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Your war correspondent on the ground in battle-ravaged inner northeast Portland
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I hope the military stays safe in Portland. When I took my family there we were terrified of the largest Japanese garden in the US, the independent book store selling banned books, the massive & free rose garden, and urban green spaces. What a hellscape.
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Do we know how lay publics define "corruption"? I've encountered quite a few folks (incl. undergrads) who conceive of corruption as something far broader than using public office for private gain. Instead they seem to think of it as "politicians taking any action I vehemently disagree with."

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Chance of having ticket checked on Phoenix light rail is 150%, per my recent experience (checked 3 times in 2 trips).
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Marco Chitti @chittimarco.bsky.social · 16d
Anecdotal, but I've been in Copenhagen for 24 hours, and I've had my ticket checked 3 (three) times in the metro. I've taken a dozen trips, maybe, so that's 1 in 4 chances of being checked
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Anecdotal, but I've been in Copenhagen for 24 hours, and I've had my ticket checked 3 (three) times in the metro. I've taken a dozen trips, maybe, so that's 1 in 4 chances of being checked
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Journal publishers *are* bundling your papers up in "data licensing agreements" for big tech companies to use for AI model training. Our publisher, T&F, got £75m from Microsoft for that last year alone.
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i.e., *through* a red light

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@waymo.bsky.social I just saw one of your driverless cars make a left turn at a red light (from a stop) into a busy intersection in Tempe, AZ.
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Tom Fishburne commemorated this a couple years ago and I’ve been thinking about it ever since.

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L.A. student seized by immigration agents alleges they bragged of $1,500 arrest payment
L.A. student seized by immigration agents alleges they bragged of $1,500 arrest payment
A detained Reseda High student tells visiting teacher that the men who seized him bragged to each other that, by detaining him, they would earn $1,500.
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"moving from a less walkable (25th percentile) city to a more walkable city (75th percentile) increased walking by 1,100 daily steps, on average. These changes hold across different genders, ages and body mass index values, and are sustained over 3 months." www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Countrywide natural experiment links built environment to physical activity - Nature
By analysing the smartphone data of 2,112,288 participants, in particular observing and comparing the activity of the same individual in two different environments, we find that increases in the walka...
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A Couple of Seagulls

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Jane's Habitual Behavior
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It's sobering to see how a skewed-representation issue I described more than 25 yrs ago for California continues to affect so many metro areas around the US. journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
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Meant to say he pardoned Pres. Ninun.

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I've seen this on Bluesky and had to try it myself. The image below was the response to the prompt: "Show me a diagram of the US presidents since Herbert Hoover, with their names and years in office under their photos" Bravo, OpenAI, bravo.
A very mistaken list of the last 12 presidents of the United States and their years in office produced by the Ph.D level scholar known as ChatGPT-5. Includes John F. Katwady, president 1991-1968; George W. bush, president 220Z-1999), and Bill Christen, president 1999-2001
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One of the fastest-growing communities in the U.S. might become a town today.

San Tan Valley residents (see SE corner of map, in relation to Phoenix) are voting today on whether to incorporate.
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Scoop: EPA is preparing to cancel $7 billion in grants intended to help low- and moderate-income families install solar panels www.nytimes.com/2025/08/05/c...
E.P.A. Moves to Cancel $7 Billion in Grants for Solar Energy
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ON GANGS, by Scott Decker, David Pyrooz, and James Densley, was featured on @lastweektonight.com with John Oliver on July 27. The book is quoted from at the 5:56 minute mark.
Gang Databases: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)
YouTube video by LastWeekTonight
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It's cool that Jane Jacobs's book helped inspire the set design on Sesame Street. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/28/r...
The Quintessential Urban Design of ‘Sesame Street’
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What was your favorite early clas NOT in your eventual major. Mine was Ethnomusicology: an introduction to folk music.
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Anthrodiva La Chatte @anthrodiva.bsky.social · Jul 28
I invariably get, "Ooh anthro that was my favorite class/cool professor" from people I meet. I tend to think soms of it is our outré material, being willing to talk "taboo" subjects in a cross-cultural context.

Ironically MY favorite class was probably Geology 101...
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We are moving quickly toward astonishing new ways to violate the Constitution that no one had ever even dreamed of before now.

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The current bill language states that individual members of local elected bodies — like city councils or county commissions — who vote in favor of adopting “a sanctuary policy” are in violation and, therefore, subject to the criminal penalty.
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It’s a trick; you read the rfp for a project which says budget is $90m but you read the subtext and know it’s really going to cost $200m to do what’s asked; you bid a low % rate and are asked to include staff billing rates (but this isn’t scored). All changes in scope (an extra meeting, 1/
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Even after Rep. Livingston watered it down, House quashes measure to let churches build homes on church land, mainly due to objections from neighbors. But then there was this concern by Rep. Diaz about witches moving in.... tucson.com/news/state-r...
Arizona House rejects allowing homebuilding on church land
PHOENIX — A deeply divided Arizona House rejected a measure giving churches the right to put homes on their land, amid worries that established neighborhoods would be overrun with high-density
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Nice.
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Indiana University is eliminating or suspending over 100 academic programs in arts and humanities, science, education, public health, and more

The cuts come after a new Board of Trustees majority, which has called for more “practical” degrees bloomingtonian.com/2025/06/30/i...
A photo of a “welcome to IU” with three students walking
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I think my most nineteenth century belief is that we should all take our free time much more seriously. I wrote this on the virtues of self-education and against wasting time on screens

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True knowledge is worth a million TikToks
In an age of distraction it’s no wonder non-fiction book sales are down but self-education always necessitates hard work
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