Krishnan Viswanathan @matungawalla@transportation.social

Hell of a mystery.

The climate crisis is not a hoax. It can and will get much worse unless we act. You folks with children and grandchildren should be very concerned about their future. Vote like their lives depend on it.

Narrator from the future: It didn't improve traffic; it made it worse

https://www.nbc4i.com/news/local-news/delaware-county/odot-unveils-plan-to-improve-us-23-traffic/

Want to learn more about how to use regular expressions in R?

Come join us to learn how to use regular expressions to parse and clean text data on Thursday, June 6th, 5-6pm Eastern Time!

Find the Zoom registration details on our website:

https://rug-at-hdsi.org/upcoming_events/2024-05-06-regex-sarah-hirsch.html

#rstats #DataScience #regex #TextAnalysis

“Black social movements face a dilemma in that the public often perceives nonviolent Black disruptive protest as violent…we find Congress is generally more accepting of nondisruptive protest but nondisruptive protest is only roughly one-tenth as effective for Blacks” https://academic.oup.com/sf/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/sf/soae073/7676333?redirectedFrom=fulltext

#AI

this is very sad and, unfortunately, utterly typical of the way crewmen on cargo ships are treated worldwide:

nearly two months after the Dali collapsed the Key bridge in Baltimore, its crew of 21 remains trapped on the ship, and they don't even have their cell phones, because they were confiscated by the FBI

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-69011124

Gnu's not #Linux.

10/10, no notes.

Finding Geospatial Accounts on Mastodon

Besides following hashtags, such as #GISChat, #QGIS, #FOSS4G, and #OSGeo, curating good lists is probably the best way to stay up to date with geospatial developments. To get you started (or to potentially enrich your existing lists), I thought I'd share my #Geospatial and #SpatialDataScience lists with you.

http://anitagraser.com/2024/02/03/finding-geospatial-accounts-on-mastodon/

Nothing says ban assault rifles like 5 school officers, 8 federal DEA officers, 13 U.S. Marshals, 16 sheriff’s deputies, 25 Uvalde officers, 69 officers of nearby law enforcement, 91 state police officers plus 149 U.S. Border Patrol agents being scared of 1 shooter with an AR-15.

From the Orlando Sentinel today. What it’s like in DeSantistan.

Transit never needed "reinvention." It just needs service that's frequent, reliable, and extensive.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-12-21/hyperloop-one-to-shut-down-after-raising-millions-to-reinvent-transit

#hyperloop #transit #transportation

From elsewhere on the #internet...

#ClimateChange #Science #women #WomensHealth #Republicans #RepublicansAreTheProblem

I've never been to a COP and I'm not there now.
But I have a simple message.

Stop burning sh*t.

#COP28

CURA's Ghost Neighborhoods of Columbus project is building 3D models of Black neighborhoods that were damaged by urban highways, urban renewal and redlining in the 20th century. This post provides the latest updates.

https://u.osu.edu/miller.81/2023/11/17/ghost-neighborhoods-of-columbus-updates/