“I Thought It Would Be Worse,” said a Detroit cop of a protest last year. “I Wanted More.”
CONTENT WARNING: The 22-minute video and the clips I’ve taken from it below include some disturbing and extremely graphic imagery,
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Sidebar: GM Says They’re Serious About Electrification? Prove It.
GM talks about its commitment to electrification, and then displays a spread of exclusively gas-powered cars at the Belle Isle Grand Prix.
Read MoreBurgerbanism: Telway Hamburgers, the Final Frontier of Southwest Detroit
Burgerbanism is an ongoing, however infrequent, series on restaurants and their architectural, economic, and social context in cities. A sticky
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Candidate Craig: Will The Paradoxes Play In The Provinces?
Detroit Police Chief James Craig’s abrupt announcement that he will be retiring to almost certainly run for governor– as a
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Dark Angel: The Dystopian 2010’s, When You And I Were Young
Jessica Alba’s breakout role in Dark Angel, which has largely been forgotten amid our current golden age of high-quality TV series, surrounded some prophetic visions of a dystopian near-future.
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American Meltdown: The Popular Imagination of Energy Disasters
Disasters plague systems that are designed or lauded as “too big to fail.” And, according to the wealth of cinema on the subject, we love to see it.
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NLG Files Lawsuit Against the Detroit Police
Attorney David A. Robinson and Detroit representatives of the National Lawyers’ Guild (NLG) held a press conference today in downtown
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100 Corporations Produce 71% of Carbon Emissions. But Who Buys Their Products?
LIVING IN SOUTHWEST DETROIT, A STONE’S THROW FROM THE AMBASSADOR BRIDGE, I AM ACCUSTOMED to having to wipe off the
Read MorePlatform Revolution: Understanding The New Economics of the Interweb
The platform economy dominates the economy today. This book offers numerous valuable lessons for how we can think about the architecture of systems in public infrastructure.
Read MoreBook Review – Brotopia: Breaking Up the Boys’ Club of Silicon Valley, by Emily Chang
A few weeks ago, I finished Emily Chang’s Brotopia: Breaking Up the Boys’ Club of Silicon Valley, which came out
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