"The primary explanation is going to be price and affordability.” Via: @whqr.bsky.social

“I talk to people facing eviction every day. t’s not because the tenant doesn’t want to pay their rent, it’s because life has hit them.” Via: @kstptv.bsky.social kstp.com/kstp-news/to... #housing+ #urbanism #urbanism+

these streets are gone now. lost to hwy 94 coming in :(

On keeping hope right now, from @brennanleemulligan.bsky.social on stream with @katmabu.bsky.social.

the other thing that strikes me about dreher’s take — and related ones — is that they depend on the conceit that political history began, at most, 10 years ago.

If you're planning on shopping during black Friday or cyber Monday, why not consider supporting artists, writers, creators? Buy a book, purchase an indie video game, commission an art piece, gift someone a Patreon. Your support means everything.

“Across the state, homeless service providers and local leaders are convening emergency meetings to figure out just how bad the cuts are going to be and what to do about them.” calmatters.org/housing/home... via @calmatters.org #housing+ #urbanism+ #urbanism

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The function of the waffles joke is an in-group signifier. Singal, Graber, and Oppiliappan are showing in-group solidarity; they're all in on a joke. The joke is they have institutional power, and you don't, and they feel contempt for you, that you still want to have opinions about how power's used.

The Trump administration is withholding funding for 78 units of permanent supportive housing in the Twin Cities metro. PSH is a road-tested, highly effective method of treating the worst cases of homelessness. Unfortunately, the economics of fighting homelessness run through the federal government

These are precedented times and the precedent is a loud ass warning www.nytimes.com/1939/02/04/a...

"By framing urban transportation as a social construct, Fan and her co-authors call for a shift toward understanding transportation as a socio-political force that structures inequalities, reinforces or challenges power, and shapes urban life."

Mississippi’s age verification law poses an “existential threat” to smaller platforms like Bluesky and Dreamwidth, which cannot afford to implement expensive AV systems or risk hefty fines. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

Fear and over-compliance are central to these laws. Bookstore owners, websites are encouraged to self-censor broadly to avoid potentially devastating litigation and prosecution. Want to stand up for yourself? It’s going to take $250k to even get in a court room. Legal threats are censorship.

Tell me you never had reason to doubt. Tell me that you always believed, and I will know that you were never truly tested. You never sat in the shambles of a broken faith rebuilding yourself. You never grew; you never changed. This does not make you strong. It makes you brittle.

No one would be confused about what is happening here if they saw it in another country.

Pfizer reports strong phase 3 clinical data for 2025-26 COVID vaccine The data show at least a fourfold increase in neutralizing antibodies. www.cidrap.umn.edu/c... Photo: Camosun College / Flickr cc

Something I see often in defenders of "AI" in the classroom (especially those who discuss "responsible" uses) is that, in using LLMs and then "critiquing" its output, we can then teach students to become more AI literate. This irks me to no end. 1/

I always love those lists of "35 under 35," but as I get older, I find that I would love to know about innovations/art from people over 65. "65 over 65" please. Elders have incredible ideas that are the result of having seen the full lifecycle of previous ideas and learned from it.

I just issued an executive order to safeguard vaccine access in Minnesota. While the Trump Administration attempts to limit Americans’ access to preventative care, Minnesota will continue to be guided by science and the freedom to seek out medical expertise.

The Vaccine Integrity Project isn’t here to replace public health agencies or to tell anyone which vaccines to get. We're here to analyze and share the evidence.

This is the most frustrating part in so many of these discussions. In the end it doesn't matter who is doing the censoring. Just oppose censorship - full stop. Censorship will always end up being used as a way to silence marginalized voices.

We warned legislators and regulators this would happen. We showed them data on consumer non-compliance and the surge in VPNs and pirate sites. They knew this would happen didn’t care.

If not for Chicago, we might not have Labor Day. Keep your eyes peeled on Monday for a much longer video where I dive into the history of unionization, violent strike suppression, and workers’ victories in Chicago, and how they impacted workers across the country.

Amid Stripe's confusing messaging about what they do and don't allow, Rascal talked to its own blog platform about reliance on the payment processor.

Policing and punishment don't solve homelessness – they make it worse.

We need to draw attention to a new, exploding type of household debt that only recently emerged: it's called rent debt—or "back rent debt," and it didn't really exist before COVID at all. It's getting little attention in housing discourse and media coverage. We'll explain it.

Perpelexity's offer for Chrome (and Chromium) is really just a reminder of how truly awful the browser ecosystem is right now.

Exactly right. They simply want the end product — whether it’s an actual production of art or music or the end result of hard work like a PhD — without doing the work. It’s cheat codes all the way down.

I think that one of the problems of LLMs is that the real world was never meant to be exposed to SaaS. Real people are not conditioned to be sold awkward, half-functional software that sucks unless you spend hours tweaking it, at which point it sort of works and you're meant to love it

A government-sanctioned "truth arbiter" will soon arrive at CBS. Their role will be to ensure that journalists do not criticize this Administration or express views that conflict with its agenda. This is a betrayal—not just of journalistic independence, but of the public trust. 🧵

Newsletter: In a media landscape dominated by algorithmic feeds that aim to manipulate and extract, sometimes the most radical thing you can do is choose to read what you want, when you want, without anyone watching over your shoulder. Here’s how to use RSS. www.citationneeded.news/curate-with-...

Just to "yes and" this point, it is useful to think of statements like these as being aimed at the market and investors rather than us proles. It is a message that says: keep pricing us like a growth stock and not like a shambling, stagnating zombie of a company!

Just a reminder that many people warned the UK government how this would go, and they insisted we were all exaggerating and then smeared us as not caring about kids.

Please stop trusting companies like Google and Microsoft with your content. For some, they may be impossible to decouple from completely, but never trust a corporation. Always assume they (and others) are spying on anything you store with them and that they will destroy your content on a whim.

Heeeey y’all 👋 We’re seeing a wild wave of signups this weekend (yay!)—but it’s also pushed us into a rate limit with our login provider. ​ Good news though! You can use this link to sign in as a workaround: write.ellipsus.com/api/auth/wor...

When pseudo-monopolistic payment processing companies and christofascist hatemongers fight a dozen web developers, we all lose. @itch.io folds under seemingly sudden pressure to deindex and delist countless explicit items on their digital platform, eroding yet another bastion for transgressive art

This paragraph by @edzitron.com is everything. www.wheresyoured.at/the-haters-g...

important context for headlines like this: Altman also runs a company (Worldcoin) that he claims will solve this problem he also created

I spent a whole day in a room full of privacy engineers talking about how they were trying to move their companies towards better practices and then I glanced at my phone, read this, and just let the wave of rage and despair wash over me: www.eff.org/deeplinks/20...

BREAKING: The Minnesota Supreme Court ruled the state's shield law protects journalists from being forced to reveal news-gathering materials, even when they are alleged to have trespassed while reporting. The case stems from the 2016 Dakota Access Pipeline protests. This is a win for press freedom.

The people I actually know, in real life, who listen to Joe Rogan and Tucker Carlson are 45 and think they're 22, which explains a lot of things.

rep @katiejonesmpls.bsky.social advocates for more housing for more cats and humans in her speech at the @wedge.live cat tour

A Muslim son of immigrants might become mayor of NYC in part because he cross endorsed and supported a Jewish candidate and Black candidate, and vice versa. It's a beautiful American story for the rest of us. A nightmare for all the right people ;) It's so New York.

A lot of great titles, here. In my opinion, Outgunned, alone, makes it worth the click (can't beat free). We played Outgunned on Alchemy RPG just last Saturday. There is a slight learning curve; but once you get the hang of it, it just flows.

Elon saying he’s going to reprogram his chatbot’s view of history is a perfect example of why these kinds of AI products aren’t the neutral “tools” people always defend them as. They’re little political projects reflecting the ideologies of their creators

Community And Choice Are Not Bubbles Disclosure: I am on the board of Bluesky and am inherently biased. Adjust your skepticism of what I write on this topic accordingly. It seems a bit odd: when something is supposedly dying or irrelevant, journalists can't stop writing about it. Consider the…

Sad news: We are canceling the Tomb Raider RPG project. Due to creative differences we couldn’t get our vision to gel with the licensor’s, so we've chosen to part ways. The stellar team designing this game put their hearts into making this an exciting, dynamic RPG of adventure and exploration. 1/2

Have you heard of Getting Word? It’s a collective of literary organizations dedicated to the cultivation and preservation of Black literature. This Juneteenth, you can support their mission to #fundblackliterature and shop their curated list on our site: bookshop.org/info/getting...