Now ask him to do the math on a mortgage-backed property today

They were the only bidder on the contract! We need dramatic simplification of our requirements if we want more options or better outcomes. Cc @seamlessbayareaca.bsky.social

Well that was some shaking!

Cars, and the whole auto industrial complex, are a vast right wing funding machine.

Imo more electeds should think about that when they vote for more highway widenings.

We need to stop prioritizing parking lots over people.

Today, I assembled a roundtable to discuss our Building Up Illinois Developments Plan — and the consensus was that we need to act fast.

Looking forward to passing it and getting to work in our neighborhoods.

My only regret in deleting my X account is I can’t prove that pmarca had me blocked

How do we make this position appointed instead of elected

It’s about my desire to install A/C 🥵

even under extremely generous assumptions, the “AI is drinking all the water” thing is empirically fake. (infographic from @andymasley.bsky.social )

Likely the majority of it though.

Both of these things can be (and are) true.

It usually is cost prohibitive to rework an existing building, but sometimes isn’t.

Can we get a democrat who spouts the benefits of taxation.

Imagine a California even more reliant on billionaires. No thank you.

it is my life’s mission to find the guy who’s pitching “no income taxes below [seemingly upper-middle-class threshold]” to big Dems electeds and hit him with a whiffle bat until he stops doing that

This is monstrously fucked up and should be Streisand Effected to the greatest degree possible

We are being led by a man who has the consistency and mental acuity of GPT 3.5

Now that’s what I’m talking about!

We can’t clean up Washington without restoring integrity to the Supreme Court.

That’s why I believe we should expand the Supreme Court to 13 justices. And then, institute term limits.

Because an appointment to the Supreme Court shouldn’t mean a lifetime lack of accountability.

Assassinating a head of state of a country we haven’t declared war with feels like a new bridge, though, no?

So we’re doing assassinations now? This doesn’t seem like good precedent

I would expect no further recipients will be named

Your framing is off. It’s not about convenience. It’s about a theory of power. If you have none, your values are worthless.

Ethics only matter in context.

what is the point of working ethically if your work is irrelevant

There’s a lot of uncertainty right now, but I can confidently predict that the FIFA Peace Prize committee will never recover from this.

What? The ethics of a non-competitive company literally do not matter. The reason the feds threw a shit fit at Anthropic this week is they wanted to use Claude, presumably because it offered the better model

This move was arguably in service of their mission. If Anthropic’s models can’t compete on capability then it doesn’t matter if they have strong alignment.

Pretty impressed with Anthropic today. Less so by their competition.

So I had Claude analyze if there was a statistically significant correlation between the day an app was submitted and review times, and the results are somewhat interesting.

Ship on Sunday or Wednesday for the best results.

every tool in my stack that requires manual intervention to paper over an API gap is friction that compounds. make things seamless. I'm increasingly willing to swap out dependencies that don't support agentic workflows in favour ones that do.

For sure. But would be curious to put that graph next to funding levels for the traffic enforcement division

A chart showing traffic tickets issued in San Francisco, with a sharp drop that began in 2014, hit bottom in 2022 when just a few tickets were issued, and has now rebounded almost to 2014 levels.

We’re back, baby!