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Utrecht is working towards becoming the first bi-directional city in the world and in his recent trip Robert Llewellyn visited a huge solar powered car park and charging station to see how EVs and Vehicle-To-Grid charging are being integrated together. (Fully Charged, YouTube, 16m26s)
posted by flabdablet at 8:52 PM PST - 42 comments

Gavin Newsom calls for bill modeled on Texas abortion ban to crack down on gun manufacturers “If the most efficient way to keep these devastating weapons off our streets is to add the threat of private lawsuits, we should do just that,” said Newsom, a longtime advocate of strict gun control laws.
posted by tiny frying pan at 8:22 PM PST - 65 comments

Hear the “wow” and guess the movie.
posted by Pater Aletheias at 6:53 PM PST - 11 comments

"I don’t want to be standing here as a model of fat transness but I am glad to be because nobody else is." S. Bear Bergman writes about doing an "extremely peculiar community service" at a trans conference.
posted by merriment at 4:20 PM PST - 8 comments

With locations now numbering in the hundreds, regional soda-shop chains are spreading far beyond Utah, where they first found popularity. “Some people say, ‘Oh well, it’s just a Utah trend,’ and we kind of proved that wrong when we went to Oklahoma, and proved people like their soda everywhere,” said Nicole Tanner, who founded Swig with her husband, Todd. “It may sound so weird to some people who have never been, but it’s happiness in a cup. I’ve always known from the start that this is something that can and should go everywhere.”
posted by folklore724 at 3:24 PM PST - 64 comments

Liked Yahtzee's (of Chzo Mythos and Zero Punctuation fame's) Adventures in the Galaxy of Fantabulous Wonderment and/or Studio Spektar and Porcupine Parkour's General Horse and the Package of Doom (previously), the epic sci-fi adventure games that combine adventure game sequences with RPG and simulation elements, but want something bigger and more serious? Then these are the voyages of... The Captain.
posted by BiggerJ at 2:23 PM PST - 5 comments

How Facebook and Google fund global misinformation. The tech giants are paying millions of dollars to the operators of clickbait pages, bankrolling the deterioration of information ecosystems around the world.
posted by blue shadows at 12:18 PM PST - 10 comments

At McSweeney's, Miriam Jayaratna imagines what it would be like to get "u up?" texts from famous male authors. Come for the rhyming couplets from Poe and Seuss, stay for David Foster Wallace's extensive footnotes.
posted by firechicago at 11:45 AM PST - 37 comments

Oh hey, no biggie, but if you have an Android phone and Microsoft Teams installed, you may not be able to dial 911.
posted by MartinWisse at 11:19 AM PST - 26 comments

A friendly, if somewhat foul-mouthed, crow became a temporary mascot at Allen Dale Elementary School in November when the bird took up residence at the Grants Pass school.
posted by ShooBoo at 8:34 AM PST - 28 comments

Magazine archives week concludes! "A Programmatic Approach to Perfect Happiness" by Tim Pratt (audio version) is a snappy and somewhat unsettling science fiction story involving sex, a robot, a family, an infectious disease, and scheming. [more inside]
posted by brainwane at 7:53 AM PST - 1 comments