lionel

Engineering at Carefeed, lecturer @UChicago. Previously @TegusHQ @braintree

[lionel @LionelBarrow]

Why are NYers so obsessed with trying to define who a “real” NYer is? We’re on like day 27 of the most boring discourse in the world. Who cares

[soul khan @soulkhan]

being born here should not be a new yorker criterion unless you want donald trump to count more as a new yorker than like half your neighbors. and frankly i wasnt born here but i am more of a new yorker than someone like vickie fucking paladino lol

[lionel @LionelBarrow]

@MoiraDonegan Why use workforce participation rate as a metric for how well a group is doing? Surely that number reflects a lot of complicated dynamics, including personal preferences?

[lionel @LionelBarrow]

@tomieinlove Maybe 35% are unwilling to cheat?

[lionel @LionelBarrow]

@redroomrantings Everyone thinks they are an above-average driver.

[lionel @LionelBarrow]

When Samuel dropped the Red Tailed Hawk

[O’Shea Jackson Jr @OsheaJacksonJr]

I saw it. Now you have to see it. His name is Samuel. And he…is a king.

[lionel @LionelBarrow]

@BigMeanInternet What people miss is that this is awesome. It's a world where the labs spend untold amount of capital creating a technology, but are unable to meaningful capture the value that technology creates. It's a really bull case for AI -- just not AI companies.

[lionel @LionelBarrow]

@mattyglesias I know the Biden administration was enamored of them, but beyond that I really don't get why they're taken seriously.

[lionel @LionelBarrow]

@hecubian_devil Another interpretation is that now that he's in a position where he's accountable for public safety, he's realized investing in the police is a good idea.

[lionel @LionelBarrow]

You love to see it!

[Colin Jackson @xcolinjacksonx]

Sam Altman, Gov. Gretchen Whitmer breaking ground at the Saline Twp data center project

[lionel @LionelBarrow]

@JeffO773 I’d support consolidating the districts but paying lawmakers a lot of money is a good thing. $101k is not enough to attract the kind of talent we need in the legislature.

[lionel @LionelBarrow]

@kevsaucebro The idea of saying “they have a law degree” as a defense against charges of economic illiteracy

[Hunter📈🌈📊 @StatisticUrban]

If someone owns land, they should have broad freedom to build whatever they believe there is demand for, whether housing, shops, offices, or something else, unless there is a genuine safety reason to say no.

[lionel @LionelBarrow]

@JonahKarsh @catvielma @ChicagoMPO Yea I don’t think this specific thing is the cause of their problems. But when a government with a history of disastrously bad housing policy adopts your favored idea, this isn’t something to trumpet.

[lionel @LionelBarrow]

@Tyler_A_Harper This really reads like the administrators just wished they worked at a tech startup. They’ve got “tech envy”.

I get that tech startups are cool, I’ve spent my whole career working at them, but shouldn’t a university administrator *want* to work at a university?

[lionel @LionelBarrow]

@JonahKarsh @catvielma @ChicagoMPO FWIW “England just implemented it country-wide” is really not an endorsement when you look at how terrible their housing outcomes are.

[lionel @LionelBarrow]

@JakeSheridan_ Who do you have in mind when you say “housing advocates love it”? I really don’t think that is true of most housing advocates in the city.

[lionel @LionelBarrow]

How do they know it was an accident?

[Polymarket @Polymarket]

NEW: Nebraska woman hospitalized after a dog in another vehicle accidentally fired a shotgun at her.

[lionel @LionelBarrow]

Setting aside that we haven’t seen anything “work” yet, it’s hard to see stuff like this as anything other than a total victory for my fellow Abundabros.

There’s no way someone like this would ever have conceded “removing onerous regulations” as a good idea even 3 years ago.

[katelin 🏳️‍🌈🇵🇸 @loudsocialist.bsky.social @loud_socialist]

Zohran is proving why Abundance alone never works. You build more AND protect tenants from displacement. You remove legitimately onerous regulations on zoning and add new regulations to protect workers. The messaging is about affordability, not unleashing the private sector.

[lionel @LionelBarrow]

Both write about many sides of housing, but have a lot to say about the finance side. In this post I’ve looked at some of their big ideas and what they could mean for YIMBY efforts: https://t.co/TYS9yv742A

[lionel @LionelBarrow]

YIMBYs have been gaining ground in reforming zoning laws, but I don’t think we pay enough attention to how homes - both apartments and SFHs - are financed.

Two of writers I like for this are @MikeFellman and @KAErdmann, who I see as friendly critics of the YIMBY movement.