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@cdarwin@c.im
2025-06-29 18:40:05

One hundred years ago today, downtown Santa Barbara was devastated by an earthquake centered just offshore.
The main commercial district, State Street, was in ruins. Some buildings completely collapsed
— the vulnerability in their designs laid bare by the power of Mother Nature. Around a dozen people died.
Yet, despite the destruction, the great Santa Barbara earthquake remains relatively obscure, seismically speaking,
even in a state notorious for its shaking.

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Quake devastated Santa Barbara 100 years ago. What can it teach us?
In California, where the next “Big One” is an always-looming threat, some lessons learned from the 1925 Santa Barbara quake resonate even 100 years later, experts say.

@andres4ny@social.ridetrans.it
2025-07-31 15:53:39

#FuckEricAdams so so much. And fuck Hochul for not removing him. #BikeNYC
hellgateny…

After two last-minute appeals from safe street advocates, a state appellate court panel ruled on Monday afternoon that Mayor Eric Adams could rip out a three-block stretch of protected bike lane on Bedford Avenue from Willoughby Avenue to Flushing Avenue. Adams's Department of Transportation, which installed the bike lane barely nine months ago, began the demolition late Wednesday night. "It's really sad to see [the removal of] a safety project that has been fought for by a whole host of com…
Crash data from the DOT showed that the entire protected lane on Bedford, which separated bicyclists from traffic with a barrier of parked cars and stone blocks, reduced overall injuries by 47 percent. But Mayor Adams's decision to kill the lane was ultimately about politics, not safety. This past spring, members of the local Orthodox Jewish community, many of whom opposed the bike lane's installation in the first place, became incensed after several close calls between e-bike riders and chi…
One Orthodox man, who declined to give his name, told Hell Gate that he supported Adams's decision to remove the bike lane, which he thought was "poorly planned," but believed that Adams intervened mostly because of the general election in November. "I don't think he would have stepped in if there wasn't an election," he said, adding that he liked Adams before the mayor decided to remove the bike lane. "He has a very hard job because it's New York City, but he's doing a decent job." The m…
The actual removal of the bike lane was extremely loud and agonizingly slow. A massive truck obliterated less than a third of the bright green line on Bedford Avenue between Willoughby and Myrtle Avenues in about an hour of work, as a worker watched to make sure no debris got caught in the machine. Two bicyclists whisked by after 11 p.m. realizing—mid-ride—that the bike lane was being shorn off. One of them turned to their friend, perplexed: "Wait, are they getting rid of this?"
@Techmeme@techhub.social
2025-06-10 10:45:58

IBM plans to build IBM Quantum Starling, a "fault-tolerant" quantum computer with 20,000x the power of today's quantum computers, in New York state by 2029 (Wall Street Journal)
wsj.com…

@seeingwithsound@mas.to
2025-06-10 17:25:39

[OT] Saturday June 14: No Kings protests nokings.org Could be US citizen's last chance to save US democracy from oligarchy and a police state

No Kings
On June 14—Flag Day—Donald Trump wants tanks in the street and a made-for-TV display of dominance for his birthday. A spectacle meant to look like strength. But real power isn’t staged in Washington. It rises up everywhere else.

@cdarwin@c.im
2025-07-15 16:39:32

GOOD TROUBLE LIVES ON:
Rally · Volunteer organized
Thursday, July 17
7:30 – 8:30pm PDT
State Street & West Cabrillo Boulevard
Santa Barbara, CA 93101
About this event
Good Trouble Lives On is a national day of nonviolent action to respond to the attacks posed on our civil and human rights by the Trump administration and to remind them that in America, the power lies with the people.
On July 17, the anniversary of Congressman John Lewis’s pass…

GOOD TROUBLE LIVES ON: · John Lewis Actions
Good Trouble Lives On is a national day of nonviolent action to respond to the attacks posed on our civil and human rights by the Trump administration and to remind them that in America, the power lies with the people. On July 17, the anniversary of Congressman John Lewis’s passing, we’re taking action across the country to defend our democracy and carry forward his legacy of Good Trouble. From voter suppression bills like the SAVE Act to the criminalization of protest, the Trump adminis…

@cdarwin@c.im
2025-07-11 00:58:41

Witnesses reported a caravan of armored vehicles and unmarked police vehicles with masked men in plain clothes,
some wearing ICE or police vests,
and a group of people in military camouflage, all carrying weapons.
Additional reports state helicopters have been seen over the area as well.
“It looks like they’re going to war on our street,” one protestor stated
Unidentified masked and armed guards, presumed to be federal agents or military, in front of a crowd of…