"Seattle has 1.6 million parking spots. More than five parking spots for every household in the city. The total value of those spots...[is] nearly $36 billion"

Useful context when people complain about losing parking to bus/bike lanes or cafe seating.

https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/transportation/study-shows-seattle-has-plenty-of-parking-so-why-cant-you-find-a-spot/

No Wordle, no Spelling Bee, no morning newsletter, no clicks. Solidarity, always.

RT @[email protected]

Today we were ready to work for as long as it took to reach a fair deal, but management walked away from the table with five hours to go. It’s official: @[email protected] members are walking out for 24 hours on Thursday. We know what we’re worth.

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/NYTimesGuild/status/1600642495834214400

My team at work just launched new research on the #TwitterMigration: We analyze which platforms are growing - especially #Mastodon, #Tumblr & #Post.

We look at which sites users are adding to their Twitter bios, posting to their friends about & downloading apps for.

Please do boost this, and love to hear any comments or feedback on it!

Download it here:
https://www.deweysquare.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/DSG-Snapshot-of-the-Twitter-Migration-December-12-2022.pdf

I like Cory Doctorow's @doctorow analysis of how social media giants fall.

In short: in the process of *enshittification* (get on it, New Palgrave), network externalities allow the platforms to capture almost all of the surplus and sell it to advertisers etc, leaving users nearly indifferent about leaving the platform.

When a shock hits the system, the switching cascade can be rapid because no one has a good reason to stay around anyway.

https://doctorow.medium.com/social-quitting-1ce85b67b456