James everything is analog
@analogist.net
medtech 🩻, neuroscience 🧠 , cities 🏙️, environment 🌲, transit 🚍, infosec 🔐
Opinions my own. Every little detail matters and it’s all connected.
Opinions my own. Every little detail matters and it’s all connected.
Already hearing about banks stack ranking employees based on “amount of code generated by AI” so this will go great
Can't wait for the loosened up, non-perfect, but quickly shipped AI-enhanced updates to hit my banking and insurance services next year.
Im sure there will be no issues there at all.
Im sure there will be no issues there at all.
December 27, 2025 at 2:50 AM
Already hearing about banks stack ranking employees based on “amount of code generated by AI” so this will go great
Going past the J-line repaving and deeply feeling how every Seattle construction site has like THREE visible workers on multiple acres
Yes main issue to transit is NIMBYs, but it really doesn’t help when there isn’t personnel and you spend more time staging/de-staging daily than the actual work
Yes main issue to transit is NIMBYs, but it really doesn’t help when there isn’t personnel and you spend more time staging/de-staging daily than the actual work
December 26, 2025 at 8:15 PM
Going past the J-line repaving and deeply feeling how every Seattle construction site has like THREE visible workers on multiple acres
Yes main issue to transit is NIMBYs, but it really doesn’t help when there isn’t personnel and you spend more time staging/de-staging daily than the actual work
Yes main issue to transit is NIMBYs, but it really doesn’t help when there isn’t personnel and you spend more time staging/de-staging daily than the actual work
Very clear to me as cybertruck cuts through my majority renter neighborhood with low car ownership to get to the freeway 4 seconds faster
Cybertrucks are meant to be run people over machines
They offer the threat of running people over visually
It makes a very specific group of men very happy to think of running people over
That’s it
That’s what a Cybertruck is
They offer the threat of running people over visually
It makes a very specific group of men very happy to think of running people over
That’s it
That’s what a Cybertruck is
December 26, 2025 at 7:42 PM
Very clear to me as cybertruck cuts through my majority renter neighborhood with low car ownership to get to the freeway 4 seconds faster
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Cybertrucks are meant to be run people over machines
They offer the threat of running people over visually
It makes a very specific group of men very happy to think of running people over
That’s it
That’s what a Cybertruck is
They offer the threat of running people over visually
It makes a very specific group of men very happy to think of running people over
That’s it
That’s what a Cybertruck is
December 26, 2025 at 5:12 PM
Cybertrucks are meant to be run people over machines
They offer the threat of running people over visually
It makes a very specific group of men very happy to think of running people over
That’s it
That’s what a Cybertruck is
They offer the threat of running people over visually
It makes a very specific group of men very happy to think of running people over
That’s it
That’s what a Cybertruck is
Anyone: any housing proposal
NIMBYs: I am not against housing! but we need more studies
Anyone: literally any regulation
Cryptocurrency “industry”: we don’t oppose regulation, it’s just unclear! we need clarity
Anyone: Medicare for all plan
@mcuban.bsky.social: I support but no plan! We need plan
NIMBYs: I am not against housing! but we need more studies
Anyone: literally any regulation
Cryptocurrency “industry”: we don’t oppose regulation, it’s just unclear! we need clarity
Anyone: Medicare for all plan
@mcuban.bsky.social: I support but no plan! We need plan
My issue is that everyone wants legislation and assumes it will just all work. It won’t. Too many vested interests. Too much need for AI to make it all work, which will scare people and make them question it more.
If you have a written path to get from here to them. Just email it to me
If you have a written path to get from here to them. Just email it to me
December 26, 2025 at 2:08 AM
Anyone: any housing proposal
NIMBYs: I am not against housing! but we need more studies
Anyone: literally any regulation
Cryptocurrency “industry”: we don’t oppose regulation, it’s just unclear! we need clarity
Anyone: Medicare for all plan
@mcuban.bsky.social: I support but no plan! We need plan
NIMBYs: I am not against housing! but we need more studies
Anyone: literally any regulation
Cryptocurrency “industry”: we don’t oppose regulation, it’s just unclear! we need clarity
Anyone: Medicare for all plan
@mcuban.bsky.social: I support but no plan! We need plan
Here are what entitled NIMBYs said in 2013 to help kill the upzone
“Not only have we been bombarded by the… expansion of the Children's hospital… lower our property values”
“First Children’s Hospital and now Battlelle/Talaris - does anyone wory about traffic and the sense of a neighborhood?”
“Not only have we been bombarded by the… expansion of the Children's hospital… lower our property values”
“First Children’s Hospital and now Battlelle/Talaris - does anyone wory about traffic and the sense of a neighborhood?”
December 25, 2025 at 12:34 AM
Here are what entitled NIMBYs said in 2013 to help kill the upzone
“Not only have we been bombarded by the… expansion of the Children's hospital… lower our property values”
“First Children’s Hospital and now Battlelle/Talaris - does anyone wory about traffic and the sense of a neighborhood?”
“Not only have we been bombarded by the… expansion of the Children's hospital… lower our property values”
“First Children’s Hospital and now Battlelle/Talaris - does anyone wory about traffic and the sense of a neighborhood?”
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oooh oooh i have some thoughts on this...
1. abundant social housing
2. space for baugruppen and coops
3. a mixed use car-free ecodistrict w/ abundant open space and high quality public realm demonstrating what climate forward neighborhoods should do
www.theurbanist.org/2025/12/24/s...
1. abundant social housing
2. space for baugruppen and coops
3. a mixed use car-free ecodistrict w/ abundant open space and high quality public realm demonstrating what climate forward neighborhoods should do
www.theurbanist.org/2025/12/24/s...
City of Seattle Purchases 18-Acre Laurelhurst Property, Scuttling Sprawl Plans » The Urbanist
# The $64 million sale of the hotly contested Talaris property in Laurelhurst surprised housing advocates who had long been fighting sprawl and pushing for a more forward-thinking urban vision. But wi...
www.theurbanist.org
December 24, 2025 at 8:46 PM
oooh oooh i have some thoughts on this...
1. abundant social housing
2. space for baugruppen and coops
3. a mixed use car-free ecodistrict w/ abundant open space and high quality public realm demonstrating what climate forward neighborhoods should do
www.theurbanist.org/2025/12/24/s...
1. abundant social housing
2. space for baugruppen and coops
3. a mixed use car-free ecodistrict w/ abundant open space and high quality public realm demonstrating what climate forward neighborhoods should do
www.theurbanist.org/2025/12/24/s...
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“Like prime, but with human beings”
December 24, 2025 at 6:17 PM
“Like prime, but with human beings”
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This is how much key pollutants are spilling into the sand & ocean annually in Manhattan Beach. 326.6 lbs of Zinc comes from car tires, which are about 1% Zn by weight (UV sunscreen for tires). Implies 32,000 lbs of larger tire crumbs (we breathe smaller ones) on streets, missed by street sweepers
December 24, 2025 at 7:40 PM
This is how much key pollutants are spilling into the sand & ocean annually in Manhattan Beach. 326.6 lbs of Zinc comes from car tires, which are about 1% Zn by weight (UV sunscreen for tires). Implies 32,000 lbs of larger tire crumbs (we breathe smaller ones) on streets, missed by street sweepers
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When I say "the US gave up on feeding itself" that's what I mean, it's real bad.
At the risk of shameless self-promo, I talked about this a few months ago. It's a part of the food/ag problem that just isn't making it onto the news & it really should.
youtu.be/2uypc-c5-aA?...
At the risk of shameless self-promo, I talked about this a few months ago. It's a part of the food/ag problem that just isn't making it onto the news & it really should.
youtu.be/2uypc-c5-aA?...
How The US Gave Up On Growing Food
YouTube video by Farm to Taber
youtu.be
December 23, 2025 at 7:09 PM
When I say "the US gave up on feeding itself" that's what I mean, it's real bad.
At the risk of shameless self-promo, I talked about this a few months ago. It's a part of the food/ag problem that just isn't making it onto the news & it really should.
youtu.be/2uypc-c5-aA?...
At the risk of shameless self-promo, I talked about this a few months ago. It's a part of the food/ag problem that just isn't making it onto the news & it really should.
youtu.be/2uypc-c5-aA?...
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“It’s about reshaping how the police are perceived, without in any way questioning what the police actually do to produce that perception,” he said.
“These folks are totally unaccountable to the public because of how they are concealing where their interests lie and where their money is coming from,” Professor Orisanmi Burton told Prism.
prismreports.org/2024/11/18/m...
prismreports.org/2024/11/18/m...
A man overseeing Seattle police is working with Target on police ‘legitimacy’
Federal monitor Antonio Oftelie sought input from police, but with no clear evidence of community input, the plan’s motivations are hazy
prismreports.org
December 23, 2025 at 4:21 PM
“It’s about reshaping how the police are perceived, without in any way questioning what the police actually do to produce that perception,” he said.
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Another new a16z idea: giving letters of medical necessity to anybody so they can commit tax fraud
Between funding social media bot farms, crypto, and prediction markets, this company represents the new era where tech is mostly just for fraud
Between funding social media bot farms, crypto, and prediction markets, this company represents the new era where tech is mostly just for fraud
December 23, 2025 at 5:32 PM
Another new a16z idea: giving letters of medical necessity to anybody so they can commit tax fraud
Between funding social media bot farms, crypto, and prediction markets, this company represents the new era where tech is mostly just for fraud
Between funding social media bot farms, crypto, and prediction markets, this company represents the new era where tech is mostly just for fraud
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If you happen to be looking for bad redactions in a large set of data files today for some reason, there's an open source tool for that.
Y’all know we have a tool for finding exactly these kinds of bad redactions, right? free.law/open-source-...
December 23, 2025 at 6:31 AM
If you happen to be looking for bad redactions in a large set of data files today for some reason, there's an open source tool for that.
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4 immigrants die in 4 days in ICE private prisons
4 immigrants die in 4 days in ICE private prisons
The Trump administration is running a network of concentration camps, many of them established under Biden.
www.wsws.org
December 22, 2025 at 2:37 PM
4 immigrants die in 4 days in ICE private prisons
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If you're looking for an example of the systemic ways brittleness filters through systems, causing losses and eroding capacities far from the scene of a disaster, this is a good one.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/22/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/22/u...
‘Christmastown’ Faces Climate Reality After Brutal Northwest Storms
www.nytimes.com
December 22, 2025 at 7:03 PM
If you're looking for an example of the systemic ways brittleness filters through systems, causing losses and eroding capacities far from the scene of a disaster, this is a good one.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/22/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/22/u...
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This is just so freaking fascist. These people are unapologetic irredeemable Nazis.
December 23, 2025 at 1:41 AM
This is just so freaking fascist. These people are unapologetic irredeemable Nazis.
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I'm a rabid genAI hater who HAS tried it. I tend to stress-test bots people recommend to me by asking them simple but technical questions. The results are never very good.
Update: I reposted the lungfish one in a social media group as an example of why not to trust genAI answers, and a guy sniffed that he uses Perplexity, a chatbot which is supposed to be reliable because it cites actual sources...
AND LOOK WHAT THE FUCK HAPPENED.
AND LOOK WHAT THE FUCK HAPPENED.
December 22, 2025 at 11:43 PM
I'm a rabid genAI hater who HAS tried it. I tend to stress-test bots people recommend to me by asking them simple but technical questions. The results are never very good.
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Americans having to bootleg broadcast news about our government’s offshored concentration camp is a level of fascism that immediately precedes democratic societies dropping leaflets on us from weather balloons.
And now someone has uploaded a version that wasn't filmed off a TV.
There's also the torrent link there, which is probably the fastest way to download the 60 Minutes segment on CECOT if you want to save the file locally to your computer.
There's also the torrent link there, which is probably the fastest way to download the 60 Minutes segment on CECOT if you want to save the file locally to your computer.
Pulled 60 Minutes segment on CECOT : CBS : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
This is a screen recording of a 60 Minutes segment about the Centro de Confinamiento del Terrorismo (CECOT) prison in El Salvador, which was intended to be...
archive.org
December 23, 2025 at 12:49 AM
Americans having to bootleg broadcast news about our government’s offshored concentration camp is a level of fascism that immediately precedes democratic societies dropping leaflets on us from weather balloons.
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Bro, just one more humanoid robot, bro please, this one will be the true general purpose technology bro, this one will fill any labor shortage bro, our nanas and papas will let them into their homes to help them age in place bro, it’s the future bro, I won’t put guns on them I swear bro, bro
March 6, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Bro, just one more humanoid robot, bro please, this one will be the true general purpose technology bro, this one will fill any labor shortage bro, our nanas and papas will let them into their homes to help them age in place bro, it’s the future bro, I won’t put guns on them I swear bro, bro
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TONIGHT: Coinciding with the winter solstice at 4:21PM, volunteers with SHARE/WHEEL will hold a vigil for the 245 homeless people who died in the Seattle area this year. Since 2022, the group has honored more than 1,100 people who passed away while unhoused or in public due to violence.
December 21, 2025 at 8:51 PM
TONIGHT: Coinciding with the winter solstice at 4:21PM, volunteers with SHARE/WHEEL will hold a vigil for the 245 homeless people who died in the Seattle area this year. Since 2022, the group has honored more than 1,100 people who passed away while unhoused or in public due to violence.
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here's a list of just some of things in this coop
bike garage & workshop
bike/car share
music room
wood workshop
play room
laundry salon
flex room
club room
petanque box
guest room
coworking space
sauna
herb harden
water play area
club room
event room
tool librart
lobby
neighborhood meeting point
bike garage & workshop
bike/car share
music room
wood workshop
play room
laundry salon
flex room
club room
petanque box
guest room
coworking space
sauna
herb harden
water play area
club room
event room
tool librart
lobby
neighborhood meeting point
December 21, 2025 at 7:30 PM
here's a list of just some of things in this coop
bike garage & workshop
bike/car share
music room
wood workshop
play room
laundry salon
flex room
club room
petanque box
guest room
coworking space
sauna
herb harden
water play area
club room
event room
tool librart
lobby
neighborhood meeting point
bike garage & workshop
bike/car share
music room
wood workshop
play room
laundry salon
flex room
club room
petanque box
guest room
coworking space
sauna
herb harden
water play area
club room
event room
tool librart
lobby
neighborhood meeting point
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No document will protect you. All they have to do is take it from you and "lose" it; take it from you and say you never gave it to them; claim it's fake ⬇️; make a new rule that you need ANOTHER document. Citizenship is a made-up status that governments decide the rules for. No one is free until all.
Dulce Consuelo Diaz Morales was born in Maryland. She has a valid U.S. birth certificate, medical and immunization records, and sworn affidavits.
Yet, ICE claims her documents are “not authentic” and has held her in immigration detention for days.
Yet, ICE claims her documents are “not authentic” and has held her in immigration detention for days.
Trump Administration Says Maryland Woman's Birth Certificate Is Fake In Dystopian Move
Dulce Consuelo Diaz Morales was arrested on Sunday. ICE won’t release her despite extensive documentation of her citizenship, her attorneys told HuffPost.
www.huffpost.com
December 20, 2025 at 9:12 PM
No document will protect you. All they have to do is take it from you and "lose" it; take it from you and say you never gave it to them; claim it's fake ⬇️; make a new rule that you need ANOTHER document. Citizenship is a made-up status that governments decide the rules for. No one is free until all.
ONE HUNDRED MILE PER HOUR wind gusts.
FYI these are EF-1 tornado and CAT 2 hurricane winds. But in a “regular” windstorm.
As @holz-bau.bsky.social says, we are building for a climate that no longer exists.
FYI these are EF-1 tornado and CAT 2 hurricane winds. But in a “regular” windstorm.
As @holz-bau.bsky.social says, we are building for a climate that no longer exists.
Now up to three separate spots with 100+ gusts in/near Boulder, two within the past hour.
Again: It's considerably drier than Wednesday, and the wind started earlier (longer lasting wind event). Hence the extra concern today compared to Wednesday.
#COwx
Again: It's considerably drier than Wednesday, and the wind started earlier (longer lasting wind event). Hence the extra concern today compared to Wednesday.
#COwx
December 19, 2025 at 8:40 PM
ONE HUNDRED MILE PER HOUR wind gusts.
FYI these are EF-1 tornado and CAT 2 hurricane winds. But in a “regular” windstorm.
As @holz-bau.bsky.social says, we are building for a climate that no longer exists.
FYI these are EF-1 tornado and CAT 2 hurricane winds. But in a “regular” windstorm.
As @holz-bau.bsky.social says, we are building for a climate that no longer exists.
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this is actually kind of a shit argument because many of the most lethal types of firearms are heavily restricted or outright illegal to own while every year we make deadlier cars and sell them to whoever
December 19, 2025 at 8:13 PM
this is actually kind of a shit argument because many of the most lethal types of firearms are heavily restricted or outright illegal to own while every year we make deadlier cars and sell them to whoever