Even the most disagreeable organisms can play crucial roles in an ecosystem.

Much less than in the US. Some of the malls I'm thinking of are suburban and do offer free parking, but most offer more a pond than a lake of parking. (One near ex-urban Romanian mall offers parking at almost American levels.) Others are fully urban. All are transit connected.

I find it interesting how much better the 80s-style indoor mall is faring in other countries where I spend time (Romania, Uruguay) than in the United States that invented and popularized it.

one problem with bluesky is it’s the same main character every day and it’s gotten old.

from the American Century to a museum to the American Century seems to be the plan.

youtu.be/nS5_EQgbuLc

it’s a kind of talent to be able to cynically confabulate then make yourself immediately, fervently, resentfully, believe your own tall tales.

it's not a social media site; it's a pot-luck grimoire.

youtu.be/W2msh0jut2Y?... // i’m genuinely sad. i love spirit airlines

in Seine.

does “efficiency” make us wealthier or is it a marker of our poverty?

jevons paradox, mf-er.

it gives me some hope that, since the American auto industry has protected itself into obsolescence and global irrelevance, US consumer demand will eventually break it, enabling a political economy capable of conceiving saner, more efficient, lifestyles not dependent on a personal automobile.

democracy as necrocracy. perhaps a kind of improvement on gerontocracy.

i love old fashioned machine politics because if the dead really did vote they could have a party and its slogan could be “vote boo no matter who”.

yes. and even if they could, what i want is to do the expressing. i do hope people read and value the expressions, but skipping the expressing is skipping almost everything (difficult and even painful though it sometimes is).

I want to write more, but LLMs can't help, it's not that I want to produce more content, I want to write more.

"Gradually, what began as an 'emergency' good, supported by the state’s ability to seize land for the public good, morphed into what Chua calls an 'asset-based welfare product'." @global-developments.org // a good description of what housing has become in many places

if the end state is the second coming, what does that reveal about the first?