Jim Vincent
@gumbotron.bsky.social
Rolling along, making headway (I hope)
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There exists a popular sentiment that we can’t build as well as we used to and our best days are behind us. But when we choose to, we can still build beautiful and interesting developments.
Here’s a tour of 10 new projects that are creating a better built environment. 🧵
Here’s a tour of 10 new projects that are creating a better built environment. 🧵
February 4, 2025 at 9:36 AM
There exists a popular sentiment that we can’t build as well as we used to and our best days are behind us. But when we choose to, we can still build beautiful and interesting developments.
Here’s a tour of 10 new projects that are creating a better built environment. 🧵
Here’s a tour of 10 new projects that are creating a better built environment. 🧵
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All of that money and time spent just so they can do the Truss/Kwarteng bit to see what happens.
January 28, 2025 at 3:40 AM
All of that money and time spent just so they can do the Truss/Kwarteng bit to see what happens.
To be fair, the electorate was clamoring for war with Denmark
January 7, 2025 at 7:51 PM
To be fair, the electorate was clamoring for war with Denmark
This time of year is the sweet spot for listening to embarrassing music... after Wrapped comes out but before it resets for the new year
December 23, 2024 at 7:27 PM
This time of year is the sweet spot for listening to embarrassing music... after Wrapped comes out but before it resets for the new year
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Fun fact: Norway's wide-scale adoption of electric cars and embrace of subsidies for them was in part due to the band A-ha:
www.bbc.com/news/uk-scot...
www.bbc.com/news/uk-scot...
How pop band A-ha inspired Norway's electric car revolution
The band imported one of Norway's first EVs and launched a campaign of civil disobedience.
www.bbc.com
December 15, 2024 at 1:42 PM
Fun fact: Norway's wide-scale adoption of electric cars and embrace of subsidies for them was in part due to the band A-ha:
www.bbc.com/news/uk-scot...
www.bbc.com/news/uk-scot...
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This edges into a fascinating question for imperial or composite states and where their 'power' (more correctly, their ability to raise force) comes from.
Sometimes its a product of extraction from the periphery, but sometimes it isn't: the periphery is where force is demonstrated, not raised. 1/
Sometimes its a product of extraction from the periphery, but sometimes it isn't: the periphery is where force is demonstrated, not raised. 1/
one thing i really liked about BLOOD AND RUINS is how much it emphasizes the *imperial* logic of germany, italy, and japan
there was a *picture of the world* they were responding to, a picture of *imperial blocs,* metropole-and-extraction, "and we just want one of our own"
there was a *picture of the world* they were responding to, a picture of *imperial blocs,* metropole-and-extraction, "and we just want one of our own"
December 12, 2024 at 12:16 AM
This edges into a fascinating question for imperial or composite states and where their 'power' (more correctly, their ability to raise force) comes from.
Sometimes its a product of extraction from the periphery, but sometimes it isn't: the periphery is where force is demonstrated, not raised. 1/
Sometimes its a product of extraction from the periphery, but sometimes it isn't: the periphery is where force is demonstrated, not raised. 1/
Fascinating and very well researched account of the FHI from @asteriskmag.bsky.social
Looking Back at the Future of Humanity Institute
The rise and fall of the influential, embattled Oxford research center that brought us the concept of existential risk.
open.substack.com
December 7, 2024 at 6:56 PM
Fascinating and very well researched account of the FHI from @asteriskmag.bsky.social
There's undoubtedly mismanagement here, though it's also unfortunate that pandemic preparedness in general has (somehow) been dropped as a priority at all.
marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevo...
marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevo...
A Bird Flu Pandemic Would Be One of the Most Foreseeable Catastrophes in History - Marginal REVOLUTION
Zeynep Tufekci writing in the NYTimes hits the nail on the head: The H5N1 avian flu, having mutated its way across species, is raging out of control among the nation’s cattle, infecting roughly a thir...
marginalrevolution.com
December 1, 2024 at 3:25 PM
There's undoubtedly mismanagement here, though it's also unfortunate that pandemic preparedness in general has (somehow) been dropped as a priority at all.
marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevo...
marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevo...
Just finished watching X-Men 97 and found my desire to be an X-man much diminished
November 21, 2024 at 5:34 PM
Just finished watching X-Men 97 and found my desire to be an X-man much diminished