Notices by Shawn Medero (soypunk@friend.camp)

@eaton @danhon jeff, you are magnificent.

Our youngest kiddo was upset about digging styrofoam trays out of the compost at her elementary school, where she serves on the school's "green team.” With a small bit of encouragement from her parents she reached out to the school’s principal to gather data on how many trays were used every week. She looked at surrounding school districts and found some had stopped using styrofoam before she was even born. (continued...)

She wrote her talking points and last night she read them in front of the school board’s public comment section. The board responded that they would seek quotes on replacing the styrofoam.

Very proud parent this morning and thankful for a school board that fostered a welcoming environment for a student to speak up. Also thankful for a dozen folks in my kid's life who nurtured these abilities from school teachers to theatre directors who have given her all the tools to speak in public.

Fun fact: Columbia University will announce the Pulitzer Prize winner next week just shortly after having NYPD inform Columbia University student journalists that they were not allowed to leave the Journalism School building to cover the news. (Source: WKCR radio coverage of tonight’s events.)

New blog post about... blog posts! when the heck did we start assuming every post should have a title? https://shawn.medero.net/2024/1/why-do-blog-posts-need-titles

@fraying If a city wants to build a bike lane it has to go through like twelve stages of review (including the infamous “environmental impact study”) - want to have unlicensed machine learning enabled cars driving around town? sure, no problem.