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degree in political science and environmental law. YIMBY-fy America

[🎈 @TheTickle_]

Almost 100 years of consistent global temperature increase. Source @NASA

[Basil🧡 @LinkofSunshine]

In the 2001 Long Island City rezoning, the City removed height limits, raised the FAR from 2 to 12, and had 0 affordable income requirements

They projected ~300 new housing units on these 10 blocks

Almost 11000 units were built

[Jason, @jasonc_nc]

The solution to big government controlling our lives is to have government:

-stop people from building strip malls, which are then filled with businesses people willingly patronize.
-ban property owners from selling their own property, if it will be a data center.
-prohibit new electrical transmission.
-ban people from using their land for wind or solar power generation.
-stop people from accessing foreign markets.
-deter the open practice of religion (unless my own)

Seems like an awful lot of government here.

[Marc Hyden @Marc_Hyden]

Government helps housing market reach new lows https://t.co/BMF9sXOrrP

[The Mind Scourge @TheMindScourge]

Probably 38% of Americans live 5 miles or less from a data center. Most of them are completely unaware of it

But in today’s information environment, *anything* which becomes public is immediately hated and torn to shreds

Public opinion is just relentlessly negative right now

[ApoStructura @ApoStructura]

AI dadacenters just don’t use that much water, there’s a panic over almost nothing.

Here is a short animation to put AI water use in context:

[Roberto Blake 🇺🇸🇵🇦 Creative Entrepreneur @robertoblake]

I want more data centers.
I want more nuclear power plants.
I want more water desalination plants.
I want more high speed transport.
I want more automated warehouses.
I want more 3D printing.

I want an abundant, advanced, high trust society… no longer stifled by doomerism, neuroticism and cowardice.

[clara the urbanist @SlopHq]

my rent went up $200 and three people told me it was because of corporate landlords and one guy explained it was airbnb and nobody mentioned that my neighborhood built 41 units last year in a city that added 9,000 jobs. i am a supply curve.

[nic carter @nic_carter]

It’s really interesting that there’s basically a bipartisan consensus based on complete and trivially debunkable falsities, namely that

- datacenters consume meaningful amounts of water (they don’t)
- datacenters are responsible for power prices increases over the last decade (they aren’t - inflation and decarbonisation in blue states is)
- datacenters impose costs on local communities (they generally enrich them and make life better)
- datacenters are being built “for flock mass surveillance” (flock accounts for, generously, 0.01% of the DC buildout)
- datacenters create noise and other pollution (they don’t)
- datacenters are being built in residential areas (they aren’t)
- datacenters get tax abatements that entirely eliminate their tax burden (never the case- abatements typically only cover a small fraction of taxes, and DC pay a half dozen different type of taxes that go to the state and city, they are always net and meaningful taxpayers)

Virtually everything your conspiracy minded friend believes about datacenters is false. It’s also completely trivial to debunk using a simple google search or AI query but these people just blindly trust a random tiktoker sitting in their car instead.

Are there real objections? Sure. But the opponents of datacenters aren’t making them. They rely on outright falsehoods like DCs are poisoning the water, or creating droughts, or tripling power prices locally, or paying zero taxes.

Rare to see a popular consensus on both sides of the aisle that is basically a complete inversion the actual fact pattern.

[🎈 @TheTickle_]

@SamLaFranceNBA Why does he always look like a special needs kid

[space cadet 🇪🇺🌐🇩🇪 @actsmaniac]

The issue with the US moving to universal healthcare is that it's actually a rich country and people are used to receiving high-class "luxury" healthcare through their current private insurance.

Many of the current services and amenities would be unaffordable to provide to everyone in a public system.

The actually universal healthcare would be a barebones, economy-class type experience, with tight cost controls.

That's why the current plans seem unaffordable, they include the current "luxury" healthcare spending the US naturally as a super-wealthy country.

[🎈 @TheTickle_]

@LeeKuanYimby This man has been profiting off of engagement bait, twisting reality, and lies for years

[Swann Marcus @SwannMarcus89]

So I discovered something interesting today.

I keep hearing Francesca Hong is running some innovative campaign where she isn’t spending money on TV and it’s working like a charm. This confused me because I have family in Wisconsin and I know for a fact there are tons of Francesca Hong ads on TV - there actually seem to be more ads for her than any of her opponents. So I thought "gee, if Hong isn’t spending money on TV and the Democratic Establishment hates her, who is paying for all this ad time?”

A lot of Hong’s direct TV advertising came from a super pac called Middle Class Priorities. Middle Class Priorities only has one donor, Progressive Prosperity Caucus, Inc. And what is Progressive Prosperity Caucus, Inc? A fake GOP slush fund run by Republican operatives that’s spent millions of dollars getting leftists nominated in swing districts. Most leftists who have won swing district primaries are being funded by the GOP btw, that’s why so many of them claim they won despite being outspent. William Lawrence had massive Super PAC support from an organization called Michigan Sunrise that came out of nowhere and conveniently timed its inception so it did not have to disclose its donors until after the election

On top of that, another Republican Super PAC spent 2.2 million dollars “attacking” Francesca Hong starting in early July. That’s weird - why would you waste money attacking a candidate who was barely leading in the polls at the time in a crowded primary? Because their “attack ads” only ran in extremely Democratic areas like Dane County and they were all about how you shouldn’t vote for Francesca Hong because she opposes Trump’s immigration agenda.

They were fake attack ads meant to improve her standing with Democratic Primary voters. Francesca Hong’s spike in support happened in mid-July, at the exact same time a GOP Super PAC launched an ad campaign meant to make Democratic Primary voters think the Republicans are scared Francesca Hong will stop their immigration priorities

The Republicans have spent more money on TV advertising for Francesca Hong than every Democratic candidate has spent combined. Literally her entire TV footprint is Republican Super PACs. She currently has zero dollars of her own television ad buys lined up, has spent zero dollars on TV ads the entire campaign, has no support from outside money that isn’t a Republican psyop, has one-tenth of Tom Tiffany’s cash on hand, and can’t receive support from the DNC because the party is broke

People are underestimating what a blood bath this is going to be. She’s already behind in the polls and the second the primary is over every penny of Francesca Hong’s TV advertising disappears and the GOP will spend tens of millions of dollars on ads about how she’s a radical police abolitionist who hates Valentine’s Day, is grotesquely obsessed with her son’s ethnic heritage, and pals around with a guy who said America deserves 9/11. There will be no response to these ads because Hong doesn’t have any money for ad buys and all of her Super PAC support came from Peter Thiel

[Peter St Onge, Ph.D. @profstonge]

For the socialists dreaming of the Scandinavian model, that means *cutting* taxes on the rich in half.

While hiking them *3 times* on everybody else until they pay half their salary 🙌

[Solvaix @Solvaix]

$31 MILLION HOTEL. EVERY PIPE AND WIRE MAPPED IN ADVANCE. BUILT BY TYPING SENTENCES INSTEAD OF PLACING THEM BY HAND.

A 190-room hotel needed its ductwork, plumbing, electrical, and fire suppression modeled and coordinated before construction could start.

The design team connected Kimi K3 to their modeling software through MCP, then had it read photos of the blueprints alongside plain English descriptions of each system and build the model directly instead of placing every component by hand.

Old process: 3 engineers, 6 weeks, around $47,000.

New process: 1 engineer confirming the AI's output, 9 days, roughly $10,500 combined, engineer's time plus AI compute.

Coordinated models finished this way cut change orders by 60 to 80 percent once construction begins.

See the article below for a smaller example of the Kimi K3 + Blender MCP workflow.

[❥ hazel ︻デ═一 @BluebriarArts]

Just saw a cop without a service weapon #HereComesTheTickleMonster

[YIMBYLAND @YIMBYLAND]

> $195 MILLION **UNDER** BUDGET
> 5 YEARS **AHEAD** OF SCHEDULE

PUT THESE GUYS IN CHARGE OF LITERALLY EVERYTHING AND AMERICA WILL BE UNSTOPPABLE.

[space cadet 🇪🇺🌐🇩🇪 @actsmaniac]

Truth nuke in the FT comment section on Berlin rent control

[🎈 @TheTickle_]

@botticellibimbo Self-help book readers want the wisdoms of a life lived to be packaged and simplified for them via well-organized bullet lists for their smooth brains to comprehend.

[bug girl @buggirl]

i hate babies i think they shouldn’t be allowed in public oh what do u mean women who are the majority of primary carers can’t just leave their babies home by themselves well i don’t care they should just stay home and be excluded from society too. i am very feminist and woke

[🎈 @TheTickle_]

@Legacyofembiid Boathouse row will always be S tier to me