Jon

I play guitar in a band called Blank Slate, and I like football and finance 🪐 Balaguer Guitars + Badcat Amps artist

[MorkusBorkus @MorkusBorkus]

We got Destiny’s entire life, death, and revival before GTA 6.

[Jon @JonVokal]

@carmencarrerax Im so stoked!!

[Mehtab | Karta Ventures @MehtabKarta]

I have so many of my friends that went out of business for literally no reason because they were running younger companies without the balance sheet to survive tariffs (which were repealed!).

Pure luck. Many promising businesses that were hiring people in the US, paying taxes, etc... toast for literally no reason.

Big companies survived np and now enjoy less competition...

[Paul Tassi @PaulTassi]

Destiny lives

All content will be unvaulted. New games are coming in the future

Vocal player pushback and showing up for Monument of Triumph was a big factor in this happening

Have never seen a reversal quite like this. Incredible

[Jon @JonVokal]

@Matt_Hougan @CoinbaseDuck It will soon.

[Jon @JonVokal]

@ben_sage the productivity gains are unfortunately very addictive.

[Jon @JonVokal]

Me, 3 weeks in to having full agency again

All my bosses and employers the past 4 years were great but absolutely no contest to the feeling of building something yourself alongside your friends

[Jon @JonVokal]

The secondary is 100% something that needs addressing if we want any chance at a championship this year though

[Jon @JonVokal]

The Lions 1-1 panic has happened every one of the last 4 years. Indicator of nothing.

We are missing 2 all pro safeties. 3/5ths of our starting offensive line. The Bills are very good. We started slow in the 1st quarter.

I think we’ll be okay

[Jon @JonVokal]

@MarkieP_ We have scored 62 points in 2 games. Offense isn’t the problem.

[Jon @JonVokal]

@BrettKollmann Elite front 7 with a grocery bag for a secondary

[Jon @JonVokal]

@DeTahmineh I use AI every day because I work in software development.

I refuse to use it for writing or art/music. After we’re gone, our soul lives on in what we created. It’d be a shame if that was an AI acting on your behalf.

[Jon @JonVokal]

@walterwhitepill Meat proxy is the word for it.

[Jon @JonVokal]

@APompliano Unemployment is low, stocks are up, and inflation is elevated, but thanks for the input.

Treasury market screaming for higher rates. I thought you liked free markets?

[zerohedge @zerohedge]

In 2024, the Powell Fed cut 50bps 2 months before the presidential election with core CPI at 3.3%

In 2026, the Warsh Fed hikes 25bps 2 months before the midterms with core CPI at 2.4%

[Jon @JonVokal]

Kevin Warsh already doing a hell of a job as fed chair.

[Brian Chesky @bchesky]

Yesterday I was in Austin, TX to announce the Airbnb Housing Accelerator, a $250 million commitment to help get more homes built.

Airbnb started because of a housing problem. My roommate and I couldn’t afford our San Francisco rent, so we rented out airbeds in our apartment. Today, housing is unaffordable for millions of people around the world.

If you step back and ask why housing has become so expensive, the biggest problem is pretty simple: we don’t build enough of it. America is short more than five million homes, more than all the housing in New York City and Los Angeles combined. We build fewer homes today than we did in 1950, even though the population has doubled.

Airbnb has been part of the housing debate, and we understand why communities have concerns. Dedicated Airbnb listings are a small share of the housing supply—about 0.5% here in Austin and 0.3% across the U.S. Restricting short-term rentals is an understandable response, but the evidence shows it doesn’t address the underlying problem.

New York City effectively banned Airbnb, and rents have risen about 30% since then. Austin took a different approach and passed reforms that made it easier to build more housing. Rents there are down 18%. Every city is different, but Austin is a clear success story.

We believe building more homes is essential to making housing more affordable. So we asked ourselves: what can Airbnb can do to help? We found a few places where we can.

Today, around 750,000 homes in the U.S. are ready to break ground, but are stuck because they can’t get the final piece of financing. That’s where we can help.

We’re doing four things:
1. Putting $250 million behind housing projects that unlock $5 billion in development.
2. Supporting local housing advocates working to modernize zoning, speed up permitting, simplify building codes and reduce unnecessary costs.
3. Creating a $5 million Housing Innovation Prize for technologies that can make homes faster and cheaper to build.
4. Launching the Airbnb City Index to make it easier to see which cities are building housing, becoming more affordable and adopting policies that work.

Our first project is in Austin. We’re investing $6.4 million to help build 201 affordable apartments in St. John, a neighborhood where the land has sat empty for nearly 20 years. The community fought to turn this lot into affordable housing and won. But construction stalled for nearly five years because the developer was a few million dollars short. Airbnb came and played a small part to unlock this project.

None of these Austin apartments will ever be on Airbnb. Short-term rentals aren’t permitted. We’re investing anyway, because the goal is simple: help build more housing.

We’re starting in the U.S. because it’s the market we know best. I want to prove this works here before taking it further. But housing affordability is a global problem, and I hope we can eventually take what we learn here and apply it globally.

This is new for us. We’ll get some things wrong. And $250 million won’t close a five-million-home gap on its own.

I know there will be skepticism about this, and that's okay. Airbnb only works if communities trust us and feel good about our presence in them. We can’t ask people for that trust. We have to earn it. The best way to do that is to help solve problems in the communities where we operate.

That’s what the Housing Accelerator is about.

Brian

[Jon @JonVokal]

@DetroitOnLion I don’t think the Lions fanbase was ready to respect the Saints as an opponent as well. They looked really good 2nd half of last season. They just got hot too late.

Proven offensive and defensive scheme. Good players. QB is developing. They’ll end with a winning record imo.

[Jon @JonVokal]

@thefinnmckenty Very cool!

[Jon @JonVokal]

@philbak1 @NFLPlus 5 years running worst app of all time. Insane how they can’t figure it out.