🔴 CPI 2022
Since its inception in 1995, the Corruption Perceptions Index CPI, @anticorruption’s flagship research product, has become the leading global indicator of public sector corruption
#CPI2022 ➡️ Russia 🇷🇺
2022 Rank 137/180
2022 Score 28/100
https://www.transparency.org/en/countries/russia
Original tweet : https://twitter.com/mbk_center/status/1621113584553201664
Never forget, the Dutch invest €595 million annually on urban biking, resulting in €19 BILLION saved in public health care costs alone. That’s how smart govts do the math on investing in better mobility.
Let’s be clear — it wastes public money to NOT do it.
#CityMakingMath Source: @modacitylife
Automobile “design,” mass murderer edition. Because there isn’t enough stress in the world already.
https://uncrate.com/2023-rezvani-vengeance-suv/
The economics of populism are not so great. https://techhub.social/@Techmeme/109761394156854095
This is important — closing Central #Madrid to cars over holidays resulted in a 9.5% boost in retail spending on its main shopping street: STUDY.
There was also a 71% drop in air pollution.
Via @carltonreid in Forbes. #citymakingmath #citiesforpeople #cities #cars #streets #urbanism #Spain
New from me on @medium: Can you use #ChatGPT to create brand names and taglines?
https://wordworking.medium.com/can-you-use-chatgpt-to-create-brand-names-976855ea1622?sk=529e86a7e1237be6f61cbcd7a739f137 (friend link)
“A trio of artists have launched a lawsuit against Stability AI and Midjourney, creators of AI art generators Stable Diffusion and Midjourney, and artist portfolio platform DeviantArt, which recently created its own AI art generator, DreamUp.”
This will be interesting to watch. A lot depends on its outcome.
Brilliant ending.
“Absurdly disrespectful.”
And the end of an era.
https://daringfireball.net/linked/2023/01/14/information-twitter-slack-confirmation
Internal messages: Twitter intentionally suspended access to third-party clients last Thursday; staff questioned when an explanation will be provided publicly (Erin Woo/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/musks-twitter-intentionally-suspended-tweet-bot-third-party-apps-messages-show
http://www.techmeme.com/230114/p12#a230114p12
I always loved drawing lines and writing words, so I co-founded a design consultancy,
Brandient, to do that, but better.