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Claiming Territory for a Localized Makers Community
If the local makers do not represent themselves, no one will! I am taking a longer break between posts because I am working on a sample video for a series based on a book I self-published and then unpublished. I thought it needed editing. Ten years ago, I didn’t have the where with all to do…
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Strategicly Planning the Smoke and the Mirrors
Promoting an agenda as serving the people that primarilt benefit investors and developers is a historical tradition in Maine backed up by years of narrative craftsmanship The other day I signed up for a networking meeting on Allignable and learned about hour long sessions of one on one 7 minute meetings with other profesionals. Today…
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We Can Have Interesting Places and Spaces for Working Class Residents if We Make it Happen!
The Reality vs the Narrative Photo by wang binghua on Unsplash The other day, I was trying to locate the 2018 article in the Boothbay Register wherein Erin Cooperrider outlines the plan that targets the low-income housing credit to be applied to the 80% to 120% AMI demographic and to change the language from “low income” to…
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Hallucinations Proliferate in Affordable Housing and Corporate AI
We Say We Want an Evolution! We All want to change the world! There is a lot of talk in the AI world about the imminent bursting bubble. Will Lockett gives an informed explanation here. In short, the financial world is investing enormous amounts of money, far in excess of the revenue generated by AI, in…
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Peeling Back the Wrapper on the Narrative
Water, Housing, Education- What is really going on and whose Interests are being served? Photo by Karen Cann on Unsplash A letter titled Admiring the finery, ignoring the supply written by Andy Cozzi, a retired geologist, raised the issue of unusually low water levels of Knickerbocker Lake Finery is easily interpreted as the newly installed cultivated landscape at the Boothbay Center, bought…