Ben Keith

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Bike advocate and urbanist, North Linden Area Commissioner + Zoning Cmte Chair. He. Trains pls. Senior Web Engineer at 10up.

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Red White And Boom worked the Olympic broadcast music, "Bugler's Dream", into the fireworks soundtrack of the night. Good for them. #nbc4i #Columbus #Olympics

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We're launching our next round of State Policy Task Force members next Mon! So far we have 7 volunteers to help design a plan for 2025, educate decision makers, and engage the public on housing policy. This is an opportunity to step into a FRESH group of folks and get more involved with N4MN.

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hey. hey you. have you given feedback on the BikePlus draft vision network yet? tell the city your thoughts on the new bike infrastructure proposal. (works best on desktop). tooledesign.github.io/Columbus_Bik...

Columbus Bike Plus Draft Vision Networktooledesign.github.io

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The LinkUs team will join us for our July meeting to present new transit maps, draft information on Transit Supportive Infrastructure (TSI) such as sidewalks and bike lanes, & more! Join is next Tuesday, 7/9 at 7pm in Meeting Room 1A at the Main Library on Grant.

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I can’t believe the Supreme Court just ruled that the president can sleep outdoors in a public space.

Does anyone have examples of municipalities in Ohio modifying or extending the state building code, particularly as it pertains to single-stair buildings?

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Upshot: SCOTUS vacates and remands the NetChoice cases because of the facial challenge irregularity that came up at oral arguments, but the Court takes the time to explain how it views the First Amendment principles at issue, with a not-at-all-disguised swipe at the 5th Circuit.

Lower Decks was my first Star Trek show; it's great fun.

this show is so good + funny + wholesome, even if it's your very first star trek

I note that Ohio fixed the deadline, and now allows parties to certify their nominees for president and VP no later than 60 days before the election: www.legislature.ohio.gov/files/specia... (passed in special session on May 31: www.legislature.ohio.gov/135-special-...)

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Roberts announces Monday as the final day of Supreme Court opinions this term. That means we are certain to get the pivotal NetChoice cases about the future of online content moderation that day, but they'll 100% be overshadowed by the Trump immunity ruling.

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no real issues got discussed, basically debate-watchers were looking their horses in the mouth and going "aahhhhhhhh......... fuck"

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Televised debates are uninformative in the best of times but both these people have been president and neither of them have hidden their plans and I cannot imagine any useful information will come of the whole debacle

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We got tricked by science fiction into thinking a futuristic city is all about flying cars and crystal towers and hologram billboards but what it really looks like is nice apartment blocks, good mass transit, pedestrian zones with shade trees and safe bike lanes.

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Alleyways of Columbus

I've made my Fantasy Transit Friday contribution for the month: a SAFEGE suspended monorail for Columbus, Ohio, running along the Olentangy and Scioto rivers www.reddit.com/r/Columbus/c...

When the primary argument against building more housing is that it will lower the price of housing for people who live in the neighborhood, who depend on their house as their primary investment — something has really gone wrong.

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The Paradox of America’s Most Successful Transit-Oriented Development: youtu.be/hHjMQ8T5ZRI

The Dark Side of America’s Most Successful Transit-Oriented Developmentyoutu.be This is Washington, DC, capital of the United States. If you look carefully, this city is unique in lacking something that most other American cities have. Can you tell what it is? Keep Urbanity rolling: Join our Patreon for early releases, credit at the end of each video, and bonus content: https://www.patreon.com/ohtheurbanity Contact form: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1NeALCmO6ELwJAGPyV46BVbl5JXzjlWl6emH3ZRNiCiw/edit Subscribe on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCN5CBM1NkqDYAHgS-AbgGHA?sub_confirmation=1 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ohurbanity Twitter: https://twitter.com/OhUrbanity For professional inquiries, please fill out the following contact form: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1NeALCmO6ELwJAGPyV46BVbl5JXzjlWl6emH3ZRNiCiw/edit References: High-rises safer than single-family homes for fire: https://www.glengower.ca/notebook/notebook-fire-safety-and-high-rise-buildings/ Tysons is second biggest job centre: https://dw-rowlands.github.io/Job_Density_and_Commutes/Job_Density_and_Commutes.html Job/worker data: https://onthemap.ces.census.gov/ Purple Line to Tysons: https://www.dcpolicycenter.org/publications/suburb-to-suburb-transit-part-three-purple-line-link/ Reece Martin on job sprawl: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hrifjkEXvnY Alon Levy on height limits: https://pedestrianobservations.com/2014/11/21/height-limits-still-a-bad-idea/

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RIP Donald Sutherland, who gave us so many great performances, including a WWII tank commander/beatnik.

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So, even within Christianity, the Ten Commandments aren't precisely the same across traditions — the text is translated and even *numbered* differently. This law appears to mandate the KJV version — a Bible translation entire Christian traditions reject. apnews.com/article/loui...

The Ten Commandments must be displayed in Louisiana classrooms under requirement signed into lawapnews.com Louisiana has become the first state to require that the Ten Commandments be displayed in every public school classroom. Republican Gov.

Show me the DOOF CONDUCTOR

DOOF TRAM

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oh look at that www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...

D.C. traffic cameras have led to sharp decline in speeding, data showswww.washingtonpost.com The city has installed 477 traffic cameras. On some roads with the devices, citations fell by more than 95 percent. But traffic fatalities are still rising.

What is the current recommend self-hosted speech-to-text workflow, geared for feeding in hourlong public meetings and producing rough transcripts?

A $1b Powerball? 1. Get the annuity, let it earn interest. 2. Get training/education in something relevant to the next point. 3. Buy the Camp Chase Railroad and maybe the Ohio Railway Museum. 4. Start running commuter service, extend the tracks. 5. Build affordable housing along the ROW. 6. Profit.

ok friends & Bsky strangers, tell me your FRIVOLOUS Powerball-winning acquisition goal Mine: a Studebaker that I’d take to the body shop for an Electric Mayhem paint job Another person just mentioned a Linotype machine sure, housing security, debt payoff, but what’s your ridiculous niche desire?

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In the last week, Kathy Hochul has: - attempted to cancel congestion pricing - issued a warning about hazardous air equity in NY state - proposed banning respiratory masks in public

UPDATE: NY Governor Kathy Hochul said on CNN last night that she is considering a ban on masks. This is absolutely shameful! New York has suffered so much from COVID, and COVID is not over. We should be normalizing and depoliticizing masks, not banning them.

Columbus' North Linden Area Commission zoning committee agenda for tonight includes a few new duplexes, an ADU, and some other stuff: us21.campaign-archive.com?u=330bc1a667...

NLAC Zoning Committee Draft Agendaus21.campaign-archive.com A preview of discussions at the next zoning committee meeting.

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I just did a search looking for an email address where I can file a new FOIA with Unicor, the government-owned company that sells goods made from U.S. prison labor, and discovered they sell a special folder to keep documents exempt from FOIA requests. What a country.

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check out the latest newsletter and come to tonight’s Transit Columbus meeting at 7pm at the main library auditorium open.substack.com/pub/goodwork...

Good Works Columbus: June 10, 2024open.substack.com Bike Plus feedback, Transit Columbus meeting, Putts & Pints, park survey, and pocket park creation

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Tomorrow! We’ll have updates on Open Streets, BikePlus, and more.

Join us for our June meeting this Tuesday, June 11 at 7pm! We’ll meet in the main library auditorium. See you there!

I wonder why we don't see more policy polls run directly by governments. Stuff like quick-turn "should we implement congestion charges" or "should we do X" polls for residents to provide advisory feedback on granular policy changes. Possibly with geofencing.

One of the hurricanes this year will be named "Kirk". Somewhere in the hurricane-prone part of the United States there is a place named "Spock".