Steve M. Boyle 🗽🇺🇸

the ABS system sits at the vexed crossroads of several highly charged dynamics in our collective life. successful challenges (by your team) feel amazing, like a long-awaited blow against capricious and unearned authority; but the overall existence (and putative infallibility) of ABS inevitably ignites anxieties about the superfluity of human judgement. and yet, the challenge system relies on human hubris, intuition, boldness, and risk. it's a very compelling encounter between populism and the machine.

Taylor Lorenz is a fascinating case study as seemingly the last of the tech-positive progressives from the 2010s.

coatimundi

AN EMPTY PLAYLIST HAS APPEARED ON YE'S SPOTIFY PAGE

This rebuild is now the fastest moving, major project in the country. And we plan to keep it that way.

the california propaganda will continue

"You come to me on the day of the home opener..." 🤌

“You don't build, we're not gonna fund, Period” Newsom is done with these NIMBY local governments refusing to build housing and asking for a handout when (surprise, surprise) there are more homeless people. Build housing, or be ready to deal with the consequences like adults.

Crazy permitting and building codes increase homelessness and push homeownership further out of reach… my build now act pushes local and state government to clean up and right size their codes Builders, comment the wackiest code you’ve seen below

Some people respond to the desire to "build up" by citing graphics like these. They appear to suggest the counterintuitive idea that building mid-rise buildings actually achieves the same density (dph) as very tall buildings But the counterintuitive point is obviously false. These calculations involve applying arbitrary distances between buildings, artificially restricting densities. It is true that midrise may be preferable in a variety of settings. It may also be true that high densities can be achieved through midrise development (think of Paris!) But don't be fooled: the obvious point that tall buildings achieve higher densities is true.

Not the greatest start 🫤

There is a good chance Braiden Ward might "Rickey Henderson" the bag when he breaks the Grapefruit League stolen base record...