Jeff Mason

Head of Policy @ccidotcity

[Jeff Mason @JeffJMason]

New from @MarkLutter and I in @palladiummag:

Urban mismanagement and burdensome regulation are twin killers for American innovation. New cities built on federal land can spark an economic renaissance.

It's time to build the Presidio Freedom City.

[Pradyumna (in Bay Area) @PradyuPrasad]

My work at Elicit is out! We spent a lot of time trying to build the world's best systematic review evaluations.

I might be wrong, but I think this is the largest AI assisted SLR dataset in the *world* by 10x!!* We benchmark against ~994 papers versus ~100 for the next largest

[Jeff Mason @JeffJMason]

We're getting Hell Yeah Core edits from @wmataGM and you're still blackpilling?

[Metro Forward @wmata]

Metro Bus is the backbone of transportation in this region but 70% of people who ride don’t pay the fare! 😳🚍

More fares equal more service, more routes, shorter waits, cleaner buses, and improved wayfinding tools!

When everyone pays, everyone gets a better system! 🤝 🚌

[Jeff Mason @JeffJMason]

Le Corbusier should've been tried for crimes against humanity

[Daniel Wortel-London @dlondonwortel]

Proposal for the complete destruction/reconstruction of Boston, 1944.

I have absolutely no problem with this.

[Charter Cities Institute @CCIdotCity]

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[Jeff Mason @JeffJMason]

@Scholars_Stage Historic Annapolis and the immediate areas around it are great.

A lot of the Central Maryland suburbs, especially along the main DC-Baltimore routes, are a bit of a no man's land.

[Jeff Mason @JeffJMason]

@alt1na1 concepts of a birth plan

[Total NIMBY Death @BarneyFlames]

BASED ORANGE States not carving a billion different holes in the tax code

[Justin Champagne @ChampagneRacin]

One of Kyle Busch’s best quotes. We’ll never see a villain character like Kyle Busch again

[nascarman @nascarman_rr]

Kyle Busch took this picture from the driver's seat during the pace laps of the 2006 Daytona 500

[The Athletic @TheAthletic]

NEWS: Kyle Busch, one of the purest racing talents NASCAR has ever seen and winner of more national series races than any driver in history, has died after falling severely ill, NASCAR announced Thursday.

Busch was hospitalized this week and never recovered. He was 41.

https://t.co/fFBrK5bHGJ

[NASCAR @NASCAR]

A joint statement on behalf of the Busch family, Richard Childress Racing and NASCAR.

[Jan Sramek 🇺🇲 🌁 ⛰️ @jansramek]

The biggest shipyard in China and the biggest shipyard in South Korea both fit inside the Solano Shipyard.

6.5 miles of waterfront on a federal deep-water channel used by Panamax class, destroyer-sized ships.

There are 365,000 skilled workers within 50 miles.

Just sayin'.

[paige @midwesterneur]

the real blackpill is not even the neglected upkeep—that hideous condo complex (built 1968) blocks the southward view when the entire site was planned (1914) as a public space for concerts/lectures/picnics looking directly down 16th st to the washington monument & potomac river.

[𝖓𝖎𝖓𝖊 🕯 @atlanticesque]

1865 to 1929 was America’s true golden age and the fact that no modern milieu, party or personality claims it as its heir just shows how bankrupt our age is

[Jan Sramek 🇺🇲 🌁 ⛰️ @jansramek]

America's fastest-growing cities are all in exurbs, and that's not going to change.

Urbanists have two choices:

1) pretend this is not the case

(2) recognize that the only way to make these projects better is to invent and prove a new, different model, like @CAForever.

[KingoftheCoast @kingofthecoastt]

Sweden lets you short-sell your high school and there are still people who insist that America is a free country

[Total NIMBY Death @BarneyFlames]

IMF and World Bank need a militarized occupation force to impose benefits cuts

[Spum @spumdonor]

Cartoon Network being owned by a benevolent, eccentric, cartoon-loving hillbilly billionaire with a hands-off policy towards creatives up until about 2003 explains so much honestly

[Iain Murray @ismurray]

In days past, WF Buckley could have an erudite conversation with Groucho Marx about his interactions with TS Eliot.

There is clearly no modern parallel for this.

(I beg to be proven wrong)

[Foster @foster_type]

Despite Lee's tactical skill he was forced into a siege of Petersburg in two months while his the rest of the confederacy burnt across half a dozen different fronts. Again, Grant was not obliged to strategize symmetrically with Lee, he had more men and materiel and better coordination across theaters. Moreover he was fighting on enemy turf with long supply lines and exhausted men. He beat Lee, period.