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“They cut speed limits, changed street design, removed space for cars… Now it appears that work is paying off. Oslo & Helsinki are reaping the rewards of committed action on making their roads safer, reducing pedestrian fatalities to zero last year.” #VisionZero #SpeedKills #Oslo #Helsinki

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Happybara.. 😅

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Cool though. Let’s keep coming up with best practices for students to use chatgpt.

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FLOW is, in my opinion, good. letterboxd.com/andrewmoxon/...

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The big takeaway here is that Reuters won this case against the AI company on grounds they violated fair use—the judge found the AI company was guilty because, in using copyrighted works to generate its output, it “meant to compete... by developing a market substitute.” Huge.

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I am extremely freaking thrilled to announce that Bad Company is officially available for preorder wherever you buy books. (I am linking to Bookshop but buy it wherever!) I worked so, so hard on this book, and it would mean a ton to me if you ordered it. bookshop.org/a/109816/978...

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Every single day, Google provides a new reason to never again use their products. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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As the Musk coup rampages through DC, most Americans don't understand there's a method to the madness that's even more terrifying They want to replace "outdated" democracy with AI, in a power grab that empowers billionaires with a lie about efficiency My new column www.inquirer.com/columnists/a...

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The annual KPFA Grateful Dead Marathon will be Saturday, March 1 from 9am to midnight Pacific time. Enjoy it online at kpfa.org There ain’t nothing like a Grateful Dead Marathon!

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You know, for all the bitching about the NY Subway, I got from 7th Ave in Brooklyn to Rockefeller Center in 24 minutes today for $2.90. It's the best deal on the planet and it's a shame we don't treasure this achievement more.

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Two of Mother Nature's gentlemen! The amazing and incredible Lester Chambers and Pete Sears of #Moonalice! 💜 Check out the video from hundreds of shows at www.moonalice.com! @moonalice.com @zagrrl.bsky.social @personify-media.bsky.social

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In Toledo, “living in subsidized housing now means being watched outside your home day and night by an officer you can’t see or speak to, thanks to the city’s contract with Fusus, a company whose controversial technology enables cops to access live streams from private camera networks”

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If you should happen to need evidence that google is full of shit about this, here’s the rationale the company presented: “We got feedback that some other events and countries were missing — and maintaining hundreds of moments manually and consistently globally wasn’t scalable or sustainable.”

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Flashback to Hardly Strictly Bluegrass with the lovely T Sisters and Roger McNamee! Check out the video from Moonalice shows at www.moonalice.com and relive Moonalice's 2024 HSB set here > hardlystrictlybluegrass.vhx.tv/videos/moona... @hardlystrictly.bsky.social @moonalice.com @zagrrl.bsky.social

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"Researchers find that the more people use AI at their job, the less critical thinking they use."

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The time has come—Moonalice is bringing their psychedelic soul and rock-tinged Americana to the Wildflower Music Festival! Catch Moonalice live on May 10, 2025, at 4:00 PM at this year’s Wildflower Music Festival. Get your tickets TODAY - www.eventbrite.com/e/wildflower... @moonalice.com

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This was the first @moonalice.com show I attended. @juliejulieart.bsky.social introduced me to @zagrrl.bsky.social . The one and only time so far I’ve ever chatted with GE Smith. I didn’t know anything about the band, just that they were amazing. And they still are www.moonalice.com/tour/2009-08...

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“The ads came in a long tradition of what might be called the Super Bowl’s tech-normalization movement, in which frontiers foreign or fraught are made safe by companies introducing them to us at our most guard-down moment: while we snack on chips hanging with friends.”

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"The AI coup depends on a frame of government efficiency. This creates a trap for Democratic representatives, where arguing to keep government services–and government employees–will be spun as supporting government waste." - Eryk Salvaggio

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Share this ad to push back on Elon’s $40m attack on USAID youtu.be/PqUESHfuO_8?...

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Join @indivisible.org, @moveon.org, @boldprogressives.org, and more tomorrow at the Consumer Financial Protect Bureau at 4:15pm with @warren.senate.gov to expose President Musk and Kennedy Center Chairman Trump's latest billionaire grift. RSVP: www.mobilize.us/indivisible/...

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It’s been that time.

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It's sad that so many media outlets have fallen for all the distractions, from Greenland to Gaza to tariffs that keep getting delayed, when the real goal is Musk's dismantling of the government The Philadelphia Inquirer gets it. Our latest editorial: www.inquirer.com/opinion/edit...

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Looking forward to this next Monday!

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Check out www.moonalice.com/tour for upcoming #Moonalice shows! New show being added soon! @moonalice.com @zagrrl.bsky.social @personify-media.bsky.social

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Politics got you down? Illinois governor @govpritzker.illinois.gov has you covered. Pure gold.

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“…Google's widely-used CAPTCHA system is primarily a mechanism for tracking user behavior and collecting data while providing little actual security against bots.”

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Modern-Day Oracles or Bullshit Machines? Jevin West (@jevinwest.bsky.social) and I have spent the last eight months developing the course on large language models (LLMs) that we think every college freshman needs to take. thebullshitmachines.com

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Meta was scrubbed any data related to copyright from articles and books that originally contained this information. If we audited Meta’s AI product, you would find hundreds of thousands of copyrighted documents, which constitutes theft of intellectual property.

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New piece up on @lawfare.bsky.social about DOGE’s violations of foundational commitments in the Privacy Act. Sen. Ervin and Sen. Goldwater would be aghast. www.lawfaremedia.org/article/doge...

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I have the lead story at the Post for now, breaking the news that the UK has secretly ordered Apple to provide a back door to the strongest encrypted storage it offers--while making it a criminal offense to tell users the truth. Free version here, no sign-up needed. archive.is/EzboV

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Read the brilliant @daniellecitron.bsky.social on DOGE access to Treasury systems www.lawfaremedia.org/article/doge...

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Let’s make a note: today may be the day when we can no longer trust anything on Google Search. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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Click on the #Moonalice cards to uncover the hidden cool cats beneath & see if you can match them all before the time runs out! Let's play > www.moonalice.com/memorygame/ #CoolCats @moonalice.com

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How cool is this? @moonalice.com 👀📚👇

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This story fills my heart with joy. Congestion pricing works … and it is making everything better.

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This story makes me wonder if there is any sort of law enforcement still operating in Washington.

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Mr Psychedelic Soul, the one-and-only, Mr Lester Chambers! Check out upcoming Moonalice shows at www.moonalice.com! #Music #LiveMusic 📷 Jon Luini @moonalice.com @zagrrl.bsky.social @personify-media.bsky.social

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Bay Area businesses urged to close Monday for A Day Without Immigrants. apple.news/Aj-Wib51aTu6...

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