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Pioneering SpiritAn open letter to Lin-Manuel Miranda on the last, best hope to save the republic
Sir, The hour grows late. The President asserts the right to govern by decree. Worse, the Congress has ceded its constitutional prerogatives, neglecting to protect its power of the purse and even the sanctity of its chambers from executive overreach. Charles I chuckles from the grave. In this dark and doom filled hour, one hope remains: the power of story, aided and abetted by unassailable songs stirring up this country’s frayed and nearly forgotten faith in this experiment in self-governance...
Pioneering SpiritApplied research questions on the past, present and near future of government operations
by Patrick Atwater
Pioneering SpiritIntroducing the California Alternative Transformation (CAT) principles for moar efficient, effective…
The Meme Lords are rallying, with the DOGE Techno King and his digital court scheming their next big gambit. The internet's good citizens face a choice: cheer from the sidelines or chart a better path. Let's talk CATs, not DOGE.From our AI Oracles: “Here’s an image of a regal Shiba Inu wielding a scepter and playfully smashing the Capitol.”Putting the future of American government in the hands of a self-styled “Techno-King” seems, uh, mildly antithetical to the spirit of 1776. Not to mention ...
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One thing I've been thinking a lot about the last 42 hours is the street sweeping signs. That's sort of silly since I've been helping family members evacuate and there's a generational climate crisis happening.
A decade ago, I remember there was a thought that those would be digitized and protocolized as part of Coord Curb's API, a Google backed next generation approach to "smart" cities. That didn't really take off though it's a big little thing.
It's yet another thing to worry about moving the cars in a stressful time. It'd make too much sense to a targeted update to relevant residents about whether street sweeping is still happening. Yesterday street sweeping didn't happen but shifting cars around the street by our little halfway house was a big focal point logistically.
Updating street sweeping public notification protocols obviously is far from the biggest thing facing the City of Angels at the moment. It does strike me as radically common sense and opening up new frontiers for addressing problems like wildfires. (Think of dynamic street parking bans in red flag areas and warnings, potentially coupled with AV only areas in high risk zones.)
More broadly, we don't really look at the city from an integrated or resident centered perspective. City services are fragmented across specialized departments. That obviously creates challenges when there's an unprecedented crisis.
A new world is slowly emerging though, one long envisioned by works like Small Pieces, Loosely Joined, excerpted below.
One thing I've been thinking a lot about the last 42 hours is the street sweeping signs. That's sort of silly since I've been helping family members evacuate and there's a generational climate crisis happening.
A decade ago, I remember there was a thought that those would be digitized and protocolized as part of Coord Curb's API, a Google backed next generation approach to "smart" cities. That didn't really take off though it's a big little thing.
It's yet another thing to worry about moving the cars in a stressful time. It'd make too much sense to a targeted update to relevant residents about whether street sweeping is still happening. Yesterday street sweeping didn't happen but shifting cars around the street by our little halfway house was a big focal point logistically.
Updating street sweeping public notification protocols obviously is far from the biggest thing facing the City of Angels at the moment. It does strike me as radically common sense and opening up new frontiers for addressing problems like wildfires. (Think of dynamic street parking bans in red flag areas and warnings, potentially coupled with AV only areas in high risk zones.)
More broadly, we don't really look at the city from an integrated or resident centered perspective. City services are fragmented across specialized departments. That obviously creates challenges when there's an unprecedented crisis.
A new world is slowly emerging though, one long envisioned by works like Small Pieces, Loosely Joined, excerpted below.
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