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walking - biking - transit - zoning reform - election reform - mormonism 📣 Founding Organizer @norwalkstreets.bsky.social 🗺️ Transportation Data SWE @ Google Maps 📍 IN -> UT (BYU) -> Norwalk, CT
EWR, BWI, MKE, BUR?
Can't believe I'll never play it for the first time again
Reminds me of the Outer Wilds DLC (Echoes of the Eye) - both in premise and in the art style!
(and yes, I met my wife there; we were both math students and our first real conversation was at the semester opening social for the math department)
Add to that the obvious incentives created by the religious standard of abstaining from premarital sex, and you get an atmosphere where the 75% of the student body that isn't already married is constantly thinking about how to do so.
It's a wild place.
On top of that, a majority of students (~40% of women and ~90% of men) are returned missionaries and have probably gotten (as I did) parting counsel from their mission president about how their next major milestone is finding a spouse.
Pressure / encouragement to date and get married comes all the time from local church leaders (all students are required to attend church). Church functions regularly feature speed dating activities, and messages from the pulpit often center the importance of preparing for marriage.
But regardless of that, the dating atmosphere is *very* charged. Most students (especially women, but also many men) are socialized to regard marriage and parenting as their #1 priority in life, and BYU is considered a prime place to find a quality spouse - it's *the* nexus for young Mormon adults
BYU alum here 👋🏼 relative to any secular school, there are certainly more restrictions on mixed gender interactions - the major ones being housing related. Guys and girls required to live in separate buildings, no visitors of the opposite gender after midnight (1:30am on weekends) - even off campus
Tycho has so much good design work - my favorite is probably Awake
100+ more Google employees have signed since yesterday
Bro read the room it's Benito Ocasio
CBP has been turned into an enemy to the US constitution, law, and basic humanity.
I signed as an alumnus but even if you did not attend BYU consider signing if any of your donations ultimately support the school.
Hey, everybody! As an alumnus & former contingent faculty of BYU, I signed this statement of concern regarding BYU hosting CBP—an agency that openly flouts the US Constitution & the rule of law—at their career fair tomorrow.
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
BYU folks (I know there are dozens of you here) - there's a petition to get CBP un-invited from tomorrow's career fair.
Share far and wide: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
u love 2 see it
Just had an absolutely fascinating exchange with @hikikomorphism.bsky.social on the use of generative AI in law, which resulted in me crafting a question designed to trip an AI up in numerous ways; the AI correctly identifying those traps; and then getting the answer spectacularly wrong anyway. 1/x
This is the way, make “ok, abolish only ICE” the moderate position.
Decades of restrictive housing policies by liberal cities and states are finally coming back to bite us in a major way.
If we can't create the conditions for a massive blue state housing construction boom as soon as possible, we're cooked.
"Enjoy your city" is a pretty good motto
Really want the academics and think tanks to start churning out pdfs on what tribunals and truth and reconciliation commissions look like. Political leaders are absolutely not going to come up with this on their own.
Would happily take time to help write and edit any of that, too.
More of this.
Just left a message at @jahimes.bsky.social 's office - he hasn't signed on yet but I implored him to do so.
A competent opposition political party would cut together the footage of what ICE had been doing in the twin cities with Mike Johnson saying "ICE is doing what ICE is designed to do" and have it in ads all across the country
The “prosecute the former regime at every level” candidate has my vote in 2028.
post a random pic or else nothing will happen and everything will be fine
actually feels so fitting for the BYU guys to be dunking those mini poptarts over the coach lol it feels Mormon somehow
Young folks: friendly reminder to attend community events!
@tanner.dev and I recently attended Norwalk Mayor-elect Barbara Smyth’s listening session — while we were some of the youngest people in the room, we made sure that our perspectives weren’t counted out.
Communities are for all ages!
Concept: the entire federal transportation budget goes to Connecticut
do not give in to the dark side anakin