Daryl Bjoraas

Communications Manager @UnionPacific. Previously Weather Channel & USA TODAY. Emmy Award Winning Reporter. @ONA & @NAHJ member. Eagle Scout.

[Charlie Bilello @charliebilello]

Insane stat: 0.1% of the accounts on Polymarket have earned 67% of the profits.

[Ed Elson @edels0n]

Clips are no longer the byproduct of the main product — they’re the main product. No matter the size of the show, they drive the ultimate reach 👇

[Pigeons & Planes @PigsAndPlans]

Sade will be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

[The Atlantic @TheAtlantic]

Social-media users are getting “so exhausted at having to parse what’s real and what’s fake that a lot of them are just saying, like, ‘If it makes me feel a certain way, that’s all I care about,’” Tiffany Hsu tells @cwarzel. They discuss how the flood of AI content online could be wearing people down: https://t.co/9wsWSUS6Ci

[unusual_whales @unusual_whales]

ChatGPT adoption outpaces the internet's first decade, per FT:

[unusual_whales @unusual_whales]

Microsoft, $MSFT, has said that these are the 40 jobs with the lowest risk to be taken over by AI:

[Daryl Bjoraas @dbjoraas]

In 49 other states, it’s just basketball…

[Indiana Pacers @Pacers]

25 years later. same story.

beat the Knicks in six to advance to the NBA Finals.

[non aesthetic things @PicturesFoIder]

Grand Sumo wrestler Ura performs takedown of much larger Takayasu using incredibly rare technique, only the 6th time in 25 years (0.02% winning technique)

[sam @sam_d_1995]

“what if we built a subway but reduced the capacity from 2,000 people per vehicle to 4”

[breezeh @briscoepark]

photos i took in a small town

[Michael Ferragamo @FerragamoWx]

It's finally done. Over 3 days of hand-plotting 173 years' worth of data. The end result is unbelievable.

What an incredible dataset to look at.

[Michael Thomas @curious_founder]

This is crazy

[derek guy @dieworkwear]

OK, let's talk about Steve Harvey's suggestion that you can flip five suits into 75 outfits. 🧵

[Ahmed/The Ears/IG: BigBizTheGod 🇸🇴 @big_business_]

The more you learn about infrastructure, you realize how cooked North America gonna be in the next 20 years.

[The Culturist @the_culturist_]

America was supposed to be Art Deco - a thread of 10 iconic Art Deco designs 🧵

1. "Mercury" - a streamliner passenger train which operated between 1936 and 1959

[George Mack @george__mack]

What is ignored or neglected by the media -- but will be studied by historians?

Here's the full list of 25 examples:

[𝙷𝚒𝚌𝚔𝚖𝚊𝚗 @shagbark_hick]

For about 7 years, I lived with no fixed address. For 5 of those years, I was constantly traveling. Where the hell did I sleep?

About 7 nights in 10, I 'stealth camped' anywhere I could sleep without detection. In almost 2k nights out, I was caught <10 times.

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[Brent Toderian @BrentToderian]

Remember, when the fresh snow flies in your city, it reveals how much we’ve over-designed our streets for cars making them faster & more dangerous, and how much space we could reclaim for people & public life. We call them #sneckdowns. HT @fietsprofessor

[Daryl Bjoraas @dbjoraas]

‘atlanta’ is some of the best television ever made

[Union Pacific @UnionPacific]

Part tie pickup, part brush cutter, part ditch cleaner, UP's new Maintenance of Way train might just be our most versatile piece of equipment, according to Kevin Packard.

"We’re just hitting the tip of the iceberg of what we can really do with this." https://t.co/tWjCCSCsJi