Jesse

In the near term, I'm more worried about how the Trump regime will use war as precedent to undermine our institutions further than what Iran can inflict in a war.

There is no reason to claim anything definitively yet. But conflict is the most common means of expanding and cementing power

Wisconsin Supreme Court Says Governor’s 400-Year Edit Was Within Veto Authority Gov. Tony Evers, a Democrat, used his veto power to increase school funding limits for four centuries longer than Republican lawmakers in the state had intended.

This may be the greatest
Increasing school funding for 2024-2025? Sure! *makes edit*

Funding has been increased for school years 2024-2425.

www.nytimes.com/2025/04/18/u...

It's this Thursday, 6pm at Bamboo Detroit! Free and open to the public! It will be YOUR chance to not only hang out with fellow urbanists, but to engage with a mayoral candidate and ask your questions. #detroit #urbanism #strongtowns #event

Exclusive: Anagram takes a gamified approach to employee cybersecurity training Anagram uses bite-sized training videos and interactive puzzles to make employee cybersecurity training more engaging.

We just secured $10M in Series A funding 👀

techcrunch.com/2025/02/26/a...

#SeriesA #Startup #Security #Tech

So pumped!

MCL - Section 257.660a - Michigan Legislature History: Add. 2006, Act 339, Imd. Eff. Aug. 15, 2006 ;-- Am. 2021, Act 43, Imd. Eff. July 1, 2021 Compiler's Notes: Former MCL 257.660a, which pertained to operation of bicycle with motor, was…

State law does not require bicyclists to ride in bike lanes or on unsafe portions of the roadway.
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Not all Detroit Police know that based on these videos, so we are following up with all parties.
https://buff.ly/3EC47iD
https://buff.ly/3Q55ZDb

Republicans are cartoonishly evil

Went for a walk this morning. You can feel it, smell it, and literally see it. Definitely minimizing time outside for the remainder of the day. Thanks for sharing!

Strong Towns Detroit hosted it's first walking tour of Corktown! We had a professional historian walk through the history of the neighborhood and the impacts and classist origins of I-75. It was a great time for us to learn and socialize together. We hope you join us for our best neighborhood tour!

...And highways that take our white brothers out to the suburbs were built with federally subsidized money to the tune of 90 percent. Everybody is on welfare in this country. The problem is that we all to often have socialism for the rich and rugged free enterprise capitalism for the poor."

MLK

"The government provides opportunities in privileges for white people and rich people they call it “subsidized” when they do it for Negro and poor people they call it “welfare.” The fact is that everybody in this country lives on welfare. Suburbia was built with federally subsidized credit...

Detroit! Join us for a walking tour of historic Corktown Feb 1st! We'll meet at Yellow Light Donuts in the station at 10am!

#detroit #corktown #strongtowns

Once again I'm ashamed to be American 😢

Trump’s inaugural address centers on pledge to lift a country in ‘decline’ In his second Inaugural Address, the president reprised dark themes from his first and laid out an expansive policy agenda.

President Trump's inaugural address was a misleading assessment of the U.S. It has a growing economy, falling inflation, slowing illegal immigration, a record-breaking stock market, the lowest levels of violent crime in years and a military that has limited engagement in conflicts around the world.

Completely agree! I think the same thing about the Qline tbh

The Washington Post’s New Mission: Reach ‘All of America’ This week, The Post began trying out a new mission statement: “Riveting Storytelling for All of America.”

The Post's previous mission was "Democracy dies in darkness".

Now, its changing the mission statement (due to Bezos political leanings?) is telling of the oligarch's values: the degradation of truth, democracy, and journalism to win favor with Trump

www.nytimes.com/2025/01/16/b...

Ethics & Power: Understanding the Role of Shame in UX Research I can’t help but feel the subtle onset of nausea and an uncontrollable eye twitch whenever I hear the tech community mention the E-Word —…

Profound insights

"If you are struggling with feeling competent as a UX Researcher, repeatedly telling yourself, “I’m what’s wrong. I’m not good enough,” and then walk into a session with a participant, it’d be remiss of you to think that won’t impact the relationship"

uxdesign.cc/ethics-power...

When you think about what the goal of tech and the apps we consume are, I don't think any of us want the purpose is to consume your life

I'm genuinely scared that design patterns that perpetuate misinformation and brain rot seem to be increasing, rather than building ethical and helpful apps

I'm trying to shift my life away from unethical big tech. It can be hard to sever myself from them completely, but if I am starting by replacing YouTube with nebula, social media with bluesky, and search engines with Ecosia, I'm hoping to be one in a market force for positive change in tech

I'm so impressed with this app. Truly an example of a product built for the public good! Thinking about my own products, there is a lot of benefit to the open nature and for the public benefit structure of Blue Sky.