Greg Ahlswede
@totalswede.bsky.social
Orienteering, endurance sports, active transportation, languages, nature, and so much more. Let's learn. Philadelphia, PA->Madrid, ES->Scranton, PA
So ICE is currently being used to silence free speech. Where are all the free speech warriors now?
March 27, 2025 at 12:49 AM
So ICE is currently being used to silence free speech. Where are all the free speech warriors now?
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Whatever happened to the "5 things " DoGe emails ? Talked to someone really smart who just left gov, who said all the emails bounced back as inbox full.
Already forgotten
Typical
Ready Fire Aim
Already forgotten
Typical
Ready Fire Aim
March 26, 2025 at 11:17 PM
Whatever happened to the "5 things " DoGe emails ? Talked to someone really smart who just left gov, who said all the emails bounced back as inbox full.
Already forgotten
Typical
Ready Fire Aim
Already forgotten
Typical
Ready Fire Aim
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If driving is so freeing and convenient, why is every driver one nanosecond away from total rage meltdown?
March 7, 2025 at 10:02 PM
If driving is so freeing and convenient, why is every driver one nanosecond away from total rage meltdown?
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I'd be very interested if anyone has resources on the impact cycling safety measures (lights, mirrors, choosing quiet routes, etc.) have on the cycling fatality rate.
March 6, 2025 at 12:29 AM
I'd be very interested if anyone has resources on the impact cycling safety measures (lights, mirrors, choosing quiet routes, etc.) have on the cycling fatality rate.
A few days ago, I sold the car my girlfriend and I share. We're inheriting another from a family member in a week for the 5% of trips we can't do walking, biking, or on public transit.
But we haven't really noticed a difference. With better public transit, we wouldn't need a car at all.
But we haven't really noticed a difference. With better public transit, we wouldn't need a car at all.
March 3, 2025 at 4:29 PM
A few days ago, I sold the car my girlfriend and I share. We're inheriting another from a family member in a week for the 5% of trips we can't do walking, biking, or on public transit.
But we haven't really noticed a difference. With better public transit, we wouldn't need a car at all.
But we haven't really noticed a difference. With better public transit, we wouldn't need a car at all.
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I got laid off today, with the rest of 18F.
18F was an elite federal software shop. We made gov't websites work better, more efficiently for the American people. We saved taxpayers from getting screwed over by contractors. And were fired for it.
We made this website to tell our story:
18f.org
18F was an elite federal software shop. We made gov't websites work better, more efficiently for the American people. We saved taxpayers from getting screwed over by contractors. And were fired for it.
We made this website to tell our story:
18f.org
We're not done yet | 18F
18f.org
March 1, 2025 at 10:38 PM
I got laid off today, with the rest of 18F.
18F was an elite federal software shop. We made gov't websites work better, more efficiently for the American people. We saved taxpayers from getting screwed over by contractors. And were fired for it.
We made this website to tell our story:
18f.org
18F was an elite federal software shop. We made gov't websites work better, more efficiently for the American people. We saved taxpayers from getting screwed over by contractors. And were fired for it.
We made this website to tell our story:
18f.org
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Wish I knew who was responsible for this. I would love a print.
February 20, 2025 at 7:57 PM
Wish I knew who was responsible for this. I would love a print.
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February 17, 2025 at 2:28 PM
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I hadn't intended this retweet to refer to His Royal Trumpness, but the timing today was perfect
Random sub-tweet. If your answer to mobility involves keeping poor/rural people dependent on buying cars and putting fuel in them, you're working for global Capital, not poor/rural people
February 19, 2025 at 8:11 PM
I hadn't intended this retweet to refer to His Royal Trumpness, but the timing today was perfect
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REMINDER: Those choosing to live in subsidized suburbs for a bigger house and yard are NOT also entitled to free-flow car traffic capacity (aka an “easy car commute”) into the city at the expense of the taxes, health, safety (hint: bike-lanes) & quality of life of city-dwellers.
HT Ian Lockwood.
HT Ian Lockwood.
November 24, 2024 at 4:26 AM
REMINDER: Those choosing to live in subsidized suburbs for a bigger house and yard are NOT also entitled to free-flow car traffic capacity (aka an “easy car commute”) into the city at the expense of the taxes, health, safety (hint: bike-lanes) & quality of life of city-dwellers.
HT Ian Lockwood.
HT Ian Lockwood.
My girlfriend and I share a car and walk/bike to nearly all destinations within 10 miles of home.
After seeing how much money this saves us year after year, I wonder how much money is siphoned out of our community by car dependency.
After seeing how much money this saves us year after year, I wonder how much money is siphoned out of our community by car dependency.
February 11, 2025 at 12:43 PM
My girlfriend and I share a car and walk/bike to nearly all destinations within 10 miles of home.
After seeing how much money this saves us year after year, I wonder how much money is siphoned out of our community by car dependency.
After seeing how much money this saves us year after year, I wonder how much money is siphoned out of our community by car dependency.
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Ok Trump is bad but if his tariffs advance my anti-car agenda that’s good
February 1, 2025 at 2:14 PM
Ok Trump is bad but if his tariffs advance my anti-car agenda that’s good
So two significant plane crashes in a week under this administration, and we're really trusting flying robotaxis to be properly regulated with a gutted government?
February 1, 2025 at 2:25 PM
So two significant plane crashes in a week under this administration, and we're really trusting flying robotaxis to be properly regulated with a gutted government?
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really love how advocates for safer cycling and pedestrian infrastructure are radicals but people who want to drive fast & park wherever they want (at the risk of everyone else) are just normal reasonable humans
January 29, 2025 at 7:04 PM
really love how advocates for safer cycling and pedestrian infrastructure are radicals but people who want to drive fast & park wherever they want (at the risk of everyone else) are just normal reasonable humans
Favorite comment on Reddit: "AI company making billions by stealing other people's work without compensation or credit complains about having work stolen." -u/OpalescentAardvark
So OpenAI is claiming that DeepSeek harvested data from their model to train its competitor. I'm not an expert, but that certainly sounds like what they did to everyone else's data on the internet.
I guess intellectual property theft is only cool if you're the one doing it.
I guess intellectual property theft is only cool if you're the one doing it.
January 29, 2025 at 10:14 PM
Favorite comment on Reddit: "AI company making billions by stealing other people's work without compensation or credit complains about having work stolen." -u/OpalescentAardvark
So OpenAI is claiming that DeepSeek harvested data from their model to train its competitor. I'm not an expert, but that certainly sounds like what they did to everyone else's data on the internet.
I guess intellectual property theft is only cool if you're the one doing it.
I guess intellectual property theft is only cool if you're the one doing it.
January 29, 2025 at 10:12 PM
So OpenAI is claiming that DeepSeek harvested data from their model to train its competitor. I'm not an expert, but that certainly sounds like what they did to everyone else's data on the internet.
I guess intellectual property theft is only cool if you're the one doing it.
I guess intellectual property theft is only cool if you're the one doing it.
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I realize now that I have a “trade deficit” with the store across the street. I walked over and bought a jug of milk. The store is abusing me and I’m tired of subsidizing it by buying something at a fair price that I want. I’m going to apply a tariff that will raise the future price of milk for me.
January 24, 2025 at 3:50 AM
I realize now that I have a “trade deficit” with the store across the street. I walked over and bought a jug of milk. The store is abusing me and I’m tired of subsidizing it by buying something at a fair price that I want. I’m going to apply a tariff that will raise the future price of milk for me.
Sometimes I get so frustrated with how hostile the US is to anyone outside a vehicle that I consider just driving too.
Then I remember the many people who don't have the option to just drive and that cycling, walking, and taking transit is a way of rebelling against a system that disregards them
Then I remember the many people who don't have the option to just drive and that cycling, walking, and taking transit is a way of rebelling against a system that disregards them
January 27, 2025 at 8:49 PM
Sometimes I get so frustrated with how hostile the US is to anyone outside a vehicle that I consider just driving too.
Then I remember the many people who don't have the option to just drive and that cycling, walking, and taking transit is a way of rebelling against a system that disregards them
Then I remember the many people who don't have the option to just drive and that cycling, walking, and taking transit is a way of rebelling against a system that disregards them
Just to put this out there, deflation is actually worse than inflation. That is all.
January 24, 2025 at 9:08 PM
Just to put this out there, deflation is actually worse than inflation. That is all.
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The hard truth about the consequences of the #ClimateCrisis — wildfires, floods, storms, droughts, heat waves and more — won’t come from climate activists who are too easily ignored or even vilified. It will come from central banks. And insurance companies. And every rational evidence-based sector.
January 9, 2025 at 4:13 AM
The hard truth about the consequences of the #ClimateCrisis — wildfires, floods, storms, droughts, heat waves and more — won’t come from climate activists who are too easily ignored or even vilified. It will come from central banks. And insurance companies. And every rational evidence-based sector.
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Bicycles aren't inconvenient; they have been inconvenienced.
Cars aren't convenient; they have been convenienced.
Cars aren't convenient; they have been convenienced.
January 5, 2025 at 2:51 PM
Bicycles aren't inconvenient; they have been inconvenienced.
Cars aren't convenient; they have been convenienced.
Cars aren't convenient; they have been convenienced.
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If I can’t walk or bike to your business, there’s a very good chance I will not be your customer.
January 5, 2025 at 5:37 PM
If I can’t walk or bike to your business, there’s a very good chance I will not be your customer.
A bit over three years ago, I was bit by a copperhead during a gap in insurance. Three nights in the hospital and the total came to:
#healthcarecosts #medicaldebtcrisis
#healthcarecosts #medicaldebtcrisis
January 3, 2025 at 10:31 PM
A bit over three years ago, I was bit by a copperhead during a gap in insurance. Three nights in the hospital and the total came to:
#healthcarecosts #medicaldebtcrisis
#healthcarecosts #medicaldebtcrisis
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