Jason Damas

reminder that this is a totally made-up, invented story. obama's joke was not remotely interesting or controversial — they saw an opportunity to lie about what he said in a way they think advantages them and ran with it.

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So that’s why it never opened

Size matters & Massachusetts large, nearly Nation leading, minimum lot size requirements are driving up home prices & restricting supply. I plotted 5 years of single-family home sales in Wellesley, Newton & Swampscott by lot size, with the same pattern playing out in each.

OK so I read the Lindsay Graham allegations and my first question is WHY did John McCain have what sounds like a sex dungeon in his Sedona home and do we really believe that

Nearly a decade ago, in a moment of almost cinematic ominous foreshadowing, I was visiting my dad while my stepmother was in the next room watching Ben Shapiro videos on full blast. You can guess what came next.

My most personal essay yet. Creative people need slack - time and space to try things and fail for a while. LA used to be cheap enough to give us that, but no more. All the tax credits and other efforts to save Hollywood will be for naught if there are no creative people left here to hire.

musk is a state-level enemy actor and needs to be treated like that from day 1 in the next administration

The social harms of sports betting vastly outweigh its benefits. It should be much harder to access and we should have strict limits on how much sportsbooks can take from any one bettor each year.

remember when people had cubicles (luxury) as opposed to this?

I consider myself a fairly compassionate & empathetic person, but the more I read about people in this particular demographic -- wealthy Gen X white men radicalized by social media & group chats -- the more I loathe them. I understand them *too well* to sympathize. They are contemptible & weak.

I used to run a silly little blog about dead malls with my friend and some of the commenters would accuse us of being corporate fat cats because we had our own web domain. we still joke about this corporate office tower we supposedly had so we could post low res pics of jcpenney locations

Shocked at how many diehard Karen Bass fans are over on the Threads app

Hard not to notice that Democrats who are doing the best are the ones who are leaving this whole civility-and-norms, we-go-high, we-need-a-strong-Republican-Party bullshit behind and are simply giving Republicans exactly what they all ought to get at all times, which is undisguised contempt.

I don’t think Karen Bass was ever very interested in being mayor of Los Angeles or had any intellectual curiosity about the problems the city is facing.

Peak New England

This commercial for French's Mustard from 1987 is equal parts charming and also kinda unsettling, but what strikes me is the work that went into the absolutely delightful puppetry and practical effects for a *mustard commercial*!! Imagine that today??

Going on record to say that for any company in America given the choice between 1. AI productivity gains mean our 10,000 employees can work 4 days a week. 2. AI productivity gains mean we can layoff 2,000 employees and have 8,000 people work 5 days a week. None will choose option (1).

the reason “AI will create so much abundance we will have a utopian society” rhetoric falls so flat is that the people building it will never, ever share their bounty unless it is taken from them and we all know it

This is a wildly under appreciated point: social security taxes cap out at a very low rate, meaning low and middle income earners pay much more into the system than the highest earners. If SS taxed all income, most of its problems would go away

"Weeds" had a very steep drop-off -- Basically anything after they left Agrestic is rough, but it falls off a cliff after they leave Del Mar

Holy shit.

Again, you can always detect some faint embarrassment from Democrats when they talk about the ballroom, but “the president demolished a big part of the White House to build himself a palace with bribes from enemy powers” is, by an order of magnitude, the worst corruption scandal in US history

You could explain existentialism to somebody, or you could just have them walk into a CVS where “more than this“ by Roxy Music is playing 

An obvious villain who isn’t vilified nearly enough by the opposition or the press and this is what happens.

Please stop calling me on my phone that's not what it's for

"San Franciscans are just a vote away from sending the state’s most relentless and effective legislator to Washington to zero in on universal healthcare, humane immigration policies, protections for the LGBTQ community and preserving democracy from President Donald Trump."

Canada is maybe the best country. I love Canada so much that when I listen to Sloan I don’t even skip the drummer’s songs.

Here is Beshear's complete answer. He's in charge of a state that went for Trump by 31 pts. No one goes under the bus.

NEW from me: Over the last 4 years, America has lost more than 200k jobs in creative fields like publishing, film, TV, or graphic design. It's the worst stretch for arts jobs outside of recessions. How much is AI to blame? And can the arts' business model survive?🧵 www.apricitas.io/p/ai-and-the...

Absolutely scorching endorsement, bringing serious heat for Weiner and against Chan, but a blast furnace at Pelosi for her role in this race and her true reasons for it. Never read an editorial this heated in Chron www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/edit...

That's the kind of special interest rabbit hole I really love. Something more obvious catches your interest (the strip) and somehow your love for it takes you on increasingly niche adventures (historical societies, local arts) until you find yourself at a Mexican rockabilly party in parking lot.

New playlist THE BEST OF ADULT CONTEMPORARY 1987-1992 Sincere, mature, and dramatic songs about love A nearly extinct style of music, people are too cynical now 💝 Spotify: open.spotify.com/playlist/5S5... ❤️ Apple: music.apple.com/us/playlist/... ❤️‍🩹 YouTube: www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

Astounding to me any rock critic ever thought this album was bad. We could've had at least another decade of stuff like this if they didn't fuck with Rivers' head by hunting around for a single. Anyways it's not possible to find a riskier guitar solo on a pop record than the one in The Good Life.

Happy 30th to Pinkerton www.welcometohellworld.com/the-world-ha...

every time i see tom cotton i think about the fact that he just buys grocery store birthday cakes to eat as a snack. for most people this would be charming. not for this dude.

There is something so unbelievably bleak about an article that calmly walks readers through how to navigate being laid off after 50, losing your health insurance, and somehow surviving the years until Medicare. What a broken country.

yeah the 'main' antagonist (Sean Penn/Christmas adventurers) are kinda a bizarre cartoon characters but all the secondary ones (all the paramilitary agents) that he leads are played straight and serious as a heart attack and it really balances out very well.

"Weird" was OK, but I really wish someone would call Republican voters what they are: Suckers. These are dumb rubes who fall for the wallet inspector routine over and over again. They spend their last pennies on magic beans because are in the constant thrall of some grifter. Be meaner to them.

Do you ever think about how San Francisco basically went through an economic miracle, with multiple years of double-digit growth, and about the only thing they have to show for it is a world-famous housing crisis? Data from fred.stlouisfed.org/series/GDPAL...

"After years of lagging behind the commercial-real estate recovery, malls are outperforming every other property type as more investors conclude that enclosed shopping centers have more staying power than previously understood." www.wsj.com/real-estate/...