Easton Smith

housing affordability, dangers of emerging tech, especially biosecurity | msc bioethics + mpp

[Easton Smith @EastonLSmith]

Major study: If the US had more liberal zoning from 1964-2009

GDP would be 3.4 trillion dollars larger, 17.9 trillion instead of 14.5

The median worker would take home ~9,000 USD more per year than they do today

https://t.co/bL6Zuc09Dt

[Easton Smith @EastonLSmith]

I took the old version of the biosecurity course. It was excellent.

[Will Saunter @willsaunter]

Our biosecurity course is back at @bluedotimpact

We need better defences to prevent, detect and respond to pandemic threats.

If you want to identify where you can contribute and get funded to start building, this course is the place to start.

[Easton Smith @EastonLSmith]

Very very glad to see this https://t.co/x1WJwA9t7C

[Easton Smith @EastonLSmith]

https://t.co/kjEiUfLZQH

US ROAD to Housing Act from Scott & Warren would create model zoning codes and pay cities that add more homes. It is modest but could lay the groundwork for a federal role in easing housing shortages.

Could seed “Right-to-Build" special economic zones

[Ezra Klein @ezraklein]

In the last few years we've seen:

- The plot to kidnap Gretchen Whitmer
- The Storming of the Capitol and pipe bombs left at the RNC and DNC
- The break-in to kidnap Nancy Pelosi and the brutal on Paul Pelosi
- Multiple assassination attempts against Trump
- The assassination of Minnesota House Speaker Melissa Hortman and her husband and the shooting of on State Senator John Hoffman and his wife
- Luigi Mangione's assassination of Brian Thompson
- The assassination of Charlie Kirk

Political violence is contagious. It is spreading. It is not confined to one side or belief system. It should terrify us all.

The foundation of a free society is the ability to participate in it without fear of violence. Political violence is always an attack against us all. You have to be so blind not to see that.

[Easton Smith @EastonLSmith]

This Tesla driver is loving the District of North Van's special twist on its section of the Spirit Trail.

[Easton Smith @EastonLSmith]

Canada gives up on Canadian dream

https://t.co/rcNqQne4LR

[Easton Smith @EastonLSmith]

ranked choice is sweet https://t.co/qlUUwYCLMF

[Easton Smith @EastonLSmith]

Hopefully ASLs achieve a better safety than BSLs have

[Rob Wiblin @robertwiblin]

This is cool. Sets the bar for competitors.

New Claude Model Triggers Stricter Safeguards at Anthropic:

[Tom @TomDAAVID]

Ursula von der Leyen: "When the current budget was negotiated, we thought AI would only approach human reasoning around 2050. Now we expect this to happen already next year."

https://t.co/K6A8psSLWE

[Easton Smith @EastonLSmith]

Interesting parallels between his Canadian grandfather's radical technocracy and Social Credit party work, and Musk's current politics. https://t.co/recpkbjpS0

[Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @ReichlinMelnick]

Andry entered the country legally at a port of entry to seek asylum.

But even if he HAD entered the country illegally, that would not justify him being labeled an "alien enemy" and sent to one of the worst prisons in the world with no due process.
https://t.co/tJfdXE1X1s

[Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @ReichlinMelnick]

NEW: An ACLU filing sheds light on how "Andry," the gay make-up artist sent to rot in a prison in El Salvador, ended up labeled "Tren de Aragua" by ICE.

Documents filed by ICE shows that the ONLY evidence ICE listed for membership in TdA was a tattoo of a crown with "mom" below.

[The Bulwark @BulwarkOnline]

"It is evil, and anyone that is involved with it is evil."

Trump and his cronies sent Andrys, a gay Venezuelan man, to an El Salvador prison camp to be beaten with no due process. @Timodc responds with a message of action and fury.

[Tim Miller @Timodc]

You are telling me this man is Tren De Aragua? He was so dangerous we had to send him to a foreign prison camp to be beaten with no due process?

Do you have any soul left @marcorubio?

[Justin Wolfers @JustinWolfers]

This chart seems to suggest that something is going wrong in the United States, specifically.
(https://t.co/rLn46bNP7W )

[Easton Smith @EastonLSmith]

@Liz_Cheney @JDVance ����

[Easton Smith @EastonLSmith]

@CitizenCohn Oops

[Easton Smith @EastonLSmith]

@JerryMoran @SecRubio Good. Repugnant this was in question.

[ian bremmer @ianbremmer]

share of federal spending on usaid, 1980-2024

[Alec Stapp @AlecStapp]

This is what even the mere threat of tariffs is doing to investment: