Favorites May 24th 2023

Google Bayview Campus, September 2022

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Talk about penny-wise and pound foolish! Preventing pandemics costs money, we should be spending more

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"CLT" is Cross Laminated Timber

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There's more polling data on building in the full thread. Yglesias points to his plan to do a one-time sale of on-street parking passes to the people who own homes on that street as a way to unlock acceptance of paid parking, since it's the single biggest thing standing in the way of growth.

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I had definitely not heard that TikTok is in decline, this seems quite dramatic...

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DeSantis' campaign kickoff via an interview with Musk on Twitter was plagued by technical glitches, which Fox was very excited to point out.

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Definitely needs a ladder somewhere.

Threads

• Tim Lee argues in this short thread that avoiding AI doom scenarios should involve focusing on the touchpoints with the real world, rather than the AIs themselves.