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When two AIs argue against each other, the legal system loses.

Even Jesus Christ would mutter, “Jesus Christ!” at this one.

#law #is it though?#2026 #muttering

The scene on Union Street in Brooklyn tonight, per bluesky

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#new york city #knicks #Brooklyn #Smith Union Market

Old tweet from the creator of Apple TV's show 'Widow's Bay'

#widow's bay #katie dippold #halloween #this happens to everybody at least once

Mayor Mamdani calls winners of his program to offer 1,000 affordable World Cup tickets to New Yorkers.

#zohran mamdani #mayor mamdani #world cup #world cup tickets #new york city

The Loop was supposed to transform Vegas. It's the dumbest transit system imaginable.

In 1863, the world’s first underground railway opened in London. On its first day, nearly 40,000 thrilled Brits made the short, speedy journey between Paddington and Farringdon. The future of transportation had arrived.

One hundred and sixty-three years later, I was at my desk in San Francisco, clicking around the Vegas Loop map, trying to figure out where the world’s dumbest form of transportation could take me. In 2016, billionaire Elon Musk decided he was sick of traffic. Because Musk believes every thought he’s ever had is the first of its kind, he decided to revolutionize transportation. His mission was to build underground highways, creating a tunnel system below surface streets that would zip people around in a way that congested, outdated freeways could not. Las Vegas, which has never seen a gimmick it didn’t love, signed on to become the first American city with a Loop.

The scale is ambitious to the point of stupidity. Once its 104 stations and 68 miles of tunnels are complete, the Vegas Loop site says it “will serve up to 90,000 passengers per hour.” About 642,000 people live in Las Vegas, plus an additional 110,000 tourists on any given day. That means every single resident and tourist need to ride the Loop multiple times per day to average 90,000 passengers an hour. For reference, the Tokyo Metro moves 6.5 million people a day around an area with 33 million residents. You do the math.

To supplement this sad little system, the Loop added $12.50 rides to the airport. But because there’s no tunnel there yet, it’s just a regular route on regular surface streets. Oh sorry, were you imagining a train? Autonomous cars? Nope. The Loop is operated by human drivers in Teslas. Elon Musk is creating a race of mole people driving endless circles below Las Vegas.

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#vegas strip #sfgate #las vegas #the loop #stupidism

#libraries #books #magazines #libby

Neal Cassady in the Backhouse (1965)

“The film was shot on the property of writer Ken Kesey (“One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest”) in La Honda, CA, in 1965 and depicts Beat Generation figure Neal Cassady high on amphetamines and speaking in a stream of consciousness. An Intrepid Trips Production. Camera: Page Browning. Sound: Mountain Girl. Editors: Ken Babbs, John Babbs. Preserved by UCLA Film & Television Archive with funding provided by The Film Foundation. Laboratory services by Audio Mechanics, DJ Audio, Inc, Stanford Theatre Film Laboratory. Special thanks to Zane Kesey.”

#neal cassady #ken kesey #ken babbs #mountain girl #zane kesey #1965 #dean moriarty

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by kowalskipottery http://ift.tt/1MtdBLF

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Edward Weston 1937

Link to website where paintings may be ordered

Paintings by Hunter Biden

#hunter biden #paintings #art

nyaa

2004-12-29

#the original iPod design was perfect #the design of a dog original or more recent remains perfect #the wheel simulating a record or CD #spin it and you could pick something totally random #no apps to distract you just a pong game and minesweeper i think #originally just music you had to load into it yourself #and originally only from a Mac with firewire #and it cost $399.00 #while other mp3 players cost maybe $200 #orig ipod had a hard drive inside #not flash memory #it held 1000 songs #the screen was monochrome not color

slowlikehoney1996

If your lover lives in Hong Kong and cannot get to Chicago, it will be necessary for you to go to Hong Kong. Perhaps you will spend your life there, and never see Chicago again. And you will, I assure you, as long as space and time divide you from anyone you love, discover a great deal about shipping routes, airlines, earthquake, famine, disease, and war. And you will always know what time it is in Hong Kong, for you love someone who lives there. And love will simply have no choice but to go into battle with space and time and, furthermore, to win.

James Baldwin, Nothing Personal

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in absolute tears about the pride module at my work

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HOLY SHIT GUYS, I WAS INSPIRED BY THIS POST TO TRY MAKE THE SONG AND YOU WOULD NOT BELIEVE THE SCREAM I SCRUMPT WHEN I DRAGGED THE TRAINING AUDIO OVER THE BACKING TRACK AND IT LINED UP PERFECTLY