god help us

the astroturfed objections to datacenters involving fake water usage and fake power bill increases planted in major publications make the ai infra buildout a bipartisan punching bag in the midterms. this is a deliberate attempt by foreign adversaries to subvert american ai.

We noticed a worrisome quirk in Zipline’s data. We’ve been setting all-time highs week after week: delivering record amounts of animal health, blood, medicines, and vaccines....Except one critical use case that’s been shrinking. 1/n

This thanksgiving I am thankful for being American. One side of our society treats empathy like it is a universal coupon code, handing it out even when it subsidizes bad incentives. So you get soft focus immigration takes and “let us heal the criminal’s inner child before we deal

We are on the cusp of a profound change in the field of mathematics. Vibe proving is here. Aristotle from @HarmonicMath just proved Erdos Problem #124 in @leanprover, all by itself. This problem has been open for nearly 30 years since conjectured in the paper “Complete sequences

Why are many U.S. cities building less? Why have they insisted on a "thicket" of regulations that make housing hard to build? In a new #jobmarketpaper with @beau_bressler , I study how much of the answer lies with a forgotten federal program that taught cities to restrict growth

NEW: One of LA’s biggest homeless service providers has been awarded over $100 million in taxpayer funds while failing to comply with federal audit mandates, according to an LAist review The audits also show multiple failures to properly account for money https://t.co/fYxhW35swz

The idea that Washington would someday: build 47,000 miles of Interstate, fund suburban arterials, create national gas tax flows, support transit operations, back flood insurance, bail out the sprawling infrastructure demands of local zoning … was ideologically unthinkable to

Today marks an incredible milestone as Ukraine becomes the first European country to make @Starlink Direct to Cell available to customers!! The satellite-to-mobile service is powering life-saving connectivity when and where people need it most - during prolonged blackouts or in

The UK is such a broken nimby country that they spend 280k to save a single fish Self-sabotage elevated to Monty Pythonesque art

Fun fact. The US has grown nearly 1% a year since 1970 from 203 million to 330 million. How much has your city or town grown over the same period?

Why Americans must drive. 1. Geometry dictates behavior. Sprawl forces miles. 2. You must drive because the network assumes you’re driving. 3. Fewer trips can be done on foot or bike, more driving and longer miles. 4. Weak land use + weak transit mandates car dependence by

Here's an interview I did with Statecraft on "Why we *don't* build Apartments for Families" I don't think you can come up with a solution for a system until you understand how and why it works. I've spent my entire career in real estate, from a small local developer, to

theory that the reason these miterrand era france reels are so popular is that china is setting standards now and more people are wondering why they ever privileged free markets and financialization so much over having a competitive high modernist engineering state

Anti-housing legal nonprofits get the vast majority of their budget from governments, not foundations. ULA will turbocharge left-NIMBY advocacy in LA.

Kids, families, pedestrians, bikes, trains — 5 indicator species of a good urban neighbourhood. #Vancouver #beautifulday #CanadaDayWeekend

👀 Since 2018, 15 major foundations have donated "$260 million ... to nonprofits across California that have actively opposed pro-housing legislation" Link to story bh @resnikoff in next tweet. Hoping the report on which is based will be publicly released. 1/2

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LA Mayor race: Beutner = mgmt/efficiency of the city/spending, more housing supply, focus on city costs to landlords. Huang = democratic socialist, stronger tenant protections & social housing, higher fees on owners. Guess who's going to make renting more unaffordable.

Does anyone other than Mayor Bass think the homelessness emergency is over? She’s spent $6mil+ of taxpayer money on lawyers fighting efforts by Federal Judge/City Controller to find out where billions have gone. It’s time the Mayor starts sharing the truth.