工an Monroe - the Year of AB309@eean
At the state archive, checking out some bills. Here's the file given to the Governor when signing SB443 in 1968, the bill that authorizes BART to use land value tax to fund itself (the board declined and used sales tax instead to make up the inflation-caused budget issue 😑)
6:16 PM · Mar 17, 2023
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Nikolaj🍦🇺🇦@nikicaga
Wow, Russia is struggling to encircle a heavily fortified enemy city?
That sounds like an easy job for a few thousand elite paratroopers, I sure hope Russia didn't lose them all in a pointless operation during the early days of the wor
10:12 PM · Mar 17, 2023
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Dare Obasanjo@Carnage4Life
Had a meeting today at work where I pulled a coworker into a conference room to clear up a misunderstanding with another on a video call.
It was so much easier than trying to resolve the discussion over chat. I can see why data shows that people are more productive in the office
2:09 AM · Mar 18, 2023
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Jason Crawford@jasoncrawford
OK this is the weirdest “X is closer to Y than Z” I have seen
Chris Plante Show @ChrisPlanteShow
Joe Biden was born closer to Abraham Lincoln’s inauguration than his own. That is crazy to think about. https://t.co/9cxv5L03Fz
3:29 AM · Mar 18, 2023
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Matthew Yglesias@mattyglesias
Philosophers have long debated whether “the hard problem of smart television” is solvable, even in principle, by any sort of physical system while others dismiss this as myth-making and superstition.
1:38 PM · Mar 18, 2023
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Armand Domalewski@ArmandDoma
On a more abstract level, DSA’s embrace of the “we should negotiate every housing project as an individual ‘deal,’ and that deal is never good enough” framework has done more to dissuade me from flirting with socialism in the past few years than anything else
DSA Housing Justice Commission 🌹🌆 @dsa_housing
We support Denver DSA. Affordable housing can't be provided by the market. Reforms offered up by the state and developers that don't include democratic control and redistribution of land are ultimately false promises that serve only to benefit capital. https://t.co/EWMbFZXIAs
2:53 PM · Mar 18, 2023
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constans@constans
“Missing middle” can’t solve our problems because unlike Paris we don’t have a Haussmann to tear up neighborhoods of small buildings and replacement wholesale with “gentle density.”
We need to build high rises in the present while we wait for gentle density
Nia is looking for a full-time VC job✨⚡️🌙 @_johnsonator
What unpopular urbanism opinion will land you in this position? https://t.co/W1W0OBoRl6
3:20 PM · Mar 18, 2023
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Market Urbanism @stephenjacobsmith@mastodon.social@MarketUrbanism
It’s odd to me how many (seemingly?) practicing architects believe that bedroom window requirements are about fires. US codes do not contemplate window rescue the way foreign ones do – casement windows barely open, and they often look out onto inaccessible rear yards
The Hustle Architect @VitruviusGrind
Bobby do you remember the meltdown you had the other day about people suggesting that windowless bedrooms are bad not because of the joys of the best implementations of them but because of the risks of the worst? https://t.co/vWxr1Dmyed
4:53 PM · Mar 18, 2023
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Caleb Watney@calebwatney
A simple heuristic that could've predicted AI progress over the last 10 years:
- We can reach superhuman performance in bounded domains with explicit scoring systems (Go, Chess)
- We can reach ~human performance in areas with tons of real-world data (writing, reading, vision)
7:57 PM · Mar 18, 2023
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Matthew Yglesias@mattyglesias
like universal free school lunch (we have it at my son’s school) for its administrative simplicity and for creating an egalitarian atmosphere in the school.
But there’s also a big potential win in making lunch *better*
nber.org/papers/w23218
10:48 PM · Mar 18, 2023
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Darrell Owens@IDoTheThinking
Some freeways were / are necessary.
Nia is looking for a full-time VC job✨⚡️🌙 @_johnsonator
What unpopular urbanism opinion will land you in this position? https://t.co/W1W0OBoRl6
5:09 AM · Mar 19, 2023
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