It’s still remarkable to me that we let ourselves be conned into buying that THIS is what “freedom” looks like.
#cardependency #cities #cars #transportation
I’m so deeply on staycation I’ve forgotten what day it is. My plans include:
* Death Stranding
* Metroid Fusion - I’m stuck on the spider
* Elden Ring - I’m stuck on the Elden Beast
* 3D printing this Dark Saber
* Taking 6502 classes at Pikuma.com
* writing ActivityPub stuff in C#
* Gotham Knights
* Napping in the tub
* Retwisting my son’s locs
* looking for a PS5
* figuring out to how get my #C64 to ssh
* eating at Chipotle every day for lunch 🌮
Here’s my #C64 connected to #ChatGPT via telnet asking it to write Hello, World in 6502 Assembler https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTRVJdcPt/
The top five scam calls I receive as a boomer:
1) IRS scams
2) Social Security scams
3) FBI/Police arrest warrants
4) Arrested grandchildren
(I don’t have any grandchildren.)
5) One ring phone scams
#Robocalls #Scam 🤖🤖🤖
Getting started with tmux https://ittavern.com/getting-started-with-tmux/ #Linux #Unix #macOS
“We found that there’s this perfect one-to-one relationship. If a city increased its road capacity by 10%, then the amount of driving in that city went up by 10%.” One of the earliest, and still one of the best articles on why building bigger roads just leads to more driving. Call it #InducedDemand, or #JevonsParadox, or the #LawOfCongestion. Via WIRED, it’s worth a read and share.
https://www.wired.com/2014/06/wuwt-traffic-induced-demand/
#cities #transportation #urbanism #city #cars
For reasons I can't fathom, Internet Archive Scholar got attention today, a mass of it, painting it as a "new" service. Actually, it has been out there for about a year. BUT....
If beautifully structured access to academic citations by the millions is your bag or desperately needed tool, especially ones that are ONLY left in the Wayback Machine, you are in LUCK. And this will be your favorite day. Try it.
Dennis Ritchie's lost 1968 PhD thesis is notable not just for its contribution to mathematics, but for its mysteriously and impossibly perfect typesetting. And the fact that it was never actually submitted, possibly due to a snit over library fees.
Fortunately, Bell Labs hired grad school dropouts.
See https://dmrthesis.net/ and https://computerhistory.org/blog/discovering-dennis-ritchies-lost-dissertation/ .
HT @joakinen
MILAN has approved a £200 million plan to create a new 750km network of bike paths linking 80% of the city to bike paths, & connect the city to surrounding areas. The goal is to achieve a 20% modal shift to biking by 2035.
Strategy & leadership.
https://road.cc/content/news/milan-confirms-new-bike-network-289375
#milan #cities #urbanism #BikeLanes #cars
CEO of crypto media outlet The Block resigns after it's revealed he took tens of millions in loans from Sam Bankman-Fried