One of the reasons that professional legal, medical, and financial advice services are expensive is you are buying the right to sue someone. That is a reasonable thing to want. Another reasonable thing to want is responsive answers on a best effort basis for one thousandth cost.

Idea: tax the difference between market and controlled rent as imputed income. This would effectively act as a (partial) federal de-control policy for the worst offenders, without banning rent control as such, plus it incentivizes full de-control (because local economies can get

Democracy lost to CEQA again. A San Diego appeals court invalidated voter-approved height limit removal because the environmental report wasn't detailed enough. The height limit removal was twice approved by voters, but was killed by three judges over documentation.

We need a new podcast where Dwarkesh Patel watches Star Trek with a guest for the first time and reacts in real time and we get to see all his Obsidian notes.

After months of hard work, we’re proud to unveil the statue we’ll build to honor the 250th anniversary of the United States. The Guardian of Liberty. What you see here is just the scale model. The real one will be gigantic, the tallest statue in the West. So many people have

This is awesome!

This is so clear about Boston. Very sad that Michelle Wu who I had really admired is against rider and pedestrian safety.

Man, this is a good idea. Every state should have a central database of developer permits that shows how long it takes, so that we can see exactly who and where are the bad actor bureaucrats dragging their feet to please NIMBY special interests.

Something Nathan Lambert has been writing a lot about and it is happening now. I hope we can react in time

i don’t think the usg should backstop datacenter loans or funnel money to nvidia’s 90% gross margin business. instead they should make it really easy to produce energy with subsidies and better rules, infrastructure that’s beneficial for all and puts us at parity with china

So far in 2025, The Ocean Cleanup has been collecting an average of 3200 kg of trash for every hour of the year.

If y'all care about ethics in AI at all this is the most open and shut case of something that needs to be severely penalised or prevented before it gets out of hand.

Very much agree

It’s the hyper-online anti-skilled immigration pundits who don’t get it. Trump voters widely agree with him that skilled immigration is good for America and Americans. The winning strategy here is to fix H-1B to end IT outsourcer abuse and put top talent in front of the line.

Wow, this is a significant positive update for me. I was beginning to think no big tech company would ever expose this feature externally. Many thanks to Pushmeet Kohli and Google for improving humanity's collective access to the truth!

This is shocking. Reasonable Irish people need to recognise this for what it is - blatant anti semitism. De-naming a small Dublin City park honouring a Jewish Irish man simply because he went on to become a President of Israel.

Zipline's Africa operations are growing faster than ever. Peak of 294 deliveries in a single hour. Surpassing 2,000 deliveries/day of blood, vaccines, antibiotics, antivenom, agricultural products, and 10k+ more essential items.

We Arnold Ventures are one of the largest funders of investigative journalism bc it has real public benefit but little commercial model. Still, one thing troubles me. A news outlet sees smoke and spends significant resources searching for a fire. When the fire is real, the work

$6.25 billion. 25 million children. $250 each. Susan and I believe the smartest investment we can make is in children. That’s why we’re so excited to contribute $6.25 billion from our charitable funds to help 25 million children start building a strong financial foundation

Dean W. Ball Substack I roll to disbelieve. Either it hallucinated a problem or it hit a paywall or something. Hamish McKenzie / Chris Best you might want to chime in here since some good people are agitated about this cc Samuel Hammond 🦉