In the 1920s, there was an enormous Klan-aligned caucus in the House of Representatives that passed an immigration restriction bill designed to keep out Catholics and Jews because they supposedly posed an existential threat to American civilization. 100 years later, here we are.
“AI can never be AI without humans. It is not artificial intelligence. It’s African intelligence...We are training our own death. We train ChatGPT and it’s killing us slowly.”
Kenyan workers are still the underpaid labor behind AI training, moderation, and sex chatbots. Now, they're fighting back.
why don't you buy yourself a clue motherfucker
Spotted this on a pole behind independence hall. I recently saw someone say they found collage to be the best way to work through things and I didn’t really see it at the time but
I hope it's all worth it to you, Mr. Bessent
Norway is at ~100% EVs for new sales, but 7 out of every 10km driven in 2024 was reliant on fossil fuels. Cars stick around for decades - so change is slow.
Protecting ppl from fossil fuel crises means EVs, yes, but *fast deep cuts* means huge $$ in public and active transport. Speed matters!
But this is why I'm glad actual researchers are digging into this subject. It turns out, a whole lot of Americans don't necessarily prefer being dependent on cars and might be interested in a different way of living.
Imagine if anthropologists visited a remote village with no grocery store and one restaurant that only served hamburgers and then concluded based on their observations that the villagers prefer hamburgers. That's essentially the discourse surrounding Americans and their relationship to cars.
I listened to this today and it was fascinating. An interesting finding was that people who use alternative transportation for as little 5% of trips may be more likely to show an interest in car-free living. Even small changes to infrastructure or transit accessibility can have an impact.
I think the national nostalgia and idealization around college campuses really undercuts this assumption, too imo.
In our latest episode of @thewaroncars.bsky.social, we talked to researchers from ASU who found that 1 in 5 Americans is strongly interested in car-free living, and another 40 percent are somewhat interested. Imagine those #s if we had better infrastructure. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/a...
Can't wait to meet you, please be sure to say hello!
Utrecht being the cycling capital is not a coincidence or historical path dependency.
It is a series of conscious political decisions to make the city more livable and attractive.
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Elective car ownership is such an alien concept that I'm currently struggling to find classic car insurance because it's only for "second vehicles" and there does not seem to be a policy for people who meet their daily transportation needs without a car.
Valeriusplein, Amsterdam in 1984 and today. From an actual road running under a school building transformed into a busy cycle only route.
The more of *these* you have where you live, the less you have to worry about the impact the warmongers are having on the global fossil-fuel supply.
Sustainability is resilience.
Life After Cars LIVE is THIS FRIDAY! As we gather at the historic Plaza Theatre, we’re making it easy to get there without a car, because… that’s kind of the point. 😉
📍 March 13th at 8:00PM | Tickets: givebutter.com/lifeaftercars. 🎟️
The car lobby is why they kept adding more lanes to freeways in California instead of investing in public trans. California got labeled environmentally conscious somehow by adding electric cars and hybrids to the mix. Still more cars. Losses touted as wins. Waymo is the next verse in the same song
Watch this clip.
Professors will recognize this kid as the student who didn't do the reading but still has very strong opinions about how it's all "bullshit," except this time he's not the callow student who's going to fail your course, he's the reviewer who's going to cancel your grant.
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wait, the original one was real?
go figure
I would like to point out that Golestan, and many of these other sites that are being destroyed, are UNESCO World Heritage Sites. Part of the beautiful history of ALL HUMANITY. We are literally destroying our own human cultural heritage.
The Trump administration has yet to sign a contract for a single new transit project www.urban.org/urban-wire/r...
Even so, Congress designated 21 transit projects for funding in a recent spending bill.
I did a little more investigation to understand the status of some of these projects 🧵
Stay tuned, we are hoping to be able to announce something soon!
Impressive that this is not just 250% growth in biking
It's 250% growth in biking and the "number of reported bike crashes is on a downward trend" with bicyclists almost twice as safe on a per miles traveled basis
with reduced sidewalk riding too
Great work @cambridgemass.bsky.social!
Really looking forward to this!
“You can feel it rattling your eardrums,” Devan Jenkins, who lives in Memphis’ Whitehaven neighborhood, said while describing the sound of the turbines that power one of Elon Musk's xAI data centers. “It makes you feel like you're going insane.”
Do people really like being trapped in an autocentric system? We talked with the authors of a new study showing that on the contrary, nearly 1 in 5 American car owners is “strongly interested” in living car-free, and another 40 percent are open to the idea. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/a...
Something @sgoodyear.bsky.social points out that I'm reminded of each time people post about the war, gas prices and the need to switch to EVs is that the V in EV stands for "vehicle," not "car." E-bikes are EVs and cities need to create the conditions that will allow more people to adopt them.
