Tom Laurino-Hanson

Just a guy. Enthusiastic about trees, TR, baseball, energy, lots of other things too.

[Sam Bowman @s8mb]

Land in NYC and San Francisco is so valuable now that reclaiming land from the sea today, as happened until the 1970s across America's greatest cities, would be like printing money. There is no engineering reason they can't – only a regulatory one.

[Josh Barro @jbarro]

Guy who's never had a job in his life going to bat for LIRR engineers' god-given right to be paid for two days of work if they drive two kinds of engines on the same day.

[Tom Laurino-Hanson @TJLH34]

@TheStalwart Especially fascinating once you realize that Satoshi is a time-traveling AI sent from the future to stimulate the buildout of computational infrastructure.

[YIMBYLAND @YIMBYLAND]

Trammel Crow built a version of the Chrystal Palace back in the 1980s in Dallas.

Today it's a huge data center and has THREE of it's own dedicated electrical substations.

Honestly, this would be a cool model for building new data centers and earning the trust of the public.

[Maxwell Tabarrok @MTabarrok]

This is what the water and sewage pumping station looks like in Buenos Aires

We can and should make the infrastructure of our civilization beautiful!

Probably the most important way to increase public support for datacenters too

[Mike Bird @Birdyword]

Absolutely astounding figures from the NY state comptroller: spending on services for the NYC street homeless population ran to $81,705 per person last year, up from $28,428 pp 6yrs ago. Figures do not include all kinds of other spending, supportive housing, policing costs etc.

[Tom Laurino-Hanson @TJLH34]

@Noahpinion They Jinping

[John Arnold @johnarnold]

I can’t believe New York State has a $10 bln deficit, NYC is facing its own $10 bln FY27 deficit, and 31 school districts are designated to be in fiscal stress and yet the state legislature is seriously considering doing this.

[Brad Hargreaves @bhargreaves]

The problem with the NYCHA no-new-towers campaign is it's a bridge to nowhere.

No white knight is coming in to bankroll $80 billion in repairs.

There's an actual plan to fund better public housing by cross-subsidizing with market-rate housing. The alternative is just hopium.

[Paul E Williams @PEWilliams_]

The fact that a Kennedy is opposing this redevelopment and the provision of decent housing for people living in deteriorating conditions is quite a shame.

Fulton Houses was built with funds JFK signed into law with the 1961 Housing Act. Here's what he said at the signing.

[Tom Laurino-Hanson @TJLH34]

@JBKSchlossberg This is such a helpful video because I was worried you might be an unserious influencer who cares more about social media videos than solving problems. And now I know for sure! Thanks.

[sam @sam_d_1995]

@JBKSchlossberg this is some NIMBY slop man. really disappointing coming from you, this project would replace the dilapidated NYCHA complex with brand new apartments for every NYCHA tenant plus additional amenities for the neighborhood like a grocery store and healthcare facilities

[Ben Max @TweetBenMax]

Essentially, what the Mamdani administration should do ASAP is connect the city budget & (a new & improved version of) the Mayor's Management Report in a comprehensive plan for & explanation of spending, services, outcomes, & choices.

[Matthew Zeitlin @MattZeitlin]

i feel like it's important to demystify new york, what makes it distinctive is that a lot of people live there and that it's dense, that's it, everything else is a product of that, there's nothing magic, you just get a lot of stuff going on with a lot of people close together

[Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇸🇺🇦🇹🇼 @Noahpinion]

The GOP smell a winning issue when they see one

[The Public Domain Review @PublicDomainRev]

Happy #JellyfishDay! The oceans are increasingly full of these gelatinous invertebrates, provoking a range of responses in humans, from disgust to awe. The biologist and artist Ernst Haeckel was most certainly in the latter camp... https://t.co/XWyQoqoycj

[Tom Laurino-Hanson @TJLH34]

@xenocryptsite 1989 also had a Charter Revision Commission ballot question which completely overhauled the structure of the city government, after the US Supreme Court ruled that the previous structure (the board of estimate) was unconstitutional.

https://t.co/zQUZowl4He

[Tom Laurino-Hanson @TJLH34]

@mateosfo I loved your thread! Hopeful and inspiring. NYC is great, because people made it so, and we can make it even better - and make other places great in the same way!

The EB White essay is wonderful. If you haven’t read the rest, I recommend. https://t.co/fG5ljBTEFF

[Tom Laurino-Hanson @TJLH34]

E.B. White:
“The citizens of New York are tolerant not only from disposition but from necessity. The city has to be tolerant, otherwise it would explode in a radioactive cloud of hate and rancor and bigotry…

[(((Matthew Lewis))) cults & consequences @mateosfo]

It's that NYC *is the antidote to hate.* I've always believed this but New Yorkers are the friendliest people in the world. Nobody bats an eye at anything: The Islamic family with women in hijab walking past gay bars in Chelsea, Churches offering to shelter immigrants from ICE...

[Tom Laurino-Hanson @TJLH34]

If the people were to depart even briefly from the peace of cosmopolitan intercourse, the town would blow up higher than a kite. In New York smolders every race problem there is, but the noticeable thing is not the problem but the inviolate truce.”