Pedro @PedroMiguel@qoto.org

Can we please never forget this. #ClimateCrisis #ClimateEmergency

I feel like twitter was a bar where for some reason everyone had a knife and now I’m here looking around like “none of you have KNIVES, right??” and you’re all like “why would I have a knife, are you ok”

On how many Mastodon hosts do you have an account? (Please boost for wide sampling, thanks)

In 2024, Paris will ban non-essential vehicle thru-traffic from its city center. The plan is expected to cut around half of daily car journeys thru the core. Residents, public transit, emergency vehicles, & people with disabilities will find it EASIER to move. Via @citylab
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-02-18/paris-is-banning-traffic-crossing-the-city-center-from-2024

#Paris #cities #CarFree #urbanism #cars #city

As a human rights lawyer who has done extensive immigration work, let me make something absolutely clear.

Asylum is legal immigration.
There's no "port of entry" requirement.
There's no "visa" requirement.
There's no "first country" requirement.
You enter the United States, and you apply for asylum.

Because asylum is legal immigration. Period.

Period.

@BrentToderian @lloydalter @conradhackett As with all figures concerning averages, we should not forget that this doesn’t reflect whether the distribution of all this newly acquired “space” is even across demographics. Those who have the resources will always be able to get more space to keep more things. Sadly, those who do not aren’t as fortunate.

The average INDIVIDUAL U.S. resident now has as much living space in their home as entire families shared in the 1950s. That’s 3X as much space per person.
We’ve convinced ourselves we NEED all that extra space, and the excessive stuff we fill it with that we likely wouldn’t buy if we didn’t have the space we thought we needed to fill.
We really don’t.
Via #TreeHugger @lloydalter @conradhackett #Sprawl #SuburbanSprawl #urbanism #cities #suburbs #suburbia

Ce format est incroyablement efficace : https://pudding.cool/2022/12/yard-sale/

1. He’s not My son.
2. It’s not his birthday.
3. He wasn’t born in a manger. It was Bethlehem Memorial Hospital.

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

READ: This is STILL probably the best #ChristmasEve tradition I’ve heard. HT @NicoNovito. Iceland certainly does #Christmas well! (I’m really looking forward to working in #Reykjavik this year).
Are you giving or hoping to get some great #UrbanismBookClub books on cities this Christmas? Share what you give or get! #MerryChristmas #books #cities

I'm excited about uranium!

Someone asked why we don’t have our blinds open, as is the #Chanukah tradition, with menorahs in the window. This is #Ottawa today, #Canada today. As the recipient of multiple #antisemitic death threats, it isn’t safe to indicate that our home is Jewish. Let that #hate sink in.

One thing Canadians can count on with Minister Patty Hajdu: she'll ALWAYS lie to protect the government at the expense of the public interest. She did so copiously about COVID (remember her saying it was no big deal?) and now she's been caught fibbing about compensation for abused Indigenous children. Horrible, awful woman. https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/canadian-human-rights-tribunal-full-20-billion-decision-1.6694892

So, I'm finding out the hard way that if you start a new Mastodon server, nobody can find you.

This is a shameless request for some boosts so some of the bigger instances see me.

#mastodon #twittermigration #mastodonserver #findme #helpimtrappedinawell #imlonely

AI tools like #ChatGPT will soon be capable of answering a large fraction of traditional university homework type questions with reasonable accuracy. In the long term, it seems futile to fight against this; perhaps what we as lecturers need to do is to move to an "open books, open AI" mode of examination where we give the students full access to AI tools but ask them more challenging questions, both to teach the material and also to teach the students how best to use the AI tools of the future.

"Hey Everyone! I made an App to recognize Lady Gaga songs. Here are the songs we used to train the app, which I am releasing under a Creative Commons license, please credit me when you share them"

Chemistry of nutmeg

https://doi.org/10.1002/chemv.202000140

#chemistry #chemistryviews #chemviews #chemicaleducation #everydaychemistry #everydaylifechemistry

Have you seen this one? Before & after of a brain after a 20 minute walk — illustrates why walking to work, or school, or just to get the intellectual juices flowing, has been strongly linked to better creative & intellectual performance.
Just one of MANY benefits of choosing to walk, for you and for society.
Design and build walkable cities.
#walking #cities #urbanism #WalkableCities #WalkToSchool #WalkToWork #city #cars

Elon Musk was never a liberal, and his plans for Twitter were never benevolent
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/dec/21/elon-musk-liberal-twitter-plans-benevolent