Insane but true fact: making US roads as safe as Canadian, Australian, or European roads would save more lives than eliminating murder from the US.

I can't stress this enough: in ranked choice systems like Cambridge has, your best bet at getting the council & school committee you want is to rank candidates in order of your genuine preference.

That means you should give your #1 vote to the person you most want to win.

📣THREAD: It’s surprising to me that so many people were surprised to learn that Signal runs partly on AWS (something we can do because we use encryption to make sure no one but you–not AWS, not Signal, not anyone–can access your comms).

It’s also concerning. 1/

Minneapolis built more housing than any other major Midwest city & it’s not a mystery why.

They allowed modest density housing types city-wide, cut regressive parking mandates, and made it easier to build apartments near transit.

The results: more homes + slowed rent growth.

They’re voting!

Make sure that you are, too.

not necessarily the way I was expecting rising inflation to manifest itself as a potential liability to the incumbent

at the risk of a hot take, I believe it is per se a good thing to gather quantitative data, as accurately as possible, to help the public better understand the contours of the world and society we live in

Test skeet, please ignore