Tuesday, July 9, 2024

'This is the year 1980, by now half the population of the United States is living in cities and towns that didn't even exist 20 years ago.'

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Lots of threads colliding on this one. First off, it's a 1961 documentary about what researchers and technocrats thought the future woul...
Monday, July 8, 2024

What do you call a dense, well-planned, innovative exurb? ... An exurb.

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However, the East Solano Plan, as proposed, can offer a model for how to build new cities with the whole ecosystem in mind, intentionally:...
Friday, July 5, 2024

Coffeezilla vs Rabbit

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Coffeezilla first got on my radar when the Financial Times quoted his investigation of a shady crypto deal. I've been watching his chann...
Thursday, July 4, 2024

Music for the 4h

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  Listening to Cohan, it's easy to forget how controversial going to war in Europe was. And finally,...
Wednesday, July 3, 2024

Come for the Brian Eno quote, stay for the cultural insights

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In addition to the great quote, I'd say this was exceptional work from Bob Chipman but I don't think you can be characteristically e...
Tuesday, July 2, 2024

It's almost like reducing sprawl wasn't really the goal

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A rational land-use policy in a state like California needs to balance the agricultural productivity against the proximity to housing demand...
Monday, July 1, 2024

Twelve years ago -- Time to revisit the locavore non-debate

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 The mystery of why this attack on the locavore movement was so bad when legitimate criticisms were so easy to come by would have first gott...
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Friday, June 28, 2024

"The Ensh*ttification of Everything"

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  I've never been a big fan of On the Media --they've always struck me as too wimpy for the job at hand -- but I am a big fan of Cor...
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Thursday, June 27, 2024

The abortion narrative – – convergence, herd mentality, and the inability to say "oops"

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To understand the politics of 2024, you need to understand the political journalism of 2022. Tom Bonier, the analyst who probably came off t...
Wednesday, June 26, 2024

My Marshall-McLuhan-in-Annie-Hall Moment

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Even in its current sad state, you still find yourself in interesting conversations on Twitter.     Eliezer S. Yudkowsky born September 11,...