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Evan 🇮🇹🇺🇸 @roden.works · 21/09/2025

After five years, you can actually, finally remove a chain-link fence in a photo in Google Photos on the pixel. I'm really impressed with the results!

Photo of homes in downtown Oakland, California. A fence in the foreground is out of focus, while the buildings are clear.

The same photo as before, but the unfocused fence in the foreground is gone, and the houses in the background are now clearly visible.

Photo of homes in downtown Oakland, California. A fence in the foreground is clear, while the buildings are out of focus.

The same photo from before, but the homes are now visible, while still out of focus.

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Evan 🇮🇹🇺🇸 @roden.works · 03/07/2025

Adobe’s new iOS camera app created by the creator of the Google Pixel’s cameras, Mark Levoy, brings me back a decade to an underpowered DSLR. Pics from (beta) Project Indigo are punchy & resolution is meh (most come out 9-12MP), so the result are photos you’d find in a “Summer NYC 2009” photo album

NYC Skyline with the Empire State Building in the center

People walking through greenery in High Line park, NYC.

Subway doors with harsh, blue light shining through into a warmly-lit interior.

Image of a span of the Brooklyn Bridge with a slightly-cloudy sky in the background.

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fema 🚲 @fema.monster · 10/01/2025

"Looking at dollars and cents, highways are a poor economic investment. They occupy nearly 25% of U.S. urban land—an area equivalent to West Virginia and valued at $4.1 trillion—yet their supposed benefits don’t justify these enormous costs."

fastcompany.com

It's time to start removing highways. For real this time

Removing highways can breath new life into cities—so why are cities so slow to actually do it?

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Yonah Freemark @yonahfreemark.com · 21/12/2024

In Dec. 2023, Montpellier, France became largest European city to offer fully fare-free transit. The results a year later: The city’s tram & bus system now carries 33% more riders than in 2019, reaching 110 million annual riders & peaks of >500,000 riders/day (urban area has ~500,000 residents).

montpellier3m.fr

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Helen, AuDHD Witch 🧹🪄 🎃 @helenangel.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

After smelling the gasoline fumes coming from leaf-blowers & seeing the workers without masks, this is even more of a reason for local municipalities to ban them. There’s no way inhaling those fumes are good for the workers. 😞 #bangasleafblowers

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Evan 🇮🇹🇺🇸 @roden.works · 05/12/2024

If a public defender’s office doesn’t have the same resources as the prosecution, it’s not a true system of justice.

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Evan 🇮🇹🇺🇸 @roden.works · 04/12/2024

I truly hope his children and loved ones will have access to the support denied to others going through grief. I can speak firsthand to how difficult being denied grief counseling by UnitedHealth has been after the loss of my dad.

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Kelsey Norden @mirakelsey.com · 03/12/2024

good morning to everyone except the tuesday morning leaf blower outside my apartment interrupting my youtube video essays

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Evan 🇮🇹🇺🇸 @roden.works · 03/12/2024

Shoutout to members of Korea’s Assembly for taking the time to put on suits for the 1AM emergency meeting. I probably would’ve rushed there in pajamas…

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Evan 🇮🇹🇺🇸 @roden.works · 27/11/2024

It grosses my out when people loudly proclaim how much they want to inflict gory violence on those who do bad things (or, in the case below, anyone with a mental illness, even if they never act on it). Same energy as the kid who’d say the depraved things they’d do to Bin Laden if they ever met him

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Evan 🇮🇹🇺🇸 @roden.works · 25/11/2024

Reorienting my skyline to just show anti leaf blower content.

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Evan 🇮🇹🇺🇸 @roden.works · 24/11/2024

The UK probably isn’t much worse off. “Health, transport, housing, and private insurance account for 95% of the American advantage over the UK in living standards. […] It can be argued that the US wastes its economic advantages with ineffective spending” www.smf.co.uk/publications...

smf.co.uk

Atlantic Aspirations: What does the US get for being a third richer than the UK? - Social Market Foundation.

Many have bemoaned the UK’s relatively low income compared to the US. This paper dives into consumption patterns in both countries to see how far this gap translates into a genuinely higher standard o...

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Evan 🇮🇹🇺🇸 @roden.works · 24/11/2024

15 Pro Max shots from a plane window. Itoigawa, JP Seoul, SK Hyonosen-Ushiroyama-Nagisan Quasi-National Park, JP Seattle, USA

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Evan 🇮🇹🇺🇸 @roden.works · 24/11/2024

Unchanged picture (left), then Photoshop's Content Aware Fill (middle), then Photoshop's Generative Fill (right). Photoshop's AI features for generating new objects is terrible, but fixing backgrounds has taken a huge step up for digital art and touchups.

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Evan 🇮🇹🇺🇸 @roden.works · 24/11/2024

Single-payer scaling is odd. You'd expect association w patient volume. The VA has ~1.3K health care facilities, 400K employees & serves ~10M patients, with a $270B budget. UK's NHS has same number of facilities, 3x the employees, & serves 5x the people with a total budget 20% lower.

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Evan 🇮🇹🇺🇸 @roden.works · 19/11/2024

If new cars were capped at the hood height of a modern Honda CRV, it would save the lives of at least 500 pedestrians a year. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Evan 🇮🇹🇺🇸 @roden.works · 19/11/2024

Now might be a good time to remember that gun laws work! Storage laws [1-2], concealed limits [3-4], expand federal checks to local, state, mental health, & military data [5-7], waiting periods [7-9], required training [7, 9], & risk seizure laws [11] all reduce death in real-world research.

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Evan 🇮🇹🇺🇸 @roden.works · 19/11/2024

Buffalo’s late-modern utilitarian brutalism used in subway stations is always fun to explore; like stepping back in time to an optimistic world that never quite came to fruition.

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Evan 🇮🇹🇺🇸 @roden.works · 19/11/2024

They should have put the Bills stadium right here.

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Evan 🇮🇹🇺🇸 @roden.works · 19/11/2024

Fun fact! A Tulane U gym prof invented two major sports, one by accident. Clara Baer misunderstood Basketball to create a new sport, now called Netball, played across Europe. She also invented “Newcomb Ball,” now known as Volleyball. web.archive.org/web/20110523... www.jstor.org/stable/43609...

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Evan 🇮🇹🇺🇸 @roden.works · 19/11/2024

Rustbelt supremacy! From: www.nytimes.com/2024/11/07/realestate/rent-burdened-affordability.html

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Evan 🇮🇹🇺🇸 @roden.works · 19/11/2024

Are there only two genders? Of course not! But are there two binary sexes? Also no! Sex is a bimodal continuum of male & female, according to contemporary research. www.nature.com/articles/s41... Even if you define sex using gamete size. philarchive.org/rec/RIFSBD

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Evan 🇮🇹🇺🇸 @roden.works · 19/11/2024

Photographic styles on the iPhone 16 are pretty fun (these are some unedited photos straight from the camera), but the UI using things like “tone” is straddling a strange middle-ground between “too confusing for casual users,” and “terms meaningless to actual photographers.”

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Evan 🇮🇹🇺🇸 @roden.works · 19/11/2024

The Bay Area tech crowd has a sort of Noble Savage view towards the European business environment.

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Evan 🇮🇹🇺🇸 @roden.works · 19/11/2024

Why’d I switch? Because scrolling through comments started looking like this…

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