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I wrote a thing.
Build trams, but build them well.
Understanding what tramways are, what they do best and how to employ them.
open.substack.com/pub/marcochi...
Build trams, but build them well.
Understanding what tramways are, what they do best and how to employ them.
open.substack.com/pub/marcochi...
Build trams. But build them well.
Understanding what tramways are, what they do best and how to employ them.
open.substack.com
December 5, 2025 at 2:07 AM
I wrote a thing.
Build trams, but build them well.
Understanding what tramways are, what they do best and how to employ them.
open.substack.com/pub/marcochi...
Build trams, but build them well.
Understanding what tramways are, what they do best and how to employ them.
open.substack.com/pub/marcochi...
Is there a report going over the predicted effects of the St. Lawrence Seaway vs actual effects? IIRC the expected traffic didn't really appear? I know they rebuilt Lake Calumet with slips for SLS traffic that never appeared...
December 5, 2025 at 12:33 AM
Is there a report going over the predicted effects of the St. Lawrence Seaway vs actual effects? IIRC the expected traffic didn't really appear? I know they rebuilt Lake Calumet with slips for SLS traffic that never appeared...
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What a lede on this story: Man who complained about narrowing a road in order to protect pedestrians, so much that the city eventually reversed the change, then kills a woman on that very road with his car www.washingtonpost.com/business/int...
America’s plan to protect pedestrians failed. A young woman’s death reveals why.
U.S. officials adopted Europe's Vision Zero initiative, but many cities have seen an increase in pedestrian fatalities despite efforts to improve road safety.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 4, 2025 at 8:55 PM
What a lede on this story: Man who complained about narrowing a road in order to protect pedestrians, so much that the city eventually reversed the change, then kills a woman on that very road with his car www.washingtonpost.com/business/int...
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A lot of film series shifted into some high concept SF/F series obsessed with continuity but it's hard to draw parallels with politics
Was the response to 08 and Obama parallel to F&F going to space and thinking about legacy? Not really IMO
Was the response to 08 and Obama parallel to F&F going to space and thinking about legacy? Not really IMO
December 3, 2025 at 7:46 PM
A lot of film series shifted into some high concept SF/F series obsessed with continuity but it's hard to draw parallels with politics
Was the response to 08 and Obama parallel to F&F going to space and thinking about legacy? Not really IMO
Was the response to 08 and Obama parallel to F&F going to space and thinking about legacy? Not really IMO
Good article looking at the "great downzoning" of the 20th cent. as a global effect. IMO it's right that this was mostly landowners cartelizing — I would also point out that the reason this happened at the time was the state developing enough to enable it.
www.worksinprogress.news/p/how-the-wo...
www.worksinprogress.news/p/how-the-wo...
Why the West was downzoned
In the space of a few decades, nearly every city in the Western world banned densification. What happened?
www.worksinprogress.news
December 3, 2025 at 6:21 AM
Good article looking at the "great downzoning" of the 20th cent. as a global effect. IMO it's right that this was mostly landowners cartelizing — I would also point out that the reason this happened at the time was the state developing enough to enable it.
www.worksinprogress.news/p/how-the-wo...
www.worksinprogress.news/p/how-the-wo...
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Now that people are back to the office, I can return to tweeting about the necessity of limiting downtown parking.
December 3, 2025 at 5:13 AM
Now that people are back to the office, I can return to tweeting about the necessity of limiting downtown parking.
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I thought maybe firewood, but nope. Obviously firewood use per capita is way down, but population growth and the use of wood pellets as a coal substitute keep it just creeping up. (For a long time, it looked like 1989 was the peak though)
December 3, 2025 at 5:17 AM
I thought maybe firewood, but nope. Obviously firewood use per capita is way down, but population growth and the use of wood pellets as a coal substitute keep it just creeping up. (For a long time, it looked like 1989 was the peak though)
Have we hit peak peat? if so, that would only be the second energy source humans have peaked on (after whale oil)
Not sure though, maybe this is a temporary blip
Not sure though, maybe this is a temporary blip
December 3, 2025 at 4:38 AM
Have we hit peak peat? if so, that would only be the second energy source humans have peaked on (after whale oil)
Not sure though, maybe this is a temporary blip
Not sure though, maybe this is a temporary blip
[There is no obvious image macro for Ann Clayborn from KSR's MARS Trilogy, but rest assured, some fight for Ares]
December 2, 2025 at 8:46 PM
[There is no obvious image macro for Ann Clayborn from KSR's MARS Trilogy, but rest assured, some fight for Ares]
Most of these are pre-20th cent. style houses although in LEAVES it's a contemporary.
Going to write to the first book about the endless mid century modern house, and how it curses the multigenerational family that lives inside with clean minimalist lines.
Going to write to the first book about the endless mid century modern house, and how it curses the multigenerational family that lives inside with clean minimalist lines.
Important subgenre of fantasy: You Live In A House That Is Too Big
GORMENGHAST
CITADEL OF THE AUTARCH
HOUSE OF LEAVES
LITTLE, BIG
PIRANESI
GORMENGHAST
CITADEL OF THE AUTARCH
HOUSE OF LEAVES
LITTLE, BIG
PIRANESI
Reading Crowley's LITTLE, BIG (1982). Lots of thoughts. I see why this helped create urban fantasy as a genre.
It's vision of the 199X NYC as a abandoned crime dystopia, very common 70s dystopia. Cyberpunk predicted a dystopian too crowded future.
Did any 70s/80s SF predict the urban renewal?
It's vision of the 199X NYC as a abandoned crime dystopia, very common 70s dystopia. Cyberpunk predicted a dystopian too crowded future.
Did any 70s/80s SF predict the urban renewal?
December 2, 2025 at 5:37 AM
Most of these are pre-20th cent. style houses although in LEAVES it's a contemporary.
Going to write to the first book about the endless mid century modern house, and how it curses the multigenerational family that lives inside with clean minimalist lines.
Going to write to the first book about the endless mid century modern house, and how it curses the multigenerational family that lives inside with clean minimalist lines.
Important subgenre of fantasy: You Live In A House That Is Too Big
GORMENGHAST
CITADEL OF THE AUTARCH
HOUSE OF LEAVES
LITTLE, BIG
PIRANESI
GORMENGHAST
CITADEL OF THE AUTARCH
HOUSE OF LEAVES
LITTLE, BIG
PIRANESI
Reading Crowley's LITTLE, BIG (1982). Lots of thoughts. I see why this helped create urban fantasy as a genre.
It's vision of the 199X NYC as a abandoned crime dystopia, very common 70s dystopia. Cyberpunk predicted a dystopian too crowded future.
Did any 70s/80s SF predict the urban renewal?
It's vision of the 199X NYC as a abandoned crime dystopia, very common 70s dystopia. Cyberpunk predicted a dystopian too crowded future.
Did any 70s/80s SF predict the urban renewal?
December 1, 2025 at 6:38 AM
Important subgenre of fantasy: You Live In A House That Is Too Big
GORMENGHAST
CITADEL OF THE AUTARCH
HOUSE OF LEAVES
LITTLE, BIG
PIRANESI
GORMENGHAST
CITADEL OF THE AUTARCH
HOUSE OF LEAVES
LITTLE, BIG
PIRANESI
Reading Crowley's LITTLE, BIG (1982). Lots of thoughts. I see why this helped create urban fantasy as a genre.
It's vision of the 199X NYC as a abandoned crime dystopia, very common 70s dystopia. Cyberpunk predicted a dystopian too crowded future.
Did any 70s/80s SF predict the urban renewal?
It's vision of the 199X NYC as a abandoned crime dystopia, very common 70s dystopia. Cyberpunk predicted a dystopian too crowded future.
Did any 70s/80s SF predict the urban renewal?
December 1, 2025 at 1:59 AM
Reading Crowley's LITTLE, BIG (1982). Lots of thoughts. I see why this helped create urban fantasy as a genre.
It's vision of the 199X NYC as a abandoned crime dystopia, very common 70s dystopia. Cyberpunk predicted a dystopian too crowded future.
Did any 70s/80s SF predict the urban renewal?
It's vision of the 199X NYC as a abandoned crime dystopia, very common 70s dystopia. Cyberpunk predicted a dystopian too crowded future.
Did any 70s/80s SF predict the urban renewal?
The wiki page for Passive Rewilding is great for cool pictures
Vallone dei Mulini in Italy looks crazy.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passive...
Vallone dei Mulini in Italy looks crazy.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passive...
November 30, 2025 at 4:04 PM
The wiki page for Passive Rewilding is great for cool pictures
Vallone dei Mulini in Italy looks crazy.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passive...
Vallone dei Mulini in Italy looks crazy.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passive...
My favorite bit on IN OUR TIME was when Melvyn Bragg asked the guests if they wanted tea or coffee...
November 28, 2025 at 6:52 PM
My favorite bit on IN OUR TIME was when Melvyn Bragg asked the guests if they wanted tea or coffee...
Huge high rise fire in Hong Kong. Terrible. Spread from high rise to high rise along bamboo scaffolding set up for some exterior work
apnews.com/article/hong...
apnews.com/article/hong...
At least 13 dead after fire engulfs Hong Kong high-rise residential buildings
At least 13 people have been killed in a fire that spread across seven high-rise apartment buildings in a Hong Kong housing complex.
apnews.com
November 26, 2025 at 5:04 PM
Huge high rise fire in Hong Kong. Terrible. Spread from high rise to high rise along bamboo scaffolding set up for some exterior work
apnews.com/article/hong...
apnews.com/article/hong...
I do admire OSSIAN for being a super fraudulent work that blew everyone's minds and how dedicated MacPherson was to the whole deal when he was quickly called out.
Same with Iolo Morganwg, to some extent. Thomas Chatterton, very tragic. What was up in the UK to create so many poet forgers?
Same with Iolo Morganwg, to some extent. Thomas Chatterton, very tragic. What was up in the UK to create so many poet forgers?
November 26, 2025 at 12:32 AM
I do admire OSSIAN for being a super fraudulent work that blew everyone's minds and how dedicated MacPherson was to the whole deal when he was quickly called out.
Same with Iolo Morganwg, to some extent. Thomas Chatterton, very tragic. What was up in the UK to create so many poet forgers?
Same with Iolo Morganwg, to some extent. Thomas Chatterton, very tragic. What was up in the UK to create so many poet forgers?
I have enjoyed or at least gotten a lot out of pretty much every piece of writing in the "canon" that I've tried. The exceptions are heavily concentrated in old poetry.
I do not understand what every single late 18th cent. person was getting out of OSSIAN. Diderot, Voltaire, Jefferson, Goethe...
I do not understand what every single late 18th cent. person was getting out of OSSIAN. Diderot, Voltaire, Jefferson, Goethe...
November 26, 2025 at 12:18 AM
I have enjoyed or at least gotten a lot out of pretty much every piece of writing in the "canon" that I've tried. The exceptions are heavily concentrated in old poetry.
I do not understand what every single late 18th cent. person was getting out of OSSIAN. Diderot, Voltaire, Jefferson, Goethe...
I do not understand what every single late 18th cent. person was getting out of OSSIAN. Diderot, Voltaire, Jefferson, Goethe...
So are we going to get Gateway back? Can we get back to the real point of microblogging website train discussion:
"Will Gateway add capacity into NYC? Is it worth it?"
"Will Gateway add capacity into NYC? Is it worth it?"
November 22, 2025 at 12:15 AM
So are we going to get Gateway back? Can we get back to the real point of microblogging website train discussion:
"Will Gateway add capacity into NYC? Is it worth it?"
"Will Gateway add capacity into NYC? Is it worth it?"
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This scholarly article persuaded me that Battle Royale marked a more disturbing trend in Millenial Lit and the Survival Genre. I saw the popularity of Squid Games as a sign that the rest of the world was catching up with Japanese social issues. www.japanesestudies.org.uk/ejcjs/vol14/...
November 20, 2025 at 1:47 PM
This scholarly article persuaded me that Battle Royale marked a more disturbing trend in Millenial Lit and the Survival Genre. I saw the popularity of Squid Games as a sign that the rest of the world was catching up with Japanese social issues. www.japanesestudies.org.uk/ejcjs/vol14/...
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November 20, 2025 at 5:09 AM
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The Eric Schickler essay in Larry Bartel's symposium on "What Trump Has Taught Us About Political Science" is one of the most insightful pieces I've read in 2025.
US institutions turned out to be weak, and we have to rethink conventional wisdom.
open access: academic.oup.com/psq/advance-...
US institutions turned out to be weak, and we have to rethink conventional wisdom.
open access: academic.oup.com/psq/advance-...
November 19, 2025 at 8:08 PM
The Eric Schickler essay in Larry Bartel's symposium on "What Trump Has Taught Us About Political Science" is one of the most insightful pieces I've read in 2025.
US institutions turned out to be weak, and we have to rethink conventional wisdom.
open access: academic.oup.com/psq/advance-...
US institutions turned out to be weak, and we have to rethink conventional wisdom.
open access: academic.oup.com/psq/advance-...
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The issue landscape has changed dramatically over the last year - Democrats successfully have simultaneously raised the salience and expanded our trust advantage on our best issue (healthcare) *and* dramatically improved our trust advantage on the cost of living and the economy
November 19, 2025 at 6:00 PM
The issue landscape has changed dramatically over the last year - Democrats successfully have simultaneously raised the salience and expanded our trust advantage on our best issue (healthcare) *and* dramatically improved our trust advantage on the cost of living and the economy
Actually asbestos is a place in Quebec
(Or was please don't be mad at me residents ofVal-dee-Sources)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Val-des...
(Or was please don't be mad at me residents ofVal-dee-Sources)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Val-des...
November 19, 2025 at 4:40 PM
Actually asbestos is a place in Quebec
(Or was please don't be mad at me residents ofVal-dee-Sources)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Val-des...
(Or was please don't be mad at me residents ofVal-dee-Sources)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Val-des...
I have no strong opinion on Romantasy or any of the books mentioned in this article (haven't read 'em), but it's crazy how much you have to read to be informed. This person read 4k pages and rightly points out that's a small sample. hard to write criticism.
www.thedriftmag.com/escape-artis...
www.thedriftmag.com/escape-artis...
November 19, 2025 at 5:30 AM
I have no strong opinion on Romantasy or any of the books mentioned in this article (haven't read 'em), but it's crazy how much you have to read to be informed. This person read 4k pages and rightly points out that's a small sample. hard to write criticism.
www.thedriftmag.com/escape-artis...
www.thedriftmag.com/escape-artis...
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I read Zweig's World of Yesterday recently and he repeatedly talks about how much better-looking people became in the years between his childhood and adulthood. It was better nutrition, medicine (no more weird deformities), and interest in exercise.
November 19, 2025 at 4:14 AM
I read Zweig's World of Yesterday recently and he repeatedly talks about how much better-looking people became in the years between his childhood and adulthood. It was better nutrition, medicine (no more weird deformities), and interest in exercise.