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Street parking was already scarce in #Hoboken, New Jersey, when the death of an elderly pedestrian spurred city leaders to remove even more spaces in a bid to 👍end traffic fatalities.👍
For seven years now, the city of nearly 60,000 people has reported resounding success:
♦️Not a single automobile occupant, bicyclist or pedestrian has died in a traffic crash since January 2017♦️, elevating Hoboke…

A New Jersey city that limited street parking hasn’t had a traffic death in 7 years
Hoboken, New Jersey, recently marked seven consecutive years without a traffic death. Officials there credit their decision to take away some street parking, a change that increases visibility for motorists, cyclists and pedestrians. The city of nearly 60,000 people just across the Hudson River from Manhattan has become a model. Sweden originated similar changes more than a quarter-century ago, and numerous cities, states and nations have since adopted the approach. One key to Hoboken's success…

"The Hidden Environmental Cost of Our Digital Lifestyle"
#Environment #Technology #Emissions

The Hidden Environmental Cost of Our Digital Lifestyle | Happy Eco News
The Metaverse industry is booming around the globe, with countries like the US, Japan, China, Canada and New Zealand leading the way in terms of user

💣 Boris Kagarlitsky: The Hobbesian World of “Multipolarity”
#russia

Boris Kagarlitsky: The Hobbesian World of “Multipolarity”
Russian political prisoner Boris Kagarlitsky writes in Jacobin from his jail cell at Zelenograd SIZO-12. He discusses the need for an alternative to the “individualist logic of modern liberalism and the totalitarian aggressiveness of the new conservatism.”

Blackstone offers $1.30 per share in cash for Hipgnosis, valuing the business at ~$1.57B, above Concord's $1.51B offer; Hipgnosis' board recommends the deal (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-04…

Blackstone Offers $1.57 Billion in Hipgnosis Bidding War
Blackstone Inc. made a fresh offer for Hipgnosis Songs Fund Ltd., surpassing a previous bid from music investment firm Concord and intensifying a bidding war for the owner of song catalogs from Blondie, the Kaiser Chiefs and the Red Hot Chili Peppers.

🔊 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #SonicReducer
Wrangler Brutes:
🎵 Chaos Collides
#WranglerBrutes
https://open.spotify.com/track/0Ha1vGM8S58j5voCWVCOzk
https://wranglerbrutes.bandcamp.com/track/chaos-collides

in a beautiful place out in the country: yo la tengo's tour closer last night at the haw river ballroom near chapel hill. 2 glowing sets, "night falls on hoboken" to close the quiet-ish half, perhaps the furthest-out "from a motel 6" i've yet caught (into "flying lesson"!), & a lou reed birthday encore (naturally featuring the never-fully-released outtake "guess i'm falling in love").

Cryo-ET of the SC-CA1 hippocampal connection from Eric Gouaux group. Nice confirmation that GluA2 N-terminus is closer to the pre-synapse than to the post-synapse!
#synapse #neuroscience #AMPAReceptor

🔊 Auf radioeins läuft...
Katy J Pearson:
🎵 Talk over town
#NowPlaying #KatyJPearson
https://open.spotify.com/track/3aoB09FhpvYOQ1MDj3P0kF
https://katyjpearson.bandcamp.com/track/talk-over-town

in a beautiful place out in the country: yo la tengo's tour closer last night at the haw river ballroom near chapel hill. 2 glowing sets, "night falls on hoboken" to close the quiet-ish half, perhaps the furthest-out "from a motel 6" i've yet caught (into "flying lesson"!), & a lou reed birthday encore (naturally featuring the never-fully-released outtake "guess i'm falling in love").

🔊 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio2's #TheZoeBallBreakfastShow
Dobie Gray:
🎵 Out On The Floor
#DobieGray
https://open.spotify.com/track/4HYpG1m9d5LVBHJZJ6NWMc