Opinion | Christopher Taylor has conceded to Yousef Rabhi. Here's why this is bad news for Yousef Rabhi. #a2council

Opinion | I’m a local banker and lifelong fiscal conservative. Mayor Taylor’s plan to allow duplexes in my neighborhood has caused me to see Chairman Mao’s little red book in a whole new light. #a2council by Strozzapreti Linguini Rotini

here's hoping, or maybe we learn what ann arbor's "weak mayor" system looks like.

Michigan Mama@mamadoingsomething.bsky.social · 23h ago

Am hoping Rabhi winning without his slate means it was more an anti-incumbent wave than a NIMBY one, and that maybe with a LOT of (hard knocks) education, he’ll come to understand how affordable housing gets made. 🤞 Hold on, #a2council .

i have been thinking about the ann arbor mayoral election as the monkey paw election.

you could be listening to willie nelson's "phases and stages" (1974)

it's the most wonderful time of the year: tomato sandwich season.

i'm fancy tea-pilled. who else does little sandwiches in southeast michigan.

Forest Gregg@bunkum.us · 2mo ago

booked a table for the fancy tea time that that a russian monastery in harper woods, michigan hosts once a month.

does anyone have any patterns they like for declaring table, row-level, and column-level security with dbt models. seems like a very natural extension, but what i've found is janky as hell.

I have no idea if anyone looks at this and I don't use this very often, but I'm launching a (IMO) unique literary publication tomorrow.

LA Poetry Club@lapoetryclub.bsky.social · last wk.

A little thread: LA Poetry Club is the world's first (as far as I know) geolocated, temporary literary publication. Accessible only in the city of Los Angeles. Each issue self-destructs and disappears after 72 hours. The location is never sent to the server and used only as a browser check.

surprised that maha hasn't tried to rehabilitate cigarette smoking, specifically.

zyn are neoliberal cigarettes

Today I am reminded yet again of one of my _favorite_ features of Fastmail https://www.fastmail.help/hc/en-us/articles/1500000278342-Server-names-and-ports#h_01H95ZZXYRR7J895AFBSH5S5KX

data warehousing is just ontology, epistemology, and hermeneutics in a trench coat.

self-serve BI hasn't worked in twenty years, but this time it will be different

you could just watch "edge of darkness" (1985)

Edge Of Darkness (1985) TV Series: Part 1 of 6 (Bob Peck, Joe Don Baker, Joanne Whalley)

YouTube video by KevinAinsworthMA

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one of the things about being alive for long enough is that you can start to see the tides of history and come to understand how much of your commitments floated along with changing spirits of the age

labordata.bunkum.us should be easier to query and much, much faster.

one thing that you learn from spending time with young children is how often an interest in justice is about finding a a cover to indulge in sadism. (this is also why in action movies, the family of the hero is often killed at the beginning of the movie)

i'll say this for atproto, the community is developing a lot of data standards (lexicons) and it don't seem to be pure hell that developing data standards usually entails. any ideas about why not, @omg.jacky.wtf

Cloudflare silently added opt-in support for respecting the Vary header! Welcome to 1997 internet, Cloudflare! developers.cloudflare.com/changelog/po... Hoping this simplifies a lot of caching rules (and some funky worker deployments too)!

Cache multiple versions of a URL with Vary

Cache Rules now support the origin Vary response header, so the same URL can hold multiple cached versions selected by the request headers your origin varies on.

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We won a delay! I spoke alongside many community members and leaders in my County, opposing Oracle's proposal for a 50% tax abatement on their AI data center. Mlive shared some of my testimony 👇 The vote is now set for July 14, so we keep the pressure on. www.mlive.com/news/ann-arb...

Vote on Oracle’s request for data center tax break postponed amid pushback near Ann Arbor

The Saline Township Board of Trustees delayed deciding on a 12-year, 50% tax abatement for the $43 billion AI facility amid legal questions and community opposition near Ann Arbor.

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the @scientistsorg.bsky.social offers a strange publication that offers itself as a ten-year retrospective on government digital services, which offers diagnoses without ever being clear about problems.

What Did Civic Tech Learn in the Last Decade?

Some Insights About How to Use Tech in Government – and What Comes Next

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I just want more of the people doing cool shit to get the funding to do cool shit.

assuming that google doesn't bend, and i bet they don't, the cost of influence campaigns is going to get a lot cheaper.

J. Nathan Matias@natematias.bsky.social · 4w ago

In case anyone is curious to study how network effects lose critical mass, search inclusion is a good opportunity to update scientific theories of collective action

it is a bit orwellian that "civic tech" now almost exclusively means government tech.

revisiting this wonderful problem (how to order states in a table) by @bschmidt.bsky.social

Ben Schmidt

Assuming that you’re already aware that Bluesky is taking off.

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lisa misoski and southland books really helped me and so many other little weirdos make it through our teenage years in maryville

Stephanie McCrummen@mccrummen.bsky.social · 4w ago

More and more Americans are seeing politics as a spiritual battle against actual demonic forces. In Tennessee, a bookstore owner found out exactly what that could mean: www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...

i don't know if school is good for kids.

i truly love our freshwater inland seas, but it is shocking when you go to the ocean and it is teaming with life. the great lakes are not like that now, i wonder if they were a couple hundred years ago.

Hundreds of thousands without power after storms sweep across Michigan

Hundreds of thousands without power after storms sweep across Michigan

A line of severe thunderstorms that swept across metro Detroit on Friday, July 3, left damage across the area and hundreds of thousands without power.

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