Chicks, you cowards! (The Chicks are still filling arenas, actually, and they put on a really good show.)

I just tried this the other day, it was quite complete and fun to play!

Cybercabs are two-seater vehicles

Just two seats why? Has this so-called genius ever taken a cab with friends ever?

I don’t like how every news story about the layoffs uncritically parrots the company excuse about the strike, as if decades of regulatory capture, short-term business strategy, and poor engineering and supply chain decisions by successive waves of over-paid executives didn’t sink the company.

Where’s your bike seat?

¿Por qué no los dos?

if Rosalyn engaged in his world

You mean like in Calvinball?

The Ros strips were always some of my favorite. You never stop identifying with Calvin, but you also kinda cheered for her, and when she won (like in Calvinball) you celebrated with her too.

Kamala’s addiction to thin mints

Relatable.

This comment is getting downvoted, and I don’t oppose nuclear, but I do think it’s worth noting that the nuclear energy sector has still under-priced the costs of nuclear waste management, transportation, and storage. Engineers don’t have practical methods of building storage containers and buildings that can last as long as the half-life of nuclear waste (1,000-10,000 year), and the long tail of storage costs has not been priced into the cost. Typically, this does end up being paid for by taxpayers over the course of many years. No energy generation system is without downsides, but it’s worth acknowledging them.

If you get a paywall, a paywall-free link is here: https://archive.ph/hoaIs

My take on this story: dragging this reactor out of mothballs is expensive and risky, and operating at 50+ year old reactor is risky. The company that owns admits it isn’t even solvent enough to run it, much less ensure the risks of operating it. Microsoft and the 3 Mile Island owner are basically asking for a multi-billion-dollar taxpayer subsidy for an enterprise—so-called AI—that eliminates jobs and is used more for revenge porn and deepfakes than it is for any societal good. This is a bad deal.

Reagan International has great transit service (a stop on the Metro) so I wondered what the fuss was. Then I read the article and realized this project includes San Diego and San Jose, and it made more sense. But what made it really click was the bit at the end about airport employees. Airports are HUGE centers of employment, and employees need to be able to arrive and leave 24 hours a day. In that respect, this seems like a very good move.

Miranda’s two sons and Halfkenny’s son, neither of whom were Boston Public School students

This alone is kinda messed up. It’s easier to functionally steal from other students when your kids don’t even go to that school system.

So the community guidelines aren’t being enforced? I still think that’s a problem. The federated video sites I’ve used (mostly peertube instances, tbh) all have community guidelines, and if they didn’t enforce them, I wouldn’t use the sites.

Oh, they wouldn’t. But Sib might . . .

Mint

I see Mint as the more reasonable option that keeps 98% of the advantages of Ubuntu, with less of the crazy. I was a xubuntu user a decade ago, but have been very happy with Mint xfce since I switched.

If you’re ordinary and you never get enough sleep, I have just the place for you. New York’s hottest nap club is “Off to Dreamland!” Located in the heart of Queens at the corner of Sleep Street and Sleepytime Drive, this converted mattress store park was the ceremony spot for a lengendary nap taken by Adam Conover when he was a boy. This place has everything: body pillows, comforters, blankies, cuddle buddies, sleep masks, and CPAP machines. And be sure to hit the converted traincar section and lean your head on the shoulder of MTA Chair Janno Lieber, the celebrity sleeper in residence.

I’ll blame the former guy all day long for his failings, but the Staggers Act deregulated the railroad industry in 1980, and was signed by Jimmy Carter. This mess has been a long time coming.

I didn’t get a paywall, but sometimes the WaPo does, and if so, here’s a paywall-free link: https://archive.ph/f4tti

This is just the Tiktok ban all over again. The problem is not the Chinese apps/cars spying on you, it’s ALL the apps/cars spying on you. If it’s creepy to have a foreign power with that much access to our data, then it’s creepy for a company to have it too.