ProfT @ProfT@social.cleverlibre.org

Silicon Valley startups: We're libertarian, hate government regulation and oversight, and believe every person and business should be accountable for its own decisions and mistakes.

Also Silicon Valley startups: OMG,
#SVB has failed. The government better do a bailout, and the FDIC must protect all our assets expediently!

https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2023/03/10/investing/svb-bank/index.html

STUDY: An additional 20 minutes of commuting each day has on average the equivalent effect on job satisfaction as a 19% reduction in income, with longer commute times having a more negative impact on women’s job satisfaction than men’s. Via @WhatWorksWB

#cities #commuting #traffic #cars #urbanism

https://whatworkswellbeing.org/blog/commuting-and-employee-wellbeing/

Still trying to wrap my head around it 🤩
RT @hermansjoost: Amazing to see that living legend ⁦@jonstewart⁩ is interviewing our Hungarian hero ⁦@katka_cseh⁩ in the European Parliament 🇪🇺🇺🇸💪

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/katka_cseh/status/1633504510982193155

One thing we know for SURE — building and widening highways ALWAYS succeeds in helping sell more cars, gas and suburban sprawl; burning more public budgets; and increasing GHG emissions. So if THOSE are your goals, it’s the perfect thing to do.

Just don’t expect it to reduce traffic.

#cities #cars #sprawl #urbanism #traffic #car

+44% yoy

That the progress in the number of people moving in and around Brussels on bicycles in February.

Next time, when you hear “No one cycles in winter” again, you know the reality.

(to learn more about the mobility changes in Brussels, you can listen to mine and Michael Dunne’s podcast talk with Brusssels minister of mobility Elke Van den Brandt: https://podcasts.apple.com/cz/podcast/a-revolution-to-make-cities-more-human-centric-elke/id1510140333?i=1000590252792

Cyclists are now the single largest mode of travel during peak times in London, according to a new report.

They represent 40% of traffic during peak hours and 27% of traffic throughout the day.

Since 1999, the number of motorists has dropped 64% and the number of cyclists has increased 386%.

#Urbanism #UrbanDesign #ClimateChange #Cycling #BikeTooter #UK #London #Mobility #Transportation

https://www.forbes.com/sites/carltonreid/2023/03/01/cyclists-now-outnumber-motorists-in-city-of-london/

Comedian with 800k followers deletes his #Twitter account on air, mocks users for not keeping promises to flee to #Mastodon, the “Twitter Canada.” https://www.thedailybeast.com/hasan-minhaj-quits-twitter-hellscape-live-on-daily-show

I don't think everyone is aware of just how far the TikTok filters have come when it comes to changing people's appearance in real-time, with no latency and no visual artifacts.

I've compiled two videos showcasing the new beauty filter and the teen filter, if you're curious:

https://axbom.com/tiktok/

#DigitalEthics

La meilleure mesure, qui est la moins chère, pour réduire immédiatement et massivement les émissions de gaz à effet de serre: interdire la production, la publicité, la possession et l’usage des SUV, véhicules absurdes, symboles de contresens industriel ! https://www.lemonde.fr/m-perso/article/2023/02/25/contre-les-suv-en-ville-la-contestation-enfle_6163261_4497916.html#xtor=AL-32280270-%5Btwitter%5D-%5Bios%5D

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/KarimaDelli/status/1629413507681726466

Things I learned on Nextdoor about bike lanes in Alameda:

- The current bike lane “craze” is a mandate from the UN
- Limiting the number of cars on certain streets is just a way to justify raising taxes on us
- Busy streets don’t need bike lanes because nobody goes there anymore
- Cyclists just need to pay attention because drivers do crazy things
- Cyclists scare motorists when they veer around obstacles (such as cars parked in bike lanes)

I think cars have damaged our brains. #alamtg

“According to the new data, Transport For London’s 20mph reduced speed limit on key London roads has led to a 25% reduction in collisions and serious injuries, supporting its #VisionZero goal to eliminate death and serious injury on the city’s transport network.”

#SpeedKills #SpeedLimits #cars #cities

https://www.intelligenttransport.com/transport-news/143786/tfl-data-shows-20mph-speed-limits-significantly-reduce-collisions-london/

Our Increasingly Active Sun https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap230222.html #APOD

The European Union needs a strong Media Freedom Act to confront predators of press freedom.

Read my op-ed in @Parlimag 🗞👇
https://www.theparliamentmagazine.eu/magazine/issues/the-parliament-issue-557-march-2023-the-energy-edition

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/katka_cseh/status/1628099623637196801

A butterfly in the stars 🦋

This #HubbleClassic image of the Butterfly Nebula shows layers of gas being ejected from a star that has exhausted its nuclear fuel.

Eventually this nebula will fade and leave behind a stellar corpse known as a white dwarf: https://go.nasa.gov/3KoP25a
#Hubble

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Lighter at 7600 frames per second

Wessie du Toit on the messy political dimension of 15-minute cities and low traffic neighbourhoods and why it's important for planners and urban designers to pay heed to the political landscape.

#15minuteCities #LTNs #LiveableCities #Planning

https://thepathosofthings.substack.com/p/untangling-the-15-minute-city-mess?utm_medium=email

For so many things in our lives: phones, computers, domestic appliances, music players etc, it's been absolutely accepted that smaller is better, and that the unquestioned aim for decades has been to make things the minimum size needed to do their job. So why are cars the exception? And how do we shift that narrative? It's ludicrous just to accept the more wasteful and dangerous solution as the better one.

This is an excellent profile of one of my very favorite podcasts, @TheWarOnCars. I've said this before, but I really think they do incredible work motivating and training activists everywhere (certainly including me), essentially seeding the capacity for a car-free revolution. Even if you love your car, though, I think you'd enjoy hearing them talk about the gas stove panic, great books, ridiculous community meetings, and more. https://www.lyft.com/rev/posts/the-war-on-cars-its-not-just-a-podcast-its-a-movement #RoadSafety #BikeTooter

The era of the car is coming to an end - contributions from Donald Shoup, @BrooklynSpoke of @TheWarOnCars and @giulio_mattioli https://www.economist.com/international/2023/02/16/throughout-the-rich-world-the-young-are-falling-out-of-love-with-cars

RT @WeRideAustralia: BREAKING: The European Parliament calls to double cycling in Europe by 2030, a historic moment for cycling & Europe
Concerted advocacy working w champions in the Euro Parliament has led to a tipping point. https://cyclingindustries.com/news/details/european-parliament-calls-to-double-cycling-in-europe-by-2030 MEP @KarimaDelli @MayneKevin @EuCyclistsFed

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/KarimaDelli/status/1626351709478916099