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Bryan @bryanformhals.com · 2h

RIP. Keaton was an accomplished and interesting photographer as well. Totally legit.

She co-edited a book for Twin Palms called Dead of Night which are car crash photos from the archive of Bob Boltz, a photographer from Wisconsin.

Terrifying book.

www.twinpalms.com/products/dea...

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Bryan @bryanformhals.com · 4h

Mariners v Brewers all the way. That would be a classic by virtue of happening.

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Bryan @bryanformhals.com · 9h

Jonas Bendiksen is a Magnum photographer. The most esteemed photojournalism and documentary agency in history.

"Six months after its publication, Bendiksen revealed the project itself was a forgery – all the people portrayed are computer-generated 3D models, and all text was written by an AI."

The Book of Veles | World Press Photo

www.worldpressphoto.org

Bryan @bryanformhals.com · 9h

Photo manipulation goes all the way back to the beginning of the medium. Spirit photography is really fascinating.

I have a good photography pal who has been documenting the spiritualism community for decades. They are masters at this stuff.

Spirit photography - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

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Bryan @bryanformhals.com · 9h

More people really need to study the history of photography. Even the most dedicated documentary photographer will tell you that documentary photographs are a type of fiction with elements of the truth.

Literally the way you frame a scene can completely change the meaning.

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Bryan @bryanformhals.com · 10h

Category error. The issue is that we trust citizens with large social media accounts to tell the truth.

You don't see the WSJ, NYTimes or Bloomberg publishing this stuff.

They may lie in their own ways and certainly do at times but will always be more trustworthy than randos on social media

Cohen is a Ghost @skullmandible.bsky.social · 12h

"even if it's AI, it's at least true" hard to overstate the damage this stuff is doing to people's brains. we're gonna be cleaning the slop out of archives for decades

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Bryan @bryanformhals.com · 19h

That's it, tapping out. Good luck Seattle.

Bryan @bryanformhals.com · 20h

Facing a serious sunk cost with this Mariners Tigers game.

If I turn it off now, it'll be over in 20 minutes. If I keep watching, it goes 18 innings.

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Bryan @bryanformhals.com · 22h

Yeah it's like Broadway in NYC or Wilshire in LA. It's the main corridor connecting the Twin Cities!

It's insane. If St. Paul gets it together with University and downtown, it will take off again.

I just don't know where all the people are going to arrive from.

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Bryan @bryanformhals.com · 22h

Oh I think there's plenty of opportunity for blocks and blocks of development along University. It seriously has to be one of the biggest opportunities for transformation in any American city. It's wild.

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Bryan @bryanformhals.com · 23h

always check the bio and 90% of the time AI skeptics are freelance creatives, academics, or attention economy grifters (Substack)

Rarely PMC because they tend to be more savage about upskilling and telling your boss "nah to AI" is career killer.

Downside is the AI everything corporate comms.

Bryan @bryanformhals.com · 1d

Almost a perfect distillation of how crime downtown is perceived by some. Hear about a murder, and assume it's a white collar office worker during the day when in reality it was outside Rick's at 1am and involved drunk men beefing. Almost all the crime revolves around nightlife in some way.

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David Zipper @davidzipper.bsky.social · 1d

Three newly published books argue that cars are destroying society as well as the planet.

Is the world finally ready to rein in the automobile?

My essay, in @bloomberg.com (gift link below)

‘Car Brain’ Is Making the US Unhealthy and Dangerous. EVs Won’t Fix It.

A trio of new books argue that we need to confront the full range of costs that car-based living has imposed on our cities, our health and our society.

www.bloomberg.com

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Bryan @bryanformhals.com · 1d

"Short-form video is indistinguishable from what today’s youth consider the definition of American success. For five straight years, Gen Z has told pollsters that the thing they most want to be when they grow up is an “influencer.”

Derek Thompson @dkthomp.bsky.social · 1d

1. Social media is now 5% following friends and 95% watching videos made by strangers.
2. Every podcast is turning into a YouTube show.
3. AI companies can't stop building TikTok clones.

Everything is becoming television.

I wrote about why that matters.

www.derekthompson.org/p/why-everyt...

Everything Is Television

A theory of culture and attention

www.derekthompson.org

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Bryan @bryanformhals.com · 1d

Young people are not drinking and partying as much, plus the mountain of evidence about the serious health impacts of alcohol, including a clear link to cancer.

news.gallup.com/poll/693362/...

U.S. Drinking Rate at New Low as Alcohol Concerns Surge

A record-low 54% of Americans say they drink alcohol, as a majority now believe moderate drinking is unhealthy.

news.gallup.com

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Bryan @bryanformhals.com · 1d

That's baseline. But there's definitely a correlation between this violence and nightlife downtown. Every story, when you read the details, often involve bars and clubs.

That doesn't even touch on the mountain of evidence around the negative health impacts of alcohol. Hard to ignore these days.

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Costa Samaras @costasamaras.com · 1d

Picture how big the Hoover Dam is. An absolute unit. The Hoover Dam has a power capacity of 2 gigawatts (GW).

The solar farm that the Admin just cancelled could have produces 6.2 GW of power. That's more than 3 Hoover Dams.

jael holzman @jael.bsky.social · 1d

SCOOP: The Bureau of Land Management says the largest solar project in Nevada — the Esmeralda 7 mega-farm — has been canceled

The news was quietly dropped via a sudden website update with no public word from any of the companies involved or a statement from the agency

@heatmap.news

Esmeralda 7 Solar Project Has Been Canceled, BLM Says

It would have delivered a gargantuan 6.2 gigawatts of power.

heatmap.news

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Bryan @bryanformhals.com · 1d

How many people are in financial trouble because car dependency is unaffordable?

This story is just as important as dips in transit ridership.

How many people gave up on public transit thinking they could afford a car and now end up deeply in debt?

Media needs to write that story.

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 1d

WSJ: “.. the portion of subprime auto loans that are 60 days or more overdue on their payments hit a record of more than 6% ..”

@wsj.com
www.wsj.com/business/aut...

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Bryan @bryanformhals.com · 1d

This is good

Ian Coldwater 👻🌿 @lookitup.baby · 1d

Everybody who has ever spent time in downtown Minneapolis has needed skyway.run. Dang

Minneapolis Skyway

Navigate the Minneapolis Skyway System, find lunch spots and get directions.

skyway.run

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Bryan @bryanformhals.com · 2d

The United States is the corrupt, backward old world held hostage by a bunch of billionaires hoarding all the wealth and blocking the evolution of our public spaces and social safety net.

Cathy Tuttle @cathytuttle.bsky.social · 2d

A few months ago, a friend visited me in Utrecht. As we biked around to do daily errands, she kept saying, "This is like a dream. This is like a dream."

I do believe all cities the world over to soon come to their senses, limit car movement, and build a dream of safe, abundant streets for people.

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Bryan @bryanformhals.com · 2d

Yes, NYC has the best public transit and has a horrible case of car brain rot. It's sad.

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Bryan @bryanformhals.com · 2d

We know car culture is harmful to the environment, deadly, costly, destructive in every way and yet we totally ignore the negative aspects.

In fact, I would guess most of the AI skeptics are car owners and would defend car culture and infrastructure with all sorts of twisted logic.

Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 2d

A striking thing about articles I’ve read claiming to “study the effects” of generative AI on student writing skills and consumption of information is that (1) they nearly always find the effects are negative and (2) most “conclusions” are still written assuming that we must use AI, for some reason.

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Bryan @bryanformhals.com · 2d

Hook your blog up to a newsletter! Whatever CMS you are using should be able to do it. Expand the duckling empire!

Bryan @bryanformhals.com · 2d

It's all about cars and cities.

Cars are the technology we should be raging against.

Liberal car owners are going to need to wake up one of these days and learn it's not just about transportation.

Bloomberg Opinion @opinion.bloomberg.com · 2d

The success of the Czech Motorists Party is emblematic of young men drifting away from establishment politics

The Politics of Road Rage Are Winning Over Young Men in Europe

A recent campaign video for the Czech Motorists Party opens in an auto-repair shop. A female driver throws her keys to a ripped, square-jawed mechanic, who summons his team with a nod. Sparks fly, carburetors change hands and a rock groove kicks in as the head grease monkey — played by car enthusiast and party figurehead Filip Turek — ticks off the party’s priorities: no to the Green Deal, yes to supporting the car industry.

bloom.bg

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Bryan @bryanformhals.com · 2d

That's a wild sentence.

"About 30 people were attending “Tipsy Tuesday” at the time, said the woman, who declined to share her name but goes by Gemini Tik Tok Queen on Facebook."

One dead, three hurt in downtown Minneapolis bar shooting

A woman hit by a bullet said a fight between two men broke out before shots were fired inside Bar Zia Grill.

www.startribune.com

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