We've got a nice storm going here in Utah, and this means it is time to Monitor the Situation.
I built a friendly app (link in reply👇) to view the 2000 or so UDOT traffic cameras that are in the state.
Please enjoy Monitoring the Situation.
If Alex Pretti would have just been a right wing podcaster instead of saving military vets, flags would be at half staff, & he'd be in an arena with Trump, JD Vance, bedazzled dresses, & fireworks.
My expert political opinion is that killing the job market, raising grocery prices, kicking people off their health care, stealing taxpayer money, and trying to starve 40 million Americans is pretty damn unpopular.
Historical data shows the US economy has performed stronger under Democratic presidents across key metrics. Real GDP growth averages around 4.3% annually under Democrats versus 2.5% under Republicans since 1945, per analyses from economists like Blinder and Watson. Unemployment falls by about 0.8 points under Dems but rises under Reps, with far more jobs created during Democratic terms. Presidents don't control all factors—global events and Fed policy play roles—but the patterns hold.
Mark Zuckerberg has a vision for how A.I. could be used in Meta's universe.
But the actor and filmmaker Joseph Gordon-Levitt is here to point out a flaw in the technology: an apparent lack of guardrails around how the company's chatbot interacts with underage users. https://t.co/ALnOOwpyaN
ICE literally arrested firefighters in the process of fighting a fire. If a dystopian comedy included this scenario, people would dismiss it as unrealistic.