VIX and chill

I guess this is what not owning a car does but this is what I remember gas prices being last time I was paying attention. What are they coming up from recently?

God I hate this idea. People are not one more image of a dead baby away from radicalisation. We don't lack will, we lack any real means to act on our will because the left has ceased to be a political project and become a few thousand people trying to Post their way out of Posting.

So according to the WSJ a US Senator conspired with another country to manipulate the US into starting a war, am I getting this right

The asymmetry of the value placed on human life is so striking. Israel has a goal to recover 40-year-old remains; to do so, it invades a sovereign country, and the lives of 26 Lebanese are an afterthought. Their names not even worth printing in the New York Times.

The AirTrain: helping you decide taking a cab makes the most sense since 2003

This is endlessly annoying, but my hot take is that this wouldn't matter as much if bike lanes were built at the correct size for NYC, which is at least 8 feet wide for each direction of traffic.

Force yourself to stare at this picture for a while. This child was just as deserving of life as any American child. This family was just as deserving of joy, safety, and possibility as any American family. We are an evil monster.

The trend shift in adults per family household is so insane. its even more insane that every important policymaker and economist thought we were slowly soaking up a glut of homes even into the 2010s. And it’s even more insane that there are still supply-crisis skeptics today.

Low hanging, potentially transformative fruit. Do it @mayor.nyc.gov!!

Now that incentives for zoning liberalization are out, and build-to-rent single-family housing is effectively banned, I think the ROAD to Housing Act might do more harm than good. www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

all the AI prototypes I’ve seen so far are in this bizarre limbo world where all the details matter (it’s high fidelity and clickable) but none of the details matter (visual details wrong, fidelity misrepresents the amount of thinking behind it it)

the thing that the Democratic base cannot abide above all else right now is Handing It To Them and being anti-trans is, in fact, Handing It To Them don't do that, it's bad morals and bad politics

Yeah this is exactly the thing. Increasingly you are telling people to not believe their lying eyes when you tell them LLMs are useless. Their actual lives will directly contradict this. They will likely discount most other unrelated things you say as a result. This can’t become a left/lib dogma.

Will Apple ever realize that people who want a pro laptop also might like colors? Tempted to buy this underpowered thing just because it’s fun.

There is now a possible world where Kenyatta J. Johnson is more progressive than Zohran Mamdani on basic street safety

what the hell

“Must begin with the neighbors who live here” – does she mean the neighbors who live in the rail yards? Or the neighbors who live in the box box stores to the east of the rail yards? Or the ones in the warehouses to the north and south? Or the ones in the high-rise luxury buildings to the west?

The entire Democratic strategy debate — "moderate" or move left? fight or compromise? — is based on a misreading of data. Voters don't think Dems are too progressive; they think Dems are weak. The actual math on what to do about this isn't even close! New: www.gelliottmorris.com/p/new-poll-d...

They're going to TRY. Please do not give into doomerism beforehand. They are not going to succeed. They will still do incalcuable damage to American democracy.

This is inappropriate and unacceptable. The subway is already too loud, with unnecessary announcements. They make navigation harder for those who rely on them, cause riders to tune out, and make riding a chore. Advertising is never an appropriate use for transit PAs. nypost.com/2026/02/25/u...

Historic neighborhoods with iron preservation mandates don't stop change. They accelerate change. Historic preservation turns units for renters into mansions for billionaires www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...

the idea that you SHOULD have to carry identification documents is a a product of car dependence, for what it's worth, one of the ways that cars provide a glide path to a surveillance/police state

Amazing things happening in Central Park

Adding up the “savings” you’ve achieved rather than advertising how much lower your costs are is intellectually bankrupt, and an indication that they’re not actually getting any more efficient.

I live in her district and am the board president of a 100% occupied market-rate (“luxury”) condo building. Zero vacancy. The units besides mine are rented to tech workers, a dentist, etc. Zero diplomats, no idea where she got that idea. They live in Midtown East, her district is Brooklyn.

How would this forecast be possible

I see a fire hydrant with a bunch of clear space all around it

One of the things that's most frustrating about the hype cycle around OpenClaw is that so much of what people are excited about is just... software? You can automate doing lots of cool stuff with your inbox with deterministic software that's been around for decades, and it won't delete your inbox!

Oh man what news is about to come out about Mr. Clean

Transphobia is an astroturfed moral panic invented from whole cloth by people on the Epstein list

said this to @brianvan.bsky.social but cops participating in snowball fights is the kind of thing used as "cops are good for the community propaganda" but now they're such beefed up roidboys they can't even do that anymore. find some joy in your life, losers.

Babies

Out with :nth-child(), in with :sibling-index()! Just so satisfying to use. * no Firefox yet

"Women adopt AI at rates 25% lower than men. This isn’t a guess. It’s the finding of a Harvard Business School meta-analysis examining eighteen studies, over 140,000 participants, across multiple countries." "Every AI Company Is Building a Different Wife" abiawomosu.substack.com/p/they-built...

It breaks both NPR-lib & comrade brains (because we have internalized that nothing is better than gardens!! and community!!) but 90% of our community gardens should be either housing/retail or actual city-run parks. This stretch will go un-shoveled until it melts, all so 8 ppl can grow 5 potatoes/yr

This seems to be a common reply to my thread, so I'll address it here. Basically, the argument is who cares if this is a misleading attack on Newsom, he's bad so if it hurts him it's fine. And I think it's important to push back on misinformation so that when there are legitimate criticisms...

I really think what’s broken everyone’s brains is the eagerness to amplify anything that damaging perceived enemies and not ever entertain something that sounds like a defense of them, even if it’s just basic vetting of facts.

Amazing illustration of why you shouldn't let form beat out function. Why is the easiest distinction to make on this map between 3 and 4 inches, with 6 to 12 nearly indistinguishable?

as far as i can tell “bio hacking” is just a goofy term for giving yourself some combination of an eating disorder and a drug addiction

I thought this was some decent dystopian sci-fi fiction being shared but apparently this is a complaint about actual real life experiences?

This blizzard is going to be what a good snowstorm should be - followed by a week or more of 40+ degree weather.

This is a *really cool* proposal for Broadway from the Flatiron to Herald Square. Not only would it formalize the two-way bike lane and greatly widen the sidewalks, it would leave room for Paris-style outdoor dining up against the buildings!

my big takeaway is that the supreme court should work faster. i don't think it makes sense to have an illegal tax for nine months while people go on book tour.

This really is a great picture:

RIP, we should have been able to save the Painted Bride if it weren't for the most virulent NIMBYs who couldn't give a shit about your work

When you fight against a 100 unit apartment building in Manhattan (or anywhere in NYC) you are actually in support of wiping out forests. If you want to limit sprawl you need to really really really really expand available units in the city so it's a de facto "cheapest option is move to the city"

Mother!

“Is there a technology the left is excited about?” High-speed rail! MRNA vaccines! New cancer treatments! Solar and wind energy collection! Better and longer-range EVs! That wood that's harder than steel! New apples! Fibermaxxing! Buldak Swicy ramen! Muppets! Muppets are too a technology, shut up!