Evan Horowitz
@cspahorowitz.bsky.social
I ask again...what is the point of having a rainy day fund if you can't use it during a rainstorm?
oh mighty ratings agencies, am I allowed to help poor people?
oh mighty ratings agencies, am I allowed to help poor people?
November 5, 2025 at 9:48 PM
I ask again...what is the point of having a rainy day fund if you can't use it during a rainstorm?
oh mighty ratings agencies, am I allowed to help poor people?
oh mighty ratings agencies, am I allowed to help poor people?
sometime it's hard to put down an article; other times the author makes it easy
October 31, 2025 at 5:42 PM
sometime it's hard to put down an article; other times the author makes it easy
F&*k'n journalism. Just saw that Jon Keller was let go from WBZ. One of the few people seriously and skeptically covering policy issues in the #mapoli.
October 31, 2025 at 1:14 PM
F&*k'n journalism. Just saw that Jon Keller was let go from WBZ. One of the few people seriously and skeptically covering policy issues in the #mapoli.
This is what a federal judge just said to the Trump administration.
Seems to apply pretty well to #mapoli too, though. We have money in reserve. A (maybe *the*) core safety net program is at risk. Use the money!
Seems to apply pretty well to #mapoli too, though. We have money in reserve. A (maybe *the*) core safety net program is at risk. Use the money!
October 31, 2025 at 12:27 PM
This is what a federal judge just said to the Trump administration.
Seems to apply pretty well to #mapoli too, though. We have money in reserve. A (maybe *the*) core safety net program is at risk. Use the money!
Seems to apply pretty well to #mapoli too, though. We have money in reserve. A (maybe *the*) core safety net program is at risk. Use the money!
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This graph may or may not say a lot about the world over the last decade.
October 27, 2025 at 12:58 PM
This graph may or may not say a lot about the world over the last decade.
Incredible stuff from the city of Boston. We checked rents in 4 cities and proved taxes don't correlate with rent!
October 22, 2025 at 7:10 PM
Incredible stuff from the city of Boston. We checked rents in 4 cities and proved taxes don't correlate with rent!
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BREAKING:
BITCOIN Q3 EARNINGS:
- EPS: $0.00 vs $0.00 est.
- Revs: $0 vs $0 est.
- Divs: $0.00 up $0.00
- Q4 guidance unchanged
BITCOIN Q3 EARNINGS:
- EPS: $0.00 vs $0.00 est.
- Revs: $0 vs $0 est.
- Divs: $0.00 up $0.00
- Q4 guidance unchanged
October 15, 2025 at 8:51 PM
BREAKING:
BITCOIN Q3 EARNINGS:
- EPS: $0.00 vs $0.00 est.
- Revs: $0 vs $0 est.
- Divs: $0.00 up $0.00
- Q4 guidance unchanged
BITCOIN Q3 EARNINGS:
- EPS: $0.00 vs $0.00 est.
- Revs: $0 vs $0 est.
- Divs: $0.00 up $0.00
- Q4 guidance unchanged
Sitting pointlessly beside the top businessman was...
A top businessman believes Boston should tear down some of its office buildings and replace them with housing, saying that initiatives supported on Beacon Hill and in Boston City Hall aren’t enough as the region remains hampered by a post-pandemic slowdown.
massterlist.beehiiv.com/p/eastern-ba...
massterlist.beehiiv.com/p/eastern-ba...
Eastern Bank’s Rivers: ‘We just have to get more serious’ about housing
Plus: Another endorsement for Markey and more in this week’s Political Intel
massterlist.beehiiv.com
September 26, 2025 at 6:50 PM
Sitting pointlessly beside the top businessman was...
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A new gene therapy trial slowed Huntington’s Disease by an average of 75% in patients.
It involves delivery of a modified but safe virus that produces microRNA in the brain to counteract mutations in the huntingtin gene.
We can achieve amazing things when we fund science!
It involves delivery of a modified but safe virus that produces microRNA in the brain to counteract mutations in the huntingtin gene.
We can achieve amazing things when we fund science!
September 24, 2025 at 4:37 PM
A new gene therapy trial slowed Huntington’s Disease by an average of 75% in patients.
It involves delivery of a modified but safe virus that produces microRNA in the brain to counteract mutations in the huntingtin gene.
We can achieve amazing things when we fund science!
It involves delivery of a modified but safe virus that produces microRNA in the brain to counteract mutations in the huntingtin gene.
We can achieve amazing things when we fund science!
my kids went to diff't driving schools in Mass. Both had this weird idea that we should teach them to drive first, then they could go to driving school.
You guys have the cars with dual breaks! And the experience teaching people to drive!
You guys have the cars with dual breaks! And the experience teaching people to drive!
September 3, 2025 at 1:05 PM
my kids went to diff't driving schools in Mass. Both had this weird idea that we should teach them to drive first, then they could go to driving school.
You guys have the cars with dual breaks! And the experience teaching people to drive!
You guys have the cars with dual breaks! And the experience teaching people to drive!
think I'm the only person who fully embraced "oxt." But it's such a useful word!
August 22, 2025 at 3:28 PM
think I'm the only person who fully embraced "oxt." But it's such a useful word!
Cherry-picking favorable numbers in the #mapoli jobs report was a bad look last month.
Now, with Trump undermining the legitimacy of BLS, it's just unconscionable. Stop it.
Now, with Trump undermining the legitimacy of BLS, it's just unconscionable. Stop it.
August 15, 2025 at 8:24 PM
Cherry-picking favorable numbers in the #mapoli jobs report was a bad look last month.
Now, with Trump undermining the legitimacy of BLS, it's just unconscionable. Stop it.
Now, with Trump undermining the legitimacy of BLS, it's just unconscionable. Stop it.
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The issue with GPT-5 in a nutshell is that unless you pay for model switching & know to use GPT-5 Thinking or Pro, when you ask “GPT-5” you sometimes get the best available AI & sometimes get one of the worst AIs available and you can’t tell and it might even switch within a single conversation.
August 9, 2025 at 4:01 PM
The issue with GPT-5 in a nutshell is that unless you pay for model switching & know to use GPT-5 Thinking or Pro, when you ask “GPT-5” you sometimes get the best available AI & sometimes get one of the worst AIs available and you can’t tell and it might even switch within a single conversation.
Playing with GPT-5 and my initial feeling is: powerful but slightly annoying.
- Asked for help converting a markdown syllabus to html and it added a bunch of new (summary) info
- Spent time tweaking to get it right and it started outputting partial versions
- Asked for help converting a markdown syllabus to html and it added a bunch of new (summary) info
- Spent time tweaking to get it right and it started outputting partial versions
August 8, 2025 at 4:20 PM
Playing with GPT-5 and my initial feeling is: powerful but slightly annoying.
- Asked for help converting a markdown syllabus to html and it added a bunch of new (summary) info
- Spent time tweaking to get it right and it started outputting partial versions
- Asked for help converting a markdown syllabus to html and it added a bunch of new (summary) info
- Spent time tweaking to get it right and it started outputting partial versions
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sure whatever why stop at 100% at this point. Let's do 200%. 350%. 1,245%. 3 billion percent. Two kabillion percent. Seventeen Brazilian percent. One Google percent.
TRUMP ON TARIFFS: WE'LL BE PUTTING A TARIFF ON OF APPROXIMATELY 100% ON CHIPS AND SEMICONDUCTORS
August 6, 2025 at 9:33 PM
sure whatever why stop at 100% at this point. Let's do 200%. 350%. 1,245%. 3 billion percent. Two kabillion percent. Seventeen Brazilian percent. One Google percent.
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-A historic capex boom can’t lift 1H real GDP growth ex-noise beyond the 1%’s
-A modest housing recession hasn’t dragged the overall economy into recession
Both are true/are related.
-A modest housing recession hasn’t dragged the overall economy into recession
Both are true/are related.
July 30, 2025 at 12:43 PM
-A historic capex boom can’t lift 1H real GDP growth ex-noise beyond the 1%’s
-A modest housing recession hasn’t dragged the overall economy into recession
Both are true/are related.
-A modest housing recession hasn’t dragged the overall economy into recession
Both are true/are related.
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I think the universe of voters who are:
-anti-crypto
-anti-gambling
-anti-algo
-pro-vax
-pro-choice
-anti-gun
is less than 40% so it’s about thinking about what you can live with.
-anti-crypto
-anti-gambling
-anti-algo
-pro-vax
-pro-choice
-anti-gun
is less than 40% so it’s about thinking about what you can live with.
July 22, 2025 at 2:19 PM
I think the universe of voters who are:
-anti-crypto
-anti-gambling
-anti-algo
-pro-vax
-pro-choice
-anti-gun
is less than 40% so it’s about thinking about what you can live with.
-anti-crypto
-anti-gambling
-anti-algo
-pro-vax
-pro-choice
-anti-gun
is less than 40% so it’s about thinking about what you can live with.
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This crypto ratio stuff is like asserting that Matchbox 20 is properly worth exactly four Maroon 5's, even though the numbers have no substantive relationship to anything in the real word or to one another.
July 21, 2025 at 12:44 PM
This crypto ratio stuff is like asserting that Matchbox 20 is properly worth exactly four Maroon 5's, even though the numbers have no substantive relationship to anything in the real word or to one another.
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We need to take this seriously in Boston when considering how costly Wu’s move
to up #IDP requirements from 13% to 20% has been for #Boston. In a time when new construction is at record lows and prices are record highs every lost unit is a huge cost. #BosPoli #MAPoli #BuildMABuild
to up #IDP requirements from 13% to 20% has been for #Boston. In a time when new construction is at record lows and prices are record highs every lost unit is a huge cost. #BosPoli #MAPoli #BuildMABuild
Inclusionary zoning is a targeted tax on the construction of new housing — the absolute worst way you could think of to raise money for investments in social housing projects.
www.slowboring.com/p/inclusiona...
www.slowboring.com/p/inclusiona...
Inclusionary zoning is a tax on housing
Sometimes, policies have unintended consequences or unforeseen downsides
www.slowboring.com
July 14, 2025 at 3:45 PM
We need to take this seriously in Boston when considering how costly Wu’s move
to up #IDP requirements from 13% to 20% has been for #Boston. In a time when new construction is at record lows and prices are record highs every lost unit is a huge cost. #BosPoli #MAPoli #BuildMABuild
to up #IDP requirements from 13% to 20% has been for #Boston. In a time when new construction is at record lows and prices are record highs every lost unit is a huge cost. #BosPoli #MAPoli #BuildMABuild
Doesn't seem like a sign of health at @cwbeacon.bsky.social
We're delighted to share that Gintautas Dumcius (@gintautasd.bsky.social) is returning to MASSterList as Editor.
Gintautas Dumcius returns to MASSterList as Editor - MASSterList
Affiliated News Services has named veteran journalist Gintautas Dumcius as the new Editor of MASSterList. With over 20 years of experience covering Boston politics and policy, Dumcius returns to the n...
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July 10, 2025 at 2:23 PM
Doesn't seem like a sign of health at @cwbeacon.bsky.social