John Lin
@itsjohns.network
Social network refugee
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Like Doug Ford's meddling is so inconsistent and illogical, which is puzzling, until you realize the key to all of it is "don't make drivers feel bad"
December 1, 2025 at 2:38 PM
Like Doug Ford's meddling is so inconsistent and illogical, which is puzzling, until you realize the key to all of it is "don't make drivers feel bad"
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This explains something that has always mystified me about drivers who rail against bike lanes and transit. Why WOULDN'T you want people to have options not to drive? It would make your own driving better! But they don't just want good traffic, they want to reinforce the NORM of driving
This is actually quite brilliant, up to and including the final sentence 🔥
December 1, 2025 at 1:04 PM
This explains something that has always mystified me about drivers who rail against bike lanes and transit. Why WOULDN'T you want people to have options not to drive? It would make your own driving better! But they don't just want good traffic, they want to reinforce the NORM of driving
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We're going to read more and more about regulating dangerous "e-bikes," which are actually electric motorcycles. Why not tell your concerns to the 40,000+ US families each year mourning their dead loved ones, whose lives were taken by the terribly lethal cars and trucks we've decided are essential.
December 1, 2025 at 12:33 AM
We're going to read more and more about regulating dangerous "e-bikes," which are actually electric motorcycles. Why not tell your concerns to the 40,000+ US families each year mourning their dead loved ones, whose lives were taken by the terribly lethal cars and trucks we've decided are essential.
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THIS IS IMPRESSIVE!
It's budget time so at the end of our interview w/ Mayor Bachynski, we gave him a printed poster of the image below. It's the density vs services vs taxes venn diagram that @brenttoderian.bsky.social often shares around. It includes Regina-related explanatory notes. #yqrcc
youtu.be/FMwOpoT4IAw?...
youtu.be/FMwOpoT4IAw?...
November 29, 2025 at 6:45 PM
THIS IS IMPRESSIVE!
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“The vacated homes were substantially cheaper than the new units and spanned diverse locations and housing types.”
When people move into new housing developments, they free up space in older housing. This is good for housing affordability and availability.
When people move into new housing developments, they free up space in older housing. This is good for housing affordability and availability.
Interesting new working paper that studies chains of movers after the construction of a new apartment building in Honolulu.
Paper finds that the project resulted in the opening up other, lower cost, housing on the island, benefiting the housing market overall.
Paper finds that the project resulted in the opening up other, lower cost, housing on the island, benefiting the housing market overall.
uhero.hawaii.edu
November 28, 2025 at 4:14 PM
“The vacated homes were substantially cheaper than the new units and spanned diverse locations and housing types.”
When people move into new housing developments, they free up space in older housing. This is good for housing affordability and availability.
When people move into new housing developments, they free up space in older housing. This is good for housing affordability and availability.
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One of the biggest barriers to implementing pro-housing policy is the folk wisdom that building new market rate/mixed-income housing increases rents even though study after study shows that the opposite is the case:
building more housing lowers rents
building more housing lowers rents
Interesting new working paper that studies chains of movers after the construction of a new apartment building in Honolulu.
Paper finds that the project resulted in the opening up other, lower cost, housing on the island, benefiting the housing market overall.
Paper finds that the project resulted in the opening up other, lower cost, housing on the island, benefiting the housing market overall.
uhero.hawaii.edu
November 28, 2025 at 5:27 PM
One of the biggest barriers to implementing pro-housing policy is the folk wisdom that building new market rate/mixed-income housing increases rents even though study after study shows that the opposite is the case:
building more housing lowers rents
building more housing lowers rents
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The 43rd has it all: 18 out of the 20 precincts that went highest for Katie Wilson, with more than 80% of the vote, and her five worst-performing precincts, in Broadmoor and Laurelhurst.
If you were wondering about Seattle mayor results by district...
November 28, 2025 at 5:35 PM
The 43rd has it all: 18 out of the 20 precincts that went highest for Katie Wilson, with more than 80% of the vote, and her five worst-performing precincts, in Broadmoor and Laurelhurst.
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MGT has seen her networth jump from $700k to $25 million since joining Congress in 2021. And she served juuust long enough to get a lifetime tax payer-funded pension.
She got the joke.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
She got the joke.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
Marjorie Taylor Greene Came So Close to Getting the Joke
What the Georgia representative learned in Washington
www.theatlantic.com
November 26, 2025 at 3:29 PM
MGT has seen her networth jump from $700k to $25 million since joining Congress in 2021. And she served juuust long enough to get a lifetime tax payer-funded pension.
She got the joke.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
She got the joke.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
Watching Protestants object to UBI on the basis that life requires meaning and meaning is a job is....😵💫. Surely, Martin Luther is spinning in his grave when his descendants are saying out loud, "people lack purpose if they're not doing what someone else tells them."
November 25, 2025 at 4:53 PM
Watching Protestants object to UBI on the basis that life requires meaning and meaning is a job is....😵💫. Surely, Martin Luther is spinning in his grave when his descendants are saying out loud, "people lack purpose if they're not doing what someone else tells them."
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It really is just simple geometry.
You cannot build a functional city if everyone brings a 2-ton living room on wheels with them.
You cannot build a functional city if everyone brings a 2-ton living room on wheels with them.
The entrance to the 3-storey bike parking garage at Utrecht Central holding 12,500 bicycles. It’s free for the first 24 hours, linked to the station, and used by tens of thousands every day. This is what happens when a country treats bikes as real transport infrastructure, not an afterthought.
November 22, 2025 at 11:28 PM
It really is just simple geometry.
You cannot build a functional city if everyone brings a 2-ton living room on wheels with them.
You cannot build a functional city if everyone brings a 2-ton living room on wheels with them.
🥹: I would like to buy this tea kettle.
😼: Would you like me to see if we have it?
😵💫: Yes...?
😼: Walks away.
😵💫: This is a store... right? Not a Monty Python skit?
😼: Would you like me to see if we have it?
😵💫: Yes...?
😼: Walks away.
😵💫: This is a store... right? Not a Monty Python skit?
November 23, 2025 at 12:47 AM
🥹: I would like to buy this tea kettle.
😼: Would you like me to see if we have it?
😵💫: Yes...?
😼: Walks away.
😵💫: This is a store... right? Not a Monty Python skit?
😼: Would you like me to see if we have it?
😵💫: Yes...?
😼: Walks away.
😵💫: This is a store... right? Not a Monty Python skit?
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Zork I, II, and III are now open source. Microsoft has released the classic Infocom text adventures under the MIT license! opensource.microsoft.com/blog/2025/11...
Preserving code that shaped generations: Zork I, II, and III go Open Source
Microsoft’s Open Source Programs Office (OSPO), Team Xbox, and Activision are making Zork I, Zork II, and Zork III available under the MIT License.
opensource.microsoft.com
November 20, 2025 at 9:57 PM
Zork I, II, and III are now open source. Microsoft has released the classic Infocom text adventures under the MIT license! opensource.microsoft.com/blog/2025/11...
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Kelly: "I never expected after serving 25 years in the Navy flying combat missions over Iraq and Kuwait, flying the Space Shuttle, that now I've got to worry about my personal safety and that of my wife, Gabby Giffords, who was already nearly assassinated, because of something the president said."
November 21, 2025 at 2:08 AM
Kelly: "I never expected after serving 25 years in the Navy flying combat missions over Iraq and Kuwait, flying the Space Shuttle, that now I've got to worry about my personal safety and that of my wife, Gabby Giffords, who was already nearly assassinated, because of something the president said."
Hey, look. Rich people in coastal mansions strongly support giving themselves a tax break to... incentive themselves to not burn down their neighborhood... again. These guys never miss an opportunity to wreck the tax code.🙃
November 21, 2025 at 6:25 PM
Hey, look. Rich people in coastal mansions strongly support giving themselves a tax break to... incentive themselves to not burn down their neighborhood... again. These guys never miss an opportunity to wreck the tax code.🙃
😵💫🫠 they'll try everything but change.
www.economist.com/finance-and-...
www.economist.com/finance-and-...
America’s huge mortgage market is slowly dying
Donald Trump’s remedies threaten to inflame a housing crisis
www.economist.com
November 20, 2025 at 10:17 PM
😵💫🫠 they'll try everything but change.
www.economist.com/finance-and-...
www.economist.com/finance-and-...
LA is just so strikingly beautiful in so many ways.
November 19, 2025 at 11:58 PM
LA is just so strikingly beautiful in so many ways.
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No cherry picking here. I put all 483 cities in California and used a random number generator, and happily the first four had online zoning maps that were easy to read.
I encourage anyone who may be skeptical to try the same thing with their state! I suspect the results will be the same!
I encourage anyone who may be skeptical to try the same thing with their state! I suspect the results will be the same!
November 19, 2025 at 7:06 PM
No cherry picking here. I put all 483 cities in California and used a random number generator, and happily the first four had online zoning maps that were easy to read.
I encourage anyone who may be skeptical to try the same thing with their state! I suspect the results will be the same!
I encourage anyone who may be skeptical to try the same thing with their state! I suspect the results will be the same!
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Almost half the Waymos on California streets are driving around empty. They're either waiting for the next customer or en route for a pickup.
If robotaxis scale, anything close to that level of deadheading would create crushing gridlock.
www.thedriverlessdigest.com/p/what-cpuc-...
If robotaxis scale, anything close to that level of deadheading would create crushing gridlock.
www.thedriverlessdigest.com/p/what-cpuc-...
November 19, 2025 at 7:14 PM
Almost half the Waymos on California streets are driving around empty. They're either waiting for the next customer or en route for a pickup.
If robotaxis scale, anything close to that level of deadheading would create crushing gridlock.
www.thedriverlessdigest.com/p/what-cpuc-...
If robotaxis scale, anything close to that level of deadheading would create crushing gridlock.
www.thedriverlessdigest.com/p/what-cpuc-...
I feel like this would be epic if it were at ground level and integrated into an urban grid instead of a private retreat 10m above ground level.
November 17, 2025 at 9:20 PM
I feel like this would be epic if it were at ground level and integrated into an urban grid instead of a private retreat 10m above ground level.
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In somewhat good news, today the state department website has changed the answer to this question to defer to ICAO policy. Sources still tell me that there is some appetite for invalidation/reversion of passports issued under the injunction, but this message will be welcome to many trans people.
November 17, 2025 at 6:03 PM
In somewhat good news, today the state department website has changed the answer to this question to defer to ICAO policy. Sources still tell me that there is some appetite for invalidation/reversion of passports issued under the injunction, but this message will be welcome to many trans people.
Evicore: your request for imaging to assess for damage of the cartilage of the knee is not approved pending imaging demonstrating damage to the cartilage of the knee.
: Free Luigi, his work isn't done.
: Free Luigi, his work isn't done.
November 17, 2025 at 6:10 AM
Evicore: your request for imaging to assess for damage of the cartilage of the knee is not approved pending imaging demonstrating damage to the cartilage of the knee.
: Free Luigi, his work isn't done.
: Free Luigi, his work isn't done.
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Here’s something that’s really important for everyone to understand.
If we design our cities just for cars, they fail everyone, including drivers.
If we design our cities with many great CHOICES in how to get around, they work better for everyone, including drivers.
Spread the word.
If we design our cities just for cars, they fail everyone, including drivers.
If we design our cities with many great CHOICES in how to get around, they work better for everyone, including drivers.
Spread the word.
November 15, 2025 at 9:14 AM
Here’s something that’s really important for everyone to understand.
If we design our cities just for cars, they fail everyone, including drivers.
If we design our cities with many great CHOICES in how to get around, they work better for everyone, including drivers.
Spread the word.
If we design our cities just for cars, they fail everyone, including drivers.
If we design our cities with many great CHOICES in how to get around, they work better for everyone, including drivers.
Spread the word.
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No more big city mayors who hate big cities.
After failing to stop a major state housing bill from becoming law, Los Angeles leaders are turning to plan B: Delaying Senate Bill 79's implementation and pushing for unspecified legislative changes next year. My dispatch for @politico.com Pro subscribers subscriber.politicopro.com/article/2025...
POLITICO Pro: Los Angeles failed to defeat a major housing law, so it's turning to Plan B: Delay, delay, delay
A report from the city planning department outlines strategies for pushing off many of the effects of SB 79 through 2030.
subscriber.politicopro.com
November 15, 2025 at 2:59 PM
No more big city mayors who hate big cities.
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We are all made of stars, but your RBAC shouldn’t be
July 21, 2025 at 1:28 PM
We are all made of stars, but your RBAC shouldn’t be
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It would be a mistake to think that the impact of big stockmarket losses would stop at the wallets of investors
How markets could topple the global economy
If the AI bubble bursts, an unusual recession could follow
econ.st
November 14, 2025 at 2:40 PM
It would be a mistake to think that the impact of big stockmarket losses would stop at the wallets of investors