Colby Brown @colby@transportation.social

Shamelessly nicked from @fietsprofessor on Instagram - For decades, we literally spent trillions to retrofit our cities, our public spaces and our society around cars.

It just didn't work.

If only we had an alternative.
If only...
🚲

(📹 of #London by @PeterStuart3) - https://www.instagram.com/reel/C2-IjXBvWYi/?igsh=MXZoajFjbnA4eWxibA==

Hot take: Best-friend breakups are just as traumatizing as romantic breakups and not a lot of people talk about it.

@timnitGebru You don't need to invent AGI to get a computer to tell you how to stop climate change. The following program will do this without using any deep learning or neural nets, etc.

```python
#!/usr/bin/env python3
print("STOP DUMPING CRAPLOADS OF GREENHOUSE GASSES INTO THE ATMOSPHERE!!!")
```

The problem is this is not the answer these people want to hear.

@eARCwelder

I've said before on this federated microbloggy network thingy

I'm maaaad that the most _fun_ application of LLMs — zany weird lateral thinking tools like a tarot deck or Oblique Strategies on steroids — has been torn from my hands and replaced with something that carefully generates banal spongecake content guaranteed not to surprise anyone

https://trochee.net/samyro/

@misc

But what is the solarpunk approach to "Peak AI"?

Solarpunk offers a vision, in the face of gasoline, for planning community gardens, mutual aid societies, bike repair workshops, etc, even as the gasoline culture around us creaks and groans its way bloodily towards a reckoning

What is our (data science, machine learning, UX, design) equivalent of solarpunk for the concepts of automation?

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Storms should be named after #FossilFuel companies

Making direct links between the polluters and the impact they cause is an urgent next step – as in “tomorrow’s terrible weather is #Storm #Esso, Storm #Shell, Storm #RangeRover” and so on...

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/jan/12/storms-should-be-named-after-fossil-fuel-companies

ClimateCrisis

Bad data: Not a decline in travel http://cityobservatory.org/bad-data-not-a-decline-in-travel/

I'm having #TRBAM fomo this year. If you are there, please post updates on who/what you are seeing so I don't have to follow along on the 🐦 site

#NASEMTRB #TRB2024

Reality hits hard: This article compares architectural sketches with the fully built buildings. https://www.architecturaluprising.com/debate/fake-views-the-painful-contrast-between-renderings-and-reality/?utm_source=Twitter&utm_medium=@tibor

Last summer, the #Massachusetts legislature set aside $15 million in the state budget to fund fare-free transit. Now, 8 regional #transit authorities are suspending fare collection:
https://mass.streetsblog.org/2024/01/05/new-year-no-fares-beacon-hill-bankrolls-dozens-of-free-bus-routes-statewide #mapoli

San Francisco subway system still runs on 5¼ inch floppy disks

https://sfstandard.com/2023/02/02/sfs-market-street-subway-runs-on-reagan-era-floppy-disks/

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In addition to these projects, more than half a dozen new trail projects will break ground in the year to come.

https://mass.streetsblog.org/2023/12/26/new-trails-we-can-look-forward-to-in-2024

"Musk never had any intention of building the Hyperloop. He only needed it to help kill or substantially delay the high-speed rail project and the alternate vision of sustainable collective transportation it offered. It threatened his interests as an automaker and his elite vision of “individualized” mobility that simply worked better for him." https://www.disconnect.blog/p/the-hyperloop-was-always-a-scam

Cool, now everyone else in the automotive industry do the same

https://www.engadget.com/volkswagen-drivers-want-more-physical-buttons-instead-of-touch-controls-044931087.html