Urban-planning model of walkable urban village. The 15-minute city (FMC or 15mC)[1][2] is an urban planning concept in which most daily necessities and services, such as work, shopping, education, healthcare, and leisure can be easily reached by 15-minute's walking or bicycle riding from any point in the city.[3] This approach aims to reduce car dependency, promote healthy and sustainable living, and improve wellbeing and quality of life for city dwellers. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/15-minute_city cf neighborhood, Community Of 7000... at population density of 21k/sqmi, a 1-mile city would have 21k people. (more)

Getting To Trust: Better Swift Than Deep. Venessa Miemis is trying to get a group of ‘change agents’ to collaborate, and is finding it hard going. ()(2012-01-08) Miemis How Will We Collaborate If We Can't Trust Each Other) (more)

Jacques Fabrice Vallée (French: [ʒak fabʁis vale]; born September 24, 1939) is an Internet pioneer, computer scientist, venture capitalist, author, ufologist and astronomer currently residing in San Francisco, California and Paris, France. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacques_Vall%C3%A9e (more)

now Venessa Hall (married Jordan Hall); Movement Strategist at Qualia Life Sciences (was Neurohacker Collective since 2015 (more)

Ezra Klein: Charlie Kirk Was Practicing Politics the Right Way. The foundation of a free society is the ability to participate in politics without fear of violence. To lose that is to risk losing everything. Charlie Kirk — and his family — just lost everything. As a country, we came a step closer to losing everything, too. [] Charlie Kirk killed]] (more)

Personal Finance meta-planning paid-WebApp Start Up I create/ran, to help people who are too busy Raising Kids to want to spend time "learning" Personal Finance. (more)

Model of categorizing US states/counties/citizens (more)

The megaregions of the United States are eleven regions of the United States that contain two or more roughly adjacent urban metropolitan areas that, through commonality of systems, including transportation, economies, resources, and ecologies, experience blurred boundaries between the urban centers, perceive and act as if they are a continuous urban area.[1] Each respective region is also known as a "megalopolis", a term initially coined to define Northeastern United States, which ranges from Boston in the north to Washington, D.C. in the south. That region has an estimated population of over 50 million people as of 2022 and includes some of the nation's largest cities, including Baltimore, New York City, and Philadelphia.... According to the RPA, as of this date,[when?] more than 70 percent of the nation's population and employment opportunities are located in the 11 U.S. megaregions they have identified.[citation needed] Megaregions are spoken of as becoming the new competitive units in the global economy, characterized by the increasing movement of goods, people and capital among their metropolitan regions.[3] "The New Megas," asserts Richard Florida, "are the real economic organizing units of the world, producing the bulk of its wealth, attracting a large share of its talent and generating the lion's share of innovation... Seventeen of the top 100 American primary census statistical areas are not included in any of the 11 emerging mega-regions." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megaregions_of_the_United_States

In the United States, a county or county equivalent is an administrative subdivision of a state or territory, typically with defined geographic boundaries and some level of governmental authority.[3] The term "county" is used in 48 states, while Louisiana and Alaska have functionally equivalent subdivisions called parishes and boroughs, respectively.[3] Counties and other local governments exist as a matter of U.S. state law, so the specific governmental powers of counties may vary widely between the states, with many providing some level of services to civil townships, municipalities, and unincorporated areas. Certain municipalities are in multiple counties. Some municipalities have been consolidated with their county government to form consolidated city-counties or have been legally separated from counties altogether to form independent cities. Conversely, counties in Connecticut and Rhode Island, eight of Massachusetts's 14 counties, and Alaska's Unorganized Borough have no government power, existing only as geographic distinctions... The number of counties per state ranges from the three counties of Delaware to the 254 counties of Texas. County populations also vary widely: in 2017, according to the Census Bureau, more than half the U.S. population was concentrated in just 143 of the more than 3,000 counties, or just 4.6% of all counties; the five most populous counties, ordered from most to least, are Los Angeles County, California; Cook County, Illinois; Harris County, Texas; Maricopa County, Arizona; and San Diego County, California... As of 2022, there are 3,144 counties and county-equivalents in the 50 states and the District of Columbia.[7] If the 100 county equivalents in the U.S. territories are counted, then the total is 3,244 counties and county-equivalents in the United States. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/County_(United_States)

Jane Jacobs term - includes Suburbs and Hinterlands - see Cities And The Wealth Of Nations; area including/around a city (more)

The two-state solution is a proposed approach to resolving the Israeli–Palestinian (Israel-Palestine) conflict, by creating two states on the territory of the former Mandatory Palestine. It is often contrasted with the one-state solution, which is the establishment a single state in former Mandatory Palestine with equal rights for all its inhabitants. The two-state solution is supported by many countries and the Palestinian Authority.[1] Israel currently does not support the idea, though it has in the past. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two-state_solution (more)

Ezra Klein interviews Ta-Nehisi Coates on Bridging Gaps vs. Drawing Lines. For me, one of the central questions animating the show this year — and that has been animating it since the election — is: How did we get here? How did we let these people get back into power? What went wrong in our approach to politics that we ended up here? (more)

Robert Francis Kennedy Jr. (born January 17, 1954), also known by his initials RFK Jr., is an American politician, environmental lawyer, author, conspiracy theorist, and anti-vaccine activist serving as the 26th United States secretary of health and human services since 2025. A member of the Kennedy family, he is a son of senator and former U.S. attorney general Robert F. Kennedy and Ethel Skakel Kennedy, and a nephew of President John F. Kennedy. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_F._Kennedy_Jr.. Also anti-vax loon/grifter.

aka HHS, US Cabinet-level department, created when the US Department Of Education was spun out of HEW in 1979. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Department_of_Health_and_Human_Services (more)

On September 10, 2025, Charlie Kirk, an American right-wing political activist, was assassinated while addressing an audience on the campus of Utah Valley University (UVU) in Orem, Utah, United States. The outdoor event was the first stop of the Fall 2025 season for the American Comeback Tour, a speaking and debate series planned by Turning Point USA, a conservative organization that he co-founded. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassination_of_Charlie_Kirk (more)

Noah Berlatsky: Rahm Emanuel Is Not the Fucking Future of the Democratic Party. Yesterday the Jeff Bezos-owned Vichy Washington Post published a typically craven call for cravenness by touting the virtues of transphobia and racism as a campaign strategy for Democrats. In the usual bloodless and banal horse race prose, journalist Naftali Bendavid furrows his brow, collects his paycheck, and (even-handedly!) recommends that Democrats line up to go on conservative venues to declare their enthusiasm for targeting trans athletes and immigrants. (more)

Web Browser esp for Mobile devices, though also considered good/fast (but not free) for DeskTop/LapTop. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opera_(web_browser) (more)

aka Agriculture (more)

3 different contexts (here) (more)

Cedric Chin: The Amazon Weekly Business Review. You may need to read the previous essay — titled Becoming Data Driven, From First Principles — to get the most out of this one. That essay lays out the worldview that backs the WBR. Do that first. 2024-01-08-ChinBecomingDataDrivenFromFirstPrinciples (more)