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- Here Is Everything That Has Changed Since Congestion Pricing Started in New York. Uniformly positive results clear from the data after just a few months. And millions raised for public transit. A scandal this didn’t happen sooner. [nytimes.com]
- Pope Bob
- “When citizens must think twice about criticizing or opposing the gov’t because they could credibly face government retribution, they no longer live in a full democracy. By that measure, America has crossed the line into competitive authoritarianism.” [nytimes.com]
- Speaking at a school board meeting, a fourth-grader rebukes RFK Jr about his retrograde & false views of people with autism. “I have autism and I’m not broken, and I hope that nobody in Princeton Public Schools believes RFK Jr’s lies.” 🔥 [kottke.org]
- “We’ve crushed fascism before and we’ll crush it again.” A 98-year-old WWII veteran demolishes a Tesla with a Sherman tank. (Love the replays from several camera angles.) [kottke.org]
- A Popeless Situation: The election of Gregory X in 1271 took 1006 days to decide, during which the cardinals were eventually locked in a palace and fed only bread & water. The deliberations lasted so long that three cardinals died during the conclave! [publicdomainreview.org]
- Mechanical Principles: a short film made by avant-garde filmmaker Ralph Steiner in 1930 features dozens of gears, cogs, and pistons in motion. [kottke.org]
- Some of the cardinals tasked with choosing a replacement for Pope Francis have watched the Hollywood movie Conclave in preparation for the real-life process. “So many of the conclave participants have little experience of Vatican politics and protocol.” (via @greg.org) [politico.eu]
- McMansion Hell on Trump’s gaudy “dictator chic”. “This ruling class nostalgia for times of absolute domination over the populace and its use as a conservative signifier is a defining characteristic of Rococo Revivalism…” [patreon.com]
- The life and work of photographic pioneer Eadweard Muybridge is the subject of a new graphic novel called Muybridge. [kottke.org]
