https://www.curbed.com/2023/06/new-york-suv-trucks-weight-based-fee.html

#CrashesArentAccidents: Mamdani is co-introducing legislation for a #weightbased vehicle-registration fee intended to discourage people from purchasing #heavier #vehicles. “The #carindustry is pushing the sale of heavier and larger vehicles,” he says. “The state has to make it clear that these types of vehicles come with a certain kind of cost.”
#CarFreeCityCentersPlease

There seems to be this mild trend in #music in recent years of #musicians going #heavier and people acting like it was so incredibly #surprising and #unexpected.

The most obvious one right now is Sleep Token. For whatever reason people seem so surprised that the stuff from the past month is so heavy. but really I don’t get the surprise. They’ve always been heavy, yes Vessel hasn’t screamed as much, but it’s always been obvious he’s going that way and is either building up to it for artistic purposes or just still learning how to get to the things that he’s been doing lately. But honestly, there’s nothing stylistically surprising in the last few tracks. They are fucking awesome and I love them all, but they really are very much stylistically Sleep Token all the way, no dramatic departure from what they’ve been doing so far.

When #Dataleaking was #heavier:

This is a removable disk add-on for the #Univac 1004/1005 computers, from 1962. It used to store 2.2 MB on a 14" disk

Details: http://buff.ly/2LD9a5t