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South Coast kid in the People's Republic. Education nerd by day, TransitMatters volunteer and crayonista by night. Bikes, languages, and travel (whenever that's possible again). Lover of "second-tier" cities that punch above their weight: Boston, Nanjing, Bangalore.
A friend attending #ICML just sent me a photo of this front runner for best poster award.
That's a fact! šŸ‘

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Nobody puts their ugly mug at the top of your feed.

Nobody buries your post and (sorry) nobody promotes it.

Posts may settle more quickly here as they fall thru timelines without artificial support.

Mastodon’s rhythm therefore has a different feel which may feel unusual to birders.

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Efforts to prevent gentrification by graffiti tagging buildings in gentrifying neighborhoods with edgy political slogans seems to badly misunderstand which kind of people are first-wave gentrifiers and what their aesthetic preferences are.

This is the kind of energy we need towards helping the unhoused

RT @[email protected]

Similar to what's going on in Dorchester, last night the Revere City Council hosted many angry residents who don't want the local senior center to be used as a warming center for the homeless. Prompting Councillor Marc Silvestri to explode as you see here. #mapoli @[email protected]

šŸ¦šŸ”—: https://twitter.com/wtfdic_hour/status/1612810555034681344

Brian Riccio on Twitter

ā€œSimilar to what's going on in Dorchester, last night the Revere City Council hosted many angry residents who don't want the local senior center to be used as a warming center for the homeless. Prompting Councillor Marc Silvestri to explode as you see here. #mapoli @universalhubā€

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2022 was the deadliest year on #Massachusetts roadways in recent memory; drivers killed at least 430 people last year:

https://mass.streetsblog.org/2023/01/03/2022-was-another-record-breaking-year-for-deaths-on-massachusetts-roadways/
#visionzero #mapoli

2022 Was Another Record-Breaking Year For Bloodshed on Massachusetts Roadways

In addition to hundreds of crashes that ended peoples’ lives, MassDOT’s crash database also records 2,361 crashes that caused serious injuries, plus 16,307 crashes that caused less seri…

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How Japan managed to drastically reduce traffic deaths:
- extensive rail
- little to no street parking
- smaller cars
- a focus on child safety

#BanCars #VisionZero #TrafficViolence

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-09-06/what-drove-japan-s-remarkable-traffic-safety-turnaround

Welcome to America
People really be like "oh imagine a future society where humans have to be cybernetically enhanced by machines to get a job" bro wake up just be an American without a car