Kirke D.A. Elsass

Yes, and...

The French "In the year 2000" postcard series (produced in 1899) was only 25 years off.

If you think A.I. will solve your problems, you don't understand technology and you don't understand your problems.

TRANSITION? WHAT TRANSITION?

Wind and solar, pet hates of the populist right, will meet >90% of global electricity demand growth to 2026, helping renewables topple King Coal's reign as the world's top power source

www.carbonbrief.org/...

Pre-plywood concrete work

Yes. First, Ghost has a concierge who can lead you through the transition without losing the followers you have or disrupting service in any way. Second, you will actually give yourself a raise by moving, b/c Substack takes 10% rather than a set rate based on your total number of subscribers. (1/2)

There is scientific research that shows this. The protective cage causes people driving in a car to subconsciously dehumanize people outside the car. Other drivers, cyclists, pedestrians become objects to the driver.

And all facets of history show what happens when you dehumanize other people

John Findlay's The Mobilized American West is a perspective-shifting survey of how the region's politics, landscapes, and cultures interacted with national developments from WWII to 2000.

Great documentation of very early automobile-driven creep! 1890s limits were often 6 or 7 mph for newly electrified streetcars and, as another poster mentioned, those crazy cyclists.

I've found quite a bit on police enforcement attempts to catch cyclists on sidewalks. Some efforts described as "raids."

These two, specifically

As ahistorical as that imagined individual is, it's a pretty useful foil for the collective action that today's situation requires.

And refused to bolster K-12 ed in desperate districts.

Cars have WILDLY changed expectations for speed of everyday mobility. When cities started implementing speed limits c.1900, the cyclist in this scenario would have been exceeding common limits by >100%. Now everyone is supposed to get out of the way so cars can go at least 25mph on all city streets.

I highly recommend that you ask Google about being a baby animal in various scenarios and inquire about the location of your mother before they update their AI

Quite wholesome and reassuring!

I thought "garbage in, garbage out" was a respected and avoided truth within the comp sci world, but then...

a cat sleeping between a keyboard and an elevated laptop in front of a window with a sunny and verdant streetscape outside

Moving is exhausting. Just ask Nigel here.

The 14th Street Busway has been a smashing success: faster commutes, fewer crashes, calmer streets.

So why is Eric Adams blocking a similar plan for 34th Street?

The ants in my yard have also "been busy." That's not the news. This type of thing has me refraining from donating to NPR. Despite being raised on it. Despite critical threats to its funding. Despite a childhood friend doing amazing reporting for it from Ukraine and Tel Aviv.

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Already we're seeing hospitals and health centers close because of the devastating health care cuts in the Republican megabill.

You need to know that even if you keep your health care, you're going to have less doctors and hospitals - especially in rural areas.

The Teens Are Taking Waymos Now Alphabet’s self-driving car company launches what it hopes will be lucrative individual teen accounts—and maybe a whole lot of social change in the process.

I'm sorry but this whole thing makes me feel insane. Let's just be real: we stole basic independence from generations of kids and teenagers by intentionally making our cities deadly + impossible to travel outside a car, and now corporations are selling a worse version of it back to them at a price.

When Moderation Becomes Appeasement If your chief goal is to find a middle ground with the far right on social issues, you’ll end up condoning its values—just ask Keir Starmer.

"Because reactionary centrists do not really have values, they struggle to understand the motivations of those who do."

www.thebulwark.com/p/when-moder...

Yeah. Sci-fi fears of eventual autonomous gen AI should be replaced by rational fears of immediately turning over all our institutions to wildly unethical tech billionaires.

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This is a great point. I'll add: So much more grist for the raising when they're encountering the preschool/daycare world! (And so much time those facilities don't cover!)

‘Could become a death spiral’: scientists discover what’s driving record die-offs of US honeybees Experts scrambling to understand losses in hives across the country are finally identifying the culprits. And the damage to farmed bees is a sign of trouble for wild bees too

Causes of the 60% decline in US honeybees: "A bee virus spread by parasitic mites that appear to have developed pesticide resistance." Also, "climate change, pesticides, and less food in the form of pollen and nectar as monocrop farming proliferates."

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

My parents live along Wingra Creek, and I so envy the bikeability!

For what it's worth, this is precisely the reason the Klan wore hoods when they terrorized communities and disappeared unfavored minorities.

Historically, it wasn't called doxxing it was just recognizing a fascist community member.

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