I’m going to have no choice but to wear sweatpants on tomorrow’s flight, aren’t I
Duffy on his demand that air travelers not wear slippers or pajamas: "It honors our country ... don't take your shoes off and put your feet on the chair ahead of you"
it’s been 40 years waiting for the Republican health care plan, what’s a few more decades between friends
PBS News’s Lisa DesJardins confirms that the Trump health care plan, which was intended for announcement today, has been postponed at least through this week, after pushback from House Republicans.
Dinosaur eat man . . . woman inherits the earth!
PFT attempts to change the subject to coyotes, attempting to coerce the mayor into allowing him to do so, and he is rejected. He suggests the coyotes could eat the rats?
Apparently there are a lot of coyotes (or rumors thereof?) in North Cambridge.
Done with the Manager's Agenda.
you Winsome, you lose some
BREAKING: Democrat Abigail Spanberger flips control of the Virginia governorship, becoming the first woman to lead the state, NBC News projects.
nbcnews.to/47Ljn7Z
This whole thread.
(Go vote, Cambridge! And please rank me No. 1 for school committee)
I can't stress this enough: in ranked choice systems like Cambridge has, your best bet at getting the council & school committee you want is to rank candidates in order of your genuine preference.
That means you should give your #1 vote to the person you most want to win.
Follow along for the latest housing-related ride with the Cambridge Historical Commission here, with
@jfsheehan.bsky.socialWe'll see whether I can stick it out to the end, but I'm remote attending the CHC meeting on 17 Story St. Devs propose to relocate & preserve the historic Harriet Jacobs House on the same site, and demolish a 3-story building, to build a hotel and 50 apartments. Harvard Sq Conservation District.
Exactly. Thinking in good/bad binary about AI is so dangerous especially while we still are getting our heads around the tech. It’s complex and complicated - and we shouldn’t be rushing to implement it in classrooms, or for that matter, to ban it — until we have a better grasp of it.
So much this. Letter counting and state names are gimmicks, not primary use cases. Frontier models are already remarkably capable for many quite difficult tasks despite still, of course, failing in important ways. We should be able to recognize this fact without uncritically accepting industry hype.
Important thread from a great advocate for housing in Cambridge
I'm remote attending to the Cambridge Historical Commission meeting today, as the A.J. Spears Funeral Home (124 &132 Western Ave) is up for demo review.
These two properties will be sold to developer DND Homes to become a 6 story bldg w/50-60 homes, 20% affordable, contingent on demo permits.
A.J. Spears Funeral Home plans to close in 2026, six stories of homes possible under new zoning - Cambridge Day
A.J. Spears Funeral Home is expected to close operations at 124 Western Ave., Riverside, starting next year, 62 years after its founding in 1964.
Went down to support
@local26-unitehere.bsky.social and walk their picket line amid the rain. Aramark workers deserve a living wage!
If you want to support, you can still attend and enjoy the games: just don’t buy food or drink in the park. You can bring food in (or pregame)!
The New York Times is not beating the allegations.
Uncritically accepting hacked information from a white supremacist, whitewashing his academic credentials, using it to run a baseless hit piece on a Democratic politician.
Must be a day ending in Y.
The saga of the NYT's anti-Mamdani story taken from notorious white supremacist Jordan Lasker (they call him an "academic") gets even more amazing: Lasker's only impactful paper, which claimed white people are smarter, is infamous: it misused data so badly it got his tenured co-author fired. 2/
People saying this should be a yellow card but I’m trying to figure why it’s not red
Play on. Nothing to see here
Free speech is dying.
The fear among academics and lawyers now talking on the record on just about any topic that involves the federal government or the White House is really extraordinary and worrisome, and getting worse, it seems to me, every week. Dissent by an establishment figures becoming verboten in the US
I appreciate the Elisabeth Bumiller article Eric linked from last month. It is worth asking why the New York Times isn’t reporting on this every day.
The fear among academics and lawyers now talking on the record on just about any topic that involves the federal government or the White House is really extraordinary and worrisome, and getting worse, it seems to me, every week. Dissent by an establishment figures becoming verboten in the US
I’m calling for a complete and total shutdown on Gen X until we figure out what the hell is going on
NEW Economist/YouGov Poll, April 5-8
43% of U.S. adult citizens have a favorable view of Donald Trump
54% have an unfavorable view
Net -11
Last week:
45% favorable
52% unfavorable
Net -7
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Trump has, remarkably even for him, come out as pro-Auschwitz
the Dodgers wishing they had lost the World Series rn
Good Lord
but enough about Fantastic Beasts
LFG! Very proud of my former colleagues, mentors, and friends at WilmerHale.
Over to you, WilmerHale. Stay strong.
Long may it continue.
It’s “WilmerHale,” but yes. Stay strong, friends.
The NSA’s Bernard Abbott was also heard protesting that “Tahiti is not in Europe!”
Best line in the Signal chat:
“We are currently clean on OPSEC.”
is that good
is that good
very stable genius
is that good
Anyone heard from Bari Weiss lately
