The company I work for is going all in on AI and I’ve never encountered anyone who wants to use Grok. It’s something that’s openly made fun of.

Lots of great projects are getting awards under the city’s affordable housing trust. Sadly, the developer of the BK lot at Nicollet and 34th didn’t submit a request. They did last year and were denied. I was hoping they’d try again this year, but nope.

I see the NYT defenders are still at it, completing missing the critique (again)

but john podesta's recipes are national news, apparently

Lmao

Shareholders approved the PE takeover. Already learning of some senior people leaving. Ughhhh

I really, really hope that future historians capture just how insane this era was to be living through

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This isn’t even the stuff they’re trying to actually stop from getting out.

The Kremlin disguised a nearly $100 mn payment to Trump in the form of a brokered real estate deal... and both Jeffrey Epstein and William Pulte were involved in the deal. That's very interesting.

Well I hope this is the start of never having to learn about what Larry fucking Summers thinks about anything

I hope the people who thought Larry Summers was done wrong in '05 can see him here 12 years later still deriding women's intelligence in lighthearted banter with his friend Jeff, the world's most notorious sex trafficker. That's men's intelligence I guess.

this should be obvious but the reason Trump is working desperately against Epstein transparency is because he's guilty

Lyndale reconstruction update from the Lyndale neighborhood association. Seems like good news that the county is back at the drawing board based on feedback they received. Sucks we have to be in constant “fight mode” for basic infrastructure improvements.

One upside of my new cholesterol friendly diet is that I’m already noticing some slight changes to my body after just one week

the republican party is engaged in a cover up to keep the american people from learning whether president trump is president pedo

Another news day that would end the career of any other politician. But here we are for at least another couple of years.

Seattle media, tonight, is going as close as possible to saying Katie Wilson won the mayoral race — without phrasing it as entirely final. (Which is all very defensible at this stage.) Seattle is shaping up to be the left's second big mayoral win, a sort of West Coast companion to NYC.

So looking at the actual SF chronicle article, the only place this song is accruing notice is on Spotify, which is easily gamed by bots. If I were an AI proponent who desperately needed to boost the validity of my investment, this is exactly what I’d do.

It’s very bad news in particular for the area around the 21st St station. It should absolutely be massively up-zoned, but there’s no way that happens now. We’ll need the state to preempt cities when it comes to zoning near LRT stations.

lol

Midwest Snowbirds, you’re really missing out on a blizzard back home! Something astonishing is happening near Milwaukee, Chicago and South Bend. Up to 5” per hour snowfall rates!! The temperature difference between the Lake (50F) and aloft (17K ft) is over 90 degrees F… 1/

For anyone who was sleeping, major political news last night: a judge chose a new map for Utah that will deliver a seat to Democrats. Major point in Dems’ favor that effectively neuters the GOP’s move in Missouri, much like California countered Texas.

50 year mortgages and 15 year car loans? Maybe they just want us to be in debt our entire lives.

It’s okay because the Republicans promised to hold this exact same vote in a month

They got a lot of people into ebikes, which is awesome, but I can’t say I’m surprised to learn this. The brand has tanked and the competition offers better bikes for less.

All the Jazz Hampton & especially Dewayne Davis truthers will be disappointed. Fateh drove Frey’s vote total to 50% but no other candidate would get as close.

Metro Council published some new stuff on future BRT routes and it looks like Nicollet/#18 will be chosen. It scored the highest so I’d be shocked if it didn’t get selected. When I bought my house (almost 8 years ago) the streetcar was still under discussion. Would be nice to at least get BRT soon.

I do enjoy how people sincerely believe they’ll keep the basketball arena downtown. Every “plan” I’ve seen so far amounts to something like this:

Aurin for mayor sounds nice (and would be really smart) (I know it’s early)

The strategy didn’t work because y’all folded and everyone gets that

The rewards are pouring in

The least most politically engaged people I know are texting me before 8am to say, “we won’t forget.” So I don’t know man.

2/ The Senators who want to vote yes on basically any terms appear to be shaheen, Hassan, king and Fetterman. Slightly less clear but I think pushing that way are Peters and Durbin. You’ll note that four of these six are retiring. Others who seem on the fence include the two sens from Georgia and …

Lots of people were asked to run. But everyone knows Frey has unlimited money and is deeply petty. Hard sell to subject yourself to millions in attack ads, be iced out on official side collaboration and have the programs in your district mysteriously no longer have city staff support to carry out.

Some thoughts on Eric Roper’s finger-wag in the mayor’s race: www.startribune.com/jacob-frey-r... 1. Asking “what chance did [Davis & Hampton] have ignores Frey’s agency is creating the race‘s dynamics. Frey sued the most moderate hope (Emily Koski) to cut off her money & intimated others. 1/

Why is the only focus on whether the council no longer has a veto proof majority? Surely the mayor and allies have things they want to get done. Wouldn’t they have to work with others to get at least 7 votes? Why is this never part of the conversation?

Layoffs + plummeting consumer sentiment + dysfunctional US government + AI bubble = ???

Missing her extra hard today. My partner thinks she’s haunting the house, which would be her style.

Go ward 8! Also, I want us to overtake 11.

🏆 Congratulations Ward 12, you produced highest number of voters this year. Total votes cast by Minneapolis ward (roughly equal populations - 33k): W1 13,038 W2 6,955 W3 13,737 W4 6,935 W5 5,037 W6 7,797 W7 13,285 W8 12,276 W9 8,417 W10 11,367 W11 14,202 W12 17,168 W13 16,951

Good! I can personally confirm - a vacant lot is much better than a vacant building when it comes to crime and bullshit.

Interesting that the Minneapolis Times hasn’t published anything about the election. The only new “article” they have up since Election Day is titled “Some parts of Minneapolis really do have crime”. 🤷🏻‍♂️

I don’t want to memory-hole Betsy Hodges’ 2013 win. It definitely wasn’t DSA but it was last successful center-left alliance. Folks should re-read this September Racket piece, where she describes the alliance but — I know this will chafe — the need to appeal to SW. racketmn.com/minneapolis-...

Maybe it’s due to the election, but there hasn’t been a single post on Nextdoor complaining about Hennepin now that it’s re-opened

Hard to do this with RCV (which I still favor)! How do we know which one to consolidate around? It’s hard. And with the last election, if we rallied behind Davis or Hampton would either have turned out the vote like Fateh did in key progressive wards? I’m not sure!

So this is good news for Trumponomics, right?

In our Q3 report we noted workforce reductions across our client base. It’s not just tech and corporate layoffs. “Frontline” workers are losing jobs too.

Someone once told me the fake bars at Hennepin/Lagoon open when there’s shows at the Uptown Theatre. Hrm… not open.