Hike, Bike, Drive Offline – Navigate with Privacy

Roadbook — Plan your next adventure together

A social road trip planner with collaborative suggestions and privacy-first sharing. Built on AT Protocol.

Toward Wayfinding Infrastructure for the Living Web · Atlas Research Group

Our world is getting crazier by the day. Our old maps and compasses weren’t made for this complexity. While new tools may open up amazing possibilities, they also make it easier to lose ourselves – especially when they don’t belong to us, and make us vulnerable to other people’s hidden choices and unsavory intentions about what is worth attending to.

Trails and public spaces — Rafael M. Batista

A reply to Kenny Peng and colleagues on designing social media around trails — and why the campground or the piazza may be the better analogy.

Meeting where AI eyes can't follow

I applied to the Community Privacy Residency, and the past projects reminded me of a cryptographic exploration I come back to every once in a while, just for...

The Offline Club | Offline Community & Events

Join The Offline Club's global movement towards a more humane world. We host offline events and retreats for you to unplug and connect, community-style.

Anchor - Your Personal Location Journal

Home

A socially motivated website which provides information about protecting your online data privacy and security.

Bristol Cable launches hybrid news and social networking app in bid to double membership

A "world first" mobile experience aims to give members curated discussions and community connections within a privacy-focused platform

Playing with Parlances - Permissioned Data & AT Protocol - AT-WayFinding

Community privacy is one of our top priorities at @transrights.northsky.social which isn't possible out of the box with any ATproto implementation today that doesn't just hide an entire PDS. We're developing in the open and so I've published a proposal on it, feedback as always is we

Urban congestion relief experiments through routing-app interventions

Traffic congestion remains a persistent challenge for urban mobility, increasing travel delays and elevating CO2 emissions. The widespread use of smartphones and GPS navigation creates new opportunities to mitigate congestion through routing optimizations in apps, yet real-world evidence for the effectiveness of such interventions is limited. Here we report large-scale empirical experiments evaluating routing-based traffic interventions on ~100 highly congested road segments across 10 major US cities. By rerouting a small share of Google Maps trips from targeted congested highway and arterial segments to less congested alternatives of equivalent road-classes with comparable travel times, we observe a city-average 2% increase in vehicle speeds on the intervened segments, along with improved travel times 0.7% and potential annual reductions exceeding 1,000 tons of CO2-equivalent emissions per city in the majority of studied locations. These findings provide evidence that marginal routing interventions involving a small proportion of vehicles can measurably enhance overall road network efficiency, offering a practical pathway to easing congestion and advancing urban sustainability.

How to secure your phone before attending a protest

Here are some privacy measures you can take

Hiking by Transit

Transit-accessible hikes, parks, and trailheads across California.

Blue Skies Ahead: Social Media's Quiet User Revolution

In a digital landscape increasingly defined by user concerns over privacy and control, a quiet revolution is taking shape.