today i saw four geese crossing at a crosswalk like abbey road.
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what i want to know is, who would even think of spelling “kristi” with an m?
either we rise and fall together, or else we fall apart.
very perceptive from @scott https://scott.mn/2025/06/11/consultant_mindset_jarrett_walker_free_buses/
Text: When cities and transit agencies bring in Walker's firm, the assignment is: "Our budget is X million dollars. How can we best use this fixed budget to deliver service?" Even the best consultant? has to work within such terms. A consultant who retorts, "Your budget is too small for a world-class system. You need to go to the voters and politicians for better funding," wouldn't get hired again. That's not their job. Walker's error is to project that same role onto voters in a democracy.
@admitsWrongIfProven @OpenComputeDesign @light “name” does not necessarily imply that in English, but in this context, by name I guess I mean recognition of something, attributing pre-existing ideas or emotions to current emotions, not merely allocating some arbitrary signifier.
@admitsWrongIfProven @OpenComputeDesign @light if we can name the harm as we experience it, i’d say that’s enough.
the two party system has become the fascists and everyone-else-not-fascist.
it’s not surprising that the former has something of an advantage in coherence.
@gooser3000 i guess i think he’s pretty unusually far along the spectrum of sociopathy.
what do the national guardspeople and marines, most of whom don't have Stephen Miller's view of the world, think of the role into which they've been thrust?
“don’t worry about NIH or NSF. our machines will do the science now and it will be amazing.”
they really believe this shit, some of them. you have to admonish yourself (i have to admonish myself) you can’t wish cancer on anyone, that kind of thing is bad for the soul.
Vanilla Ice was a strangely prescient name and lip-syncing seems now such a quaint kind of scandal.
@light why craft a category of “legal persons” if not to grant them legal rights?
from “Children of the Days”, by Eduardo Galeano. https://bookshop.org/ebooks/quotes/5a99a116-b75a-4266-b435-f7a67092a1e1
Text: It seems strange, this notion that nature has rights as if it were a person. But in the United States it seems perfectly normal that big companies have human rights. They do, ever since a Supreme Court decision in 1886. If nature were a bank, they would have already rescued it.
even when a course correction is urgently required, it may not make sense to blow up the plane.
1990s — X Files
2020s — Epstein Files
i don’t follow NYC politics all that closely, but i like that sometimes when i’m quickly skimming Mamdani parses as “Madman”.
we are so fortunate to have two stable geniuses.
“the only country that has both the resources and the capacity to make credible commitments regarding academic freedom is Norway.” @rajivsethi https://rajivsethi.substack.com/p/body-blows-and-brain-drains