"Actually, studies have shown that riders using pedal-assists—a type of e-bike that amplifies your pedal power but does not take over entirely—get more exercise than those on regular bikes, because they cycle longer and more frequently.”

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/01/02/hell-on-two-wheels-until-the-e-bikes-battery-runs-out

#bikes #ebikes #ebike

New NBER paper from Ed Glaeser & co finds that 12% of the median US city resident's daily trips are within a 15-min walk.

Policy implication: "Less restrictive zoning rules, such as permitting more mixed-use development, would lead to shorter travel times."

https://www.nber.org/papers/w30752?utm_campaign=ntwh&utm_medium=email&utm_source=ntwg6

#cities #walkability #urbanism

Judge blocks release of video depicting police dog attack because it’s too graphic and disturbing.

Don’t really get the logic here. All the more reason it *should* be seen.

https://www.al.com/news/2022/12/judge-blocks-release-of-video-of-deadly-police-dog-attack-in-alabama-says-cannot-be-unseen.html

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The scene: The Bahamas. A courtroom.
Judge: Sir, in a conditional arrest proceeding the first step is to establish identity. Do you admit or deny you are the same Sam Bankman-Fried charged in this indictment?

SBF: Yes I am the person who did all those things

Judge: No, I mean . . .

SBF: Each and every one

Judge: I think you . . .

SBF: Should I go paragraph by paragraph

I've gotten a lot of responses to that Substack piece about leaving Twitter. Many are positive but some are negative. A few are saying "oh so you think free speech is nasty?"

What kind of stupid question is that? Of course I do. The Nazis marching at Skokie were nasty. All sorts of speech is nasty. Supporting free speech doesn't mean reserving judgment about it, you imbecile. It means not using the state to suppress it.