“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
Grens tussen Gibraltar en Spanje verdwijnt, Britse apenrots wordt deel van Europese markt | de #Volkskrant
https://www.volkskran…
Ein breites Bündnis aus 40 Organisationen fordert ein bundesweites Verbot von privatem #Silvesterfeuerwerk.
Anlass ist die #Innenministerkonferenz, bei der bisher nur über lokale Verbotszonen gesprochen werden soll. Die Deutsche
“My dance with Covid makes my cancer look like a piece of cake.”
Sagt Jeff Bridges, der 2020 an Lymphdrüsenkrebs erkrankt ist und sich bei der Behandlung aber leider auch C19 eingefangen, hat nach nun bald 5 Jahren: “Covid kicked my ass pretty good.”
https://www.cnn.com/2025/05…
“The String… will be much faster”
my brain is breaking https://mastodon.social/@Catfish_Man/114655168110161214
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"
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.
https://www.
The House Rules Committee advances a bill that would claw back $1.1B in funding for public broadcasting, including $535M for CPB, over the next two fiscal years (Ted Johnson/Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2025/06/pbs-npr-funding-rescinded-congress-12364…
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MiddayShow
Bartees Strange:
🎵 Mustang
#BarteesStrange
https://barteesstrange.bandcamp.com/track/mustang
https://open.spotify.com/track/3J3hhvyT39MvDPJHMLpNqA