Blake Esselstyn
mapblake@mapstodon.space
<p>Geographer, demographer. Once had the title Urban Planner. Now more redistricting, fairmaps, dataviz. Champion of <a href="https://mapstodon.space/tags/zuzai" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>zuzai</span></a>.<br />Almost 30 years of experience with GIS, but new to Ma(p)stodon.</p>
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@billyjoebowers I gave this a lot of thought. In a nutshell, my logic is that there&#39;s a good reason that sober, and organic, and vegan aren&#39;t &quot;No alcohol,&quot; &quot;No synthetic pesticides,&quot; and &quot;No animal products,&quot; respectively. There&#39;s value in framing it as a positive, not a negative. See the article for other examples.
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@crecente Thanks for sharing your advice! You don&#39;t think that folks might be reluctant to use the word for fear that it&#39;s somehow proprietary? My hope is for it to be used as widely as possible. With a (TM) or an (R), I would be concerned that folks might hesitate to, e.g., put it on a sticker or a t-shirt out of concern that they might have to pay royalties or something. The (trademarked) word three-peat comes to mind.
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@flq @action_jay @sushee sansai was my runner-up for the word! (I wrote the #zuzai essay)
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RIP Wendell Berry, 1934–2026 “The most alarming sign of the state of our society now is that our leaders have the courage to sacrifice the lives of young people in war but have not the courage to tell us that we must be less greedy and wasteful.” https://americanswhotellthetruth.org/portraits/wendell-berry/
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I wrote this thing last week. It might as well be my first post on Mastodon. #zuzai https://zuzai.org/