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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Author: Nat M. Zorach
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.
Read MoreBurgerbanism: 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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Can Second-Floor Apartments Make A Comeback? A New SDBA Grant Program Thinks So.
An ambitious new program in Detroit seeks to provide $10,000 to property owners to renovate and rent out second-floor and third-floor apartments in mixed-use buildings along several major corridors in Southwest Detroit.
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Fox News: “Tucker Who?”
Tucker Carlson made millions of dollars a year by telling lies to cable news viewers. Fox lost hundreds of millions of dollars by failing to rein him in.
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Michigan, The New American Capital of… Weed?
Rollin’ down the Lodge, smokin’ indo, sippin’ that duly-regulated cannabis beverage. Laid back, with our minds on our excise tax revenue and our excise tax revenue on our minds.
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A Smart Speaker With ChatGPT, or, The Alexa We Were Promised
The introduction of the Amazon Echo in 2014 promised to transform the domestic experience forever. It’s barely usable. Where is ChatGPT?
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