Zero members of PA Senate's Transportation Committee are from urban areas.

That explains a lot about the state of transit funding.

legis.state.pa.us/cfdocs/cteeInf…

👋🏽 from the other side of 40
- Go to PT and then actually do your PT homework.
- This phase is awesome, you can play both mage and ingenue.
- Don't stop hunting for new adventures that challenge your body and/or make your soul sing.

Kona shutting down, Stages shutting down, Specialized running a 50% off everything sale in the UK. Deep winter for the bike industry 😢

I lived in a 50-person consensus based co-op. There is no OSS governance system that can scare me. 🏴‍☠️

Turns out, paying transit workers what they're worth improves frequency and reliability. Leslie Richards SEPTA_SOCIAL wdyt?

You know, it's kind of improbable that OSS communities band together to make free shit. But the internet has always required some suspension of disbelief.

Anyway, exciting news: libp2p is paying it forward from @optimism with rPGF Round 1! Nominate here: github.com/libp2p/libp2p/…

Fleche Wallone women's result is 🔥🔥🔥! I won't spoiler it for you but I accidentally saw the headline and can't wait to watch the replay.

Excited to see Noēma publishing this from Maria Farrell (Dr) and I (with a much bigger contribution from Maria).

The internet, and us with it, suffers under extraction & monoculture. We can revitalise it by applying lessons from conservation ecology.

noemamag.com/we-need-to-rew…

Hey govtech peeps — check out this Metagov RFP for Interoperable Deliberative Tools. $250,000 in grants for 2 phases. docs.google.com/document/d/1G-…

A 10% increase in open source funding is projected to grow the EU's GDP by 0.1% ($15B).

Kicking off Funding The Commons with the always excellent raymondcheng.net 💫

City park system spending per resident Trust for Public Land Park Score

DC $161 per resident
Chicago $173 per resident
NYC $153 per resident
Seattle $315 per resident
Atlanta $140 per resident
Baltimore $132 per resident

Philly $56 per resident
billypenn.com/2024/04/08/phi…

It's not secure if people don't use it.

Gotta love a long and nerdy journey (and whitepaper) to wrap advanced security in a user-friendly design, from Signal's creator Moxie Marlinspike & team.

Brava Juicebox Protocol Daniela Perlein!
👏🏽🔒❤️

The Parkland school shooting happened two months after I’d locked myself in my own classroom during an active shooter threat. It’s the reason I left teaching for politics, and it’s the reason I’m still here.

Six years since the March for Our Lives, and we will keep fighting.

Philly women/NB/trans bike lovers -- 5 days left to apply for Philly Devo's spring road & mountain bike skills programs! instagram.com/p/C4qIKhKuSBg/

Are you using IPLD in a cool way? Or do you know a project that is? If so, please tell me about it! It doesn't have to be fancy computer science magic — I'm interested in 'plumbing that gets the job done.'

For those who don't know IPLD: ipld.io.

Childcare & pre-schools should be zoning-exempt

I think the women's cycling team watch this year is gonna be Human Powered Health Cycling.

- Ruth Edwards unretired and straight to the podium
- Audrey CORDON-RAGOT back from stroke
- Lilly Williams on fire

Sports directed by 2x world champ Giorgia Bronzini 🌈

Typical Dawn Kelly 🏳️‍🌈🛠️👷🏻‍♀️, complaining about a problem and then writing up a whole framework and list of solutions 🙌🏽

Worth the read 👀