ProfT @ProfT@social.cleverlibre.org

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.

Seriously though, don not call.

“I still love cars. But we need to accept there is an evolution in transportation, an evolution in the use of cars, & an evolution in what is allowed when you’re a car driver. If you like speed, you go on a circuit, you don’t go on the roads.” — Former F1 Boss.

#cars #transportation #cities #driving #city
https://www.smh.com.au/national/the-need-for-speed-even-this-former-f1-boss-says-it-s-time-for-a-rethink-on-road-rules-20230526-p5dbpx.html

Einstein wrote to astronomer George Hale in 1913, asking if it might be possible to observe stars passing near the sun without an eclipse.

Hale patiently explained that, yes, the eclipse really was necessary.

https://hdl.huntington.org/digital/collection/p15150coll2/id/1846/

L'avenir que j'imagine pour Twitter, c'est un lieu où les trolls conspirationnistes perdent leur temps à se prendre la tête avec des robots.

Ainsi la plate-forme aura retrouvé une utilité sociale.

Mais en attendant, il y reste beaucoup de vrais gens. A ceux là je pense qu'il faut envoyer un message clair: si pensez que ce que nous disons est intéressant, alors vous pouvez nous retrouver ailleurs - et notamment en ce qui me concerne sur Facebook, LinkedIn et Mastodon.

Bonne journée à tous.

Ce phénomène a été analysé par David Chavalarias et son équipe du CNRS. Selon leur étude, cette désinformation serait organisée depuis l'étranger, probablement dans le but d'amplifier les divisions des démocraties et de retarder la décarbonation de l'économie, défavorable aux intérêts du Kremlin. Ultérieurement, ce sont de nombreux comptes plus ou moins manipulateurs ou manipulés qui font le reste.
https://lejournal.cnrs.fr/articles/climatosceptiques-sur-twitter-enquete-sur-les-mercenaires-de-lintox

Prodaja električnih vozila u 🇪🇺 dosegla je rekord svih vremena u četvrtom tromjesečju 2022.. Prodano je više od 695,000 novih ⚡️🚘 (+ 56 % u odnosu na Q3 2022.).

To znači tržišni udio od 28 %.

Više informacija dostupno je u izvješću ↓

#REPowerEU

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/EK_Hrvatska/status/1663165359849963521

Warum zur Hölle muss sich in Berlin eine 400m lange Fußgängerzone, die für mehr Sicherheit, mehr Kundschaft und weniger Lärm sorgt, mehr rechtfertigen, als eine 7,3km lange Autobahn, die ohne Bürgerbeteiligung, gegen Anwohner und Gewerbe und gegen den Willen der Stadt vom Verkehrsminister durchgeprügelt wird?

@amiserabilist

Business leaders: We can't find enough workers!

Workers: You could pay more.

Business: Nope.

Workers: Better benefits?

Business: No.

Workers: More flexible hours?

Business: No way.

Workers: Treat your current employees better to build your employer brand?

Business: Never.

Workers: Well, what's left?!

Business: Child labor!

https://apnews.com/article/iowa-governor-child-labor-laws-e8cb29e2a45b956489c4a192b7ddeba5

What happens when cities tear out highways and build parks 🌳, public transport corridors 🚌and segregated bike lanes 🚲?

➡️ Traffic gets better.

The phenomenon is called 🚗Traffic evaporation🚗

Here is how it works 👇👇

"Public investment" vs "Wasteful Subsidy." The only problem with this clever classic Singer cartoon is that some people might not get that it’s illustrating the perception problem, NOT telling the truth.

Just in case it actually needs to be said, the truth is exactly the opposite.

#PublicTransit #cities #cars #urbanism #math

@petergleick @Ruth_Mottram @kathhayhoe @andrewdessler @ed_hawkins @gwagner @davidho

For more background, this is an interesting read:

How Twitter became a haven for climate misinformation - "The intention is to create a perception that denial is far more widespread than it actually is," Michael Mann tells us. >>> https://www.publicnotice.co/p/twitter-climate-disinformation-musk-michael-mann

Michael E. Mann @MichaelEMann

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#twittermigration #climate

You may be familiar with CPEP's work. Their chart mapping out the particles, interactions, and unanswered questions of the Standard Model is a classic. You can find it on the walls of offices and classrooms, or taped up above nerd desks everywhere.

You can get that particular chart (and find other fun resources) here:

https://www.cpepphysics.org/fundamental-particles/

Image: CPEP / DOE / NSF / LBNL

Wednesday's Most Read #1 - From Traffic-Choked Brussels, a Model for Driving Less https://bloom.bg/3Md4f8n @davidzipper

We can’t hear it, but stars are performing a concert, one that never stops. The biggest stars make the lowest, deepest sounds, like tubas and double basses. Small stars have high-pitched voices, like celestial flutes. https://exoplanets.nasa.gov/news/1516/symphony-of-stars-the-science-of-stellar-sound-waves/
#NASAExoplanets