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Lawmakers in Albany are going back and forth over a bill that would require so-called "super speeders" — drivers who get caught speeding more than 16 times per year — to install speed governors in their car. J.K. Trotter, associate editor for Streetsblog NYC, explains the problem, the legislation, and his reporting on one NYPD cop who has racked up more than 500 speeding tickets.

Photo: A speeding camera sign in Huntsville, Ala. pictured May 7, 2015. (Credit: formulanone/Wikimedia Commons CC BY 2.0)

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The Department of Health and Human Services recently released new guidance that prioritizes childbirth over contraception. Mary Ziegler, UC Davis law professor and the author of Roe: The History of a National Obsession (Yale University Press, 2023) and Personhood: The New Civil War over Reproduction (Yale University Press, 2025), explains what's in the guidance and why she believes that the Trump administration is launching the most serious effort in decades to curb contraception.

Photo: Birth control pills and pregnancy tests sit on a pharmacy shelf. (Credit: Sarahmirk/Wikimedia Commons BY CC 4.0)

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The New York Times released a list of the 30 greatest living American songwriters. Lindsay Zoladz, pop music critic at The New York Times and the writer of the music newsletter The Amplifier, talks about the luminaries on the list, and shares who she wishes could have been included but were left off.

Photo: Taylor Swift performs onstage during "Taylor Swift | The Eras Tour" at BC Place on December 06, 2024 in Vancouver, British Columbia. (Photo by Kevin Winter/TAS24/Getty Images for TAS Rights Management)

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We remember conductor, composer and musician Michael Tilson Thomas, who died April 22 at age 81. He was a longtime music director of The San Francisco Symphony, known for his innovation, his ability to translate classical music for the general public, and for fostering contem...

The thing about having a blog for 24 years at the same domain name (and 17 years of podcasting) is that it should be clear what I believe in by now. I’ve never deleted or significantly edited a post. My life and work are either a very long con, plotted out half my life ago, ...

“Since 1900, scientists have observed more than 20 phases of ice, many of them shaped under extreme conditions. The growing list includes hot ice and even ice that conducts electricity.”

Our colleagues at the Humanitarian Archive Emergency (HAE) Project have an updated request for our data rescuers! This initiative, based at the University of Manchester, is focused on the global threat to knowledge infrastructure, specifically for humanitarian aid organizations. Decades of materials in digital archives are currently unprotected and therefore

Countless companies are capitalizing on the AI boom, building everything from coding assistants to customer support bots. But only a

The post Mistral, Europe’s answer to OpenAI and Anthropic, pushes its coding agents to the cloud appeared first on The New Stack.

More good reporting from The Verge folks in the courtroom:

Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers started asking Birchall questions herself, and it clearly was making Birchall nervous. Birchall said he doesn’t remember discussing the xAI bid with Musk or Shivon Zilis or any other principal of the Musk organization. It sure sounded like Musk’s lawyers hadn’t given OpenAI proper discovery on this topic in the depositions, and so we were doing a fast and dirty deposition with the judge right then.

Back when I launched Tweet Marker, it was originally called Tweetmarks, but I got spooked by a trademark and renamed it. While I don’t regret that necessarily, I think I overreacted. I mention this because there are similar issues with Inkwell, a very common name, and I’m trying to be careful.

On the futility of border walls. “The Ozymandian ruins of many such walls litter our ancient and modern landscapes, because for as long as humanity has built hard borders, people have inevitably found ways to cross, topple or simply bypass them.”

Fourteen years. My wife and I were proud minivan owners for 14 years until this month. Once you have three children, practicality takes immediate priority over self-image, so I was never fundamentally against owning a minivan. I was never like, “Oh my God, they’ll take away ...

Earlier this week, the Defector staff was chatting about Joel Embiid. Watching him give the business to the Boston Celtics in Game 5 of that series, with a vintage 33 points in a 113-97 road win for the 76ers, had been fun and surprisingly ... stirring? Not just because it c...

Morbid curiosity is not normally a healthy reason to commit to a form of entertainment, but also you don't necessarily have a say in the matter. Sometimes the morbid part just jumps in front of your face, grabs your eyelids, yanks them down and then snaps them back up like a...

There is an understandable tendency to make Oilers losses about the Oilers rather than about the team that beat them. After being eliminated by the Anaheim Ducks 5-2 in Game 6 on Thursday, Connor McDavid put a damper on the rhetorical appeal of that angle by summing up Edmon...

Two new projects, including one from a Pulitzer-winning reporter, claim they’ve solved the mystery of Bitcoin’s creator. So why does the hunt continue?

The Secret to Success Is ‘Monotasking’. “We find that in ­real‑world work, the more switches in attention a person makes, the lower is their end‑­of‑day assessed productivity.”

Apparently Substack does not implement MCP, which is basically the XML-RPC of AI. According to ChatGPT they have a limited API that some independent developers have bridged to MCP. But as you would expect from a tight silo like Substack, the API lets you read but not write. They want you to use their editor, what they don't want is to be one of 20 distributors of your writing. They want an exclusive and they get it.

BTW, I pointed to the Wikipedia page for XML-RPC, and noticed that they point to an archive.org copy of a very old version of the website, instead of the updated site which has new reference code written in JavaScript. The old version of the site used Frontier, which is where XML-RPC was developed, but it's not in wide use these days, JavaScript is. Could someone update the Wikipedia page to change the link to the current XML-RPC site? I'm reluctant to do it myself because that's somewhat against the rules.

"In prison, we often must adapt to abnormal conditions, including seeing distorted versions of ourselves. After I finished my morning routine, I considered whether there were any documented psychological effects of us not seeing ourselves for long periods of time." https://prisonjournalismproject.org/2026/04/24/mirrors-in-prison/?utm_source=Bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=PJP-Bluesky