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Of nerdy urbanist interest: Next week the D.C. Council will cast a first vote on @BrianneKNadeau's bill to allow for new D.C. buildings up to six stories tall to have only a single stairwell in them, instead of the current two. Proponents say it creates more residential space.

@kristoncapps This is literally the first time I’ve ever see this

@farajidotAI Sigh. Yeah. For a minute there it seemed like a solution was on the table. But since this proposal was floated the city has taken a transit option away from H Street

The Safeway in Hechinger Mall just announced that it's closing. This is a property that's on a trajectory from underused to derelict. Upzone Hechinger Mall to the sky. Create the incentive to redevelop the site and bring jobs and retail to a pocket of DC that needs growth

@kristoncapps Also doesn’t have good transit. A mile from either of the closest metro stations. I’d have to agree that it probably sits a while absent massive intervention

@farajidotAI You're right. But still, a developer couldn't get Hechinger Mall to pencil in 2019, back when money was free. I don't see it happening now without an adjustment to the underlying plan to allow for even more density

Tell us what you think! We're hosting two in-person workshops to present the plan and gather feedback. Register today: lnkd.in/em6xDzv8 ☀️DC 2050 Workshop 🗓️TODAY! March 18 (6-8 pm) or March 21 (11am - 1 pm) 📍MLK Memorial Library (Closest metro: Gallery Pl/Chinatown)

🚨BREAKING: MIT hooked people up to brain scanners while they used ChatGPT. What they found should concern every single person reading this. ChatGPT users showed 55% weaker brain connectivity than people who didn't use it. Not after years. After just four months. Here's how they tested it. 54 people were split into three groups: one used ChatGPT to write essays, one used Google, and one used nothing but their own brain. They wore EEG monitors that tracked their brain activity in real time across four sessions over four months. The brain-only group built the strongest, most widespread neural networks. Google users were in the middle. ChatGPT users had the weakest brains in the room. Every time. Then the memory test hit. Participants were asked to recall what they'd just written minutes earlier. 83% of ChatGPT users couldn't quote a single line from their own essay. They wrote it. They couldn't remember it. The words passed through them like they were never there. It gets worse. In the final session, ChatGPT users were told to write without AI. Their brains were measurably weaker than people who never used AI at all. 78% still couldn't recall their own writing. The damage didn't go away when the tool was removed. Meanwhile, brain-only users who tried ChatGPT for the first time? Their brains lit up. They wrote better prompts. They retained more. Their brains were already strong enough to use AI as a tool instead of a crutch. The researchers also found that every ChatGPT essay on the same topic looked almost identical. More facts, more dates, more names. But less original thinking. Everyone using ChatGPT produced the same generic output while believing it was their own. MIT gave this a name: cognitive debt. Like financial debt, you borrow convenience now and pay with your thinking ability later. Except there's no way to pay it back. The question isn't whether ChatGPT is useful. It's whether the price is your ability to think without it.

@willahmed @shaig I see how you slipped that careers page in there. Well done.

Whoop has 800 employees today and just announced plans to grow headcount +600 this year. Investing in talent AND ai tools not mutually exclusive. Many of these “AI layoffs” are just companies under performing or lacking a bigger market opportunity.

@Yayeezy My thoughts and prayers and all, but I know the food at that household bussin

Trump deporting all my mama’s people and now we’re at war with my daddy’s people. Just another day being Mexican and Iranian in America 😩

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@LePapillonBlu2 @KYinvestorJW The flag part I get, but that choice of truck fixins is really committing to the bit

So apparently white Americans in Minneapolis are putting Mexican flags on their cars so ICE agents waste time pulling them over. They call it ICE fishing. 🤣😂

@RichardGrenell Yes, disagreeing with the government and exercising free speech is peak un-American. Very insightful, Conrade.

Privileged Gen Z from Oregon hasn’t traveled much. He’s representing the greatest country in the world….move to Canada if you aren’t proud to wear USA.

@TrumpinTheShark @kmele Upton Sinclair — 'It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.'

@kmele The president of the United States made a post that included a depiction of America's only Black first couple as apes. That's either overtly racist/inane/dumb as shit/incompetent/offensive or a mix of above. There is no good option. It's pitiful behavior. So my question stands.

This is objectively the dumbest controversy of “Trump” (Season 2). 2:00 mins of election conspiracy garbage (which he couldn’t even be bothered to watch in full) — Meh, par for the course 0:02 secs of an AI slop “Lion King” spoof (likely some autoplay TikTok vid) — PANDEMONIUM!

@felixleezd Interested in building same for my site (Claude coded) but want to make sure prompt injections and guardrails are kept. Will tool around today

@farajidotAI yes but I prompted it to claude code to build directly. is there a specific bit you're looking at?

I have a new website. felixlee.dev I am not a developer but this blew my mind. I built it entirely on Claude Code + Cursor. It isn't perfect, but I think its cool and proud for v1. I'm optimistic. Take a look!

As a cold emailer, this is good

@SimpleCRE @hunterjones @girdley Ironic. I got off the phone 5 minutes ago with the guy that owns it. His proudest quip was that he personally created the breakfast menu for airports.

@hunterjones Classic - @girdley would approve

If I have a 2+ hour layover at DFW around dinner time, what's the best food play?

@AutismCapital @seq23 Warren Buffett once told me that they spent way too much time playing online Bridge. Tracks

Today we learned that Bill Gates got STDs from banging Russian hookers, gave them to Melinda, wanted to secretly slip her antibiotics so he could get away with it, talked about his penis, banged married women, and took Adderall for marathon games of Bridge. Incredible lmao 🤦‍♂️💀

Jensen Huang on the smartest person he's ever met;

@bobbyfijan @americanhousing Been away mostly but good luck with this. Sounds exciting

At @americanhousing, we are *fundamentally* a Real Estate Development company Which means we looking to buy well located land (or JV) where it makes sense to build *infill* attached, non-combustible rowhomes We want to build where young people ALREADY want to live, so they can move out of their apartment, have a kid a stay in the City. Or where a couple can buy a Starter Home in a single family market where they can’t afford the huge house, but want something nice. Our business is buy land, build parts (in a factory), put those parts together on the land and then sell (or rent) the homes In terms of how that process will work … people won’t buy our homes as kits or customize them like a Tesla. They’ll simply a house on Zillow and go “That looks pretty. And it’s down the street from where we live. I think we could afford it. Let’s go look at it.” They’ll take a tour, say “Wow, this IS really nice, and we could see ourselves raising (or starting) our family here.” And then buy it.