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Ashton Walker

@gawalker.bsky.social

Dad. Punk. Urban History. Business History. Dirty Data. History of Economics. Theological Niceties. Baguio, Manila, Atlanta, Clarkston. 19th c. Savannah.

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Chattahoochee Brick Co. team shares project history, timeline at open house Learn about the Chattahoochee Brick Co. and Atlanta Riverlands project, a community-driven initiative to create a public space and memorialize history.

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10.11.2025 19:12 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Born in Flames &#8220;[R]evelatory&hellip;Deeply researched and masterfully told.&#8221; &#8212;Brian Goldstone, <em>New York Times Book Review</em><br /><br />The explosive account of the arson wave that hit the Br...

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27.08.2025 09:44 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1
Care at the End of the World
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Want a direct train from Atlanta to Savannah? Let GDOT know Have you ever wanted to ditch the traffic and travel from Savannah to Atlanta by train? As of now, the trip requires several transfers up and around the east coast, taking up to 24 hours.

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23.03.2025 11:11 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Socializing Big Tech. A Mini-Workshop with CECILIA RIKAP - KTB To register, please sign up here Moderated by Friederike Karla Hildebrandt from communia Co-organized with Christoph Sorg (HU Berlin) and Nils Rochowicz (TU Chemnitz). Part of β€žSocialization in Theory...

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25.02.2025 09:34 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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PS Events: AI Action Summit YouTube video by Project Syndicate

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17.02.2025 09:46 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Resisting Digital Feudalism | by Mariana Mazzucato - Project Syndicate Mariana Mazzucato calls for urgent action to shape the development of AI before it becomes another means of rent extraction.

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Building Inequality Mapping the spatial and racial inequalities of FHA Section 608 rental housing, ca. 1942-1950

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🚨 πŸš€πŸŒ Today, the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law is launching three online tools – the Climate Backtracker, the Inflation Reduction Act Tracker & the Silencing Science Tracker – to keep tabs on the Trump administration’s climate rollbacks & anti-science actions: https://buff.ly/4jsf5HJ
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Olivia Amyette is Bringing Solar Powerβ€”and Paid Job Trainingβ€”to Georgians Who Need It - SACE | Southern Alliance for Clean Energy For Olivia Amyette, solar power should be for everyone – plain and simple. But, for the young business owner, this doesn’t just mean access to owning and using solar panels. It also…

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09.01.2025 13:41 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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How American Agriculture Went Wrong The same forces of globalization and consolidation that hit the rest of the economy have wrecked America’s farms.

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27.12.2024 10:16 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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A Bibliography of Municipal Utility Regulation and Municipal Ownership

Way too excited to have found a 400-page bibliography of the municipal utility literature up to 1918.

19.12.2024 14:29 β€” πŸ‘ 30    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 0
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A Clean Energy Boost for Multitasking Lands A UC Davis Wild Energy Center report defines multi-use solar energy projects and the challenges and opportunities they present for California landscapes.
02.12.2024 19:24 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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The Nobel for Econsplaining Acemoglu, Johnson and Robinson won a prize for applying economics to the very things economics is inherently bad at figuring out

"The new economic institutionalists treat work on institutions by a celebrated historian not as a coherent argument, but as a source of anecdotes. If they did this with data, you’d call it p-hacking."

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29.11.2024 08:46 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Starts an hour in. Bill Brim at 1:24:00. Is there a discussion (preferably in GA) that connects this scale to the Isabella Weber level?
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