darren is Not Going Back @bikepedantic@transportation.social
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
Joined Feb 2023
Alt: 10 of those yellow plastic traffic calming kid statue things surround a big tree stump in a meadow
Q: How many googly eyes is too many googly eyes?
A: Unsure, but definitely greater than six.
alt: six plastic big googly eyes sitting on a table
darren is Not Going Back
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Shipment of new essential bike parts arrived
Sad news: Another high-quality public(ish) bikeshare system, Houston BCycle, goes under because we don't value and fund it as a core transportation service. https://www.houstonchronicle.com/opinion/outlook/article/bcycle-shut-down-bike-share-houston-18367512.php
Alt: 30 Rock character Dotcom saying, “my birthday is September 21st, not that anyone asked.”
Alt text: about 16 riders and maybe 3 or 4 cars go by, seen from behind, thru an intersection
We queue nearly twenty people on bikes and micromobility devices every peak cycle at Hampshire & Prospect in #CambMA. It is beautiful to watch. We are making it happen here.
Alt: a bunch of bikes, including many cargo bikes, occupy a row of bike racks
Back to school night at Peabody ES, so the bike racks are packed. #CambMA
darren is Not Going Back
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Since the companies are not on Mastodon yet, I can start a war - Dunkin’ vs Starbucks and no one can stop me!! *insert evil laughter*
darren is Not Going Back
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No shit, Sherlock.
“Fully remote workers could produce less than half the climate-warming emissions of people who spend their days in offices, according to a new study published Monday in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.”
“Working from home now has another powerful benefit”
#remoteWork #flexibleWork #returnToOffice
https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-solutions/2023/09/18/work-from-home-carbon-footprint/
Got a slightly unhinged message on LinkedIn from someone very passionately arguing to me that expanding roadways are killing people and the planet…
my friend, what energy am I putting out that you think a) I disagree, and b) I have some sort of power to stop it?
We should stop saying that machine-learning algorithms are 'trained.' They aren't capable of learning, of critical thought, of creativity. They aren't being 'trained.'
They operate on probabilities based on data fed into it. They hopefully spit out better answers with more data calibrating their models. That's not 'training.'
darren is Not Going Back
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I run @BostonBikeData, interested in #Bikes, #Housing, #LandUse, #Transportation, #Urbanism, #Climbing, #Acro, #CollegeHockey, #Boston, #Cambridge
And my peer-reviewing conscience is clear for another year, two hours, and six minutes.
Alt desc: a fire red cloudy darkening sky seen over the roof of a duplex
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
Joined Feb 2023
