Customs and Border Patrol made a "Smart Wall Map" using an ESRI webmap application to show off their high tech virtual wall.
The map, which was released in February, has no hosted features and seems to be inoperable. Surely not a metaphor. www.cbp.gov/border-secur...

It infuriated me to no end when people were all "I didn't vote for Harris because I was insufficiently pandered to."
Maybe we can market to people AND push this idea that civic responsibility means doing hard things sometimes.
It's elite BECAUSE it's hard and most people don't do hard things.

"For What It's Worth" by Buffalo Springfield, the Ur protest song, wasn't about Vietnam but a curfew on LA's Sunset Strip that cracked down on partying.
The politically pure young activists of the 60s is largely mythological and it's an improper standard to hold contemporary young people to.

Instead of saying "these dumb kids only care about how fashionable protesting is" we should reframe towards "we have an idea that needs mass support, now how do we make it fashionable and attractive for young people to participate?"

Advertising rarely works by insulting the prospective customer.

Why did the Black Panthers wear sunglasses, berets and leather jackets? Because they look bad ass.
Their cause was unambiguously righteous but what made folks actually go out and march with them? I'm gonna say proximity to badassery was not a small part.

When Rhode Islanders look to Maine, they see southern Maine. When New Hampshirites look to Maine, they see northern Maine.

These are radically different Maines.

People have been criticizing the dilettante activist since "Fritz the Cat." It's not unique to contemporary student protests. Getting people in the street is hard and probably impossible if reliant on political theory alone. A movement can be a meme and morally in the right at the same time.

Protests have never been about pure reason and policy. They're about being in community with people who feel the same way as you. I think your point is a.) largely true and b.) largely true of all movements, not just this one.
Protests have always included fashion, identity and vibes.

New Hampshire was definitely my runner-up

Found a discarded can of Faygo on the ground while walking to the shop this morning. Made me think: is Rhode Island the most likely of all the New England states to support Juggalos?

They'll still be using Rhode Island as a unit of measure in the year 2394.

I reflexively went to the USGS Did You Feel It page. Felt a lil' jolt in Pawtucket.

Multiple species!

When I was offered The Map Center over the phone three years ago, I called the owner of a map store that used to be in SF. could the industry absorb another player?
He told me: Map People (and I think Book People broadly) just want to see everyone succeed. It's not cutthroat. Come on in.

Bookstore owners want each other to succeed.

We are all working to create a dynamic and diverse culture of literacy that benefits all of us. Those other bookstores are not, in any real way, 'competition.'

Happy Black Bookstore Day! Here's to thriving together.

If I had a bajillion dollars, this is honestly what I'd do. It's a great idea. Insulation, heat pumps, electrification, solar installations.
New England has so much opportunity for efficiency improvements.

@amo.house.gov Hey buddy

I understand that your own political leverage is limited right now. Do you have any stance on bringing the perpetrators to justice now or in the future when a vote could reasonably be held?

Such a pleasure to have you in on a drizzly Easter!

I don't know his name. Our paths crossed for less than an hour. But that enthusiasm and patience has been a model for me. PRI attracts magnificent people. It was such a privilege to grow up near this place and I'm so grateful for them.

A formative museum memory for me was chatting with one of the docents at PRI. He told me about fossil hunting before a big highway expansion project and how he worked on Redstone rockets. He was patient, kind, encouraging and inspired years of curiosity.
This interaction was 20+ years ago.

Hell yeah! Then let's goooooooo

Mills are so beautiful, iconic and distinctively New England. They're also crazy expensive to renovate into livable spaces. As long as new housing is coming on line, I'm on board but this just feels reminiscent of shipping container housing discourse of 2012.

I agree. And I think we have to normalize calling things we love 'trashy.' We all, on occasion, revel in the low brow and that's so much better than trying to elevate or justify the dumb shit we enjoy.

Reminiscing about my time living in DC. If you've lived in DC or spent time there, especially in the Cap Hill area, let's look at some of the places you could be killed for being in range of the blast radius of a Mk 84 2000lb bomb dropped by the USAF or Israeli Air Force on a legitimate target

I went to Hearst Castle a few years ago and it made me so angry I can't bring myself to visit another rich dude house.

At least it made me really appreciate Citizen Kane though.

I think there should be some temporal equity here. Preserving all that we have been. Preserving the pathways towards all that we could yet become.

what if this is how I started my villain era

Italo Calvino wrote "The Infinite Cities" to argue that each city contains infinite perspectives. My Pawtucket is different than yours and my Pawtucket next year will be different still.

We should preserve not for the sake of a single aesthetic but as a reminder of all the things we have been.