It's amusing to me that star trek imagined a world where an AI faces social rejection because he's rational, fact based, literal, fiercely/dogmatically moral, and struggles with social nuance. But here in reality we invented AIs that have no concept of truth, give zero fucks about accuracy, have no rationality, and can't do math, but match vibes and tone nearly perfectly.

The first artificial person will not be an autistic science officer. It'll be an extremely allistic salesbro or politician.

"People living near road traffic noise were not only more likely to develop high blood pressure, but the risk of this outcome increased with the dose' of noise, even when researchers adjusted for fine particles and nitrogen dioxide."

#TheWarOnCars #noisepollution #traffic

https://www.cnn.com/2023/03/22/health/road-noise-blood-pressure-intl-scli-scn-wellness

Why do 80% of 🚶‍♀️👩‍🦽🧑‍🦯 fatalities happen on multilane arterials? Do those get less enforcement than other streets? No it's because their design causes dangerous behavior.

Why do 80% of 🚴‍♀️🚴‍♂️ fatalities happen where there is no bike lane? Is it because there is less enforcement? No.
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RT @seattletimes
Remember when Seattle was considered a nanny state, ready to ticket you for any minor traffic or pedestrian violation? Now it's …
https://twitter.com/seattletimes/status/1636018701123067907

"Motonormativity":
gets my vote for Urbanist Word of 2023 (aka "Car Brain").

The idea that people think it's normal for cities, and the world, to be designed around automobiles, a transport method that excludes almost one-third of people in most societies.

Based on philosopher David Hume's hoary is/ought fallacy (Just because something "is" like that, people think it "ought" to be like that.)

Thanks to Ian Walker for coming up with a very useful term!

Study here:

https://psyarxiv.com/egnmj

Couldn't have said it better myself. (And I'm literally writing a dissertation related to motivated reasoning & cognitive bias).

How I miss Calvin and Hobbes.

https://www.gocomics.com/calvinandhobbes/1992/09/28 #art #comics

Hullo! This is an #introduction for the #SeattleStreetFixers who you may have seen over on twitter but info was shared here sometimes. We cleanup sidewalks and bike lanes to remove access issues like vegetation covering lots of the space.

We primarily organize events in the google group (https://groups.google.com/g/seattle-street-fixers) though so join over there if you want to get an event together! Rachael thought that maybe there should be a social account over here in fedi. :)