🔰Adam Walker

I leave toilets cleaner than I find them. Deregulate Housing. Built startups abroad for 10 years in Kosovo, Chile, Kenya & India. 1 exit.

[🔰Adam Walker @walkadm]

“The existence of black ghettos is a visible reminder of our inequalities and history, a reminder whose implications are so uncomfortable that we find ways to avoid them...

[🔰Adam Walker @walkadm]

I'm on a bullet train from Paris -> Bordeaux ... and there's decent internet.
The U.S. has a long way to go 😢

[🔰Adam Walker @walkadm]

@AsadFromNYC @Colin_d_m Thank you for pointing this out!

[Michael Wiebe @michael_wiebe]

Incredible stuff happening in New Zealand.

This report proposes a legal framework where going over an objective threshold of housing scarcity (a premium on higher-density land prices) would trigger *automatic* upzoning.

[Daniel Trubman @dmtrubman]

City dwellers might not like somebody else pointing this out, but as a NYC resident I'd had to agree that it's incredibly coersive to the soul that bad land-use regulations & social services policies mean you just have to constantly ignore people on the street like this.

[🔰Adam Walker @walkadm]

@DominaNaomii Hah. Hardly. I'm a socialist and I'd happily pay more in taxes to provide housing to the homeless.
Please look up "Land Value Tax" - this is what economists have been arguing for for over a century. It's one of the root cause of the housing crisis.

[🔰Adam Walker @walkadm]

@llrmiller @JackRNewhouse @Rationalist69 @mattyglesias These are all important and valuable. Thank you for highlighting.
If only Musk could have been done in a non politicized way - it wouldn't have pissed so many people off - also the waves of indiscriminate firings and killing USAID were just poor optics but the admin didn't care

[𓂀Light-Dressed Night𓁥 @LittlePurr76]

@BoliouLou @Logically_JC Ah yes, the famous "ethics" of the right wing.

"Wish or do no harm unless they disagree with right wing ethos."

[Andy Masley @AndyMasley]

I basically think the average voter is pretty wrong on:

1) Nuclear power (it's good)
2) Foreign aid (we spend very little on it and should spend more)
3) Climate change (a majority say they're not willing to have any additional amounts of their tax money spent on climate. The national average willingness to pay for things that help with climate is ~$300 per year)
4) Immigration (I think it's broadly good across the board, and definitely good to get more high skilled immigrants specifically)
5) Price controls in general (bad!)

I'd like governments to patiently nod along to voter concerns but quietly approve more nuclear, spend more on foreign aid, pay way more on climate, and allow at least more high skilled immigrants. I just flat out think it's wrong for politicians to have 1-1 similar views to the median voter and sometimes they need to diverge.

[urbanist slop hq @SlopHq]

"cyclists don't pay for roads" buddy nobody pays for roads. the gas tax covers maybe a third, the rest is general funds, which means the lady on the bike is subsidizing your left turn lane. she should be the angry one

[miss moss ball 𓂃 ོ☼𓂃 @rissaoffline]

This is how we fix America. Men love trains

[🔰Adam Walker @walkadm]

@DominaNaomii @ColObviousSir @maxdubler How does what you said make sense? The reason many units are vacant is because the cost of maintenance is higher than the rent. The housing market is not charity. Provide vouchers instead of price controls.

[Jay Parsons @jayparsons]

Remember when San Francisco banned algorithmic rent pricing in fall 2024?

They promised at the time that "we're taking action locally to ensure our working renters can afford to live here."

Good reminder: It's all about supply and demand, not conspiracy theories.

[Andy Boenau @Boenau]

"The bike lane is empty."

[Dwarkesh Patel @dwarkesh_sp]

In medieval times, within the arms race of ever more demonic torture devices, some sadistic genius came up with the idea of the Little Ease.

This was a prison cell built so small in every dimension that a grown man could not stand upright in it nor lie down at full length nor properly sit.

The pain is relentless and without relief and inflicted by one's own body. Prisoners were known to go insane within a few days. A stay at the Little Ease was considered even more cruel than the rack, the thumbscrew, and the other ghoulish machinery of the Tower of London.

A breeding pig will spend her whole life in a version of that box.

These are social, roaming creatures (more intelligent than dogs) who will never leave this corset of steel.

They have been selectively bred to be bigger than their frames can support. Yet we put them in cells so confined that they cannot comfortably sit, and their attempts to do so (for example, by sneaking their limbs into adjacent stalls) reliably lead to fractures and sprains.

They cannot sweat, yet have nothing to roll around in to cool themselves off. Except their own manure, which (contrary to the common misconception) they are so averse to (thanks to their strong sense of smell) that new sows will often suffer from constipation to avoid soiling the space from which they eat and sleep.

Here is how the writer Matthew Scully described what saw at one of Smithfield’s “gestation barn”:

> “Sores, tumors, ulcers, pus pockets, lesions, cysts, bruises, torn ears, swollen legs everywhere. Roaring, groaning, tail biting, fighting, and other “Vices,” as they’re called in the industry. Frenzied chewing on bars and chains, stereotypical “vacuum” chewing on nothing at all, stereotypical rooting and nest building with imaginary straw. And “social defeat,” lots of it, in every third or fourth stall some completely broken being you know is alive only because she blinks and stares up at you … creatures beyond the power of pity to help or indifference to make more miserable, dead to the world except as heaps of flesh into which the [insemination] rod may be stuck once more and more flesh reproduced.”

—

The Save Our Bacon Act is trying to unroll the few state protections we have against this barbaric cruelty - for example California’s Prop 12 - which banned the sale of pork from pigs kept in gestation crates.

It’s incredibly important we don’t end up with this sort of federal preemption.

SOB will not only kill the most important animal welfare related laws in the US of the past decade, but more importantly, it will also restrict ALL future legislative progress (aka how the animal welfare movement has gotten its biggest wins).

The Senate is currently deciding whether to add the SOB Act to the Farm Bill.

With relatively little money now, we can discourage the most pivotal senators in the Ag committee from backing this amendment.

Defeating this bill is even more important given the amount of philanthropic funding I expect to come online in the next year or two.

It will plausibly be over 10x more expensive to repeal SOB than to prevent it from passing in the first place.

All that money that could be spent transforming our society's relationship to mass animal suffering will instead have to be spent just getting us back to where we are right now.

That's why money spent now fighting this bill (and I mean right NOW) is so effective.

If you’re in a position to donate six figures, please DM me.

[🔰Adam Walker @walkadm]

@jonbrooks @PEWilliams_ 1% vacancy in New York with shitty tenement apartments selling for millions of $. Must not be a shortage.

[TheFrenchie @ML3democrats]

Remember when they said Zelensky desecrated the sanctity of the White House by not wearing a suit

[🔰Adam Walker @walkadm]

@ZhenDeRen @LinkofSunshine Both in downtown Brooklyn.

[Mike Levin @MikeLevin]

This is really stupid, and it’s not getting enough attention.

The Trump administration is pulling a working $368 million ocean monitoring system out of the water, equipment taxpayers already bought, built, and sank into the deep ocean.

And they are doing it right when the oceans are behaving in ways that alarm the scientists who study them.

Record-breaking temperatures.

A system of Atlantic currents that may be lurching toward collapse.

The response?

Yank out the instruments and walk away.

That is not budgeting. That is smashing the gauges while the engine is on fire and calling it efficiency.

For what? The Trump administration dressed it up as a “nimbler approach” and “smart lifecycle management,” which is fancy nonsense for “we shut it off and hoped nobody would ask why.” There is no return-on-investment analysis. They cannot show taxpayers save a dime, because the gear is already paid for and the science it produces protects real money and real lives.

The kicker: the same people killing the monitors want to mine the deep sea for minerals. So they are destroying the only tools that could measure what that mining does. That is not an accident.

That is the point. You cannot see the damage if you break the instruments first.
https://t.co/MzE4AW1QBv

[🔰Adam Walker @walkadm]

@NoahEpstein_ Great article and to read your story @NoahEpstein_ - thank you for writing it.

[🔰Adam Walker @walkadm]

@honeymoonhrts @raclinton @maIditaconeja @ayatr0llah Can you explain in more detail "the issue"? It sounds like it's problematic to you that the New York economy is desirable to draw people to move there - is that your argument?