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i know it's the age of immediacy and frictionless and what-have-you but *everything* takes longer to complete now than it did even two or three years ago. it's stunning.

Thursday is a paid holiday. Because Flavor Flav said so.

Forced full in-person work for email jobs is stupid. That would be what I say on the campaign trail.

the idea that a city's social services should be paid for one-by-one by these insane discretionary deals on a development-by-development basis is just madness. it's such a tremendous drain on the general prosperity in return for ???

i think cities should enable development according to impersonal rules and then levy impersonal taxes on land to pay for impersonal social services free_speech.png

I have YIMBY planner friends who swear up and down that these views are anything but hegemonic in planning but they’re not. The planning profession by-and-large believes the San Francisco model works. It’s near a consensus position.

In the absence of that, you'll see more things like operations to influence foreign elections, ordinary US citizens having opinions about what happens elsewhere (and vice versa) and other bad ways to deal with this. "Return to a world where there aren't global externalities" isn't on the table.

I just think Matt's wrong about this. We're at a point in our technological development where a ton of problems spill over national borders--if Flavio Bolsonaro burns down the Amazon, that will flood houses in Miami.

In his acceptance speech, Lula says he will work to regulate digital platforms in Brazil. “Digital crimes must be dealt with like real-life crimes.” This comes after Meta directly interfered with the Brazilian elections, favouring Flávio Bolsonaro.

Today I wrote about Abdul El Sayed's encounter with a Christian fascist named "Tommy," and the fine art of digging up the shameful things fascists bury under their accusations, exposing them for what they are, and then burying their lies in the hole left behind. www.the-reframe.com/taking-our-c...

they're calling it the quickest "i ain't readin' all that" of all time

Point earned in San Diego 🫡

The ugly truth about Israeli election is that the real problem is not Netanyahu. It's that Israeli society has moved to far right. Increasingly Israelis want Christians and Muslims removed from Israel, West Bank & Gaza so it's ALL Jewish only. My interview of Israeli journalist youtu.be/wyw0golywek

Anyone who doesn't vote for this man in Detroit is *not* a Democrat in any reliable election. They play-act as one for attention.

🧵 There's a very unfortunate tendency of some very loyal Democrats to misapply "Murc's Law." For those who don't know of it, Murc's Law is the concept that the mainstream media acts as if only Democrats have agency in politics, and that Republican can't choose to act more rightfully.

The fact that there’s a town in Massachusetts that would rather drink its own sh** than let more people move in tells you everything you need to know about the exclusionary attitudes that created our housing crisis.

"We are not losing our young people because of the weather. We are losing them because of zoning." www.bostonglobe.com/2026/10/24/o...

a great reminder that Matt Yglesias is wrong about everything and you really shouldn't listen to him on anything. like, he's the very embodiment of everything people hate about liberals.

A helpfully clear exchange here Hasan: "So your argument is that [Minnesota ICE protesters] should stay at home because immigration is a salient issue for Donald Trump. Opposing ICE is only going to help Trump. Wait until we win the election in 2028." Yglesias: "Yes that is what I would have said"

It turns out that choosing the lesser of two evils is, in fact, a moral imperative. And some folks want to wait for the Revolutionary Perfect, but I would equally challenge them to demonstrate a single time where a 'start from nothing, year-0' revolution has turned out well for most people.

To-do list for SD Mayor Pete and DSD Uncle Frank (and the transition team): - at 1201 rip down the stupid fucking sign, regardless of whether Congress has officially changed the name (not looking good for the 27 NDAA lol) - at 1202 issue orders to rename all the confederate bases back*

Courage credit to the Massachusetts legislature for nixxing the pointless gas tax holiday proposed by @massgovernor.bsky.social. Stunts like that don't help struggling folks. That $ funds way more useful things that would have suffered needlessly. And environmentally it's just foolish.

Really instructive to see, day after day, the public deserting Trump, and elites—tech, corporate, legal, media, think-tank— hanging in there, rationalizing, excusing, and enabling away.

crypto, car dealerships and MLMs. ripe targets for political and policy reasons.

Actually idiotic @apnews.com

your strategy of actually solving the issue pales in comparison to my strategy of having meetings about it. fuck you!

School vouchers are just white republicans admitting they’d rather destroy the entire education system than let their baby sit next to a black child.

Canada is leaving Starlink and will ban it in Canada “ASAP.” Not “reviewing,” not “studying options,” not “monitoring the situation.” Canada understands the danger of Elon’s partnership with Trump and Putin “deeply,” according to one

Ted Cruz is getting absolutely destroyed in the comments, but I'd like reporters to ask Ted Cruz if he's ever disavowed Christian terrorists like Eric Robert Rudolph, Robert Dear, Tim McVeigh.

Bluesky today reminding me that there are a lot of homeowners out there who consider themselves diehard progressives but will turn into Grover Norquist the second you suggest that taxing the wealth held in their homes is fine and good.

One would be good and the other would be bad because one cause is good and the other is bad. We are not in the realm of procedural justice concerns anymore, liberalism is not obligated to be neutral on the question of its own existence.

An incredible story out of my office I have to share - We stepped in and secured thousands of dollars in withheld wages for the family of an immigrant worker who was detained by ICE. Now that money will go directly to supporting his family. These are the stories that make me proud to be your AG.

These morons just can't accept that being around different people at a college is the biggest factor. Hard to be racist when you see whatever type enjoying and doing the exact same thing as you, and going through the same troubles. Hard to 'other' someone terrified of the same test as you.

I think the real finding from surveys like this is that a lot of self-pitying rich people don't know what "paycheck to paycheck" means. If you are spending hundreds of thousands of dollars annually on voluntary expenditures like prep school tuition, you don't count. finance.yahoo.com/economy/arti...

New Doughboys Thursday! Stavros Halkias (Uncle Stav) joins the 'boys to talk The Odyssey, vampire lore, and sushi before a review of STK. Plus, a horror movie edition of Frank Check. headgum.com/doughboys/drac-dough-ber-fang-stk-with-stavros-halkias

GOOD NEWS! 🦏 Kenya’s black rhino population has increased to 1,147. This is an 8% increase to the population in just one year. It’s an encouraging step that brings Kenya closer to its goal of 2,000 black rhinos by 2037.

🧵🧵🧵 The NY Times posted a 15-minute video today in which I got to tell NYT what’s wrong with its coverage. They said they saw my critical posts on Bluesky and invited me to do a video with them to air my grievances. Weird, right? I didn’t hold back. I blasted their sanewashing of MAGA extremism.

"Faculty must maintain strict political neutrality at all times. Otherwise, we just risk becoming yet another frontline in the culture wars. We cannot pose yet another existential threat to the prevailing political order by discussing historical facts." buff.ly/hjUfwPr

Crazy idea: Democrats should defend immigration and immigrants, run on the idea that immigrants make America great, and stop Homer Simpsoning themselves into the shrubbery every time Republicans try to demagogue it.

Correct, nobody does this because that would obviously be fucking stupid

Just gonna repost this: You can’t “prove” anything isn’t conscious — a plant, a rock, your iPhone — but even without deeply understanding the nature of consciousness, we can say there’s no good reason to expect it to correlate with what LLMs are good at. juliansanchez.substack.com/p/dont-fall-...

You can throw a dart at a map and wherever it lands, there is someone out there who thinks the only thing holding that place back from greatness is an insufficient amount of free parking. And that someone is probably a small business owner.

Lots of district office hours coming up! - This Thursday 10/15, 4pm, @ Namu Distillery in Mission Hill with Councilor Durkan - This Friday 10/16, 1pm, @ Roche Bros in West Roxbury - Next Friday 10/23, 1pm, @ Evergreen in JP

I left x despite having a large following bc I don’t want to make free content for the world’s wealthiest racist. It’s not worth it to me.

Look, I'm not trying to be unsympathetic to the politicians in the article. But non-pols get these threats daily. Woman got doxxed and their kids threatened for disclosing they were harassed by a serial predator. I got an artisanal hand-written death threat mailed to my apartment. Deal with it.