Izzatina Aziz: Anti-wishful thinking era returns

Thinking about active travel /want to cut carbon emissions/stanning public transit while studying & working in UKM. Here’s a guide: I’ll start with buses, walking & cycling. At the end of this thread, I will put all the ‘saluran betul’ for complaints at relevant authorities. 1/n

Moga @akmalnasir dpt teliti bekalan motorsikal, basikal dlm pasaran tempatan juga. Ini termasuk e-bike supaya pengguna dpt beralih mode pengangkutan.

I simultaneously believe that we need more rigorous, credible evaluations of social policy AND that some current evaluation systems would be better transformed into good monitoring. I just assigned my students my favorite reading on this topic. ssir.org/articles/entry…

@ErnestOnPT Doesn't solve the soon-to-be nerfed Pulau Sebang-KL KTM Komuter route.

While the new initiatives are welcomed, the gov on the other hand repeated the point of MY50 being a "subsidy and Malaysians should utilise it" is ignorant of reality when transit remains unreliable and inaccessible for many while petrol remains cheaper than bottled water

In response to the worsening fuel crisis, the Ministry of Transport has announced: - up to weekday 30% discounts for KTMB ETS and Intercity train services from tomorrow until 14 October - further discounts on ERL Monthly Travel Card prices for civil servants and airport workers

@syawal @anthonyloke @syahredzan If you look at responses from KTM in FB, no replacement bus. Its either you travel on KTM during the specified time & direction or 'cari pengangkutan alternatif'.

@beatenia @anthonyloke @syahredzan Bus ?

After 18th to Dec 2026, if you need to use Komuter from P.Sebang to Mid Valley outside the 5 designated trains time, you are screwed. Over the weekend, only 2 trains. I thought we are dealing with energy crisis but a major line has been cut. @anthonyloke @syahredzan

@khalidkarim KTM capacity between Tampin & Mid Valley will be reduced starting next week. x.com/ktm_berhad/sta…

Cities with high public transport ridership have 20 buses for every km of rail. We have five.

@Thevesh Look at the new KTM Komuter schedule. The Tampin-Mid Valley line just get nuked for KTM penambahbaikan. x.com/ktm_berhad/sta…

This is gonna be unpopular for sure, but I feel that we should openly discuss the data, since @hannahyeoh has got us all talking about traffic. This is daily RapidRail ridership from 1 Sep 2025, all the way up to yesterday (thank you MOT, for the great open data). Thus far, we observe essentially zero rise in usage of RapidRail. That's not what we would want or expect to see if the country really is responding to global conditions. To me, this is expected, and the explanation is obvious + simple: 1) As long as the price of petrol remains (heavily) subsidised, consumers are going to continue making decisions based on that price of RM1.99. 2) We can talk about WFH, berjimat-cermat, bersiap sedia all we want, but ultimately, economic incentives will dominate. 3) The quota reduction from 300L to 200L does essentially nothing. PM's own statement suggests it shouldn't affect 90% of consumers. So, if gov wants meaningful behavioural change, there is only one way—consumers have to 'internalise' (economic term meaning 'account for') the actual cost of what they are buying, which ultimately means floating the price of petrol. As long as that isn't done, everything else is just making tweaks without addressing the root cause. ----- Important note: My post above is FULLY agnostic about what the government SHOULD do. I know there are other economic and political considerations. I am simply saying that we should not be surprised at continued jams and minimal impact of other solutions (WFH, 'nudges', etc), as long as the primary economic incentive (namely fuel for RM1.99) remains in place.

Perhatian untuk pengguna KTM Komuter sepanjang Mid Valley dan Pulau Sebang/Tampin. Kena cari alternative lain diwaktu krisis tenaga @BangiCommunity @BangiKita @TwtSemenyih

You guys should make even bigger noise on this than Zus drama. Thousands rely on this service to get to work daily. @NabilErsyad @fazleyff @shahrimtamrin @jaegar00 @BikeCommuteUSM @bettersidewalk1 @iamgandipan ktmb.com.my/TrainTime.html

Czech automaker Škoda created first bicycle bell to penetrate noice-cancelling headphones. They tested 100s of headphones and found a low frequency (750 to 780 Hz) that anti-noise algos can’t suppress. Bell is mechanical and uses an irregular hammer mechanism. This might be the most European tech story ever and feels inevitable that an audio firm will create an anti-anti-noise-cancelling-bell headphones. *** Link: youtu.be/zDaVPfpQvPI?si…

I hope the 3 Zus branches nearby will be part of the initiative...apart from prime parking space for my bicycle.

I just look at the WFH notice. Thankfully I don't live more than 8km from the office. Cause it'll definitely pissed me off if I'm required to work at home even if I cycle to work daily.

@NewsBFM APSAL NURSE BUAT HOME VISIT TAK DAPAT ELAUN MINYAK MACAM AHLI PARLIMEN??? APSAL NURSE BUAT HOME VISIT TAK DAPAT ELAUN MINYAK MACAM AHLI PARLIMEN??? APSAL NURSE BUAT HOME VISIT TAK DAPAT ELAUN MINYAK MACAM AHLI PARLIMEN??? PUNDEK

Listened to the Project Hail Mary score during my walk home. Energize me so much I feel I can walk all the way to Tau Ceti. youtu.be/ecy17Wi7nHM?si…

@shahrimtamrin Lane filtering is legal. Except you don't it at anything above 20km/h.

Taking out the new pannier for a ride this Sunday morning. I thought I'm gonna go to Kinokuniya Damansara(there's 25% off on books) but I know I'll spend more money than I have so I ended up taking a ride to a nearby coffee shop to read.

@erhanazrai @__earth Kenapa nak document policy failures? Everything wrong just blame the political class. Bureaucracy class taichi responsibility...😈😈😈

Negara ni bukan pertama kali buat menda ni mcm ni, tapi kita tak document key learnings. kenapa KR1M & Kedai Kain 1M tak diteruskan, kenapa orang tak pergi situ, kenapa masih ke mydin, kkmart, speedmart, nsk.

Some academics who denounced the idea of objectivity and declared themselves activists are for some reason shocked that policymakers and the public now view them not as trusted, objective scientists but as...activists.

@disml_scientist Congrats!!! Happy for you.

Thrilled with the start to 2026, mildly terrified it’s setting a precedent I CANNOT maintain, and fully expecting Reviewer 2 to restore balance soon.

Second: "Does Artificial Intelligence Help or Hurt Gender Diversity? Evidence from Two Field Experiments on Recruitment in Tech" conditionally accepted at JoLE! Major condition? Cut the length. Look here to see the paper before it goes on a serious diet: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…

I’ve been beating this drum: by making traditional signals of effort/information obsolete (eg writing a thoughtful email), AI will *increase* the value of social capital and networks. This is not a good outcome: information technology was supposed to “flatten” interactions. But I don’t see a solution on the horizon.