Tech layoffs are a reminder that the US H1B system badly needs reform. Employees who helped build widely used and valued products deserve better than to scramble for a job or need to leave. Grace periods should be extended and the time to green cards should be much faster.
Today Cambridge has become the first city in Massachusetts to remove parking minimums for all use cases, everywhere - almost unanimously to boot too!
This is a huge victory for housing affordability in our city! 🧵
The @JoeBiden disaster declaration for #FionaPR bizarrely excludes Loíza, the island's one overwhelmingly Black municipality, despite widespread destruction from Fiona there. The five 90+% white municipalities are included.
#climatejustice
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it’s actually infuriating that the US is so centered on cars. we could have had one of the best train systems in the world if it weren’t for businessmen lobbying to profit off the car industry 🥲
fascinating!
funny enough, this construction is fairly common in Dominican spanish, and mostly vulgar words come to mind 😂. Interesting to see why some aspects of english were easier to learn than others 🤯
There's something deep and borderline unintuitive about most real-world problems just happening to be (informally) NP-Complete: hard to solve but easy to verify a solution to. It's this asymmetry that makes progress possible, as culture can record previous computational work.
Drycleaners, their devastating impact on our communities that nobody talks about, and a solution - a thread 🧵👇
As a strip mall owner, I've dealt with this issue for 15 years, and I'd like to address it here.
Hope this gets Retweeted so we save lives!
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