Ed Erhart

Reporters at @nytimes.com keep using the phrase "it is unclear".

I'd love to see plainer language that specifies *why* it's unclear.

Is it ambiguous? Will it be announced later? Do you just not know? Say that!

This concept might work on 53rd St between North and Vine. There are very few driveways, and the front yards are wider than normal, so this would create some genuine greenspace. Emergency vehicles would continue to have quick access to westside homes, at least, via 54th.

Picture of Bob Uecker, with the caption of 1934-2025, to announce that he passed away today.

RIP to a legend.

A tall white cake adorned with flowers and a capital "W" sits atop a wooden table. Text says: Happy 24th birthday, Wikipedia! Thank you to the outstanding community of editors behind this project that is still changing the world daily.

On 15 January 2001, Wikipedia was launched with a vision for a free, open encyclopedia that anyone could edit. 24 years later, it has grown into one of the world’s most visited websites, offering 63+ million articles in 300+ languages, thanks to its incredible global community of volunteers 🧵⬇️ (1/3)

A majestic deer emerging from a mist-shrouded forest.

The annual international photo competition Wiki Loves Earth encourages photographers to take pictures of local natural heritage in their country and share them on Wikimedia Commons.⁠

This is the winner of the “macro/close-up” category. See all winners ➡️ wikimediafoundation.org/news/2024/12...

This article says that the MiG-17 derivatives are "reportedly only now considered for suicide missions", but the sentence's linked URL (below) does not mention that. Thought you'd want to know! www.scramble.nl/planning/orb...

Wikipedia. Top articles of 2024

Each year, Wikipedia users worldwide reflect the state of the planet with their searches, highlighting the topics, events, and figures that sparked the most interest. #WikipediaYearInReview

The Milwaukee skyline at sunset

Me, at sunset over the lake.

Three friends walking over a pedestrian bridge with Milwaukee in the background.

A chili restaurant.

Yall, Milwaukee kicks ass…

I don't write for public audiences much anymore, but I couldn't give up this annual list.

We obviously don't know each other, but I did something similar a month or two ago when I'm pretty sure you were riding on Lloyd St.

This is a good an important piece but let's not overlook the bit where retired French railway workers are casually running a Batcave for train nerds

👋

I hope you're able to show your kids a few of these posts someday, if you haven't already. I'd bet they'd get a kick out of it.

Private jets: "an important and essential American industry" /s

www.nytimes.com/2024/03/21/b...

You got out at the right time.

How to build a bike lane in America Building a bike lane in America has never been simple.

Milwaukee! www.theverge.com/23992114/bik...

Announcing Wikipedia’s most popular articles of 2023 From ChatGPT and Cricket to Barbie and Bollywood, these are the 25 most read articles on English Wikipedia this year.

New from me: check out the English Wikipedia's most popular articles of 2023.

(Spoiler alert: it's ChatGPT.) medium.com/freely-shari...

A larger map of the Appleton area shows a purple area labeled 3rd District and an orange area labeled 5th District. An inset map shows a zoomed-in area of the larger map, where a small island of the purple 3rd District is surrounded by the orange 5th District. The purple island is labeled “one house.” City labels indicate that the purple island is part of the town of Buchanan and the orange area is part of the city of Kaukauna.

Excited to share some bonkers maps I made for this @propublica.bsky.social story about Wisconsin's gerrymandered legislative districts: www.propublica.org/article/wisc...

Urban Planning Opinion Progression xkcd.com/2832

That would also be entertaining! I used to play with a Milwaukee group but most moved away during the pandemic.

Idea: a local Milwaukee hoi4 game.

@isaacrowlett.bsky.social good news, Twitter finally took down the antisemitic harassment account.

A black cat winking (sort of) while on a kitchen stool

So I see we're all sharing cat photos today.

RIP Metaverse, we hardly knew ye Mark Zuckerberg spent years trying to make the Metaverse happen, but now it has been replaced by AI and is headed to the tech industry idea graveyard.

In a stunning development that everyone smarter than paste could see coming, the Metaverse is dead, and Facebook is pivoting to AI.

https://www.businessinsider.com/metaverse-dead-obituary-facebook-mark-zuckerberg-tech-fad-ai-chatgpt-2023-5

wikipedia pageviews for the article "bluesky social"

From what I've seen so far, Bluesky is pure distilled chaos.

Perfect.