Aaron M. Renn 🇺🇸
@aaron_renn
The human, cultural, and institutional foundations of American flourishing during a time of transition:
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The open hostility of some state GOP leaders toward local elected officials is a probably an underrated factor in Tuesday‘s bloodbath. They best shape up before municipal elections.
Part of K-ification/degradation of open spaces and mass market experiences.
An unfortunate infusion of the SEC mentality into the Big Ten.
Anyone disappointed about the Michigan Wolverines football program should look directly to Harbaugh, which led to the Sherrone Moore debacle, which led to the program needing to massively rush a job search and basically 'settle' to get a new coach in place during a critical recruiting window. Bad decisions all around, but there is a pretty clear line from a lack of virtue among coaching leadership to the devastating program-wide effects that show up on the field. The bill has come due.
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Beautiful, crisp fall day with perfectly blue skies here. In other words, the ideal weather for football.
"it will surely be the best mixed-use project in North America when it throws open its doors with a small hotel, an array of cafés and restaurants, a private members’ club and cluster of residences on top...It’s a whole new design language for US retail and hospitality"
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Tyler Brûlé of Monocle magazine visited Austin recently and had good things to say in his newsletter this week.
"While we’re offering up big Texan praise, First Light Books and magazine shop Tomo Mags are world class."
Tyler Brûlé of Monocle magazine visited Austin recently and had good things to say in his newsletter this week.
"I’ll admit it. I had a 'I could live here' moment after walking the aisles of Central Market grocery shop. It is perhaps the best food retailer in North America and must be in the global top five."
Tyler Brûlé of Monocle magazine visited Austin recently and had good things to say in his newsletter this week.
Tyler Brûlé of Monocle magazine visited Austin recently and had good things to say in his newsletter this week.
I somehow missed this one, but it appears to be true.
SITUATION DETECTED: Bloomington, Indiana's city council voted unanimously this week to ban any recursively self-improving entity capable of greatly outperforming all humans on all cognitive tasks from inside city limits, citing existential hazards and loss of human control.
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We were late doing it this year and so missed the best of the fall leaves, but we took our annual family hike in Brown County, Indiana today. It was a fantastic time as always.
I used to go to classical concerts and say, Wow - it’s all old people here. Last night’s Tweedy concert was the same - and I realize now that I am one of those old people. There’s a reason Tweedy is now playing upscale suburban venues with plush seats.
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I went to go see Jeff Tweedy at the Tarkington Theater in Carmel, Indiana last night. It was my first time going to an event there. Good show in a good venue.
I went to go see Jeff Tweedy at the Tarkington Theater in Carmel, Indiana last night. It was my first time going to an event there. Good show in a good venue.
Wow, no one could have possibly predicted that late-20th century “historiography” would be less accurate than the ancient sources that they hate so much.
Holland, Michigan is a really amazing town.
I am actually going to use this as an opportunity to establish a mimetic rivalry with @aaron_renn for Holland/Carmel poasting. They are not too far apart.
Carmel has also never had a movie starring Nicole Kidman set in it.
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I am actually going to use this as an opportunity to establish a mimetic rivalry with @aaron_renn for Holland/Carmel poasting. They are not too far apart.
Carmel has also never had a movie starring Nicole Kidman set in it.
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@aaron_renn Thanks for sharing, Aaron. The full essay expanding on the chart is out today in @WNGdotorg.
This should have been done up front. It's going to be much tougher now.
NEW: The AI industry is scrambling to repackage a $10 trillion infrastructure buildout to appease a hostile electorate, that includes:
-No more non disclosure agreements
-Money for schools and cities
-Environmental concessions
-Labor protections
-Codified obligations over voluntary frameworks
-Job training programs
The bottom line: The race is on to see whether Democrats can translate election momentum into binding restrictions or the industry tries to head off tougher rules.
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It was great to spend the last four days in New York. Incredible city. I wish we could split our time between New York and Carmel.
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@aaron_renn This is a big disconnect between GOP politicians (who have been swept up in the wave of wanting to push everyone toward private/charter schools) and voters (who generally *like* their community schools, especially in suburban areas).
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NYT: The Major U.S. Cities That Have Elected Democratic Socialist Mayors - Nithya Raman’s win in Los Angeles adds to the list of major cities with democratic socialist leaders
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