Induced demand is real, Vol. 42: "Our results suggest that increasing network capacity is in general not an efficient solution to manage [motor vehicle] congestion, in the sense that the average travel speed in the network does not increase substantially with an increase in capacity."
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0965856423001465
"Tech" isn't a monolith. So this whole gripe is a bit of a fallacy.
But when dummies like me are hard-rebooting their rokus, still dealing with blue-screens-of-death, and can't get automatic faucets to actuate, we can't help but wish that the fictional "tech" monolith came close to perfecting the things that it has delivered, before it tries to replace all human creativity and adaptation.
In my normie experience, there’s no tech that is glitch-free. I can live with glitches like “we only get to watch the upper northwest quadrant of this disney movie until I manually futz with the settings.”
The “A Better Cambridge Independent Expenditure Political Action Committee” (phew) is hosting a backyard pizza party fundraiser July 9, 4-6pm, and their contribution tier names are darling. https://secure.actblue.com/donate/abcpizza2023
(I gotta consult the family calendar, but am likely going, say hi if you’re there)
Update from Mass. DCR: car-free Mystic River Bridge from Everett to Somerville to begin construction in 2024
https://mass.streetsblog.org/2023/06/20/car-free-mystic-river-bridge-will-begin-construction-in-2024
@bikepedantic behold, the spot where Rebecca fell in the water, photo taken by me last month. (The bike lane was fake).
S3E6 chatGPT could not have delivered five minutes of television more perfectly tailored to my interests and tastes #TedLassoRewatchParty
S3E5 I liked the early Roy-Sam mentor-protégé dynamic in S1, and then they just sort of forgot about it, til this nice moment. Roy going around the locker room, fist bumping everyone and saying things like “maim them,” and then gets to Sam…
Bikes and stuff. Widow, dad, taking it bird-by-bird.
So many things are improved by 🦪,🚲, & 🪕.
Just me, very much not my employer. Opting in to be searchable via #tootfinder. #fedi22