Favorites October 15th 2022

October 2022, Downtown Palo Alto

Market Urbanism @MarketUrbanism

Strong parking demand in Oakland: “The 46-story tower will yield around 993k sq. ft. with 453k sq. ft. for housing, 294k sq. ft. for parking…Though no vehicular parking is required, parking will be included for 734 cars across a 12-story garage podium”

sfyimby.comNew Renderings For Town Tower, Potential Tallest Residential Tower in Oakland - San Francisco YIMBYThe CIM Group has submitted pre-application documents for a new 46-story residential tower at 325 22nd Street, named Town Tower, in Downtown Oakland...

So, that's too much parking for something near transit, many yimbys I follow initially reacted with "implement parking maximums". But one element from the thread is that the project may not have happened without the parking, because it apparently doesn't count against FAR. Check out the thread for more discussion.

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

I think it's good for rich people to be generous and then to receive praise for their generosity.

Elon Musk @elonmusk

The hell with it … even though Starlink is still losing money & other companies are getting billions of taxpayer $, we’ll just keep funding Ukraine govt for free

Kim-Mai Cutler asks, "Why doesn't the DoD simply pay for Starlink in Ukraine?"

Dan Diamond @ddiamond

Just 4% of eligible Americans have gotten latest covid booster. And overall US booster rates remain very low. @EricTopol: “A travesty.” @jonfavs: “I blame the federal health bureaucracy.” A look at what went wrong — and what’s at stake if virus surges. washingtonpost.com/health/2022/10…

We've Performed engineering and logistics miracles to get these mRNA vaccines working and now updated, and everyone's so exhausted that they can't be bothered to take them. It's sorta bizarre.

Threads

• Interesting thread about the allegations that Facebook was censoring on behalf of the ruling party in India. There are a number of inconsistencies with the documents released. Andrew Prokop is particularly suspicious that the emails proprotedly from Facebook executives don't read like they're written by a native english speaker. It’s funny how many things you have to get right to fake digital documents.