This skeet has a negative sentiment.

I never needed a car in SF or NYC, and I certainly did not live in the financial district in either case. Lots of people do not have the choice to own a car just as a matter of SES, including in car dominant landscapes.

That is so hyperbolic one wonders about what on earth is intended. It’s true that real estate developers hate them, but UGBs are not incompatible with upzoning.

And please, PLEASE let us not forget that time in 2023 when Karen Smith was elected President of the school board in Bucks County, Pa and swore her oath on a stack of banned books. The most gangsta oath ever! Just brilliant. www.edweek.org/leadership/t...

Bill McKibben (!) on our NZIPL report "what nation in its right mind would sign up to pin its energy future on the US, suddenly the ultimate unreliable nation? Instead, with a one-time buy of a bunch of Chinese tech, you control your own energy future"
billmckibben.substack.com/p/a-tale-of-...

Hmm, also an econometric question about the economy?

Well, they got Kant in there and so maybe that took care of it, and … Oakeshott?!

As Hannah Arendt put it: "The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists." Undermining that distinction will be a lasting legacy of generative AI.

The Democrats have allowed themselves to become the party of the established order when change is wanted, needed.

A perfect album for the punks playing jazz, so they don’t get lonely

A perfect album I first heard in Brooklyn

I’m genuinely perplexed by the brief CCS angle in this story.