Lewis Lehe
@lewislehe.bsky.social
Asst. Prof at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Traffic, transit and economics. https://lehelab.com/
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I cannot recommend this piece by @maxdubler.com enough. It articulates very well some of the key differences between the YIMBY and Strong Towns movements regarding housing. It mostly comes down to state preemption and political strategy. Ideology vs. pragmatism.
On The Tension Between YIMBYism and Strong Towns — Max Dubler
Special thanks to those who gave their thoughtful feedback on this piece. The past couple of months have seen quite a bit of Discourse about the differences between Strong Towns and YIMB...
www.maxdubler.com
November 10, 2025 at 10:52 PM
I cannot recommend this piece by @maxdubler.com enough. It articulates very well some of the key differences between the YIMBY and Strong Towns movements regarding housing. It mostly comes down to state preemption and political strategy. Ideology vs. pragmatism.
Reposted by Lewis Lehe
OutKast is inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame:
“We started in a little room. Great things start in little rooms”
“We started in a little room. Great things start in little rooms”
November 9, 2025 at 1:05 PM
OutKast is inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame:
“We started in a little room. Great things start in little rooms”
“We started in a little room. Great things start in little rooms”
around Cambridge MA, you remember people used to be small. the doorways in old buildings are smaller. a little manhole cover.
wish i could go back and play basketball with the founding fathers. I would win, and they’d call me the ulster leviathan or some other name with an ethnic reference.
wish i could go back and play basketball with the founding fathers. I would win, and they’d call me the ulster leviathan or some other name with an ethnic reference.
November 7, 2025 at 5:45 PM
around Cambridge MA, you remember people used to be small. the doorways in old buildings are smaller. a little manhole cover.
wish i could go back and play basketball with the founding fathers. I would win, and they’d call me the ulster leviathan or some other name with an ethnic reference.
wish i could go back and play basketball with the founding fathers. I would win, and they’d call me the ulster leviathan or some other name with an ethnic reference.
(knowing I‘ll be the 100kth person to make this joke)
diva down!
diva down!
November 5, 2025 at 2:47 PM
(knowing I‘ll be the 100kth person to make this joke)
diva down!
diva down!
went to try grok, asking it about Chinese ev subsidy fraud. it made up statistics wholesale.
I went to check the sources it cited. they had been written by LLMs and included quotes from unlinked Bloomberg coverage. but the quotes weren’t in any Bloomberg articles.
I went to check the sources it cited. they had been written by LLMs and included quotes from unlinked Bloomberg coverage. but the quotes weren’t in any Bloomberg articles.
November 4, 2025 at 12:37 AM
went to try grok, asking it about Chinese ev subsidy fraud. it made up statistics wholesale.
I went to check the sources it cited. they had been written by LLMs and included quotes from unlinked Bloomberg coverage. but the quotes weren’t in any Bloomberg articles.
I went to check the sources it cited. they had been written by LLMs and included quotes from unlinked Bloomberg coverage. but the quotes weren’t in any Bloomberg articles.
I wondered how long until trump connected the dots to his world mental model. for a mercantilist, Russian oil is a competitor. US oil industry is also slumping, hurting his donors.
uncertain if he connects “selling more oil abroad” with “higher gas prices.”
kyivindependent.com/orbans-unexp...
uncertain if he connects “selling more oil abroad” with “higher gas prices.”
kyivindependent.com/orbans-unexp...
Orban's unexpected headache — Trump's offensive against Russian energy
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban, entrenched in a long-standing brawl with Brussels and Kyiv, found an unexpected obstacle — U.S. President Donald Trump's U-turns.
Trump's expected Budapest summ...
kyivindependent.com
November 2, 2025 at 4:32 PM
I wondered how long until trump connected the dots to his world mental model. for a mercantilist, Russian oil is a competitor. US oil industry is also slumping, hurting his donors.
uncertain if he connects “selling more oil abroad” with “higher gas prices.”
kyivindependent.com/orbans-unexp...
uncertain if he connects “selling more oil abroad” with “higher gas prices.”
kyivindependent.com/orbans-unexp...
cuomo and zohran both missing the opportunity to make sliwa drop out and endorse them by promising to make him halloween mayor. sad.
November 1, 2025 at 6:07 PM
cuomo and zohran both missing the opportunity to make sliwa drop out and endorse them by promising to make him halloween mayor. sad.
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Call for Papers: *Special Issue on #AI and the Evolving Dynamics of Transportation and Land Use*
jtlu.org/index.php/jt...
We welcome submissions on: 1) Embedded intelligence in transport and land use systems, or 2) algorithmic AI for modeling and planning urban mobility and land use.
(1/3)
jtlu.org/index.php/jt...
We welcome submissions on: 1) Embedded intelligence in transport and land use systems, or 2) algorithmic AI for modeling and planning urban mobility and land use.
(1/3)
Call for Papers: Special Issue on AI and the Evolving Dynamics of Transportation and Land Use
| Journal of Transport and Land Use
<p>The Journal of Transport and Land Use is the leading international journal that publishes original interdisciplinary papers on the interaction of transport and land use. The Editors welcome origina...
jtlu.org
October 31, 2025 at 2:07 PM
Call for Papers: *Special Issue on #AI and the Evolving Dynamics of Transportation and Land Use*
jtlu.org/index.php/jt...
We welcome submissions on: 1) Embedded intelligence in transport and land use systems, or 2) algorithmic AI for modeling and planning urban mobility and land use.
(1/3)
jtlu.org/index.php/jt...
We welcome submissions on: 1) Embedded intelligence in transport and land use systems, or 2) algorithmic AI for modeling and planning urban mobility and land use.
(1/3)
RIP KitKat.
This would've made a big splash in like 2016. A bodega cat. The mission district. Tech companies. They're playing the hits.
sfstandard.com/2025/10/28/w...
This would've made a big splash in like 2016. A bodega cat. The mission district. Tech companies. They're playing the hits.
sfstandard.com/2025/10/28/w...
Waymo allegedly kills cat at San Francisco store
A convenience store owner and patrons are grieving the loss of their beloved mascot, KitKat.
sfstandard.com
October 30, 2025 at 12:00 PM
RIP KitKat.
This would've made a big splash in like 2016. A bodega cat. The mission district. Tech companies. They're playing the hits.
sfstandard.com/2025/10/28/w...
This would've made a big splash in like 2016. A bodega cat. The mission district. Tech companies. They're playing the hits.
sfstandard.com/2025/10/28/w...
oxford UK launched its temporary congestion charge today. It is a little complex. Since 2022, there's been a a "zero emission zone pilot" with charges for non ZEVs. the congestion charge is on a several links outside it, but not forming a specific zone.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
www.bbc.com/news/article...
October 29, 2025 at 7:12 PM
oxford UK launched its temporary congestion charge today. It is a little complex. Since 2022, there's been a a "zero emission zone pilot" with charges for non ZEVs. the congestion charge is on a several links outside it, but not forming a specific zone.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
www.bbc.com/news/article...
I’d like a feed called “catching strays“ that’s just countries catching strays from American political discourse. today Uganda. Last month Kazakhstan.
What an odious thing to say. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/10...
October 29, 2025 at 5:49 PM
I’d like a feed called “catching strays“ that’s just countries catching strays from American political discourse. today Uganda. Last month Kazakhstan.
US media: our tall fighting treasurer saved Milei with the bailout.
What makes us so sure it wasn't Milei's rock concert?
If bessent really supports his friend, he will join him on stage for a duet.
www.lanacion.com.ar/politica/el-...
What makes us so sure it wasn't Milei's rock concert?
If bessent really supports his friend, he will join him on stage for a duet.
www.lanacion.com.ar/politica/el-...
El “show” de Milei en medio del caso Espert: cantó covers con “la banda presidencial” junto a Lilia Lemoine y Benegas Lynch
El jefe de Estado, vestido con varias camperas, entonó temas de Charly García y los Ratones, elogió a la “mezzosoprano” Lemoine y lanza críticas al kirchnerismo
www.lanacion.com.ar
October 28, 2025 at 2:03 AM
US media: our tall fighting treasurer saved Milei with the bailout.
What makes us so sure it wasn't Milei's rock concert?
If bessent really supports his friend, he will join him on stage for a duet.
www.lanacion.com.ar/politica/el-...
What makes us so sure it wasn't Milei's rock concert?
If bessent really supports his friend, he will join him on stage for a duet.
www.lanacion.com.ar/politica/el-...
i like that this article translated the toll. even small tolls can make a big difference.
reason.com/2025/10/27/h...
reason.com/2025/10/27/h...
How Stockholm used a $3 toll to tame its traffic congestion
Swedes initially hated the congestion pricing experiment. After they witnessed the effects, they voted to bring it back.
reason.com
October 27, 2025 at 10:38 PM
i like that this article translated the toll. even small tolls can make a big difference.
reason.com/2025/10/27/h...
reason.com/2025/10/27/h...
many people don’t know how many Americans are on snap.
we need a college course called “facts.” welfare, taxes, crimes, disability, net worth, Puerto Rico is the US, etc.
I would decide which facts and give A students sashes that say America Knower. No essays just memorizing.
we need a college course called “facts.” welfare, taxes, crimes, disability, net worth, Puerto Rico is the US, etc.
I would decide which facts and give A students sashes that say America Knower. No essays just memorizing.
October 27, 2025 at 12:25 PM
many people don’t know how many Americans are on snap.
we need a college course called “facts.” welfare, taxes, crimes, disability, net worth, Puerto Rico is the US, etc.
I would decide which facts and give A students sashes that say America Knower. No essays just memorizing.
we need a college course called “facts.” welfare, taxes, crimes, disability, net worth, Puerto Rico is the US, etc.
I would decide which facts and give A students sashes that say America Knower. No essays just memorizing.
they need it for dancing, the tango and foxtrot and such.
zelenskyy is a good dancer. imagine how the meeting would’ve gone if trump had seen him dance.
there will be fewer conflicts when the politicians are dancing with each other.
zelenskyy is a good dancer. imagine how the meeting would’ve gone if trump had seen him dance.
there will be fewer conflicts when the politicians are dancing with each other.
I know it's the least of our problems, but the like the White House doesn't even need a big giant ballroom? There is plenty of space in DC to have a seated dinner with a lackluster piece of chicken and a fundraiser or whatever.
October 26, 2025 at 9:48 PM
they need it for dancing, the tango and foxtrot and such.
zelenskyy is a good dancer. imagine how the meeting would’ve gone if trump had seen him dance.
there will be fewer conflicts when the politicians are dancing with each other.
zelenskyy is a good dancer. imagine how the meeting would’ve gone if trump had seen him dance.
there will be fewer conflicts when the politicians are dancing with each other.
opportunity costs. someone should do a counterfactual of Russia’s finances w/o war. asset values soared since 2022. they would’ve deposited more taxes in the fund. they sold half their gold in 2024, before the price surged. a better measure of the cost than the deficit.
October 26, 2025 at 6:10 PM
opportunity costs. someone should do a counterfactual of Russia’s finances w/o war. asset values soared since 2022. they would’ve deposited more taxes in the fund. they sold half their gold in 2024, before the price surged. a better measure of the cost than the deficit.
should be in the intro to a book, on any of several topics
“The letter referenced Charlie Kirk's recent assassination and the installation of bulb-out intersections in downtown Livingston.”
“other threatening messages posted to Facebook's This is REALLY Livingston group”
www.kbzk.com/news/local-n...
“The letter referenced Charlie Kirk's recent assassination and the installation of bulb-out intersections in downtown Livingston.”
“other threatening messages posted to Facebook's This is REALLY Livingston group”
www.kbzk.com/news/local-n...
Livingston woman charged after death threat sent to city manager
Livingston woman charged with threatening city manager in letter sent to his home, highlighting growing pattern of hostility toward public officials.
www.kbzk.com
October 26, 2025 at 12:11 AM
should be in the intro to a book, on any of several topics
“The letter referenced Charlie Kirk's recent assassination and the installation of bulb-out intersections in downtown Livingston.”
“other threatening messages posted to Facebook's This is REALLY Livingston group”
www.kbzk.com/news/local-n...
“The letter referenced Charlie Kirk's recent assassination and the installation of bulb-out intersections in downtown Livingston.”
“other threatening messages posted to Facebook's This is REALLY Livingston group”
www.kbzk.com/news/local-n...
for weeks I’ve been thinking of ”a few small beers” and laughing quietly. googled and it turns out I’m not alone.
Benicio del Toro is a genius.
Benicio del Toro is a genius.
October 24, 2025 at 8:42 PM
for weeks I’ve been thinking of ”a few small beers” and laughing quietly. googled and it turns out I’m not alone.
Benicio del Toro is a genius.
Benicio del Toro is a genius.
great graphics on this one.
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Who Are the Federal Forces Behind Trump’s Mass Deportations and Crime Crackdown?
As President Trump deploys ICE, Border Patrol, the National Guard and other forces to U.S. cities, here’s how to tell them apart — and what their powers are.
www.nytimes.com
October 24, 2025 at 4:40 PM
great graphics on this one.
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
hopefully they can find more and clear up the dates of hezekiah's reign.
"the discovery suggests that the structure on the slope of the hill west of the Temple served as an administrative center."
www.timesofisrael.com/biblical-tax...
"the discovery suggests that the structure on the slope of the hill west of the Temple served as an administrative center."
www.timesofisrael.com/biblical-tax...
Biblical tax notice: 1st-ever Assyrian inscription found near Jerusalem’s Temple Mount
2,700-year-old fragment of pottery suggests Judeans delayed paying their tributes to the empire, echoing the events described in the book of II Kings
www.timesofisrael.com
October 23, 2025 at 2:10 PM
hopefully they can find more and clear up the dates of hezekiah's reign.
"the discovery suggests that the structure on the slope of the hill west of the Temple served as an administrative center."
www.timesofisrael.com/biblical-tax...
"the discovery suggests that the structure on the slope of the hill west of the Temple served as an administrative center."
www.timesofisrael.com/biblical-tax...
dont cry for me I’m getting a Trump Steak
October 23, 2025 at 12:34 AM
dont cry for me I’m getting a Trump Steak
“The growth in volume of research articles is overwhelming the system…due to AI-generated articles and paper mill output and the increase in scientific research more generally.”
id like to see dynamical systems type analysis.
id like to see dynamical systems type analysis.
Academic publishing needs a restructuring. This is a good interview.
Less is more: Academic publishing needs ‘radical change,’ Cambridge press report concludes
Academic publishing needs “renewed focus and collective action” to embrace new approaches and ensure the future of the industry, concludes a report from Cambridge University Press, released last we…
retractionwatch.com
October 22, 2025 at 2:55 PM
“The growth in volume of research articles is overwhelming the system…due to AI-generated articles and paper mill output and the increase in scientific research more generally.”
id like to see dynamical systems type analysis.
id like to see dynamical systems type analysis.
people think China subsidizes production of EVs, which get exported. but they only ever gave rebates for domestic sales, and the rebates were halved in 2019 and ended in 2022. the export surge corresponds to the end of the rebate regime.
October 21, 2025 at 3:59 PM
people think China subsidizes production of EVs, which get exported. but they only ever gave rebates for domestic sales, and the rebates were halved in 2019 and ended in 2022. the export surge corresponds to the end of the rebate regime.