Christopher Schmidt

you're never gonna believe it but this was also 4o

so argon is very representative of the company that created it

Making developers build a bridge in exchange for getting permission to build more apartments has been a written-in-zoning code element of Cambridge's zoning for 20 years. The bridge, and the corresponding developed space, has not yet been built. None of this is a joke.

Subsidized housing is a good thing and we should publicly fund it instead of relying on kludgy, counterproductive market mechanisms that trade broad middle class housing affordability for a handful of means-tested units.

Nothing will more quickly correct my parental imposter syndrome than hearing how a Titan of Industry tries to interact with their child.

Went on a bike ride and took a picture at my favorite fall spot today.

Halloween is next week, but we were too excited to wait. Family Bike Ride 10/18/26

I will actively avoid travelling on roads in Cambridge/Somerville between 5pm and 5:30pm if I can avoid it. 5:45pm drivers are *so much more reasonable* that it's wild.

don't worry, this is the airport experience in most states, not just red ones.

solar panels are higher efficiency (and cheaper). batteries are better.

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Once mass spam texts were made legal, younger donors vanished, leaving a grassroots fundraising machine that subsists on squeezing vulnerable seniors, some of whom give hundreds of times a day. It’s a horrific model. Consultants get generationally wealthy, and the party hollows out its future.

This is not even slightly true! Texas has "cities" that are large collections of suburbs and a density profile where it's densest cities are lower density than the typical California suburb

oof.

Party time; excellent.

I am very psyched for this change. Avoiding the Porter square shopping center parking lot on my reverse commute will be better for everyone. Also, I am excited to see exactly how long it will take drivers to mow down the mossland flexpost diverters.

If you want to read a transcript that references Mrs. Pac-Man, Captain Janeway's preferred form of address, the absolutely atrocious performance of the Red Sox this year, and Waiting for Godot, all while demonstrating (appropriate) utter contempt for the Government's behavior, this is a good one.

Turns out the friction of having to learn photoshop was a crucial firewall protecting society from the terrible taste of small business owners

Police in copaganda procedurals: "Woe is us! We have no resources for catching the baddies!" Police IRL: "Hey lets call in a literal helicopter to track some guy on a bike!"

All this, and I’m a no on 6.

we are approaching the point where RAM is worth its weight in gold, which is not usually a standard you want to be approaching.

Almost exactly 4 years ago, I purchased a RadMission in their EOL sale of the bike for $500. That sale resulted in me referring more than 180 people to buy a bike from RadPowerBikes in a 3 day window, which eventually resulted in the creation of the E-Bike Lending Library. Today, I sold that bike.

I agree with both the proponents and the opponents in this tweet. The difference is that the opponents see this as bad, while I see it as good. “Local control” to retain racist/classist policy is bad.

As someone who immediately has had a "I can use tech to solve this problem!" reaction to many non-technical problems, I recognize this urge -- for efficiency, or simply for the "cool" factor. But posting it without ending it with "And then I realized I needed to touch grass" is a problem.

Being scared to bike is a major cause of people deciding not to make a purchase of an e-bike. Often there's a single spouse who is ready to make the switch, but a second spouse who will push back over fears that it can't be safe. But the progress we've made here *is* moving the needle.

We know this is true in part because in the city, where it is a larger pain in the ass to drive them (simply due to geometry), there are fewer larger vehicles. Making life more painful for larger vehicles is generally good for almost everyone.