Clapboard is much nicer than vinyl siding, but costs a fortune to paint. Painting is dangerous too - ladders, scaffolding. Anybody working on a house painting Roomba?

Mother nature got herself out from the edge of thermal vents on the bottom of the sea and into the open ocean, from there to the shore, and from the shore to every environment from desert to tundra. Along the way, she took to the air too. Now she's eyeing the stars.

70s Utopian projects tended to be skeptical or downright hostile to market economics and technological progress. This newer crop seems comfortable to enthusiastic about both.

Seems no longer possible to have an even semi-unified American culture that can command the loyalty of a majority of US citizens. Any kind of shared mythology, pantheon of revered figures, calendar of celebrated national achievements feels out of the question.

The preference for life over death is an aesthetic one. It's aesthetics all the way down.

Late father-in-law's childhood toys from a box put away by my wife's grandmother.

How about North American animals as decorative motifs for an American architecture that re-embraces ornament? Porcupine, moose, American bison, turkey, great horned owl, bald eagle, mountain lion, grizzly bear.

iberals and onservatives: liberals and conservatives with ls and cs too small to be seen with the naked eye.

If US culture is dissolving into a collection of micro-cultures, will the resultant groupings require more explicitly stated rules and boundaries in order to survive?

🧵The quiet revolution in robotics isn't humanoids. It's the rise of inspection & maintenance robots, quietly scaling across dirty, dangerous, and distant industrial environments. This sector is projected to hit $8.3B by 2030. Let's break down why it's growing so fast. [Save

It’s painful when someone responds to a post pitched at something above a 6th grade reading level by describing it as “word salad.”

It's 2055. All vehicles are now self driving. There are children’s cars covered with images of popular cartoon characters, like lunch boxes of old, and traveling on pink or blue tires.