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I think if you're GWAR, having Libs of TikTok introduce you to her entire dingbat audience is probably the best thing that could possibly happen
September 22, 2025 at 11:23 PM
I think if you're GWAR, having Libs of TikTok introduce you to her entire dingbat audience is probably the best thing that could possibly happen
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No other political widow has ever become a public figure I say, having researched this by thinking really hard for twenty seconds and drawing a blank
September 21, 2025 at 10:07 PM
No other political widow has ever become a public figure I say, having researched this by thinking really hard for twenty seconds and drawing a blank
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the thing i'm worried about is whether AI will decimate the "flow states" of knowledge work. i realize this is very selfish. i enjoy being in a flow state. i don't want to constantly be babysitting an unlearning intern who repeatedly violates instructions. even if they eventually produce good work
September 22, 2025 at 1:16 AM
the thing i'm worried about is whether AI will decimate the "flow states" of knowledge work. i realize this is very selfish. i enjoy being in a flow state. i don't want to constantly be babysitting an unlearning intern who repeatedly violates instructions. even if they eventually produce good work
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Los Angeles was affordable when it had zoning capacity for about 4-5x its population. The city slashed zoning capacity in the 70s. We’ve had persistent homelessness since the early 80s. This is not that complicated.
September 18, 2025 at 3:36 AM
Los Angeles was affordable when it had zoning capacity for about 4-5x its population. The city slashed zoning capacity in the 70s. We’ve had persistent homelessness since the early 80s. This is not that complicated.
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i really, really fucking loathe "steelmanning" as a concept. it is not my job to make the best possible version of your argument for you if oppose you, if i oppose you, i intend to attack both your shitty ideas *and* the shitty way in which you present them, because fuck you, that's why.
"steelman" culture is just dishonesty. there is no one who holds the reasonable views which media liberals propose conservatives believe in. they are wholly a rhetorical construct of the center-left. a figment we can shadowbox to avoid confronting what conservatives actually believe.
September 17, 2025 at 5:27 PM
i really, really fucking loathe "steelmanning" as a concept. it is not my job to make the best possible version of your argument for you if oppose you, if i oppose you, i intend to attack both your shitty ideas *and* the shitty way in which you present them, because fuck you, that's why.
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The trans partner of Tyler Robinson had no knowledge about it and was told to delete messages but didn't and instead turned them immediately over to the police and cooperated.
Yet, the right is demonizing her and blame everything on trans people despite the trans person here doing the right thing.
Yet, the right is demonizing her and blame everything on trans people despite the trans person here doing the right thing.
September 16, 2025 at 8:12 PM
The trans partner of Tyler Robinson had no knowledge about it and was told to delete messages but didn't and instead turned them immediately over to the police and cooperated.
Yet, the right is demonizing her and blame everything on trans people despite the trans person here doing the right thing.
Yet, the right is demonizing her and blame everything on trans people despite the trans person here doing the right thing.
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It’s kinda crazy that in 2025, LA County is demolishing a county office building and replacing it with a parking lot
September 16, 2025 at 4:52 PM
It’s kinda crazy that in 2025, LA County is demolishing a county office building and replacing it with a parking lot
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November 17, 2021 www.mypanhandle.com/news/local-n...
September 15, 2025 at 9:11 PM
November 17, 2021 www.mypanhandle.com/news/local-n...
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After her hearing at 26 Federal Plaza, a woman was detained and escorted toward the stairwell. Her husband, confused and in shock, was guided toward the exit. Minutes later, he broke down in the elevator. They entered together, but he left alone. This happens here daily. #ICE
September 11, 2025 at 9:25 PM
After her hearing at 26 Federal Plaza, a woman was detained and escorted toward the stairwell. Her husband, confused and in shock, was guided toward the exit. Minutes later, he broke down in the elevator. They entered together, but he left alone. This happens here daily. #ICE
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Confining new apartments to lots facing loud, polluted, high-traffic arterial streets is profoundly inequitable. www.sightline.org/2021/10/19/c...
Confining Rental Homes to Busy Streets Is a Devil’s Bargain | Sightline Institute
This shouldn't need to be said: nobody’s home should be a “buffer” against traffic noise and pollution for someone else’s.
www.sightline.org
September 12, 2025 at 12:37 AM
Confining new apartments to lots facing loud, polluted, high-traffic arterial streets is profoundly inequitable. www.sightline.org/2021/10/19/c...
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The murder of Charlie Kirk is part of a disturbing rise in political violence that threatens to hollow out our public life.
A free society relies on the premise that people can speak out without fear or humiliation.
No more political violence.
A free society relies on the premise that people can speak out without fear or humiliation.
No more political violence.
In Wake of Charlie Kirk Murder, Sen. Bernie Sanders Addresses Rising Political Violence in America
YouTube video by Senator Bernie Sanders
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September 11, 2025 at 9:47 PM
The murder of Charlie Kirk is part of a disturbing rise in political violence that threatens to hollow out our public life.
A free society relies on the premise that people can speak out without fear or humiliation.
No more political violence.
A free society relies on the premise that people can speak out without fear or humiliation.
No more political violence.
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The effort to paint Charlie Kirk as some sort of model for practicing politics and a beloved figure across the spectrum is bizarre.
Just a month ago, South Park was mocking him pretty mercilessly.
Just a month ago, South Park was mocking him pretty mercilessly.
September 11, 2025 at 10:39 AM
The effort to paint Charlie Kirk as some sort of model for practicing politics and a beloved figure across the spectrum is bizarre.
Just a month ago, South Park was mocking him pretty mercilessly.
Just a month ago, South Park was mocking him pretty mercilessly.
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Unsurprisingly, the thing Noah Smith is saying is obviously not true.
Look at reports on the reaction to the assassination of MLK... "glee, satisfaction and weeping in equal parts" (www.nytimes.com/2018/04/02/r...) as the Smithsonian notes "some actually celebrated" (nmaahc.si.edu/explore/stor...).
Look at reports on the reaction to the assassination of MLK... "glee, satisfaction and weeping in equal parts" (www.nytimes.com/2018/04/02/r...) as the Smithsonian notes "some actually celebrated" (nmaahc.si.edu/explore/stor...).
September 11, 2025 at 4:10 AM
Unsurprisingly, the thing Noah Smith is saying is obviously not true.
Look at reports on the reaction to the assassination of MLK... "glee, satisfaction and weeping in equal parts" (www.nytimes.com/2018/04/02/r...) as the Smithsonian notes "some actually celebrated" (nmaahc.si.edu/explore/stor...).
Look at reports on the reaction to the assassination of MLK... "glee, satisfaction and weeping in equal parts" (www.nytimes.com/2018/04/02/r...) as the Smithsonian notes "some actually celebrated" (nmaahc.si.edu/explore/stor...).
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Voltaire supposedly said that while one might owe respect to the living, to the dead one owes only the truth.
Worth remembering after the death of a horrible person who espoused horrible ideas.
Worth remembering after the death of a horrible person who espoused horrible ideas.
September 11, 2025 at 1:17 PM
Voltaire supposedly said that while one might owe respect to the living, to the dead one owes only the truth.
Worth remembering after the death of a horrible person who espoused horrible ideas.
Worth remembering after the death of a horrible person who espoused horrible ideas.
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NIMBYs play the long game.
Today they are protesting the construction of a larger elementary school.
Next year they will say their neighborhood cannot accommodate more housing because the school won’t have enough room.
Happens all the time.
Today they are protesting the construction of a larger elementary school.
Next year they will say their neighborhood cannot accommodate more housing because the school won’t have enough room.
Happens all the time.
omg some Olympic Village residents are trying to NIMBY the elementary school. They're citing "neighbourhood character" for why four floors is just too much damned school for their neighbourhood
September 11, 2025 at 2:28 PM
NIMBYs play the long game.
Today they are protesting the construction of a larger elementary school.
Next year they will say their neighborhood cannot accommodate more housing because the school won’t have enough room.
Happens all the time.
Today they are protesting the construction of a larger elementary school.
Next year they will say their neighborhood cannot accommodate more housing because the school won’t have enough room.
Happens all the time.
Arguments about who is and isn't working class are a total dead end. "Working class" is not a useful concept. Unsupervised learning on labor data would produce clusters which I suspect would not be recognizable as any of the arbitrary worker categories people are used to talking about.
Teachers usually make close to median salary - or above it. They should get paid more, but they’re also highly educated professionals performing skilled labor. The reality is that most teachers would object to being called “working class” like retail workers or other lower-skilled labor.
If you think a teachers salary isn’t “working class” you’re an out of touch dope.
September 2, 2025 at 9:16 PM
Arguments about who is and isn't working class are a total dead end. "Working class" is not a useful concept. Unsupervised learning on labor data would produce clusters which I suspect would not be recognizable as any of the arbitrary worker categories people are used to talking about.
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Not building housing screws young people, pushes them out & tanks future economic success. We need to make it easier & faster to build the homes we need for a bright future. Our current vetocracy need to change & we’re working to change it.
September 2, 2025 at 6:45 PM
Not building housing screws young people, pushes them out & tanks future economic success. We need to make it easier & faster to build the homes we need for a bright future. Our current vetocracy need to change & we’re working to change it.
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"Blueskyism" helped make The Onion one of the largest newspapers in the world in less than a year. If we had spent all of our time on Twitter, we'd be poorer, dumber and terminally ill with internet poisoning. He's just angry he's wasting away over there in a nazi agnostic lane that doesn't exist.
September 1, 2025 at 8:51 PM
"Blueskyism" helped make The Onion one of the largest newspapers in the world in less than a year. If we had spent all of our time on Twitter, we'd be poorer, dumber and terminally ill with internet poisoning. He's just angry he's wasting away over there in a nazi agnostic lane that doesn't exist.
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[BILL ALERT] SB 79, which broadly legalizes more homes near high quality transit stops, has passed the Assembly appropriations committee!
The bill now goes to the Assembly floor, then back to the Senate for concurrence.
Learn more: cayimby.org/legislation/...
The bill now goes to the Assembly floor, then back to the Senate for concurrence.
Learn more: cayimby.org/legislation/...
SB 79 (Wiener): Transit-Oriented Development and Upzoning
SB 79 will make it faster and easier to build multi-family housing near transit stops, like train and rapid bus lines, by making it legal for more homes to be built in these areas and streamlining exi...
cayimby.org
August 29, 2025 at 7:01 PM
[BILL ALERT] SB 79, which broadly legalizes more homes near high quality transit stops, has passed the Assembly appropriations committee!
The bill now goes to the Assembly floor, then back to the Senate for concurrence.
Learn more: cayimby.org/legislation/...
The bill now goes to the Assembly floor, then back to the Senate for concurrence.
Learn more: cayimby.org/legislation/...
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Modesto CM Chris Ricci endorses SB 79 as a solution to Central Valley sprawl and super-commuting: "When one region’s housing failures force over 100,000 people into extreme commutes, that’s no longer a local problem—it’s a statewide crisis that demands statewide solutions."
RICCI: When Silicon Valley blocks housing, the Central Valley pays the price
"We've been good neighbors long enough. We need state policy that protects Central Valley families, rather than making us the solution to everyone else's problems," writes Modesto City Councilman Chri...
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August 29, 2025 at 8:04 PM
Modesto CM Chris Ricci endorses SB 79 as a solution to Central Valley sprawl and super-commuting: "When one region’s housing failures force over 100,000 people into extreme commutes, that’s no longer a local problem—it’s a statewide crisis that demands statewide solutions."
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Decades of unlimited local control over land use have left us with an historic housing shortage, unaffordable rents, homeownership out of reach for the middle class, and crisis-level homelessness.
Enough is enough. It’s time for the state to step in and set some basic ground rules by passing SB 79.
Enough is enough. It’s time for the state to step in and set some basic ground rules by passing SB 79.
Here’s the clip of CM Padilla bragging about reducing the size of a 100% affordable housing project in her district and increasing the amount of parking while arguing against the transit oriented upzoning bill SB 79.
(ED 1 is an affordable housing program in LA.)
(ED 1 is an affordable housing program in LA.)
August 27, 2025 at 11:21 PM
Decades of unlimited local control over land use have left us with an historic housing shortage, unaffordable rents, homeownership out of reach for the middle class, and crisis-level homelessness.
Enough is enough. It’s time for the state to step in and set some basic ground rules by passing SB 79.
Enough is enough. It’s time for the state to step in and set some basic ground rules by passing SB 79.
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Why is the rent so damn high in LA? Simple economics: the demand for housing is extremely high and our housing supply is extremely low.
August 26, 2025 at 11:51 PM
Why is the rent so damn high in LA? Simple economics: the demand for housing is extremely high and our housing supply is extremely low.