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"Believe me, my young friend, there is NOTHING-absolutely nothing-half so much worth doing as simply messing about in boats."

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Doty @corbindoty.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
The debate around Waymos and driverless cars in Minneapolis got me thinking about "riderless bikes" and while they may seem overmatched, ultimately it is about who gets who first, isn't it?
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Doty @corbindoty.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
The lazy river float to the left, the 35 foot waterfall to the right. Choose your own adventure in a watery tunnel. Subterranean Basset Creek has it all!
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Doty @corbindoty.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Since Jacob Frey is the mayor equivalent to a driverless car, this tracks. "Open for business and innovation." Is a euphemism for "I welcome big tech kickbacks."
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Doty @corbindoty.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
As I Ray Bradbury fan, I'm impressed that he predicted the "hunting down and destroying books" aspect of our current AI driven society in Fahrenheit 451. But still wish it wasn't a thing at all.
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Doty @corbindoty.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I'm not ready to accept this reality of absolute trash AI graphic design poisoning every aesthetic. It literally isn't real so I refuse to be a realist. Glad I didn't heed the call to "learn to code" because nobody is gonna get paid to that anymore I hear, now AI just does it.
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Doty @corbindoty.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I still think about the time I was told in a meeting "If you don't get a better attitude about the tech center, you're going to doom it to failure." As if I have any such power to make or break anyone's ill-conceived plans.
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Doty @corbindoty.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I'm in your old room now, after getting bopped around. Sounds like they did you dirty. Photography at all the high schools was very popular. I warned them exactly what was going to happen with the Tech Center idea, but nobody was trying to listen. I'm so sorry.
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Doty @corbindoty.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I tried to ride my bike through the other day, but the fences stopped me. Can't wait! But low key miss the K-Mart also. Wearing a shirt I bought there right now.
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Doty @corbindoty.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
This just happened to me! I thought I had slept through it.
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Doty @corbindoty.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Even if they are cheaper than competitor contractors , the savings to the taxpayer are moot if it costs millions in MPD overtime.
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Doty @corbindoty.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Also guess who built the Keystone XL pipeline?
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Doty @corbindoty.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The fact that Michel's (owned by a prominent Wisconsin GOP politician) has an exclusive monopoly on city utility work and requires a uniformed MPD officer and vehicle at every single construction site is such a crazy corrupt protection racket I'm surprised nobody seems to care.
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Doty @corbindoty.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Did the police always run up millions in excess spending, or did Frey bring that idea with him when he parachuted in from the suburbs of DC?
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Doty @corbindoty.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Those two look like the bumbling bad guys in every 90s comedy. Jay and Silent Bob or something.
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Doty @corbindoty.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
My grandfather used to go to the CC to cash his paycheck when he worked digging trenches for the gas company in the 1940s. Have a little heart!
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Doty @corbindoty.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Yeah, exactly.
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Doty @corbindoty.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Also the "Port of Minneapolis" located north of St. Anthony Falls is no longer connected to the rest of the Mississippi by boat due to the permanent lock closure. So it would need to be brought by rail to at least St. Paul.
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Doty @corbindoty.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Since they insisted on that alignment, it would have also been cheaper and cooler to just build an elevated bike path above the light rail and skipped the tunnel. Kennelworth trail through the treetops would have been an attraction.
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Doty @corbindoty.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
They should have routed the SW line through Uptown, it was an early proposal. I think it would have captured the most transit riders, but ultimately adding 10 minutes to the ride downtown from the Eden Prairie terminus was a deal breaker. Decided to tunnel under a lake and get litigated by Kenwood.
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Doty @corbindoty.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
The Roky Erickson song is so good, need to see the movie. Might be like after years of listening to The Misfits "Return of the Fly" it came on TV one night and I enjoyed it.
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Doty @corbindoty.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Next step is taking this little leather scrap and painting a bike-fender-sized Yosemite Sam "BACK OFF" mudflap.
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Doty @corbindoty.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Installed fenders on my bike last night. Recommend! Extremely pleasant ride home from work in a light rain.
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Doty @corbindoty.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Been differentiating and making accommodations/modifications to my lessons for students with IEPs my entire career WITHOUT AI. Is it difficult? Challenging? Of course. But both my students and myself grow and learn together. As humans have done since time immemorial. You set a straw-man argument!
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Doty @corbindoty.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
As someone who teaches teenagers: it is an old people thing. Kids hate it (and if they use it they deny it). Using "old" in the way the kids use it.
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Doty @corbindoty.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Stay in your lane (AI hype cult) and try not to display such ignorance. If you think education is just generating the correct answers you are telling on yourself.
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Doty @corbindoty.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
I teach high school. AI has no value in education. If I had $5000 I certainly wouldn't give it to the company that invented the smartphone.
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Doty @corbindoty.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Well, the internet doesn't work anymore because anything you search is just page after page of AI slop. Cool that I got to experience a functioning internet for a few years, my kids won't believe me when I tell them about it.
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Doty @corbindoty.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
You actually have it exactly backwards: LLMs are just a mirror reflecting the past. They recycle, re-state, hallucinate the data that was input. They can't make anything fresh or new. Sure you can cook a meal by rooting around in a dumpster, but growing fresh fruit and vegetables is better.
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Doty @corbindoty.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
A good hot water bottle under a blanket + regular winter boots/snowpants/coat/mittens/hat/goggles.
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Doty @corbindoty.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Yeah "The Apprentice" was just the beginning. Not wanting to pay unionized writers what they were worth has had some disastrous consequences.
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Doty @corbindoty.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
You are reminding me of an art project idea I had of making an insanely large bike trailer that has a lightweight fiberglass shell that is just a replica of a boxy 90s Suburban. Ideally able to haul passengers, so probably gonna need e-bike to tow it.
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Doty @corbindoty.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Zaytoven was right there!
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Doty @corbindoty.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
When what was once universally known as "The Megamall" was renamed the "Mall of America" people should have realized this type of thing could happen to bodies of water too.
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Doty @corbindoty.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
It looks like it only was installed on one side of the Foshay? So maybe not as cool as it could have been, but still very neat. 1939 advanced computer innovations put 2026 innovations in the dirt. All AI nonsense now.
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Doty @corbindoty.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
I'm voting for whoever decides they want to be the mayor for more than just Linden Hills, Kenwood, and the North Loop.
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Doty @corbindoty.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
I guess I'm just not interested in using a language extrusion machine to de-skill myself. I guess it's cool if people get paid to do it, but I don't, so I wouldn't.
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Doty @corbindoty.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Yeah can't get over the "fascists own these AIs, insist on them getting in everything and that is terrible, I refuse to participate in this bullshit" phase. I don't think I will get over it.
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Doty @corbindoty.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
The building they are pointing at is either a prison or a data center, right?
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Doty @corbindoty.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
An excise tax on bullets, bombs, missiles, and drones. Or an LLM token tax.
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Doty @corbindoty.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Make sure the AI ban in schools includes use by teachers and administrators. Completely unnecessary for educators to model de-literacy.
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Doty @corbindoty.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
I saw someone was selling a "vintage" plastic K-Mart shopping basket for $250, so it must already be happening.
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Doty @corbindoty.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
The fact that MPS hired CESO to look into their finances and a cursory internet search reveals an entity set up in MALTA is using their same NE Minneapolis office as a listed address...
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Doty @corbindoty.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
I've had good luck strapping bikes to the side of my Bullitt. Yeah it means that it overlaps into your pedaling area, but if you do it right you can still get clearance on the inside.
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Doty @corbindoty.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Does anyone know if the T-Shoppe Bar is closed for good? I might have just missed the last 3.2 bar in Minneapolis.
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Doty @corbindoty.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
So I was, and still am, upset with Mary Moriarity for not charging Jake Lang for his latest crime spree in Minneapolis. But it is kind of an epic troll that the reason she revealed for not pressing charges is due to his "extensive collaboration and communication with Minneapolis Police."
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Doty @corbindoty.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
There used to be a lot of empty warehouse and loft space in cities. First it was occupied by artists and musicians, then it gentrified into luxury condos and offices. So empty retail is just the trendy living and working space of the future if you're hip enough.
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Doty @corbindoty.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
I'm guessing that Trump hasn't thought through what 50% tariffs on Canada is going to do to the price of toilet paper.
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Doty @corbindoty.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Why did the police let Jake Lang drive on the sidewalk, assault Minneapolis residents and generally just behave as his personal bodyguard guard as they bankrupt the city collecting overtime. Shoulda just let Spiderman handle it!
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Doty @corbindoty.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Full disclosure: I'm from Minneapolis, but if I were to "get into the cups" it better be Chicago.
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Doty @corbindoty.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Also: sure they make great cups anywhere, but the best cup is to be found in Chicago. (If it is true for Mexican food and Dim Sum, must be true for cups?)
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