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John Dell'Osso

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Director of Investigations, Platform to Protect Whistleblowers in Africa (PPLAAF). Also, periodic musings on transportation.

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"Besides MBS’s polycule with our three deputy managing editors and his torrid three-way love affair with columnists Gail Collins and Bret Stephens, several of our copy editors are in situationships with him."

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This is malpractice. I don't object to the unflattering stories on Biden, because that is newsworthy, but the absence of any visible coverage of the Supreme Court's recent rulings is a disservice to the @nytimes.com readership and creates the umistakable impression of political bias.

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Bonus points if they can write a song about Stinger missiles.

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1975 wins the award for being the highwater mark for culture and human/animal flourishing. That was the year "Pop-Topping" was published, and I'm pleased I found it at a bookstore in Austin many years ago. Behold:

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Google took away effective search and gave us this garbage.

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Google "AI" wants you to put glue in your pizza and thinks energy drinks are good for plants, but it's dangerously close to figuring this out.

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The fact that Google is force-feeding us this terrible, dangerous product at the expense of actual search is just the latest sign that the tech overlords having nothing but contempt for the normal folk.

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I had to check for myself. And, yes, "Artificial Intelligence" is the stuff of Idiocracy.

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Fran Drescher, and whenever the chatbot is computing her laugh should be on a loop.

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The cynicism and short-sightedness here is astounding. The US, largely in the name of great power competition, gives Gertler a golden exit. At the same time, the US undermines Chinese activities using the language of corruption and human rights. How could Congolese ever trust the US after this?

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If I can see light through the coffee, I don't want it.

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I hope they reboot Back to the Future and instead of a Delorean, it's a Cybertruck. They can't get it up to speed because the software crashes and the wheels keep falling off. Marty and Doc ultimately get committed. And, scene. Max 15 minutes. I'd watch it.

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I've seen tons of live music—much of it really good—and Oneohtrix Point Never stands out as a singular experience. The visual art was stunning and immersive. And, unlike a lot of other principally electronic music I've seen, this was a true performance. I felt a rare oneness with the crowd.

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Can’t think of a more American moment than “now that I won $200 million, I can finally afford decent healthcare.”

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I was not prepared for how much more ridiculous the Cybertruck looks in person. I just laughed.

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Never forget, a 13-year study found that protected bike-lanes led to a drastic decline in fatalities for all road users.

ALL ROAD USERS.

And painted bike-lanes? No safety improvement at all. For sharrows, it’s safer to NOT have them.

usa.streetsblog.org/2019/05/29/p...

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They had a lot of ammo left after Uvalde. 🤷🏻‍♀️

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From "traffic accidents" to "roadkill," what common words and phrases conceal the true impact of car dependency on our communities? Streetsblog readers sound off.

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"Ah, don't pay any attention to them, they're just false alarms. You get a lot of them in the Labyrinth, especially when you're on the right track."

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Opposition to bike lanes, no matter the justification offered, is at its core an opposition to biking as a mode of transportation. And these opponents don't care that the costs of ceding public space to cars at a societal level far outweigh the benefits.

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Scientific American, welcome to The War on Cars.

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Mayor Bowser is at it again on infrastructure. First with small thinking on the K St redesign and now she plans to kill the long-delayed Connecticut Ave protected bike lane project. Say no and sign the petition:
waba.org/blog/2024/04...

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After years of neglect, an overreliance on programmatic advertising, and predation by private equity firms, the industry is but a desiccated husk of its former self, crawling toward death with nothing and no one but The Onion to save it.

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two sides came together to maximize their joint slay

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When single shines the triple sun What was sundered and undone Shall be whole, the two made one

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Car culture is the result of a failure of imagination and leadership.

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Your book is a hit over here in Washington DC. Love it. And the ghost bike, phew. That hit hard.

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Le journaliste congolais Stanis Bujakera a passé six mois en prison, il parle au "Soir" : « Le dossier n’était pas vide, il était juste fabriqué » www.lesoir.be/576053/artic...

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Dared to go into my #xitter account to download my archive and delete my posts. The place as we knew it is truly gone. A hell scape of spam bots, scammers and 4chan-esque bad actors.

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The driver's grimace when I had the audacity to start rolling my bike into the intersection as they ran the red light in a giant SUV. Pure manifestation of entitlement and sociopathy. No accountability and no concern for others. I like to think my @thewaroncars.bsky.social bottle protected me 😆

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Kennedy-Ventura 2024 "I ain't got time to bleed."

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TIL learned a fun fact the vast, vast majority of microplastics aren't actually from breaking down single-use plastics like I thought, but from car tires. Car tires, simply by being worn down while driving, emit more microplastics than anything by far

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PPLAAF and African Centre for Media & Information Literacy (AFRICMIL) recently held a 3-day training for journalists in Abuja on investigating corruption and financial crime. Thank you to all those who participated, organized and offered their expertise 🙏

www.corruptionanonymous.org/pplaaf-and-a...

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