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Rule for #Detroit: Believe none of what you read, half of what you hear, all of what you see.
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Alex Alsup
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Alex Alsup
@ZugIslander
Parcels & property taxes. Research & Development @RegridApp. I also write about Detroit on Substack: https://t.co/ZU15ptQFDV.
Detroit Beigetreten Şubat 2009
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…because everything else is a car, and it’s way easier, I’m sure, to stick all that tech in an existing platform than come up with an entirely new one.
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Rode in my first Waymo today. Sense I had was that the car feels very antiquated as a thing for driverless tech to manifest in. Like, it’s only in a car because everything else is a car, I guess, but doesn’t really feel like it *should* be a car.
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@TheStalwart This grudging result going around came across to me as ‘eh, we didn’t really design the test well enough to determine anything…’
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Philippe-Antoine Hoyeck@PAHoyeck
Is it just me or is this explanation of my result somewhat grudging and oddly biased?
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I took the AI vs. Human writing quiz at the NYT. I don't think it's a great gauge of the question.. For one thing, people are probably trying to guess which is human, rather than answer honestly. But also I don't think single paragraphs are a good measure of the question.
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Ten years of tax foreclosure legal challenges have all focused on the auction, not the interest rate on delinquent taxes where counties actually make their profits. The reason why is clear in the absurd scenario Pung could enable.
detroit.substack.com/p/part-3-the-e…
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Michigan’s tax foreclosure system is in front of the US Supreme Court today. I think the outcome will be the end of the system as we know it. But! Michigan counties *could* prevent its demise WITH THIS ONE WEIRD TRICK: Raise the interest rate on delinquent taxes to 8,571%. I’m not (totally) kidding.
Link below to Part 3 of my series in The Chargeback on Pung v. Isabella County, which explains why and what it reveals about the last decade-plus of tax foreclosure legal challenges.
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We’ve built a world that’s very fragile to AI. The technology can fall far short of the loftiest claims about its abilities and it will still be incredibly disruptive to this world.
We could build a *different* world which is not as legible to AI, but I don’t see a version of *this one* that isn’t swamped by AI.
Derek Thompson@DKThomp
@VitruviusGrind Pretty much! Many people are paid to make PowerPoints If a technology can do that faster and better, that’s economically important. Whether or not translating excel documents into power points is “actually thinking” is sort of a secondary question to me.
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@_rotimia Not how the mechanics of property taxes actually work in Michigan. It's fine. Just think the stronger point is simply that there is *already* a 100% exemption for low income seniors, so this is explicitly a handout to people with too much money to qualify for that exemption.
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@ZugIslander When revenue is fixed, shifting relief to one group means higher burdens on others, and in practice that falls on younger homeowners and renters who don’t get the exemption. So that would be millennial families.
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No, not a tax increase on millennial families… just an explicit handout to seniors with too much money to qualify for the 100% property tax exemption that already exists, in part, to protect low income seniors.
Rotimi Adeoye@_rotimia
This is effectively a tax increase on millennial families who are just starting out. Boomer communism plays well nationally because courting the 65+ vote is good presidential politics, but it shifts the burden onto younger households already stretched thin.
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There’s already a 100% property tax exemption available for homeowners in poverty, and it includes special provisions for people whose only income is social security or retirement benefits. This is just a handout to higher income seniors who wouldn’t qualify for that.
Governor Gretchen Whitmer@GovWhitmer
I’m proposing property tax relief for 355,000 seniors, saving households an average of $345 a year by refunding approximately 10% of their property taxes. That's money back in their pockets to pay bills and put food on the table.
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I guess you could say we kinda do still build like this… but only because they finished the Duomo in the 1960s after starting it in the 14th century…
weird medieval guys@WeirdMedieval
People will say “oh why don’t we build like this any more” but the fact that we ever did build things like this is insane and completely anomalous
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@olcplc If you’re onstage do they comp you some tix for the hoi polloi…?
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@ZugIslander No seat in the gallery—but I’ll be at the podium.
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Denied a ticket for the Pung v. Isabella County oral arguments at the US Supreme Court. Michigan tax foreclosure system goes to the show, but I won’t have a seat. Bummer.
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epstein emailing joi ito and reid hoffman during the bankruptcy about "using detroit as a petrie dish for new currency ideas."
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@2024dion Even “Serious vacancy issues” undersells the state of Delray prior to the bridge…
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It's also somewhat remarkable that an infrastructure project that demolished a Black neighborhood (albeit one with serious vacancy issues) survived peak woke without even a hint of backlash
Dion@2024dion
Not enough discussion on here about how at some point this spring we're going to inaugurate a major new bridge (on a new alignment) in the US for the first time in 16 years. Likely the last for many many decades, too
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