Andrew Donnellan
@ajdlinux
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✝️🧦🇦🇺🇲🇾 | 🏗 housing+urbanism @GreaterCanberra | 🐧 powerpc @sthbrx | @[email protected] | @andrew.donnellan.id.au
Canberra, Ngunnawal Country
Joined January 2011
I am in Melbourne today, and was quite upset that the two Myki cards I could find were both expired, until I found my current unexpired Myki while packing at 3:30am on the floor behind a shelf. I blame the stupid 4 year myki expiry rule.
discovered i have $123.23 of credit sitting in my infinitely expanding pile of mykis i keep buying because i forgot to bring one with me
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vote 1 scoot.
As Mayor of Wellington, I will take on the curtain twitchers keeping the city stuck in the 1980s. Today, I officially launch my bid for the mayoralty with a fresh, no-nonsense vision to revitalise Wellington. Enough delay. Let's build.
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RT @MadocCairns: one of my favourite facts about ulster loyalism is that two of the nine national branches of the orange order are in West….
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stu is correct as usual.
Planning in Australia seems to be stuck in a bizarre ideological time warp where it thinks its fighting against "deregulation" when, in reality, people are just asking questions about what makes for *good* planning policy?. Now, planning policies can be motivated from various . .
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Plenty of excellent planners are working on delivering more homes, but we need to prioritise building homes over building homes but only if they're in "human scale" buildings with "adequate parking" that "maintain the character of the neighbourhood".
We all want more homes to tackle the housing crisis. That means resourcing strategic planning to simplify approvals, planning for infrastructure + jobs, & planning systems that work better - not simply deregulating. Planners are part of the solution, not the problem @AlanKohler.
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TIL: as of 1 July, all MRI machines at a Medicare-licensed MRI facility are now rebate-eligible, and in 2027 they're removing the MRI licensing requirement completely.
@gabster0191 I didn't do that this time, but I've had that on some x-rays and such before. (In the case of MRIs, you also run into the issue that not all MRI clinics are eligible for *any* Medicare rebate).
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Disappointed to learn this book isn't about the intersection between AI safety and YIMBYism
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RT @OwainEvans_UK: New paper & surprising result. LLMs transmit traits to other models via hidden signals in data. Datasets consisting only….
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RT @GreaterCanberra: We're thrilled to see that 72% of Canberrans who turned up to the pop-up consultation sessions support the Missing Mid….
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from my antipodean YIMBY point of view, approximately every time I see news about YIMBYism in the UK, I am further convinced not only that 1) the British planning system is cooked but 2) the British YIMBY movement is weird and dysfunctional too. change my view on 2)?.
🚨Big stuff. Founder of Labour YIMBY - Chris Worrall crosses the aisle. Chris is one of the most knowledgable, passionate housing activists I know. He gets it: business as a force for good; the power of free markets; controlled migration…. Welcome to the Conservative family.
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airports are beautiful *systems* to be explored and enjoyed.
something that the evil efficiency freaks on this place don't understand is that spending time at the airport is fun.
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> I wonder if AI agents will change that. have a feeling that many legacy systems won't adapt to this, and that this will create considerable risks.
Whenever I looked into having a personal assistant, it struck me how few of our existing structures support intermediate permissions. Either a person acts fully on your behalf and can basically defraud you, or they can't do anything useful. I wonder if AI agents will change that.
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RT @dvyukov: Love #syzkaller?. Our sibling team at Google is looking for #Linux Kernel Fuzzing & Hardening specialist in Zurich. If KASAN/U….
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@jonobri @pia_planning Plenty of great planners out there, including an increasing number who want to see bolder change along the lines of what @yimbymelbourne wants! The public debate on land use policy has shifted very quickly, and I hope professional bodies are open to being part of that debate.
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@jonobri @pia_planning (I know it doesn't always feel this way to technical staff operating within the pressures of a larger system, but they do have considerable power to shape the technical details of policy and set the direction of major policy initiatives - I've seen it happen.).
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@jonobri @pia_planning Obviously, there's many actors who shape planning systems, politicians are ultimately responsible for determining gov policy - but I've seen enough to know that many systemic changes are driven by statutory planners themselves (often @pia_planning members), not the politicians.
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@jonobri @pia_planning Something that stands out to me: some of the phrasing choices in this statement, perhaps unintentionally, suggest that planning systems come down from on high, and that the planning profession has to live with what has been handed down.
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