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Thinking about the way we live. @walkbikelive on Twitter.
Urbanism. Small scale development. Community development. Streets are for people.

"Despite this dismal success rate, companies are going all-in on AI, driven largely by the belief that everyone else is doing it. Nearly two-thirds of CEOs (64%) say “the risk of falling behind drives them to invest in some technologies before they have a clear understanding of the value they bring to the organization,” according to the study."

https://fortune.com/2025/05/09/klarna-ai-humans-return-on-investment/

As Klarna flips from AI-first to hiring people again, a new landmark survey reveals most AI projects fail to deliver

Just 1 in 4 AI investments bring in the ROI they promise—but CEOs just can’t resist the technology.

Fortune
@patrickleavy @pluralistic Please don't make me tap the sign

NYT reporting mass immigrant ICE raids have begun in Chicago.

I'm an immigrant & Chicago based human rights lawyer. I wrote this on how to handle ICE, actions to protect our immigrant neighbors, & debunking anti-immigrant hate.

No paywall. Please share widely. https://www.qasimrashid.com/p/trumps-mass-anti-immigrant-raids

Trump's Mass Anti-Immigrant Raids to Begin

Here are action items to protect your immigrant neighbors, answers to common FAQs, and insights to debunk anti-immigrant propaganda

Let's Address This with Qasim Rashid

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Arizona Crash Facts 2022
from @azbikelaw

> Cyclist fatalities of 48 in 2022 is a historical high — the previous high before last year’s blowout (45) for was was 35 in 2005

https://azbikelaw.org/arizona-crash-facts-2022/

#urbanism #streets #dangerousbydesign

Arizona Crash Facts 2022

ADOT released Crash Facts 2022  in late July, which is back to the normal schedule (last year’s was released in late Sept for unstated reasons). 2022 was, again, a very bloody year on Arizona…

Arizona Bike Law
Not content with banning reality and history from school and public libraries, the extremist right (aka Republican Party) is now looks to kill the libraries. See this from ever-more-retrograde Missouri: https://heartlandsignal.com/2023/04/11/missouri-house-republicans-vote-to-defund-libraries/#:~:text=Missouri%20House%20Republicans%20voted%20to,the%20GOP%2Dcontrolled%20state%20Senate
Missouri House Republicans vote to defund libraries

Missouri House Republicans voted to defund all of the state’s public libraries, in a proposed $45.6 billion state budget that will soon move to a vote in the GOP-controlled state Senate.

Heartland Signal
RT @AlecStapp
begging people to stop romanticizing the pre-industrial era

Here’s some blunt truth — I haven't seen a single North American city with a stated policy goal of mobility "balance" that has actual street standards/designs, budgets, supporting land use decisions etc that would actually ACHIEVE mobility balance. Not yet at least. It’s usually code for some version of the status quo, only slightly better — still cars first.

#cities #cars #urbanism #streets #transport

GOOD IDEA: This may look like a transit map, but it’s actually a map of typical walking times & distances in the walkable, car-free Spanish city of #Pontevedra. A simple, clever idea that every city working to be more walkable should steal.

#walkablecities #cities #urbanism #walking

A statue honoring Henrietta Lacks whose whose cells resulted in countless medical breakthroughs will be built in her birthplace Roanoke #Virginia

The statue replaces Gen Robert E Lee

#BlackMastodon
#tuesdayvibe 😻

https://abcnews.go.com/US/henrietta-lacks-hometown-build-statue-robert-lee-sculpture/story?id=95541987&fbclid=IwAR1gu8U2lBELLPxSTng6D_V0jTUkGNDh00K7OOR9Is-WwaRQCzePVqt8WMc

Henrietta Lacks' hometown will build statue of her where Robert E. Lee sculpture once stood

Lacks' "HeLa" cells have led to numerous medical breakthroughs.

ABC News