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paezha

@paezha@mastodon.online

Carbon-based Turing Test-compliant life-form DBA Professor of #Transportation #Geography at #McMaster University, where I teach and do research on #accessibility, #TravelBehavior, #SpatialAnalysis, #ActiveTravel, #TransportPolicy.

I am an #Rstats enthusiast and big believer in #Reproducible #Open #Science.

I have several hobbies, including #CreativeWriting, #CreativeCoding and #Rtistry.

#geogdon #mapstodon #Rspatial #HamOnt

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StillIRise1963, to random
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Fuck automation. Put HUMANS on the phone. It would go a lot faster.

paezha,
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@StillIRise1963

I am convinced those automated systems work as intended: to offer as little help as possible

GottaLaff, to legal
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NOTE: I have stuff to do today. My live posting will be limited. So will my replies/reading your replies.

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Klasfeld:

Now

Trump enters the courtroom and is seated at the defense table.

Photojournalists go close up in front of him, as usual, to take their photos.

"All rise."

Justice Merchan takes the bench and invites Trump's lawyer Emil Bove to put their email exchange from Wednesday on the record.

It's an evidentiary issue.

paezha,
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@GottaLaff

NFL

They spoke like the mob, and Trump was their Al Caporn

GottaLaff, to random
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Via Obama advisor Eric Schultz:

wow - NYT reporter says their nonstop coverage of ’s age is retribution for not giving their boss an interview:

“It’s A.G. He’s the one who is pissed [that] Biden hasn’t done any interviews and quietly encourages all the tough reporting on his age.”

https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2024/04/25/new-york-times-biden-white-house-00154219

paezha,
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@Lazarou @GottaLaff

Children and crypto-fascists, it seems

paezha, to random
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— The Blitz

Nonilex, to Law
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Start of testimony day3 (I’m not counting jury selection or off days) 🧵

Publisher to Resume Testimony

, the longtime publisher of The , is expected to return to the stand & describe the deal w/ at the heart of the case, in which is charged w/ 34 .

paezha,
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@Nonilex

Trump is such a big black hole of crap of infinite mass. Every piece of crap around is trapped in his crappy orbit never to leave the crap.

paezha,
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@Nonilex

The sterling reputation of the rag that is barely away from bat boy

DrTCombs, to cycling
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Biking 1.5 miles to school today, my kid & I...

  1. waited while a school bus ran a stop sign
  2. swerved to avoid a car passing us on the left as we turned left
  3. sat at a light for 4 min to get a walk signal
  4. slammed on the brakes to not get t-boned by an SUV in a crosswalk

We don't pollute, make noise, cause pavement wear, or threaten anyone's safety. Yet our roads still force us to defer to cars or risk death.

And we're the entitled ones? Entitled to what??

paezha,
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@DrTCombs

"I'm sorry that my lower reliance on planet-destroying fossil fuels inconveniences your lifestyle."

paezha, to ai
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Of course he doesn't.

He's too busy being a gimp in Roko's Basilisk's basement.

paezha, to random
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The only infinite resource is greed.

Ok, that is not a resource.

mobileharv, to random
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More than half of Columbus remains without sidewalks to protect pedestrians more than 212 years after the city was founded. The price tag to complete the network is big: $3 billion. The LinkUs initiative will help by adding 500 miles of sidewalks near transit stops.

https://www.dispatch.com/story/news/local/communities/2024/04/25/columbus-pedestrian-sidewalk-safety-walking-path-ohio-construction/73260038007/

paezha,
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@mobileharv

$3 billion? Pfftt, that's what facebook loses in a single quarter with its metaverse hallucination

paezha,
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@mobileharv

We could, if we taxed billionaires.

We have been told for decades that the private sector is more efficient. It is now clear that it is more efficient at burning money.

paezha, to random
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"I really didn't need this today"

w7voa, to random
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NY Times - DoJ investigating McKinsey & Company, the international consulting giant, for its role in helping drug companies maximize their sale of opioids. https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/24/business/mckinsey-criminal-investigation.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=c-cb

paezha, (edited )
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@w7voa

Lest we forget, Sundar Pichai of Google started his career at McKinsey.

As @pluralistic recounts, Pichai was chief enshittifier at Google, after backing the side of the enshittifiers in an internal struggle to reduce quality to increase revenue.

https://pluralistic.net/2024/04/24/naming-names/

paezha, to random
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From intro of paper in transport policy course:

"Physical inactivity in Canada is a serious issue that as a whole is overlooked because of direct comparison to our neighbours to the south. As Canadians we are enjoy a public healthcare system, however it is important to keep in mind that this health care system was not put in place so that our communities could become negligent towards their own health, and relying on the government of Canada to take care of this negligence."

— The Student

paezha, to Haiku
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Your occasional haiku.

This year's mourning doves
perched on last year's robin's nest—
this morning's lament.

gabrielgironda, to random
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https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/music-is-now-illegal-in-chechnyaif-it-doesnt-meet-authorities-tempo-restrictions-180984159/

did chechnya… did chechnya just ban the amen break?

paezha,
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@gabrielgironda @d_run

Chechen mentality and musical rhythm appear to be limited to the 80 to 116 bpm range. What an impoverished way to define themselves

kevinrns, to random
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The lessons learned from vile Elon's fall from esteem, are not financial, but the financial lesson is astounding.

"Tesla's Q1 net income down 55% year over year"
https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/tesla-earnings-q1-new-models-1.7182817

paezha,
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@kevinrns

And we are anathematic

verge, to random
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Tesla teases robotaxi ridehailing function in its app https://www.theverge.com/2024/4/23/24138580/tesla-robotaxi-ride-hail-app-preview-earningsq1-2024

paezha,
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@WiredForFlight @verge

How about they tease a car that does not break and with a range that they don’t have to lie about

gregggonsalves, to random
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What kind of person thirsts for another Kent State? https://kevinmkruse.substack.com/p/bloodlust

paezha,
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@gregggonsalves @srvanderplas

A soulless ghoul wearing the skin of an emaciated mummy

parismarx, to apple
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Apple is cutting Vision Pro production as it fails to meet sales targets.

Analysts expected it to sell 700-800k units in 2024, but it could now be as low as 400k. A lower cost model could now be pushed beyond 2025, if it ever arrives.

https://www.theverge.com/2024/4/23/24138487/apple-vision-pro-cut-shipment-forecast-kuo-rumor

paezha,
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@parismarx @Npars01

More proof that the metaverse was an idiotic idea from the start

The_Tim, to random
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Who could have possibly foreseen it. 😒 #layoffs https://fortune.com/europe/2024/04/23/spotify-earnings-q1-ceo-daniel-eklaying-off-1500-spotify-employees-negatively-affected-streaming-giants-operations/

paezha,
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@ezlin @The_Tim

It's like the only thing one needs to be a CEO in America is to have supreme confidence in talents not in evidence, and a sociopathic attitude towards others

paezha,
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@The_Tim @ezlin

Damn it, it is a global malaise

ajsadauskas, to random
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There was no drone delivery future. There was never going to be a drone delivery future.

Just like there was never going to be self-driving Uber taxis. Or Amazon Go supermarkets on every corner. Or hyperloops. Or earth-to-earth space travel on SpaceX rockets. Or level-five full self driving Teslas.

Just like there will not be a general artificial intelligence ChatGPT in the next couple of years.

They were all scams designed to lure dollars from investors and generate good PR.

It was all bullshit. It was always bullshit.

Nothing more.

https://www.theverge.com/2024/4/22/24137383/amazon-prime-air-drone-delivery-closing-lockeford-california-phoenix-arizona

paezha,
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@ajsadauskas @temptoetiam

Let's not forget the Metaverse

paezha,
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@bastardsheep @ajsadauskas @temptoetiam

https://mastodon.online/@parismarx/112329234110892234

gallaugher, to australia
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Need convincing that birds are dinosaurs? Check out the cassowary. This endangered resident of tropical North Queensland is the 3rd largest bird in the world.

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@gallaugher @Compassionatecrab

Truculent beast

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