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🤫 The Trump family's World Liberty Financial appears to have quietly weakened a governance promise on Oct. 1. Its FAQ used to say tokens held in WLF's treasury "will not be voted." Now, it says WLF "does not currently vote" them. docs.worldlibertyfinancial.com/resources/faq

New literature review on housing ladder spillovers: When rich tech workers move in, low-end rents go up. So does it follow that adding high-end homes would reduce them? Yes. Changes at the top of the ladder can propagate down and affect prices at the bottom. 1/

Road deaths in the United States have fallen much more slowly than in other rich countries. Most high-income countries have reduced road deaths substantially over the past decades.

Is the rent too damn high? Are we ready to value people over parking lots? Is it time for Illinois to create more homes and more opportunity? That’s what I thought. Let’s BUILD!

Hard to believe I’m even writing this. Meteorological summer hasn’t even begun, yet Paris, France has already logged more days above 32°C than its annual average.

RT if you think multifamily housing should be allowed next to L stations in Chicago #courtyardurbanism

A strange but true finding about NYC congestion pricing: Drivers’ time savings have overwhelmingly gone to those traveling *outside* the toll zone (i.e., driving from Brooklyn to Queens or within NJ) – not those headed into Manhattan. Me, in Bloomberg 🧵

It is a good idea for anyone to do this. “The cloud is just someone else’s computer.”

Is anyone here experimenting with clawdbot? Considering getting a mac mini and letting it rip! ☠️

Who has played the new #ManorLords patch and is it good?

It's the cat for me

Interesting new working paper that studies chains of movers after the construction of a new apartment building in Honolulu. Paper finds that the project resulted in the opening up other, lower cost, housing on the island, benefiting the housing market overall.

i built a game! it's an experimental pvp prompt engineering arena, with a shared/networked model context, and per-user model outputs. dark forest chat

Car Size xkcd.com/3167/

wrote about ai real estate listings for @thenation.com www.thenation.com/article/cult...

If Zohran’s true odds are better than what is priced in the prediction market, then you can make money by buying Zohran shares.

Some birds I roasted this weekend

The way he shakes hands is so weird. He jerks the person's hand toward him to try and make them feel off balance.

Even though nobody wears bike helmets in the Netherlands, the fatality rate there is significantly smaller than that of the United States. What have they figured out that we haven't?

Is anyone else loving the new #ManorLords update that dropped this week?

What mandatory parking requirements do: Drive up housing and construction costs Limit the kinds of homes we can build Spread out our neighborhoods Burden local governments with infrastructure that never pays for itself.

Bluesky is a site explicitly founded by cryptocurrency libertarians with the idea that it would be a decentralized platform where users would be free to choose the open-source moderation and algorithmic feed tools they wanted, and by accident acquired a power userbase that hates all of those things.

The President of the United States is threatening to go to war with an American city. This is not a joke. This is not normal. Donald Trump isn't a strongman, he's a scared man. Illinois won’t be intimidated by a wannabe dictator.

@micah541.bsky.social do you agree with the analysis in this post on selfish mining? It suggests selfish mining is not profitable until the miner controls 33% of total hash power. delvingbitcoin.org/t/where-does...

Hello frens: does anyone know if it is possible to run a Bluesky PDS node on a server that already has a website running on ports 80 and 443? In other words, can I select a custom port for AT proto or does it have to be 80/443? Ty @atproto.com @atprotocol.dev

The radioactive watch face maker location is now an Illegal Pete's Mexican restaurant.

"Under House Bill 1273, cities with more than 100,000 residents must revise their building codes by Dec. 1, 2027, to allow for a single stairway exit in apartment buildings of up to five stories, with a maximum of four units to a floor" @holz-bau.bsky.social @stephenjacobsmith.com

Hi @katmabu.bsky.social I was wondering if you have commented on cryptocurrencies? In particular, what is your opinion on whether people should have the right to self-custody their own coins and “be their own bank?” Thanks!

The people now in charge of the Office of Personnel Management apparently don’t know how to scrub PDF metadata, and have exposed the original authors of the guidance they’re publishing. Two, Noah Peters and James Sherk, have links to the Heritage Foundation and Project 2025.

It's zilch in the USA: Fractional-reserve banking - Wikipedia en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fractio...

The truck used in the New Orleans terrorist attack is a Ford F-150 Lightning, which is perfectly designed for this kind of attack. It weighs more than 6000 lbs, accelerates to 60 mph in just 4 seconds, and the battering-ram-shaped front is nearly 5 feet tall. Deadly by design.

Regular, moderate exercise like walking and biking are the closest thing we have to a health panacea. US city and road design has made walking and biking impractical, unpleasant and dangerous in much of the country. Changing this would save *$billions* in healthcare *and transportation* costs.

It turns out the most effective tool to get more housing built might just be: stop forcing people to build parking…. Parking Reform Alone Can Boost Homebuilding by 40 to 70 Percent www.sightline.org/2024/12/10/p...

Looking at apartment neighborhoods in Los Angeles (left) and Edinburgh (right) shows us how allowing taller buildings (four stories vs two) makes it possible to have much more green space.

Luigi Mangione won't see your skeets today but if you're a New Yorker the prosecutors at jury selection will

I thought of this article too when I heard there was a west coast tsunami

I love software made by solo developers, whether a game or anything else.