Boomers failed to do either of 1) build houses or 2) crash the economy, so now this junk is happening again. Houses are going for 60% over asking in all-cash deals.

Literally the next sentence in the article that this misleading skeet fails to link to says that data center construction rose to 2% of the construction economy. The reason these lines are crossing is that America doesn't spend enough on public transportation, not that it spends to much on IT.

I can't wait for this election to be over, but this is a really funny last post on the subject.

SF is the only major CA city where residents can appeal housing projects over shadows. A supervisor's proposed SHADE Act would end that, citing 2,195 homes delayed over the past decade by shadow-based CEQA appeals. www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/h...

Other economic sectors that are larger than capital spending in public transportation include: - retail logistics - fossil energy drilling and mining - luxury dog toys - bottled water - video game hats It's not a useful benchmark.

3. AB 2168 modifies the Active Transportation Program (the state’s primary funding source for bike/ped infrastructure) to include transit access as priority. Other changes include measures to encourage timely use of awarded dollars, so these projects are completed without delay.

A few things I learned on my bike share trip in San Jose: - apparently I've never been there - e bikes are free, sometimes - gmaps directions are not my route - Coyote Creek Trail doesn't connect to BART in any sane way

While one is gliding along in silent luxury on the perfectly straight and smooth BART Silicon Valley Extension, it is possible to entertain the idea that you may be on a real railroad.

Apparently this is what was happening to my instagram account yesterday. Incredible fail. www.0xsid.com/blog/meta-ac...

Wish more young people like me voted! Some folks from high school stopped following me because I was “getting political.” They said “I don’t do politics.”🤦🏻‍♂️ I haven’t missed an election since I turned 18! Love exercising my right to vote, even if the candidate I voted for doesn’t end up winning. 🗳️

The main guy who is representing the coalition against MTB trail improvements in Tilden Park has been arrested several times for attacking bicyclists and was in court almost continuously from 2011 to the present day. Beware.

It's actually pretty annoying to me that people are willing to try to break into my IG account to steal my 3-letter username. Get a life.

Reasons why you can't change your Instagram password: CORS Does anyone even work there?

Tower crane being erected on Fulton Street in Berkeley, as seen from University Avenue. Eventually will be 26 stories.

This paper has a pretty shocking conclusion. Every ICE arrest in "surge" cities cost 30 local jobs. www.brookings.edu/articles/ice...

BRB rating myself on a scale of need for chaos

From earlier this year. I'm glad to see this discusses the repeat sales method and the methodological problem caused by mix shift. www.stlouisfed.org/on-the-econo...

I turned on NPR briefly this morning and in the ten seconds the radio was on they were talking about how Joe Biden didn't speak well in 2024. NPR is diseased and it can't go bankrupt soon enough. Having a handful of skilled and well-meaning reporters doesn't redeem the organization, which is broken.

PPIC survey likes Becerra. www.ppic.org/publication/...

I'm not mad that they turned them off, but I do miss the WhisperNet Kindle. It sucks if you take your Kindle out in the field without remembering to sync it.

Berkeley bike infrastructure lifecycle.

I saw a pair of these in flight at the Berkeley shoreline yesterday. New bird to me: Black Oystercatcher. Apparently they are pretty uncommon, but not endangered.

Wow below 1% RHNA

LMAO

Bored. How hard is it to get into the rammed earth construction business.

It is with deep sorrow and profound love that we announce the passing of Sonny Rollins. The Saxophone Colossus died this afternoon at his home in Woodstock, NY at the age of 95. 1/2

The Google/Android feature that listens to your phone calls and hangs up if it's obviously a scam must be great for feeble-minded old people, but I actually hate that it hangs up right when I'm getting to the juiciest part of a really great insult.

The narrative replies in here are very interesting. You can see this result could have an impact on this field of math similar to that of AlphaGo on high-level go players. In that case, they immediately discarded their ancient dogma, realizing a significant, durable improvement of the human game.

Most people answered Texas to this pop quiz because reporters have been pushing a narrative that Texas is "red-green", the MAGA state with windmills, which has a kernel of truth but the reality is that Texas survives on gas and their gas consumption is accelerating to new record highs every year.

Neither of these new polls makes a shutout seem likely.

I would vote for a Logan’s Run law in Seattle, even if the age cutoff took me along with these weirdos.

if you came to Bluesky to complain about Seattle bike infrastructure, I hope you have a really bad time.

The miracle of zoning: the white people live upwind from the exploding Orange County chemical tanks in the center of the map, and the other people live downwind of it. What a coincidence.

The bad news was that my preferred CX tire got discontinued. The good news was that on clearance they are $10.

This is a funny thing to say because it is the tendency of the wordcels to say "artificial intelligence" while within the industry there is normally a better term applied, "machine learning" being very common.

It was obvious for years that the camera shop was toast. But it's still a bummer when they finally go out of business. If I recall correctly, the last thing I bought here was a dozen rolls of Delta 100.

Let me just point out that The Sopranos came out in 1999, and is set in 1996, when economic sentiment was at its highest ever. I think the very first sentence of the series is that many Americans feel the best is over.

Despite the insulting parking at the destination, it seems that putting on your suit and riding your big Dutch-style bike back and forth from Berkeley to Hayward is an efficient way to get a lot of compliments from strangers.

No wonder I had to come out of retirement! The FDNY doesn't care that one of its firefighters is driving around in a 4,000-pound truck with an obscured plate and a long record of reckless driving. #CriminalMischief

Alameda County Hall of Justice bike parking: F- (Pretty low marks on the whole "justice" thing as well)

Housing market in Berkeley is crazy right now. This 1924 piece of junk without significant updates went for almost double the asking price.

Although I use my bike for at least 90% of my trips, I am also the only person in America who knows how to drive and park a car. This combination strikes me as odd.

This monstrosity has a physical manifestation

Two ways to maintain street trees would be: 1) Send two dozen tree people and a truck to do the whole block in an hour; or 2) Send one guy who uses his chainsaw continuously for two weeks while everyone is trying to think. Guess which one I favor.

Here's some incredible malpractice from academics. After 23 pages of environmental justice jargon, they skim over the only relevant conclusion of their study: there are no large data centers in California. www.next10.org/sites/defaul...

“What aesthetic is this?” My newest It's Nice That column is about visual trends, the rise of taxonomic warfare, and what gets flattened when culture becomes searchable infrastructure 🏷️ www.itsnicethat.com/articles/eli...

It's interesting to me that CarMax never got to this point. Carvana is just doing things that CarMax could have dreamed up years ago.

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Among the endless reasons I have to hate online NIMBYs: being compelled to defend Robert Moses.