The Public Domain ReviewIt's #NationalHatDay! Here's some excellent headwear (and moustaches) from an album of 19th-century Ottoman fashion. More here: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/19th-century-album-of-ottoman-fashion/
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Jason ThorneA new “continuous sidewalk” in #Kitchener. The design differs from regular sidewalks in that it doesn’t dip down to road level at intersections. It continues at an uninterrupted height. This slows cars turning onto the street + reinforces pedestrian priority through the intersections. Same at the driveways, so you don’t get the up-down “roller coaster effect” when you’re #walking, #cycling or using a wheelchair.
I Hope This Email Finds YouI hope this email finds you in closer touch with all the interests of the comrades.
Cycling “The 606” in Chicago … one of the best urban walking/cycling trails in North America.
#cycling #biketooter #chicago
#cycling #biketooter #chicago
David ZipperIn Fast Company, I wrote about the Texas police department that used a monster truck to promote seat belts. It's a window into all that's wrong with US road safety.
https://www.fastcompany.com/91128680/texas-police-monster-truck-road-safety
Texas police used a monster truck to promote seat belts. It shows all that’s wrong with U.S. road safety
To learn why the US is so abysmal at road safety, you could read through a pile of academic studies and investigations. Or you could examine a single social media post from one Texas police department.
mariafarrellFrom me and @robin
Our piece for Noema magazine:
We Need to Rewild the Internet
Today’s concentrated, monopolistic internet isn’t too wild, even if it sometimes feels like that. It’s not wild enough!
Fascinating interview with cloud anthropologist Steven Gonzalez Monserrate on energy hungry and water thirsty data centres on This is Hell! radio. Also touches on a few #LibrarySocialism adjacent topics including the right to repair, planned obsolescence, and imagining a vastly different future from our ecologically destructive present.
https://thisishell.com/interviews/1719-steven-gonzalez-monserrate
The Cloud is Material and Impacts the Environment / Steven Gonzalez Monserrate
MIT Program in Science, Technology, and Society's Cloud Anthropologist Steven Gonzalez Monserrate on his article, "The Cloud Is Material: On the Environmental Impacts of Computation and Data Storage." "Rotten History" and some correspondence from listeners follow the interview.Help keep This Is Hell! completely listener supported and access weekly bonus episodes by subscribing to our Patreon.
Final Round Player 😷🇪🇺🍸Fully enclosed, electric, narrow track, tilting micro-vehicle. Yes, please. Where can I buy one right now.
https://www.dezeen.com/2024/01/17/lowie-vermeersch-komma-electric-cars-interview/
There's a sweet spot here somewhere between the electric bicycle and a full electric car. An updated G-Wiz, Revai. An electric TukTuk. An Electric Piaggio-Peugeot MP3 tilting 3/4 wheeler. An enclosed motorcycle. Big enough for one person and a week's shopping or two people, or one person and 2 primary school kids.
My favorite mobility policy of 2023: Banning right-on-red
Inherently dangerous to pedestrians, ROR was widely adopted in order to conserve gas during the 1970s oil crisis (which, you might notice, ended decades ago).
Ann Arbor ditched ROR this year, and DC is about to. Denver, Chicago, and San Francisco may as well.
https://www.fastcompany.com/90908929/its-time-for-a-nationwide-ban-of-right-on-red
David PierceOver the course of 2023, I became totally radicalized by the fediverse's potential to improve just about everything about our online lives. I wrote about why — and what it'll take to get there: https://www.theverge.com/23990974/social-media-2023-fediverse-mastodon-threads-activitypub
