Anti fascist urbanist. My "bluesky posts" represent myself and do not represent my employer or any affiliated groups and organizations.
There is no possible future where governments don't censor AI models. For both the left and the right the temptation will be too great and only squishy liberals have any ideological commitment to the idea of free speech.
TruthoutAs Elon Musk defends nude deepfakes, the FTC is moving to censor AI models trained to recognize historical injustices.
If HCD lets this absurd Beverly Hills SB 79 misinterpretation slide, it could amount to the biggest de facto rollback of pro-housing legislation in California history. cayimby.org/blog/sb-79-o...
SB 79 at one month: 1) Very encouraging signs of developer interest in actually using the law 2) New projects are all in high resource areas with exclusionary histories 3) We won’t see the full impact in most of the state’s biggest cities for another 5 year 4) Beverly Hills is on some bullshit
Aaron 🏗️🚲🌲🏀Most cities are doing their best to follow the law, but some are not. The worst is probably Beverly Hills, which is trying to use a shell game to disappear nearly 3,000 homes worth of zoned capacity. HCD should have nipped this in the bud, but there's still time for them to bring down the hammer.
YIMBYs, a new moment of triumph is upon us! Atherton, the Silicon Valley enclave that prohibits all but single-family homes, one of the most exclusionary towns in the country, has just received its first multifamily housing project (ever!) under @scottwiener.bsky.social’s SB79!
This is Bari Weiss’s rag and this story is having its intended effect. Don’t take the bait, moron.
Living in a neoliberal dystopian hellscapeLiberals will always choose fascism over socialism.
The DSA in Wilmingotn, N.C. has created a "crisis" by putting benches at city bus stops, after literal decades of the city promising and failing to do so.
Democratic Socialists’ bus benches remain, city mum on next steps | Port City DailyWILMINGTON — The handmade bus benches installed by the Wilmington Democratic Socialists of America have highlighted a problem nearly everyone agrees exists: most Wave bus stops have nowhere for riders...portcitydaily.com
The people they want to call "farmers" are just landowners. The actual farmers are living 16 people to a bedroom and hiding from the government kidnapping squads.
a worrying number of PETA's ads appear to be basically 'the writer's barely disguised fetish'
Arif "Felonious Munk" ShahidTerrible plan because my first, second, and third thoughts were all "either way it's getting ate."
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Robert PrinzIt’s incredibly weird to me that some people maintain conspiracy theories about the small, local non-profit I work for. They could literally just come to our 1 room office w no plumbing & see what we’re up to. But instead they prefer to maintain a myth that we’re shadowy, compromised evil doers?
couple in front of me is talking about vacations and the guy goes “yeah I didn’t even use transit at all when I was in Tokyo.” tf did you go to Tokyo for then?
“The city’s transition away from the car, tho fantastically chaotic, has become a global role model. Under mayor @annehidalgo.bsky.social, Paris was ‘the most influential city in the world’ says Canadian urbanist Brent Toderian. Hidalgo, stepping down after 12 yrs, exulted: ‘The bike beat the car.’”
How Paris beat the carThough chaotic, the city’s transition has become a global role modelwww.ft.com
Me, hopefully in the near future, when I forget a bottle opener while visiting my favorite Berkeley shops on Hopkins.
This is morally monstrous behavior. These are ordinary, innocent people that Trump is condemning to suffering & death out of political vindictiveness. Every decent human being, regardless of political party, should condemn it. Where is the fucking *anger*? From the press? From civic leaders? Pols?
FEMA said yes to Democratic disaster requests. Trump killed them anyway.President Donald Trump cast aside bipartisan precedent when he rejected eligible disaster requests from four blue states.www.eenews.net