The biggest change we're seeing as we become a society of illiterates is a regression back to earlier modes of thinking.

US official making shit up on the fly because the entire federal government is run by fewer than 50 people, all of whom are fucking morons, enthralled to an old man who twice today referred to the islamic empire of japan

All with the veneer of some evaluation process instead of just doing earmarks in congress

Presidential pork is somehow worse than congressional pork in some ways.

one side's voters care about sexual assault and one side's voters don't and while I understand that "impossible to say whether this is good or bad" is the standard for the paper of record I think it's clear which side has the moral high ground here

Real respect to that kid getting honest 50s, that was me in structures engineering

The other thing is that many of MAGA’s fellow travelers are grifters themselves, so Trumps poor character is actually what they want as the embodiment of the US. My understanding of the progressive project is that it’s against grift.

These guys own APU/Citrus station. It’s a crow town.

To be clear, this guy is very, very wrong. But he’s just following inclusionary zoning to its logical conclusion: it would be great if we could downzone everything so we can trade upzoning it back up for affordability requirements (that is what he’s advocating for here, not leaving it downzoned).

Hm. The guys who hosted a Winter Olympics in Beijing (because the only other option they had was Almaty)?

One week into SB 79 taking effect, and there are already over 200 new homes proposed in Palo Alto across 5 buildings. The last year in which Palo Alto permitted more than 200 new apartments was 2007. www.paloaltoonline.com/palo-alto/20...

The speed with which the Koreans are chasing china and distancing themselves from the rest of the legacy automakers of the world is going to be the biggest automotive upset story this decade.

&everything in its war defense zone, believing no one could reach them.We’ve reached them Just yesterday,Ukrainian drones broke through Russia's defenses and struck a Russian oil refinery in Siberia…It's the new reality There’s no major oil refinery left in Russia that hasn’t been struck by Ukraine

President Zelenskyy: We have completely eliminated the very idea of Russia having a strategic rear. And you know this country. And for a long time, Russia believed it had a territorial advantage no one else possessed - a deep rear where it could safely keep military production, military equipment,

This is what, 3000 km from Ukraine? 👀

all this to say good urban bldgs are typically pretty plain w/ some simple tectonic expression & clean fenestration & for reasons that transcend understanding planners seem hell-bent on requiring architects to do the weirdest things

on a recent trip to Cincinnati I noticed this fine bldg in Covington: simple ground floor, two main façade planes w/ expressed piers, clean fenestration w/ simple sills, tripartite scheme w/ simple stringcoursing, & a grand but restrained cavetto cornice - would be cool if planners allowed this

An Afghan national who fought alongside U.S. forces has died from an allergic reaction while in ICE custody, one day after he was detained for deportation proceedings, his death certificate shows. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

Nothing against people taking a deserved victory lap on Platner but let’s also save some juice for the people who recruited the other candidate, who would have been older than McConnell is today by this point in her term.

Possibly the first SB79 project in existence is a proposal to turn an old motel on .38 acres of land near the California Avenue Caltrain Station in Palo Alto into a 76 apartments. 200 units per acre, on a parcel where housing was not previously allowed. We absolutely love to see it!

A very Mr Magoo thing in my life was my kids being just young enough to sail after the twin blows of the pandemic and “teaching kids to read and do math is structurally racist”.

Would guess that if Waymo knew this and didn’t take action they’d have liability for someone getting hurt, right?

can’t believe there were a bunch of negative stories about the guy with questionable character waiting to drop after the primary- who saw that one coming

You can give feedback on LA's proposed "Objective Design Standards" for HPOZs here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

there is a cohort of men who resent the responsibilities and obligations of adulthood — of the fact that you owe things to other people. it is a fundamentally childish impulse that they have reconfigured as the height of masculinity, and i think it informs the parasocial attraction to platner.

Articulation every 20’

You laugh, but I just hired the staff of every Los Angeles housing nonprofit to work at my investment firm and we're basically printing money on tax write-offs for our apartment portfolio that also has zero turnover or maintenance costs.

If you spend enough time in the housing policy world, you inevitably come across people who say that Americans simply don't want to live in apartments and that detached single family just reflects people's preference. Then, the very moment segregationist zoning is removed, this happens.

Mexico & Central America feel like they have cursed topography for trains, super mountainous and the capital cities are all in the mountains for obvious reasons (weather). But now I’m curious for a weighted ranking of countries based on how bad their topography is and how well they do with trains.

Wait! They did approve our proposal to further reduce parking mandates in the center of Mexicali 🥳 1 per 2 units; no requirements for units below 460 sqft.

Stop whatever you're doing and read @bryce.lol on Morgan Stanley's coverage of SpaceX: www.ft.com/content/09a6...

Cheer up, USA. One of your soccer teams has won 4 World Cups.

Of course had to go look up some other 100 MWh systems and the Finns have 100 MWh sand batteries which just heat up a bunch of sand and the use that for district heating. polarnightenergy.com/news/worlds-...

This is pretty cool and I always appreciate keeping it simple but it also seems like a massive project to achieve 100 MWh of storage. Poor gravity, weakest of forces.

Trump curse

Carney should be impeached for not having baited Trump into doing something stupid before the hockey finals and getting the US team cursed

I have never once wanted to “search inside image” That’s what I have eyes for Not once!!

Shit Midas strikes again

*taps sign* The government running party primary elections instead of letting parties pick their own nominees in the manner of their choosing is a weird American thing that eviscerates the fundamental purpose of political parties and it's bad, actually.

The prevailing discourse doesn't really allow for this narrative to emerge, but we shouldn't be surprised by it at all. Relatedly: even *pressure from demand from poor people* can cause rents to rise. High housing costs don't come from an influx of rich people alone.

Again, I hate that the One Special Boy has now also ruined the USMNT, like everything else he touches, & the only good way to salvage this awful situation is to sit Balogun & beat Belgium without him. A giant middle finger to both Trump & FIFA.

Extremely unenviable position: either he participates in the farce by acknowledging Trump’s intervention or he incurs Trump’s wrath for insufficient ass kissing.

When even scientists are shocked by extreme weather, the only conclusion to draw: we're in trouble. Must-read story by @eroston.bsky.social 🎁🔗 www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...

A reminder that the fascists surrounding the Black woman in DC in the top picture are the descendants of the fascists yelling at Elizabeth Eckford in Little Rock in the bottom picture. The past isn’t the past. It’s here and now.

Have come to see this as one of the hardest challenges of parenting: learning that it’s ok to try your best and fail sometimes, and to learn to take honest criticism but filter out and handle both sycophants and haters. And tbh if you are Zuck you probably exclusively get sycophancy and hate.

There's a part in the book "Careless People" where the author beats Zuck at Settlers of Catan, and he is absolutely wrecked by it. Someone pulls her aside to explain everyone else has been letting him win for years. I think about this a lot re: why tech bros think everyone will love AI chatbots.

issuing correction on a previous post of mine, regarding Donald Trump. you do not, under any circumstances, "gotta hand it to him"

This alone should be a decade-defining political scandal resulting in prison sentences.

We have Academy Museum, LACMA and Craft Contemporary memberships. So we pop in for half an hour or half a day whenever we are in the area. Whatever we are in the mood for, and is open. LA is a fantastic arts town. Fantastic sports town. Fantastic food town. LA is just fantastic period