Mx Aria Stewart @aredridel@anarchism.space
Unschooled, not uneducated
Community, not corporate
they/them
Recruiter: what are your salary expectations?
Me: how much game theory do you know? because I’m not bad at math. Just let me know your budget, and we can have a conversation!
A visual representation of overthinking, anxiety, and paranoia https://t.co/ann4KRf0gM https://twitter.com/emgrebz/status/994789961235918848
The thing which bugs me with modern centralised social media is that moderation is woefully under staffed.
People are impressed "wow facebook has 20k moderators that's huge!" But they have over 2 Billion users!
That's one moderator for every 100k users.
I LOVE Janelle Monaé obviously b/c of her talent, but also because she has lived out this experience in front of us.
I feel the trajectory of her career is a metaphor for the cultural development of Black Americans and us embracing our own humanity and accepting that it's ok we are people too.
That is a profound shift in Black American culture. The idea that we can be flawed and still be ok. That we're still are worthy of a better life despite not adjusting to every absurd expectation of us.
maple classic™ 
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50 state 3142 county teachers strike WHEN
Science reveals the secret to extreme wealth: SHEER DUMB LUCK.
“The results are something of an eye-opener. Their simulations accurately reproduce the wealth distribution in the real world. But the wealthiest individuals are not the most talented (although they must have a certain level of talent). They are the luckiest. And this has significant implications for the way societies can optimize the returns they get for investments in everything from business to science.”
https://www.technologyreview.com/s/610395/if-youre-so-smart-why-arent-you-rich-turns-out-its-just-chance/amp/
Batgirls on ice ✨
so you're a conference about digital provenance or data repositories *assumes the willy wonka meme pose* but you aren't open access
Predictably, restricting car traffic on King *didn't* result in higher traffic elsewhere. (This is the corollary of the principle of "induced demand", where building/widening more roads simply increases traffic.) E. g. https://www.vox.com/2014/10/23/6994159/traffic-roads-induced-demand
This is part of the city government's broader strategy of encouraging transit, walking, and cycling instead of driving. Another pilot project that was made permanent earlier this year added bike lanes on Bloor, a major transit corridor (there is a subway underneath).
Reducing car use is in line with contemporary urban planning, environmentalist and public health consensus—see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automobile_dependency for example.
TL;DR: the King St. streetcar route, running through Toronto's entertainment and financial districts, is the city's busiest surface route. A pilot project aimed at speeding up commute times restricted car travel in the area: cars can't go straight through, they must turn off at intersections. There is an exemption for taxis late at night. Some temporary "streetscaping" has also been done, increasing pedestrian space.
Browsed through the new #KingStreetPilot report, nothing particularly surprising: https://www.toronto.ca/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/945f-King-Street_Jan-2018-Dashboard.pdf (PDF)
Here's @benspurr@twitter.com's piece: https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/transportation/2018/02/16/spending-on-king-st-up-since-streetcar-pilot-began.html
Why the OpenStreetMap is in serious trouble
Retweeted @oma_ru_maru@twitter.com:
ドラゴン(おすし)
things could be a hell of a lot better if there weren't any perverse or misaligned incentives
It’s not AI vs people
It’s not Big Data vs people
It’s not robots vs people
It’s corporations vs people.
ok so here's the full thing -- the MEATPUNK MANIFESTO
https://cybre.space/media/EyEl0O7F-phyiNZG7WU https://cybre.space/media/OmRc7fKWN9I1aP_LGCY https://cybre.space/media/hh4i_8wPYLWkgJ1i55A https://cybre.space/media/ir-MDE6hHjLTO-Y2BJ8
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