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miawintam.bsky.social
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@miawintam.bsky.social
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Urbanist thinking about open places, open access, and open web. She/her. New York.

On farcaster: https://is.gd/dzxcwF
https://zora.co/@miawintam
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infowetrust.com
Took the A-train

Car-specific wayfinding!
October 29, 2025 at 3:47 AM
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elleisanisland.bsky.social
The diagram for what Palantir does is like if Richard Scarry got super paranoid and did an Apocalypse picture book
A schematic of the multiple types of communication and weapons systems: laser guided munitions, GPS aided bombs, SATCOM jammer
November 7, 2025 at 8:14 PM
miawintam.bsky.social
new yorkers, come hang with us next wed (9/17) to learn more about the political theory + purpose behind blockchain socialism.

we’ll read excerpts from @tbsocialist.bsky.social ’s book “Blockchain Radicals: How Capitalism Ruined Crypto and how to fix it,” discuss and ask questions as a group
September 12, 2025 at 2:28 PM
miawintam.bsky.social
Asked about Network States in the glen weyl vs curtis yarvin debate on tech CEO dictators
September 5, 2025 at 6:00 PM
miawintam.bsky.social
Anti-fascist protesters disrupted tonight’s debate in NYC between Curtis Yarvin and Glen Weyl, which was framed around the question: Should the U.S. be ruled by a CEO dictator?
September 5, 2025 at 3:39 AM
miawintam.bsky.social
Housing & affordability aren’t separate from tech or entrepreneurship. They’re the foundation. If people can’t afford to live here, if small business owners are squeezed, then the city can’t sustain the creative, risk-taking energy that makes NYC a hub for both startups and neighborhood businesses.
anildash.com Anil Dash @anildash.com · Aug 20
This is one I've been thinking about for a long time, and I do hope you'll read it, and share it. The stakes have never been higher, but it'ss never been clearer: @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social is exactly what NYC's entrepreneurial community needs. www.anildash.com/2025/08/20/z...
Zohran Mamdani is the leader NYC needs for innovation and entrepreneurship - Anil Dash
A blog about making culture. Since 1999.
www.anildash.com
August 21, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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shanedphillips.bsky.social
Here's the public comment I wrote opposing this anti-SB 79 resolution. Cowardice is the right word, especially after council opposed similar legislation almost a decade ago and then used that much-vaunted "local control" to turn the housing crisis up to 11. Kudos to the 5 progressives who voted no.
Text: I am writing to express my strong opposition to the proposed resolution opposing Senate Bill 79. Los Angeles needs SB 79. I am a housing researcher at UCLA, author of The Affordable City, and host of UCLA Housing Voice, a podcast where we share new and important housing research with an audience of planners, elected officials, students, and advocates across the US. A message we hear again and again on our show, from researchers studying policies all over the world, is that ambitious zoning reforms lead to increased homebuilding, and increased homebuilding makes housing more affordable. Text: Los Angeles, like most California cities, is far, far behind on meeting its state-mandated housing goals, and Angelenos are bearing the costs with high rents and housing prices, shameful levels of homelessness and housing insecurity, torturous commutes without viable car-free alternatives, and a broken municipal budget. SB 79 will help us make significant progress solving all these problems. Research by me and my colleague at the Lewis Center shows that the city's current policies, even after adopting the Citywide Housing Incentive Program, are not nearly enough to meet our housing needs. CHIP's approach of further increasing allowable density only in neighborhoods already zoned for multifamily housing, where renters and lower-income people make up a disproportionate share of the population, is also likely to increase displacement unnecessarily. SB 79 will reduce displacement by upzoning transit-oriented neighborhoods where lower-cost multifamily housing is currently prohibited, residents are wealthier on average, and more of them are homeowners. These are also the neighborhoods where zoning reform is most likely to result in redevelopment because the existing built environment is so drastically underbuilt — and existing homes are thus extraordinarily unaffordable. Unaffordability is LA's true "neighborhood character," and it a character that must be undone, not preserved. Neighborhood character means nothing without our neighbors, and the restrictions on our built environment are driving them out by the thousands. Text: The proposed resolution frames SB 79 as an attack on local control, but this is the wrong way of thinking about state preemption of zoning, especially in Los Angeles. Bills like SB 79 are a gift to the City of LA. Our city, for all its faults on housing and land use policy, is among the better actors in the state. It is already moving in the direction of SB 79, albeit much too slowly. But California is home to over 500 municipalities, and the overwhelming majority have demonstrated far less commitment to solving the housing crisis. SB 79 will increase homebuilding in LA — as it should — but it will do far more in the many jurisdictions that remain obstinate. Without bills like SB 79, Los Angeles will be forced to try to solve the crisis on its own — and fail, because no individual city can solve the problems of an entire region or state. With SB 79 as law, nearly every city in California will be obligated to do its part, lightening the load for everyone; many hands make light work. We will not improve affordability if every city is permitted to go it alone, choosing to contribute to the endeavor or not. We know from experience that most will opt out, and Angelenos will pay the price as much as the residents of those other jurisdictions. Text: Before SB 79, SB 827 and SB 50 were proposed and defeated in the state legislature nearly a decade ago. Since that time, median home value in the city has risen from under $600,000 to nearly $1 million, and rents have similarly ballooned. Homelessness has increased despite billions of dollars of spending because rising prices have increased the number of people becoming homeless each year. And today our city faces a billion dollar budget deficit that could be sharply lower if we'd built more homes. Underlying all these problems is the fact that annual housing production remained essentially flat since 2017, in LA and statewide. We would be in a dramatically better position had we passed SB 827 in 2017 or SB 50 in 2018, but the bills were opposed by public officials claiming that they knew better and could solve the housing crisis on their own. They were wrong then and they're wrong now. We can't afford for them to make the same mistake again.
August 19, 2025 at 10:18 PM
miawintam.bsky.social
The increased ICE budget makes it more likely that Asian immigrants—comprising 24% of the state’s undocumented immigrants—get arrested, experience a workplace raid, or are separated from their family. About 501,100, or 27%, of non-citizen New Yorkers are Asian.

www.news10.com/news/ny-news...
July 30, 2025 at 3:51 PM
miawintam.bsky.social
This is such an irresponsible article from the times. Just a few of the things that particularly infuriated me:

www.nytimes.com/2025/07/22/o...
Opinion | No, Israel Is Not Committing Genocide in Gaza
www.nytimes.com
July 24, 2025 at 4:14 PM
miawintam.bsky.social
Today I walked past my favorite building in NYC: the Woolworth Building. I wrote an essay on it in grad school and still love its story.
July 23, 2025 at 3:23 PM
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humantransit.bsky.social
It's time for clear eyed thinking about the potential for the large-scale destruction of public transit in American cities. It could happen in the next two years. Thread... 1/
July 22, 2025 at 11:58 AM
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bellingcat.com
Armed officers, frequent use of force and people grabbed on the street or at their places of work. Working with @evidentmedia.org and @calmatters.org we have monitored the LA raids, discovering recurring trends and tactics used by officers. www.bellingcat.com/news/2025/07...
Masked, Armed and Forceful: Finding Patterns in Los Angeles Immigration Raids - bellingcat
Bellingcat collected videos and images from recent immigration raids in Los Angeles, analysing trends and apparent tactics used by law enforcement.
www.bellingcat.com
July 8, 2025 at 7:24 PM
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ufw.bsky.social
We feed you.
They hunt us.
June 11, 2025 at 5:05 AM
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taliajane.bsky.social
Thousands of New Yorkers march in lower Manhattan calling for ICE out of New York.

Starting at Foley Square and organized by PSL, the masses have flooded the streets and are moving west. This demo is permitted but even if it wasn’t, it would be far too large for NYPD to contain.
June 10, 2025 at 10:22 PM
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noahshachtman.bsky.social
God damn it, Whitney Tilson. Do not make yourself relatable to your fellow bikers.
June 4, 2025 at 11:50 PM
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chadloder.bsky.social
Every extra hour that ICE spends facing off with activists is an hour they can't spend kidnapping other people.

Every extra minute ICE has to spend contingency planning around activists and neighbors, every extra officer ICE has to put on a kidnap squad, is a drain on their efficiency.
May 9, 2025 at 2:29 AM
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kekeflipnote.bsky.social
Apparently Adobe popped to Bluesky like a flower in Spring.
And then ended like that.
April 12, 2025 at 2:05 PM
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transalt.org
💰 TOMORROW: the City Council's Transportation Committee budget hearing.

🚌 New Yorkers need protected bike and bus lanes, but DOT has been hamstrung by a lack of funding.

🚴 Want safer streets? Sign our petition now to fully fund and staff DOT:
act.transalt.org/a/dot-budget
End the Safe Streets Hiring Freeze! - Transportation Alternatives
Right now, the New York City Department of Transportation doesn’t have the funding or workers it needs to build safe streets. Tell the City Council: End the safe streets hiring freeze and fully fund N...
act.transalt.org
March 18, 2025 at 8:57 PM
miawintam.bsky.social
I come on BlueSky once a month and when I do, I’m just a @chadloder.bsky.social fan account
February 21, 2025 at 2:15 PM
miawintam.bsky.social
I like Warpcast(farcaster) way more than Bluesky idk
February 20, 2025 at 7:31 AM
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chadloder.bsky.social
Did I call it or did I call it? The sexist rants by Zuckerberg are an attempt to distract from Meta's tanking performance and upcoming layoffs
Bloomberg headline: Meta to Cut Roughly 5% of Staff, Targeting Lowest Performers Story by Riley Griffin • 3h ago
January 14, 2025 at 10:36 PM
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jm-mcgrath.bsky.social
Cars in the libertarian fantasy: haha, no commie government is going to make me ride the bus like a poor

Cars in reality: excuse me sir, your taillight flickered for a moment I'll need you to provide multiple pieces of sensitive personal documentation or go to jail
December 28, 2024 at 12:02 AM
miawintam.bsky.social
I really hate seeing instagram ads all over the subway stations
January 8, 2025 at 3:15 AM
miawintam.bsky.social
Free design resource created from public infrastructure 🏗️

www.dayroselane.com/hydrants
The Hydrant Directory
A Public Domain design resource created from public infrastructure
www.dayroselane.com
January 3, 2025 at 4:03 PM
miawintam.bsky.social
name a shirt that goes harder than these

www.comradeworkwear.com/collections/...
January 3, 2025 at 4:00 PM