Newsom must have only signed those housing laws because they were supposed to not work too well. If there's threat of them working then he has to ban them from rich neighborhoods

Faced with a once in a lifetime political realignment among Latinos, the GOP looked at themselves in the mirror, took a deep breath, and decided they had to get more racist

Paused my American Canto hate-read to finish writing a blog post about internet history. Optimization was an era. It ended. Now we're living through the enshittification era. It, too, won't last forever. (And we can kind of blame Elon for this mess.) open.substack.com/pub/davekarp...

V pleased to have got this idea written down, which has been knocking around my head since a guy on here got pounced on for saying 'video games are actually incredibly good value for money nowadays'.

Obviously this is not a defense of Greene, but it's clear that the secret sauce of Trump 2 is death threats and it's good when people who are receiving them start talking about it. That's the only way we get through this time.

San Francisco has been rezoned! It's not perfect but it's a step in the right direction. Now we need to pass single stair reform! #architecture #housing #sanfrancisco From the @openscopestudio.bsky.social blog: openscopestudio.com/a-shift-in-t...

The online class is mad about precarity, basically due to the types of jobs that the online class can have. That's what the malaise is about. I do think Stancil has a point overall that solving the precarity does nothing because expectations will just rise higher

I, a normal person, don't need an airport gym, I just walk back and forth throughout the terminals to get steps in before my flight

I remember around 22 or so we talking about which decision would be “Roberts’ dred Scott” but the birth right citizenship case would literally just be dred Scott again

Look, I think we should do both but gotta say Dean is 100% right here. Folks definitely should not shirk at putting more homes in the Marina of all places

It's the 160th anniversary of the United States' refounding, the ratification of the 13th Amendment.

In general, I have been incredibly impressed with the AAP, which has shown itself to be absolutely uninterested in playing ball with any sort of politics in and around vaccines and has gone completely to the mat against this administration, CDC, etc.

The entire debate over birthright citizenship is anti-constitutional because the purpose, intent, and text of the 14th Amendment were designed to foreclose any argument about who counts as an American citizen.

There are a lot of really horrific examples of “it can always get worse” in world history but I find Sepp Blatter to Gianni Infantino hits just the right note of bleak whimsy.

The point here about economic growth being a precondition for social democratic politics is something I think about a lot, particularly in relation to YIMBYism and urban economies. www.unpopularfront.news/p/politics-a...

There is no pile of gold that we can take to have universal healthcare without having to increase taxes generally, no. But there *is* a loaded fucking gun we need to take out of their hands, yeah.

Retweet this so your friends have to look at a Convair 990 for no reason

Super interesting post on fertility from @mtkonczal.bsky.social mikekonczal.substack.com/p/the-eldest...

Utterly worthless when compared to these two incredible technologies

He. Gone.

In 1978, the San Francisco Board of Supervisors downzoned the city, banning multifamily homes in many areas and sparking a decades-long affordability crisis. 47 years later, on a 7–4 vote, they passed the Family Zoning Plan to finally begin to undo that mistake. The times, they are a-changin’!

It's with heavy hearts that we share that Claude, our beloved albino alligator, has passed away at the age of 30. Claude brought joy to millions of people at the Academy and across the world during his 17 year tenure. We will miss him dearly. 🤍

The plan to break the MLBPA is to appeal to people mad that the Dodgers won a few World Series this decade

Yeah but what if the state is too efficient and doesn't create enough high salary managerial jobs compared to the NGOs and nonprofits?

As I have said before, Waymo has proven that self driving cars work and are a significant improvement over human drivers. This technology is not going away. Our focus needs to be on requiring them to obey all traffic laws and to not give away any bike or transit lanes to self driving cars

This is answering a lot of questions I have about whether these big market cable-owned RSNs are going to have a different future than the FanDuel networks

Hot take: bike lanes aren't big enough to take all the things people want to put in them. Either keep them for bikes or make them a lot wider

Online sports betting might be killing your marriage, GPA and 401k. But is a clear social contagion killing sports, in any sense? I wrote about the wave of betting scandals with insights from the 1919 Black Sox, the end-times Oakland A’s, and endlessly refreshing my Tankathon tab.

We need to build more housing in the Westside of SF and have all the infrastructure we need to do it

The existence of this statement, including the name of the Department, is telling me that there's at least some Republican Senators who are tired of Trump and Hegseth's shit

The biggest technological revolution of our lifetime is underway and it's not AI:

One of the biggest barriers to implementing pro-housing policy is the folk wisdom that building new market rate/mixed-income housing increases rents even though study after study shows that the opposite is the case: building more housing lowers rents

This might become my pet issue but it’s crazy how center left parties are hurting because they’re seen as the party of snobbish technocrats when the actual “experts” they go to are lawyers who think anesthesiology and TV manufacturing have seen similar productivity growth

and yes, brussels sprouts have become less bitter in our lifetimes thanks to Hans van Doorn, a Dutch scientist, figuring out what made them bitter, and seed banks, and cross breeding the less bitter varieties with modern high-producing types www.npr.org/sections/the...

The Great Downzoning h/t @benschneider.bsky.social

Hot stove fired up

Hm, link was broken. This works I think?

they knew:

Lots of people sharing this clip because it's funny and cathartic but I also genuinely believe it's important. We have to win the narrative battle between "I live in a corrupt society and that's just how it is" and "I live in a corrupt society and we are going to defeat and humiliate these ghouls."

I moved to a different apartment this summer and feel like I got on the last chopper out of Saigon. It's bad out there

This is the ultimate “bring back a past I’m nostalgic for without recreating any of the material conditions that made that possible.” Peak MAGA brain.

"Adoption of electric vehicles (EVs) and heat pumps collectively saved US households between $5.6 to $8.8 billion in 2023 alone." "80% of users are satisfied with their heat pumps, and nearly 95% of EV owners are likely to consider purchasing another EV for their next vehicle."

Good sign for this website that it's not just being used to break football news but also to troll

This is a phenomenal example of how people advocating for the "character of the neighborhood" are often actually advocating to *change* the character to be less dense and more suburban. Which, if you go play with the city's n'hood GIS explorer, is what has happened all over Boston!

Waymos and other self driving cars can replace Ubers, Lyfts and taxis and society is probably better off for it. We just have to be strict about them being programmed to follow traffic laws. They cannot replace public transit and biking in cities and anyone saying they can is lying.

this is because people want to turn their cities into museums of their own past. they don't want the future. they want to turn into dust reflecting on how awesome they used to be

On one hand I'm very happy that the semi-integrated Rad City 5 batteries aren't impacted, but this is awful that there's a recall and Rad is too broke to compensate their customers or replace the batteries

We really do have two different kinds of law now: District Court law (aka the law), and Supreme Court "law" (aka the U.S. House of Lords upholding Trump's personalist regime)

If him and Vance are the nominees in 2028 we're going to have discourse on The Last Jedi