100% tariff on the MM/DD/YY date format.

(Did I write this and forget to eat, and also have a meeting in 10 minutes? ADHD says yes!)

One year of congestion pricing in New York City:
- $700 million paid, and major subway upgrades in progress
- Broadway $ up since congestion pricing began
- Sales tax $ also up compared to other boroughs, and storefront vacancies down
- 22% drop in air pollution

More from Streetsblog: https://nyc.streetsblog.org/2026/01/05/how-congestion-pricing-proved-the-haters-wrong-and-is-changing-new-york-for-the-better

"All right, but apart from the sanitation, the medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, the fresh water system, and public health...what have the Romans ever done for us?"

By the same token, when you look closely, what has congestion pricing done for #NYC anyway?

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2026/01/05/upshot/congestion-pricing-one-year.html?unlocked_article_code=1.CFA.t_Bn.qoLgactqxcNq&smid=url-share

#US

Just found out on Reddit a petition opposing the Trethewey bike lanes has been making the rounds. While it's not likely to sway any minds given it passed council, it's frustrating how much carbrain we have to put up with for every project! #BikeTO #TOpoli #VisionZero www.reddit.com/r/torontobik...

From the torontobiking communi...

TIL, an open source internet search engine called MarginaliaSearch exists. It mainly for text-oriented websites, specifically indexing the 'small, old, and weird' web. You can even run it on your own server if you have 32GiB of RAM and plenty of fast SSD space for the index. This is perfect for those seeking an alt search engine, but more importantly, it teaches you how to build a search system and manage its dataset. It’s a fantastic CS learning experience to satisfy your itch.

Donation to your mastodon server will be cheaper https://techhub.social/@Techmeme/115737372852805627

For a brief moment in time, my childhood friends in Singapore had incredible lives and stories. I didn’t understand it at the time but many of them were escaping.. something.

A Cambodian-French friend whose dad escaped the Khmer Rouge. A Korean friend whose family member was a leftist political dissident, killed by the military dictator. Many Sri Lankan Tamil friends whose parents fled civil war and genocide. More than five friends from the same group of ‘kids of Bangladeshi independence leaders’. All of that in public schools!

I spent so much time around these friends, eating at their homes, listening to their family’s stories. They didn’t all stay on in Singapore but I am still in touch with all of them. Singapore in the late 90s and early 00s was still a pivotal moment in many of their lives.

They taught me that between war and conflict and genocide and sadness and finding new homes elsewhere and being disappointed, food from your home (wherever that is) is one way to celebrate.

My Cambodian friend’s family introduced me to amok. They’re back in France and Belgium now. But I still see them sometimes when I’m in Europe. My Bangladeshi friends fed me copious amounts of mishti doi. I recently had noodles in New York with my Korean friend.

As a privileged Singaporean child whose primary challenge in life was ‘what is my score for my exam’, knowing all of these people and their families and eating with them showed me that there is so much more color, nuance, terror, horror, but also warmth in life. Over and over I have been welcomed into people’s homes, no matter where they come from or what they’ve been through. The least I can do is do the same for others.

I find it very difficult to take the side of hatred when I’ve seen the geographical dispersion and personal challenges it causes to the people who are targets of hatred. I’ve also seen how much more fun and delicious it is to not be hateful.

Rubio orders State Dept to stop using "Calibri" font claiming it's DEI. In 1941, Nazi Germany banned the Fraktur font as being a "Jewish font".

This design appears to be commemorating a global zombie apocalypse.

The recently installed RapidTO bus lanes on Dufferin have already caused Daniel Tate's so-called IntegrityTO to blame bus lanes for gridlock. Having used to take the Sufferin', we need to prioritize the 40,000 daily bus users over single occupancy cars! #TTC #TOpoli www.instagram.com/integrity_to...

Dropbox is that ex who still thinks you're together.

"You've hit your storage limit"

Babe, we broke up in 2014. I've moved on. You should too.

"Writing code is easy. Once you have a solution in mind, and have mastered the syntax of your favorite programming language, writing code is easy. Having an LLM write entire functions for you? Even easier. But the hard part isn’t the writing. It’s the reading. It’s the time it takes to load the mental model of the system into your head. That’s where all the cost really is."

https://idiallo.com/blog/writing-code-is-easy-reading-is-hard

Ok, I know it’s a paid ad, but it’s nice to see National Geographic still calling it the Gulf of Mexico.

#GulfOfMexico

RE: https://flipboard.com/@nationalgeographic/travel-es7qj2fiz/-/a-qlNzeWB2Rv6qfvGPI6_6JQ%3Aa%3A3199501-%2F0

ME: I just thought it’d be fun to have music on in the background while I call my parents.

BLUETOOTH: Well, I’m glad you thought of something “fun.” But, to me, what you describe is “tortuously difficult and bordering on abuse.”

ME: It just seems, logically, like something you could do.

SONOS: I CAN DO IT!
https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/if-my-bluetooth-could-talk

"Qualcomm-owned #Arduino quietly pushed a sweeping rewrite of its Terms of Service and Privacy Policy, and the changes mark a clear break from the open-hardware ethos that built the platform."

(source: Adafruit https://www.linkedin.com/posts/adafruit_opensource-privacy-techpolicy-activity-7396903362237054976-r14H)

Oh boy, that was fast! Somehow we need to find more future-proof models for open-source hardware. Letting the market do its thing is showing its true colors once again. Pure evil! 👿

#opensource #hardware #fablab #makerspace #electronics

Did you know that there’s a premium version of Whatsapp which :

- Has no advertising
- Has no mandatory AI integration
- Has no tracking and does not gather your personnal data
- Has increased privacy and stronger encryption
- Is exclusive and allows you to chat with other premium members

Best of all ? It is currently free to join!

Go now to your app store and install it before it is too late!

It is called "Signal"

https://ploum.net/2025-05-23-chats-digital-clutter.html

I need folks to understand some important things about this:

1) Black men are disproportionately targeted for Federal drug prosecutions.

2) Black men receive disproportionately harsh Federal sentences.

2) So an unbiased reduction in Fed drug prosecutions, disproportionately *benefits* Black men.🤯

https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/federal-drug-prosecutions-fall-lowest-level-decades-trump-shifts-focus-2025-09-29/

Racism is fascism practiced on Black people first.

Hitler based the Nuremberg laws on US Jim Crow. He invaded Russia because he wanted his own California.

The US shifting from a racist country to a fascist country basically means "Start treating everyone like you've always treated Black people."

In 2025, everyone has been getting a tiny taste of "Basic, level 1, beginner tutorial mode" of what Black people experience in this country in 2024.

And you've only been experiencing it for ~9 months.

And you're like, "No more! This is unbearable!"

You're right. It is unbearable.