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“‘Jaywalker’ was a tool in this reconstruction effort. It implied a new answer to the question ‘What is a street for?’ – an answer that carried a sting.”

"This is more than just a niche issue for astronomers. This is an issue that's going to affect the quality of life for everybody on Earth." https://www.space.com/space-exploration/satellites/private-companies-could-ruin-the-night-sky-for-the-entire-world-and-international-law-cant-stop-them

Good thing we don’t have a long history of people incorrectly projecting human traits on computers and overestimating what they’re really doing.

IMO it's esp egregious when doctors leverage their credibility to demand robotaxis while ignoring other street safety measures that are effective, reliable, and affordable. They risk eroding public trust in health care professionals.(This guy is also a VC partner FYI.)

Researchers have repeatedly shown that bike lanes, automatic enforcement, and road diets save lives. The safety impact of AVs are far more speculative. Do AV boosters genuinely care about safety? Or is it just a useful talking point?

‘Bordeaux…is considering a total evacuation of the city of 270,000 people, with fires just 30 miles away. ‘France has already launched its largest peacetime evacuation.’ www.telegraph.co.uk/gift/c6ffeee...

Sometimes I wonder, why long well-known facts don´t reach "the masses". Than I think about your book... We take rigorous measures to protect people from cigarette smoke, but everyone must continue to expose themselves to the deadly risks of cars on a daily basis. If you leave your flat.

For all the replies saying "but public transit is terrible, I have to wait an hour for the bus"... comrade, what you are suffering from is the *absence* of public transit.

In most places - particularly in the US - there has been chronic underinvestment in public transit, in large part because of lobbying efforts by automobile and fossil fuel companies.

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In case you need another reason to believe that public transit is superior to private cars: Not only are private cars more expensive, more resource-intensive, and more climate-damaging, they are also causing us to have dementia. www.newsweek.com/common-tire-...

Insane new research. Scientists gave asthma patients free electric stoves to replace their gas stoves, then checked to see if symptoms improved. Not only did symptoms improve, ditching gas was *better than medicine.* Details in today's newsletter: www.climatecoloredgoggles.com/p/electric-s...

When city planners tell you they're installing 100 miles of bike lanes but it turns out it's all just sharrows.

"1. Don’t Repeat the Frame" antiauthoritarianplaybook.substack.com/p/anatomy-of...

No place with more than 7,000 miles per person per year, has less than 4.0 road deaths per 100,000

No place with more than 7,000 miles per person per year, has less than 4.0 road deaths per 100,000

No place with more than 7,000 miles per person per year, has less than 4.0 road deaths per 100,000

"[50 U.S. States] and Canada, plus 25 countries for 2022 ... traffic death rates increase with per capita VMT." www.vtpi.org/ntsp.pdf

This #UrbanTruth framing by Tom Flood Is persuasive to me He/ad exec & Brent Toderian/urban planner & Grant Ennis created many posters to share, to show people what to go for 3-min 📺 👇 m.youtube.com/watch?v=NBbB... 😊🙏☺️thx for considering

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