IZ is the equivalent to a tax on water production during a drought. I’ve personally seen it kill multiple buildings in my neighborhood. Judging from results, IZ is a tool for reducing housing production. If the government wants the private market to provide something, it should pay for it.

In 1989 S.F. voted in a %.5 sales tax to extend Muni Metro to Bayview, a Central Subway all the way north, and out Geary. So far only one of those is complete. During the same 36-year timeline, L.A. built its entire metro rail system.

This is incredible

Matt Mahan is pro Prop 13. Instant DQ.

FFS. Makes Charlie Brown look like an NFL star.

Well that was some shaking!

Cars, and the whole auto industrial complex, are a vast right wing funding machine. Imo more electeds should think about that when they vote for more highway widenings.

We need to stop prioritizing parking lots over people. Today, I assembled a roundtable to discuss our Building Up Illinois Developments Plan — and the consensus was that we need to act fast. Looking forward to passing it and getting to work in our neighborhoods.

even under extremely generous assumptions, the “AI is drinking all the water” thing is empirically fake. (infographic from @andymasley.bsky.social )

Can we get a democrat who spouts the benefits of taxation. Imagine a California even more reliant on billionaires. No thank you.

it is my life’s mission to find the guy who’s pitching “no income taxes below [seemingly upper-middle-class threshold]” to big Dems electeds and hit him with a whiffle bat until he stops doing that

This is monstrously fucked up and should be Streisand Effected to the greatest degree possible

We are being led by a man who has the consistency and mental acuity of GPT 3.5

We can’t clean up Washington without restoring integrity to the Supreme Court. That’s why I believe we should expand the Supreme Court to 13 justices. And then, institute term limits. Because an appointment to the Supreme Court shouldn’t mean a lifetime lack of accountability.

So we’re doing assassinations now? This doesn’t seem like good precedent

There’s a lot of uncertainty right now, but I can confidently predict that the FIFA Peace Prize committee will never recover from this.

Pretty impressed with Anthropic today. Less so by their competition.

So I had Claude analyze if there was a statistically significant correlation between the day an app was submitted and review times, and the results are somewhat interesting. Ship on Sunday or Wednesday for the best results.

every tool in my stack that requires manual intervention to paper over an API gap is friction that compounds. make things seamless. I'm increasingly willing to swap out dependencies that don't support agentic workflows in favour ones that do.

We’re back, baby!

The reason no one can explain how this works is because it is pure snake oil.

I’m pretty confident in calling this fake. The user who posted it seems to be part of a substantial network of accounts with similar usernames all posting and commenting on each other’s content. Ironically it’s a great example of an AI agent making stuff up to tell you what you want to hear

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Not who you would expect

As the chief appropriator for Democrats, how will Senator Murray vote for the DHS bill? She touted the new money for body cameras and training last week. DeLauro voted against the bill. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

Does anyone else find it completely hypocritical that the US is threatening to “intervene” in Iran if they shoot protesters, while they’re over here SHOOTING PROTESTERS??

great thread full of stuff, i learned lots

if you cycle in america, you are literally braver than the troops

Gotta shorten this

Trump and his cronies can try to dress this up, but it is an illegal act of war to replace Maduro and grab Venezuela's oil for his billionaire buddies. Full statement below:

Amid everything with Venezuela & Maduro and the Trump Regime's various justifications for its extrajudicial & anti-constitutional actions, a quick reminder that - just one month ago - Trump PARDONED former Honduras President Juan Orlando Hernández for his... wait for it... cocaine trafficking.

Do we think Mike Johnson has heard that his president started an unprovoked war without authorization and kidnapped a foreign head of state?

Caltrain with the rare elasticity of 1 for weekend service www.caltrain.com/media/35885

Claude reviewing Claude

Zohran is going to kill the “YIMBYs and leftists are mortal enemies” idea and that alone will make the internet 23% less annoying to me personally. Big accomplishment.

The way folk on Nextdoor can be sad about the construction of a large building on the other side of town will never cease to amaze me.

I was wondering what Mamdani's first executive order would be, and I'm not disappointed by this. He has wiped off the books EVERY Eric Adams executive order issued on or after September 26, 2024, the day Adams was indicted on federal bribery charges.

So artists must perform for everyone, but public servants can opt out of providing services based on their own bigotry? Make it make sense!

Will Stancil will not stop posting until nobody is wrong on the internet.

Mamdani has appointed Lillian Bonsignore, previously Chief of EMS Operations, as commissioner of FDNY (the agency has a serious inequity in EMS vs. fire pay and staffing levels – the vast majority of the agency’s calls are EMS, while fire dominates staffing and pay) abc7ny.com/post/mayor-e...

The top is after Trump’s DOJ redactions below is without, I can almost figure out who they are protecting

my favorite past time when talking to much younger men is to give them advice on wooing women that is really just care and feeding instructions for iguanas

Modern #roundabouts, like this one, are unfazed by power outages. America needs more roundabouts and fewer signals.

Interesting tidbit: the maximum number of individuals you can have on an FHA-backed mortgage is eight. (An RE agent friend found that out while working with a nine-person polycule)

PG&E sending billing notices to San Franciscans tonight of all nights is quite the move.

This administration absolutely despises children

The collective delusion here is useful in that it has provoked conservatives to dispense with decades of bootstrap rhetoric and reveal what they would say if they thought black people were people, that is to say, if these things were happening to them

The folk who think a right to housing solves anything are the same people who believe that we can use solve homelessness by relocating unhoused folk into homes that are being shown for sale.

This is intolerable behavior from law enforcement no matter who they are arresting. These officers need to see the inside of a prison cell.