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@CMSaraNelson Subtraction is also a big problem.

I'll say it again: addition is driving our public safety and chronic homelessness emergencies. Nobody wants to have to close parks, but until the city gets serious about helping people recover, temporary measures like this will help keep our neighborhoods safe.

@politicalmath Two easy tips: 1) when bored and online, instead of social media subscribe to @TheBrowser and read a couple articles. 2) before bed put your phone away and force yourself to read a book. Do both of these every day for 30 days and you will rewire your brain and default habits.

If anyone has a course or regime for rebuilding an attention span shattered by social media, I really want to know about it. I've been noticing that it's harder for me to focus for long periods of time on specific topics b/c there is always a squirrel

America cannot long remain free, nor first among nations, if it becomes the kind of place where universities are dismantled because they don't align politically with the current head of the government.

@westelm_assist Thanks. I’ve followed back and would love to know if I can buy a replacement bench leg.

Reporting a disappointing interaction with @westelm. We have this beautiful bench from them, and one leg recently broke. I want to replace the leg instead of buy a new bench. West Elm will not help me. westelm.com/products/mid-c…

@westelm Hi, I bought it in the store in Seattle several years ago. I don’t have the receipt or order number anymore. I included a link to the bench in my tweet above. If you can source a replacement leg that would be great! DM me if so.

@jonathan_miner Hello, We are sorry to hear about your experience when contacting us. Please send us a DM with the Bench Order number and we will gladly look into this for you. Thank you! Kindest Regards, Susan Social Media Customer Support

My family has spent thousands of dollars on furniture from @westelm over the past decade or so. I guess I’ll be looking elsewhere for furniture going forward.

When they told me they can’t provide a replacement, I also asked if they could just give me info about who makes the bench for them in the hopes of sourcing a replacement part myself. They refused to even entertain that and then rushed to hang up on me.

So you’re telling me we got the rest of the world to do the lowest value, lowest profit margin, most capital intensive, and most cyclical parts of economic activity. And in exchange, they gave our companies the cheapest priced goods in the world to resell and thrive off of. Which then gave our companies the time to pursue the actual high value parts of economic activity (you know, like Silicon Valley, Wall Street, military R&D, etc). And all we had to do was give them IOU’s for an imaginary currency unit that we would only ever pay them back in worthless real terms in, if we ever repaid them at all. And… we were the ones that demanded this system come to an end?

@nic_carter 🤷🏼‍♂️ depends on your circle I think. I live in Seattle and basically everyone I know is pretty left. We all use a variety of AI tools in work and personal life. Lots of folks with thoughtful critiques or some caution, but everyone is using it anyway.

a lot of people denying that this is a thing. i'm telling you, go ask your 10 furthest left friends what they think of AI and report back to me. seriously go do it and leave a comment.

i've noticed a weird aversion to using AI on the left. not sure if it's a climate or an IP thing or what, but it seems like a massive self-own to deduct yourself 30+ points of IQ because you don't like the tech

Just to summarize what’s happened in the last few weeks: They concocted this whole thing based on a fundamental misunderstanding of the global economy. They think manufacturing jobs will come back (they won’t). They think free trade made us poor, when it actually made us rich. They think the current account deficit is unsustainable when it’s a rounding error in our aggregate net worth and also accretive to our net worth. They think being the reserve currency is bad when it’s a sign that everyone wants to do business with us. And they think poor foreigners were taking advantage of us when we’re the richest economy in human history. And to "fix" all of these "problems" they implemented the one policy idea that almost every economist alive says is bad. And then when they implemented that idea they misunderstood the math behind the rationale and came up with numbers that were irrationally huge. So they had to backpedal. And when bond yields moved a tiny bit higher they panicked and "fixed" all of this by making the numbers slightly smaller, but they clearly hadn't done the math again because the numbers are still way bigger than any economist would ever recommend they be. Then they patted themselves on the back because of intraday moves in stocks while an economic hurricane continues to barrel towards us because they have no idea what they’re doing. Amazing stuff.

@pike_place I think, wow, I would visit more if there were no cars.

What’s the first thing you think of when you see this sign? ☕️🥕🌮🧶💐 #PikePlaceMarket

@RossBarkan Exactly. Was just wondering the same to a friend.

I confess I don't get Columbia folding. Don't they have an endowment worth many billions? Very rich alumni? Alumni who hate Trump? They could do a massive "resistance" fundraiser to make up for lost federal dollars. Very odd and very weak.

@orthodoxmason Love the work you do.

One of our design-consults is coming along nicely! Lovely proof of concept that others can come alongside and pick up the mantle. We shaped the window sills, but didn’t lay a single brick! Feel free to reach out with any design or consultation needs.

MAGA’s “abundance” agenda: drill, baby drill, low tax on the wealthy, tariffs to make your ordinary goods more expensive, no healthcare, no social security, and endless crypto scams. I used to enjoy @nic_carter’s perspectives, but somewhere along the road he lost the plot.

Cheering at this @brhodes ending: "If you don’t like what is happening to this country, you don’t need to wait for someone to come along and save it: You need each other. That should be the message that Democrats embrace, because most Americans don’t want to go where Donald Trump and Elon Musk are leading us. The opposite of shame is pride. Let’s be proud of fighting back, of caring about one another, of committing to rebuild what is being destroyed. Because America is not just about the powerful becoming more powerful; at its best, it is about the underdog beating the longest of odds."

It cannot be reiterated enough how much universal healthcare unlinked from employment would reinvigorate American society and culture. New levels of dynamism would be achieved.

this whole “uh your abundance ideas are so obvious man, there must be a secret agenda” from people who have never so much as attended a single fucking hearing where 500 rich homeowners show up to scream that building a duplex would destroy their lives is so fucking irritating

I’m pretty sure Seattle just had a little earthquake. Anyone else feel/hear it? #earthquake #seattle