AI chatbots could be making you stupider As large language models take over more and more cognitive tasks, researchers are warning this mental outsourcing comes with a cost.

Using LLMs makes you stupider.

I'm really just fed up lately that lots of otherwise progressive people have decided traffic violence is an issue that we simply cannot address. How can people claim to care about equity and ignore the toll of car dependency?

“You’re not supposed to use your phone while driving.”

“Got it. Let’s install large tablet touchscreens in almost every single new car.”

Dr. Rex Ta, a young man wearing a gray sweater and a bike helmet, poses with his bicycle next to a gravel road in a pastoral autumn landscape.

New episode up! We get a doctor's view of traffic violence from physician Rex Tai, who works in a long-term care facility. We talked about how the public health crisis of traffic violence is just one aspect of a system that limits our mobility in so many ways. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/e...

This is Evil.
He is insane.
Stop this.
Now.
Impeach.
Remove.
Immediately.
Summon your courage.
Prevent Genocide.

A reminder that that majority of people living with disabilities do not own a car.

We got a DM the other day with a fun request from a local family:

Could we find this nice BART train operator who always waved and beeped at this special little rider?

And if we found him, could we deliver him a thank you card!? 

So we got to work …

I just left another briefing on Iran. YouTube video by Senator Elizabeth Warren

I just left another briefing on Iran.

Here's the only part of Trump's plan that is clear to me:

He won't spare a cent for the 15 million Americans who will lose their health care, but he'll spend a billion dollars a day bombing Iran.

Going back home tired after a long day of work 🥵😴

Maybe I'm biased, but I think this kid/parent conversation is so much more enjoyable by bike than in a car.

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my entire position on cities.

Maricopa County Board pursues nuclear option in battle with Recorder Heap: Answer questions or face removal from office Board's order gives Heap until Feb. 18 to answer questions about his budget requests, inflammatory statements

There’s a massive battle being waged in Maricopa County over elections officials and their duties.

The County recorder is Justin Heap (R, MAGA), who seems to be constructed of equal parts idiocy, arrogance, lies, and hubris.

He may be removed from office by a rival pack of MAGAs.

We’re near a university, so lots of students without cars in the area. I love seeing other people biking for groceries, but I’m tired of having to turn around & go home because there’s no parking.

They have 120 car parking spaces and ONE 6-wave rack, too close to the wall behind it & up against a propane tank storage box on one side. It holds a fair # of scooters, but max 3 bicycles & my #tern gsd only fits on the end.

Ok #bikesky how do I get my local Safeway to install more bike parking?

I’ve mentioned it to the manager and a couple of other workers there. They removed some during a remodel this summer and never put it back. 😡

we need to talk about that Ring Super Bowl ad

Wet Leg - mangetout (Live on KEXP) YouTube video by KEXP

Good morning youtu.be/k80nQyBjmyo?...

In his efforts to utilize lifted micro mobility, Beavis quickly found that the built infrastructure environment didn't support his freedom of choice in transportation, as it catered exclusively to the arrogance of the automobile industry.

halftime show fromt eh supebowl showing a set on the field featuring a nyc bodega

This kind of smart, walkable, mixed-use urbanism is illegal to build in most American cities.

We'll do everything but strictly regulate motorists operating multi-ton machines while scrolling Facebook on their phones with a 12 speaker sound system blaring.

In 1915 experts in law and in municipal engineering agreed with the Chicago Surface Lines:

Streets are a public resource regulated in the public interest – the greatest good to the greatest number.

By this standard, everyone else took precedence over motorists driving personal automobiles. ...

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🌟MILKI DELIVERY STEAM PAGE 🌟
Our game has a steam page and a trailer, I'm so excited!

🐮 Deliver milk to friendly folks
🏔️ Explore the countryside
🚲 Upgrade your bike & dairy farm
✅ Complete quests & reconnect villagers

Sharing would help us a lot 💌
#cozygames #gamedev

A bicycle in a video game that’s not a BMX bike. It’s got a basket and a rack with panniers. Sound on for the little bell 😍😍

Been thinking about how we’re not okay here in Minnesota and how events and the state of affaires are echoing in our day to day world. A thread.

cw: suicide

nationalshutdown.org

I was on my way to a meeting when I heard ICE was at the Zipps on Central Ave. In the wake of the killing of Alex Pretti in Minnesota, ICE should cease these operations immediately. People are terrified, and this escalation is not making anyone safer.

Good time to delete your TikTok account.

a new third thing

A person just crashed their vehicle through check-in at DTW airport. But yeah, moral outrage online is reserved for a person in an ebike riding on the sidewalk, not systemic car violence that has plagued us for nearly a century.