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I’ve been scanning through NUGET, and consulting firms have figured out they can get quality backlinks by publishing some bespoke “dev kit” that no one will use.
It’s exacerbated by the package sprawl and “separation of concerns” style solutions that plague .NET, so their DevKit sprawls over 100 packages.
Keep pushing new versions every few minutes to keep those “recently updated” pages showing your corporate logos.

Universal roughness and the dynamics of urban expansion
Ulysse Marquis, Oriol Artime, Riccardo Gallotti, Marc Barthelemy
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.10656 h…

Universal roughness and the dynamics of urban expansion
We present a new approach to quantity urban sprawl using tools from surface growth physics. Analyzing built-up area expansion in 19 cities (1985-2015), we uncover anisotropic growth with branch-like extensions and a piecewise linear relation between area and population. A universal local roughness exponent $α_{\text{loc}} \approx 0.54$ coexists with variable exponents $β$, $z$. As modeling urban sprawl remains an open problem, these results offer a necessary empirical basis for theory.

🌭 In California, an invasive mustard is destabilizing desert plant communities
https://news.mongabay.com/2025/07/in-california-an-invasive-mustard-is-destabilizing-desert-plant-communities/

In California, an invasive mustard is destabilizing desert plant communities
In southern California’s Coachella Valley, pale sand dunes sprawl under the desert sun, shifting and re-forming in the wind. In dry years, lone shrubs dot the dunes. But the landscape bursts with color and greenery after a wet winter. That’s because seeds of desert plants may wait in the soil for years, even decades, for […]

This critique is not limited to the UK, or the USA:
"It is said the centre cannot hold, but what if it does? That’s a frightening recipe for more stasis and more rage"
"Neither centrists nor rightwingers can deliver, and yet their parties squat and sprawl on the site of government, with high barriers to entry precluding outside challenge and disincentivising internal reform. "

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This machine kills sprawl. #BikeTooter #CycleTO #OnPoli #TOPoli