Notices by JNL (jnl@hcommons.social), page 2

I reach out again, VERY FIRMLY this time, to hand my permit to the agent who is trying very hard not to laugh.

Who then says, we used to staple these into the passports.

Maybe we still should.

Have a good night.

I finally pounce and step on it because FML you have got to be kidding me.

In front of two cop cars, 2 lines of people, and god knows who inside the building (are they replaying the video on this as entertainment? Maybe.)

And then do the walk of shame back to my car, which I have to SQUISH INTO BECAUSE YOU ARE ACTUALLY NOT SUPPOSED TO EXIT YOUR VEHICLE ADJACENT TO THE ACTUAL BOOTH

Uh, wanna hear a wholesomely horrifying story of crossing the Canadian border today 😱 😂

(Everything is fine. Because Canada.)

"Americans speaking up to say that it's not ok to wholesale condemn an entire group of people is the most American thing ever"

It is not.

But y'all, I wish it were.

In other news, the Providence part of our weekend was lovely, but my longtime favorite coffee spot (Dave's on Main!) is no longer making their fabulous vanilla bourbon latte and it's apparently because it was actual bourbon and they got in trouble with the state of Rhode Island for in effect having underage bartenders. 😂

This explains why writing days in Rhody went so smoothly.

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.