Krishnan Viswanathan @matungawalla@transportation.social

my wife's company is trying to convince people to return to the office because one of their executives thinks its embarrassing when clients come by and the offices are empty, anyways, theatre students always need some pocket money and if someone wants to join my exciting new "potemkin village as a service" startup

IPCC lead author at live presser: It's a given that we'll top 1.5 C early next decade. The question is whether the brakes are applied or we blast through to much higher temperatures. Streaming:
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"risks are increasing with every increment of warming" #ClimateChange #IPCC2023 #ClimateEmergency Thank you @revkin for covering this on #SustainWhat https://www.facebook.com/watch/live/?ref=notif&v=232006092630282&notif_id=1…
https://twitter.com/RBratspies/status/1637805451449360384

The same people who cry “politicization” over charges around a porn star hush money cover-up designed to swing a national election brought perjury and obstruction articles against another president for lying about a blowjob.

Spare me the sanctimony and hypocrisy.

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/