This MF said pun

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something that occurred to me is, everyone knows it’s possible to become a musician with work and practice. but you can’t work on and practice music while staring slackjawed at your phone. the real promise of generative AI is the ability to ‘make’ ‘art’ without reducing your slackjawed scroll time

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#OnThisDay Oct 17 1988: City leaders eagerly celebrate the demolition of "Block E", a "skid row" strip in the center of Hennepin Ave. Afterward the diverse group of old buildings became a parking lot. 14 years later the grand development in the rendering was only partly, and very badly, realized.

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This is what the Hennepin side of block E looked like in 1969 vs the exact spot today. I don't think it's hyperbole to say this is an abject failure of urban renewal. Like today's Nicollet Mall, we keep designing these dehumanizing places, then get baffled why people don't want to to there.

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Minneapolis City government has long seen its residents in the lower 2/3 of the income bracket as problems to be solved. They have spent the last 70 years ripping the guts out of the city and then wonder why nobody shows up.

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