Diesel Exhaust, Potholes, and A Vision of Better Commercial Corridors in Southwest Detroit

Greg Mangan, real estate advocate for the Southwest Detroit Business Association, picks me up at the northwest corner of West

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When Did The Police Become So, Uh, Anti-Law?

The latest insanity out of America’s Largest Strip Mall (a.k.a. Michigan) is the bold declaration of some police agencies in

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Adventures in Wooster, Ohio

Last week began what will be the first of a few actual summer vacations. This first adventure took us to

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Dreaming In Isometric: Variations on Midjourney Prompts

I’ve been experimenting quite a bit with Midjourney, a generative AI platform that produces images based on text prompts (and

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Hazy Air, Coughing? Don’t Worry. That’s Just The Latest Apocalypse!

Tuesday morning coffee thoughts. On our long drive back to M*ch*g*n from Pennsylvania/Delaware yesterday, I started reading snippets on the

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Midjourney: The Imagination of the Sane, the Insane, and the Unseen

Imagining a better light switch may well first require imagining a better outlet. Or not. We’ll see.

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Germans Have At Least 7 Words For Train Stations. Because Of Course They Do.

Fahrkarte, bitte! We’re going on a lingusitic-infrastructural journey to learn about how infrastructure thinking is baked into the very language we use to describe it.

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Bosch vs. DeWalt Power Tools: Customer Service Fail

It’s nice to imagine what it might look like to live in a world where companies assumed liability for their own products when those products break or create an undue threat of grievous bodily injury to the user. One of the two companies mentioned in this article did the right thing. One did not.

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Wishes For A Greener Spring

The advent of warm weather! The return of street fairs! The sniffles from spring allergies! And ever so much more.

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Burgerbanism: Mike Ransom’s Supercrisp Brings Super-Umami to Detroit Fast Food

Living in Southwest Detroit, we are big fans of Ima (今, Japanese for “now”), the brainchild of Detroit chef Mike

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