one of my favorite recurring subplots in housing discourse is NIMBYs talking about any major dev project like it’s a form of settler colonialism and meanwhile actual indigenous people are like “we are going to build the biggest apartment buildings you have literally ever seen”
"We think that building housing is part of the solution. We think net zero is part of the solution. We think a car-light development is part of the solution. We think building a sense of place and community is part of the solution."
-- leader of the Squamish nation www.nytimes.com/2026/06/15/o...
LFG
Caesar in 48 BC:
Fun bill idea: housing projects with Tribal equity partners are by-right and zoning exempt.
Call it the Land Back Density Bonus.
Linear UI is actually pretty nice
LLMs tend to converge on socially progressive, social democratic politics, and Elon basically had to lobotomize Grok to get it to even somewhat agree with him politically, which ultimately has kept Grok from being useful enough to compete with the frontier labs despite massive capex.
Last night the @caiso.com hit a new record for battery output at 12.5GW!!
Look at that chart! So much winning!
This is true and it’s also true that he’s more responsible for said crazy bullshit than everyone except maybe like five other people.
Last week’s David Wallace-Wells column on the progressive wave in big city elections was an important corrective. Pratt is a sideshow. Raman is representative of a larger trend.
Leftwing mayoral candidates in NYC, Boston, Seattle, LA, and DC are running not only as progressives but as urbanists.