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Andrew Michler

@andrewmichler.bsky.social
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I design buildings at Hyperlocal Workshop hyperlocalarch.com I wrote a book [ours] Hyperlocalization of Architecture Also co-creator @ Sol.coffee

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Andrew Michler @andrewmichler.bsky.social · 16/10/2026
At least we got rid of the blond one who couldn't read well.
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Andrew Michler @andrewmichler.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Tech is not infrastructure.
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 12/10/2026
Ministers preparing to slash heat pump subsidies to fund defence spending
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Ministers preparing to slash heat pump subsidies to fund defence spending
Exclusive: Some of £2bn savings needed from energy budget expected to come from boiler upgrade scheme, sources say Ministers are preparing to slash the amount of money available to subsidise heat pumps as they look for ways to fund higher defence spending, sources have told the Guardian. Miatta Fahnbulleh, the energy secretary, has been tasked with finding more than £2bn in savings from her budget to help pay for defence investment under a plan drawn up by the previous government. Continue reading...
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Andrew Michler @andrewmichler.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
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Cal Newport: The AI Industry Is Betting On The Wrong Kind Of AI
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Andrew Michler @andrewmichler.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
What if not using AI gives you a competitive advantage? news.berkeley.edu/2026/10/09/u...
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Using AI for just 10 minutes erodes your ability to persist at hard things - Berkeley News
A UC Berkeley researcher co-authored a study that raises profound questions about how we interact with artificial intelligence in education — and daily life.
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Andrew Michler @andrewmichler.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Everyone agrees someone else should allow it where they live.
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Andrew Michler @andrewmichler.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
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The Worst Law in the UK
YouTube video by Hoog
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Andrew Michler @andrewmichler.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
How?
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Bryn Davidson - Lanefab @lanefab.com · 10/10/2026
Remembering the Skinny House (RIP) Our proposal for a 9' wide home (on our 9'x60' east van lot) that was denied by the board of variance (3 to 2 vote). Alas perhaps someday the RT-5 zoning will have enough discretion to allow interesting oddities in our city. cc @jwhiteyvr.bsky.social
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Andrew Michler @andrewmichler.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Red dye diesel
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Maria Drutska @mariadrutska.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
“WE WILL BURN THEIR REFINERIES.”
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Andrew Michler @andrewmichler.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Drone video shows 101 Freeway wildlife crossing as opening date nears share.google/Vbkg3VcBIOoD...
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Drone video shows 101 Freeway wildlife crossing as opening date nears
Drone video shows the Wallis Annenberg Wildlife Crossing with weeks to go before it opens in Agoura Hills.
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Andrew Michler @andrewmichler.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
The Polis Legacy
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Andrew Michler @andrewmichler.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
View from the bedroom
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Everyone involved in this process — including the Palantir employees — have to be investigated and probably go to jail.
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Andrew Michler @andrewmichler.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I weirdly was following a cyber taxi up the hill to my place in Oakland. I first realized it had no side mirrors, and it was oddly big for a two seater. Then I realized it would probably not make it down or up the crazy driveways around here. And it was baby shit brown.
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Owen Jones @owenjones.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
She's a 94 year old Jewish human rights lawyer. She's been arrested under terrorism legislation for opposing genocide. The least we can do is to listen.
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Andrew Michler @andrewmichler.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I've had to watch the Eric Schmitt attempt to purger Jack Smith like a half dozen times. Now we know what a Coen brothers political movie would look like.
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Cyclone Tracking @cyclonetracking.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Within 24 hours, Hurricane #Polo is expected to make landfall in Baja California Sur, potentially delivering MAJOR IMPACTS. Once the system reaching Arizona and New Mexico, the system could deliver MAJOR IMPACTS in the form of flooding. Will have a stream up later this evening #hurricane
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Philip Oldfield @sustainabletall.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
New office building in Montpellier, by Leclercq Architects The facade is made from straw with a local clay-earth render applied on both the inside and outside Walkways, terraces and alcoves also extend the office space to the exterior
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Andrew Michler @andrewmichler.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Harvard University transforms waste wool into cladding for retrofits share.google/HfrG9C7gfGHT...
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Harvard University transforms waste wool into cladding for retrofits
Grinham Research Group at Harvard University presented an insulative cladding tile made from waste wool at the Oslo Architecture Triennale.
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Andrew Michler @andrewmichler.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I spent a couple hours digging out the only storm water drain in our neighborhood. It floods our condo every year but maybe we can avoid it this time around.
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Andrew Michler @andrewmichler.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
www.theguardian.com/science/2026...
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Earth microbes survive simulated conditions of Saturn moon’s ocean
Experiment suggests organisms could live in harsh environment under Enceladus’s icy crust, strengthening possibility moon could support life
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Andrew Michler @andrewmichler.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
HoT: El Niño nOt: maga hat sales
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Andrew Michler @andrewmichler.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
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Monty Python: King Arthur & Black Knight - I've Had Worse
ALT: Monty Python: King Arthur & Black Knight - I've Had Worse
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Andrew Michler @andrewmichler.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
I got in the habit this last week of checking diesel prices in Cali. It was going up about a dime a day.
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Andrew Michler @andrewmichler.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Charging in the Wild West.
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Andrew Michler @andrewmichler.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
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Largest wildlife overpass in North America located in Colorado with 91% reduction in collisions: "Big success"
A wildlife mitigation system made up of North America's largest wildlife overpass, five wildlife underpasses, and fencing to guide animals to the crossings has led to a 91% decrease in wildlife collis...
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Ro-Boo-rt Lepage, PhD., P.Eng. @rtmlepage.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
ASHRAE: "We are leaders in decarbonizing buildings!" Also ASHRAE: "Have you considered adding a fossil fuel system to your all electric building?"
A screenshot of ASHRAE Journal on Decarbonizing with Hybrid Geothermal, with a section highlighted how adding fossil fuel to an all electric system has "benefits".
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Andrew Michler @andrewmichler.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
It is costing my client $3500 and a month delay to state that her rebuilding after the Eaton fire will not affect storm water runoff for a like-for-like.
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Andrew Michler @andrewmichler.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Another denspac job and it is not dense packed. This is when I now pretty much drop everything and run to the site before anything gets covered up.
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William Gibson @greatdismal.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Released today! Special edition! I love it!
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Andrew Michler @andrewmichler.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Arctic warming fuels 2 distinct climate regimes in Siberia that could wake up a methane 'sleeping giant' | Live Science share.google/a0YPoG3mrbL5...
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Arctic warming fuels 2 distinct climate regimes in Siberia that could wake up a methane 'sleeping giant'
New research finds that western Siberia is becoming wetter as the world warms, while eastern Siberia seems to be getting drier. And both these conditions are fueling a rise in methane emissions, spell...
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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Lots of coverage of Trump on renaming New Mexico, New America. But people are too polite to point out Trump has no interest in renaming New England or New Hampshire or New Jersey or New York. It's Mexico and Mexicans and Latinos he wants to taunt. It's childish idiocy, but it's also a dog whistle.
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Andrew Michler @andrewmichler.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
So here is the rub, that is a "space inefficient" form factor. Spilling out a ton of low density transport in our already overloaded urban streets plus the added empty trips is very narrow. I don't see what this solve with this except push mass transit to the edge. That was elon's stated goal btw.
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Andrew Michler @andrewmichler.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
So begs the question why a two seater in the first place? Just optimize form factor like a small van. Also where is that goofy bus thing? I never hear TSLA fan club members talk about that?
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Andrew Michler @andrewmichler.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
AC is not the solution if you can't afford it. share.google/0AyAfNXPRF6c...
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Andrew Michler @andrewmichler.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Why not rename New Mexico to New America while we are at it.
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Andrew Michler @andrewmichler.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
I got a work EV van. www.linkedin.com/posts/andrew...
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Getting back into building I realized I really need to replace the pickup with a van so I did what any rational person would do... get a discontinued electric step van. I bought a lightly used AWD… |...
Getting back into building I realized I really need to replace the pickup with a van so I did what any rational person would do... get a discontinued electric step van. I bought a lightly used AWD Br...
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Sam @samd.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
it’s because people like you oppose transit oriented development peak Berkeley is a “climate scientist” who prefers parking to bike lanes and fights against building more housing near transit, all while crying crocodile tears that not enough people take transit
To:
Subject:
Friday, April 15, 2022 4:53 PM
All Council
North Berkeley Bart
WARNING: This is not a City of Berkeley email. Do not click links or attachments unless you trust the sender and know the content is safe.
I write to formally OPPOSE the Planning Commission's proposal for a 12 story building at the North Berkeley BART station, in contrast to the staff recommendation of 7 stories, maximum.
A 12 story building will ruin the sense of the neighborhood, lack appropriate affordable housing, and limit the ability to use non-profit/affordable developers.
Reject the Planning Commission's 12 story proposal.
Peter Gleick
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Andrew Michler @andrewmichler.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Grizzly mothers now teaching their cubs to use the crossings like a route the family has always known - ScienceBlog.com share.google/QV489xOfcwrq...
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Homepage
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Andrew Michler @andrewmichler.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
On city streets for real world efficiency this is pretty close to a MYLR which can potentially carry seven people... going backwards in terms of future urban transport.
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Andrew Michler @andrewmichler.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Efficiency is expressed in work done. So only potentially moving two people is poor outcomes per public space and kWhrs. This is really just anti-transit tech at core.
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Andrew Michler @andrewmichler.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
U.S. Building of the Week Sol Coffee Mobile Espresso Bar world-architects.com/en/architect...
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Sol Coffee Mobile Espresso Bar - U.S. Building of the Week
The food truck boom continues: Food Truck Nation contends it is a $2 billion industry in the US, while Denver, Colorado, has nearly 600 food trucks -- one...
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Union of Concerned Scientists @ucs.org · 05/09/2026
Under the second Trump admin, the EPA has focused on expanding all the things it cannot do for the people of the US: "The standards it cannot set, the deadlines it cannot hold, the public it cannot consult, the experts it cannot employ, the grants it cannot fund, the enforcement it cannot conduct."
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As Data Centers Drive Boom in Fossil Power Generation, EPA is Slashing Pollution Standards to Clear their Path
Under the second Trump administration, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has focused its energies on examining and expanding all the things it cannot do for the people of the United States. The standards it cannot set, the deadlines it cannot hold, the public it cannot consult, the expe
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Andrew Michler @andrewmichler.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
The Zune of basketball
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Andrew Michler @andrewmichler.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
I have full faith the Democratic leadership will just talk big about small things everyone will (mostly) agree on but motivate nobody.
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Owen Jones @owenjones.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Palestinians won an Oscar - and then Israel responded with violent revenge.
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Andrew Michler @andrewmichler.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
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Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) Names Epstein Co-Conspirators
YouTube video by C-SPAN
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Andrew Michler @andrewmichler.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
We treat charging in the US like everything else, make it bigger and faster rather than equitable and adaptive. youtu.be/XHjEiuTlXfg?... @transportevolved.bsky.social
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EREV Not Solution
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