John Lloyd

There are lots of reasons to ride an ebike for short trips, but fewer trips to the gas station is a big one. (And less of your money going into the coffers of fascist fossil fuel oligarchs is a bonus.)

An example of why MAGA’s feigned concern for “waste, fraud, and abuse” is just a fig leaf for dismantling parts of government that actually help people. The incompetence further erodes public trust. The purpose is grift and fraud and the vibe is pettiness and cruelty.

What scares me even more is the administration may actually welcome this outcome, as it gives them a ready-made excuse to crack down on dissent and take control of elections under the guise of “national security.”

"I don’t know the moment it happened; it must’ve been a slow realization. ‘My bike is my mobility aid’." Great article from @bikehfxlobby.bsky.social published In Active Travel Studies activetravelstudies.org/article/id/1...

absolutely nuts & partisanly (ntm personally) suicidal that Democrats keep chasing the knuckle-dragger vote instead of pledging to crush it

Trump and Hegseth are war criminals and I pray they are held to account for their crimes some day.

Iran’s people were facing a horrible shortage of water before the war began. If we are destroying desalination plants and setting fire to Teheran we are committing unfathomable crimes.

But he’s a straight, white, conservative male, which passes for qualifications in MAGAland.

It would be only fair to the reader to say frankly in advance that the attitude of any person toward this story will be distinctly influenced by his theories of the Negro race. If he believes that the Negro in America and in general is an average and ordinary human being, who under given environment develops like other human beings, then he will read this story and judge it by the facts adduced. If, however, he regards the Negro as a distinctly inferior creation, who can never successfully take part in modern civilization and whose emancipation and enfranchisement were gestures against nature, then he will need something more than the sort of facts that I have set down. But this latter person, I am not trying to convince. I am simply pointing out these two points of view, so obvious to Americans, and then without further ado, I am assuming the truth of the first. In fine, I am going to tell this story as though Negroes were ordinary human beings, realizing that this attitude will from the first seriously curtail my audience. W. E. BURGHARDT DU BOIS Atlanta, December, 1934

I'd forgotten how hard the preface to DuBois's "Black Reconstruction" (1934) went...and am saddened by how contemporary it still feels.

He doesn’t care even a tiny little bit about you.

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Several years from now, a thoughtful scholar will write a book called “Trump’s Willing Executioners” about how a nation of 340 million descended into abject depravity.

(2/2) Consider that coddling bad views has brought us to a very dark place and policy can be reconsidered accordingly

His entire personality is fake tough guy vibe. That’s it. He’s got the intellectual and moral depth of a thimble.

shameful

Your Brain on ChatGPT: Accumulation of Cognitive Debt when Using an Al Assistant for Essay Writing TaskA

arXIV:2506.08872 (cS) [Submitted on 10 Jun 2025 (v1), last revised 31 Dec 2025 (this version, v2)] Your Brain on ChatGPT: Accumulation of Cognitive Debt when Using an Al Assistant for Essay Writing Task Nataliya Kosmyna, Eugene Hauptmann, Ye Tong Yuan, Jessica Situ, Xian-Hao Liao, Ashly Vivian Beresnitzky, Iris Braunstein, Pattie Maes

beta connectivity, indicating under-engagement. Brain-to-LLM users exhibited higher memory recall and activation of occipito-parietal and prefrontal areas, similar to Search Engine users. Self-reported ownership of essays was the lowest in the LLM group and the highest in the Brain-only group. LL users also struggled to accurately quote their own work. While LLMs offer immediate convenience, our findings highlight potential cognitive costs. Over four months, LLM users consistently underperformed at neural, linguistic, and behavioral levels. These results raise concerns about the long-term educational implications of LLM reliance and underscore the need for deeper inquiry into Al's role in learning.

Rest assured, the capitalists at the top of the food chain who push AI know it actively causes people’s cognitive decline. It’s working as intended. It’s been the capitalism method since the beginning: make the people less intelligent, the less they think the less they know how to complain.

Rubio: “Let me tell you, Iran is run by lunatics, religious fanatic lunatics.”

Seems relevant to the upcoming war powers vote in the House.

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What a tool

Mount up everybody, we’re doing a 1970s oil embargo-style bicycle boom!

Jesse Singal's logic: "Why are dentists, many of whom have a professional stake in it and many of whom have fancy letters and affiliations affixed to their names, recommending I floss my teeth?"

“What happens when the Venezuelan woman caring for your mom with Alzheimer’s gets deported?”

Meanwhile public education, healthcare, and SNAP benefits have been slashed.

Are these actual SCOTUS opinions or more shadow docket rulings?

How I arrived on Bluesky

Good. Pretti. Amor.

Killed by Trump’s policies.

What we could have had if we hadn’t spent $8 trillion on war since 2001.

Yup. Saw one of the city councilmembers’ utterly incoherent answer as to why he opposed it.

Wait, I thought we couldn’t afford SNAP benefits and healthcare subsidies. Interesting.