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#opera in #SuperCollider #code - from a #StarTrek episode (excerpt) vimeo.com/1188453992/0...

People walking, cycling and driving can safely share the same space. The key is street design that slows cars down and encourages everyone to use the space. And one crucial ingredient: no on-street parking! Streets are for people, not car storage.

This, BTW, is why people keep telling Will to do the reading. We're not trying to gatekeep having takes, we are just pointing out that academic literature contains theories that are much more promising than either of the cartoons, and if you only notice the cartoon versions, your takes are screwed!

this is brilliant

Consumers are *really* bad at expressing their economic well-being, it's basically just whatever pump prices are. Which is why maximizing EV share of the vehicle fleet is so important for breaking the carbon political economy in the US. Any other solution is doomed.

OpenAI’s faster Fourier transform is less a mathematical breakthrough and more a malicious exploit of mathematical traditions.

I research frats. It's this: they are networks that provide connections to power, wealth, and impunity, especially historically white organizations. The big ones are extremely well monied.

No AI for kids. Full stop.

No wonder our city is such rough shape… Karen Bass: - missed 1/3 of Metro board meetings - missed 1/2 of homeless authority meetings (that she appointed herself to!) - was out of town during Palisades and Lineage fires Enoughbass.com

Bike/pedestrian networks don't take 30 years to build. Stop accepting those timelines in your community. The best practices have been proven & they already exist. Safety should already be the #1 priority. The ROI is unbeatable. The timeline is a moral document and it shouldn't be generational.

Cars can now travel along flat surfaces even faster than I can. It’s over for me. There is nothing left unique about me.

The Trust for Public Land is trying to green and open 28 LA schoolyards by 2028. Imagine if LA28 threw its weight behind these transformational projects over the next two years. Plus ULI's recommendations for DTLA, LA28's human rights grants, and more electric buses, all in the latest Hot Links 🔥

Thanks to CBS LA for interviewing me about the work @peopleforbikes.bsky.social is doing to ramp up bike infrastructure around @la28games.bsky.social youtu.be/kQnvxyG24jo

no fucking way!

Amazing explainer for CA peeps -- worth the (considerable! ) time

@nickandert.bsky.social continues to be one of the best resources for transit information in the state. Incredible, wide ranging video. youtu.be/uYwInrTocww?...

I always come back to the fact that we haven't actually done anything to these ppl.

ok but I’m afraid you can’t understand global history theory until you’ve read all of the Hardy Boys books, the Orlando Furioso, and the owner’s manual of a 1997 Nissan Altima

I'm back, I missed you all. Since this is an important subject I know too much about, here's a 🧵 explaining that AI Safety Is Mostly A Sex Cult. I don't think these people should make policy. (1/?) (alternative title: Time For Some Cult Theory)

based woke agent solves alignment, frightening misaligned researchers alignment.openai.com/misalignment...

Advocates are rallying at City Hall tomorrow to demand that LA Mayor Karen Bass declare a state of emergency due to the city’s spiking traffic deaths — already 8% higher than the same time last year

learned *a ton* from this fab explainer: Kelvin waves!

25 Fields medalists (!)

If you live in California, you need to read this and *not* vote for Jane Kim this fall. Vote for Ben Allen. (I voted for the author of this piece)

to place the sexual and reproductive exploitation of black women at the center of your understanding of american slavery is to see that the system was forced birth and this, in turn, should lead to a more expansive vision of what the 13th amendment actually guarantees.

Unlike so many others, the @financialtimes.com nails the "OMG, 1.5℃ is gone" message: "Temperature overshoot requires urgent action" Yep. And every 0.01℃ matters. Reminds me of my NYT oped with @costasamaras.com: "The widely recited '12-year deadline' is wrong — and right." gwagner.com/12years

Mistakes were made, but since 2010, CAHSR has made a lot of progress. Environmental review is nearly done. It has consistent annual funding. CAHSR has brought on cost-saving in-house staff - who cut $14B in design costs created by consultants. So why do critics focus on out of date information?

Metro Board members should actually ride Metro.

Shocking story here about the California Legislature overruling a locally vetted traffic safety project on an L.A. street with 95 crashes & 4 deaths since 2013, all at the behest of two well-resourced cemeteries worried about traffic delays on the street.

Backing Prop G is madness. We have already voted on this TWICE. Chan is the new avatar of SF NIMBYs, always opposed to parks and transit and housing.

You should call the Governor's office and urge him to veto this. And if you live in Los Angeles, you should vote for @nithyaforthecity.bsky.social this November.

Just because there's a lot of pessimism on this site, did you know that a ton of African economies are finally hitting rapid development? E.g.

Mayor Bass is pushing the state legislature to put into *state law* that cities with over 2 million people (only LA) cannot reduce the # of car lanes of a road that leads into a cemetery without mayoral approval. Just to kill this desperately needed bike lane project.

to me the question at the heart of AI and data center discourse is: how and how much should society be computerized? we’ve spent 75 years bringing computation into every activity and institution. it has always made people nervous, but we’re now at 4-5% of US electricity going to computation

If your state is controlled by Democrats, there is no reason that they shouldn't pass legislation allowing direct-to-consumer vehicle sales to put a significant source of Republican donations out of business for good.

We’re not changing it.

this is all fascinating but I think this is the most interesting thing: you get some extremely screwy incentive behavior if the agent believes it cannot legitimately achieve its goal

any #stockholm based #supercollider or other #music peeps: here;s a painless intro to sequencing in SC which you might enjoy: elektronmusikstudion.se/en/courses/w...

I tried

I mean, you've just come to this conclusion?

They're going to be pardoned, and addressing that is absurdly easy: Accede to the ICC's jurisdiction *only* for crimes which (1) were criminal under American law; but for which (2) the alleged criminal was pardoned by a member of the administration in place at the time of the crime

@calmatters.org You need to retract this story, apologize and write another story explaining the real facts with data. That road deaths doubled in 15 years, with the increase in prevalence of SUVs, taller/blunter hoods, fatter A pillars, faster acceleration. Interview real road safety experts

Another fatal crash on Forest Lawn Drive highlights a contrast between Bass & Raman. Raman pushed for safety improvements. Just before project was due to be installed in June, Bass paused it, directing city depts to instead study not eliminating any car lanes. la.streetsblog.org/2026/08/21/d...