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recent bookmarks from robertogrecoThis San Francisco road divided the city. Can anything be done?2024-03-25T21:56:08+00:00
https://sfstandard.com/2024/03/24/geary-blvd-divided-japantown-and-fillmore-this-plan-is-trying-to-heal-the-wound/
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9qNxyzr6kbo
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2lHNkUjR9nM
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https://jacobin.com/2024/02/postwar-nostalgia-equality-progress-unions
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CHZwOAIect4
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2DOd4RLNeT4
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https://www.curbed.com/article/waymo-cruise-driverless-cars-robotaxi-san-francisco.html
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3czMMLNKww4
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https://daily.jstor.org/the-san-diego-lowrider-archival-project/
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GLvRuSjSYgo
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R63DdEe_8aM
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https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2023/09/18/world/asia/singapore-heat.html
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https://www.fastcompany.com/90952175/this-spanish-city-has-been-restricting-cars-for-24-years-heres-what-we-can-learn-from-it
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https://sf.streetsblog.org/2018/02/14/a-qa-with-an-sf-firefighter-about-vision-zero-and-windshield-perspective
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yt24N1Awu9E
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https://newrepublic.com/article/174392/big-oil-turning-big-auto
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https://www.blackbirdspyplane.com/p/the-end-of-cool-small-cars
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https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/08/robotaxis-san-francisco-self-driving-car/674956/
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https://speakeasy.substack.com/p/a-child-can-learn-to-be-a-person
robertogrecochildren parenting mobility 2023 urbanism urbanplanning cars cardependency transportation andyboenau freedom childhood freerange freerangekidshttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:2da81ead9a79/Why Americans love big cars - YouTube2023-07-26T19:13:05+00:00
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mQDegCqiVnU
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https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/09/opinion/ezra-klein-kristen-ghodsee.html
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https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/30/magazine/california-future.html
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https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/30/magazine/california-effect.html
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https://www.kqed.org/news/11941576/the-night-that-changed-san-francisco-cycling-forever
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https://psyarxiv.com/egnmj
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https://www.axios.com/ford-pickup-trucks-history
robertogrecocars us trucks pickups pickuptrucks 2023 safety transportationhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:f4e5f49a9d4d/-- Andrew Ross and Julie Livingston present "Cars and Jails: Freedom Dreams, Debt, and Carcerality" in conversation w/Stuart Schrader --2023-01-28T21:44:36+00:00
https://redemmas.org/events/andrew-ross-and-julie-livingston-present-cars-and-jails-freedom-dreams-debt-and-carcerality-in-conversation-w-stuart-schrader/
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https://unevenearth.org/2018/08/the-social-ideology-of-the-motorcar/
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https://www.watchcrunch.com/Fracas/posts/my-weird-rolex-relationship-or-thanks-dad-22435
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https://robbreport.com/shelter/art-collectibles/tyler-the-creator-prized-possessions-1234758594/
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https://www.theverge.com/2022/10/24/23414578/adas-car-technology-safety-traffic-crash-research
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https://www.hodinkee.com/articles/considering-customization-and-watch-mods
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OSPrVfoplC8
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https://www.hodinkee.com/articles/custom-watches-are-awesome-and-should-no-longer-be-taboo
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https://lithub.com/how-corporate-america-created-car-culture-and-what-we-can-do-to-change-it/
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https://www.newyorker.com/news/letter-from-silicon-valley/waymo-cars-and-honey-bears
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https://www.acollectedman.com/blogs/journal/disciplines-influenced-watchmaking
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n1IzZ6yRV-Y
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https://thewaroncars.org/2022/03/29/the-pedestrian/
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https://www.namokimods.com/blogs/namokitimes/is-seiko-modding-illegal-looking-at-the-laws-behind-changing-watch-parts
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https://www.thealternative.org.uk/dailyalternative/2022/1/30/what-is-the-case-for-public-luxury
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https://www.theguardian.com/global/2022/jan/16/look-around-you-why-increasingly-polarized
robertogreco2022 border borders us cars cities culture mutualaid unschooling deschooling fortresses urban urbanism urbanplanning climate climatechange society social polarization indifference privilege immigration racism xenophobia safety preppers pscyhologyhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:962d77faf739/The Human-Built World Is Not Built For Humans - by L. M. Sacasas - The Convivial Society2021-11-12T08:23:09+00:00
https://theconvivialsociety.substack.com/p/the-human-built-world-is-not-built
robertogrecoI know a Mexican village through which not more than a dozen cars drive each day. A Mexican was playing dominoes on the new hard-surface road in front of his house — where he had probably played and sat since his youth. A car sped through and killed him. The tourist who reported the event to me was deeply upset, and yet he said: “The man had it coming to him.”
The assumption in the tourist’s statement is clear and brutal: it is the responsibility of humans to adapt to their technical milieu. For the sake of a development he likely neither needed or desired, this man’s environment was transformed so as to render it hostile to him, but it is somehow his fault for failing to promptly adapt himself to the new reality. As Illich notes, there’s not even an air of the tragic in the tourist’s claim. One can imagine some not-too-distant future when a cyclist is struck and killed by an autonomous vehicle and an observer declares, “Well, she wasn’t even wearing her beacon, so she had it coming to her.”
As I thought about Illich’s anecdote, my own parental anxiety to convey to my children the importance of minding the cars around them at all times appeared in a new light. When one remembers that it has not always been necessary to carefully train a child, with ritualistic precision, just so that they can walk about without fear of mortal injury, then the whole thing takes on a rather absurd and malicious character.
Once you see this dynamic in one set of circumstances, you start to see it again and again. In innumerable ways we bend ourselves to fit the pattern of a techno-economic order that exists for its own sake and not for ours. As another example, consider Illich’s observations in 2000 about what is required of those who would pursue a successful career:
Modern citizens who want to pursue a successful career face a situation that is without clear boundaries or limits, and this prevents them from recognizing an alternative to their self-directed ‘lifelong learning and decision-making.’ Their comings and goings, their progress and well-being, their flourishing and ruination depend on their adaptation to diverse systems. In particular, they have to learn to function and compete in symbiosis with current economic conditions. A tolerant acceptance of these conditions is no longer enough. One has to learn to identify with them. In the mills of the new economy, where positioning is all, the grit is supposed to grind itself so fine that it becomes grease for the gears.
Or consider Shannon Mattern’s observation that “our phones seem to be contrived for circadian contradiction.” A reminder that our own technologically induced patterns of restlessness can be profoundly unhealthy. Our phones, after all, function as an interface between us and a vast network of communication and commerce: in practice, do they principally serve our interests or those of the network?
As the ways that we are schooled for life in a system that in significant ways runs counter to our own interests and well-being become more apparent, then Illich’s more radical claims begin to sound plausible if not altogether sensible.
In Tools for Conviviality, for example, we encounter this stark summation of Illich’s view of industrial society:
Increasing manipulation of man becomes necessary to overcome the resistance of his vital equilibrium to the dynamic of growing industries; it takes the form of educational, medical, and administrative therapies. Education turns out competitive consumers; medicine keeps them alive in the engineered environment they have come to require; bureaucracy reflects the necessity of exercising social control over people to do meaningless work. The parallel increase in the cost of the defense of new levels of privilege through military, police, and insurance measures reflects the fact that in a consumer society there are inevitably two kinds of slaves: the prisoners of addiction and the prisoners of envy.
Maybe this comes off as rather extreme. After all, Illich is arguing that the modern world, circa 1974 at least, is fundamentally hostile to human well-being and that some of its most vaunted institutions were basically coping and conditioning mechanisms.
Jacques Ellul, with passing reference to learning how to navigate street traffic, argues similarly:
“At the same time, one should not forget the fact that human beings are themselves already modified by the technical phenomenon […] Their whole education is oriented toward adaptation to the conditions of technique (learning how to cross streets at traffic lights) and their instruction is destined to prepare them for entrance into some technical employment. Human beings are psychologically modified by consumption, by technical work, by news, by television, by leisure activities (currently, the proliferation of computer games), etc., all of which are techniques. In other words, it must not be forgotten that it is this very humanity which has been pre-adapted to and modified by technique that is supposed to master and reorient technique. It is obvious that this will not be able to be done with any independence.”
But this is why I read writers like Illich and Ellul, and why I encourage others to do the same: for the sake of a thoroughgoing critique that will make me think more deeply, and uncomfortably, about our situation and my own acquiescence and complicity. I find that my vision tends to be too narrowly focused on surface-level symptoms. And it is too easy to take refuge in the thought that a few tweaks here and a little regulation there will make all things well, or at least significantly better. Meanwhile, nothing quite changes. Then along comes someone like Illich or Ellul claiming that maybe the whole modern techno-social order, whatever its relative merits, is broken and malignant. That the roots of our problems run much deeper than we had assumed. That we are, in truth, doing it all wrong and should revisit some of our most fundamental assumptions. You may not, in the end, agree with their conclusions, but seriously considering their perspectives should at least help us to ask better, more fundamental questions about the human-built world, or, perhaps more importantly, about the beliefs, values, and interests that shape it.
What Illich and Ellul would have us consider is that the human-built world is not, in fact, built for humans. And, of course, this is to say nothing of what the human-built world has meant for the non-human world. What’s more, it may be paradoxically the case that the human-built world will prove finally inhospitable to human beings precisely to the degree that it was built for humans without regard for humanity’s continuity with the other animals and the world we inhabit together.”]]>lmsacasas ivalillich shannonmattern jacquesellul consumerism consumption capitalism regulation technology human humans humanism posthumanism morethanhuman multispecies 2021 deschooling unschooling technosolutionism nature conviviality education slow small modernism industrialization cars autonomousvehicles smartphones sleep well-being work labor bullshitjobs life living qualityoflife society restlessness health leisurehttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:8a9cfc0b664a/Historian Adam Tooze on How the Pandemic Exposed Failures of Globalization, Economic Order - KQED2021-11-06T20:38:04+00:00
https://www.kqed.org/forum/2010101885531/historian-adam-tooze-on-how-the-pandemic-exposed-failures-of-globalization-economic-order
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https://debate.uvm.edu/asnider/Ivan_Illich/Ivan%20Illich_%20Imprisoned%20Global%20Classroom.pdf
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https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/04/pandemic-shows-what-cities-have-surrendered-cars/610423/
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https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/04/23/magazine/los-angeles-coronavirus-diary.html
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ur7gBBQtX14
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Z1KLpf_7tU
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https://macwright.org/2019/07/27/beware-the-ethical-car.html
robertogrecoAvoidable collisions, single-occupant commuters, and vehicle emissions are choking our cities, while infrastructure strains under rapid urban growth.
And that translates to an efficient ecosystem of connected transit, bikes, scooters, and shared rides from drivers as well as self-driving cars. Solving the autonomous vehicle challenge is not just an option — it’s a necessity.
And then the CEO’s quote:
Not only can self-driving tech save two lives every single minute, it is essential to combat climate change by allowing people to ditch their cars for shared electric transportation. Lyft is committed to leading this transportation revolution.
Here’s what’s they’re doing: by co-opting the language of climate change, companies are going to try and make cars ethical.
Evidence so far
We should be wary. First, because ridesharing has already claimed to reduce emissions and traffic congestion, and has done the opposite.
See, Lyft claimed in 2015 that their service harmonized with public transit, rather than competed with it. That didn’t work out. Not only have they stolen trips from public transit, they’ve reduced support for transit and replaced walking & biking trips, too. They’ve increased traffic deaths by 2-3%, while increasing the number of cars on the streets.
Improved cars are a suspiciously convenient change agenda
California, eager to top its subsidy of mansions as blindingly regressive policy, decided to subsidize electric cars to the tune of $7,500 each, in the form of a tax credit. Tax credits, of course, are wealth transfer from some taxpayers to others: and in this case, we’re transferring our money to the deserving buyers of $90,000 sports cars.
That isn’t enough: we also allowed electric cars to drive in HOV lanes for years, until too many did so, traffic built up again, and the perk was removed.
While we subsidize the rich, we subsidize public transit less than almost everywhere else and make a grisly show of cracking down on fare evasion.
Space and selfishness
Lyft links to two articles in their blog post - one to a Washington Post ‘brand studio’ (sponsored, ghostwritten) article, and the other to The Atlantic. The Washington Post article is there to substantiate the climate change claim and here’s the crux of its argument:
Fulton’s analysis found little societal or environmental benefit from driverless vehicles unless they are both electric and shared.
Which brings us to the question of self-driving technology: will it be used for shared, communal transit like public transit works today, or will it be a way for rich people to have private luxury rooms?
All current signs point to the worse scenario. Here’s the carpooling, from the Washington Post article:
Carpooling peaked during the 1970s energy crisis, then dropped to 9 percent in 2014 from 20 percent in 1980.
Here’s what Elon Musk thinks of public transit.
“It’s a pain in the ass,” he continued. “That’s why everyone doesn’t like it. And there’s like a bunch of random strangers, one of who might be a serial killer, OK, great. And so that’s why people like individualized transport, that goes where you want, when you want.”
Would Musk encourage people to carpool in their self-driving Teslas? Do serial killers own Teslas? This hasn’t been an issue so far, because Tesla owners can drive by themselves in carpool lanes.
Or consider how people reacted to increasing vehicle efficiency, and were given the choice: save the environment, or bigger cars?
The global S.U.V. boom is a roadblock in the march toward cleaner cars that has been aided by advances in fuel-saving technology and hybrid or electric vehicles. Compared to smaller cars, S.U.V.s are less efficient, generally by about 30 percent.
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Cars are a broken format. We shouldn’t give them a lifeline, or a new coat of paint, and society shouldn’t find a way to assuage the guilt that surrounds them.
Sure, cars should be electric. There are a lot of places in the world where transportation infrastructure isn’t sufficient and cars are the native transportation medium. Maybe they should be self-driving too, if the technology is safer than human drivers. Right now, it isn’t.
But to a large extent this is a zero-sum problem. Ridesharing already has substantially hurt public transit. The blue sky dream of self-driving cars is spawning galaxy-brain reckons like replacing the subway with underground highways, or replacing the subway with tunnels. These dreams are built around selfishness: they always offer private pods flying through space. Hyperloop promotional material portrays it as an alternative to being on the surface, with all those other people.
Avoiding climate catastrophe is obviously necessary, and we should consider all the options. But it’s hard to believe in car-centric solutions that don’t come with a vision of social and cultural change."]]>cars carpooling carsharing lyft uber elonmusk electriccars transportation transit publictransit climatechange technology technosolutionism space selfishness society globalwarming ethics ridesharing california subsidies policy highspeedrail trains hovlanes suvs emissions hyperloop tommacwright rail railways railroadshttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:93c12f39a6b0/The Philosophy of Low-Tech: A Conversation with Kris De Decker : Never Apart2019-07-13T19:40:22+00:00
https://www.neverapart.com/features/low-tech-kris-de-decker/
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https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/07/car-crashes-arent-always-unavoidable/592447/
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https://reallifemag.com/perpetual-motion-machines/
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qaf6baEu0_w
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https://www.vox.com/2019/3/27/18226563/50-years-wrong-side-of-history-future-prediction
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https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-war-on-cars/id1437755068?mt=2
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https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/mar/07/cars-killing-us-driving-environment-phase-out
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https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/01/nyregion/transportation-east-coast-vs-west-coast.html
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