Campaigns, Traffic, Mob Mentality, Tyranny, AI Memes - Five Things - Issue #278

Welcome to the age of the political mass-text. Candidates in this year’s midterm elections are adding a new, hard-to-ignore tool to their arsenal.

Shared-ride options such as UberPool pull commuters from transit, biking and walking, the study says. The result: more driving.

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