Zenit Bourg
@zenit-bourg.bsky.social
Urban 🏙 and climate 🌏 observer.
Data scientist 📊.
Based in Bogor Indonesia 🦌🏛️
ID 🇮🇩 / EN 🇬🇧
Data scientist 📊.
Based in Bogor Indonesia 🦌🏛️
ID 🇮🇩 / EN 🇬🇧
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I just realized that I might have spent more hours browsing Wikipedia than playing online games combined. I am a bit bummed that Wikipedia is not fundraising in Indonesia. I really want to in honour of the Foundation and Iwan Gayo who recently passed away.
if you see this post, your actions are:
- if you have a spare buck, give it to Wikipedia, then repost this
- if you don't have a spare buck, just repost
your action is mandatory for the world's best source of information to survive
- if you have a spare buck, give it to Wikipedia, then repost this
- if you don't have a spare buck, just repost
your action is mandatory for the world's best source of information to survive
I’ve never donated to Wikipedia before but I set up a small monthly donation as a fuck you to the world’s richest psychopath.
January 2, 2025 at 4:30 PM
I just realized that I might have spent more hours browsing Wikipedia than playing online games combined. I am a bit bummed that Wikipedia is not fundraising in Indonesia. I really want to in honour of the Foundation and Iwan Gayo who recently passed away.
Same with cycling instead of driving.
December 18, 2024 at 4:57 PM
Same with cycling instead of driving.
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What the actual fuck?
December 17, 2024 at 3:22 AM
What the actual fuck?
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“We are rightly up in arms when something happens on an airplane and someone could have gotten hurt, and yet we let a full airplane's worth of people die every day in car crashes on our roads.” — Pete Buttigieg (who really needs to join Bluesky) in @usatoday.com #UrbanistShoutOut #VisionZero
Secretary Buttigieg reflects on legacy, applies for Global Entry as he exits DOT
Outgoing Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg reflects on his tenure at the department. He said he's looking forward to non-work travel now.
www.usatoday.com
December 17, 2024 at 2:18 AM
“We are rightly up in arms when something happens on an airplane and someone could have gotten hurt, and yet we let a full airplane's worth of people die every day in car crashes on our roads.” — Pete Buttigieg (who really needs to join Bluesky) in @usatoday.com #UrbanistShoutOut #VisionZero
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Water fountains are public infrastructure.
Before choosing bottled water over tap water, remember it takes more than 10X the water that a bottle of water holds to make the plastic bottle and transport the water. And that’s before considering the fuel and GHGs, the 1000 year bottle life, and the RIDICULOUS amount of $ we’re paying for water.
December 14, 2024 at 9:28 PM
Water fountains are public infrastructure.
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December 14, 2024 at 8:29 PM
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Attention Street Design Nerds! One of the most intriguing cities in recent years at reconsidering streets for people instead of just for cars, Oslo Norway, has translated their great Street Design Manual into English and put it on-line. Worth digging into. #Oslo
www.oslo.kommune.no/getfile.php/...
www.oslo.kommune.no/getfile.php/...
December 12, 2024 at 8:07 PM
Attention Street Design Nerds! One of the most intriguing cities in recent years at reconsidering streets for people instead of just for cars, Oslo Norway, has translated their great Street Design Manual into English and put it on-line. Worth digging into. #Oslo
www.oslo.kommune.no/getfile.php/...
www.oslo.kommune.no/getfile.php/...
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North Carolina’s Atrium Health says it will forgive the debts of 11,500 people — less than a week after NBC News reported that the company has aggressively pursued former patients’ medical debts, placing liens on their homes to collect on bills.
'Like a miracle': N.C. couple free of nearly $100,000 medical debt after 15 years
The lien on Donna and Gary Lindabury's home for a 2009 heart surgery debt was among 11,500 wiped away by Atrium Health after an NBC News report.
www.nbcnews.com
December 13, 2024 at 12:27 AM
North Carolina’s Atrium Health says it will forgive the debts of 11,500 people — less than a week after NBC News reported that the company has aggressively pursued former patients’ medical debts, placing liens on their homes to collect on bills.
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Another #artwork I didn’t post here yet. I’m sure it’s pretty self explanatory.
#supporthumanartists #NoAI
#supporthumanartists #NoAI
October 22, 2024 at 4:04 PM
Another #artwork I didn’t post here yet. I’m sure it’s pretty self explanatory.
#supporthumanartists #NoAI
#supporthumanartists #NoAI
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You need to acknowledge that something will happen that you have not accounted for, and that you'll need to fall back to moderating based on high-level guiding principles, and that you will need to have those principles in place to begin with. In effect, you need to be vulnerable to be strongest
December 13, 2024 at 6:43 PM
You need to acknowledge that something will happen that you have not accounted for, and that you'll need to fall back to moderating based on high-level guiding principles, and that you will need to have those principles in place to begin with. In effect, you need to be vulnerable to be strongest
Remember: Worker strike or Luigi on a bike.
BREAKING: Amazon workers in NYC are going on strike right before Christmas—the company's busiest time.
The first unionized Amazon warehouse is going to shut down in a historic walkout.
Workers plan to hit the company where it hurts to win their first union contract.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=AI1k...
The first unionized Amazon warehouse is going to shut down in a historic walkout.
Workers plan to hit the company where it hurts to win their first union contract.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=AI1k...
How Amazon Ruined Christmas
YouTube video by More Perfect Union
www.youtube.com
December 15, 2024 at 10:32 AM
Remember: Worker strike or Luigi on a bike.
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BREAKING: Amazon workers in NYC are going on strike right before Christmas—the company's busiest time.
The first unionized Amazon warehouse is going to shut down in a historic walkout.
Workers plan to hit the company where it hurts to win their first union contract.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=AI1k...
The first unionized Amazon warehouse is going to shut down in a historic walkout.
Workers plan to hit the company where it hurts to win their first union contract.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=AI1k...
How Amazon Ruined Christmas
YouTube video by More Perfect Union
www.youtube.com
December 13, 2024 at 1:05 PM
BREAKING: Amazon workers in NYC are going on strike right before Christmas—the company's busiest time.
The first unionized Amazon warehouse is going to shut down in a historic walkout.
Workers plan to hit the company where it hurts to win their first union contract.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=AI1k...
The first unionized Amazon warehouse is going to shut down in a historic walkout.
Workers plan to hit the company where it hurts to win their first union contract.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=AI1k...
Electric vehicle is good. Treating _battery_ electric vehicle as a silver bullet is stupid (and wasteful and dangerous)
![A variation of "stop doing math" meme about the futility of pursuing battery technology for personal cars when current collector for public transit has existed for more than a century.
The meme reads:
STOP DOING BATTERY
ELECTRICITY WERE NOT SUPPOSED TO BE STORED IN A CONTAINER
YEARS OF CHEMICAL RESEARCH yet NO REAL-WORLD USE FOUND for BEING DISCONNECTED FROM THE GRID
Wanted to go without worrying about range? We had a tool for that. It was called OVERHEAD WIRES [pictured: diagrams of catenary wire and pantograph collector]
"Repeated charging creates MOLECULAR WEAR. No way around but to RECYCLE IT" - Statements dreamed up by the utterly Deranged
LOOK at what EV COMPANIES have been demanding your Respect for all this time, with all the GOVERNMENT SUBSIDIES & MINING CONTRACTS built for them
(This is BATTERY TECH done by BATTERY ENGINEERS):
CHARGING ROADS
LITHIUM ION BATTERY DEGRADATION
Aussies funes at trip hazard [pictured: charging cable on sidewalks as bad design]
"Every business must accommodate charging port of adequate power"
They have played us for absolute fools](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:4u6kpt27ywiajslvezvv4ia3/bafkreih7bommxfbpux5lhojgboszzzfseimz5ev6ig57msqk2rhyexq2yy@jpeg)
December 15, 2024 at 10:25 AM
Electric vehicle is good. Treating _battery_ electric vehicle as a silver bullet is stupid (and wasteful and dangerous)
"It'd be a long term transition"
It's actually super easy, barely an inconvenience. As shown anywhere change is committed.
It's actually super easy, barely an inconvenience. As shown anywhere change is committed.
Bonjour people. Paris has changed so much (for the better) since I lived there 6yrs ago. But it's not just Paris, here in Bayonne we've got a ton of cycle routes. I can get from my house to Spain without touching a main road. That's about 50km, and through three main towns and a bunch of villages.
Paris definitely wasn’t always this way. This is very recent. It wasn’t magic. It just took vision and leadership. Your city could choose leadership too.
Great pic via @JBPssx
Great pic via @JBPssx
December 15, 2024 at 10:14 AM
"It'd be a long term transition"
It's actually super easy, barely an inconvenience. As shown anywhere change is committed.
It's actually super easy, barely an inconvenience. As shown anywhere change is committed.
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“Cycling is fun, healthy & good for the environment. In overcrowded urban centres, the car — including the emission-free e-car — will only be accepted in the future if bikes have enough space in the mobility mix.” — Herbert Diess in 2021. He was CEO of Volkswagen (yes, the car company) until 2022.
December 15, 2024 at 6:34 AM
“Cycling is fun, healthy & good for the environment. In overcrowded urban centres, the car — including the emission-free e-car — will only be accepted in the future if bikes have enough space in the mobility mix.” — Herbert Diess in 2021. He was CEO of Volkswagen (yes, the car company) until 2022.
This on Transjakarta corridor entry points.
And we have a fountain with trams running directly through it too. I need city planners to know that you can just do that, cause I think it is cool. The water jets lowers when trams run over it.
December 15, 2024 at 9:15 AM
This on Transjakarta corridor entry points.
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One of the MOST IMPORTANT THINGS your city could do to become more healthy, sustainable, livable, affordable, equitable, successful — stop pretending to “balance” transportation modes, and commit to PRIORITIZING walking/rolling, biking, public transit. HT @dublincycling.bsky.social’s graphic
December 14, 2024 at 4:27 AM
One of the MOST IMPORTANT THINGS your city could do to become more healthy, sustainable, livable, affordable, equitable, successful — stop pretending to “balance” transportation modes, and commit to PRIORITIZING walking/rolling, biking, public transit. HT @dublincycling.bsky.social’s graphic
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☝️ this.
And another graphic - from our Official Community Plan in Victoria:
And another graphic - from our Official Community Plan in Victoria:
December 14, 2024 at 5:44 AM
☝️ this.
And another graphic - from our Official Community Plan in Victoria:
And another graphic - from our Official Community Plan in Victoria:
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Bikes being faster than buses in the central city is pretty much inevitable.
But if your buses are slower than walking, there's a problem. Buses should be at least twice the speed of walking even when wait time is taken into account.
But if your buses are slower than walking, there's a problem. Buses should be at least twice the speed of walking even when wait time is taken into account.
I forget which major US city had a news reporter race the city buses by walking and bicycle; probably SF or NYC, maybe Philly.
Walking was pretty close to a draw, bike was far faster.
(Cars are tougher to compare, because it depends on parking availability as well as driving time.)
Walking was pretty close to a draw, bike was far faster.
(Cars are tougher to compare, because it depends on parking availability as well as driving time.)
December 14, 2024 at 7:26 AM
Bikes being faster than buses in the central city is pretty much inevitable.
But if your buses are slower than walking, there's a problem. Buses should be at least twice the speed of walking even when wait time is taken into account.
But if your buses are slower than walking, there's a problem. Buses should be at least twice the speed of walking even when wait time is taken into account.
START cordoning tourism streets from cars permanently.
STOP slashing bus funding
IMPROVE street vendors with licensing and proper hygiene
STOP slashing bus funding
IMPROVE street vendors with licensing and proper hygiene
QUESTION: To help make YOUR city better, more livable, healthier and more sustainable for people, what’s one thing you would insist city leaders START DOING, one thing they should STOP DOING, and one thing they NEED TO BE DOING A LOT BETTER?
December 14, 2024 at 9:06 AM
START cordoning tourism streets from cars permanently.
STOP slashing bus funding
IMPROVE street vendors with licensing and proper hygiene
STOP slashing bus funding
IMPROVE street vendors with licensing and proper hygiene
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Why widening roads and highways to try to reduce traffic congestion is always futile, and traffic never gets better for very long (it commonly ends up worse). And yet it’s always the official stated reason for spending all that public money on the widening. #InducedDemand ggwash.org/view/97803/w...
December 13, 2024 at 6:36 AM
Why widening roads and highways to try to reduce traffic congestion is always futile, and traffic never gets better for very long (it commonly ends up worse). And yet it’s always the official stated reason for spending all that public money on the widening. #InducedDemand ggwash.org/view/97803/w...
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Never forget, a 13-year study found that protected bike-lanes led to a drastic decline in fatalities for all road users.
ALL ROAD USERS.
And painted bike-lanes? No safety improvement at all. For sharrows, it’s actually safer to NOT have them.
Via @usa.streetsblog.org @nyc.streetsblog.org
ALL ROAD USERS.
And painted bike-lanes? No safety improvement at all. For sharrows, it’s actually safer to NOT have them.
Via @usa.streetsblog.org @nyc.streetsblog.org
Separated Bike Lanes Means Safer Streets, Study Says — Streetsblog USA
Cities that build protected lanes for cyclists end up with safer roads for people on bikes and people in cars and on foot, a new study of 12 large metropolises revealed Wednesday.
usa.streetsblog.org
December 10, 2024 at 7:27 AM
Never forget, a 13-year study found that protected bike-lanes led to a drastic decline in fatalities for all road users.
ALL ROAD USERS.
And painted bike-lanes? No safety improvement at all. For sharrows, it’s actually safer to NOT have them.
Via @usa.streetsblog.org @nyc.streetsblog.org
ALL ROAD USERS.
And painted bike-lanes? No safety improvement at all. For sharrows, it’s actually safer to NOT have them.
Via @usa.streetsblog.org @nyc.streetsblog.org
Foggy morning is the best weather. IDK why most people insist to ruin it by injecting greenhouse gases in it first thing in the morning.
Ever notice how quiet it seems on a foggy morning? Yeah, that’s because the fog/moisture attenuates all the background road noise from cars! This is just one reason why I support policies that reduce car dependence and provide alternatives.
December 11, 2024 at 2:11 AM
Foggy morning is the best weather. IDK why most people insist to ruin it by injecting greenhouse gases in it first thing in the morning.
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Here is an example of crossing in Paris with "daylighting" using bike racks:
1 Right only, because no parked cars on the left
2 On both sides because cars on both sides
3 None, this is a one-way street, cars go away from the crossing
4 Right only, because the approaching cars drive on the right
1 Right only, because no parked cars on the left
2 On both sides because cars on both sides
3 None, this is a one-way street, cars go away from the crossing
4 Right only, because the approaching cars drive on the right
December 10, 2024 at 1:43 PM
Here is an example of crossing in Paris with "daylighting" using bike racks:
1 Right only, because no parked cars on the left
2 On both sides because cars on both sides
3 None, this is a one-way street, cars go away from the crossing
4 Right only, because the approaching cars drive on the right
1 Right only, because no parked cars on the left
2 On both sides because cars on both sides
3 None, this is a one-way street, cars go away from the crossing
4 Right only, because the approaching cars drive on the right