Four Years After January 6th: Did We Learn A Damn Thing?
Last night, a friend of a friend of a friend of a friend kind of thing posted on Facebook about
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Culture & Language
The Detroit Lions of Judah: An Esoteric Use Case for ChatGPT
Using ChatGPT, long accused of making stuff up, to, well, make some stuff up– namely, to synthesize a combination of real and made up stuff.
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Book Review: Scaling People, by Claire Hughes Johnson
A good manager needs to be able to hire, lead, inspire, and deliver. It’s a tricky balance of often disparate skills and deliverables, but this book sheds a lot of light on how to do it.
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Line Go Up: Book Review of “The Cold Start Problem,” by Andrew Chen
I was recently hanging out with a buddy who, responding to my standby joke about how we must all be
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Suffering For Sweetness: Why Arkansas Strawberries Are So Good
“The wine is no good, because the grapes haven’t suffered!” Is this just pedantry, or is there some biochemical truth in this statement?
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Semantics & Semitics: Why We Need Better Language To Discuss Israel.
The war in Gaza has been punctuated by atrocity after atrocity, but also by language on both sides of the conflict that attempts to delegitimize the other side, questioning the validity of an entire people to exist. Often, these attempts are rooted in intellectual misappropriations or misunderstandings of historical phrases or concepts.
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In The Fight Against Highway Widening, Advocacy Works.
Advocates, volunteers, and municipal officials came together to unanimously push back on a proposal by the Michigan Department of Transportation to widen a section of US-23 between Ann Arbor and Ypsilanti. The agency finally backed down and says it is exploring alternatives that do not involve widening the roadway. Success.
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Juxtaposition Arts – New Digs on the Twin Cities’ New BRT Line
Nat returns to his old stomping grounds in North Minneapolis, a.k.a. Juxtaposition Arts, to scan the product of their multimillion dollar capital campaign.
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Burgerbanism: Coal-Fired Pizza, The Latest Front in the Culture War?
New York City has banned coal-fired pizza ovens unless they’re equipped with industrial-grade pollution treatment systems. Pizza didn’t do anything to deserve this.
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Burgerbanism: Ghost Kitchens, The Latest Wild Idea In Restaurant Innovation
The delivery app industrial complex has some interesting new models for how to brand, sell, and prepare fast food.
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