ProfT @ProfT@social.cleverlibre.org

What does the orange sky over NYC from Canadian wildfires have to do with the location of our Sun in the galaxy?

Let me explain!

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/why-does-smoke-turn-the-sky-orange/

As an autistic woman I never understand when I hear from other women about how they feel a certain way when they dress nicely. I have no feelings about clothing at all other than I need more pockets. I don’t look even in a mirror because eye contact (even with myself) is startling.

But yesterday I felt like maybe the nice feelings I have when I ride my nice blue steel bike is the closest I’ll ever feel to those feelings.

I feel my best on a bicycle.

#BikeTooter #ActuallyAutistic

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Automobiles 👉 Myth. Vs. Reality

Paris: Schafft 60.000 Parkplätze ab

Oslo: Innenstadt ist parkplatzfrei

Amsterdam: 11.200 Parklätze im Zentrum fallen weg

Mailand: Schafft 750km geschützte Radwege bis 2035

Berlin: CDU stoppt alle Radverkehrsprojekte bei denen 1 Fahrspur oder 1 Parkplatz wegfallen könnte.

Cars 🚗🚙🚖 are having a hard time learning how it is to share the streets with others 🚲 🚶‍♀️ 🚌 🚃👇

Monday's Most Read #1 - A tale of two cities: Paris proves that you don’t need skyscrapers to thrive - https://bit.ly/3oQsVfz

In 1940, Peierls co-authored a famous memorandum with Otto Frisch, discussing the feasibility of developing an atomic bomb with a small amount of uranium-235.

He eventually led the British Mission of scientists who joined the Manhattan Project, working in New York and Los Alamos.

Here is an (audio!) interview with Sir Rudolph, from the "Voices of the Manhattan Project" oral history project, where he discusses his time at Los Alamos.

https://ahf.nuclearmuseum.org/voices/oral-histories/sir-rudolf-peierlss-interview/

How fast do we need to cut emissions?
Here I explain this last week at the World Circular Economy Forum #WCEF23 in Helsinki.
It simply is a race against time.
Make no mistake.
Stakes could not be higher.

All the new information about climate change from scientists falls into two categories: it confirms predications made decades ago by scientists and climate models, like this story; or the climate changes and impacts will be worse than we anticipated.
#climate #climatechange

https://www.wired.com/story/the-upper-atmosphere-is-cooling-prompting-new-climate-concerns/

We’re pedalling our way to climate neutrality on World Bicycle Day! 🚲

This summer, we will propose a European Declaration on Cycling, inviting the European Parliament and the Council of the European Union to sign up for it.

It will ensure that all our European initiatives, wherever possible, include a cycling dimension; supporting sustainable urban mobility plans, doubling the number of safe cycling infrastructures, or creating more bicycle parking facilities.

🔗 https://europa.eu/!wQqHxb

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I can't stop thinking about this study of "traffic evaporation" - when an important road is closed, where does the traffic go? In most cases, some traffic disappears completely, and longer-term life choices may be partly responsible.

https://nacto.org/docs/usdg/disappearing_traffic_cairns.pdf

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We’re bringing the Universe to YOU!

We're officially unveiling our suite of brand new interactive & online experiences designed specially for you to be able to explore Rubin Observatory technology, science, and people! #CatchTheUniverse

https://rubinobservatory.org/news/universe-to-you

Sometimes you just have to explain things in a way they can understand.

Pavement parkers and their sense of self-entitlement https://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/letters/2023/05/31/parking-on-foothpaths/ (As I threaded my way through cars pavement-parked across a pedestrian crossing yesterday, a van driver said "Give the bonnet a bang; that'll set off the alarm and bring them running!" I was tempted)

BREAKING & BIG: Montreal announced today another $30 million in NEW FUNDING for 53 bike infrastructure projects to expand & improve bike-lanes in 14 less-serviced areas!

“Merchants are now ASKING for good bike infrastructure.” (watch the videos too)

THIS IS LEADERSHIP!

#Montreal #cities #BikeLanes #cars #bikes
https://montreal.ctvnews.ca/montreal-is-spending-30-million-to-expand-and-improve-bike-paths-1.6419028

The fact that we fear that any AI tasked with solving the world’s problems would, sooner or later, get round to eradicating us, says at least as much about how we see ourselves as how we envisage AI.

There's yet another "AI will kill us all! It poses a risk of extinction!" letter going around, and I just… Y'all i am just so fucking tired.

CAPITALISM poses risk of extinction (climate change, right the fuck now).

WHITE SUPREMACY poses risk of extinction (genocide, eugenics).

HEGEMONY poses risk of extinction (nuclear FUCKING WAR).

And whatever "risk of extinction" "AI" poses, it poses because it is BUILT FROM THOSE EXTREMELY HUMAN VALUES.

Even if you stopped every "AI" project running, RIGHT THIS SECOND, those values would still kill us. And no matter how long you "pause" your "AI" projects, if you don't address those values? Then when you start your "AI" back up? You'll KEEP BUILDING THOSE SAME VALUES IN.

This is not hard. At this point, as much as it pains me to say it, it's not even novel. And yet you're still not fucking getting it.

I'm so goddam tired.