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BikePortland @bikeportland.org · 13h

This is a big deal because public space only works if the public shows up, and having food trucks and other types of vendors at parks will encourage people not only to visit, but to stay there and hang out a while.

bikeportland.org/2025/10/08/n...

New city program makes vending at parks easier and cheaper

Imagine grabbing snack in Forest Park after a fun ride in the dirt.

bikeportland.org

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Binnig at Hanging Rock @binnig.bsky.social · 1d

Memento mori (man in red shirt shrugs, reflecting on his mortality)

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Binnig at Hanging Rock @binnig.bsky.social · 2d

We went through this like 20 years ago with CFC-based aerosol inhalers: pharmaceutical companies lobbied to get them banned ostensibly to protect the ozone layer, but I assume because it let them extend patent protection with a new delivery mechanism.

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Binnig at Hanging Rock @binnig.bsky.social · 2d

Honestly I would love to have some holidays involving unusual fruits.

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Binnig at Hanging Rock @binnig.bsky.social · 5d

Hm. To put it another way it seems like an implication of epiphenomenalism is that philosophical zombies would have the same kinds of conversations about qualia as we do—but why?

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Binnig at Hanging Rock @binnig.bsky.social · 5d

I used to be team epiphenomenalism but I don’t think I understand how we end up talking about epiphenomenalism in an epiphenomenalist world.

Like the fact of talking about qualia seems like an instance of qualia affecting the physical world.

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Binnig at Hanging Rock @binnig.bsky.social · 5d

Yeah, as a parent I think downtown Portland really needs a locally-focused natural history museum, but a big dumb object is easier.

(But Timothy Boyle, if you’re listening…)

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Binnig at Hanging Rock @binnig.bsky.social · 5d

Nice, I need to read up on that. There’s a lot of opportunity!

Binnig at Hanging Rock @binnig.bsky.social · 5d

Straightforward from here:

• Portlandia statue moves to the waterfront
• Portland extends its hot-dog socialist agenda to legalize food carts around the new Portlandia location
• Waterfront Park has a new food & tourism destination.

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Binnig at Hanging Rock @binnig.bsky.social · 5d

The presentation didn’t dwell on this because it’s outside the scope of a wayfinding project, but one idea they included that I liked was moving Portlandia:

The second-largest copper repoussé sculpture in the US, mounted on the first-ugliest building in Portland.

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Binnig at Hanging Rock @binnig.bsky.social · 5d

I went around to some of the signs & markings that are part of the wayfinding pilot afterward & I do think it’s nicely done!

trec.pdx.edu/events/psu-t...

Portland wayfinding sign with map, Pioneer Courthouse Square

“Downtown Route” wayfinding decal on sidewalk

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Binnig at Hanging Rock @binnig.bsky.social · 5d

They found that everyone’s “mental map” of Portland includes the river—but if you do walk to the river most times of year you’ll find (at best) an empty field.

Maps of Portland drawn from memory, hanging as a mobile

Tom McCall Waterfront Park, not at its best.

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Binnig at Hanging Rock @binnig.bsky.social · 5d

The presentation gets at this lack of landmarks—partly I’d say’s it’s that Portland’s “vibe” is distributed among the streetcar-era east-side business corridors, which is fine as a resident but confusing to visitors.

Slide: Portland doesn't have traditional landmarks to help orient people. (Photo of Powell’s Books)

Slide: People visit for the
"vibe" — but often don't know where to find it.

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Binnig at Hanging Rock @binnig.bsky.social · 5d

This was a nice presentation on a downtown wayfinding pilot, & left me thinking that the (bigger, but fixable) challenge for downtown Portland isn’t a lack of signs but a lack of destinations.

TREC at PSU @trecpdx.bsky.social · 5d

If you missed today's Portland State University Transportation Seminar, the video and slides are available now: trec.pdx.edu/events/psu-t...

Many thanks to Gena Gastaldi of @pbotinfo.bsky.social and Ryan & Gwen Sullivan of sparks+sullivan for a great presentation on the #WalkPortland pilot!

PSU Transportation Seminar: Walk Portland: A Downtown Pedestrian Wayfinding Strategy And Pilot

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Binnig at Hanging Rock @binnig.bsky.social · 5d

A nice Seattle-based BBC correspondent interviewed me because he had nothing else to do.

Very chill BBC war correspondent at the front lines in Portland, Oregon.

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Binnig at Hanging Rock @binnig.bsky.social · 5d

Press at Portland’s war-ravaged ICE facility.

Cameras point at the Immigration and Customs Enforcement building in South Portland. A CBS (?) reporter explains on the phone that nothing is happening.

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Binnig at Hanging Rock @binnig.bsky.social · 8d

Best time to plant a tree etc.

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Binnig at Hanging Rock @binnig.bsky.social · 8d

Interesting interpretive divide between:

• It doesn’t matter what anyone does in Portland because Fox News will just loop footage from 5 years ago

vs.

• It matters a lot what people do in Portland because Fox News will still be looping it 5 years from now.

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Binnig at Hanging Rock @binnig.bsky.social · 8d

The response (we wanted to see whether GOP voters backed GOP messaging) was not super helpful.

Hello David,
Thanks for sharing your perspective. The focus of this article was to include perspectives from Oregonians outside of Portland, especially people who voted for the GOP leaders backing the authorized deployment of troops. Please reach out anytime- We truly appreciate the feedback.

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Binnig at Hanging Rock @binnig.bsky.social · 8d

Somehow eight different OPB reporters were co-contributors on this story (all of whom I emailed to complain this morning).

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K. Chen @tznkai.bsky.social · 8d

Fundamental attribution error rules everything around me

K. Chen @tznkai.bsky.social · 8d

Like the biggest difference between Pritzker and the rest isn't courage it's power.

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Binnig at Hanging Rock @binnig.bsky.social · 8d

You want to control the narrative after the fact by policing how people talk about protesters, and that makes sense if you think of them as having no agency.

But if they have agency, then there’s an opportunity to shape the narrative ahead of time by thinking about what images you want to create.

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Binnig at Hanging Rock @binnig.bsky.social · 8d

Yes, I think that’s the right goal—and I think thinking about self-presentation is in practice *part* of how you keep focus on perpetrators.

(Whatever else you think of them, handicraft guillotines tend to be attention-getting.)

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Nick @ecosozialismus.bsky.social · 8d

A few of the images below.

Basically, they are 100% correct that Trump wants videos of people in all black fighting Homeland Security.

That’s the visual that mobilizes his base.

If he’s denied that, he doesn’t have anything.

TRUMP IS SENDING TROOPS TO PDX FOR ONE REASON:
PROPAGANDA
Fuck that. He doesn't get to use a prop for his lies.
Tag a friend..
o MORes how we're ackfir

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Josh Linden @joshlinden.bsky.social · 9d

Vacant units come up a lot in discussions around the housing crisis

This is a good opportunity to go over what the data actually shows 🧵

Nick Jackelson @shidass.bsky.social · 9d

Yeah, that’s what I thought. Keep your dishonest framing to yourself.

Klein’s housing policy fails to address the fundamental cause of this housing crisis.

In the US, there are currently 15mil vacant homes. There are ~650,000 homeless.

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