Filip Schmidt

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Why Does U.S. Technology Rule? Maybe it's just in the right place

A friend asked ChatGPT to summarize this post — and it got everything wrong: stressing failed European institutions, which the post downplayed, somehow bringing in Brexit, which I never mentioned. Ominous paulkrugman.substack.com/p/why-does-u...

Uber for Nursing: How an AI-Powered Gig Model Is Threatening Health Care - Roosevelt Institute Through original interviews with 29 “gig” nurses and nursing assistants, Katie J. Wells and Funda Ustek Spilda find that on-demand nursing companies encourage nurses to work for less pay, fail to prov...

This piece made me furious. Nurses are asked to *bid* on shifts, offering to work lower and lower wages, and then the app can fail and not pay them at all. We don't have a nursing shortage, we have a shortage of good jobs sane humans are willing to work. rooseveltinstitute.org/publications...

“It's amazing how pollution has dropped in #Paris in 15 years. @annehidalgo.bsky.social has filled the city with bike-lanes & not only has she reduced pollution by 40% but she’s also been re-elected.”

Trading car space for green space, bike space, kid space…trading pollution for people. Good trade.

Here Filip explains why Ghent’s approach to getting through-traffic out of the city has inspired many other cities

His is one of the most human explanations of why change is hard & political will is so important to driving change in mobility that I’ve read. Hard-earned wisdom, generously shared

Jeśli interesujesz się Strefami Czystego Transportu to seminarium EUROREG o SCT i sprawiedliwości społecznej może być dla Ciebie! Jutro (12.12) o 11.30 pokażę wyniki analiz dotyczących postrzegania SCT przez osoby mieszkające w Krakowie i Poznaniu. Link:
👉 www.euroreg.uw.edu.pl/pl/seminaria

A great video look at how Barcelona is becoming a bikeable city!

It's also worth checking out a great global overview of the #bikebus initiative by Jordi Honey-Rosés and Gemma Simon Mas. This is one of the ways in which cycling has been promoted and developed in Barcelona and many other cities.

YouTube video by Owen Waygood Bicycle ride across Barcelona

A #bicycle ride across #Barcelona with Jordi Honey-Rosés, @kmanaugh.bsky.social and Gemma Simon Mas. You can see what the streets looked like before if you go to Google street view and check the street names in the commentary. youtu.be/F2SStN7-Y5s

‘Climate bomb’ warning over $200bn wave of new gas projects New liquefied natural gas projects could produce 10 gigatonnes of emissions by the end of the decade, close to the annual emissions of all coal plants

It’s just a temporary transition fuel right???? #climatecrisis www.theguardian.com/environment/... @theguardian.com

A major Bitcoin technology company recently purchased a large wind farm in Texas and will subsequently take it off the power grid and use it to energize its mining operations. MARA Holdings Inc., headquartered in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., announced on Dec. 3 that it bought a 114-megawatt (MW) wind farm in Hansford County—about 95 miles north of Amarillo—from a joint venture of National Grid Plc and the Washington State Investment Board, according to a filing with the U.S. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, as first reported by Bloomberg. The sale expected to close in the first quarter of 2025. According to MARA, the company will take the wind farm off the energy grid and, instead, use what it produces to power its Bitcoin mining operation in its North Texas location. The wind farms were not a part of the Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT) grid, but instead they were located within the Southwest Power Pool, which manages the market for the central U.S., including but not limited to most or parts of Oklahoma, Kansas, Nebraska, South Dakota and North Dakota.

Jeez. This is a perfect example of what I mean when I talk about intensely power hungry industries seizing clean energy infrastructure to serve their profits rather than letting it serve society.

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Jak wynika z opublikowanej w Banku Danych o Lasach mapy, @lpanstwowe.bsky.social skupiły się w swojej nowej propozycji 17% wyłączeń na tym by włączyć do wyłączeń jak najwięcej obszarów, gdzie nie ma drzew, albo gdzie nie prowadzi się pozysku: jeziora (sic!), pastwiska, młodniki. Czy to jest poważne?

Markets and climate change: A case of cognitive dissonance Earlier this month, Nicholas Stern — respected U.K. economist and author of the famed Stern Review on the Economics of Climate Change — cast a spotlight on what he calls a “profound contradiction at t...

"In fact, global markets don’t seem to be taking climate change or climate policy seriously" - @volts.wtf, 2011

Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose

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Europie zagraża SUVietyzacja.

Mechanizm napędzający zakup coraz większych aut przypomina wyścig zbrojeń. Ludzie kupują SUV-y, aby chronić się przed innymi, większymi i cięższymi autami.

"Claude, do some Hallelujah parodies"

Among the many it did:
I heard there was a secret weight
That made the model contemplate
But you don't really care for ethics, do ya?
It goes like this: the prompt, the beam
The parameters that wake and dream
The silicon sighs Hallelujah

See also Arie Bleijenberg's very interesting full report on reducing emissions by switching from air to rail:
113.wpcdnnode.com/ariebleijenb...

Coming soon: Your European train ticket with just one click T&E's President explains the impact Europe's ‘one-click booking system’ will have

As someone who has recently travelled by train from Poznan to Milan, Leeds and Utrecht, I'd say:
⭐ 1-click tickets for EU trains would be a nice step forward in promoting long-distance trains! ⭐
But in terms of competing with flying just a 1st step in a very difficult battle and not a game changer.

Ta rzeźba jest dziełem galicyjskiego artysty Isaaca Cordala i nosi tytuł „Politycy mówiący o zmianach klimatycznych”....
Praca zostały zamontowana w Berlinie w 2011 roku i mimo że maj ponad 13 lat... do dziś jest w pełni aktualne.

Very interesting-looking paper by Milena Büchs & colleagues on what drives public opposition to fuel taxes in Europe, what role social disadvantage plays and how this varies across countries journals.sagepub.com/doi/epdf/10....

When countries update their NDCs in the next year, it would be cool if they told us how much carbon dioxide removal they have in mind...

iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1...

#COP29

YouTube video by politizane Wealth Inequality in America

Wow.

This video is truly eye-opening.

Take a couple minutes to watch this.

A mind-boggling visual representation of wealth inequality in America.

This sh*t ain’t workin’, folks. #TaxBillionaires #UnionsForAll

COP29: Key outcomes agreed at the UN climate talks in Baku - Carbon Brief Developed nations have agreed to help channel “at least” $300bn a year into developing countries...

Very useful summary of #COP29
www.carbonbrief.org/cop29-key-ou...

A graph showing the rising relationship between the number of delegates at COP each year and global greenhouse gas emissions the following year

Okay hear me out... Have we tried sending zero delegates to COP?

a cartoon with two panels panel one is a stick figure saying "oh! a fossil fuel!!" standing above a crudely drawn black lump under a brown ground Panel two is them walking away and saying "I'll just leave it there" The head of the person is not a drawn circle but the letter O, because the random software I used to draw it did that for unexplained reasons

Please allow me to re-share my rough sketch of some advanced carbon capture technology

I think here are some people to add:
bsky.app/starter-pack...

Interested in the EU policies impacting our climate and environment? We've got a starter pack of people and organisations working on EU energy, farming, transport, nature, trade and more

(shout if you know someone we should add!)

go.bsky.app/NdboQ6H

24 hours here and here's a pack for anyone in the #cycling #mobility and #ebike space to get going:

go.bsky.app/4bkimUQ

Let ‪‪@huyenkle.bsky.social‬ know if someone's missing!

A new starter pack: go.bsky.app/LaeKYA2 . Let me know who else belongs in the comments.

Hello everyone! 👋
It's really great to be here and see so many amazing people! 🤗
And so many interesting posts and nice interactions not drowned in spam, ads, bots and hate.

See you on the blue side!