Waterfront Seattle to Open New Bike Lane As Soon as They Finish Sharpening Low Steel Fencing
After years of wondering whether the city’s Waterfront Seattle planners were ever going to prioritize any mode of transportation other than cars, today they confirmed they’re finally almost ready t…The Needling
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Ballard Bridge Stuck, Halts Gentrification for 3 Hours
Today the century-old Ballard Bridge became stuck in the air at a near 90-degree angle due to a malfunctioning motor which halted all gentrification into the neighborhood for an unprecedent three h…The Needling
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Wow, the idiocy of the SAE connector.
"Self-mating hermaphrodite", physically but not electrically. That puts a lot of trust in whoever installed it on your bike, especially if it's a second hand one.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/DC_connector#SAE_connector
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I've seen a lot of excitement about that @404mediaco piece on #FourThievesvinegarCollective's instructions for home synthesis of patented pharmaceuticals, and I get that everyone's excited that it's all cool and cyberpunk but what I feel is missing from the fediverse discussion is any consideration of safety.
https://www.404media.co/right-to-repair-for-your-body-the-rise-of-diy-pirated-medicine/
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‘Right to Repair for Your Body’: The Rise of DIY, Pirated Medicine
Four Thieves Vinegar Collective has made DIY medicine cheaper and more accessible to the masses.Jason Koebler (404 Media)
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"He shows the crowd testing Four Thieves did to show that the pills they made are, chemically, the same as Sovaldi."
That's where I begin to get interested.
Given a known-good standard (and even better, standards for likely contaminants), a little chromatography can go a long way. It might not be enough, but it could be table stakes for winning, instead of still losing, but harder, faster, and by a different route.
I wonder if Laufer has rooted that phone he uses.
Because "you can just make your own meds" has similar energy to "you can just root your device" and "you can just self-host" but more intense. Much more intense. And higher stakes.
My heart goes out to anyone driven to risk bricking their own body with this dude's firmware.
https://www.sciencealert.com/engineers-gave-a-mushroom-a-robot-body-and-let-it-run-wild
Engineers Gave a Mushroom a Robot Body And Let It Run Wild : ScienceAlert
Nobody knows what sleeping mushrooms dream of when their vast mycelial networks flicker and pulse with electrochemical responses akin to those of our own brain cells.Mike McRae (ScienceAlert)
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Cascade: ‘Vote NO on I-2117 if you love bikes and trails’
https://www.seattlebikeblog.com/2024/09/04/cascade-vote-no-on-i-2117-if-you-love-bikes-and-trails/
Cascade: ‘Vote NO on I-2117 if you love bikes and trails’
Read more on the Cascade blog. One of the most important choices on November’s packed ballot will be rejecting I-2117, an irresponsible initiative backed by a wealthy conservative hedge fund …Seattle Bike Blog
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They likely won't be any safer or cleaner if the theory holds true.
#futurepredictions #efficiency #JevonsParadox
What a 160-year-old theory about coal predicts about our self-driving future - The Verge
https://www.theverge.com/2024/9/2/24232386/self-driving-car-jevons-paradox-robotaxi-waymo-cruise?utm_source=tldrnewsletter
What a 160-year-old theory about coal predicts about our self-driving future
The Jevons paradox originated in the coal era, but it has a lot to teach us about the future of self-driving cars.David Zipper (The Verge)
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Internet Archive - Now With AI!
It'd be a lie but that's the same as the "AI" companies so same difference.
TIL: the bill of rights had stuff in there that got “oligarched” out…
https://thirty-thousand.org
#til #todayilearned
https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1f91y4l/til_the_bill_of_rights_had_stuff_in_there_that/
Restore Representative Government (Home Page) - Thirty-Thousand.org
We need many more Representatives in the U.S. House in order to faithfully represent over 300 million Americans.Thirty-Thousand.org
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435 representatives is far too few, Founders wanted more representation, but without a clear guidance it grew too slowly and was eventually capped ~100 years ago, which has proven to have a bunch of negative effects. Uncapping is a relatively easy solution very few seem to be aware of. It would fix or at least dramatically improve some the broken democracy in the US - including gerrymandering, money buying elections, the electoral college.
Chick-fil-A will launch a "family-friendly" streaming platform - LGBTQ Nation
https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2024/08/chick-fil-a-will-launch-a-family-friendly-streaming-platform/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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Chick-fil-A will launch a "family-friendly" streaming platform - LGBTQ Nation
The fast food chain has a long history of donating to anti-LGBTQ+ organizations — and lying about it.John Russell (LGBTQ Nation)
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Making plastic is the oil industry's exit strategy. Burning it creates incredible air pollution, and recycling it is sufficiently low-value that people burn it just to be rid of the stuff.
It's well past time to limit plastic manufacturing.
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https://wapo.st/3Mvg4aT
The world is burning an alarming amount of plastic, scientists say
Around 12 percent of all plastic waste produced in cities is burned in the open air, creating air pollution and health risks.Simon Ducroquet (The Washington Post)
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Traffic deaths in the USA are far higher than in many other countries. *
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Many crashes involve increasingly large SUVs like the Jeep Grand Cherokee, which countless studies show are statistically more likely to kill people on two wheels.
Most cyclists are killed on roads with no protected bikeways and high speed limits that virtually guarantee any collision will be lethal.
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FULL ARTICLE -- https://usa.streetsblog.org/2024/09/04/what-the-media-is-getting-wrong-about-the-gaudreau-brothers-deaths
As you can see on the horrifying graph below, deaths in the USA are almost three times higher than in the next closest country shown.
* EDIT: My post originally said "deaths in the USA are much higher than anywhere else" but I revised that because, as some readers pointed out, not all areas of the world were included in the data used to create the graph.
#BikeTooter #WarOnCars #BanCars
What the Media is Getting Wrong About the Gaudreau Brothers' Deaths — Streetsblog USA
It made national headlines when these two professional hockey players and brothers were killed on their bikes. The systemic failures that lead to their deaths, though, didn't generate nearly as much press.usa.streetsblog.org
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No singing! Motorized Instant Gratification Convenience Culture just gets more ridiculous all the time.
https://jalopnik.com/amazon-bans-its-drivers-from-moving-their-own-lips-too-1851639312
Amazon Bans Its Drivers From Moving Their Own Lips Too Much At Work
The retail giant has reportedly started monitoring delivery drivers who sing along to the radio claiming it’s a cause of distracted drivingOwen Bellwood (Jalopnik)
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This is why I don't buy from Amazon, even if it means I pay twice as much for something.
In Washington if you get a speeding ticket and contest it, saying you weren't driving, they dismiss the ticket, no questions asked.
https://climatejustice.social/@chu/113079930981399629
Chu 朱 (@chu@climatejustice.social)
Attached: 1 image Reminder of how much we like to criminalize being poor. Skipping a $3.50 transit fare results in a $425 fine while skipping a $20 parking pass lands you a $70 fine that rich people complained to high heaven about.Climate Justice Social
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While it is true that switching to small electrical vehicles can be part of the solution for a few people in limited circumstances, the reality is that our path to a cleaner, healthier, happier future does NOT include a shiny new Tesla in every garage.
We need *fewer* cars on the road, not more cars (electric or not). And we must strongly encourage better solutions like walking, cycling, e-bikes, light rail, etc.
#WarOnCars #BanCars #Environment #Climate #ClimateChange
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TIL: Cats can land on their feet thanks to their unique collarbone-less skeleton and flexible backbone, which allow them to rotate mid-air and reorient their bodies. This ability, known as the "righting reflex," is enhanced by their capacity to manipulate their moment of inertia during free-fall.
https://www.physlink.com/education/askexperts/ae411.cfm
#til #todayilearned
https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1f8p6q1/til_cats_can_land_on_their_feet_thanks_to_their/
How does a cat land on its legs when dropped?
Ask the experts your physics and astronomy questions, read answer archive, and more.www.physlink.com
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Cathay Pacific Grounds Its Airbus A350-1000s
For all those fans who think only #Boeing has issues with their aircraft these days:Airbus is taking a turn on the negative-publicity rollercoaster. Cathay Pacific, the flagship carrier for Hong Kong, announced it has grounded its fleet of Airbus A350-1000s for inspection after finding faulty engine components in 15 of 18 aircraft. According to a report today (Sept. 3) in online outlet Channel News Asia, Cathay Pacific Flight CX383 took off from Hong Kong for Zurich, Switzerland, yesterday, but turned back after the failure of an unspecified component of one of its Rolls-Royce Trent XWB-97 engines. The twin-aisle Airbus landed safely 75 minutes after takeoff, following two holding circuits to burn fuel.Reuters reported that a person familiar with the incident said the discrepancy involved a fuel nozzle. It is not clear whether the engine lost power. Cathay Pacific said in a statement that the flight was the “first of its type to suffer such failure on any A350 aircraft worldwide.”
#Airbus #Aviation #aircraft #airlinerCathay Pacific Grounds Its Airbus A350-1000s
An unspecified engine anomaly in flight led to a fleetwide inspection.AVweb
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This film about #degrowth was posted on the #BBC iplayer site at the beginning of August and I can't see evidence it has been broadcast.
It gives a pretty good overview, using the work of people in and around #Barcelona as the focus (which sadly might limit its appeal here).
It could be a good film to show at events as an introduction to discussion or briefings about degrowth.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m0021tt7/can-degrowth-save-the-world
Can 'Degrowth' Save the World?
A group of academics and activists are questioning the possibility of endless economic growth on a finite planet and calling for a bold solution: degrowth.BBC iPlayer
“We created a self-opening fridge with an AI camera that tracks what you put in and take out.”
Please for the love of any and all deities I am PROSTRATE on the floor begging you for fair energy prices and accessible public transport I do not need a fridge incorrectly guessing what is in my 17 Tupperware containers and refusing to open because I haven’t paid my monthly £24.99 subscription of “Fridge Door Lock Plus” 
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@sunflowerinrain Ours had an issue a couple of years ago and thank all the deities we were able to get it fixed because it was impossible to find anything new that wasn't awful. And the repair person told us some choice things about the new fridges too.
Was the same thing all over again when our washing machine went. All these "smart" features now that will certainly break and no way to make it do what I actually want. At least it isn't collecting all our data. Supposedly.
Alabama is farming out incarcerated people to work at hundreds of companies, including McDonald’s & Wendy’s.
The state takes 40% of wages and often denies parole to keep people as cheap labor. Getting written up can lead to solitary confinement.
This is modern day slavery.
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NaNoWriMo is in disarray after organizers defend AI writing tools
The organization behind National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo) is being slammed online after it claimed that opposing the use of AI writing tools is “classist and ableist.”Jess Weatherbed (The Verge)
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I can only assume Google is trying to convince me to use Safari. Shame that I run Linux and Safari doesn’t work there, might be time to look at per-site user agent modifications!
https://9to5mac.com/2024/07/05/google-search-iphone-safari-ai-features/
Google considered blocking Safari users from accessing its new AI features, report says - 9to5Mac
Google’s dominance of the search industry is the target of an ongoing Justice Department investigation – and its relationship with Apple...Chance Miller (9to5Mac)
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LBT¹: fabulous. This graph is the exact opposite of so many of those “we’re committed to reducing carbon emissions by 2005, no 2010, no 2020, whoops no 2050” charts
¹ https://vis.social/@infobeautiful/113075450427229420
Information Is Beautiful (@infobeautiful@vis.social)
Attached: 1 image The world’s solar capacity reached 1,419 gigawatts in 2023, way beyond any predictions. 1 gigawatt = power for a medium sized city ☀️vis.social
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Our DOT won't even bat an eye spending hundreds of millions to shave a few seconds off trips for private vehicles.
So of course that same department doesn't even think about, let alone measure, travel times or delay for modes other than private cars.
Seattle Is Building a Citywide Bike Network That Cannot Handle Its Own Popularity - The Urbanist
# Seattle's climate plan calls for doubling bicycling, but SDOT is not building its bike facilities to handle the load.Ryan Packer (The Urbanist)
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I've been thinking about the word "enshittification" lately.
Using this term without the proper context lets greedy corporations off the hook.
This process of everything going to shit is not some inevitable force of nature. It's an entirely man-made and avoidable situation.
Let's call enshittification what it really is.
Enshittification is Wall Street. It's under-regulated capitalism. It's corporate greed. IT IS THEFT.
#EatTheRich #LateStageCapitalism
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