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Today in great compiler errors, turns out that:

Argument of type 'Component<typename, unknown>' is not assignable to parameter of type 'string'.

Means I misspelled a member name in TypeName.

I loathe this language.

After the most annoying captcha ever, UCLA Electronic Theses and Dissertations: Does Bundled Parking Influence Travel Behavior? 2018 Pinski, Miriam Julia Advisor(s): Manville, Michael.

After controlling for differences in socioeconomic and built environment characteristics, I find that the presence of bundled parking is associated with a 27 percent increase in vehicle miles traveled. Bundled households drive approximately 3,800 miles more, spend nearly $580 more on gasoline, and emit 14.47 more metric tons of carbon dioxide per year. Bundled parking is also negatively correlated to transit use, and households with unbundled parking are significantly more likely to be frequent transit users. This provides further evidence for the already strong case against parking requirements.

Via.

Ya know, Typescript, if you're smart enough to figure out what that function is returning, maybe don't whine when I don't explicitly specify a return type for it?

(I'm stuck in a maze of little Mithril types, all different.)

Oxford Internet Institute: AI-powered social media can subtly manipulate opinion at scale, new study finds.

The study AI-Mediated Communication Can Steer Collective Opinion, authored by Dr. Stratis Tsirtsis, Dr Kai Rawal, Dr Chris Russell, Professor Brent Mittelstadt and Professor Sandra Wachter, has been accepted for presentation at the AI4Good and Technical AI Governance Research workshops at the International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML 2026) in Seoul, South Korea.

arXiv: AI-Mediated Communication Can Steer Collective Opinion. They focus a lot on Grok, but as I watch people adopt these things as a general information filter, I'm super concerned about this effect.

Tech Xplore version of the press release.

Via The Guardian, which adds a few examples but doesn't actually link to these sources.

NBER: Congestion Pricing and EMS Response Time: Evidence From New York City

Exploiting the sharp geographic boundary of New York City's congestion relief zone at 60th Street and a difference-in-discontinuities design applied to approximately 1.6 million EMS incidents, we find that the January 2025 implementation of congestion pricing reduced passenger vehicle traffic by roughly 21 percent near the boundary and improved total EMS travel times by 63–70 seconds, approximately 5–6 percent. Effects emerged quickly and show little evidence of displacement to adjacent areas.

Via.

It's 1996. The free cross-platform may-be-ugly-but-it-works widget set is Tk.

It's 2026. The best Rust widget set appears to be... Uh... Tk.

Ad said "Keep your furry loved ones healthy", and I thought "finally, coverage for my polycule!"

Alas, not those furry loved ones.