Sam
@samsho.reviews
📍 Chicagoland
Urban planning nerd - enthusiastic about making communities more healthy, livable, and sustainable. Also a general nerd.
Here to scroll and occasionally microblog into the void!
Urban planning nerd - enthusiastic about making communities more healthy, livable, and sustainable. Also a general nerd.
Here to scroll and occasionally microblog into the void!
Congestion management
Rules
Everything
Around
Me
Rules
Everything
Around
Me
It's kinda crazy to remember that the mass protests today got their start (and name) from a tweet about congestion pricing
June 15, 2025 at 12:11 AM
Congestion management
Rules
Everything
Around
Me
Rules
Everything
Around
Me
Reposted by Sam
And if we don’t pass this tax, you’ll still be paying more in uber fees but for worse traffic instead of a quicker trip
Uber is trying to defund transit and put transit workers out of their job
May 31, 2025 at 6:27 PM
And if we don’t pass this tax, you’ll still be paying more in uber fees but for worse traffic instead of a quicker trip
Reposted by Sam
We’re fixing Atlantic Avenue! This is what a comprehensive community-led rezoning looks like 🏠
May 29, 2025 at 9:52 PM
We’re fixing Atlantic Avenue! This is what a comprehensive community-led rezoning looks like 🏠
Reposted by Sam
This sentence so precisely sums up exactly what I've witnessed:
"That they believe they can replace government workers—people who care an *extraordinary* amount about their arcane corner of the bureaucracy—with hastily-written AI code is another defining characteristic of right now"
Read it all
"That they believe they can replace government workers—people who care an *extraordinary* amount about their arcane corner of the bureaucracy—with hastily-written AI code is another defining characteristic of right now"
Read it all
We're living through the Who Cares Era, where completely disposable things are shoddily produced for people to mostly ignore, while the government stomps its uncaring boot on our necks. But there's an easy way to fight back: Care.
I wrote about it: dansinker.com/posts/2025-0...
I wrote about it: dansinker.com/posts/2025-0...
May 24, 2025 at 1:26 AM
This sentence so precisely sums up exactly what I've witnessed:
"That they believe they can replace government workers—people who care an *extraordinary* amount about their arcane corner of the bureaucracy—with hastily-written AI code is another defining characteristic of right now"
Read it all
"That they believe they can replace government workers—people who care an *extraordinary* amount about their arcane corner of the bureaucracy—with hastily-written AI code is another defining characteristic of right now"
Read it all
As always, @theonion.com got this scoop.
April 20, 2025 at 11:13 PM
As always, @theonion.com got this scoop.
Today I'm thinking about a too-frequently-relevant episode of @99pi.org's miniseries on climate displacement, focused on the survivors of a different California fire.
The Ripple Effect - 99% Invisible
In disasters where a lot of people lose their homes, the impacts are not confined to a single city or town. They ripple outward, cascading into the surrounding area, as the survivors are forced to go ...
99percentinvisible.org
January 11, 2025 at 8:44 PM
Today I'm thinking about a too-frequently-relevant episode of @99pi.org's miniseries on climate displacement, focused on the survivors of a different California fire.
I moved away from Google as my default search engine last week - truly incredible how much they've let their signature product slip.
Someone on Reddit searched for (the non-existent) John Wick 5, and Google spared no expense to lie to them.
January 5, 2025 at 4:33 PM
I moved away from Google as my default search engine last week - truly incredible how much they've let their signature product slip.
We're closing out 2024 in the best possible way: Full of cheese, surrounded by critters, and watching YouTube videos including this great essay from @johngreensbluesky.bsky.social
Auld Lang Syne: The Anthropocene Reviewed
YouTube video by vlogbrothers
youtu.be
January 1, 2025 at 4:49 AM
We're closing out 2024 in the best possible way: Full of cheese, surrounded by critters, and watching YouTube videos including this great essay from @johngreensbluesky.bsky.social
As someone whose main use for social media is to say, "hey look at this cool/interesting/important thing I found!', it's nice to find a platform that doesn't penalize using it that way.
People are often surprised when I tell them this: both Twitter and Facebook/insta/threads are now specifically engineered to downgrade, hide, suppress real journalism. If this platform is different, that's a huge change
November 28, 2024 at 12:26 AM
As someone whose main use for social media is to say, "hey look at this cool/interesting/important thing I found!', it's nice to find a platform that doesn't penalize using it that way.
This is such a worthwhile video about technology, challenging world events, and populism.
This is one of those videos that you could work on forever, but suddenly it felt very important to make it, so I finally did: www.youtube.com/watch?v=d8Pn...
Populism, Media Revolutions, and Our Terrible Moment
YouTube video by vlogbrothers
www.youtube.com
November 23, 2024 at 12:45 AM
This is such a worthwhile video about technology, challenging world events, and populism.
Bluesky is feeling like the best of the early social internet! Excited to see where it goes.
November 23, 2024 at 12:32 AM
Bluesky is feeling like the best of the early social internet! Excited to see where it goes.