(Bicycle) Speed and safety
For years I've heard people talking about how motor-assisted bicycles "are safer" because they can "match traffic speed", but I think this is mistaken. Here's three reasons why. For me the most compelling reason comes from a 2007 paper by Laurie F. Beck, Ann M. Dellinger, and Mary E. O’Neil in the American Journal of Epidemiology, "Motor Vehicle Crash Injury Rates by Mode of Travel, United States: Using Exposure-Based Methods…
Grenfell survivor urges government to speed up firms’ contract ban ahead of eighth anniversary | Morning Star
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/grenfell-survivor-urges-government-speed-firms-contract…
well matured commonplace book notes, tech safety and loudspeakers and hopefulness etc. https://lbj20.blogspot.com/2025/05/notes-tech-safety-loudspeakers.html HT @…
‘Wrongful removal’: Federal judge nixes Trump’s ‘unlawful’ firing of Biden-appointed product safety board members
https://lawandcrime.com/high-profile/wrongful-removal-federal-judge-nixes-trumps-unlawful-firing-of-biden-appointed-product-safety-board-members/
Required reading.
✅ Human Rights Campaign | Tips for Preparedness, Peaceful Protesting, and Safety
https://www.hrc.org/resources/tips-for-preparedness-peaceful-protesting-and-safety
New York State passes a bill mandating safety and transparency requirements for frontier AI models; it awaits Governor Hochul's decision (Maxwell Zeff/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/13/new-york-passes-a-bill-to-prevent-ai-fu…
A small aside, during my vacation I finally started on writing a Metal backend for SwiftTerm.
It has a few missing features, so not worth comparing performance yet, but it is feeling great:
https://github.com/migueldeicaza/SwiftTerm/tree/metal-backend
Two [more] MPs indicate a shift to oppose the assisted dying Bill as it returns to Commons | Morning Star
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/two-mps-indicate-shift-oppose-assisted-dying-bill-it-returns-commons…
“Iranians all around the world are waking up terrified today.
“While the media talk as if Israel has somehow just attacked the Iranian state, it’s not true. Most neighbourhoods in Tehran were attacked.”
Israel’s ‘reckless strikes’ on Iran are a ‘threat to the safety of humankind across the world’ | Morning Star