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Jul 31, 2023

Darrell Owens @IDoTheThinking This is also why police constantly oppose automating traffic enforcement in the US. Not only would they get ticketed themselves but then they have to go back to crime fighting and beat walking. Quote Tweet David Roberts @drvolts · 15h New report finds: "U.S. police spend much of their time conducting racially biased stops and searches of minority drivers, often without reasonable suspicion, rather than 'fighting crime'." https://reuters.com/legal/government/police-are-not-primarily-crime-fighters-according-data-2022-11-02/ — (src)

It'll still be important to pull people over for obscuring their license plates though! By the way, while we're discussing advantages of speed cameras, a reminder that they don't disproportionately impact low income people of color.

Armand Domalewski 🍌 @ArmandDoma The cement industry accounts for 8% of the world's C02 emissions, and Brimstone's silicate-rock based cement has just become the first *carbon-negative* cement to meet one of the most commonly-used standards in the construction industry - ASTM C150. cemnet.com Brimstone carbon-negative cement meets ASTM standard US-based climate technology company Brimstone has gained third-party certification of its carbon-negative cement, which the company says marks the first carbon — (src)

This is cool, unfortunately I can't tell from the link how energy or materially intensive this stuff is to make.

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• Musk has personally stopped Ukraine from achieving specific battlefield objectives. David Frum has a thread arguing that a private US citizen doing that very very quickly becomes the kind of situation where the US government should intervene.

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