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Bloomberg News @bloomberg.com · 1d

If cars are so bad for our health, our cities and the planet, why can’t we quit them? Three new books argue it’s time to really try.

‘Car Brain’ Is Making the US Unhealthy and Dangerous. EVs Won’t Fix It.

A trio of new books argue that we need to confront the full range of costs that car-based living has imposed on our cities, our health and our society.

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Jonats / Aventureiro @jnathangnzales.bsky.social · 2d

Curried pinto beans, tofu balls over yogurt, cucumbers & kesong puti

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The Daily Show @thedailyshow.com · 3d

The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.

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Dr. Genevieve Guenther (she/they) @doctorvive.bsky.social · 3d

And this is not scholarly but it draws on the history of the term "carbon footprint" while focusing on the class dynamics and communications challenges that intersect the concept of "individual action."

www.noemamag.com/we-need-to-t...

We Need To Talk About The Carbon Footprints Of The Rich | NOEMA

Dramatically unequal consumption lies at the heart of the climate crisis.

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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.bsky.social · 3d

Its the modern day version of the white man's burden. Colonialism and empire building at its best, using the same arguments of empires of yore as Karen Hao so eloquently put it in her book, Empire of AI.

This IS the side to fight against, not the side to join in service of some larger goal.

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Jarrett Walker @humantransit.bsky.social · 4d

Is climate really a barrier to making cities walkable? Only if you listen too much to elites ... humantransit.org/2025/10/nobo...

"Nobody Walks Here. It's too Hot or Cold or Wet or Dry." — Human Transit

Almost everywhere I travel as a consultant, someone asks me whether it’s realistic to expect people to walk given the extremes of their climate. They don’t just ask me this in Edmonton and Singapore. ...

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Jonats / Aventureiro @jnathangnzales.bsky.social · 4d

Preach Timnit

Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.bsky.social · 5d

They gave the physics prize to the dude who said that ChatGPT is the world's butterfly and GPT3 was a caterpillar.

The dude who told us in 2018 that radiologists should cease to go to school because the profession was gonna be out in 5 years. But 5 years later he just moved on to the next lie.

These Women Tried to Warn Us About AI

Rumman Chowdhury, Timnit Gebru, Safiya Noble, Seeta Peña Gangadharan, and Joy Buolamwini open up about their artificial intelligence fears

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Jonats / Aventureiro @jnathangnzales.bsky.social · 5d

Dutertards (Duterte retards) 🤝 Republican MAGAZuelans

David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 5d

On brand

Republicans post fake image of Oregon protest – using photos of South America

A federal judge had blocked Trump’s request to deploy California national guard to Portland

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Damian Carrington @dpcarrington.bsky.social · 5d

Global renewable energy generation surpasses coal for first time

- Record solar expansion and steady wind growth driving world’s shift away from fossil fuels in 2025, report by @ember-energy.org finds

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Global renewable energy generation surpasses coal for first time

Record solar expansion and steady wind growth driving world’s shift away from fossil fuels in 2025, report finds

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Brian Merchant @bcmerchant.bsky.social · 6d

I am once again asking us all to recognize that the Luddites were not anti-technology but anti-exploitation. If they were around today they would have joined you in a call for technology that serves everyone’s, not just the bosses.

You *are* a Luddite Bernie, and you should be proud to be one

Senator Bernie Sanders @sanders.senate.gov · 6d

Can AI and robotics help us in many ways? I am not a Luddite — I believe they can.

But we must make sure these new technologies benefit all of us, not just a handful of billionaires.

I hope you'll take a few minutes to read my op-ed in Fox News. Let’s start the debate.

SEN SANDERS: AI must benefit everyone, not just a handful of billionaires

Billionaires like Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos invest billions in AI and robotics that could eliminate millions of jobs while increasing corporate profits at workers' expense.

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Gravel Influencer @gravelinfluencer.bsky.social · 6d

This is the main issue I have with so much of the coverage around e-bikes. It's not that there aren't legitimate issues. But there is a panic around e-bikes and crickets regarding the daily toll of cars. And that's because the harm of cars is just accepted. It's baked into our society.

AB @ab-cabra.bsky.social · 6d

The deference we give to drivers is astonishing: speeding, blowing through red lights, crashing without a whisper; yet we jump on non-drivers the moment they step out of line.

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Emily Johnston @enjohnston.bsky.social · 7d

Whether he's lighting up the night sky with fake stars, polluting Memphis & the atmosphere, or torching our modest programs to improve global health & feed the starving, Musk does not pay a nickel for the impacts of his fever dreams: everyone else does.

This is not how a healthy society functions.

David Roberts @volts.wtf · 7d

"There are currently one to two Starlink satellites falling back to Earth every day ... Soon, McDowell told us, there will be up to 5 satellite reentries per day." 😳

1 to 2 Starlink satellites are falling back to Earth each day

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Jonats / Aventureiro @jnathangnzales.bsky.social · 6d

Missing colder weather vacation days so I can wear my unruly curly hair again

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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 7d

Yarvin convinced a bunch of credulous tech billionaires that they needed to back an extreme, dumb, & wildly unpopular politics to “save western civilization.” We’re now getting that politics on steroids, and now he’s all “oh no, these policies are unpopular, must flee the country to save ourselves.”

jeff com-BOO-ters @helldude.bsky.social · 7d

mencius moldbug is thinking of fleeing the country because he thinks the trump administration's chaotic half-assing of dismantling liberal democracy is going to bite them all in the ass

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 6d

Pretty clear Stephen Miller, Noem, Hegseth and Trump are trying to provoke a Civil War at this point. What's interesting is they want to do it now, because even though they're unpopular, they seem to believe this is the most popular they'll be ever again. We can't let them win.

Governor Gavin Newsom @governor.ca.gov · 6d

This is a breathtaking abuse of the law and power by the President of the United States.

America is on the brink of martial law.

Do not be silent.

Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 6d

This evening, President Trump is ordering 400 members of the Texas National Guard for deployments to Illinois, Oregon, and other locations within the United States. No officials from the federal government called me directly to discuss or coordinate.

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 8d

In one of her final interviews before she died, Jane Goodall emphasized that we know what’s killing the planet: industrial agriculture, including livestock, and burning fossil fuels.

She also reminded us that we don't have much time to save our planet.

Jane Goodall’s final, urgent, message

"Intelligent creatures don’t destroy their only home.”

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Jonats / Aventureiro @jnathangnzales.bsky.social · 9d

"...it is both necessary for [factory] workers to have these 500 cubic feet [of space per person], and impossible to impose this rule on capital. They are, in reality, declaring that consumption and the other pulmonary diseases of the workers are conditions necessary to the existence of capital."

Jonats / Aventureiro @jnathangnzales.bsky.social · 9d

"...We know how to live in a world without tuberculosis. But we choose not to live in that world."

From Karl Marx, Capital: A Critique of Political Economy, noting of the relationship between health, private sector industrialization, and the state:

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Jonats / Aventureiro @jnathangnzales.bsky.social · 9d

From John Green's Everything is Tuberculosis:

"TB has killed around one in seven people who’ve ever lived.... What’s different now from 1804 or 1904 is that tuberculosis is curable, and has been since the mid-1950s..."

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Phil Free @philfree.bsky.social · 10d

“To put it bluntly, a path to zero emissions that relies on electrifying individual cars is not only the most resource-intensive route to zero emissions, but also the slowest route to that urgent goal.”

- @triofrancos.bsky.social
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Can We Design a Green Transition That Doesn't Turbocharge Extraction? | Common Dreams

Policies that promote alternatives to car use, reduce sprawl, encourage more compact batteries, and require recycling would all reduce the scale of mining needed for carbon-free transportation.

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Kea Wilson @keawilson.bsky.social · 10d

It's one thing to talk about the 1 in 20 Americans who live in households without cars. But it's another to talk about all the people who live in households with fewer cars than people who need to drive to participate in an autocentric society, particularly kids, elders, and people w/disabilities.