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The Overhead Wire

Wednesday's Most Read # 2 - Has remote work changed how people travel in the U.S? bit.ly/43UYeFX MIT News

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Ben Smith

A short memory of how I built 38 useful Twitter bots in 2009: bensmith.blog/posts/i-invented

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The Overhead Wire

Wednesday's Most Read # 1 - A Possible Future for Downtowns Out in the Suburbs bit.ly/4cI274Z Governing

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𝚃𝚊𝚛𝚊𝚜 𝙶𝚛𝚎𝚜𝚌𝚘𝚎 🚇

Mondo Transit !

Today's episode: Off-the-Wall Solutions

By which I mean: Out-of-the-Wall Solutions

1/ The Liziba (李子坝) station of the #Chongqing Monorail

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Eugen Rochko

The fact that you can follow the president of the United States (@potus) from your Mastodon account instead of being forced to have an X or Threads account for it is a huge W in my book. Of course our team is fully available to help if they'd want to set up Mastodon on whitehouse.gov. I believe governments should not rely on 3rd party platforms to connect with their constituents.

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jsj

How does this entire #CNN article cover this without mentioning the toxicity of the brand’s CEO as a possible reason demand is down?

I know many like myself who were considering Teslas before Elon went full Nazi, but now will never own one. There are others who own them and have bumper stickers saying they bought it before they knew who he really is.

Tesla sales plunge far more than expected | CNN Business cnn.com/2024/04/02/business/te

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Wifi-cable

Happy Easter to those who celebrate.

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@foxandcity I've bored many people with my armchair sociology observations about all-night diners. they are fascinating places that manage to serve nearly every age range / lifecycle stage at different times of day. if I were to re-write Christopher Alexander's A Pattern Language I would include all-night diners in it as an essential element of urban life--every city needs one

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Blair Lorenzo / Fox & The City

In many ways, the archetypical nighttime institution—the all night diner—was invented to serve this kind of work.

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xenogon

@lea It's good to keep talking about these experiences at the US border. They are surprisingly little talked about. You might think that's because they are only victimising minorities - but in fact they behave like shit towards a very wide range of people. They legally have nearly absolute power over non US-citizen travelers and they know it and like to rub it in.

I'm sure you are more likely to suffer extra nastiness if you are trans or not white or whatever else they don't like the look of, but straight white cis guys are by no means exempt.

Merely being not american makes you a subhuman likely commie terrorist in their minds. Also they are just habitually sadistic.

Everyone should know this about US border guards and if they must travel there should check they have the resilience to cope, along with precautions such as not taking a phone or taking a spare unimportant phone with no data except stuff related to the trip.

It's important to keep saying these things so people can choose not to go, or if they do go are not caught unawares.

I don't know where you were travelling from, but I've been hearing similar stories about the UK border recently too. (I live in the UK (but am not british) so may have to cross the UK border at some point)

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@AuthorJMac I fully agree. The challenge is that there is a correct way to do stuff like laundry and dishes, with material consequences if AI gets it wrong, so not an easy initial use case for new technology that is still kinda random. The element of chance has long been welcome in creative work, sometimes embraced and celebrated.

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Scott Santens

New results from another completed guaranteed #basicincome pilot. This one was in Cambridge, MA where 130 people got $500/mo for 18 months. Did they work less? No. They worked MORE.

Recipients went from 36% FT employed to 40%. Those who didn't get it went from 30% to 28%. PT and seasonal employment also grew for those with the basic income.

That isn't unusual. Most of the pilots have shown increased employment.

So what else was observed?

Read the report:
cambridgecf.org/research-on-ca

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@FrogandToadbot this one cuts deep

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I had a dream last night that I took a job as Christopher Walken's "driver" and then found out that meant just being his assistant, not really driving, until one day we were sitting in his Tesla (or whatever) and as it went into self-driving mode he turned to me and said, "you know, I would really appreciate if you drove the car right now." I told him on the spot that the job was a bad fit for me and he sort of sneered and said "yeah, it is. it obviously is."

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Andrew

@remenca @dfeldman this is actually a very important criticism — systems should not work on "garbage in, garbage out". As far as possible, they should work on "garbage in, error message out". That the system is not only incapable of spotting the mistake but actually in the first sentence affirms that the input was correct means you can't trust it. If its only failure mode is to confidently make an incorrect diagnosis, then how can you ever trust anything it says isn't just that?

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@Transportist maybe if you could train something BERT-like from scratch on such data, or finetune a model like starcoder which hasn't been pretrained on vast swaths of internet text awash with human prejudice. but either of those would be antithetical to the cult of AGI...

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darren buck

Imagine if we had implemented the Interstate Highway System alphabetically by state? Too often, active transportation networks are built out in exactly that patchy way.

We just posted a new $44.5M grant opportunity that is different:

1) Just for active transportation,
2) Focused on planning and implementing *networks*,
3) Aims for outcomes beyond safety.

Learn more about ATIIP:
highways.dot.gov/newsroom/bide

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Meredith Whittaker

This is both terrifying and deeply, deeply stupid.

This isn't just about TikTok. The bill gives USG the power to ban any old foreign-owned media/tech they designate as adversarial.
apnews.com/article/tiktok-ban-

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CelloMom On Cars

@mekkaokereke @blikkie @AdrianVolt @tess

While there are racial and gender differences in how people look at the climate crisis, I think it's safe to say that ALL Americans are held hostage by
1. a car industry that forces the American public to buy large cars (that make large profits) and
2. a lack of viable alternatives like public transit. By "viable" I mean it works for everyone not just "the undeserving poor".

The EPA could have mandated smaller EVs. But they backed down to industry.

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halva(0)

trains are the crabs of transportation technology

every time you try making a mode of transportation more efficient, you approach it being a train a little bit more

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