I'm really blown away by the selfishness of some suburbanites. It's one (bad) thing to prohibit inexpensive housing choices in your own community, but it's a whole other level to oppose it in cities 10 or 20 miles away because it'd make parking there more difficult for you.
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Few weeks ago BBC R4 featured a story of a US law prof accused of sexual misconduct w/ a student. Not true, the named university was wrong, other wrong details too. But it was quoting a NYTimes article. Searching NYT database found no such article. ChatGPT had simply halucinated
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This is terrifying: a marketer pinged me for quote permission — common for a journalist. Only I didn’t recognize the text as something I’d ever said. Pumping it into Google returned nothing.
I asked where he got it: ChatGPT. AI fabricated a quote and attributed it to me.
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Brillant: les gens acceptent de marcher n’importe quelle distance, à condition qu’elle commence à partir d’une voiture garée.
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Any distance is walkable as long as it's from a parked car.
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One thing anti-nuclear people are desperate to cover up:
Anti-nuclear decarbonization depends on paying gas plants to stay open long after they've idled, standing in reserve to backstop renewables during "dunkelflaute" outages & to provide black start capability after blackouts
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Reminder: Baseload nuclear & peaky renewables are actually complementary for grid planning.
If we had 400GW of nuclear, instead of 90GW, the dark red nuclear line would be at the bright red line I drew
Nuclear all night, topped off by solar+batteries during the day
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Is the feed not updating for anyone else? I see two tweets from 9 and 20 minutes ago. #FreelanceChat
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Hi everyone! I'm Matt, a freelance writer in Boston, where it's still really cold. #freelancechat
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It looks like 's John Greenfield suffered a serious injury while bicycling downstate - a culvert pipe fell off a truck and hit him. Terrible news. Let's hope for a full recovery. He's one of the great advocates for humane transportation.
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Going almost empty from Amsterdam to Porto.
Maiden voyage from Portugal to France and the UK will be with Olive oil and wine. Still space in the hold, so French and UK importers take your chance!
#Cleantransport #shipping #sustainable
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Ahoy Jorge, A small cargo of chocolate in the hold produced by the chocolatemakers.nl, with cocoa shipped accross the ocean by: fairtransport.eu/en/ and with as destination: newdawntraders.com #thursday_thoughts #thursdayvibes
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No liberal or progressive critic of the conservative Justices- not one - thinks the Court's liberals should be held to the same standards.
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Liberal SCOTUS Justice Took $3M From Book Publisher, Didn’t Recuse From Its Cases dailywire.com/news/liberal-s
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THREAD I think the “Kremlin UAV attack” is a false flag. Here is why:
1) Several videos in high quality and color appeared, from CCTV cameras. All CCTV cams around Kremlin are under full Kremlin control. Nobody may leak them without permission. The Kremlin wants us to see it. /1
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NEW: After years of budget surpluses, Massachusetts tax revenue plummeted in April, falling nearly $2.2B below what the state collected a year ago and leaving it running $700 million below projections for the year to date. More here: bostonglobe.com/2023/05/03/met
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Peers’ Coronation robes are back!
Buckingham Palace has allowed peers attending the #Coronation to wear historic robes ‘should they wish’ — the Telegraph reports
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Annual cost of traffic crashes (deaths, injuries, loss of work): $1 trillion
Annual health costs of car pollution: $300 billion
Share of heart disease cases (#1 cause of death in U.S.) caused by government driving mandates: 22%
Total US healthcare spending: $4.3 trillion
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BABYLON 5 ANIMATED MOVIE coming from Warner Bros. Animation & WB Home Entertainment! Classic B5: raucous, heartfelt, nonstop, a ton of fun through time and space & a love letter to the fans. Movie title, release date and other details coming one week from today. #B5AnimatedMovie
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The reality is that our residents are moving away. Hawaii has had seven straight years of population decline. it is long past time to address Hawaii's housing shortage.
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What's wild is Nuuk, Greenland (pop. 19.6k) has 16 buses in its transit system and has higher ridership than Wichita, Kansas's bus system (pop. 472k). The Heartland needs better transit investment.
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For 40% off $500 Aldens, who wouldn't behave like a rabid animal?
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i will say, i once saw people on a menswear forum complain about crime, but they were the same people who behaved like rabid animals when j crew's 40% off discount codes accidentally applied to $500 Aldens.
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Every time a YouTuber says a nonword like "coronated" a little bit of my patience and equanimity dies. You can edit video but you can't think of looking up how words are pronounced?
There are 3 million free parking spaces in New York City. Losing just 5% of them in exchange for a cleaner city is a no brainer.
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*NEW* Could New York City finally get trash containerization like other big cities across the globe? The Adams administration says it’s possible, but would require losing 150,000 parking spots: nyti.ms/41YFrYF
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Russia attempts to assassinate Zhelensky multiple times and routinely attacks civilian targets to attempt to terrify Ukraine into submission, but Ukraine attacking the Kremlin is "terrorism". You're not fooling anyone, Putin.
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BREAKING: Russian authorities accused Ukraine of attempting to attack the Kremlin with two drones overnight, but they didn't present any evidence. The Kremlin decried the alleged attempt as a “terrorist act” and said Russian forces disabled the drones. apnews.com/article/russia
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If you carefully compare these two photos, you can see the differences in how NIMBYs react to incremental reforms and more ambitious ones.
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this is literally the entire United States
we have a crushing housing shortage, and our cities are going broke, because of car culture
too many of our city leaders value empty parking spots more than they value their children and economies and communities, and that’s a fact.
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this is what policy failure looks like
the underused parking lots and empty freeway pictured here sit on some of — if not *the* — most valuable land in all of Wisconsin
meanwhile, Milwaukee is going broke and we’re facing a severe housing shortage
you can’t make this stuff up
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Between civil rape trial, allegations he assaulted his USSS detail on Jan 6, and now grabbing and throwing a reporter’s two phones on his airplane, I’m starting to think the former president has a violence problem.
Why more than a month passed to hear this is a different issue.
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Former president Donald Trump got so irritated with an NBC reporter’s questions about a Manhattan criminal investigation that he grabbed the journalist’s phones and demanded that he be removed from an airplane interview wapo.st/40Wyfuz
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“I’m sorry, Father, I don’t see your name on the list. You’ll have to wait for a table.”
“Darn Jesuits! This is what I get for trying a mental reservation!”
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Ronald Acuña Jr. stolen bases: 14
Ronald Acuña Jr. somersaults: 1
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I just had to explain to someone new in the neighborhood what Doyle’s is/was. Oh Boston. What have you made me?
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Ok but here me out: Make Newbury St car free permanently and don't stop there. Do the North End, too.
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Newbury Street to be shut to cars for 16 Sundays in a row; thoroughfares in five other neighborhoods to be turned into one-day street festivals this year universalhub.com/2023/newbury-s
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If only we hadn't spent decades building our country to require driving everywhere
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The parents of a bride still wearing her wedding dress who was killed by a drunk driver in South Carolina are urging drivers to reconsider how a decision to take the wheel while drunk may have lasting consequences for a “real family” like theirs. apnews.com/article/bride-
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Once or twice, at long intervals, France has swept the world with armies; but always, rightly or wrongly, on the old Catholic notion of spreading the alleged truth; never for an anthropological superiority of Race. In the Crusades they spread Christianity; in the Napoleonic Wars… Show more
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BREAKING: Boston’s Newbury Street to be open to pedestrians every Sunday from July 2nd through October 15!
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Here's something that sounds unbelievable — but is true:
India builds nuclear reactors that are CHEAPER THAN SOLAR per unit of electricity
This is EVEN BEFORE considering
-longevity of nuclear (> 60 yrs vs 30 yrs for solar)
-cost of storage or backup for solar
How?👇🧵
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Chomsky genocide stuff is actually worse than you think because the guy he co wrote Manufacturing Consent with has written *multiple* books denying the Rwandan and Bosnian genocide.
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And a side note, can anyone explain how wind towers that haven't been built (the 1st sets of commercial towers in the U.S. are going to be constructed this summer) can be killing whales? The towers don't exist yet.
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these problems are exacerbated by city (and regional) leadership and department heads that *routinely* prioritize cars over climate action, safe streets, and public health.
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another way of looking at this:
there is more parking today in downtown seattle, than there has ever been
the city has failed to enact parking caps. eliminating parking minimums is not enough - especially to meet our climate goals.
still too much on street parking also
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This map (tweeted out by @seattledot director Greg Spotts) only looks at "at-grade parking" lots, making Seattle look a lot better than it actually is. Here's a side by side from the website Spotts links and the city's own parking map. twitter.com/Spottnik/statu…
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