Concrete Jungle

In light of the recent hack by Lazarus, I figured I'd highlight one of the best books I've read on NK.

Most media focuses on Pyongyang and NK's propaganda machine but this provides a glimpse into daily life outside the Hermit Kingdom's capital.

place

Pitcairn Island is one of the most remote settlements in the world. Most of the British Overseas Territory's 35 permanent inhabitants are descendants of the HMS Bounty mutineers.

The only way to visit Pitcairn is to fly to Tahiti, fly to Mangareva, then board the MV Silver Supporter for a 32-hour journey by boat.

urbanism

Can't believe we fumbled covid dining sheds so badly. The diversity of style, the takeover of the pavements, the reclamation of the streets. Felt so joyfully human.

Yes, they weren't perfect. Unsafe, nor as hygienic, and noisy to neighbours. But just to go straight back to boring rivers of cars. Booooo

Build more parklets

https://www.thepost.co.nz/nz-news/360590282/parklet-game-changer-inner-city-cafe

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Farcaster

Would people be interested in real estate/civil engineering content here? 

I have a friend who wants to get into creating content in this field and I'm trying to make the case for them to set up on FC

until it was ceded by Bangladesh in 2015, Dahala Khagrabari was the only third-order enclave in the world
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/5a/Dahala_Khagrabari_English.png

Maps 🗺️

Coat check at equinox almost makes the membership worth it

No Channel Channel.

Noticed an uptick in people being “directionally aligned” on things recently

crypto DX if people used Svelte instead of React

Gradually switching from an Anything But Country guy into an Anything But Lin Manuel Miranda guy

you have to respect when someone tries to dunk on wemby

even if it has a 5% success rate

up until 2015, it was technically legal to kill Basques in parts of Iceland

up until 2015, it was technically legal to kill Basques in parts of Iceland
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slaying_of_the_Spaniards

aichannel

holy shit things are moving fast

and remember, this is coming from tyler cowen, who hasn't exactly been bullish recently on how fast AI will change things https://t.co/WqH8M1g3Hn

Nemo

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https://x.com/thecaptain_nemo/status/1886869446314352696

untz untz

my daily driver the past few weeks

thanks for the invite @zinger

/new-york by day 🗽 /untzuntz by night 😈 Fan of eating tacos and bringing people together, often at the same time 🌮

my daily driver the past few weeks

thanks for the invite @zinger 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-9BM6jGxW5Y

FarCon

did you know peru is home to the International Potato Center where they have a gene bank that stores the seeds of 9,000+ potato species

they also have another seed vault in the andes that the indigenous communities take care of in an effort to also preserve potato diversity in living plants and not just frozen storage

but if you want to get REALLY serious about potato/seed conservation, then norway's Svalbard Seed Vault is the way to go

it's located only ~1000 miles from the north pole and was built into the side of a mountain in order to be resistant to earthquakes, nuclear war, fires, etc. it also looks cool af

I think about this a lot
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U_IbIMUbh-k

Just learned that YouTubeTV has a 24/7 Portlandia channel

It’s so over for me

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places, people, culture, and how they interact with one another

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