Trump’s keeps saying about as clearly as you can that he plans to use the pardon power to encourage his supporters to do crimes.

16 homes approved in 3 months so far this year. twitter.com/sfplanning/sta…

Another entry in the 'outside agitator' file. This time it's the literal agent of a foreign military.

This is quite literally the reason you block people

this report out of UCLA found that for every low income (ELI) unit created with inclusionary zoning (IZ) roughly 5 total units were lost due to the tax on housing. it also concluded rents stabilized without IZ vs with it

Please share any recommendations you have on how to learn how to use GPT’s better - DM’s, newsletter, Discord/Slack, Twitter accounts.

Currently looking for a good frontend for the OpenAI API but anything will do

But how many of them are affordable??? twitter.com/ViraniAlim/sta…

When I applied to my US Sentencing Commission gig someone who worked there called me up, “You’re perfect for this role but reapply and copy the job description exactly. Take out everything else even if it makes sense.”

That’s gov hiring for you!

Incredible from Santi Ruiz interview with Jennifer Pahlka about government hiring processes and how absurd they can be.

TBH, I wouldn't be shocked if many large corporations also have unintended perversities built into their initial screening of job candidates
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Unraveling America’s hydrogen train fixation, by Benjamin Schneider – open.substack.com/pub/benjaminsc… #trains #rail #DMUs #EMUs #passenger #freight #California #CA

Ralph Baric:

- Lab origin?: “You can't rule that out... You just can't.'

- Says Wuhan lab had insufficient biosafety

- Says Worobey papers don’t prove market as origin — too late: 'Clearly, the market was a conduit for expansion. Is that where it started? I don't think so.'

We have updated our California Housing Affordability Tracker with data through the first quarter of 2024. Purchasing a home in California remains historically unaffordable. lao.ca.gov/LAOEconTax/Art…

Look at this crowd. A perfect example of how subjecting the planning anything—transportation, housing, amenities, policing strategy—via “community meetings” just means giving veto power to a narrow, unrepresentative demographic of retirees with time for these meetings.

There's a lot of pro-Israel people wishing they were supporting a different government and war than the one they got, there's a lot of pro-Palestinian people wishing they were supporting organizations and movements other than the ones they actually got

Green groups will really be like 'you believe in permitting reform? that pales in effectiveness to my strategy, only permitting the good projects' and then not permit the good projects