Been reading up on Milan since the Olympics began, and one thing that stands out is the transformational 15 km M4 line. Not only did it stitch together the rest of the Metro underground, but it also transformed the streetscape above. This is how you create mode shift!

There’s an obvious jazz club opportunity in this space for an entrepreneur who’s willing to milk that teat

There’s plenty of space, it’s just hiding under all of the cars.

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Why the Olympics hands out Gold, Silver, and Bronze medals, buried in the story of how the Olympics were almost held in Hyde Park in 1904. open.substack.com/pub/patricia...

Building layers: I took this photo yesterday morning during a walk around Old Town. I’ll always love the juxtaposition of workers cottages and high-rises. That’s what makes a city interesting.

I just learned that Kash Patel was the “pretentious lawyer[] from ‘main’ justice.” h/t @attorneydad.bsky.social

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It's truly amazing how they absolutely destroyed 63rd St. Based on this image, you'd assume a rapid transit line kills development rather than spurs it. Important to consider in the context of the more-expensive-than-God Red Line Extension.

Curling Bisbee, ND

Thank you for being part of our twelfth anniversary, Mr. Mayor! It was an honor to have you officiate our marriage.

Guys I went on Bluesky at like 3am and it was all L.A. people and Germans posting. Weird combo.

This explains the recent video of ChatGPT failing to count to 100 because there hasn’t been reasons for people to need to search the numbers from 1 to 100 in sequence

Depave it

The commander in chief telling troops who they have to vote for is itself a presidency ending impeachable scandal.

this is important, please sign this Lily was designated as an Intended User of the road, perhaps the first fatality recorded as such. we really need cyclists to be elevated to intended user of the road and neuter that disastrous Baub vs County of Wayne decision

At 9:18, 3rd period of the Finland-Switzerland women's ice hockey QF game, the ice crew came to clean the ice during a pause What follows is the funniest use of the slo-mo alternate angle tech I've seen them use during these Olympics of one of the crew members falling

This was a new one for me. You scan the QR code and use a website to buzz the resident. It requires you to share location and camera/microphone. Presumably the residents have an app on their phone. No hardware except the physical door latch.

City living

Art

Finally saw the new protected intersection at 18th and Wabash. Looks pretty good! (Except the one island they removed.)

First trans athlete in the Winter Olympics has this to say: “I haven’t really thought about it that much,” Lundholm said after falling short of qualification for the women’s moguls final. “I’m here at the same conditions as everyone else, so yeah, I’m just skiing.”

I don't think that long jail time for unintentional crashes is necessarily a good idea but I do think losing your license is pretty logical.

Malinin congratulating Shaidorov was an honestly heartwarming moment.

happy Valentine's Day from The Economist

Is it good when someone called a curling CEO is releasing statements in the middle of the Olympics

For the first time since Jan. 5, there were no ICE flights out of Minneapolis Friday, probably because of this ruling. Got to have an impromptu celebration IRL tonight with @ottergoose.net and @jjindc.bsky.social🙏.

No bike lanes smh

Wishing all people in a romantic relationship a very “please answer your door buzzer and calls from unknown numbers today”

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At long last, I was united with "A Dip in the Lake: Ten Quicksteps, Sixty-two Waltzes, and Fifty-six Marches for Chicago and Vicinity" during its last day on view at the Newberry. So glad I got to see it after many years wishing I could. mcachicago.org/collection/i...

When she described walking barefoot on our lawn as "raw dogging" I also took immense pleasure in getting her to explain what she thought it meant, and then correcting her.

Can’t build higher than four floors because “think of the traffic!” but adding 368 more cars to Wrigleyville 81 times a year gets rubber-stamped without a second thought, okay

Priorities become evident in maintenance practices.

1 is a neighbor I see ~weekly. 2-3 are kind of around, see monthly or quarterly at group events. 1 lives on west coast but I try to call or text ~monthly and visit a few times a year.

Data!

Norway has a population about one half of the Chicago metro area.

The variation is insane isn't it. So many variables though.

Amazing

In February 2011, @chicagofilmsociety.org held its first-ever screening, Douglas Sirk's lurid melodrama WRITTEN ON THE WIND. In honor of CFS's 15th Anniversary, catch a 35mm screening of the film that started it all, next Tuesday at 7pm! Get Tickets Now: musicboxtheatre.com/films-and-ev...

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Contrast of Forms, by Fernand Léger, 1913, (rotated) 📸 by Mike Segar

If you are an architect, developer, or contractor who works on high-rise buildings in the US and has some very vague familiarity with the costs and complexity of high-rise systems (fire command centers, stair pressurization, generators, etc.), could you email me? [email protected]

I like that the Olympics is like half people who are there for the fourth time and are upset they got Bronze instead of Gold and then half people are just happy to be there at all and getting Bronze would be beyond their wildest dreams.

Ride the rails with WORKING GIRL: THE FILMS OF BARBARA STANWYCK! Our Stanwyck series presents Cecil B. Demille's railroad epic UNION PACIFIC this Sunday February 15th at 11:30am, screening on 35mm. Get Tickets Now: musicboxtheatre.com/films-and-ev...

My "legitimate federal law enforcement agency" shirt has people asking a lot of questions. My "not scouring the streets to disappear people" shirt has people asking a lot of questions. My "not denying people their civil rights or due process" shirt has people asking a lot of questions.

Telling a 48 year old to go become a plumber is beautiful symmetry for when we told a 48 year old coal miner to learn to code.

This is an incredible photo.

Lake forever, problems for now