Favorites September 17th 2022

Stanford California, August 2020

Erik Brynjolfsson @erikbryn

.@ericschmidt is just back from Ukraine, speaking at Global Emerging Technology Summit: “Elon is a real hero there. On the train we got 200 megabits via Starlink. Imagine if we could something like that on Amtrak.”

Erik Brynjolfsson actually posted this from an Amtrak train, where he was getting 1.5 megabits down, and that's within the most economically productive city corridor in the world.

Senator Scott Wiener @Scott_Wiener

The garbage fire known as San Francisco’s housing process - a process designed to stop new housing - strikes again. This time the Planning Commission manipulated the process to kill a proposal to convert 15 parking spots into 57 homes by a subway station.

sfchronicle.comS.F. just rejected another plan to turn an empty parking lot into apartmentsThe rejection of the project by San Francisco’s Planning Commission illustrates the...

Darrell Owens suggests now's the time to go work for the State group tasked with enforcing housing laws, since San Francisco seems determined to keep breaking them till the end of time. Salim did a quick estimate indicating it'll probably lead to neighbors within a 100m radius collectively paying $144k more in annual rent.

Darrell Owens @IDoTheThinking

Prior to state laws, SF's development priority areas looked like a redlining map. Meanwhile the state wants to know why housing approvals take the longest in SF than anywhere in CA after the state auditor revealed $2.7 billion in low income housing bonds expired from lack of use.

Apparently San Francisco Supervisors see fighting the state as standing up to real estate interests somehow

Cabel @cabel

Folks. When apps minimize into the Dynamic Island when dismissed, they drop into the island differently based on the physics of your “throw”…! Toss the app straight up, and it’s a normal bounce. But throw a curveball, and the opposite side bulges out to catch. I LOVE THIS 100%

In slow motion, you can clearly see that the clock gets 'hit' by the 'curveball' when you throw hard enough.

Threads

• The Chief of Staff of the new Prime Minister of the UK seems to have been involved in a plot to bribe a US politician and influence a US election. TL;DR, he got a "proffer deal", and after a few minutes of research I can't tell what level of guilt or of legal danger that implies.