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Dave Infante

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reporter covering the beer industry (@vinepair.com), drinking in america (fingers.email), and east end richmond (chlookout.com) | send tips to dave@dinfontay.com, or dinfontay.11 on signal (good tips only, thank you) | more: linktr.ee/dinfontay

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Dave Infante@dinfontay.com · 4h ago

has anybody read a good profile elucidating weingarten’s whole deal? on ai she seems like an abject sucker (or worse), but i don’t really know much about her beyond that. is this par for the course with her?

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 4h ago

“Teaching educators about AI is a ‘moral imperative’, said Randi Weingarten, the AFT president.” “And without outside funding, it was a choice between taking big tech’s money or doing nothing, she said.”

Dave Infante@dinfontay.com · 22h ago

1. va law says 20ft from the intersection 2. rva ordinance says 30ft from the sign. 3. richmond dpw does poor job w/ signage & actively resists painting curbs, exacerbating the confusion. 4. car owners freak out at enforcement, with a kernel of legitimacy. 5. city council proposes reduction.

Richmond re-considers parking restrictions near stop signs after 280% ticket spike

Richmond may cut its stop sign parking restriction from 30 to 20 feet after a 280% spike in tickets, mostly in the city's second district.

wtvr.com

Dave Infante@dinfontay.com · yesterday

INBOX: The Charleston company behind Chicken Cock and a bunch of other also-ran liquor brands sold "certain brand assets" to another firm. No word on whether Liberal Tears, the right-wing pander-brand whiskey backed by Rob Schneider and Kevin Sorbo, made the cut.

NEXT CENTURY SPIRITS ACQUIRES GRAIN & BARREL SPIRITS BRAND PORTFOLIO, INCLUDING ICONIC CHICKEN COCK WHISKEY

/PRNewswire/ -- Next Century Spirits (NCS) today announced the acquisition of certain brand assets from Grain & Barrel Spirits, including Chicken Cock Whiskey,...

prnewswire.com

Dave Infante@dinfontay.com · 2d ago

This week at @chlookout.bsky.social I took a look at how 7th District Councilmember and current Richmond City Council President Cynthia Newbille's office distributes information to her constituents. Even by the fairly low standards of her political peers, her output is, ah, limited. More:

The Church Hill Lookout@chlookout.bsky.social · 2d ago

As l’affair pétanque has ably demonstrated, what we have here in the East End is a failure to communicate. But while city officials could certainly improve their outreach to the neighborhood’s residents, a recent investigation suggests that Church Hill’s longtime city councilmember could, too.

Dave Infante@dinfontay.com · 2d ago

the mainstream press has started running one of *these* essays like once a month. i have yet to encounter one that breaks meaningful ground. no such luck here:

What Else Do We Lose When People Give Up Booze? (Gift Article)

Yes, there are many benefits of cutting back. But bars are closing. Jobs are going away. And a way of being together can feel harder to find.

nytimes.com

Dave Infante@dinfontay.com · 3w ago

the wine press runs one of these essays like once a quarter. i could basically reconstruct it from memory. it doesn't matter how people *within the trade* talk about wine *to each other*! you have to persuade *new* customers! why are you still fucking this doorknob!

Dave Infante@dinfontay.com · 2d ago

I went to Richmond Parks' latest community meeting about l'affair pétanque last week to hear about its plan for what comes next. The upshot: it wants to do a simple majority-rules vote... but anybody can vote... and it's conducting this via Google Form. More:

The Church Hill Lookout@chlookout.bsky.social · 2d ago

Each option for Chimborazo Playground includes renovations to the park’s bathroom facilities and water fountain, which have been out of service for years. Beyond the new plumbing, though, paths diverge—and only one includes finishing DPR's polarizing, now-paused expansion of the pétanque courts.

Dave Infante@dinfontay.com · 4d ago

such a shame that the new york times canceled sociology because i desperately need an expert to study this post and explain to me what the fuck is going on here

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