Three of five are hereditary monarchies, one has the world’s oldest parliament, and one had to fight the socialist Red Army allied with fascists, and stayed independent. The region is home to Novo Nordisk, Nokia, Equinor, Nordea, Maersk, Skanska, Electrolux and other socialist entities…
In the same manifesto, Palantir's owners argued that we need a national military draft, that soft power is over, and that we were too hard on Germany and Japan after World War II. I don't think that company should be allowed to exist anymore.
Europeans build these projects at a fraction of the cost: what makes that possible there that couldn’t be replicated here?
I'm not a strategist, but if the US wanted Iran to stop its blockade, wouldn't stopping theirs have helped?
So frustrating to see UFCW using awful environmental laws to block an affordable, majority employee owned grocery store from moving into a vacant building in an area that really, really could use it. www.reddit.com/r/Seattle/co...
New Data Proves Small ‘Maker Businesses’ Can Revitalize Downtowns
Vacant storefronts are eroding the local tax base and pockmarking main streets.
A recent small business survey proves that “maker businesses” create the biggest difference for local economic strength.
Yes, and this person also ignores two huge advantages of commuting by bike, one serious and one more shallow: (1) you get in some good exercise for free as a routine part of your day, and (2) it’s a mode of transportation that allows you to show off your outfits.
I think the outfit aspect is highly under-addressed by the bicyclati!!
France passed a law requiring solar panels on every parking lot with more than 80 spaces.
Equals 10 nuclear reactors
Reduces heat island, shades cars
The US -- 800 million parking spaces. Most of them are uncovered asphalt sitting in direct sunlight.
Why aren't we doing this?
Happy Tax Day, New York. We’re taxing the rich.
"It doesn’t matter if you notionally agree with one of these people; if you’re accustomed to written language, everything they say will sound aggressively stupid."
Sam Kriss on our post-literate future: samkriss.substack.com/p/reading-is...
That account is likely a bot, but if not it’s someone supposedly in Kyoto - one of the bike-friendliest cities in Japan with higher rainfall (subtropical) and comparable grades to Seattle, at least outside the flat central area
I once was chatting with someone in natural language processing, and they didn’t believe in PIE or that Sanskrit, Greek, and Old Irish were related (gah!). Teachers also need more linguistics to support solid ELA instruction
we need more linguists because i don't want to have to explain to otherwise educated people that there's no such thing as a "biological pronoun"
Washingtonians adore their sister state, truly, and Portland has been an inspiration to the whole nation this year, but let’s be serious
One of the ways news media often fail us is by giving us the microscopic rather than the telescopic view. Everything I mention in this essay is well-documented, but the dots are mostly not connected to make visible this death by a thousand cuts our country is undergoing.
And yeah, it's this piece, out this morning. "The federal government that serves us is being starved while the federal government that serves the Trump agenda and the oligarchy is glutting itself on taxpayer money...."
That’s technically the Seattle side of the street I believe
I think that’s a truncated form of „second rate-ary“. She has a really palatal /s/ esp in „str“ clusters. Is that Chicago?
True enough, sigh
My excitement over Katy Wilson wanes each time I note one of these Mamdani successes. Is she just way less charismatic so we don’t know what she’s been up to? More communication would help a lot
"Healthy cities desperately need media, especially aggressively independent media."
The media landscape is a system where only oligarchs own almost all media - there are hyperlocal exceptions but who lack the scope and resources and language skills to compensate. CBC and BBC streaming help some…
Every single one of the astronauts who went to the moon and back on Artemis II was educated at a public school.
Thinking of the teachers who poured into Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, Christina Koch, and Jeremy Hansen tonight. You helped send a kid to the moon!
🌕 💛
At Ms J's uni all classes are now online "due to the economic situation".
The US plunging its 'ally', The Philippines, into a quasi lockdown and into an inflation and power crisis. Intermittent blackouts and fuel doubled in price.
Do Americans even think about the misery and chaos created in Asia?
There’s zero awareness even on the left because the education system was captured 20 years ago and the media aren’t doing their job. :-( Cities with large Filipino communities do better
Here’s an idea for “improving science” - don’t appear on panels with anti-science ideologues like Jay Bhattacharya and Emily Oster.
A crudely made sign stand of bundled bamboo held together with wire, upon which is mounted a roughly made sign of a single piece of wood, painted black, on which someone has crudely written BOOKS with an arrow pointing to the right, in a street somewhere.
When I know it's definitely a trap, but I'm going anyway.
This kind of perspective on ed policy is starting to feel dated already: the pendulum is moving away from AI right now
