Throwing one more story into the "Is AI going to replace all jobs?" folder.
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Just a little over a year after a Marin County solo car crash killed 4 high school girls, a solo car crash in Santa Maria, CA killed 5 teens.
But sure, let's spend the whole legislative session writing bills about teens and e-bikes.
Here's the serious bit for anyone who'd rather skip the 4000 words of jokes
A California commission said it couldn’t recommend a weight-based vehicle fee without proof that heavier cars were a primary cause of more deaths in California. But the data to prove that essentially doesn’t exist. www.sacbee.com/news/local/t...
“It started off not particularly accurate and got less accurate over time,” one Starbucks employee told Fortune.
A commission wouldn’t OK a new fee without proof that bigger cars are more dangerous. An expert said that’s “a fundamental of physics.”
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“The diversity of life on Earth is so grand, bizarre, and sprawling that even the existence of a single beetle can make your head spin. But it needs to *exist.* The very concept of an artificially generated video of wildlife is profane…”
McClatchy’s corporate leaders still haven’t made a case for their AI initiative to the public. Internally, they’ve said ~if reporters don’t comply with this AI scheme, we’ll be ruined.~ Unionized journalists believe the opposite is true: Their AI plan is a death spiral. san.com/cc/this-majo...
I shall watch this with interest. There's no way to get 60% of kids actively travelling to school without disrupting current patterns of car-based mobility. This includes making all urban streets safer, not just those right outside schools
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Ariane Lange
Exclusive: Transport secretary, Heidi Alexander, says cycling and walking plan focuses on ‘everyday travel needs’
I wrote about one specific way AI is ruining my life
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I think I that Bari Weiss and her crew think that 60 Minutes inherently has value, when it’s the people who’ve done the hard work for years that have earned the respect and trust that brings value.
Paris air pollution is down 50% after its radical bike-friendly transformation
Cars have been banned from more than 100 streets. Tens of thousands of parking spots have been eliminated. Hundreds of miles of bike lanes have been added. And air pollution is plummeting
