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@hoorayitsmario I may still reply or tweet random nonsense (and might setup mastodon cross posting) but if speech is no longer free on twitter it’s absolutely useless to me
@hoorayitsmario Elon Musk has removed almost everything I used to come here for, I didn’t join Parler or Truth Social and I’m not down to stick around while twitter becomes the same thing
Also the owner of twitter is a fascist despot who is running twitter exactly as he would run a real country if he had any power at all and this site is that much closer to complete death
A person has never seen an avocado. You hand it to them expecting them to visualize guac dip. Not gonna happen.
You send out community surveys asking residents to give advice about transportation networks. They have no idea what's possible.
This whole video is beautiful. He sees it clearly, with eyes unclouded, without any further context necessary. His first impulse is to tell them a story about a real human being's pain. Some people see a grump, I see grace & a master of his craft speaking truth without flinching
Ever so accurate.
"Every winter, fresh snow reveals how much we’ve over-designed our streets & roads for cars, making them faster & more dangerous, & how much space we could reclaim for people & public life" via @fietsprofessor
I don't know who needs to hear this, but
[the sound of an absolutely colossal unit of metal architecture groaning under an immense external pressure which seems to be steadily increasing]
Feedback effects: Google initially relied on the (human-curated) link structure of the internet to derive "importance" signals from the internet graph. As people started using Google instead of links, Google accidentally destroyed the fabric that provided the value.
Seriously, I was biking to work today in Boston without headphones. The wind was too loud for me to hear anything, let alone the car that merged without looking and almost took me out.
Fuck you, more attention paid wont make drivers respect my right not to be murdered by them.
Drivers,
Stop playing sound on your entertainment systems, roll down your windows and pay attention to the bloody road
You need spatial awareness to stay alert, especially when you’re driving alongside cyclists who can’t get your attention when you turn without looking for us.
Cyclists,
Stop wearing earphones and pay attention to the bloody road.
You need spatial awareness to stay alert. Especially when you're cycling alongside cars.
If we have to stay alert, so should you.