DCava101

[Theo Jaffee @theojaffee]

People often ask why today's tech wealth doesn't go towards more public works, like libraries, universities, and museums during the late 1800s. As far as I can tell the answer is that they would literally not be allowed to be built.

In 2014, George Lucas, a long-time Bay Area resident who built Lucasfilm in the Bay, wanted to build a museum in the Presidio as a gift to the people of San Francisco, to be personally funded to the tune of ~$700 million. The Presidio Trust rejected it. He then tried to build it in his wife's hometown of Chicago, but local nonprofit Friends of the Parks sued and held the project up for two years, long enough for Lucas to give up on the city. The Lucas Museum of Narrative Art will finally open in Los Angeles next month after more than a decade of planning, eight years of construction, and over $1 billion personally spent by Lucas.

Meanwhile, San Francisco has built no major museum projects since the 2016 expansion of SFMOMA, and no new libraries since the North Beach Branch in 2014. Public works, like so many other things, are bottlenecked not by donor will or available funding but by vetocracy

[DCava101 @DCava101]

@letsgowa Washington needs an income tax! Stop with the constant property and sales tax increases!

[DCava101 @DCava101]

@brian_mac8419 @NEWSGUYSULLY @SoundTransit That's 20 months for install, right? So Seattle is cutting it to 6 month. Impressive!

[big_pedestrian @big_pedestrian]

Transit agencies have one purpose: Move people safely at scale. They are not:
- A jobs program.
- A chance to sell new tech, new fuel, American vehicles etc.
- Social services or housing
- A way to fund non-transit infrastructure
- A political project

One job: Move people.

[DCava101 @DCava101]

@loganb Also, she wasn't backed by the DSA. She probably has stronger critics among the loyal DSA than most centrists.

[DCava101 @DCava101]

@spokanerising @loganb Importantly, their reporting is always thorough and accurate. But they aren't afraid to include their opinion.

[DCava101 @DCava101]

@spokanerising @loganb Ryan has always been a realist ofen pushing against reactive blame. In particular, I'm often surprised at their support of Sound Transit decisions (including appointing Dow CEO). And they've never pretended to be neutral. They are openly an advocacy journalist.

[DCava101 @DCava101]

@loganb Who is paying them? Pretty sure there's (mistaken) genuine opposition to AVs among their base.

[DCava101 @DCava101]

@loganb @JerusalemDemsas @mattyglesias We need to bring back some level of taking it into your own hands at least increasing social pressure. E.g., anytime I ask someone to put in headphones or turn it down on the bus, everyone else looks away and I get zero backup. Makes me look like a Karen overreacting.

[DCava101 @DCava101]

@smooves_foods @jeremykauffman You say as you spend your day shit posting. Maybe take your X time and start cooking. We spend a lot of time in ways less valuable than cooking. And it can be quite fun too!

[Sandeep Kaushik @skaushik100]

On this is-he-fired-or-not question, the @MayorofSeattle needs to either shit or get off the pot. Because this situation right now, which is approaching 24 hours of uncertainty about whether the chief is still the chief or if he’s the former chief, projects weakness, vacillation, and chaos.

[DCava101 @DCava101]

@seattleiscrazy @SEATTLESUBMISS Yeah, definitely the most important question. If its less than 90% I say we shut it down and add 5.4 million more cars to the roads.

[Mike Nellis @MikeNellis]

Trump just dropped the charges against another crypto scammer behind a $722 MILLION Ponzi scheme.

This guy was guilty as fuck, and the case was about to go to trial. But I guess he put enough money in Trump’s pocket to stay out of jail.

Not surprising. Still infuriating.

[DCava101 @DCava101]

@NateSilver538 It's funny! It's a fun thing to mention and laugh about on vacation. A nice distraction from the war and inflation and gas prices.

[DCava101 @DCava101]

@TheFIREorg Um, aren't you a free speech org? Shouldn't faculty right to donate to whomever they like be protected?

[DCava101 @DCava101]

@DailyNoahNews @libsoftiktok Because Trump is a pedophile.

[DCava101 @DCava101]

@libsoftiktok Trump is a pedophile.

[Paul Graham @paulg]

A retired Minneapolis couple who had guns pointed at them by ICE in a church parking lot.

"They were obviously not trained at all. I've known many police officers in my life. These people were right off the streets."

"They had the professional demeanor of criminals."

[DCava101 @DCava101]

@mattyglesias [Pedant corner]: It was Border Patrol doing interior enforcement which is specifically the role of ICE.

[DCava101 @DCava101]

@MattPrinciple @mattyglesias Have you heard of a thing called democracy? Its the thing your 'enemies' are fighting for. You'll see in November how it turns out.