In the near term, I'm more worried about how the Trump regime will use war as precedent to undermine our institutions further than what Iran can inflict in a war.

There is no reason to claim anything definitively yet. But conflict is the most common means of expanding and cementing power

This may be the greatest
Increasing school funding for 2024-2025? Sure! *makes edit*

Funding has been increased for school years 2024-2425.

www.nytimes.com/2025/04/18/u...

It's this Thursday, 6pm at Bamboo Detroit! Free and open to the public! It will be YOUR chance to not only hang out with fellow urbanists, but to engage with a mayoral candidate and ask your questions. #detroit #urbanism #strongtowns #event

We just secured $10M in Series A funding 👀

techcrunch.com/2025/02/26/a...

#SeriesA #Startup #Security #Tech

State law does not require bicyclists to ride in bike lanes or on unsafe portions of the roadway.
https://buff.ly/4jPIHPt

Not all Detroit Police know that based on these videos, so we are following up with all parties.
https://buff.ly/3EC47iD
https://buff.ly/3Q55ZDb

Strong Towns Detroit hosted it's first walking tour of Corktown! We had a professional historian walk through the history of the neighborhood and the impacts and classist origins of I-75. It was a great time for us to learn and socialize together. We hope you join us for our best neighborhood tour!

"The government provides opportunities in privileges for white people and rich people they call it “subsidized” when they do it for Negro and poor people they call it “welfare.” The fact is that everybody in this country lives on welfare. Suburbia was built with federally subsidized credit...

Detroit! Join us for a walking tour of historic Corktown Feb 1st! We'll meet at Yellow Light Donuts in the station at 10am!

#detroit #corktown #strongtowns

President Trump's inaugural address was a misleading assessment of the U.S. It has a growing economy, falling inflation, slowing illegal immigration, a record-breaking stock market, the lowest levels of violent crime in years and a military that has limited engagement in conflicts around the world.

The Post's previous mission was "Democracy dies in darkness".

Now, its changing the mission statement (due to Bezos political leanings?) is telling of the oligarch's values: the degradation of truth, democracy, and journalism to win favor with Trump

www.nytimes.com/2025/01/16/b...

Profound insights

"If you are struggling with feeling competent as a UX Researcher, repeatedly telling yourself, “I’m what’s wrong. I’m not good enough,” and then walk into a session with a participant, it’d be remiss of you to think that won’t impact the relationship"

uxdesign.cc/ethics-power...

When you think about what the goal of tech and the apps we consume are, I don't think any of us want the purpose is to consume your life

I'm genuinely scared that design patterns that perpetuate misinformation and brain rot seem to be increasing, rather than building ethical and helpful apps

I'm trying to shift my life away from unethical big tech. It can be hard to sever myself from them completely, but if I am starting by replacing YouTube with nebula, social media with bluesky, and search engines with Ecosia, I'm hoping to be one in a market force for positive change in tech

I'm so impressed with this app. Truly an example of a product built for the public good! Thinking about my own products, there is a lot of benefit to the open nature and for the public benefit structure of Blue Sky.