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We have received concerns that the shade provided by our bus shelters was not designed with an awareness of different minority groups. We are halting placement of new shelters and have dedicated 1.4 million dollars to a consultant to ensure new shelters provide thoughtful shade.

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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.

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"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

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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

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Look how wide the Seattle Waterfront bike path was during the sales pitch.

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"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

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Is the main underlying cause of crime #inequality ?
https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2018/06/07/the-stark-relationship-between-income-inequality-and-crime

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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

Hobbes: Denial springs eternal.
Calvin: It's not denial. I'm just very selective about the reality I accept.

The last panel in a Calvin and Hobbes comic by Bill Watterson. September 28, 1992

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Save the date! On Sunday, Feb 12th at 1pm, a member has called for clearing blackberry and other vegetation eating up about a third of the I-90 (Mountains to Sound) trail near the José Rizal bridge. It’s very heavily used trail and a major southend connection. https://goo.gl/maps/zDoPddEG3rcnJkgN9

Looking east from near the bridge with blackberry encroaching onto the trail on the right.

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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. :)

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Vote YES on I-135 for social housing in Seattle https://www.seattlebikeblog.com/2023/02/02/vote-yes-on-i-135-for-social-housing-in-seattle/ #SEAbikes

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One of my professors during PhD used to say “You can drive a truck through the holes in any given paper. So you look for what you *can* learn instead.” And being the smartass grad students we used to think driving that truck was fun. After so many years, I now appreciate her wisdom more than ever. All scholarly work has limitations but it’s refreshing when people critically evaluate what’s the actual value of the research. It's about humility, honesty, rigorous intellectual work.

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NEW: Sawant Announces She's Leaving City Council to Launch New Workers Party
https://www.theurbanist.org/2023/01/19/sawant-announces-shes-leaving-city-council-to-launch-new-workers-party/?feed_id=57&_unique_id=63c9c0a3237ea

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A fantastic way to make an important point. Researchers took items from widely-used scales of "social media addiction," and reworded them to be about spending time offline with friends. Using parallel criteria, they discovered that 69% of people are addicted to spending time with friends.

"Readers should approach our measure with a level of skepticism that should be afforded to current social media addiction measures."

(h/t @cconrymurray)

https://link.springer.com/article/10.3758/s13428-020-01462-9

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