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Alex Schieferdecker@alexschief.bsky.social |
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Urban Planner. Sports appreciator. Cold weather apologist. Cookie enthusiast. State capacity booster. We should improve society somewhat.
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Alex Schieferdecker
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I'm not really likely to stay up and go investigate (although maybe I should at this point), but my understanding is that it really is a lot more active after midnight.
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Alex Schieferdecker
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That doesn't mean that it couldn't also have greater appeal for the sober 7-10 p.m. crowd. I wish it would. But thinking about how to make Warehouse District Live more engaging to the sober is an exercise that deserves good-faith brainstorming, rather than cool kid derision.
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Alex Schieferdecker
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The key thing I came to realize about Warehouse District Live is that it wasn't designed to be for people like me. The overarching purpose of the event is to be a crash barrier for drunk people at bar close so that they don't shoot each other. I think that's a worthy effort.
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Alex Schieferdecker
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I wrote about Warehouse District Live and my conversion from skeptic to believer: alex-schieferdecker.squarespace.com/blog/2024/7/...
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Ed Zitron
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Newsletter: Goldman Sachs has called BS on Generative AI, and I believe that it's time that everybody follows suit - generative AI is unreliable, unsustainable, requires an entire rebuild of America's power grid, and is most decidedly not the future.
www.wheresyoured.at/pop-culture/
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b-boy bouiebaisse
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constitutional lawyers use your fucking brain challenge www.politico.com/news/2024/07...
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b-boy bouiebaisse
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i think akhil amar reed captures something very important, which is that the roberts court rewrote article ii, which explicitly states that a president can be held criminally liable after impeachment (and which has long been understood to mean that he can be held liable after leaving office)
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Alex Schieferdecker
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By my count at least four affordable housing projects have broken ground in Minneapolis recently. - Agate Shelter and Housing - Simpson Shelter and Housing - Opportunity Crossing - Wadaag Commons In total, these projects will add 236 BMR units and 126 shelter beds.
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Alex Schieferdecker
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This is great, I appreciate you not knowing my taste because it's far more basic and it's fun to challenge it!
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Alex Schieferdecker
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Thanks!
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Alex Schieferdecker
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@violanorth.bsky.social Are there any concerts in the upcoming season that you'd really recommend? (I hope you don't mind my asking you this every year)
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Max Kennerly
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The GOP SCOTUS ruling on Presidential immunity, summed up.
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Don Zeko
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The really bitter irony here is that SCOTUS is making the president a king while a Democrat is president. They aren't worried about it because they know Democrats won't accept Biden actually acting the way they are saying he can.
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Faine Greenwood
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there's nothing wrong with having feelings of despair and futility, but i think it's most responsible to avoid airing all that out in public to the greatest extent possible right now. we need to cultivate a vengeance-driven, enraged espirit de corps right now, because we need people to fight
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Alex Schieferdecker
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@violanorth.bsky.social When does the orchestra play at the bandshell? Mpls Parks calendar says the 1st, orchestra website says the 8th.
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Alex Schieferdecker
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I wrote about my definition of urbanism, what makes the urban model coherent and successful, the choice between efficiency and exclusion, and the foundational values of cities. alex-schieferdecker.squarespace.com/blog/2024/6/...
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Alex Schieferdecker
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(3) But also also, without implementation that is both competent and committed, even the right policies (through the CBA or elsewhere) won't transform the Mpls police into the kind of department that residents expect and demand. And while the focus is on #1 and #2, it's #3 that worries me the most.
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Alex Schieferdecker
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(2) But also, salaries are the main piece of leverage that the city has, so the City is going to give on that (which we should want to do at some point) it needs to be in exchange for something back. And higher pay should come with higher expectations, with all that entails.
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Alex Schieferdecker
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I think this is where I'm landing: (1) To get a better MPD, I believe that increased salaries are essential. But also, not sufficient. In *any* profession, if you increase salaries, you will get more applicants and better applicants. You can't help but to make better hires.
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Alex Schieferdecker
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They won't, I didn't submit it as a LTTE
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Alex Schieferdecker
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Yesterday the Star Tribune published yet another entry in its interminable catalogue of wealthy Minneapolis NIMBYs slandering the 2040 Plan. However this item, by lawyer Tim Keane, was so poorly argued and erroneous that I wrote an email to the Strib's interim opinion editor! See an example below:
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Wedge LIVE!
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New episode: Lessons learned from the big push for statewide zoning reform during the 2024 legislative session. My apologies to Peter Wagenius for the thumbnail.
open.spotify.com/episode/4riJ...
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Alex Schieferdecker
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I'm sorry if this offends, but I don't really think we needed *this* rain
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Alex Schieferdecker
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I had some thoughts about Warehouse District Live that were too long for tweets and too short for a fully-blown blog post: urbanmsp.com/viewtopic.ph...
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Alex Schieferdecker
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Rapidly aging with no end in sight, as of yesterday your correspondent now gets a physical newspaper delivered on Sunday mornings.
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Daniel Radosh
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Biden has to say he won't pardon his son because he knows the media would absolutely savage him if he tried. Yet the same media completely takes it for granted that Trump will pardon himself if he's re-elected, it's just baked into assumptions about his future cases and they don't even bother to ask
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Alex Schieferdecker
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MPHA continues small but meaningful efforts to expand public housing stock and upgrade existing units.
Coming to the CPC next Monday is this four story, 15 unit addition in NE. As part of the same project, the adjacent tower will receive major upgrades. lims.minneapolismn.gov/download/Age...
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Alex Schieferdecker
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Some anecdotal evidence for my long-held thesis that WFH will ultimately batter the downtown business district *less severely* than triple-digit highway office parks.
Homes outcompete suburban offices on cost and commute but not downtown offices on amenities. www.startribune.com/urban-office...
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Peter
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wrote some thoughts about Sam Alito
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Max Kennerly
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Out of curiosity, has Congress ever previously invited a foreign leader who (a) is under indictment by the ICC and/or (b) presided over a military strike that killed an American?
None of these (2007-2024) seem to fit the bill. sgp.fas.org/crs/misc/IF1...
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Alex Schieferdecker
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I wish the chain of causation was more clear to people, both the influence of markets and social factors, but also of personal decisions. I think all of these are at play, and those of us who look to rebuild something pro-social must model it—to be sending *and* accepting invitations.
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Alex Schieferdecker
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We have, of course, through regulation made transitional alternatives less abundant than revealed preference might've directed. But I then worry that expedience has quickly become acceptance of a life of not leaving one's house for days, say, or avoiding casual encounters.
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Alex Schieferdecker
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I understand that at least some part of this is a grumpy old man view, but I find it insanely depressing to think that millions of Americans have cornered themselves into lives of semi-permanent confinement through the one-two punch of suburban land patterns and work from home.
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Guggenheim Collection
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