Favorites January 29th 2023

Experimenting with converting a photo of mine into an anime scene

Axios Visuals @AxiosVisuals

@W_R_Chase @jared_whalen @JoannMuller Stacked pickup bar for our data viz nerd friends

One response was "Just a minivan with a doorless trunk". Although many minivans have more bedspace at this point anyway.

Massimo @Rainmaker1973

This is the longest straight, land-to-land line you can sail. From Eastern Canada to Western Canada, about 35,400 km [source, read more: bit.ly/2spxP48]

Threads

• Thread by a former police officer about being trained to nonsensically yell "put down your weapon" after shooting someone, because witnesses will remember the events in the opposite order.

• Excerpts from Robert Fogelson's book 'Downtown', indicating that the rise of the suburbs predates cars and zoning, and was initially caused by commercial agglomeration effects.