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Writers should internalize Lao Tzu's lesson about how the emptiness at the center of a wheel is what makes it useful, and how a pot is valuable because of where the clay *isn't*. Corporate geek culture has warped us into thinking that negative spaces are flaws that need to be fixed.

Have seen no coverage of this in the msm.

HARD CO-SIGN!!!

Pencil, paper, done.

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The Midtown Greenway, a below-grade pedestrian and bike path in Minneapolis. The path goes below the cross streets. This shot shows many bridges from path level that makes it look like a tunnel, although there is open sky between each bridge. Each side of the path is flanked by green space. A biker is heading away from the camera. There is grafitti on the nearest bridge.

A shot on the Midtown Greenway in Minneapolis. It is a pedestrian and bike path. The shot is from path level with two bridges going over it as it curves to the left. The sun is just rising and shining through trees in the green space that flanks both sides of the path.

A snowy shot of the Midtown Greenway in Minneapolis, a bike and pedestrian path. Snow is falling and blankets the green spaces that flank the path. The shot is taken from above on a bridge, and another bridge is visible in the background as the path curves to the left.

The Midtown Greenway, a below-grade pedestrian and bike path in Minneapolis. The path goes below the cross streets. This shot shows many bridges from path level that makes it look like a tunnel, although there is open sky between each bridge. Each side of the path is flanked by green space. A runner is headed away from the camera.

So I think this month is the Midtown Greenway’s 25th birthday. I feel like it has to be one of the top city defining things built in in the last quarter decade? Can’t imagine the city without it…

Would love to see your favorite greenway photos 📷

Once again, love to see our ever rising property taxes going to fund a violent white men’s club.

Get rid of everyone, start over.

🔥🙏🔥

A large inkjet printer with its top open and a piece of shredded paper inside.

One of those days where one of your staff sends you this picture during a meeting.

The cover page of a comic called "One Bad Neighbor - Life Next to a Public Golf Course." The image is of a house about to be hit with a golf ball. A sheet hangs above the house with the title and a crude drawing of Homer Simpson wearing a golf visor, with a golf club and golf ball next to him.

A detailed comic page.

A detailed comic page about the history of Lake Hiawatha in Minneapolis.

A detailed comic page.

What's it like having the Minneapolis Park and Rec Board as a neighbor? Not that great.

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“This landscape of destruction looks otherworldly, yet it is not; it is this world, and what is happening may yet come to define one of its darkest eras.”

After a week of smoke, a look at Canada's approach to fighting wildfires differently Minnesota saw a record-breaking six-day air quality alert due to wildfires burning in Canada sending smoke into the skies. Canada is seeing one of it’s worst wildfire seasons on record.

Great discussion here on the causes of increased smoke in our Minnesota skies.
Wildfires have increased 4X in Canada and the US since the 1970s. 🔥
What changed?
The climate.
#mnwx
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“AI is coming to take our jobs” no it isn’t. It’s a CEO named Gary taking some shitty advice from a VC who has never had a real job in their life, trying to maximise their quarterly earnings by firing as many people as they can get away with to make number go up, and it isn’t sustainable

The fact that ai art and writing programs are built on stolen work really seems to be fading from the discussion even amongst artists and writers, which is a bit shit.

Sketchbook comic. Panel 1: a disembodied voice says “I KNOW a.i. is ethically, ecologically and esthetically awful, but I just gotta say…” Lucy is reacting with a ._. Face and thinking “do ya? Do ya really GOTTA?” Panel 2: Lucy’s thought bubble reads: “do you just GOTTA recite some tired anecdote using the phrase ‘I just typed it in!’ That just amounts to you admitting that your cheapness, laziness and poor taste outweighs your unexamined ethical code?”

Sketchbook comic page 2: Panel 1: Lucy’s thought bubble reads “and, at the very least, do you GOTTA say it to ME?” She is turning away, saying “ok I’m gonna go, um, get a snack.” Panel 2: another disembodied voice is saying “Lucy! You’re an artist— whattaya think about a.i? Ya know, it may be bad, but I JUST GOTTA SAY…” Lucy is startled, dropping a chip.

Sketchbook comic page 3: Panel 1: Lucy is surrounded by speech bubbles and text, repeating the phrase “gotta say…” she looks terrified. Panel 2: she is fleeing the repeated “gotta say”s, yelling “you gotta live with yourselves, but I don’t gotta!” A note with a heart at the end reads “stop doing this I will not absolve you.”

Gotta say…

Journey of a bike advocate. Goes on bike ride - smile emoji Experiences the danger - shocked emoji Approaches city council - straight face emoji nothing changes angry enoji person throwing a molotov cocktail Dreams of ending car culture

the journey.

creative developed with @thebikinglawyer.bsky.social

My hot take is that publishers can solve their "damn, this artist can't meet a deadline" problem by paying us with the same regularity they pay their in-house staff. Because applying for hospital financial aid with the system we are currently paid in is a disaster.

Evergreen.

Well, everything. The death of art. [Laughs.] A thing that I’ve been struck by in the last year of tech development around art is that what makes us human is making art, even if you’re not a professional artist. This is kind of corny, but I think about cavemen, right? One of the first things we ever did as a species was put our handprints on a wall, and it’s just this drive that has always been there. It’ll always be there. And I think it’s preposterous that these people are suggesting that they develop this technology, and the first thing they want to eliminate is art, so you have more time to…what, email? I don’t know what they think I’m going to do with my fucking day. Most of the population is not artists, but a lot of the population has artistic hobbies, and if you replace that with a computer doing it for you or whatever, it’s just pointless. I think there’s a death drive in these people, almost, and an actual hatred of artists; they are jealous of people with imagination because they don’t have one, and they almost consciously want to eliminate it.

My wife is in Vogue shitting on your AI-generated "art" 💜 www.vogue.com/article/matt...

We're all the same. We're all equal. No human being is worth more than another human being. We all deserve food and shelter and dignity and love.

No I don't want "humane" deportations, for the same reason I don't want "friendly" cops in schools or "understanding" genital inspectors at sporting events.

The problem is the fascism, not that the fascism is rude.

Absolutely. I had a bad wipeout many years ago when I took a corner full of loose gravel I didn’t know was there.

The answer is: Hell yes, trans kids should be able to participate in sports according to how they identify.

The emotional damage done by rejecting a kid’s identity is the real concern here. Not the bigotry of a busybody parent trying to bully that one kid.

"confidently spouting nonsense in the shape of information (what LLMs are programmed to do) has always been much more of a pathway for career advancement for men than for others."

YES.

maybe there's still some good left in this world after all

To be clear, without public pressure, Mayor Frey would have maintained the status quo. Under his leadership, problematic officers who have harmed the public are rewarded with promotions. This absolutely signals to other officers “reforms” is nothing more than lip service.

I am part of the 2/3 of kids who continue to have ADHD symptoms into adulthood but it took me a long time to figure that out because I was part of the generation told I would “grow out of it” as a kid. I didn’t!

Read the rest at www.raisedonritalin.com or order the book (or req it from yr library)

I said to you regarding Melissa Hortman’s murder over a month ago

Every time I see this ad I think: they didn’t realize how condemning that sounds.