Andy Freeland
@andyfreeland.net
Computers, buses bikes and trains, and cities.
Reposted by Andy Freeland
Dr. Manhattan voice:
- It's 2016 and LA just issued an RFP to build subsidized-housing on a city parking lot.
- It's 2021 and the LA Planning Commission just approved 140 Affordable units on this lot.
- It's 2024 and the city refused to transfer the land to the developer.
- It's 2025 and....
- It's 2016 and LA just issued an RFP to build subsidized-housing on a city parking lot.
- It's 2021 and the LA Planning Commission just approved 140 Affordable units on this lot.
- It's 2024 and the city refused to transfer the land to the developer.
- It's 2025 and....
December 29, 2025 at 2:35 AM
Dr. Manhattan voice:
- It's 2016 and LA just issued an RFP to build subsidized-housing on a city parking lot.
- It's 2021 and the LA Planning Commission just approved 140 Affordable units on this lot.
- It's 2024 and the city refused to transfer the land to the developer.
- It's 2025 and....
- It's 2016 and LA just issued an RFP to build subsidized-housing on a city parking lot.
- It's 2021 and the LA Planning Commission just approved 140 Affordable units on this lot.
- It's 2024 and the city refused to transfer the land to the developer.
- It's 2025 and....
Reposted by Andy Freeland
By any reasonable historical standard — including that of the technology industry! — ChatGPT should be pulled from the market and its product managers and executives held accountable for creating a product that ROUTINELY tells teens to kill themselves. This is a basic, common sense standard.
December 28, 2025 at 6:21 PM
By any reasonable historical standard — including that of the technology industry! — ChatGPT should be pulled from the market and its product managers and executives held accountable for creating a product that ROUTINELY tells teens to kill themselves. This is a basic, common sense standard.
Reposted by Andy Freeland
No one is reading long form.
The emergence of the post-literacy world is accompanied by the rise of Medieval Peasant Brain, a mental soup of superstition and magical thinking... We see this most clearly in the mainstreaming of xenophobia, conspiracies, quack medicines, and naked fascism.
The emergence of the post-literacy world is accompanied by the rise of Medieval Peasant Brain, a mental soup of superstition and magical thinking... We see this most clearly in the mainstreaming of xenophobia, conspiracies, quack medicines, and naked fascism.
December 28, 2025 at 8:08 PM
No one is reading long form.
The emergence of the post-literacy world is accompanied by the rise of Medieval Peasant Brain, a mental soup of superstition and magical thinking... We see this most clearly in the mainstreaming of xenophobia, conspiracies, quack medicines, and naked fascism.
The emergence of the post-literacy world is accompanied by the rise of Medieval Peasant Brain, a mental soup of superstition and magical thinking... We see this most clearly in the mainstreaming of xenophobia, conspiracies, quack medicines, and naked fascism.