It seems to me we have gone pretty far down the path of optimizing in this direction, and from my perspective what we’re losing in the process is actually pretty profound.

Access to online content is of course totally different from two decades ago, but these changes also change the meaning of language acquisition. I mainly wanted to point out that tech discourse often directly equates accessibility and convenience with progress, when they are in fact tradeoffs

All good points! There is definitely value associated with greater accessibility, which should also be considered. I agree newer tools can be more useful for certain elements of learning Japanese, although I am skeptical thats true about internalizing the writing of kanji.

SENATOR @warnock.senate.gov : “Are we reading the same Book? The Book I know says ‘I was hungry, and you fed me… I was a stranger, and you welcomed me… insomuch as you’ve done it to the least of these, you’ve done it also unto me.’”

#TrumpsTrillionsTransfer

The story of Tokyo’s very high rate of #bicycle use is not so much about hard bike infrastructure as a question of neighborhood scale. For ex., #Tokyo has a latent network of ancient “desire lines”: paths that directly link activity centers (former villages) or flow with the contours of the land.

It's 2015. President Barack Obama has accepted a "sky palace" jumbo jet from the Qatari government, which he'll own after he leaves office. "Everybody relax," he says in an interview with the New York Times. Everyone does. The networks then televise the military parade in his honor on his birthday.

Rare analysis of CAHSR that contextualizes its difficulty/cost in @asteriskmag.bsky.social. Abundance dems should fight to accelerate, not abandon, this project. Complaints about how gov fails at building belies fact that we have *barely even tried*. Funding at less than $1B/year in $4T CA economy!

Being in America always makes me think of the transit that should exist, but doesn’t. With inspiration from the maps of @lostsubways.com and @nickandert.bsky.social

If Silicon Valley wants to take credit for all their inventions, only fair that the balance sheet also includes saddling us with a futurist death cult, no? Looking rather net negative atm

Holy smokes—Trump knows the word “ennoble”

Good to see there’s some pushback to such folly

Hard to miss the cultural revolution parallels when 19-year-old Thiel acolytes are driving career bureaucrats out of the treasury, but this also applies

Funny how in 2012 Obama runs and wins against Romney as the rapacious private equity guy who shredded good companies for profit, so the republicans pivot to “party of the working people,” then let the richest guy in the world actually execute a hostile takeover of the government to scrap for parts

Christopher Alexander wrote of two systems of creating the world: system-A, organic and rooted in context and wholeness, and system-B, mechanical, money-driven, and rarely context-sensitive. Labyrinth House is an effort to practice architecture in system-A.