They're doubling down on this. x.com/AJentleson/s...

Just what we need, a “center-left” think tank postulating we need to bring back Jim Crow in order to do another New Deal.

New Mexico is the most underrated state in the nation, and it isn't close. 19thnews.org/2025/09/new-...

Mobility Innovation Exchange to Feature Greg Lindsay as Keynote Speaker This September#United_States#Detroit#Mobility_Innovation#Greg_Lindsay

Reading up on James Buchanan’s post-presidency for no good reason

Imagine thinking leaking to the NYT will save you. (RIP.) youtu.be/vZNnDiDSUiI?...

“A bad mood board of good intentions.” — lol via @glindsay.bsky.social

PlanScapeArch Opening Keynote: @glindsay.bsky.social - Generalist, Urbanist, Speaker, Futurist 'BEYOND HUMAN: Leveraging the Power of Intelligence' @nationalasla.bsky.social @aiaofficial.bsky.social APA Sponsor @kimley-horn.bsky.social Fri Sept 19 - 6 CEUs www.aslany.org/event/plansc...

Based on the lines for $23 “Honey Deuces” and $22 Aperol spritzes(!!) at this year’s US Open, I think we can all afford to pay Zohran’s lil’ tax.

Now I see why BCG has aggressively disavowed it. 🤮

The monkey’s paw never stops curling. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Worst “smart city” proposal ever. — via @glindsay.bsky.social

Emerging technologies are allowing planners to share their ideas in whole new ways, from immersive bus tours to digital libraries. Find out how augmented reality is shaping planning projects on the ground in Rob Walker's newest City Tech column: go.lincolninst.edu/l/153411/202...

If I have a grand unified theory of this particular moment, it's that the Boomers have declared war on everything. www.nber.org/papers/w3413...

Zohran's hosting free scavenger hunts drawing thousands, meanwhile, Cuomo's hosting a $350+ fundraiser in the sixth borough of Sag Harbor. contribute.nycvotes.org/campaigns/an...

I would gently suggest they look into the history of Nauvoo, IL. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/19/r...

Another reason why car dealerships must be destroyed. patrickwyman.substack.com/p/american-g... cc: @patrickwyman.bsky.social #americangentry www.espn.com/college-foot...

In a park amphitheater at sunset, listening to an experimental harpist while eating cheese and drinking rose: the Montreal Dream. Cc: @mutek.bsky.social

In which the founder in question cheerfully admits they’re like Cluely, but worse. 🙄

Finally saw WEAPONS, and where is the (sub)urbanist critique of this film???

Inspired by @michhham.bsky.social, I'm going to start calling this stuff Stasi-as-a-Service™ sfstandard.com/2025/08/05/a...

Home automation has always meant you're at risk of exposure. Add in the "utility" of AI and the scourge of appointment spam and this one gets ugly in a hurry.

It's fair to wonder what would have happened at the scale of, say, an entire neighborhood in Toronto? www.wired.com/story/google...

A reminder that Meta (and anyone with a six legged horse in the AI race) needs as many people as possible wearing smart glasses capturing real world video for training world models.

The pink moon over Lake George tonight due to wildfire smoke has me thinking of Nick Drake's lyrics in a new light: I saw it written and I saw it say A pink moon is on its way And none of you stand so tall Pink moon gonna get ye all We know what's happening. We know what's coming. And yet.

"Your face isn't a database." 1. Having even a shred of privacy in public space is just a consumer choice now, and 2. Curious to see if this becomes a real point of differentiation for them (or just another thing no one will pay extra for). www.zennioptical.com/id-guard#Zen...

Using XR to prey on people is deeply unethical, as we discussed at the #MetaverseStandardsForum's Ethics Summit a few weeks back: youtube.com/watch?v=3s4g... This kind of tech will annihilate public space if we don't resist. More here: urban.tech.cornell.edu/the-augmente...

In Episode #5 of Zag Talk, hosts Jonah Bliss & Greg Lindsay sit down with Automotive Ventures General Partner Steve Greenfield and Zag brings a live report from the #EuropeanAVSummit. Read more and listen here: zagdaily.com/trends/zag-t...

New book borrow from @glindsay.bsky.social on the world of charter cities, free trade zones, flags of convenience, and other liminal zones: The Hidden Globe: How Wealth Hacks the World. Riverhead Books, 2024. Written by @atossaaraxia.bsky.social :

Each graf is more shocking than the last. www.ft.com/content/0b1b...

Reading 100 books a day by asking ChatGPT to summarize them for you is like living in 100 cities a day by looking at them on street view.

Duly noted. via @glindsay.bsky.social

It forgot: Ignore young readers, dismiss “digital”, and watch as Big Tech eats your lunch

Incredible

My father (RIP) writing about the urgent need for renewable energy storage in… 1979.

It was not, in fact, all here.

Maybe I've been here too long already, but where is the Quebecois reboot of Smokey and the Bandit the moment is clearly calling for? www.nytimes.com/2025/06/04/w...

Late capitalism is the ultimate birth control. www.unfpa.org/swp2025?utm_...

This is why we can't have nice things.

#TBT: The first day of our Land Policy Conference on Digitalization last month kicked off with an exciting and thought-provoking vision into immediate implications of digitalization and AI on how people interact with each other and the built environment by @glindsay.bsky.social.

Michelle Wu is the best big city mayor in America right now, and it’s not even close.

Oh man, why didn't I coin the "Hundred Lens War?" www.chinatalk.media/p/chinas-ar-...

Ask not what your Network State can do for you; ask what you can do for your network state. @concept.country

I saw Caravaggio's "The Taking of Christ" in Rome last week and haven't stopped thinking about it since.

Here is Unfrozen episode no. 100. In Venice, I joined hosts @glindsay.bsky.social and Daniel Safarik for a rapid review of Biennale Architettura 2025. Guests incl. critic Kate Wagner and architects Rafi Segal, Jeanne Gang, and Mark Cavagnero. Photos by Luis Díaz. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1...

ICYMI – Two weeks ago, I joined @glindsay.bsky.social and Daniel Safarik in Venice for their podcast Unfrozen to talk about Biennale Architettura 2025. The episode featured biennale curator Carlo Ratti of @mit.edu and Anastasia Sukhoroslova of All Things Urban: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/9...

I have but three moods these days: 1) depressed 2) enraged 3) panel discussion moderator