“Unlocking Home Affordability through Car-Free Living”

We don’t talk enough about the link between car dependency and housing affordability. Here’s a good case study from Atlanta https://www.southernurbanism.org/p/mobility-unlocking-home-affordability

Urban design, Roman style.
#Pompeii in the year 79.

Walkable streets, mixed-use, street-facing shops, gentle density. Notice that Roman urbanism two millennia ago produces a more livable city than almost any car-centered developments we’re churning out in the Americas today. 🧵

The police chief of Marion, Kansas Gideon Cody has finally been suspended from his job. Cody had ordered the raid on the local newspaper, the Marion County Record, based on the false pretense that reporters had impersonated a local restaurant owner in order to her confidential information. The information — the restauranteur’s driving record — turns out to be public information in Kansas. The Record had been digging into Cody’s history of misconduct while he was with the Kansas City police.

http://marionrecord.com/direct/mayfield_reverses_position_suspends_cody+5502breaking3+4d61796669656c6420726576657273657320706f736974696f6e2c2073757370656e647320436f64793c212d2d2d2d3e?

Welcome to the cycle of generative AI making search worse.

Quora uses ChatGPT which hallucinates an answer to a nonsense question.

Google Search picks up this nonsense answer from Quora which has high page rank and treats it as an instant answer.

Latest comic: The Real Conspiracy

#misinformation #disinformation #authoritarianism #democracy #cartoon

Alan Turing was a mathematician & cryptographer who was a leading code-breaker in the team that decrypted Nazi Germany’s Enigma machine during WWII. He inspired modern computing & what became AI.

Instead of being hailed as a genius & hero, Turing was convicted as a homosexual & forced to endure chemical castration. He died by suicide at 41 in 1954.

The British government didn’t apologize until 2009 & Queen Elizabeth II finally pardoned him in 2013. #history #science