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“THE BIKE FRAME IS A BRIDGE ON WHEELS, BUILT TO CARRY PEOPLE OVER THE GROUND.”
The Modern Bicycle and its Accessories, 1898
Bridge Bike Works made In 🇨🇦
#cycling

BRIDGE Bike Works - North American Made Carbon Bikes
BRIDGE was founded with a vision to create a better carbon bike. One that is designed, precision-engineered and built locally. One that is handcrafted in North America by a team with an unparalleled passion for attention to detail, from product to experience. One that celebrates the relationship between rider and bike.

USC professor Allison Marsh writes this delightful short article for IEEE Spectrum about Marvin Minsky and Seymour Papert's British counterparts in Cambridge and how, in their case, a document (the Lighthill Report) precipitated cuts in British AI research funding in ways similar to how funding was temporarily cut in the U.S. following MIT's publishing of Minsky and Papert's "Perceptrons" in 1969.
"Freddy the Robot Was the Fall Guy for British AI"

Freddy the Robot Was the Fall Guy for British AI

Its creator lost a power struggle that led to an AI winter in the 1970s

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MiddayShow
Bartees Strange:
🎵 Mustang
#BarteesStrange
https://barteesstrange.bandcamp.com/track/mustang
https://open.spotify.com/track/3J3hhvyT39MvDPJHMLpNqA

“The String… will be much faster”
my brain is breaking https://mastodon.social/@Catfish_Man/114655168110161214

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Zander Fagerson: Scotland prop ruled out of British & Irish Lions tour - BBC Sport
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/rugby-union/articles/c9q09ry8y21o

Zander Fagerson: Scotland prop ruled out of British & Irish Lions tour
Scotland and Glasgow prop Zander Fagerson is ruled out of the British and Irish Lions' tour to Australia with a calf injury.

Hoogste spoorbrug geopend.
https://www.aljazeera.com/program/newsfeed/2025/6/6/worlds-tallest-railway-bridge-links-kashmir-valley-to-india#flips-6373957241112:0

World’s tallest railway bridge links Kashmir Valley to India
India’s PM Narendra Modi inaugurated the world’s tallest railway bridge in Jammu and Kashmir.

Rural Republicans used to back NPR. Then MAGA changed everything.
Polarized views of public broadcasting,
along with a splintered and increasingly online media environment,
pose a problem for NPR, PBS and their audiences,
who will need some Republicans to break ranks to prevent the cuts that Trump is demanding
as part of a larger package of budget reductions that the House will consider as soon as Tuesday.

Rural Republicans used to back NPR. Then MAGA changed everything.
Polarized views of public broadcasting, along with a splintered and increasingly online media environment, pose a problem for NPR, PBS and their audiences, who will need some Republicans to break ranks to prevent the cuts that Trump is demanding as part of a larger package of budget reductions that the House will consider as soon as Tuesday.

I realize there's a lot going on, but I'm surprised I didn't hear anything about the Richmond-San Rafael Bridge partially shutting down for emergency repairs. How does this affect the bike path debate? No word if it's affected by the shutdown.
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🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
Billie Eilish:
🎵 Birds Of A Feather
#NowPlaying #BillieEilish
https://circ.bandcamp.com/track/billie-eilish-birds-of-a-feather-circ-rework-2
https://open.spotify.com/track/6dOtVTDdiauQNBQEDOtlAB

On the way back from the stork viewing position in #Bochum a close (!) encounter with a singing Eurasian #chaffinch (Fringilla coelebs), perfectly placed and lit in the trees ... more pictures in #BirdsOfMastodon