Favorites July 1st 2023 🇨🇦

Jul 3, 2023

I’m experimenting with providing cached versions of some Twitter links. At the moment, only the main tweets are cached. I’m working on ensuring all the links have cached versions.

See new Tweets Conversation M. Nolan Gray @mnolangray Parking pricing are not an anti-car policy. How is it anti-car to be have a guaranteed spot waiting for you for a predictable price? How is it pro-car to have to spend 15 minutes circling the block for a spot? — src cached

This is definitely how I think of things. If there's paid parking that targets high but not 100% occupancy it means that there will always be a space available. Same thing with a congestion fee!

Ethan Mollick @emollick Air quality impacts thinking. Going from a no-pollution day to high pollution (only 15 PM2.5, which isn't that much!) in Ottawa reduces the quality of politician's speeches so much that it is equivalent to them having half a year less education that day. https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2852886 — src cached

Fitting that it was Canadian politicians, considering the ongoing fires.

bob's burgers urbanist 🐿️ @yhdistyminen During the twilight of the USSR, Western economists implored Gorbachev not to "follow [the West] in allowing most of the rent of land to be collected privately". This warning went unheeded; shock therapy happened instead. Land value tax would [have] solve[d] this

A tax on land is the best way to tax, Russia had an opportunity to adopt it, squandered it. China also completely eschews anything even close to an LVT

See new Tweets Conversation Kara Swisher @karaswisher I am beginning to be convinced of @WilliamCohan theory that the owner is actually trying to sink this leaky ship in order to buy the debt on the cheap. Then it’s less of a financial dumpster fire but it is a shoot the moon approach. Quote Tweet Elon Musk @elonmusk · Jul 1 To address extreme levels of data scraping & system manipulation, we’ve applied the following temporary limits: - Verified accounts are limited to reading 6000 posts/day - Unverified accounts to 600 posts/day - New unverified accounts to 300/day — src cached

The choice to significantly restrict the number of tweets anyone can view per day is pretty weird, there are tons of theories. Someone found that if you load Twitter logged out right now, it makes about 10 queries per second to emit error messages, perhaps someone at Twitter misinterpreted this as a spike in scraping activity? Maybe Musk decided to stop paying Twitter's Amazon S3 bills? But they still want to be rated 5 stars on the app stores. Humorously, Twitter's contract with Google to host some of Twitter's services on GCP was up June 30th.

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias The story so far — src cached

This all started because Musk didn't like how the Hunter Biden laptop was handled by twitter: things got out of hand, every time though, folks say that this time Twitter will die. Maybe limiting everyone to reading 600 tweets is a product innovation, helps us all break our addiction.

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• Interesting suggestion for HOA reform in california (src cached)