If you assume that there is an infinite number of tech workers with six figure salaries who want to live in the Bay or NY then the NIMBYs are right and no amount of new housing will help. But there is not an infinite number of tech workers, and the ones here are being laid off.

People talk about artificial intelligence but don't understand what that technology actually is, what the term "AI" is referring to, or best use cases for all the different tools that exist. Nor do they understand that they've already been using AI assistance for YEARS before LLMs became public.

All these things apply to a small percentage of AI research and companies, yet this website treats all AI models and research like it comes from xAI. You ran the actual open source and AI safety researchers off the app

I think it’s because they’re threatened by it honestly

Them: It's not about race, it's about class. Hopkins: Ok, we're making a class-based policy. Them: We still don't like it, because what we actually meant was...

Disappointing to see the president of my Alma mater reject DEI, especially given the racist incidents that marred my time there. Hopefully this rejection will be instructive for Santa Ono’s perspective on building an inclusive educational environment

"In the past, Ono had condemned systemic racism & argued for the necessity of DEI [...] Ono emphasized his ideological evolution, which ultimately failed to convince the board" Board said hm you're *new to hatin niggas and we're lookin for someone *true to hatin niggas. good luck on the job market!

READ. THE. SUBHEAD.

“The University of Cincinnati wants to make all students eligible for Davis’s scholarship, not just Black applicants. At least six other scholarships worth about $4 million established by Black doctors at the school are also under review, according to an email obtained by The Washington Post.”

The elephant in the room on social housing is that we severely lack the state capacity required to administer it at the levels required to bring down rents. And increasing state capacity is what’s explicitly being argued for in the Abundance agenda

I hear this myth all the time and it’s bizarre. Rich people hire property management companies to handle all the logistics for them and still get 90% of the rent each month. The idea that landlords are forgoing free money en masse makes no sense.

Still my fave music video i made

Ok trying the video upload feature--a Sephardic tune on the baroque lute, Siete Modos de Guisar las Berenjenas (seven ways to prepare eggplants, only two ways are discussed bc we're at 60 seconds).

Everyone always goes "that might be true for other cities, but where *I* live it's cheaper to leave an apartment empty than rent it out" and it never turns out to be true! Paris has a vacancy rate of 1.3% www.apur.org/en/our-works...

“Not sure what CAN be done” build more housing, specifically at a volume commensurate with current population growth and the decades of under building. It’s not rocket science

Someone should make a subscription service that makes it easier for middle aged men in their 40’s to blow up their lives. There could be a portal for boats to buy, red pill podcasts to follow, drugs to abuse, or people to have an affair with. Just a frictionless midlife crisis

If I see another article about birth rates that refuses to grapple with the way having children systematically disadvantages women I swear to god. There is no mystery. Stop pretending there is. We’ve got to do away with credulity for nonsense.

this is true and *also* pairing a concern about an "aging labor force" with a desire to deport every immigrant makes it 100% clear this is a white birthrate anxiety thing. this is about white babies

decades of reflection about music and traffic safety later I'm finally emotionally ready to admit that "Move Bitch" was a completely unhinged song. every verse on it more antisocial than the previous one

Shout-out to @mocutobi.bsky.social, who had to eject someone from 106 Miles SF tonight because he was trying to talk slick to female members. No, fucko, it's NOT cool to mention your sexual tastes at a networking group just because it's held at a bar!

"Recessions aren’t detox cleanses; they don’t flush out inefficiencies and leave you leaner and stronger. They are periods of mass job losses, closed businesses and financial ruin that leave lasting scars on families, workers and entire communities." www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...

Notable that you will hear very little about the details of this case on Twitter at all

Figured I’d hop on here today for the 15th anniversary of the Affordable Care Act. With everything going on right now, it’s easy to feel like regular folks can’t make a difference – but the ACA is a reminder that change is possible when we fight for progress.

I really love the abundance crap

when people feel like the institutions around them are failing them, appealing to the status quo or normalcy is not the answer. it’s time to build new systems

If i saw a child doing heroin i would jump in front of the needle and take the Hit . That is how dedicated i am to community's

Strongly endorsed. I don't care what Khalil said. What matters most here is the state punished him, without charge or trial, for speech. They disappeared him like in the sort of authoritarian country America used to criticize. Anyone adjudicating the content of his speech is missing the point.

"I disagreed with Mahmoud Khalil but" 1. what did you disagree with him about specifically? seems weird not to say 2. it doesn't matter whether you disagreed with him, getting kidnapped out of your home in front of your pregnant wife isn't the penalty for disagreeing with you

I think it is actually more complicated than that. He is by no means a peacemaker, but there's a reason he cannot necessarily be reduced to a warmonger. It took me several tries to finally formulate this argument properly, but this thread does it, I think.

Trump's opposition to foreign wars was never deeper than his general opposition to doing things that require reading more than one paragraph or interrupting his golf routine and if you ever thought otherwise it's not too late to change your mind

not by any stretch the first person to say this but: it is darkly funny how nakedly imperialist Trump turned out to be given the lengths to which some professional opinion havers went to take his "isolationism" intellectually seriously

So we’re just not going to talk about Mahmoud Khalil? No one else is pissed off?

God damn. Is this a fair assessment? If so, it’s depressing as hell. www.tiktok.com/t/ZP82rcKPX/

Interest on the debt will be the second largest cost to the budget by next year. DOGE is not making anything close to meaningful cuts. Between the cuts and trade wars, GDP will take a hit. Extending tax cuts is the last thing we should consider. These people aren't conservatives, they're thieves.

Democracy is not about picking who governs you every election cycle. It’s about self governance, governance by the people itself. Until we understand this on a spiritual level, oligarchs and stupid people will continue trying to dominate the public

It’s not enough to oppose, you have to articulate what it is you’re for. What is your positive vision of the world, that stands in contrast to the dark vision of white supremacist domination and techno feudalism?

without section 230, you could have a world where bluesky is liable for me calling this man a clueless, tech illiterate, fascist enabling motherfucker

The way this country works is not determined just by whoever is president of the United States. Big issue for Dems that no one talks about is they run on things that are heavily contingent on them also having control of Congress, which is rarely the case

In 5 years, your favorite influencer who told you not to vote for Kamala will be living abroad, while constantly going live to justify their move to the internet as opposed to their willingness to stay and fight.

People really gotta understand how the court system in this country works

@theverge.com continues to be on one (complimentary). I appreciate @reckless.bsky.social's editorial integrity throughout. www.theverge.com/policy/62497...

Now we know indeed.

UC will be deeply embarrassed by this episode once Trump and his minions are gone. It is shameful. But no one should be allowed to brush it under the rug. It should be taught over and over as how academia can and will bend the knee to dictators and Nazis.

From the UC student newspaper www.newsrecord.org/news/uc-impl...

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