kood

Proud to be a Hoosier for the very first time in my life???

LETS FUCKING GO

posting this at 8:30 am is wild

1. City traffic-deaths pitch hits a wall: Ann Arbor promised in 2021 it would eliminate serious injuries and deaths from traffic accidents by the end of 2025, aka next month, and instead the number of incidents so far this year has hit an eleven-year high. On November 19, Transportation Commission members eagerly awaited a year-end report and some promised new ideas, but transportation engineer Cynthia Redinger failed to impress. Her two big “asks” were for the commission’s support in a budget request to council for a driver-education campaign and to push for legal permission to set up red-light cameras and other “automated enforcement” techniques. Crashes In Ann Arbor author and safety advocate Peter Houk was especially dismayed, telling Redinger, “We have been trying unsuccessfully for a very long time to change driver behavior through driver education and messaging, and what we need to do is change our facilities to encourage drivers to interact in them the way we want them to. … We’re not going to get there by asking them nicely.” Council member Dharma Akmon tells a2view she’s also disappointed; she’s been pushing for quick-build traffic-slowing fixes like the recent redesign of Pauline Ave. Persuading Lansing lawmakers to reverse the current ban on automated enforcement — if it were likely to succeed, which she doubts — is not a fast-moving solution, she says. Watch the key part of the meeting here (https://youtu.be/PLdne7vIK9g?si=D9vQnt4ZupWdYkIA&t=7473)

The @annarborobserver.bsky.social newsletter had a decent summary of the dynamic at the #a2council Transportation Commission meeting last week (mailchi.mp/aaobserver/a... ).

But we need to take some time to talk in detail about why the city's presentation was so damaging and damning... (🧵)

every few years it's revealed that the NYT was sitting on information about some horrific thing that public knowledge of would have changed the country's course and for some reason a ton of people still give them money. you can play those games on other sites

In 2006 a high school English teacher asked students to write to a famous author & ask for advice.

KURT VONNEGUT - born 103yrs ago today - was the only one to respond.

His reply was a doozy.

How a flawed idea is teaching millions of kids to be poor readers For decades, schools have taught children the strategies of struggling readers, using a theory about reading that cognitive scientists have repeatedly debunked. And many teachers and parents don't kno...

how did i go so long not knowing we were literally teaching people to read wrong. i knew something wasn't right but jesus christ www.apmreports.org/episode/2019...

unsolicited advice because I have this problem too: use two parallel dumbbells as grips instead of hands flat on the floor

I cannot express how much I hate this

this is the objectively correct stance even though we’re the western edge of the time zone. I truly don’t know how east coasters function

If you have it please donate cash to the food banks. $10 in their hands will feed more people than the $10 worth of canned goods you can buy for retail prices. Also check on your elders. Many of them will not admit they rely on these programs so grocery gift cards or a surprise bag of staples

I’ve always found stars deeply vertiginous

2025 Transportation Survey An annual, city-wide survey used to gather feedback on public's experience and satisfaction with the Ann Arbor transportation systems.

Ann Arbor’s transportation survey closes October 31. The City wants to hear how you get around town and what you’d like to see in the future. Don’t miss your chance to provide input! engage.a2gov.org/2025-transpo... #a2council

Sara Whitmer • • • 1h • 8 I'm sure many of you have heard by now that earlier this week, IU k*lled the print edition of its student paper, the IDS. The issue that was supposed to print this week contained criticism of the Whitten regime and IUs further slide into scist control, and they couldn't allow that to happen during Homecoming, when all the rich alumni are in town. Enter Purdue! The Purdue student paper, The Exponent, owns its own presses. Yesterday, in an act of tremendous solidarity with their biggest rival school, they printed the forbidden issue of the IDS. They then drove it to Bloomington overnight and stocked all of the IDS boxes on campus, just in time for Homecoming. Solidarity is what makes us stronger, and solidarity will be what ultimately allows us to triumph, if we can ever truly get it together. I hope everyone has a fun, safe day if they're going out today, and I hope we can think about what acts of solidarity we can begin taking to really make this movement MOVE - beyond a permitted expression of upset into more active resistance. 75 12 comments

Purdue to the rescue of IU student newspaper, whose institution was attempting censorship. Details in alt!

it wasn’t intentional but we can’t rule out a subconscious effect

never followed IU football, but I find it especially funny that this happened right after I left Bloomington

is it just me, or are the fall colors really drab this year? is it because of something about the weird weather we’ve had?

JK Rowling pledges to keep up fight against SNP trans policies Author vows to bankroll campaigners after Scottish government fails to pay group's legal fees in Supreme Court equality case

It cannot be made clearer.

If you continue to support the Harry Potter franchise in any way, you are directly funding the removal of trans people's human rights in the UK.

SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems... SIMON: What? SHAPIRO: ...Or saying... SIMON: You imagine that? SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over. SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level. SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this. SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

This quote...

What people want to replace you with is what they think you already are. If companies, bosses, and boyfriends want to replace you with a robot or an AI model, that’s because they already see you and what you do as simply the workings of a machine with far too many bugs.

i made a helpful reference

I mean, go read the whole thing, but this part in particular hit me like a sack of bricks

I swear to fuck if y’all don’t start saying BEING AUTISTIC IS OK instead of “this isn’t the cause so leave it alone and keep looking”

the most important thing to remember when you see eugenicists who don’t believe that autistic people should exist rambling about “the autism epidemic” is not that they’re wrong about the “cause” (although they are absolutely wrong about it); it’s that they are eugenicists

Everyone deserves to be able to survive. I don’t know why this is a question.

Opinion: Why I don't Support the Treeline Trail Plan I need to start by saying, I love bike trails. About a decade ago, I took up with some people who were doing a weekly casual bike ride they ...

The Treeline is on the Sept. 15 #a2Council meeting. Here’s some background reading from the great @akgood.bsky.social

www.damnarbor.com/2022/01/opin...

This article helped both me and my parents schedule vaccine appointments for today. Important, important, important.

The hell would you dunk them in, chowder??

@tzam2299.bsky.social this seems like something you would appreciate

When I started my current job, they gave me access to the onboarding portal so late that every single thing on the checklist was already overdue. It’s extremely annoying, but they can generally backdate everything to the intended start date once it all gets submitted