Santa Barbara’s future vitality depends on making space for younger generations who want to build their lives here
— and a walkable, bike-friendly downtown offers immense value for renters, service workers, parents, and young professionals alike.
We cannot rely on big, national retail chains to anchor State Street
Bringing cars back will just bring back cruising, since parking has always been on nearby streets and in garages.
A walkable downtown supported by efficien…
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Sharon Jones and the Dap‐Kings:
🎵 What If We All Stopped Paying Taxes?
#SharonJonesandtheDapKings
https://open.spotify.com/track/54wELgFR64NFOdRHJXBnsd
Gov. Newsom's 2026 budget proposal contains no funding for the California Civic Media Fund, despite a 2024 deal to provide $175M to newsrooms over five years (Yue Stella Yu/Los Angeles Times)
https://www.latimes.com/california/stor…
🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
Derya Yildirim & Grup Simsek:
🎵 Cool Hand
#NowPlaying #DeryaYildirim #GrupSimsek
https://deryayildirimandgrupsimsek.bandcamp.com/album/cool-hand-b-w-yakamoz
https://open.spotify.com/track/1UZkvUDW7lKf55MoXICwWX
The third path here -- beyond personal computers or renting them from the cloud -- is walkable mixed density co-op computing.
@paul-rony.bsky.social covers this in "From groups to individuals, micro-computing and us", @causalislands.com Berlin.
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Purelink:
🎵 Looked Me Right In The Eye
#Purelink
https://open.spotify.com/track/7wOilk7AypQbhNnIFLQZZc
Pleasant conditions out: sunny and windy, cool but not cold. So I ducked out of the office for an afternoon runabout on the greenway.
Followed it up with a walkabout while talking to my sister on the phone.
#Running
#KualaLumpur is a frustratingly annoying city from a #transit and #walkability perspective.
Perfectly nice, clean, on-schedule trains, lovely stations, surrounded by horrible connectivity and terrible…
But can these neighbours afford the high prices small shops must pay for small-batch wholesale and rent? Will banks finance small enterprise or treat them like restaurants?
I'm all for a walkable ward, but mine is already conspicuously littered with boarded up small shops and gentrified boutiques.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/toronto-council-votes-oppose-ford-government-bill-60-9.6976288