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Seoul is one of the largest strong mayor cities in the world, and the city is having a major mayoral election this year.
I've written a lot about Seoul mayors and how they played a role in the development of Seoul's massive transit network. I wanted to organize them in a single thread 🧵
I've written a lot about Seoul mayors and how they played a role in the development of Seoul's massive transit network. I wanted to organize them in a single thread 🧵
February 15, 2026 at 5:54 PM
Seoul is one of the largest strong mayor cities in the world, and the city is having a major mayoral election this year.
I've written a lot about Seoul mayors and how they played a role in the development of Seoul's massive transit network. I wanted to organize them in a single thread 🧵
I've written a lot about Seoul mayors and how they played a role in the development of Seoul's massive transit network. I wanted to organize them in a single thread 🧵
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It's also not helped by India's siting of metro station often being terrible. This isn't (anywhere close to) the worst, but if they hit somewhere closer to the geographic center of BKC's employment, there wouldn't even *be* a "last-mile" problem.
February 14, 2026 at 8:13 PM
It's also not helped by India's siting of metro station often being terrible. This isn't (anywhere close to) the worst, but if they hit somewhere closer to the geographic center of BKC's employment, there wouldn't even *be* a "last-mile" problem.
India is going through a weird Personal Rapid Transit boom where gov officials are enamored by "POD Taxis" when it makes no sense. These are not good systems in cities of 10s of millions!
Good substack, the graphs are very clear!
substack.com/home/post/p-...
Good substack, the graphs are very clear!
substack.com/home/post/p-...
Do POD Taxis in Mumbai make any sense whatsoever?
Why Mumbai’s Pod Taxi Experiment Fails the Basic Test of Mass Transit
substack.com
February 14, 2026 at 7:19 PM
India is going through a weird Personal Rapid Transit boom where gov officials are enamored by "POD Taxis" when it makes no sense. These are not good systems in cities of 10s of millions!
Good substack, the graphs are very clear!
substack.com/home/post/p-...
Good substack, the graphs are very clear!
substack.com/home/post/p-...
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This is also why the MBTA's fare card is called the Charliecard. Their predecessor raised the fare to 15 cents by requiring a 10 cent coin to enter and a 5 cent coin to exit. In the song Charlie on the MTA the titular character forgot his 5 cents and was thus stuck forever.
February 14, 2026 at 6:27 PM
This is also why the MBTA's fare card is called the Charliecard. Their predecessor raised the fare to 15 cents by requiring a 10 cent coin to enter and a 5 cent coin to exit. In the song Charlie on the MTA the titular character forgot his 5 cents and was thus stuck forever.
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Getting ready to pass HB 2374. This creates a state definition of "electric motorcycles" as distinct from "electric bikes" to ensure we're regulating the right things in a consistent way statewide. "Roses are red, violets are blue, when we see an e-moto we should know what to do" #waleg
February 14, 2026 at 6:52 AM
Getting ready to pass HB 2374. This creates a state definition of "electric motorcycles" as distinct from "electric bikes" to ensure we're regulating the right things in a consistent way statewide. "Roses are red, violets are blue, when we see an e-moto we should know what to do" #waleg
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New S(ubstack)-Bahn post: I take a historical tour into two of my favorite buildings in Seoul, located across the street from e/o. I look into chi energy, the spiritual afterlife, fights over zoning, gentrification, and Seoul's uncertain future.
www.substack-bahn.net/p/a-tour-in-...
www.substack-bahn.net/p/a-tour-in-...
A Tour in Search for the Soul of Seoul
Jongmyo Shrine, Sewoon Sangga, and the uncertain future of the Korean capital
www.substack-bahn.net
February 13, 2026 at 5:18 PM
New S(ubstack)-Bahn post: I take a historical tour into two of my favorite buildings in Seoul, located across the street from e/o. I look into chi energy, the spiritual afterlife, fights over zoning, gentrification, and Seoul's uncertain future.
www.substack-bahn.net/p/a-tour-in-...
www.substack-bahn.net/p/a-tour-in-...
This issue actually destroyed US transit. So many trams might still exist if there had been a 7.5¢ coin in 1920
February 13, 2026 at 4:06 PM
This issue actually destroyed US transit. So many trams might still exist if there had been a 7.5¢ coin in 1920
Made a little chart of where Stephen King sets his novels. You can definitely tell when he started vacationing in FL in the late 90s and more generally started exploring the South. Also he's in his Midwestern crime era?
February 12, 2026 at 6:03 AM
Made a little chart of where Stephen King sets his novels. You can definitely tell when he started vacationing in FL in the late 90s and more generally started exploring the South. Also he's in his Midwestern crime era?
New Syriac Christian Chronicle found from the early 700s. Neat!
www.heritagedaily.com/2026/02/1300...
www.heritagedaily.com/2026/02/1300...
1,300-year-old world chronicle unearthed in Sinai
A newly identified Christian world chronicle dating to the early 8th century is shedding fresh light on the political and religious upheavals that marked the transition from late antiquity to the rise...
www.heritagedaily.com
February 11, 2026 at 4:33 PM
New Syriac Christian Chronicle found from the early 700s. Neat!
www.heritagedaily.com/2026/02/1300...
www.heritagedaily.com/2026/02/1300...
Maybe Trump finds calling congressmen kind of annoying
I think it is legitimately very strange that the Trump admin has given up on legislation. He can clearly corral house votes to pass budgets, why can't he corral votes to pass other stuff? Much of what Vought & Miller want would be easier with legislation! Why don't they give a shit?
February 11, 2026 at 4:00 PM
Maybe Trump finds calling congressmen kind of annoying
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One estimate suggests that 18,000 homes a year are not being built because of the UK’s new requirement for a second stairway at 18 meters. Some are advocating to raise the limit to 50 meters, in line with global standards. archive.is/2026.02.09-1...
archive.is
February 11, 2026 at 2:11 AM
One estimate suggests that 18,000 homes a year are not being built because of the UK’s new requirement for a second stairway at 18 meters. Some are advocating to raise the limit to 50 meters, in line with global standards. archive.is/2026.02.09-1...
@dylanmatt.bsky.social posted this on Twitter. Interesting paper!
Wild finding in a new job market paper: British bureaucrats trained by Thomas Malthus, personally, provided less aid during droughts in India than those trained by one of his critics
ericnrobertson.github.io/files/jmp.pdf
Wild finding in a new job market paper: British bureaucrats trained by Thomas Malthus, personally, provided less aid during droughts in India than those trained by one of his critics
ericnrobertson.github.io/files/jmp.pdf
ericnrobertson.github.io
February 11, 2026 at 4:04 AM
@dylanmatt.bsky.social posted this on Twitter. Interesting paper!
Wild finding in a new job market paper: British bureaucrats trained by Thomas Malthus, personally, provided less aid during droughts in India than those trained by one of his critics
ericnrobertson.github.io/files/jmp.pdf
Wild finding in a new job market paper: British bureaucrats trained by Thomas Malthus, personally, provided less aid during droughts in India than those trained by one of his critics
ericnrobertson.github.io/files/jmp.pdf
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A real memorial to Jimmy Carter, who died a year ago. Last year, the world had just 10 reported cases of guinea worm--a terrible disease whose eradication was a major focus of the Carter Center. It may become, after smallpox, the second human disease that was totally eliminated.
Guinea Worm Disease Reaches All-Time Low: Only 10 Human Cases Reported in 2025
Only 10 human cases of Guinea worm were reported worldwide in 2025, the lowest number ever recorded, bringing the ancient disease closer than ever to eradication.
www.cartercenter.org
February 10, 2026 at 2:56 PM
A real memorial to Jimmy Carter, who died a year ago. Last year, the world had just 10 reported cases of guinea worm--a terrible disease whose eradication was a major focus of the Carter Center. It may become, after smallpox, the second human disease that was totally eliminated.
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For Seattle the answer is very boring. 2 subways
Metro 8 Line (5 miles)
Ballard to UW line (3 miles with a bend to Fremont, use the extra 2 to get to U Village (mall) and Children's Hospital)
These are both the most congested high frequency busses
Metro 8 Line (5 miles)
Ballard to UW line (3 miles with a bend to Fremont, use the extra 2 to get to U Village (mall) and Children's Hospital)
These are both the most congested high frequency busses
February 10, 2026 at 5:51 AM
For Seattle the answer is very boring. 2 subways
Metro 8 Line (5 miles)
Ballard to UW line (3 miles with a bend to Fremont, use the extra 2 to get to U Village (mall) and Children's Hospital)
These are both the most congested high frequency busses
Metro 8 Line (5 miles)
Ballard to UW line (3 miles with a bend to Fremont, use the extra 2 to get to U Village (mall) and Children's Hospital)
These are both the most congested high frequency busses
[do not look up how Rousseau treated his real children]
February 9, 2026 at 7:57 PM
[do not look up how Rousseau treated his real children]
This can be real if you visit any of the Pacific Northwest's Retrofuturist sites in January:
- the Seattle Center
- the Vancouver Bloedel Conservatory
- The Portland Building
- the Seattle Center
- the Vancouver Bloedel Conservatory
- The Portland Building
February 9, 2026 at 6:26 PM
This can be real if you visit any of the Pacific Northwest's Retrofuturist sites in January:
- the Seattle Center
- the Vancouver Bloedel Conservatory
- The Portland Building
- the Seattle Center
- the Vancouver Bloedel Conservatory
- The Portland Building
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You can't just "know" kung fu: @tallesteden.bsky.social is on to talk about Greg Egan's hard SF classic, DIASPORA, with much discussion of the mechanics of scale & wonder, and what we can learn from thinking about weird posthuman societies:
ancillaryreviewofbooks.org/2026/02/09/a...
ancillaryreviewofbooks.org/2026/02/09/a...
February 9, 2026 at 12:37 PM
You can't just "know" kung fu: @tallesteden.bsky.social is on to talk about Greg Egan's hard SF classic, DIASPORA, with much discussion of the mechanics of scale & wonder, and what we can learn from thinking about weird posthuman societies:
ancillaryreviewofbooks.org/2026/02/09/a...
ancillaryreviewofbooks.org/2026/02/09/a...
I think it's an interesting question whether, if a secret vote of all House and Senate Republicans could remove Trump and replace him with another R, would he actually be removed now or at some point in his first term.
Like are British parties like this for structural or cultural reasons?
Like are British parties like this for structural or cultural reasons?
February 9, 2026 at 4:59 PM
I think it's an interesting question whether, if a secret vote of all House and Senate Republicans could remove Trump and replace him with another R, would he actually be removed now or at some point in his first term.
Like are British parties like this for structural or cultural reasons?
Like are British parties like this for structural or cultural reasons?
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TISZA's challengers to Orban's rule vow to fight corruption, adopt the euro, and anchor Hungary firmly in EU and NATO. But the party's new programme also presents plans to introduce a wealth tax, and cut income tax for lower earners.
www.reuters.com/business/hun...
www.reuters.com/business/hun...
Hungary's opposition Tisza promises wealth tax, euro adoption in election programme
Hungary's opposition Tisza party plans to introduce a wealth tax for the rich, adopt the euro currency and firmly anchor Hungary in the European Union and NATO, its 240-page election programme publish...
www.reuters.com
February 9, 2026 at 3:17 PM
TISZA's challengers to Orban's rule vow to fight corruption, adopt the euro, and anchor Hungary firmly in EU and NATO. But the party's new programme also presents plans to introduce a wealth tax, and cut income tax for lower earners.
www.reuters.com/business/hun...
www.reuters.com/business/hun...
I find it a bit dissapointing that after the Pirahã recursion issue became a big deal in the mid-2000s among linguists, there is still AFAIK not a consensus on the basic empirical question of whether Pirahã shows recursion. Partly it's a definition issue.
www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...
www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...
The Great Pirahã Brouhaha: Linguistic Diversity and Cognitive Universality
Claims made by linguist Daniel Everett, that the Pirahã language, spoken by a small group of native Amazonians, lacks features thought to be universally present in languages, captured the imaginations...
www.annualreviews.org
February 9, 2026 at 4:08 PM
I find it a bit dissapointing that after the Pirahã recursion issue became a big deal in the mid-2000s among linguists, there is still AFAIK not a consensus on the basic empirical question of whether Pirahã shows recursion. Partly it's a definition issue.
www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...
www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...
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Fired up my scraper from last time. LDP candidates scored a full 10 pp. better than last time; CDP went from an avg of 40% where they ran (they never run a full slate) to an avg of 30%. That'll do it
bsky.app/profile/koji...
bsky.app/profile/koji...
February 8, 2026 at 10:08 PM
Fired up my scraper from last time. LDP candidates scored a full 10 pp. better than last time; CDP went from an avg of 40% where they ran (they never run a full slate) to an avg of 30%. That'll do it
bsky.app/profile/koji...
bsky.app/profile/koji...
I do not find Neuromancer that prescient
(I'm rereading it for the first time in many years)
it would be very cool to be a console cowboy w/ your street samurai partner though, sorry, that shit rips just like in 1984
(I'm rereading it for the first time in many years)
it would be very cool to be a console cowboy w/ your street samurai partner though, sorry, that shit rips just like in 1984
February 8, 2026 at 5:20 PM
I do not find Neuromancer that prescient
(I'm rereading it for the first time in many years)
it would be very cool to be a console cowboy w/ your street samurai partner though, sorry, that shit rips just like in 1984
(I'm rereading it for the first time in many years)
it would be very cool to be a console cowboy w/ your street samurai partner though, sorry, that shit rips just like in 1984
Human civilization is ending. We are beginning to understand that we are fading.
(this is also why TFR is down)
(this is also why TFR is down)
February 8, 2026 at 5:16 PM
Human civilization is ending. We are beginning to understand that we are fading.
(this is also why TFR is down)
(this is also why TFR is down)
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This is a cool tool by @joaoc.bsky.social: simulate the outcome of tomorrow's presidential run-off in Portugal by playing around with the levers for what % of each R1 candidate (and non-voters) will vote for whom now. (My guess: the polls are too optimistic.)
joaocancela.github.io/presidenciais/
joaocancela.github.io/presidenciais/
Simulador de resultados na 2.ª volta da eleição presidencial de 2026 (Seguro vs Ventura)
joaocancela.github.io
February 7, 2026 at 4:01 PM
This is a cool tool by @joaoc.bsky.social: simulate the outcome of tomorrow's presidential run-off in Portugal by playing around with the levers for what % of each R1 candidate (and non-voters) will vote for whom now. (My guess: the polls are too optimistic.)
joaocancela.github.io/presidenciais/
joaocancela.github.io/presidenciais/