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architectural designer passionate about designing sustainable futures
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overheard someone saying they didn't need therapy, they just needed sun and some people in the park and i felt that

yeah this is bad

the "tech people see technology as god" thesis gets stronger by the day

the thing about (privately owned) avs is that there will probably be more cars on the road and more congestion and worse streetscapes

hard to overstate how cooked word's autocorrect is

Stop mass deportations with this one simple trick: wapo.st/41apYFB (gift link)

i've gotta wonder what the people at doge think when they see headlines like this. seems like they're too stupid to know the effects before the cuts but what about after? is this really what they're trying to do?

this guy's such a lower. good thing he's termed out

We live in a post future world. We used to just live in a post-history world. But now there is also a feeling of no future. And the present is being eroded every day. Maybe we can all lose our minds enough to overcome this

The National Park Service is misremembering #Stonewall. We're here to help correct their mistakes! All of the original content for the Stonewall National Monument has been republished at realstonewall.com #trans #queer #LGBWithTheT #translivesmatter

My thoughts on realism in movies and games

nice article. i often wonder how different my childhood would've been had i grown up in a city instead of a suburb

interesting study from gensler and pew

what the hell is nhtsa doing? has elon illegally shut it down too?

eggs are so expensive now costco only allows each person to buy 3 at a time

would it even be possible to sell this many office buildings given the current market without basically giving them away or paying people to take them?

it's surprising how quickly some things come to being counted in decades

really curious to hear how much revenue the toll is raising

los angeles's perennial problem: political fragmentation

chat, is this bad?

The most iconic figure in the environmental sciences is the Keeling Curve, the CO₂ record from Mauna Loa, Hawaii. @noaa.gov had a wonderful site where you could visualize and download these data, and now it's just gone. These data belong to us and we should not let this happen!

did not know they made decaf espresso

anyone written anything on generative ai as a form of data colonialism? is that anything?

One of the most ambitious mass housing programs in the world was run by French Communist architects in the middle of capitalist France from the 60s thru the 80s. My latest in @bloomberg.com on Vanessa Grossman's @yalepress.bsky.social book A Concrete Alliance. www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

i regularly get a number of emails from architects and planners (practicing - not just students) who want to learn more about how i got into activism and advocacy as an architect. to quote michael sorkin: 'Architecture is never non-political' lebbeuswoods.wordpress.com/2007/11/26/m...

chat, is this bad?

just amazing that an election in the last decade turned on whether or not proper email security procedure had been followed and now we are here

it's amazing that congestion pricing really is the try this one simple trick of urbanism

Adam Schiff voting to confirm a climate change denying Trump cabinet pick after two devastating fires just wiped out his own home district that he represented for the last 20 years, that's just a huge slap in the face to his constituents affected by the wildfires

where are the originalists on this unacceptable deviation from early american historical practice???

disappointing to say the least

if you see this, quote with a photo of a bridge from your gallery i bring you the pride of new jersey, the pulaski skyway

they should kick him out of the caucus if he votes yes

it's amazing how the new jersey mind-to-car-horn connection functions with so little latency

very funny to scatter this with literary allusions and spend a paragraph saying "this isn't orwelllian!" and end up proposing brave new world

the world they want is one where you're either unemployed or work an almost no wage job, you have almost no political input or self determination and you’re happy about it because you can get a t-shirt off temu for a $1

Salk Institute in San Diego [OC] 📸 r/brutalism