Jason

Hacker, author, speaker, and Android developer.

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[Jason @jasonostrander]

Children are exhausting.

[Kaitlan Collins @kaitlancollins]

“Jimmy passed away peacefully on the night of September 1st surrounded by his family, friends, music and dogs,” the statement reads. https://t.co/qCJDSSzY1x

[Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇸🇺🇦🇹🇼 @Noahpinion]

Literal paper airplanes are now taking out expensive aircraft on the ground.

It's a new age of warfare.

[Brent Toderian @BrentToderian]

Need a visual reminder that paint is NOT infrastructure?

HT @77_mgm https://t.co/5nliuZPmul

[sam @sam_d_1995]

it’s wild how Silicon Valley is one of the wealthiest parts of the planet and yet is less pleasant to walk around than Eastern European cities with like 5% the GDP per capita

[Alexander McCoy @AlexanderMcCoy4]

These two objectives are impossible to reconcile:

1) “housing needs to get dramatically cheaper, so that new generations and working class people can afford it.”

2) “housing needs to keep getting more valuable, so that older/longtime residents can build wealth/fund retirement.”

[AukeHoekstra @AukeHoekstra]

Another example of the anti-EV spin machine unleashed in the UK.
It's even less honest than the slogan on a certain bus.

I research EVs at the @TUeindhoven and in reality it's about 16k miles before an EV compensates it's battery production and batteries outlast the car.
🧵

[alexandra @bigmoodenergy]

maybe not being able to complete the american rite of driving through a huge tree will make people aware cars are getting too big

[Nate Bear @NateB_Panic]

Yesterday parts of the US south experienced wetbulb temperatures up to 94F (34.5C). At these temperatures, no amount of shade or hydration can save you. Without AC, you die. And this is just the beginning.

https://t.co/5HfRFz5Ln1

[morgan @CasualEffects]

It wasn't until I'd *taught* algorithms a few times that I finally understood why sorting is in the CS curriculum. Unfortunately, most curricula don't explain this!

It is NOT because sorting is an important algorithm to learn to implement...

[Costa Mesa Jaywalker @JaywalkerCM]

E-bikes have become the new scapegoat for our dangerous auto-centric streets.

[sam @sam_d_1995]

This is entirely a policy choice. Japan has seen declining traffic fatalities for the past three decades.

If America had the same rate of traffic fatalities as Japan, it would save the lives of ~36,000 Americans every single year.

[StreetsblogLA @StreetsblogLA]

So Much for ‘Carmageddon’ (Philadelphia Edition) https://t.co/VFMIRhf6ie

[AFP News Agency @AFP]

#BREAKING US literary icon Cormac McCarthy, author of "No Country for Old Men" and "Blood Meridian," has died at 89, his publisher announces

[Ben Beachy @Ben_Beachy]

New study in today's @nytimes: IRA changes the game for wind & solar

Clean energy companies now face an airtight business case to use US-made parts & pay workers fair wages.

4 big takeaways in 🧵

Study by @JesseJenkins & @ErinNMayfield, h/t @BGAlliance

https://t.co/hoV3O8i303

[BikeBike Inc @BikeBikeYYC]

Barrels of oil displaced by EVs.

Way over on the right hand side are ebikes, displacing more barrels of oil than all other EVs combined.

All of that happening inside a transport system designed to make riding bikes a terrible experience. https://t.co/rQDWYJPY8g

[Simon Mahan @SimonMahan]

I can't overstate how big of a deal it is for Ford and GM to partner with Tesla on a standardized electric plug. For about a decade, we've been in a Beta Max vs VHS battle for EV chargers. Here's a 🧵 of history for folks just now tuning in...

[ProPublica @propublica]

A Chicago cop got out of 44 tickets by saying over and over that his girlfriend stole his car.

And it worked.

All 44 times, his tickets were dismissed. 👇🧵