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Cities, adaptation, and AI. Jersey Shitty (City), NJ is home.
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When is New Jersey going to do something about these drones and attack Iran!?

I bought my family the plates from “The Bear” for Xmas. So does mean I can yell “I need hands!” from the kitchen?

www.nytimes.com/2024/12/13/u...

“Hey Siri… WTF?”

Makes you wonder what these self-absorbed bros might have done if they’d tuned in at a younger age www.nytimes.com/2024/12/12/b...

To say my Chinese students are freaking out would be an understatement www.nytimes.com/2024/12/11/u...

Every birthday for Some reason I end up eating Georgian food and drinking this crazy tarragon soda that looks like antifreeze

Watching “The Madness” and all I can say is PHILLY LOOKS HOT

For anyone that thinks BlueSky is all unicorns and rainbows, here’s the bile coming in over the spillway

off to Ann Arbor, Detroit and Little Village tomorrow. www.pbs.org/video/little...

Whoa Bader-Meinhoff back in Manhattan

"Not every restaurant is a subsidiary of a hedge fund..." Mitchell Moss on NYC's new street dining shed rules wnyc-news.simplecast.com/episodes/new...

"cities should act now to raise as much money as possible for adaptation before the municipal bond market starts pricing in physical climate risk. It's only going to get more expensive later" yeesh.

Seriously, if I'd had AI in engineering school, I would have invented time travel.

NSF makes you say who you got conflicts (coauthored) with. We (really just Jordan Matelsky) just built you a tool for that. Literally one click: bib.experiments.kordinglab.com/nsf-coa

I'm looking for adaptation + resilience tech taxonomies if people have them, please share! (For instance, Tailwind Climate's www.tailwindclimate.com/taxonomy/)

Github Copilot multi-file edits

Sometimes David Brooks really can nail it: "An administration of narcissists will be a snake pit, in which strife and self-destructive scandal will snuff out effective action. Running things is hard, and changing things is harder, and it’s rarely done well by solipsistic outsiders."

Driving around empty Cape May blasting Dag Nasty like it’s 1987 again m.youtube.com/watch?v=iBk6...

Has never seemed more timely. Take a look in the mirror, America! m.youtube.com/watch?v=sLSv...

2024 OS on a 2010 CPU

here's one to watch: Cambridge MA is contemplating six-story, by-right zoning for the entire city -- "advocates say [it] would be among the broadest zoning reform efforts tried in an American city" www.bostonglobe.com/2024/11/21/b...

'Global emergence of regional heatwave hotspots outpaces climate model simulations' our new paper in @pnas.org with S. Bartusek, R. Seager. J. Schellnhuber and M. Ting investigating the tail behaviour of extreme heatwave trends. @iiasa.ac.at @columbiaclimate.bsky.social @lamontearth.bsky.social

It turkey lurker time m.youtube.com/watch?v=izgG...

OpenCore Legacy Patcher = another lease on life for my beloved 2010 i3 iMac

hot takes on Scott Turner for HUD Secretary?

Had an idea this morning for a scenario generator to develop some content for a client. Four hours later the tool is so robust probably just going to deliver it to them with some pre-generated templates. Pre-Claude this would have been days and weeks of development and never would have got done.

Headed to Ann Arbor / Detroit Dec 5-6 and have a little free time. lmk if you can meet up!

construction is the last big sector to undergo digitalization and trails far behind in number of unicorn startups

fascinating keynote at Cornell Tech InfraTech Day by Darren Bechtel of brickmortar.vc = this is the worst-performing sector in the economy for decades in productivity improvement and it is costing the country trillions.

construction robotics starts with blueprints. printing blueprints on your half-finished building. www.youtube.com/watch?v=bnfU...

I loathe JD Vance but looks like he’s going to be the only non-rapist in the Cabinet so work with what we’ve got?

Nature-based systems ARE engineered systems. It’s just a different set of tools and requirements and skills. Just sayin.

David Hammer of PopWheels — "There are 100,000" Arrow 9 and Arrow 10 e-bikes on the streets of New York City. No one really knows who made them, and they are aging and their batteries are catching fire. #UTS2024

nice writeup by Diana Lind about the Urban Tech Summit and Andrew Park's amazing BeeBot-based audio AR tour of sustainability and resilence tour of the Cornell Tech campus thenewurbanorder.substack.com/p/will-the-k...

winners of MTA's open data challenge new.mta.info/article/cele...