Mike Blume
@michaelblumeFather, husband of @luminousalicorn, urbanist, Oaklander
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Children are people.
What are some ideas that (a) seem incredibly obvious when you consider them, but (b) have extremely radical political consequences if you actually believe them and take them seriously? I'll start: "housing is a human right".
People are playing life as it’s a linear narrative-driven game when it’s actually an open world game
You can literally just email a museum and ask them to connect you to exhibit creators and geek about their art with them - what a beautiful and open world??!
Remembering this insane COVID moment from 2020 when LA officials filled the Venice Beach skatepark with 37 tons of sand to prevent people from using it
In honour of #TaylorSwift arriving soon here in Vancouver, I’m resharing this important message. I suspect this had a much bigger impact on how people positively perceive cities and “density done well” than anything I’ve ever said. Thanks @taylorswift13
Congestion pricing is exactly the kind of bold problem-solving that has seemed in short supply in urban governance over the past four years, writes @henrygrabar slate.com/business/2024/…
Average hotel rate in New York City is now $417 a night Hotel industry lobbyists sure earned their pay after they got Airbnb banned 😂
If you knew how incompetent the people in charge actually were you would be filled with wonder at how good life is in spite of that
I too agree with outgoing Supervisor Preston on this. I wholly support the daylighting law - but this implementation is a recipe for stoking more anger from our fellow citizens and will be met with comically predictable backlash. @SFMTA_Muni y’all need to get ahead of this. Now
I agree with Dean Preston on something! When you eliminate street parking in an urban area, paint the curb red. Failing to do so is a recipe for outrage and backlash.
if vaccines really caused autism then GDP growth would be at least 10% higher year over year
Speed tables reduce crashes because they force people to slow down. news5cleveland.com/news/local-new…
I've been seeing stories about SF beginning enforcement of AB 413. Does Oakland have similar plans? @OakDOT @zacunger
Tuesday’s CA Headlines: SF to begin enforcing intersection daylighting rules; CARB approves new clean fuels standards; Marin Co Supes want to remove bridge bike lane; More cal.streetsblog.org/2024/11/12/tue…
A really big (3-4x) positive update to GiveWell's estimate of the cost-effectiveness of GiveDirectly, largely driven by more optimism about positive spillovers. Seems like good news for the world! But I have a *lot* of spreadsheets to update. shorturl.at/yNr3E
strongly in favor of increasing compensation for elected and unelected government jobs. we need competent people who have much better financial options to choose public service.
Congresspeople make $174,000. The President makes $400,000. Should politicians be paid more?
I'm starting to wonder if the modern gender wars are themselves a direct result of low TFR, that it's easier to make absolutely insane generalizations about your opposite sex peers without the benefit of siblings who make them far less foreign to you
BREAKING: Marie Gluesenkamp Perez is one of very few Democrats who won in a heavily red district. Make sure every American sees this video showing off her successful playbook.
You’ve got to wonder what kind of people Trump is planning to install who he knows can’t be confirmed in a 53-47 senate
Any Republican Senator seeking the coveted LEADERSHIP position in the United States Senate must agree to Recess Appointments (in the Senate!), without which we will not be able to get people confirmed in a timely manner. Sometimes the votes can take two years, or more. This is…
This is a controversial claim, but in my experience, more than 90% of the time, when people bring up neuroscience during explanations of psychological phenomena, the neuroscience adds nothing of value to the explanation other than making the explanation *seem* more authoritative
I saw this spine on the shelf and thought for half a second that @ilex_ulmus had written a children's book
there used to be 50,000 pay toilets in cities across America until a group of college students in 1970 decided it wasn't fair to have to pay for a natural bodily function and successfully lobbied to get them banned in 12 states and now you can't find public toilets fuckin…
You would not believe how much scientific progress is blocked by IRBs and bioethicists. They’re the NIMBYs of science.
A scientist who successfully treated her own breast cancer by injecting the tumour with lab-grown viruses has sparked discussion about the ethics of self-experimentation go.nature.com/3NXqzEq
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