Notices by JNL (jnl@hcommons.social)

Me every 45 min: WHY AM I READING THIS SHITE

Also me: I think because it seemed important that people offer a moral critique of austerity as theology

Still me: Barf? Barf.

At one point I actively, using my agency, *decided* that economic geography is what would be most useful to my goals.

Trying to recall why that might have been as I deal with day three of the place where Fordist takes meet straight austerity neoliberalism

Me: Who even IS this guy

[answer, hilariously: these days he is the President of the University of Toronto]

good news everyone: it is the demands of and from low-skilled workers that make it unappealing for industry to remain in the urban core, and automation thus has a solution!

also the 'proliferation' of mid-skill jobs that remain will mean that industry HAS NO CHOICE but to remain urban tied! Woohoo! Robots for the people. Triumphing over the lowly of status as they always must, but preserving a better future for those who matter!

-the word from 1988

like what if planning considered people's BODIES and the quality of the human experience unfolding across space to be its north star?

the truth is that urban planning as a discipline makes me madder than almost anything

it's probably that theological neoliberalism makes me mad and planning ate it for breakfast

well well well

Out on a limb here- does anyone here have a social science book proposal they'd be willing to send me? Especially if it has an annotated table of contents? I would be eternally grateful. 🙏🏻

Remember how I mentioned that that situation in which one of the Vermont border patrol team was killed in a shootout on the highway was actually really weird?

Update ... it's **REALLY** weird.

https://torment-nexus.mathewingram.com/how-did-rationalism-lead-to-the-creation-of-a-murder-cult-2/

Dear Canada,

Please hit the US with everything you've got. Punch our leaders in the face. Really put your hockey swing into it.

Thank you,

The majority of your neighbors to the south

Today my advisor/our lab had an impromptu rap session about AI and what we are seeing with student work and it was one of the most depressing conversations I've been part of in a very long time WHICH * IS * SAYING * SOMETHING

drove home alone in the rain feeling like I needed to be scraped off the floor with a spatula

I wish I had gotten to spend more of my life in the "fuck around" era

Celebrating the extrajudicial execution via cop-at-traffic-stop of someone you disagree with is probably not the pro-social flex you were hoping for. Which I point out because I care about you, and about us.

Y'all every person the cops shoot and kill is a further extension of social license for cops to shoot and kill. Period. This DOES NOT HELP AT ALL.

WELL HE SHOULD HAVE JUST FOLLOWED THE RULES

wait

'But fuck that guy personally.'

Sure, sure. No reason for concern at all if cops have extra social license to kill certain designated 'assholes.'

Zero chance that might also be you, or a movement leader, or your teenage son, or a political opponent of police unions.

'Fuck Mastodon then why is everyone here not able to take a joke'

If celebrating the extrajudicial execution of a human being is what you do for fun, yes, we are here to interrupt that

what is happening to you?

what is happening to your heart

'This is a really annoying post, J. How dare you call me out like this!'

[taps on pinned post glass]
This would be the EVERYONE'S life is sacred religious tenet that I told you would eventually piss you off. 🤷🏻♀️

I actually don't think we have to be credulous about fake-ass Gaza scammers any more than we have to shut up and take what we are given from gutted and dystopian public school systems. The left-pious 'NO, WE *ALL* AGREE' gets wheeled out for the least good cases and y'all I am not here for it.