Krishnan Viswanathan @matungawalla@transportation.social

The Dutch Roundabout

Favoring active mobility 🚲 and calming traffic.

Here is how it works 👇

A Brief History of Kids Today Have No Respect

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It’s depressing as hell that education unions like #CFT have to take on #GunSafety. Why should ending #GunViolence fall to teachers? Because those in power are failing us.

#Unions

Never use “tireless” to praise people teaching, nursing, volunteering, doing activist work, etc. I assure you, these people are plenty tired.

Truth.

I interviewed Michelle Yeoh a few years ago about #StarTrekDiscovery and I mentioned offhand that I'd written an article about what seeing her use her accent on the bridge of a starship meant to me.

She stopped and said "Wait, that was YOU?"

And then proceeded to talk about how much that article had meant to HER and how it contributed to the success of the show.

I can't think about it without crying.

(The original article: https://authory.com/SwapnaKrishna/On-Star-Trek-Discovery-and-Michelle-Yeohs-accent-aa6d2eb01b3a24970abf406c39146df33)

#MichelleYeoh #StarTrek #Oscars

Just for the record, this is nonsense

Heard today: There are no libertarians in a bank run.

NEW: Every year, governments use algorithms to flag people receiving welfare benefits as "high risk" of committing fraud. Today, for the first time, a joint investigation by Lighthouse Reports and WIRED can reveal how one of these algorithms works. We obtained the full algorithm code and the training data and recreated the system. What we found was discrimination based on gender and ethnicity. Part 1 is here: https://www.wired.com/story/welfare-state-algorithms/

STUDY: An additional 20 minutes of commuting each day has on average the equivalent effect on job satisfaction as a 19% reduction in income, with longer commute times having a more negative impact on women’s job satisfaction than men’s. Via @WhatWorksWB

#cities #commuting #traffic #cars #urbanism

https://whatworkswellbeing.org/blog/commuting-and-employee-wellbeing/

"From the coverage, you would never understand how incoherent he sounds, how far divorced his statements are from reality, and how entirely abnormal this all is. Talk about burying the lead."
Timid media and GOP figures are again, dangerously, normalizing Trump https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/03/06/trump-cpac-media-gop-failure/

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