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Art & Design Tech

Midjourney AI: Escaping Down The Rabbit Hole

March 10, 2023March 10, 2023 Nat M. Zorach 0 Comments

In recent weeks, I’ve done a cannonball off the high-dive into the deep end of the world of what I

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Culture & Language Lifestyle

Christmas 2022: Handbuilt City’s Naughty or Nice List

December 23, 2022December 23, 2022 Nat M. Zorach 0 Comments cars, christmas, christmas 2022, corporate management, DOE GSL lighting standards 2022, elon musk, exelon, led controllers, metro detroit transit, michigan democrats, michigan public service commission, midjourney ai, MPSC, national museum of the great lakes, pepco, right-wing extremism, sam bankman-fried, scotus, supreme court, tech crash, trevor pawl, twitter, volodymyr zelenskyy

It’s time for the annual tradition of pointing out the winners and losers of the year in terms of who’s

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Culture & Language Climate

Wielka Woda: Climate Future Through Historical Fiction

December 7, 2022December 7, 2022 Nat M. Zorach 0 Comments Agnieszka Żulewska, climate, climate change, climate fiction, doomsday glacier, Erin Brockovich, film, how high we go in the dark, Jakub Marczak, Jaśmina Tremer, mckinsey, poland, rocky mountain institute, sequoia nagamatsu, solarpunk, streaming services, thwaites glacier, Tomasz Schuchardt, wielka woda, Wroclaw, you forgot about poland

A new Polish-language Netflix series explores the catastrophic 1997 floods of Central Europe through a tightly-crafted, intense drama. Is it just fiction? Or is it cautionary?

Burgerbanism No. 10 – The Angry Jerk in Silver Spring, Maryland

May 26, 2022May 26, 2022 Nat M. Zorach 0 Comments angry jerk, burgerbanism, caribbean, caribbean food, coworking silver spring, customer service, DC, downtown silver spring, eastern ave, i/o spaces, i/o spaces silver spring, maryland, silver spring, silver spring maryland, tucker carlson, washington, Washington DC, white replacement theory, yelp, yelp elite

After a somewhat less than illustrious gastronomic experience at Underground Pizza, I felt it was time to give another spot

Detroit Book Reviews Mobility Sustainability Climate Michigan

Book Review: Women Driven Mobility by Katelyn Davis and Kristin Shaw

April 26, 2022April 25, 2022 Nat M. Zorach 0 Comments climate change, decarbonization, Detroit, Electric cars, electric vehicles, electrification, emily wasley, fisker, Gretchen Whitmer, jessica robinson, karma, katelyn davis, kristin shaw, lordstown, michigan, mobility, nikola, Tesla, transportation decarbonization, transportation electrification, TSLA, women-driven mobility, wsp

Nat looks at a new book by Katelyn Davis and Kristin Shaw about women in the mobility and transportation space, and asks whether a politics of benevolent incrementalism is going to help us solve the climate crisis.

Urban Planning Burgerbanism

Burgerbanism – Underground Pizza in Downtown Silver Spring

April 25, 2022April 25, 2022 Nat M. Zorach 0 Comments abject cuisine, billion dollar hot and ready, buddys pizza, burgerbanism, cheesy bread, dc suburbs, detroit style, detroit style pizza, dmv, downtown silver spring, dtss, eastern avenue dc, enriched bleached wheat flour, hot and ready, jets pizza, little caesars, Little Caesars Arena, Mike Ilitch, mikes pizza, new restaurants in silver spring, silver spring, terrible pizza, what is detroit style pizza, wheaton, white bread

Nat and friends check out the newest spot in downtown Silver Spring, which serves Detroit Style Pizza, a Midwestern varietal of cheesy bread slathered in marinara sauce.

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Canada Movements & Organizing

Shutting Down Trade With Our Largest Trade Partner To Own The Libs

February 8, 2022February 8, 2022 Nat M. Zorach 0 Comments alberta, ambassador bridge, big truck, black lives matter, canadian truckers, detroit international bridge company, DIBC, erin o'toole, gordie howe bridge, infrastructure, justin trudeau, land of the rising timbit, matty moroun, semi, south asian, tractor-trailer, truck, trucks, US-Canada border, US-Canadian Border, war on cars, western alienation, wexit, windsor, windsor-detroit border

Though mostly vaccinated, Canadian truckers have been protesting a new vaccine mandate that affects cross-border truckers. The protests, which have clogged the Canadian capital for weeks, have now come to Windsor, where they are blocking the entrance to the Ambassador Bridge. And for what?

Culture & Language Public transit

“You’re Entitled For Suggesting People Take Public Transportation Instead Of Stranding Themselves On I-95” – Midatlantic Liberals

January 4, 2022January 4, 2022 Nat M. Zorach 0 Comments amtrak, Amtrak NEC, blizzard, dc blizzard, disaster capitalism, dominion, dominion energy, Fairfax, Fairfax County, fredericksburg, fredericksburg virginia, i-95, i-95 corridor, i-95 virginia, infrastructure, interstate 95, king george county, national guard, nec, northeast corridor, northern virginia, Prince William County, public transit, snowstorm, Stafford County, transit, transit between dc and fredericksburg, transit between dc and virginia, transportation, twitter, VDOT, Vienna, virginia, virginia blizzard, Virginia Railway Express, VRE, VREx, waffle house index, weather, wmata

A rare, intense blizzard in the Midatlantic US snarled traffic on I-95, leading us to wonder: how is the car obsession even so engrained on the East Coast that people can’t imagine not driving cars?

Book Reviews Culture & Language

Year-End Wrap-Up: Handbuilt’s 2021 Reading List

January 1, 2022January 1, 2022 Nat M. Zorach 0 Comments alix harrow, amazon, andrew needham, best books of 2021, book reviews, books, city of quartz, daniel amsterdam, emily st. john mandel, glass hotel, gods of jade and shadow, good books for 2021, good books for 2022, handbuilt reading list, jeff bezos, joel fleishman, laura van den berg, lost apothecary, magical realism, Mike Davis, militarization of policing, naomi klein, once and future witches, power lines, radley balko, rebecca henderson, reimagining capitalism in a world on fire, rise of the warrior cop, roaring metropolis, sally denton, sarah penner, silvia moreno-garcia, station eleven, ten thousand doors of january, the foundation a great american secret, the third hotel, thriftbooks, w. m. akers, westside gilda carr, what books should i read

2021 was, in many ways, even weirder than 2020. Was the pandemic finally over? Or was it just another series

Urban Planning Culture & Language Lifestyle

Christmas 2021: Handbuilt’s Naughty Or Nice List

December 22, 2021December 22, 2021 Nat M. Zorach 0 Comments amtrak, authoritarianism, big gretch, climate change, climate denial, climate denialism, daqo solar, decarbonization, decarbonizing the transportation sector, department of transportation, desegregate connecticut, economic dispatch, EmPOWER MD, energy, ever given, evergrande, Gretchen Whitmer, james craig, jewish space laser, jim jordan, jinko solar, joe manchin, lauren boebert, madison cawthorn, marjorie taylor greene, maryland, matt gaetz, mayor pete, MDHHS mask mandate, mdot, MEDC, michigan covid, mike duggan, mike shirkey, mitch mcconnell, pete buttigieg, police departments, public utilities, radical socialist agenda, republican party, sara bronin, socialism, suez canal 2021, trevor pawl, trump, USDoT, uyghur china, vmt reduction, west virginia, xinjiang solar

Every year, we at Handbuilt Heavy Industries, Incorporated, feel the need to wrap up with a Christmas-y list of everyone who

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