Pennsylvania
Pittsburgh
Unauthorized violence
Fig. 1. “A woman reacts at a makeshift memorial outside the Tree of Life synagogue following Saturday’s shooting at the synagogue in Pittsburgh, Oct. 29, 2018,” photograph by Cathal McNaughton for Reuters, via ABC News, October 29, 2018,[1] fair use.
There’s a new blog post entitled, “Not feeling safe, are you?”
Rich Cholodofsky, “North Side residents fed up, as 3 people killed, 1 injured in Saturday night shooting,” Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, October 16, 2022, https://triblive.com/local/3-people-killed-1-injured-in-pittsburgh-shooting/
So-called ‘ridesharing’
Electric vehicles
Fig. 2. Unattributed and undated image via Spencer Thomason in a disgraceful puff piece[2] for Uber’s electrification effort,[3] fair use.
I can’t tell you how much I distrust the gig economy and the companies exploiting workers in it. For me, it really is, if the companies are for it, it’s gotta be somehow evil and it must be opposed. But it’s possible Lyft is on the right side of this one.[4]
California’s Proposition 30 would raise taxes on the rich to encourage electric vehicle adoption and fund charging infrastructure. Lyft is backing the measure; Uber is not participating.[5] But it does not and, of course, cannot address the issue that kills electric vehicles as an option for me: range and charge time.[6]
Preetika Rana, “Lyft Battles Gavin Newsom Over California Measure to Fund EVs,” Wall Street Journal, October 16, 2022, https://www.wsj.com/articles/lyft-battles-gavin-newsom-over-california-measure-to-fund-evs-11665864256
Illiberalism
Fig. 3. Photograph by Joachim F. Thurn, August 1991, Bundesarchiv, B 145 Bild-F089030-0003, via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0 DE
There is another new blog post entitled, “The global illiberal surge.”
Marc Fisher, “Leaders of democracies increasingly echo Putin in authoritarian tilt,” Washington Post, October 16, 2022, https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2022/10/16/authoritarian-world-leaders-putin/
- [1]Bill Hutchinson et al., “Pittsburgh synagogue-shooting suspect wheeled into courtroom; Trump to visit city Tuesday,” ABC News, October 29, 2019, https://abcnews.go.com/US/pittsburgh-synagogue-shooting-suspect-discharged-hospital-set-make/story?id=58825389↩
- [2]Spencer Thomason, “Uber Drivers are Liking The Teslas,” Medium, July 28, 2022, https://medium.com/@sthomason/uber-drivers-are-liking-the-teslas-c211d15caf42↩
- [3]Andrew J. Hawkins, “Uber pledges to shift to ‘100 percent’ electric vehicles by 2030,” Verge, September 8, 2020, https://www.theverge.com/2020/9/8/21427196/uber-promise-100-percent-electric-vehicle-ev-2030↩
- [4]Preetika Rana, “Lyft Battles Gavin Newsom Over California Measure to Fund EVs,” Wall Street Journal, October 16, 2022, https://www.wsj.com/articles/lyft-battles-gavin-newsom-over-california-measure-to-fund-evs-11665864256↩
- [5]Preetika Rana, “Lyft Battles Gavin Newsom Over California Measure to Fund EVs,” Wall Street Journal, October 16, 2022, https://www.wsj.com/articles/lyft-battles-gavin-newsom-over-california-measure-to-fund-evs-11665864256↩
- [6]David Benfell, “Range anxiety, Uber and Lyft style,” Not Housebroken, November 4, 2022, https://disunitedstates.org/2021/05/21/range-anxiety-uber-and-lyft-style/↩