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Looking much further back in history, we once killed a proto-NSRL on the alter of antimonopoly itineranturbanist.wordpress.com/2015/01/28/t...

That Time Boston Could Have Had a North-South Rail Link for $8 MillionAs part of my research project, I’ve been doing some looking into Boston’s North-South Rail Link concept–the idea of a tunnel linking, finally, North Station and South Station. NS…itineranturbanist.wordpress.com

A technology this consequential deserves adversaries who can see it clearly. Not flatterers, not prophets, not denialists. Competent opposition. The sword sharpens the sword, but first both parties have to admit there is, in fact, a sword.

"Pronouns used to be a funny joke, Hank. Until the government tried to tell me I couldn't use them anymore. So now I'm adamant about making sure trans people are gendered right. Not for their sake. But because I'll be damned if the US government is going to tell me what words I can and can't use."

yeah a huge chunk of the population is seeing garbage technology that gets things wrong constantly and is nothing but social danger and capitalist monstrousness and then a tiny slice is seeing a complex, troubling, but utterly comprehensive transformation in the field of "make computer do thing"

logistics is woke and gay (affectionate)

You spend a lot of time glazing and copying and being concerned about the American left. Between that and your wife endorsing *American* politicians with Nazi tattoos I’m starting to think you two don’t actually give a shit about Canada. Just move to the US and become the DSA people you want to be….

"Foreign Secretary Ed Miliband, recently appointed to the role by the new Prime Minister, Andy Burnham, meets Secretary of State Rubio in Washington" is one of those lines that would sound perfectly plausible to anyone in 2015, but explaining the intervening period would give them an aneurysm.

Jesus Christ I knew memory was hot right now but I did not realize SanDisk was making 6 quadrillion dollars a year.

The US didn’t forfeit its global ambitions. They acted on them.

Class action lawsuit against consensus reality

honestly I think it gives the game away, the “cheat at the job” frame the commitment to a specific version of toil as virtue, and contempt for defection from that bargain

i saw a tiktok about how doomscrolling in childhood is a sign of being a Rust developer and i can't stop thinking about it