Screenshot from Google News search results with headlines from NYT, NPR, Axios, NBC, USA Today, AP, The Hill, WaPo and CNN all about the Obergefell v. Hodges 10 year anniversary.
LAT has two excellent stories about it on the homepage and a quick search shows many other sites have coverage too www.latimes.com/world-nation...
www.latimes.com/politics/sto...
Support your local newspaper (and immigrant communities). www.latimes.com/food/list/fo...
Whoops I forgot about posting on bluesky again. Here are the 3 scenarios, for any procrastinators out there who still need to do civically engage docs.google.com/document/d/e...
Scenario 1 is the most park-centric plan. It has a big loop path around a reservoir and the former runway is essentially kept as a lawn. There are plenty of sports facilities and many of the courts, fields and lawns are 'leasable'
Rendering of a park in the santa monica airport from about 23rd st to its eastern edge in Mar Vista. Rendering shows a combination of park spaces, a reservoir and sports facilities There are numbers over each area that correspond to the legend items
Scenario 1: eastern side:
10. Barker Hanger
11. Fitness Stations
12. Reservoir
13. Leasable Lawn
14. Rock Climbing
15. Leasable Sports Courts
16. Leasable Rec Fields
17. Rec Center
18. Admin
19. Airport Park
20. Nature Trails
22. Urban Forest
25. Plaza w/ grand Stairs
Rendering of a park in the santa monica airport from its western edge on 23rd street towards the Santa Monica Business park. Rendering shows a combination of park spaces --some wild and some landscaped or ready for events. There are numbers over each area that correspond to the legend items
Scenario 1's western edge:
1. Wildflower meadow
2. Overlook
3. Community farm
4. Kiosks
5. Sculpture garden
6. Nature playground
7. Lawn games
8. Sloped landscape
9. Flex amphitheater
13. Leasable lawn
21. Wild Garden
22. Urban Forest
23. Compass rose
24. Municipal use
26. VOR
I found the survey UX nearly impossible to navigate even when I was using a big external monitor. The text of what you're trying to match up is tiny _and_ far away from the image you're trying to reference. It would be impossible on mobile.
I'll do my best to explain the scenarios for y'all here
Poster for "Scenario 1: Reusue, Restoration and Resilience" with a map of the potential park area. All of the surrounding text is illegible.
Poster for "Scenario 2: Weaving Park and Community" with a map of the potential park area. All of the surrounding text is illegible
Poster for "Scenario 3: Growing Park, Growing Community" with a map of the potential park area. All of the surrounding text is illegible
The Santa Monica airport project has three scenarios and their survey for public feedback closesTOMORROW June 22. comap.sasaki.com/smacp-threes...
I gotta say, it's really not helping my ever-present urge to fill in a full sleeve
A couple months back, Santa Monica changed its rules about where tattoo shops can be. Since then three have popped up within a few blocks of each other on Main: The Apollo Tattoo Studio, Black Hand and now Kiss Kiss.
The Santa Monica Airport park/redevelopment options have been released…
There’s a lot of good, but what the consultants chose to propose is kinda perplexing
Would folks be interested if I start using this account to share hyperlocal news about Santa Monica / Venice / West L.A.? Emphasis on nerdy civic & community updates
How thoroughly are some US govt. agencies scrubbing things from the web? Our review of 8000+ web pages found wild examples: At the EPA, the “Diversity Commitment and Code of Conduct” was deleted off a page from a 2021 conference. A DHS job listing no longer promises an “inclusive” environment.
U.S. data journalism leans heavily on datasets from federal and federally funded programs, government is simply better positioned to collect data on a range of national issues. When datasets go offline, we know less about the truth than we did before.
Another uncomfortable echo from 2020: working hard in a newsroom saturated with comprehensive coverage only to have my social feeds filled with misinfo, self-appointed experts and “here’s what the media isn’t saying” reax
This week’s constant sirens, helicopters, masks and obsessive checking for new details is giving me strong ‘NYC Spring Summer 2020’ flashbacks
it’s going to be better tomorrow. winds have calmed (relatively) into the night, lafd has a shot at getting ahead of the fires overnight before winds pick up again & won’t be nearly as bad as they were yesterday. more resources will be mobilized, too. tomorrow will be better.
All my love to folks in southern California tonight.
If you or your loved ones are there:
Charge your phones
Pack a go-bag if you haven't already
Check in on your neighbors
Wear your N95 masks for smoke
For the latest on the fires:
Weather www.weather.gov/lox/
Watch Duty app www.watchduty.org
Test promoting Washington Post's new AI article summary and question answering tool.
Answer to question about whether AI is reliable in summarizing articles from The Post AI (the answer is basically no).
Thanks WaPo AI!
My goodreads challenge was one book (The Power Broker) and I achieved it with one day to spare. Please clap.
Can you rearrange a spreadsheet of precinct election results so it looks like this CSV file?
github.com/openelection...
If so, we've got a bunch of Michigan counties to work on. Email (in profile) or DM for details!
In lieu of self care I’m using Salt & Stone Santal & Vetiver body wash for the 2yo’s bath
Paradigmatic example of aldermanic privilege in L.A. on affordable housing.
Councilmember wants 120-unit project on city-owned parking lot in Venice. It gets approved.
Newly elected councilmember opposes project. Mayor defers to her. Project stalls and might be dead www.latimes.com/homeless-hou...
A Spotify-wrapped type page for NPR that shows I have listened to thirty three thousand minutes of content. On The Media is my most played show.
This will come as no surprise to anyone I know irl who is sick of me saying “there was something interesting about that on this week’s @onthemedia.bsky.social …”
The @latimes.com wildfire map has the latest fire information for the #franklinfire. Evacuation areas are updated hourly.
For the second time this fire season, Data & Graphics asst. editor @sean-greene.bsky.social has published a map of where SoCal Edison has shut off power because of fire risk in an extreme wind event... while his power has been shut off www.latimes.com/california/s...
The suspect's tweets — an Andrew Huberman podcast RT, a clip of a Peter Thiel talk, and an RT of someone criticizing the major AI labs — would not have been on my bingo card here
(assuming this winds up being the guy)
x.com/PepMangione
Happy 5th Gotcha Day to my beautiful, anxious pup
There is a plant nursery in Santa Monica that I’m so impressed by. Yes they have nice plants and chickens. But they also host a ton of community events in their garden.
To be clear, this is not us. We dont know who is doing this.
