See also the California Association of Realtors

High school model UN me is dying inside but he was right.

Rather than this id say that under Trump & the current Republican Party the foreign policy consensus in the US is broken. Every country has internal problems too but we can’t have a global role if the priorities can change wildly every four years & it’s irresponsible for other countries to trust us.

Like pharma company executives, Las Vegas resort owners are squarely in the “business interests are being harmed by Donald Trump but I really want a tax cut” demographic. A classic principal-agent problem.

Earlier today @conorsen.bsky.social posted about how if past is prologue we’re going to see at least one $500b company get zeroed this cycle and I thought of the company planning to spend $1t on AI capex for a product that seems to have less of a moat than expected.

here’s the panoramic

Fossil fuel drilling, refining, and transportation already occupied huge amounts of land, as expertly documented by the photographer Edward Burtynsky. These land uses are much more destructive than solar panels!

Tell me your story lil soil horizon

The American Institute of Architects' Los Angeles government and public affairs director Will Wright makes a strong case for SB 79: "This landmark bill represents a crucial opportunity to align our housing policy with the vast, long-term investments we’ve already made in public transit."

In Los Angeles County… “64% support apartments on streets that primarily have single-family houses... 59% said yes to apartments in their own neighborhood.” LA County politicians are out of step w/ their own constituents. Time for @governor.ca.gov to sign SB 79! www.latimes.com/opinion/stor...

I love Ryan's writing about Greenland, the Faroe Islands, etc. because it totally rebukes the idea that you need to either be a hyber-capitalist hellscape or foment a full-on socialist revolution, and instead you can just...do good shit that works regardless of adherence to a particular dogma

They’re the biggest babies in the world

We built a ton of fiber infrastructure during the dot com boom and that was great. Maybe a “history doesn’t repeat but it rhymes” thing here with AI where we will get a lot of fiber and computing power that will cheap for future entrepreneurs to use. Unlike crypto which is a scam.

This seems wrong to me because there was a ton of infrastructure buildout in the dotcom boom. The difference seems to me that personal wealth is even more tied up in financial assets and they may be supporting a lot more consumption than in the past.

The article echoes what I’ve seen and heard from peers: AI makes it easy to produce slick but shallow work that looks plausible on the surface, yet riddled with errors or bad assumptions underneath. Your coworkers end up having to fix or redo it. It’s workslop, and it’s spreading fast.

@governor.ca.gov, sign SB 79! It applies to much less than a fifth of one percent of the area of the state, so if you hear anyone refer to it as "one size fits all" you know with certainty they're being disingenuous at best.

Elon Musk and the current generation of Silicon Valley leadership are so full of themselves and so desperate for validation that they failed to learn lesson one of corporate PR. Say what you want about Sheldon Adelson at least he knows he’s an unnerving creep and keeps himself out of the spotlight.

All of my friends who have had kids became 100 times more responsible and future oriented after having kids, some admittedly from a low baseline. I don't think you have to have kids to have these qualities, but having kids certainly seems to reliably inculcate them.

Nowhere in any writing on historic preservation is it ever stated what the actual harm would be if the buildings were not preserved. It’s just assumed, a priori, to be bad. Suppose all the homes in this neighborhood got replaced by apartment buildings. So what?

Something you see from investors as well as people frustrated about the cost of homes when it comes to the appropriate level of interest rates and recession risk is an unfounded view that in a recession, they'd be the ones to outperform/keep their jobs rather than be the bagholders/job losers.

Rural places are good too… just not where taxpayers have been asked to spend billions on transit infrastructure! Time for @governor.ca.gov @gavinnewsom.bsky.social to sign SB 79!

Maybe we should at least flesh out the idea 😊

What if Malibu but PCH was like Gangnam

HOLY SHIT Newsom appointed Jaime Lee to the Coastal Commission!

Also reinforces my priors that North American transit conferences are just political events where you won’t learn anything new technically - this is one of the biggest CPUC rulings in decades and I’m positive the majority of people working in transit in California don’t know about it.

This is incredible and I love it for two reasons… first it’s funny that it was left to San Bernardino County, of all places, to make the argument for level boarding, and second, SBCTA didn’t even ask for an exemption, they just told CPUC they were going to do it bc federal regulations preempt state.

Might not even have to kick the FRA tenants out!

A Line is really sort of a hybrid now - stop spacing and speeds east of Pasadena are more like commuter/regional rail. Sort of like Seoul Line 1. We badly need to speed up the Washington Blvd - Union Station section to make it useful… Meanwhile if you want a real dream for the Metrolink SB Line…

Take this (FWIW) from an American who has had to deal with years of "Buy American" in transit procurement: it has led to cost increases and long lead times that haven't really stimulated anything but a Potemkin economy of reassembling things built elsewhere.

Californians! We're not out of the woods yet! If you were excited about the legislature's historic passage of SB 79 last week, please take 30 seconds to call and email the governor requesting his signature. (And get five friends to do the same!) actionnetwork.org/letters/sign...

Governor Newsom has a historic opportunity to fix the policy roots of California's housing crisis. Sign SB 79! www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/...

Student housing for the University of California system pays for itself and the UC system is not bound by local zoning. There is no good reason not to build enough to accommodate every single student and staff member who wants it.

We could clean these schools out in a week if we wanted to…

What’s going on with Ioto (Iwo Jima)? The amount and rate of inflation is enormous. Probably the best (or worst, depending on how you look at it) contender for a truly disastrous volcanic eruption in our lives. www.volcanocafe.org/crisis-on-io...

Took the kids to McDonald’s in Pomona. This would easily be walkable if there were good sidewalks and SHADE!

Dead retail, vacant lots, and boarded up gas stations at the corner of Garey and Arrow near the new Pomona North A Line station. Time for @governor.ca.gov @gavinnewsom.bsky.social to sign SB 79 and sweep away the reactionary forces holding SoCal back.

This street outside the new Pomona North A Line station is dead - but @governor.ca.gov @gavinnewsom.bsky.social could fix that and fill it up with transit riders by signing SB 79!

If @governor.ca.gov @gavinnewsom.bsky.social signs SB 79 this mini storage across from the brand new La Verne A Line station might actually generate transit ridership!

Neil Young. Probably Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere, Rust Never Sleeps, or Freedom.

Not legal advice but your boss cannot give you a letter that makes it ok for you to break the law

The predictable outcome is that smart people are going to go to countries that don’t treat them like indentured servants. This is a disaster for US tech.

I always have to stop and remind myself that in the 80s Irvine would have been like 90% white right?

Late Night Infill Friday. I just learned about this YIGBY project, an LDS church with a large meetinghouse space plus 342 apartments in Crystal City.

I strongly agree with every single word of this. Public disorder is toxic to the pro urbanist political project and we must take it seriously.

Rick Cole talked about this in his interview with @awalkerinla.bsky.social and as he says it is 100% on democrats, who control every important institution at the state and local level in California. We could fix this and we choose not to.

There’s a real opportunity to expand UC and CSU if we want to. A lot of people at red state public universities would be very easy to poach.

It’s funny because it’s how he really feels and anyone who chooses to associate with him deserves him. It’s not funny because a lot of us didn’t get to choose.

This is one of those cases where I think Trump is genuinely funny in an inappropriate way.

This looks fantastic

Scott Wiener says LA City Council helped pass SB 79: "I think those five councilmembers being willing to stand up and oppose the resolution actually sent a shockwave through the assembly….and I will say Imelda Padilla definitely played her part."