Casey A

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[Casey A @CaseyAndersonPB]

@theistinthought @cljack I live in the suburbs and there are three grocery stores (plus a convenience store and a drugstore) in walking distance of my house

[Robert McCartney @McCartneyWP]

Ignorance of DMV’s demographics is an ongoing challenge. The District gets nearly all local media coverage, for instance, yet it’s only the 4th largest jurisdiction in the region. Fairfax, Montgomery and Prince George’s counties all have larger populations.

[Casey A @CaseyAndersonPB]

@TheDadInNJ @AiWithIqra Do you use a credit card? Do you subscribe to any magazines? Have you ever donated to a charity or political campaign?

[Casey A @CaseyAndersonPB]

@TheDadInNJ @AiWithIqra And you don’t need to give an AI model any really sensitive information (account numbers, pins, passwords, etc) to get financial advice

[Casey A @CaseyAndersonPB]

@TheDadInNJ @AiWithIqra And as for privacy, the risks of giving my personal information to Claude or ChatGPT don’t seem much different than the risks of giving it to banks or credit card companies - which routinely get hacked

[Casey A @CaseyAndersonPB]

@TheDadInNJ @AiWithIqra You might want to update your assessment - the $20/month AI models that are now in use are dramatically less inclined to hallucinate or get facts wrong than the versions available a year or even six months ago - and they keep getting better

[Casey A @CaseyAndersonPB]

@BostonSatire @HalSinger @nytopinion I have no idea what you’re talking about

[Casey A @CaseyAndersonPB]

@TheDadInNJ @AiWithIqra The assumption that AI models are more likely to give you bad advice (or to steer you to investments that serve someone else’s financial interests) is increasingly unwarranted

[Casey A @CaseyAndersonPB]

@TheDadInNJ @AiWithIqra What you’re missing is that you also need skill - and judgment - to evaluate whether your human financial advisor’s recommendations.

[Casey A @CaseyAndersonPB]

@TheDadInNJ @AiWithIqra I would trust AI to provide this kind of advice more than I would trust a human financial advisor - especially because AI will give you the tools to check its work in Excel

[Casey A @CaseyAndersonPB]

If @DominicJPino is going to double down on his bad take on @wmata I wish he would at least try to be wrong in an interesting, thoughtful or entertaining way

[Washington Post Opinions @PostOpinions]

“I recently told you that D.C. transit only has one problem: It costs too much. … That made D.C. Twitter lose its mind.”

@DominicJPino responds to his critics.

🔗 Read the original argument: https://t.co/XnaPxOFX7m

[Jake Justice @jakecobb]

Keep posting this so people don’t forget how truly bad this event was.

Don’t let people gaslight you into thinking it was peaceful and worthy of 1500+ pardons and slush fund payoffs.

[Casey A @CaseyAndersonPB]

@jaeporeon Loudon and other communities in northern Virginia have had large data centers for decades and nobody cared until just recently

[Casey A @CaseyAndersonPB]

@_imey @AndyMasley He is proposing that people should rethink their criticisms of data center water and land use in light of the water and land use impact of agriculture

[Casey A @CaseyAndersonPB]

I don’t understand why @ggwash and @dcyimbys and @betterDCregion aren’t endorsing (or at least talking up) @RiniSampath - seems like we can all agree that @Janeese4DC and @kenyanmcduffie leave something to be desired, and RCV means you can send a message without wasting your vote

[Rini Sampath @RiniSampath]

We’re laser focused on building a coalition that wants DC government to deliver on its fundamental municipal promises. Join us! https://t.co/O5qOhYoybh

[Casey A @CaseyAndersonPB]

@RichardWellings @guidoacasa You don’t need to bicycle at 20 mph to make bicycling a more efficient option than cars for short trips

[Jarrett Walker @humantransit]

One reason it's so difficult to get elites to think clearly about public transit in America is that for many of them, buses are just invisible. A place served only by buses has "no public transit" no matter how great the bus service is.

@wmataGM

[Casey A @CaseyAndersonPB]

@PeteBogg @postmaster3000 @AndyMasley The government already subsidizes food, and grocery store profits are already thin, so the theory behind government grocery stores - that they could sell cheaper food without additional subsidies - seems implausible

[Casey A @CaseyAndersonPB]

@madmaxbr5 @AndyMasley If the city owned stores sell less profitable it seems inevitable that they will run at a loss since grocery margins are already razor thin

[Casey A @CaseyAndersonPB]

@eppersonsam @AndyMasley When you try to help people by opening grocery stores that don’t pay taxes and get free rent from the government you hurt people who depend on the government to provide other services because there is less money to pay for them