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we will be celebrating this occasion with drinks tonight @ chili’s off 45th and lamar

[T]emperatures have reached the century mark for 27 days in a row. With records dating back to the 1890s, that ties with 2011 as the longest stretch of triple-digit temperatures ever recorded in Austin....

It really looks like people just went through and hit Yes on everything.

Freaking nuts

Let’s see if they can still afford rent, or if the new landowners will even offer to renew their lease....

“As you know, we’re playing catch-up. Thirteen years at not meeting industry standards is kind of difficult to catch up on, but by ‘28 we’ll be fully caught up, and then we’ll go on our five-year cycle," he said. “We are trimming trees; as we stand here today, we have about 50 or 60 crews out there.”

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Austin-based Jo’s Coffee is set to host its 6th Annual Ugly Dog Contest, a unique event celebrating unconventional canine beauty, on Sunday, Oct. 29. All proceeds from the entry fees will go directly to the Austin Humane Society.

Strange happenings afoot

****Good suggestions in the article....

Are we ashamed? Or are we entertained?

So, the instance I joined Lemmy on last week largely to participate here defederated from lemmy.world an hour ago. It’s early post-Reddit days, which is the only reason I’m posting a general tech tip in /r/!austin, but it’s a previously impossible inconvenience that isn’t theoretical. Choose wisely or start your...

It’s for Austin, so it had to be posted. The meta must flow....

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All well and good when fighting crime maybe, but there aren’t restrictions on selling that data to other entities. Where your cars go, when, and how fast, although newer cars report all that back anyway (see the Toyota breach recently).

The facility will have two medical towers, one for the cancer center and the other for the new university hospital. It will be located at the current downtown location of UT-Austin’s Frank Erwin Center, formerly a multipurpose facility....

Waymo says its driverless taxis will traverse “a large portion of the city night and day,” covering spots like “the heart of downtown, Barton Hills, Riverside, East Austin, Hyde Park and more.” The company makes no mention of the Austin-Bergstrom International Airport, where the taxi business is typically the most...

Can we start a regular post here?