Maybe CAR is working towards righting the wrong of decades of racism by defunding the police

ICE Reports 19th Death of 2026: Georgian National Mamuka Artmeladze dies at Winn. Mamuka was not a public safety threat, may not have broken a single law, couldn't be deported, and shouldn't have been arrested. austinkocher.substack.com/p/ice-report...

BofA US CPI Forecast Summary Headline: +0.46% MoM (driven by energy); YoY rises from 3.8% to 4.2% (highest since April 2023). Core: +0.20% MoM / 2.8% YoY (cooler due to modest goods at +0.05%, normal rents, and softer core services).

sorry to say he has dropped another banger, you don't gotta hand it to him etc etc

A new @pewresearch.org study finds that infill housing near jobs, stores, and transit costs governments ~$21,000 less per home to serve, cuts long term infrastructure maintenance costs in half, and generates 13% more in annual property tax revenue per acre than sprawl.

~31% of illinois land is corn. ~25-30% of our corn is for ethanol. could say abiut 8% of our land is for ethanol. complicating that, ethanol uses the starch, but the same corn makes livestock feed. similarly you can grow crops/graze sheep under solar panels www.nass.usda.gov/Quick_Stats/...

Corn production for ethanol is environmentally good because it produces a lot of green fields I can drive by in my car, what’s your point here? Next you’re going to say some nonsense about how the NYC subway is really environmentally efficient despite it having no community gardens

There’s a comedy bit circulating (can’t remember the comic’s name) where a Marine vet is talking about how his unit was so heavily Latino that his squad had two guys named Juan Hernandez, and I’m guessing the late Roman army was like that with guys named Merobaudes or Atharic

Spencer Pratt was really the perfect litmus test for who actually knows any amount of ball about politics vs. who had their brain completely cooked by the algorithm.

ok fine I've been persuaded to seek a moderate compromise position. if France is going to have giant parking lots at suburban strip malls anyway, and they have solar panels now, then the French should be banned from buying anything other than cheap EVs from China, tariff-free, plus chargers

Taxing parking lot areas directly and using it to build solar farms in the desert would be vastly more efficient!

Over irrigation canals however? Now we're cooking

Solar canopies over car lots are a terrible idea relative to just sticking them in a field somewhere but it is an idea that will never ever ever die because it’s like catnip for boomers

It is done.

tax land value

I didn’t realize it until I clicked through but the article these leftists are sharing as proof of impending economic doom is literally a sponsored post trying frighten people into investing into gold and real estate

you love to see it

You can put as many Class 3 bike routes, or gutter/door Class 2 bike lanes (see below) as "existing bicycle facilities" on your map as you want. Normal people who *do not want to die* will look at real world version of the city and say, "fuck no."

The reality is that urban crime is down in lots of places, and it’s too soon for Mamdani’s policies to have an effect… but it’s clear the right wing panic was wrong.

Robert Cruickshank explains the ballot initiative he has filed to reform Sound Transit's board governance, arguing the overhaul is needed to ensure ST3 rail expansions are delivered as promised. Op-ed: www.theurbanist.org/op-ed-its-ti...

really and truly they just need to make it easier to put something on your phone without needing to put it on the app store

I did not realize San Mateo County made such crazy modifications to its codes. All non-single-fam must have a 50-sq. ft. fire control room accessible via the exterior, placed at the FD’s discretion. NFPA 13R sprinklers are banned entirely, everything must be full 13. California’s gotta rein this in.

Oil... demand destruction in China, US gasoline demand remains strong GS

Steyer continues to clean up in San Francisco, winning 46% of this late mail drop and posting a nearly 19-point net gain over Hilton. He'll want to get as close to 50% as possible in the next drop.

This is important in understanding what’s happening at CBS & in the United States. “Weiss’s ascent provides a lesson in how liberal institutions can sometimes place such value on proving that they’re open-minded that other liberal values, like standing for actual liberal things, get tossed aside.”

In the brush beneath a Mission Bay overpass, two coyotes break into song as a Caltrain barrels past. Their duet — equal parts whimper, howl and bark — rises and falls in chorus with the horn of the train.

Dudes (somewhat, likely temporarily, with many caveats) rock

Anglo neoliberalism, 1980s:"Ahah look at those silly communists and their planned economy, making five-year plans like they can really see the direction the wild forces of the economy will take us!" Anglosphere planning, 2020s: "Here is my 60-year plan, that will be built by my Thousand-Year Reich"

I think I know why these guys hate HR so much

www.nber.org/papers/w35277 "First, just-obese patients receive less diagnostic effort than almost-obese patients. Second, a physician-validated LLM identifies at the cutoff a rise in stigmatizing language in clinical notes"

Issuing stock to fund capex is not "looting" by any definition of the term. People HATED it when all big tech did with booming OCF was buy back shares. This is the alternative.

stocks are on sale today!

Periodic reminder that Teapot Dome, the worst scandal in American history prior to Watergate, involved $9 million changing hands. That’s adjusted for inflation. This story by itself is 55500% bigger than Teapot Dome. That’s not a typo.

first maps shows where conservative incumbent Oh Se-hoon won in Seoul (the darker the red the higher his support). second map shows the month-over-month increase in apartment listing prices in 2025, highlighting the explosive rise in real estate prices in Seoul in past 18-24 months

Now that @mattmahansj.bsky.social has to go back to work, maybe he can put his mind to figuring out why the "capital of Silicon Valley" has a transportation system that's getting punked by Tempe, Arizona, and every other backwater in the country.

Is it that some of the worst people on the planet have to eat shit?

Concurrent seasonal adjustment means you are going to see more downward revisions when payrolls are declining and more upward revisions when they are climbing but people hate ‘seasonal adjustment of highly seasonal data is hard actually’ it must be something more nefarious

Bloomberg hot headlines that make me LOL: *TRUMP: STOCKS SHOULD GO UP, NOT DOWN

If you see Type I ferric tapes, buy them. If you are into Type II chrome tapes, go for it. But if you see Type IV “metal” tapes, proceed with caution. Technically, those can contain ANY kind of metal, including copper, which isn’t even magnetic, or thorium, which is dangerously radioactive.

the clock is ticking for anyone wants to invite me to BART Prom...

“In the midst of one of the worst financial crises in the agency’s history, which has put the future of the Blue Line at risk, BART has completely transformed its marketing strategy, making train travel trendy through social media posts and interactive events.” www.sfchronicle.com/entertainmen...

saw a post on korean twitter coping the Seoul mayor election loss by arguing dense, market-rate high-rise apartments breed societal alienation and fascism

o, to be a dreaming President, held in the embrace of my Oval Office fartin' chair

“.. which means that SpaceX and other big IPOs won’t be fast-tracked into the index.” @barrons.com #$SPCX www.barrons.com/articles/spa...

So, in summary, this

I used it yesterday to write some HTML code for an application that sends emails to students - needed a header section, I write the body, then a footer section. I could've done it - but an hour or two of work took 10 minutes. I don't use it a lot, but when I do it seems somewhat helpful.

Off to see Kraftwerk tonight. Which is an excuse to post my favourite early band pic. One half of the band went on to win the image wars. Guess which half.

agree with this and don't really get why anyone is still arguing about "vibecession" stuff after @buddyyakov.bsky.social pointed out the obvious: volatility (or from a household cost of living perspective, "precarity") is psychologically relevant but harder to plot on a chart