Conrad Chaffee

Roll Call has a live, proofread transcript of tonight's State of the Union. Just click the first link on the landing page. They'll keep updating it until they've proofread the whole speech.

@nielslesniewski That works - thanks!

@conradchaffee That is odd. Landing page is here. rollcall.com/factbase/sotu/

We are publishing a proofread transcript of the State of the Union in progress here: rollcall.com/factbase/sotu/…

Funds are limited, so if you can pay for your own ride home but know people who might need it more, please pass it along!

The snowcrete in DC won't melt until at least next week. This option will let you enjoy your party, get home safely, and not worry about driving in the snow or finding a late-night parking spot amidst the ice.

Quick public message: if you're attending a Super Bowl party in DC this Sunday, the city will pay up to $15 for you to take a Lyft home afterwards! wrap.org/soberride/

Funds are limited, so if you can pay for your own ride home but know people who might need it more, please pass it along!

If you’re wondering what time you’ll need a ride: most Super Bowls end around 10pm EST, and no Super Bowl has ever gone past 10:46 pm.

@mattyglesias This gets the direction wrong. Reuters reports that Venezuela has *received* $300 million in payments for oil from a bank account in Qatar. reuters.com/business/energ…

@slotkinjr @nytimes @Waymo @JeffDean My grandchildren will look back with horror at this era’s traffic fatalities, but these caveats are key. Many people love driving; more are deeply suspicious of AI; still more can’t imagine buying a $100k car. And yet — imagine how many would give a $20k automated car a try!

I have a guest essay in @nytimes today about autonomous vehicle safety. I wrote it because I’m tired of seeing children die. Done right, we can eliminate car crashes as a leading cause of death in the United States @Waymo recently released data covering nearly 100 million driverless miles. I spent weeks analyzing it because the results seemed too good to be true. 91% fewer serious-injury crashes. 92% less pedestrians hit. 96% fewer injury crashes at intersections. The list goes on. 39,000 Americans died in crashes last year. More than homicide, plane crashes, and natural disasters combined. The #2 killer of children and young adults. The #1 cause of spinal cord injury. We’ve accepted this as the price of mobility. We don’t have to. In medicine, when a treatment shows this level of benefit, we stop the trial early. Continuing to give patients the placebo becomes unethical. When an intervention works this clearly, you change what you do. In driving, we’re all the control group. Cities like DC and Boston are blocking deployment. And cities are not the only forces mobilizing to slow this progress. It’s time we stop treating this like a tech moonshot and start treating it like a public health intervention that will save lives. Link to article below. 👀 this video of Waymo cars evading crashes with people and vehicles. I especially note the ones that require it having a 360° view. My sincere thanks to Alex Ellerbeck and @acsifferlin for their wisdom and sure hand in editing this piece.

@wmata Thanks for the quick reply! I appreciate the work you do to keep this system running so well.

@conradchaffee Oh wow! Sorry to hear this, and thanks for your message, Conrad. We're on it! -MG

@wmata Good morning! You should know that doors 11 and 12 on Yellow Line train 3132 are not opening, to the consternation of folks waiting to board or exit. Most scramble for another door in time, but I just saw a guy miss the train as a result. Please fix this soon. Thanks!

@patrickhealynyt @nytimes @threadreaderapp unroll

As the @nytimes assistant managing editor for Standards and Trust, I’ve received reader feedback regarding our reporting on Zohran Mamdani’s 2009 application to Columbia University. To provide context on how the reporting came together, I wanted to share some information:

@dieworkwear Gordon Lightroom sang about these laborers in the Canadian Railroad Trilogy: “We are the navvies who work upon the railway Swingin' our hammers in the bright blazin' sun Livin' on stew and drinkin' bad whiskey Bendin' our backs 'til the long days are done“

In fact, John Lobb of St. James in London still calls some of their derbies "navvy cut." The term navvy is short for navigator, which is a working class laborer during the 19th century who worked on civil engineering projects, such as canals and railways.

Any time I comment on these shoes, someone replies: "What am I supposed to wear? Those are so comfy!" This is reasonable. But if you want to wear more traditional footwear, here are some suggestions on how to find a comfortable pair. 🧵

@TheMonologist Also, a bullet he used during the ambush was recently found by a team of archaeologists, providing evidence for the accuracy of his account of the Hallat Ammar ambush. phys.org/news/2016-04-b…

@TheMonologist Here’s the recently rediscovered nameplate from the train, which Lawrence took as a souvenir.

@bellport_phys @chrislhayes @EIAgov That would explain the term “power capacity” rather than “storage capacity.” If some other utility goes down, it seems to me it would be good to know how much power can instantly be tapped from batteries, but also how long they can supply it. But both data points are useful.

@bellport_phys @chrislhayes @EIAgov Curious layman here. If you click through to the underlying data, it looks like everything’s in MW/GW, not MWh/GWh. Do you think maybe the EIA is more focused on how much power utility-scale batteries can supply at any given instant, not how long they can supply it?

I've taken to call this category of news the #OppositeOfDoom . It's very very hard for it to break through, everyone is totally understandably freaked out about of genuinely terrifying climate trajectory, but more good stuff has happened in the last 3 years than the previous 20 combined.