Matthew Rowlinson
@matthewrowlinson.bsky.social
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he/him. Lives on traditional Attawandaran, Algonquin and Haudenosaunee land. Works on nineteenth century poetry; votes NDP. Can't tell a story. *Biopolitics and Animal Species* (2024) available from Cambridge https://www.cambridge.org/9781009409957
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Notch another win for automatic traffic enforcement.
After San Francisco began using cameras to ticket vehicles, speeding dropped 72% across 15 sites (20,000 fewer speeding drivers).
After San Francisco began using cameras to ticket vehicles, speeding dropped 72% across 15 sites (20,000 fewer speeding drivers).
SFMTA data: Drivers a lot slower around cameras
Pedestrian-safety advocates say “encouraging” findings should prompt more action.
www.sfexaminer.com
I do not regret to inform you that we're gonna win. Power to the people.
USC rejects Trump education compact aimed at shifting the university to the right
USC interim President Beong-Soo Kim said in a statement that he had sent a letter to the U.S. Department of Education turning down the Trump offer.
www.latimes.com
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Sam Altman says ChatGPT will soon sext with verified adults
Sam Altman says ChatGPT will soon sext with verified adults
ChatGPT is about to get flirty.
buff.ly
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Seeing a report—I have not verified it myself—that USC has just terminated all administrative staff in humanities departments, administrative functions to be consolidated in a centralized “hub” with a limited number of positions to which the now jobless may choose to apply.
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Police in Airdrie, Alberta (just north of Calgary) say this driver hit a 17-year-old girl in a marked crosswalk, got out of the vehicle, and appeared to get upset at the teenager before driving away.
They released this video and are now trying to identify the driver.
They released this video and are now trying to identify the driver.
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NEW: Ontario Premier Doug Ford has responded to a letter from more than 20 Ontario mayors asking to save the province’s automated speed cameras, telling them “the answer is no.” #OnPoli
globalnews.ca/news/1146790...
globalnews.ca/news/1146790...
‘The answer is no’: Ford rejects plea from mayors to save, alter Ontario’s speed cameras | Globalnews.ca
Replying to a letter sent last week asking for changes to how speed cameras operate instead of an all-out ban, Ford repeated his claim the program is a 'cash grab.'
globalnews.ca
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Let's be clear a what's happening here: the "censorship" and "bias" narrative is being extended to Wikipedia bc the far right knows that getting bullshit into LLMs is how to shape reality as "answer engines" replace search engines.
Wikipedia is core to that fight so the grievance blitz is here.
Wikipedia is core to that fight so the grievance blitz is here.