Formerly @UMichME, @CMU_Robotics. Want to use robots to make the world a better place. Also @basel@mastodon.online . I block blue checks. he/him
Chicago, IL
Joined March 2010
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FTC Chair Lina Khan shows Lesley Stahl an asthma inhaler that costs dollars in Europe but hundreds in the U.S. She says drugmakers register patents on inhaler parts like the cap-strap to keep low-cost generics off the market. cbsn.ws/3zuONT2
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Today I'm launching Close, an interactive map that shows walkable, bikeable, and transit-friendly neighborhoods across every block in the United States. Try it out: close.city/
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🚨 ROUND TWO STARTS NOW 🗳️
After more than 30,000 votes in round one, the top 16 candidates for Worst Person in Tech now face off to see who will make it to the quarter finals.
Cast your votes and get the person you despise most to the finish line!
ALT Worst Person in Tech: A Tech Won't Save Us Competition. Second Round, showing 16 names in 8 head-t-head matchups.
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Qatar’s World Cup CEO scolds reporters for noticing that another worker died: defector.com/qatars-world-cu…
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The debate about the rail strike has done something very important — it has shown how many liberals are completely fine with using government power to crush workers, as long as it’s their favorite Democratic politicians doing the crushing.
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NEW: The Milwaukee Ave. bike lane was supposed to be built for the safety of cyclists. But it's been the scene of 50 reported crashes, 3 of them fatal since 2020.
Block Club + @IllinoisAnswers investigate life & death in Chicago's most dangerous bike lane:
buff.ly/3UhDoKk
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Folks, I’m deep in our library’s Ancient Religions section, conjuring up prayers and sacrifices to gods whose names haven’t been spoken in two millennia
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The delayed onset of freezing temperatures in Chicago is due to the Urban Heat Island Effect. Concrete and other materials retain and give off heat at night, leading to a microclimate of warmer conditions. You can learn more about urban heat islands here: heat.gov/pages/urban-heat-is…
ALT This is a cartoon image showing a bubble of warm air over a city and cooler air in the surrounding landscape.
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Since we're in a race with the text to image & text to video models, while they laugh at anyone who discusses the dangers, just like they did while proliferating social media platforms with 0 guardrails, good time to read this 2018 account by Rana Ayyub.
huffpost.com/archive/in/entr…
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Breaking:
*CW: Sexual Assault
The lawyer for Houston Tipping, killed during an LAPD training exercise, was involved the investigation of a rape by four LAPD officers. According to Gage, one of those officers was directly involved in the beating.
More for @KnockDotLA to come.
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Some 7 million Americans require insulin daily. A Yale University study found that 14 percent of those insulin users are spending more than 40 percent of their income after food and housing costs on the medicine.
washingtonpost.com/nation/20…
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Wall Street Journal runs story: Adult Children of Work-Visa Recipients Forced to Return to Parents’ Countries
“Green-card waits…are so long that their children age out of eligibility to stay in U.S.” wsj.com/articles/adult-child…
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If you held a grain of sand up to the sky at arm’s length, that tiny speck is the size of Webb’s view in this image. Imagine — galaxies galore within a grain, including light from galaxies that traveled billions of years to us!
