weekly reel November 17, 2024
Hiha, and music with Django Django.
Off Planet by Django Django (bandcamp.com)
Eco
[fr] Homo fabulus & Le réveilleur : Notre cerveau nous condamne-t-il à détruire la planète ? et partie 2.
Carbon Mapper achieves first Tanager-1 methane mitigation success, via nelson.
Urbanism
Vision Zero, Sweden’s road traffic safety project started in 1997 to “achieve a roadway system with no fatalities or serious injuries involving road traffic”.
Not just bikes: How self-driving cars will destroy cities, and what to do about it. Aside the projections (that are risky and debatable), here are two highlights:
- [43:28] The comparison between the post-90s evolution of London, Ontario & Utrecht, Netherlands is striking (and nice job researching historical changes & photos): two cities similar both in size, and in how disfigured they were after the mid-20th century car boom... but how they took opposite paths, with night-and-day results three decades later. A good case to counter the usual “North America is different” narrative: European cities were scarred just as much! Examples like Utrecht prove that healing these wounds is possible and was done.
- [34:26] The case of Bamberg, North Carolina, whose city council thought it was helping downtown business by prioritizing cars in its Main Street.
Games
Dead Game News: Ubisoft is getting sued in California over The Crew.
Lulz
How Copperfield made the Statue of Liberty vanish in 1983.
SMBC: Climate, Promise, Questions. PBF: Clicked.
Tech
Stephane Travostino: The firehose.
Andrew Stephens: Save the web by being nice, On micropayments.
ben-mini: IMG_0416, via HN.
’Murica & Orange Man
Why the Guardian is no longer posting on X.
Doc Searls: The redstream media.
Matt Pearce: Journalism's fight for survival in a postliterate democracy.