Andrew (Anti Fascist) Michler

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Best Big City: Chicago Wins Award 9th Year in a Row Learn why Chicago was voted the Best Big City for the 9th consecutive year by exploring our vibrant culture, welcoming inclusion, and so much more.

Maybe- Breaking News Chicago is still the best city in America www.choosechicago.com/blog/special...

YouTube video by Big Think These two freak accidents explain why you're alive today | Sean B. Carroll

Our contemporary cool climate comes from two impacts youtu.be/ygXnH98npfY?...

Almost all external insulation fitted under Tory scheme needs repair or replacing, report finds Homeowners who took advantage of government programmes left with cladding likely to cause damp

2% of the retrofits do not need remediation.
No details on the actual issues but much of this sounds like unqualified installers and a lack of QA from the government made for a toxic mix.
Add the complexity of the building science for retrofits....
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There is no reason the planet needs to be habitable for mammals. It just happens to currently be convenient for them.

That new ballroom will make a decent setting for the trials.

MAJOR NEWS: @GavinNewsom signed SB 79, my bill allowing more housing near public transit — rail, subway, rapid bus.

It’s a huge step for housing in California. It’ll create more homes, strengthen our transit systems & reduce traffic & carbon emissions.

Thank you, Governor!

The Barringer Meteorite Crater is wild in person as it is hard to see at the top just how deep it goes down from the existing terrain. Tough to capture on camera but the section shows the uplift. Also its $29 for the tourist treatment.

Housing is too expensive to build and too expensive to afford.

Donald Trump's solution? Make it even MORE expensive with his chaotic tariffs.

Americans can't afford Donald Trump's housing market.

Panelized mass timber housing for asylum seekers in Switzerland

Tesla Is Urging Drowsy Drivers to Use ‘Full Self-Driving.’ That Could Go Very Wrong The company’s FSD tech doesn’t actually self-drive. Experts say that advising customers to switch it on when they're drifting between lanes is exactly the wrong move.

“When you suspect the driver is becoming drowsy, to remove even more of their physical engagement—that seems extremely counterproductive,” a researcher says.

Cupertino residents oppose affordable housing project - San José Spotlight One of the first 100% affordable housing developments in Cupertino poised to serve some of the community’s most vulnerable residents is drawing backlash from the surrounding neighborhood.

"She’s helping lead a mail campaign against the project because she said taking away parking spots could lead to people parking unsafely."
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Met police arresting peaceful protesters

My son’s phone gets taken off him in a mugging last week - no manpower, no investigation. My bike get’s nicked last year - no manpower, no investigation. Some old people silently protesting a genocide holding placards:

The city centers are not that car heavy so need to connect dots via alternative methods. There is immense swaths of nearly abandoned tarmac that crosses diverse zoning. (Berkeley fucked their streets by abatements with no alternative transit year ago) Oaklands spoke layout is prime

Oakland needs an 'all-encompassing' citywide greenway, bike commission says The Bicyclist and Pedestrian Advisory Commission dreams of transforming the city’s car-centric roads into a tree-lined paradise.

Oakland needs an ‘all-encompassing’ citywide greenway, bike commission says
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The AI architecture tool spam is hitting my LinkedIn. Is there a genuine professional use case yet, even to get say door swings right?

Architecture in Helsinki Boards of Canada

Maybe just the white ones

A bus of Bronx middle schoolers pulled up to the Capitol this morning for a long-planned field trip just a few hours after the government shut down.

All Capitol tours were cancelled as the guides can’t work in shutdown.

So I escorted them in myself and gave them a personal tour. They were great!

Got the $150 ebay special insulation blower worked out. Nothing worked but some good old fashioned bypass wiring and tensioning the drive cains and we have some cellulose in the walls.

Are tariffs inflationary? Here me out, lets say wine from France is all of a sudden double California. What's to keep Californian wineries from jacking their price up a little bit or a lot as well just as long as they are less than imported?

It was very exciting to see the Alpen thin glass production line getting set up. They really need to focus on b2b with other window companies and get that price competitive. A huge hole in North America for high performance glass.

These windows are credit-card thin. They’re about to revolutionize the way we design buildings The company behind the iPhone's gorilla glass is now making ultra-thin, extra sustainable windows.

For @fastcompany.com I looked at the roll out of credit card-thin high efficiency, made—in-the-US windows, their rapid commercialization, and why it may be as much of a design story as a energy efficiency gain www.fastcompany.com/91411247/cor...

I think the Trump admin assumed no one would try to find out who the people on the boats they blew up really were

Wind Power vs Coal Power | RealClearEnergy
Wind energy generation has recently surpassed coal in the U.S., a trend driven by declining coal use and the growth of renewables... Key factors in this shift include the lower cost of wind and solar power.

YouTube video by The Tim Traveller Vienna 2025: The First Ever WORLD Tram Driver Championships

World tram competition youtu.be/Qwrh_BFYmMc?...

So far today, Chuck Schumer has said his strategy for preventing Trump sending troops into blue cities is to win over Republican senators (!) while Hakeem Jeffries praised Eric Adams's courage and authenticity (!!) while refusing to endorse Mamdani. Again.

These two gotta go.

The community kitchen at Grindstone Joes, California Delta.

passivhaus, e-bikes, and batteries solve this