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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 9h

You're living through one of the biggest technological transformations in world history and it has nothing to do with AI

Jan Rosenow @janrosenow.bsky.social · 1d

Grid scale batteries are changing our electricity system. Excellent new visual story on batteries in FT today shows just how far this technology has evolved.

Fasten your seatbelts, this is just the beginning.

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Brad Ewing @bradleyewing.bsky.social · 7h

I prefer to shop at Trader Joe's, Pavilions or Ralphs (normal)

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Brad Ewing @bradleyewing.bsky.social · 7h

It's not even good man, I don't understand the appeal

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Marcus Hutchins @malwaretech.com · 7h

The biggest mystery about LA to me is who shops for groceries at Erewhon? Normal people can’t afford to pay $20 for a single carrot, and I assume anyone rich enough to justify that just sends their staff to pick up fresh produce from the farmers market. So who is buying this shit?

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Brad Ewing @bradleyewing.bsky.social · 8h

I didn't vote for her in the Senate primary because of this exact issue

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smol bean language machine @mightycw.bsky.social · 14h

social media is bad for all of our brains, but there are certain issues that tend to capture people who are susceptible to this way of thinking in a way that may not be intuitively obvious if you haven't seen it.

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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 17h

i am going to try to give a framework of my own understanding which laypeople can understand.

Buttadeus @thewanderingjew.bsky.social · 17h

yeah - I was impressed by the token-prediction as being as powerful as it is, but there's more going on than that and I don't really follow it any more.

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Jordan Grimes @cafedujord.bsky.social · 16h

If you guessed "someone's trying to build a new apartment building," you'd be correct!

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 19h

apparently “bari weiss doesn’t actually know what journalism is” extends to getting basic facts like the name of a subject right

Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 20h

Promoting the editor-in-chief's personal side project. Zero named sources in a story that promotes the editor-in-chief's personal political position. Misspelling the subject's name. It took one day for CBS News to become a conservative blog.

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CBS News: Some NYPD officers worry about Mandani becoming NYC mayor the Free Press reports.

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 19h

I don't understand why U.S. reporters so regularly seem to let politicians get away with 'I haven't seen that' about stuff a) they obviously know and b) is directly relevant to their job. Did they sign some kind of agreement never to ask a follow-up question?

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 21h

REPORTER: We know the president moved forward with mass layoffs. We're also learning there were significant cuts to staff at special education services. Are you comfortable with those cuts?

MIKE JOHNSON: I haven't seen the specifics of that and I don't know

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Jjinandtonic @jjinandtonic.bsky.social · 18h

Name a more classic combo than california and truly idiotic landuse propositions

Hyperlexic @hyperlexic.bsky.social · 19h

Reminder that California golf courses have a special massive property tax benefit over and above Prop 13. www.evolve-ca.org/news/hole-in...

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Sam (ABeardedPanda) @abeardedpanda.bsky.social · 1d

Bret Deveraux has a (largely correct) recurring point about how the only thing humans fear more than death is shame and this motivates a lot of pro-social behavior and the increasing shamelessness across human society is kind of a massive problem for that

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Brad Ewing @bradleyewing.bsky.social · 1d

you can train and run your own on consumer hardware

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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 1d

if you never get a taste for the money they're paying you, they won't be able to pay you for anything you don't want to do

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Brad Ewing @bradleyewing.bsky.social · 1d

king

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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 1d

i more or less quit my job over video models. unwilling to be part of that. sorry.

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Brad Ewing @bradleyewing.bsky.social · 1d

Not worth the effort, IMO

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Brad Ewing @bradleyewing.bsky.social · 1d

my unrepresentative neighborhood org is on this list!

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Brad Ewing @bradleyewing.bsky.social · 1d

Santa Monica forward.

Founded 2014, YIMBYish. I came on board 2021 and started organizing

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Brad Ewing @bradleyewing.bsky.social · 1d

Starting monthly happy hours brought my civic org from stagnation to being a powerful local player in less than 3 years.

Community building is underrated!

Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 1d

Some thoughts on SB 79 and how YIMBYs finally did it: publiccomment.blog/p/happy-hour...

Happy Hour Power

Why YIMBYs just won big in California

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Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 1d

Some thoughts on SB 79 and how YIMBYs finally did it: publiccomment.blog/p/happy-hour...

Happy Hour Power

Why YIMBYs just won big in California

publiccomment.blog

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M. Nolan Gray 🥑 @mnolangray.bsky.social · 1d

By popular demand, @aceckhouse.bsky.social and I have put together a deep-in-the-weeds explainer on SB 79. Enjoy!
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Everything You Need To Know About SB 79

…but were too afraid to read about in the actual bill.

substack.com

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Boo!-per Lund @cooperlund.online · 1d

I don’t think it’s good that we have an entire class of media elites who believe that people getting mad at them means they’re doing a good job, but identifying that makes me wonder if it’s actually better to not get mad at them and deprive them of what they want.

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Brad Ewing @bradleyewing.bsky.social · 1d

progressive who is prog on 80% of things, but genuinely believes some of their narrow conservative/reactionary views are progressive is a very common kind of person in left-of-center, affluent communities

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Brad Ewing @bradleyewing.bsky.social · 2d

It is time to capture public land value, I am no longer asking.

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