Sydney's hostility to cycling:
1. Yesterday was close-passed, centimetres from my handlebars. Caught up to the guy and confronted him about it. "I didn't see you" he said, despite crossing half to the other side of the road to pass me.
2. Today was stopped by cops and given a lecture cos I was wearing a sunhat rather than a helmet.
Sigh, I've been doing this for more than 20 years, and things have gotten better, but it's still pretty bad.
We really fucked up, y'all.
Milwaukee, 1940s & 2020
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/IsaacRowlett/status/1603769834915123202
A Free 5-Day Street Party Is Taking Over The Cahill Expressway. If they can do this for five days, they can do it every day.
https://www.theurbanlist.com/sydney/a-list/elevate-sydney-cahill-expressway
Just like human kids can learn to hate or be biased by growing up in a biased world, AIs can learn to be biased or hateful too by growing up in a biased training set.
And since AIs need vast quantities of data to learn from, they have a tendency to learn from datasets that can't be sanitized away from encoding human biases.
So be careful delegating too much to them in critical decisions affecting humans. Often they are a mirror to society; and can reflect both its best and worst.
The War on Cars @TheWarOnCars is my new favorite podcast.
This is a great episode about walking, and how it’s what connects us, and even what makes us human.
https://overcast.fm/+O31qD52Xg
Back in 1952, the great American science fiction writer Ray Bradbury published a short story called “The Pedestrian” in a small antifascist publication. The story, which was based on Bradbury’s own experience of being hassled by the cops while…
Over the weekend I attended Australia’s first Micromobility Conference.
I wrote up some of the observations that surprised me at the conference, and some things I've been aware of for a while.
I'd love to hear any corrections/thoughts/comments you may have!
https://jakecoppinger.com/2022/11/observations-from-australias-first-micromobility-conference/
#micromobility #conference #cycling #ebikes #sydney #australia #urbanism #tfnsw
Over the weekend I attended Australia's first micromobility conference. The sessions were organised into themes reflecting the challenges Australia faces in transitioning it's transport network and urban planning - from car and highway dominated streets to a safer, lower emission and more pleasant city permitting cycling, walking and other journeys.
Observations from Australia’s first Micromobility Conference
https://jakecoppinger.com/2022/11/observations-from-australias-first-micromobility-conference/
Over the weekend I attended Australia's first micromobility conference. The sessions were organised into themes reflecting the challenges Australia faces in transitioning it's transport network and urban planning - from car and highway dominated streets to a safer, lower emission and more pleasant city permitting cycling, walking and other journeys.
david roberts
WalkSydney
Pwnallthethings
Nick Bax
Jake Coppinger