Bicycled to the library
Bicycled to a garage sale
Bicycled to the store (solely to buy snacks for the pet rabbits 🤔)
Saw some fitness cyclers
A few kids on bikes
No adults doing any utilitarian cycling
Eight bazillion cars (Nobody walks/bikes in LA!)
Annoyed the clerks in a store asking them where the nearest bicycle rack was (answer: nowhere nearby)
Observations: Although it's great the city here has added bicycle lanes, I personally think putting bicycle lanes on ALTERNATE ROUTES (not primary routes) would be a better way to entice people to ride. I find I am taking parallel (non-car intensive) routes INSTEAD OF BICYCLE LANES (on very high speed, car intensive routes) almost everywhere now. #bicycle#cycling#policy#infrastructure#BikeTooter
Congratulations to Canadian Public Policy on its special 50th volume Issue & to Professor Donn Feir who gives the CPP lecture May 30 at the CEA meeting in Toronto "Policies for Other People: Reflections from an Economist on Research & Federal Policy Regarding Indigenous Nations in Canada Post-1975"
The US Federal Communications Commission ( #FCC ) has re-instated its Net Neutrality #policy which was removed by Trump appointees. It's taken Biden this long to get a commissioner who supports it onto the FCC - his previous appointee was rejected by the Senate. This article explains what #netneutrality is and some of the hurdles yet to cross. https://www.pocket-lint.com/what-is-net-neutrality/
🔓 We are telling #G7 leader that the #AI infrastructure must be #open.
✊🏾 Find out more on our blog about the actions recommended for the #T7Italy Summit by @okfn, @openfuture, Digital Public Goods Alliance, CEP and MicroSave:
Tomasz Poprawka: « la recherche est aujourd’hui l’un des piliers politiques essentiels de l’Union européenne ».
Usually science administrators prefer to hide behind a Popperian curtain of political neutrality - even where actual scientists <@ScientistRebellion > get arrested - but the actual disconnect between the scientific consensus and the miasma exhaled by certain political agendas is now so obvious that even the conservative academies of science are accepting that they are, indeed, political actors with moral responsibilities.
«Les élections de juin ne seront pas normales, elles seront cruciales dans un contexte de très fortes incertitudes.» ( Patrizio Bianchi)