We need a word for “government rule by groupchat” because that’s where we are at this point.

Benoit Blanc has done it again. Incredible.

I was at stay away camp at 12 y/o that went up to 14 y/o kids. Every morning the counselors would sing songs with all the campers and one day the 14 year olds decided they weren’t singing. A counselor noticed this and called out “If you were too cool for this, you wouldn’t be here”

Friction is good and one of the most consequential tasks facing the designers and managers of social-technical systems in the 21st century is putting it back in in the right ways and right places.

The market has spoken: Our aging, sundowning society doesn’t feel safe buying anything smaller than the Ford F1 Toddler Crusher.

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I think maybe we are all overindexing on the meaning of survey results.

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“Why are people so bearish if growth seems good?” Job market is meh, housing is too expensive and interest rates are higher than they’ve been in decades. Does not seem like that big of a mystery to me.

The full spiked 60 Minutes CECOT package, clean & subtitled. 1/5

Great interview and it’s worth reading Yakov’s book! IMO the story of failed attempts to reform the Soviet Economy has a lot of lessons for YIMBY/Urbanist reformers. Specifically the limits of elite persuasion.

What people say when they shout about “More empty homes than homeless people” what they’re actually saying is “Well there are perfectly good trap houses for people to squat in!”

He's a YIMBY abundance guy

Do not forget that the Central Valley goes all the way up to Redding. Never let them take this away from you.

This is completely ridiculous. The state legislature is *full* of landlords and yet they’re apparently allowed to vote on tenant protection bills all the time.

Remember the Harper’s Letter? Lol Everyone who signed that shit was a malevolent dumbass.

How delusional is Rahm Emmanuel that he apparently thinks there is a path for him to the presidency.

"cite your sources" is not just an externally-imposed mandate but a personal discipline on thought itself. "cite your sources" is how you keep yourself in contact with reality. "cite your sources" is how you keep yourself from shadowboxing your own imagination."

Thinking about that tweet that’s like “Black Country, New Road is like the Wiggles for ex boyfriends”

Who up making friend-enemy distinctions rn

i cannot escape the sense that what these people are fundamentally opposed to is political leadership

Popularist data boys doing legislative analysis: “Erm, you only passed your bill with 21 votes in the Senate. If you were savvy you would have taken a bunch of poison pill amendments to get to 30 votes”

I don’t like moderates but understand them to be a necessary evil. I hate Vichy senators like Sinema and Fetterman more than republicans though.

>Keep it in the ground is an outcome not a strategy I feel like you see this sort of rhetoric a lot in left of center discourse. I’d argue that emphasis on “Housing as a human right” also misattributes an outcome or a principle with a strategy.

My family is “heritage American” I have a grandfather that was an officer in Washington’s army and my dad’s side is from where Vance grew up. Every time I hear the term I seethe because the Scot’s Irish experience is genuinely interesting but now it’s a prop to engender a tyrannical politics.

French hotel with prefab bathroom pods, common in Euro hotels and other repetitive typologies. Great example of off-site construction as a spectrum: advanced forms (panelization, volumetric modular) come from all-around regulatory hygiene, not pro-modular policy in an otherwise crap code environment

Antipope found dead in Miami

Proportional representation has the added benefit of ensuring Nazis don’t get to control the government just because they control the plurality of one major political party. One could easily imagine RN or AFD already in government if France or Germany had our electoral system.

Does this stuff not feel like a threat to anyone else? Lol “The ascendant fascist youth are really in a tizzy about whether or not me and my Cool Friends get high status jobs at national outlets. You better give me and my Cool Friends jobs if you know what’s good for you”

They’re sentencing me to death today (going to Florida)

A big draw for electeds to the YIMBY platform that it’s free imo. Like every other policy intervention for every issue under the sun costs money. But we fucked our cities so thoroughly, left so much money in the table, the fact you can make serious headway on a big issue for free is enticing!

🚨 🚨 🚨 “Today’s decision effectively puts an end to [Huntington Beach’s] policy of blocking affordable housing for its residents.”

All the best Christmas movies are huge bummers

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hey guys, I really hate doing this , but unfortunately i got melted by a beam recently and am looking for donations to help reconstitute my body. because im just an easily lootable pile of goo I’ve lost almost everything

Some of these redactions are almost like modern art

keep fighting

There have been discussions for years about the necessity to “build a YIMBY policy bench” as housing policy has long been dominated by advocate attorneys with solely focused on deed restricted affordable housing and tenant protections. I think we are starting to see this bench emerge in a big way.

One big takeaway from Mamdani bringing YIMBYs into his transition is that advocates can often gain a lot of power by 1.) having useful answers to questions and accurate information 2.) being reasonably polite and pleasant to elected officials 3.) understanding the actual mechanics of government

Europeans in the 30’s had centuries of pogroms and state mandated segregation to socialize them to antisemetic conspiracism but it took the internet like 10 years to socialize a generation of republicans to this.

Every other third grader in California is named like “Connor Sanchez” or some shit and right wingers want you to believe Hispanic immigrants don’t assimilate into American culture.

Two weeks ago, a very dear friend of my parents was killed while cycling by an SUV driver who turned left into him without looking. The CHP officer tried to protect his killer by bizarrely claiming *he* had been at fault. Even when presented with VIDEO evidence, CHP appears to be doubling down.

There’s a woman on tiktok who apparently used to be friends with Elliot Smith and has a bunch of unreleased bootleg recordings of his live shows so she’ll just throw stuff on her hi fi system. It actually fucking kills me. What do you mean he did a live cover of “Harvest Moon” and I can’t own it?

My take on the apps is 1. Women mostly don’t find static images of dudes attractive. It’s almost impossible to sell yourself on these things unless you’re clever and have good photos 2. The anonymity of it all encourages anti social behavior among men who get dates, making women even more cautious.

It’s been said that love will call when you've got enough under your arms I’ve also heard that love will make you fit it all in the car.

and tiny tim, who was NOT in the epstein files,