Krishnan Viswanathan @matungawalla@transportation.social

California doesn't have too little water.
It has too much demand, too few protections for ecosystems and indigenous and frontline communities, too antiquated water laws and allocations, and too cowardly politicians.
#cawater
#water

I've recently been working on something a little bit different in #RStats! 🖼️ I've been using the {imager} package for image manipulation - including dithering, recolouring, and adding vignette effects 📸

Before and after 👇

(bonus points if you know where the photo was taken!)

Rep. Barry Moore (R-AL) introduced a bill (cosponsored by Boebert & Santos) making the AR-15 the “National Gun of America.”

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) has a bill to award killer Kyle Rittenhouse with the Congressional Gold Medal.

Rep. Paul Gosar (R-AZ) says Ukraine is not our friend and Russia is not our enemy.

The GOP is far, far too extreme to govern.

Everything you need to know about relations and their widgets in #QGIS in one hour!

After the relation Q/A on the #qgisopenday we gave a mini-workshop for #QGIS Swiss Usergroup. The workshop recording is now available at https://youtu.be/n5j6RlsSstU

Never forget that when Seoul, Korea removed the #Cheonggyecheon expressway in 2003, and replaced it with a restored stream and 1000 acre park in the city’s centre, not only did it transform the city’s public life and economic success, but the vehicle traffic got better.

The traffic got BETTER.

#cars #cities #urbanism #Seoul #traffic #car

I'm having such a hard time picking the best paragraph from this article.
https://www.platformer.news/p/yes-elon-musk-created-a-special-system

Absolutely the best Acknowledgments section of a paper I’ve read. From https://arxiv.org/abs/2302.03988 #astrodon / h/t @playingwithdust

Analysis of 2020 census differential privacy test runs shows spatial clustering of error in net migration rates by age.

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs11113-021-09664-5

#2020 #Census #USCensus #2020Census #Spatial #Clustering #NICHDImpact

My new article is out now in Urban Studies: https://doi.org/10.1177/00420980221145403

1) Census tracts whose residents drive less are exposed to more vehicular air pollution, all else equal.

2) Tracts with larger non-white population experience more pollution than do whiter but otherwise similar tracts.

3) On average, white commuters traverse tracts that are far more non-white than the tracts where they live.

If you lack institutional access, here's a free open access preprint: https://doi.org/10.31235/osf.io/wd92j

Waiting for someone to make an artisanal search engine that only indexes manually verified websites written by humans. Farm-to-table organic search results, handmade with 100% certified human creativity, like your grandparents told you about.

7 abortion providers are ready to switch to misoprostol-only medication abortions if a judge bans the main abortion pill, mifepristone, nationwide. That ruling could happen as soon as this Friday.

Pretty much everything that Team "you're overreacting" insisted would never happen after Dobbs is, in fact, happening. It's almost as if they were not arguing in good faith this whole time.

https://jezebel.com/mifepristone-ban-misoprostol-only-abortions-in-the-us-1850083070

People worry a lot about losing knowledge — about "burned-down libraries".

Comparatively few people seem to worry about what happens if you take a billion books full of auto-generated, often-untrue junk text and *add* them all to the library.

In theory, nothing is lost. In reality, everything is lost, because nothing useful can now be found.

For all that, I'm a tech guy when it comes to "smart" products, I like stupid stuff.

Ever since I've focused on Mastodon over Twitter, the one major thing I've said over and over again that was missing (but I was sure was coming) was a Mastodon version of Nuzzel or Tweetshelf. A tool to find what news links your followers are sharing.

And... @decius has just built one! Just released today, so may be buggy, but already looks amazing and INCREDIBLY useful.

https://news.feedseer.com/

Someone on Reddit found a hilarious exploit to bypass ChatGPT's ethics filter and it actually works.

https://www.reddit.com/r/ChatGPT/comments/10s79h2/new_jailbreak_just_dropped/

Hundreds of Frank Lloyd Wright’s Designs Were Never Built. Here’s What They Might Have Looked Like
So far, David Romero has digitally reconstructed over 20 of the famous architect’s unrealized projects

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/see-what-these-unbuilt-frank-lloyd-wright-masterpieces-would-look-like-180981532/

For the first time in U.S. history, the federal government has launched an official investigation to account for the tens of thousands of American Indian, Alaska Native & Native Hawaiian children who were forced to attend Indian boarding schools.

Story: https://unicornriot.ninja/2023/u-s-department-of-interior-halfway-through-road-to-healing-tour/