William
Ava's person, board game enthusiast, data whisperer
- Abundance by Klein and Thompson - some thoughts The initial story has elements that I adore - solar power, no coal, etc - and ones that I find a bit silly. What its missing is many elements of urbanism that I want to see brought into the future.
- Or you could not build more car infrastructure. This feels like a repeat from yesterday. That's what happens with positive reinforcement.
- Not Fast Enough? McDonald's on S. Van Dorn Street wants another drive-thru lane www.alxnow.com/2025/05/07/n...
- Or you could, like: Not build more parking.
- Developer seeks extension to build automated parking garage in Old Town www.alxnow.com/2025/05/06/d...
- I'm part of a men's group called the mankind project. We work on men taking accountability for the impact of our actions, and moving away from exactly this. These systems are everywhere and inside us. This helps men find connection. Learn more about MKP here: mkpusa.org - or ask me.
- A few months ago, I wrote about male loneliness and the mankind project. If that struck a chord - the initiatory event of mkp is the New Warrior Training Adventure. The NWTA has helped 80,000+ guys. The next is in June. I'm happy to talk about it More Info: mankindproject.org/new-warrior-...
- resist.pages.dev/disobey resist.pages.dev/disobey.pdf Shared with enthusiastic consent of the author. Spread the link far and wide. If you like it, share the link. Don't worry about sharing this post - just the link.
- Fiction sought: Hope / Solar Punk Examples: Anything by Becky Chambers, but most obviously A Psalm for the Wild-Built, The Dispossessed, etc What I'm looking for: A hopeful future that could reasonably come from this mess. Trains, solar power, authority at the municipal level Suggestions?
- Perfect. Resistance looks different for everyone; there's no one way.
- ok, so: - I pay attention, and the first time I knew they were changing any bus name was when waiting for the metroway - which'll soon be the A1X. - If I do pay attention and do care about buses, how many people will be hit unknowingly? - I know so many bus names. Who does changing the names serve?
- I realize this decision is in the past, but really: More parking at Simpson?!? How about less parking and more basketball court? Note: I do not play basketball. I'm there most days, and it is the second most used area.... next to the dog park, which is in constant use. How about we expand those?
- Challenge: Before buying a replacement car, plan what it would take to go without. Budget it out - time and money! - and compare to current expenditures. My conjecture is it is only exceptionally difficult and expensive to go without a car, but rarely impossible
- GNU Terry Pratchett
- Why didn't I do this years ago? An author I enjoy publishes frequently on Unlimited and also has a Patreon. Get on the patreon, get the book early and still send it to your kindle. Thru, I am pretty sure, magic. Now I can read the author's military space fiction and not support Amazon. Hooray.
- At the Chili Cookoff, I spoke with @kirkmcpike.bsky.social . I asked "what is there to do?", his very good response: get people in red states activated and call R reps I've written a long letter and BLUF, ready to send to my friends in red states. I'll review it in a couple of hours and send today.
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- This is actually further away from us, but: More beer shops participating in Del Ray activities! Woot!
- Good to reshare, you know, because its fun reading: www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/2...
- If you can, use the IRS's federal free tax file system. If you can't - for a wide variety of reasons - use free tax USA. It's really free, and no income or filing limit.
- Government should NOT be financially efficient Government SHOULD be resilient We learned in 2020 what happens when a highly efficient system (food delivery!) suffers a blow - catastrophe We want government to be resilient so that when there is a blow, it can recover with minimal harm to citizens
- As a reminder: We are all bad at our jobs. 20-year old who think otherwise are uh.... wrong. xkcd.com/2030/
