A PhD student at Stanford noticed her classmates were asking Al to write their breakup texts. So she ran a study. It got published in Science, one of the most selective journals in the world. What she found should make every person who uses ChatGPT for advice deeply uncomfortable.

the cargo bike

"Bicycles let people move with greater speed without taking up significant amounts of scarce space, energy, or time...Cyclists become masters of their own movements without blocking those of their fellows." —Ivan Illich, 1974 🎥 Giro d'Italia (disciplined riders, but still illustrates the point)

In 1923 we knew that the best path to safety was not to rebuild cities for fast driving but to make driving less necessary. In 1923 we knew that the best path to economy was not to make gas cheaper but to make gas less necessary.

That's why we push back a little when people say "The War on Cars" is too aggressive a title or pushes folks away. Had we named the show "The 'Look We Understand That Most People Need Cars but Wouldn't It Be Nice to Change Things Just a Little' Podcast" we'd have received just as much pushback.

I’m proclaiming a state of emergency in Orange County as California continues to respond to the hazardous chemical incident in Garden Grove.

What’s the dumbest things drivers have yelled at you? “Get a real bike!” “You’re not a car!”

I would love to see more features like this in car lanes.

IMO the only people that say negative things about ebikes are those who have never ridden one. #EbikesEnable

This bike is pure joy! We've only done a brief test ride around the adjacent neighborhoods and it's already a hit. Not only are my wife and daughter loving every minute of it, but anyone who sees them instantly has a big smile on their face. This bike will make people think.

The world’s largest sand battery got through Finland’s harshest winter in years. 2,000 tonnes of sand, heated to 500-600°C by cheap power, feeding district heating in Pornainen. And it worked. Result from one install: oil down 100%, emissions down 70%. Industrial process heat is the real prize.

Alien: And how did you run out of water? Earthling: Machines drank it. Alien: Machines. Earthling: We had to feed machines the water. Aliens: So the machines were holding your planet hostage for water. Earthling: No, we made the thirsty machines. They worked for us. Alien: End communication.

I ride my e-bike to the bike shop I manage. Lots of “cheating” remarks from customers. I don’t care. We fix their bikes because of my e-bike! I ran multiple errands yesterday across London promoting our charity. At 61 with dodgy joints it was awesome. Thankyou for your attention to this message.

Timeline clense.

BREAKING: The DOJ is now 146 days overdue in releasing the Epstein files.

Telegraph misspells Drivers again

Last night, Russia attacked Ukraine with 675 drones and 56 missiles.

The world’s biggest bike parking in Utrecht didn’t happen overnight. And it didn’t fall out of the sky. It’s the product of decades of effective urban and transport planning. Long-term political decisions. Sustained public investment. Great cycling cities aren’t miracles. They are policy outcomes.

spent an excellent evening offline supporting safe streets, riding bikes, and talking with friends over a delicious beverage 10/10 would recommend, touching grass rules

Another 5,000 miles not driven.

It is wrong and criminal for government agents to kidnap someone, send them to die in a concentration camp, and disappear them, regardless of immigration status. But it's still worth noting she has a green card. The government doesn't even pretend this is about deporting undocumented people.

This was a hard story to report. Newborns who don’t get a vitamin K shot are 81 times more likely to develop a condition where they bleed uncontrollably. But more and more families are declining the shot. And babies are dying. www.propublica.org/article/more...

We stopped for some groceries on the way home from preschool. Go ride your bike.

Friends 🎨Sunil Linus De

Clearly the Lambo’s fault for not wearing their parking lot crawling helmet, and also wearing dark clothing.

Spending my morning near the Pima County Fairgrounds, as protesters stand just beyond the edge of the property now owned by the developers of #ProjectBlue.

I was worried about my doctors appointment, I knew they had no safe bike parking outside. I nervously pushed my bike in and the receptionist was super friendly, parked it in the back for me and said she recently bought a bike, but has been too afraid to start riding. I hope she now has more courage!

Carcult is bizarre. (normal drop off is at the curb on the other side of the school…)

it's real simple

When I am god-emperor nobody will be allowed to drive unless they can write a three-page essay, longhand and without access to the internet, on how KE=1/2MV2 applies to driving.

Two young men/boys are getting chraged with murder for racing their street legal overpowered vehicles, with their valid, unrestricted driver licenses they acquired with minimal training, on roads intentionally built for speeding. This solves nothing. www.kvoa.com/news/crime/t...

It’s around 50% od the population. Children, elderly, poor, disabled, and those who simply do not want to (including current drivers who would stop if there was a viable alternative.) Many more can bike, walk or roll, than can drive.

Meanwhile, in Hungary 🇭🇺

Dear car people. Every cyclist is another car subtracted from your commute. Lobby for bike lanes and get home sooner!

Melania: “I never had a relationship with Ghislaine Maxwell.”

Melania Trump wants these photos and emails to be scrubbed from the Internet. Please stop liking and sharing them. Thank you for your attention to this matter.

Love to see this: A new poll conducted in Hungary has shown that JD Vance's visit to Budapest caused Putin puppet Viktor Orbán's party to LOSE 3% of its support. ⬇️

Road fatalities within city limits are up 58% year to date compared to 2025. Mayor and council would like to know whether you feel safe storing your rakes in your backyard shed. #UnsafeAtAnySpeed #DangerousByDesign #StroadsKill

3 vulnerable road users lost their lives in Tucson yesterday, multiple times higher toll than our average, already insanely high rate. Meanwhile, city leadership has a new focus on “safety”- i.e. theft. Carnage on our stroads, and we are busy cracking down on homeless people stealing power tools.

"Somebody told traffic engineers that the journey matters more than the destination and they believed it. In the background of this paradigm I see little boys with toy cars happily murmuring "Zoom, Zooom, Zooooom!" - Jane Jacobs, Dark Age Ahead, 2004 @urbantruth.bsky.social @tomflood.bsky.social

"In many places, mass transit didn't just die—it was murdered." nissenbaum.tech.cornell.edu/papers/Kwint... #UrbanTruth via @grantennis.bsky.social

"What's striking about riding a bicycle isn't that it solves a particular problem‚ but that it's part of the solution to several." —J. Harry Wray, Pedal Power.

thank you! such a clear example of how much road space there actually is, and who has to fight over the scraps.

“A street car passenger requires an average of only six square feet of street space; an automobile passenger requires eight times as much.”

Time to pickup my kid. Bring the xtra bike in the cargobike, of course, and ride back together. Easy and fun. #EbikesEnable #CargoBikeLife #WhatGasPrices

They're not vestigial. The pedals are integral to the business model of evading regulation.

"there is no ‘harmless’ level of driving. To reduce driving harm, driving itself needs to be reduced both by creating a built environment conducive to other modes & by reducing incentives for driving. Harm is harm, and driving harm needs to be considered alongside the other big commercial killers"

Absolutely deranged for a government to post "we build roads that are uniquely deadly, and if you want to survive them that's a You Problem"