We’re going to Shoup-pill the NYTimes. Proper Parking Pricing Patriots, do not stop posting.
(It’s funny that “just enforce the rules on parking placards and parking scofflaws” is one of the 4 radical solutions laid out)
Banks is, much discussed, but IMO McLeod his long time friend, has a lot of interesting stuff to say. MacLeod finds the transition from a human age to a post-human age very interesting, while also trying to think through the political economy of that and the internal splits within machines…
So good.
- interesting to see a presidential system where a mid term backlash is not guaranteed. The US can get a bit too sure this is normal.
- also interesting to see what a right YIMBY pro city pol is like while still being very right wing
Great articles! IMO this is also very true for urban US politics, people apparently had higher trust in their civic leaders when their houses were getting demolished for highways and every cop was being bribed. It’s never been easier to get info about urban politics, & it’s made people miserable
Iain M. Banks died on this day in 2013. Years ago, I wrote about his career for Kirkus Reviews, and ended up interviewing @amendlocke.bsky.social about him.
I figured it was a good time to resurface the interview: www.andrewliptak.com/iain-m-banks...
8/ To be clear, this is not meant in a complacent or pollyannaish way. Distrust is corrosive, aiding populism and fuelling conspiracy theories. It can’t be treated as a healthy by-product. But as the chart shows, we need to understand is as the consequence of a high-exposure society.
Very true. People invented radio and within 50 years a guy almost became governor of Kansas on the platform of “Doctors are lying to you, my goat testicle transplant cure does cure all! Please listen to my radio station for more. Ignore the people I killed”
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_R....
If you're like me, you are thinking, "What should I read at the beach this summer?" and the answer is the Parking Reform Atlas.
The ranges I’ve been seeing from people who understand Peru better than me are like Keiko+50k to Sanchez+25k 💀💀💀
one motivation that got me to finish this piece was urban politicians like Oh are not existent (or have gone extinct?) in North America, and I wanted to showcase a different kind of political specimen unfamiliar to English readers
1/ I have written a series of articles this week, ‘Notes on Trust’, about where cynicism towards politicians comes from. The below chart, which I shared last year, was the thing which initially prompted me to write the piece. I just want to set out some of the key arguments here…
