My buddy and podcast partner @CharlesCMann’s account here got hacked and he’s locked out of his messages. Needless to say, getting help from X is virtually impossible.
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Virginia Postrel
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Virginia Postrel
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L.A. writer @WorksinProgMag THE FABRIC OF CIVILIZATION @BasicBooks. POWER OF GLAMOUR, SUBSTANCE OF STYLE, FUTURE & ITS ENEMIES https://t.co/lO0ECC3o1W
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This is shaping up as the most consistent finding in housing studies: Building lots of luxury housing can reduce rents at the top of the market—but the people it helps most are renters struggling to afford even the least desirable units
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Can you build a brick home and meet CA energy requirements?
🏛Architectolder@Architectolder
I like the look of this home. Rather idyllic I would say.
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If you are a normal person & live in California, Mayor Matt should get your vote for governor
Mayor Matt Mahan@MattMahanSJ
Sacramento works great for the special interests, but not very well for the rest of us. The average family doesn't have a lobbyist. That's why we need a champion as governor.
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Weekday 10am public hearings in which the wealthiest people in a community take turns shouting at planners for two minutes, and escalating to litigation when they don't get their way from elected or appointed officials, is not deliberative democracy.
Daniel Steinmetz-Jenkins@daniel_dsj2110
Habermas's deliberative democracy stands in contrast with the Abundance crowd who sees democratic deliberation as another red tape that gets in the way of technocratic urban renewal projects
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As a dedicated player I think this is cool. Photo with a Pokémon and a Coco using this data.
NewsForce@Newsforce
POKÉMON GO PLAYERS TRAINED 30 BILLION IMAGE AI MAP Niantic says photos and scans collected through Pokémon Go and its AR apps have produced a massive dataset of more than 30 billion real-world images. The company is now using that data to power visual navigation for delivery robots, letting them identify exact locations on city streets without relying on GPS. Source: NewsForce
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As FCC Chair Brendan Carr again threatens broadcasters that air views Trump doesn’t like, today is a good day to remember we should abolish the FCC. It has no useful functions, and is a menace to freedom of speech. reason.com/volokh/2025/09…
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@jansramek @CAForever I thought there were legal barriers to cond development.
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What countries check these boxes: (a) liberal democracy, (b) reasonably safe, (c) minimal risk of military action, (d) reasonably prosperous, and (e) broadly apolitical culture?
Antonio García Martínez (agm.eth)@antoniogm
A real sign of creeping middle age is the growing desire to just move to Switzerland and not deal with the pointless aggravating bullshit rampant in the rest of the world.
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@colinmarshall @lacherbauer Does London have a center? It doesn’t seem to.
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This isn’t a critique of Tokyo, not in the slightest. It’s a critique of urbanist myopia.
Tokyo looks nothing like their beloved 18th century European postcard urbanism. Tokyo has SFH next to gigantic office towers. Alley-sized streets next to stroads. Magnificent rail transit and elevated urban highways. Pedestrian zones and pedestrian bridges. Tokyo is a great city, and urbanists are right to love it.
So, then why do urbanists try force one-size-fits-all Amsterdam/Copenhagen-style solutions on American cities?
Alexander Lacherbauer@lacherbauer
Urbanists: “Wide streets ruin cities. Road diet everything. Complete Streets” Also Urbanists: “UwU I love Tokyo.” Tokyo: Stroads, giant intersections and pedestrian bridges.
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@ChuckBaggett @StefanFSchubert I didn’t do the graphs but adoption of TV, not color was extremely fast. My parents didn’t get a color tv until they got a VCR. I grew up with black and white.
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@StefanFSchubert @vpostrel The color TV and fridge graphs look pretty similar to me. Not identical but much closer than color TV and the others. ourworldindata.org/grapher/techno…
Microwave and radio start steeper than color TV.
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US TV adoption was extraordinarily quick, outpacing technologies that seem more crucial, like electricity and refrigerators. By @vpostrel.
worksinprogress.co/issue/how-tv-l…
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TV+Sports Forever
“Showcasing athletic competition was the new medium’s killer app. ‘For the next few years, at least, sports coverage will be far and away the most important single element in television programming’, the sports manager for Chicago’s WGN station wrote in 1948.“
Virginia Postrel@vpostrel
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You'd be surprised how many economists were explicitly inspired by Hari Seldon.
Cate Hall@catehall
What are other good examples of a piece of media convincing people to go after a particular career? Something lots of people do, not “astronaut.”
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Everyone in the Los Angeles entertainment industry compulsively rants about how the spiraling cost of living, sluggish permitting, and weak leadership are destroying the local industry, only to turn around and donate to and vote for all the usual suspects. Make it make sense.
TheWrap@TheWrap
Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass announced the 70% reduction of filming costs at the Griffith Observatory, one of the city’s most iconic locations. Instead of $100,000, it will now cost $30,000 to shoot at Griffith, bringing the cost back down to 2008 pricing levels. Read more: thewrap.com/industry-news/… Photo: Getty Images
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Los Angeles steadily made it harder and more expensive for productions to shoot locally and then acted surprised when movies and shows went to Atlanta, New Mexico, and overseas instead. The tax rebates were a factor too, but mainly it's just a pain in the ass to film in LA.
TheWrap@TheWrap
Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass announced the 70% reduction of filming costs at the Griffith Observatory, one of the city’s most iconic locations. Instead of $100,000, it will now cost $30,000 to shoot at Griffith, bringing the cost back down to 2008 pricing levels. Read more: thewrap.com/industry-news/… Photo: Getty Images
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Imagine a city where they banned rent increases and evictions for 4 years. Tenants could literally stop paying rent and nothing happened.
Then imagine that same city creating a new tax where if you sell a property, the city takes 5%+ of the entire sale price… whether you made money or lost money on the property.
And then imagine the politicians who passed those rules running for mayor saying they want to encourage investment and build more housing.
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Hahah stop it!
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When TV was young, it seemed to face an intractable problem, the "vicious triangle." Yet it became one of the most quickly adopted technologies in history. My latest column for @WorksInProgMag explains what happened.
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