Pedestrian commercial streets are wildly popular in every corner of the globe.
Police officers across the country are abusing their unfettered access to Flock's nationwide network of automatic license plate readers to stalk their exes. This is a dangerous violation of our privacy.
Our communities must continue to fight back against this invasive surveillance tech.
There have been more than a dozen cases around the country where police use Flock to obsessively and illegally stalk people.
Remember - Corporations are people!
*except they don't pay taxes like people, it's cheaper
*except they don't deduct expenses like people, it's better
*except they don't hold liability like people, it's more lenient
*and they can cease to exist & reconsistitute some other way when it's convenient.
Qagggy!
ACLU
Copying and amplifying @volts.wtf - Not Just Bikes highlighted this study 4 years ago of cities and what parts are money makers vs. money losers.
They show their work and it's accurate. If you want solvent cities, you want density and fewer development restrictions.
This morning on a very full train, hundreds of people waited on MLK Way between stops so that a handful of drivers could turn left.
@seattledot.bsky.social, @sound-transit.bsky.social Give trains full signal priority now!
...and that whole time housing was accessible and affordable enough that he could wash dishes and afford a place to live while he honed his craft and eventually became a mega-star and Seattle icon.
The way affordability touches everything kinda blows my mind sometimes.
Many of the things Seattleites love to visit on vacation are illegal to build in Seattle.
The setbacks. The buildings with only one staircase. The small storefronts. The narrow alleys filled with cafes and shops. Against the law in Seattle.
We can change those laws whenever we want.
We can have this in the US too. In fact, we will, whether we get it painfully, kicking and screaming, or whether we embrace and choose to profit from it.
It's coming either way. The economics have permanently shifted. Dinosaur juice is your grandpa's energy source. The future is powered by the sun.
The dumbing of America will not be fixed quickly, but whenever we get out from under the incompetence, we will need to BEGIN fixing it right away.
Whether any of us think we would buy this is irrelevant. Electrification ends many of the old assumptions about cars. New companies will manufacture many kinds of EVs - small, big, specialized, low-range, mid-range, & find markets for them. Manufacturing hegemony will die electrek.co/2026/06/08/9...
