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So let me get this straight: masks are bad and un-American if worn to fight a pandemic, but good if worn by people claiming to be government agents when they kidnap people off the street

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newsrooms of the world did u know that when Rümeysa Öztürk gets out you can pay her to write an editorial, and then publish it? did u know that if all of you did this it would be a whole thing and a good one

submitted 2 days ago • 28 comments

Right-wing activists just paid a white woman $700,000 after she called a ten-year-old black kid the n-word, so I’m not totally sure I buy the notion that we are beset by cancel culture. www.nytimes.com/2022/03/18/o...

submitted 2 days ago • 3 comments

The economic state of affairs that allowed Gates to accrue the money he uses to do what he does is the same state of affairs that allowed Musk to purchase a seat in government and kill those children. Structurally, they happened for the same reasons. Curious if Gates has any new thoughts on that.

submitted 3 days ago • 9 comments

Conservative prosecutors under Biden said that his testimony was confused and can't be relied on, and it was a multi-week, breaking-news-push-notifcation news story. Conservative lawyers WORKING FOR TRUMP said that his remarks are confused and can't be relied on and it won't make page A18 tomorrow

submitted 3 days ago • 3 comments

writing is THINKING. Learning to write well means learning to think well.

submitted 4 days ago • 35 comments

Are you or someone you know itching to do something constructive in the face of all of Trump's destruction? I have an idea for how to use you. Who's in?

submitted 5 days ago • 7 comments

“Echoing other suits against RealPage, New Jersey accused the company and landlords of colluding to set rents for apartments statewide based on the company’s algorithmic pricing software.” www.multifamilydive.... via: Multifamily Dive #housing+ #urbanism #urbanism+

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There is a lot of commentary about how universities have become politically homogenous. This view misses the point. There is plenty of ideological diversity within American universities. There is little partisan diversity though, because the Republican Party has radicalized. 1/3

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Here is my essay on full employment: rooseveltinstitute.org/blog/full-em...

submitted 12 days ago • 2 comments

You cannot separate AI from its intended purpose. The reason the corporate world is so financially and rhetorically invested in AI is that it's the latest attempt for capitalists to achieve their dream of surplus value extraction without labor.

submitted 12 days ago • 3 comments

Free speech and free association to them are when you have to like them. Their conception of freedom is completely tied to their sense of domination over others. bsky.app/profile/katt...

submitted 13 days ago • 14 comments

One thought I keep coming back to is how much clearer our housing debates could be without the YIMBY/NIMBY terms. “Do you support public housing?” is a much easier debate for me to follow (even with all its intricacies) than “are you a left-YIMBY, center-YIMBY, right-YIMBY or anti-YIMBY?”

submitted 13 days ago • 1 comment

New from me: "...advocates should be prepared to make a compelling case against any cuts to housing programs. Unfortunately, merely arguing that there should be a right to affordable, decent, and stable housing will be insufficient to convince many to maintain federal funding for these programs."

submitted 13 days ago • 0 comments

some dumb motherfuckers , even libs , act like the relative lack of conservative professors is a problem . but american conservatism is an anti intellectual movement! might as well ask why there’s a lack of vegan chefs in brazilian steakhouses

submitted 15 days ago • 40 comments

It's almost taboo in some circles these days to talk about the growing power of large, institutional landlords & financialization, because it somehow might distract from "just build" advocacy. More than one thing can be problem at same time, & market concentration & financialization issues are real.

submitted 16 days ago • 0 comments

In 2024, landlords filed more than a million evictions in the 30+ cities and 10 states we monitor. While some jurisdictions showed progress, others revealed concerning trends. We’re sounding the alarm in several cities. Learn more in our 2024 report: evictionlab.org/ets-report-2...

submitted 17 days ago • 1 comment

LLMs are nothing more than models of the distribution of the word forms in their training data, with weights modified by post-training to produce somewhat different distributions. Unless your use case requires a model of a distribution of word forms in text, indeed, they suck and aren't useful.

submitted 17 days ago • 58 comments

Curtailing people’s ability to read widely and carefully, to locate, assess, and compare different sources for themselves, and to write in their own voice about what they find and what it means, is arguably more effective than censorship. It is also one of the most obvious effects of generative AI.

submitted 30 days ago • 16 comments

Wow. Necropolitics at its finest.

submitted 31 days ago • 2 comments

Pleased to announce that my article with Steve Holloway, "Underestimating Racism? Decoupling Race and Redlining," in the Annals of the American Association of Geographers has received the IPUMS Spatial Research Award. 🔗 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

submitted 31 days ago • 4 comments

Not a single time in this article glorifying the need for sprawl to address the US's affordable housing crisis is there a mention of the vast transportation costs of sprawling living patterns. Nor is there mention of the fact that sprawl is directly linked to disinvestment in urban cores.

submitted 31 days ago • 117 comments

Yeah. This is some grotesque cultural production boomerang of the "embedded reporter" with the military in Iraq

submitted 33 days ago • 0 comments

Has anyone checked on the WH pharmacy lately? 👀

submitted 34 days ago • 0 comments

Is Walk Score white score? Deconstructing a walkability algorithm in the context of racial capitalism with @annalivia.bsky.social & Frechette (Journal of Race, Ethnicity & the City) www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... Let's rethink walkability=proximity and place rankings amid racialized inequity

submitted 51 days ago • 4 comments

The National Public Housing Museum opens Friday. While many Chicagoans are familiar with the disinvestment, decaying buildings and gang violence associated with the projects, the museum aims to paint a fuller picture of the history of public housing. www.wbez.org/arts-culture...

submitted 38 days ago • 9 comments

Me, a 25 year broadband policy expert: Ezra Klein's complaints about rural broadband suggest he didn't do his research because he misrepresents some programs, and ignores others that accomplished exactly what he's asking for. Klein fans: you just don't understand what he's saying! (repeat 40x)

submitted 37 days ago • 141 comments

Revealed preferences theory suggests that Wall Street executives value their ability to call their subordinates gay at approximately 8 trillion dollars

submitted 38 days ago • 47 comments

Exceptionally long, but familiarly pompous and uniformed, puff piece on the “good” nativism of Mette Frederiksen in Denmark. Completely ignores most basic data and, of course, any academic research. Some quick points 🧵

submitted 38 days ago • 2 comments