Zak Remer
@kazmasaurus.bsky.social
iPhone whisperer in Portland. I like bikes and trains and places built for people. Types compulsively.
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Sometimes I see people like 20 tweets deep into an argument with Grok. Like, what are you doing brother? You are trying to win an argument with a vending machine.
August 18, 2025 at 3:10 AM
Sometimes I see people like 20 tweets deep into an argument with Grok. Like, what are you doing brother? You are trying to win an argument with a vending machine.
Some random programmer: gets hired, fixes their pet bug, and then quits.
@drmitchpdx.bsky.social: “hold my hot dog”
@drmitchpdx.bsky.social: “hold my hot dog”
July 11, 2025 at 3:51 AM
Some random programmer: gets hired, fixes their pet bug, and then quits.
@drmitchpdx.bsky.social: “hold my hot dog”
@drmitchpdx.bsky.social: “hold my hot dog”
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I'm sorry but this whole thing makes me feel insane. Let's just be real: we stole basic independence from generations of kids and teenagers by intentionally making our cities deadly + impossible to travel outside a car, and now corporations are selling a worse version of it back to them at a price.
The Teens Are Taking Waymos Now
Alphabet’s self-driving car company launches what it hopes will be lucrative individual teen accounts—and maybe a whole lot of social change in the process.
www.wired.com
July 10, 2025 at 1:44 PM
I'm sorry but this whole thing makes me feel insane. Let's just be real: we stole basic independence from generations of kids and teenagers by intentionally making our cities deadly + impossible to travel outside a car, and now corporations are selling a worse version of it back to them at a price.
Especially since unlike the very public spectacle we got with grok, this could happen without much public awareness.
very cool that society is moving in this direction when, based on what we've learned today, it would take just a little bit of tweaking to turn everyone's fake ai girlfriends into hitler incarnate
in the future there needs to be Trials.
July 9, 2025 at 5:07 AM
Especially since unlike the very public spectacle we got with grok, this could happen without much public awareness.
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biggest thing that stands out to me from the oregon transportation bill debacle: HB 2025 was a serious effort to charge road users the full cost of road maintenance, and it collapsed under its own weight. vindication of the @strongtowns.org view of america’s unsustainably overbuilt infrastructure
America's Growth Ponzi Scheme
The American pattern of development creates the illusion of wealth. Today we are in the process of seeing that illusion destroyed…and with it the prosperity we have come to take for granted.
www.strongtowns.org
June 28, 2025 at 6:06 PM
biggest thing that stands out to me from the oregon transportation bill debacle: HB 2025 was a serious effort to charge road users the full cost of road maintenance, and it collapsed under its own weight. vindication of the @strongtowns.org view of america’s unsustainably overbuilt infrastructure
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In all the coverage of P4A since its implementation, I’ve been surprised to see very little about the families who benefit from the program. Now, they’re speaking out (along with county commissioners and other advocates).
Preschool for All Advocates Put Kotek and State Legislators on Notice
When Riley McPhee’s twins were born four years ago, he and his wife immediately began looking into their childcare and preschool options. After looking into multiple programs and crunching numbers, it...
www.portlandmercury.com
June 26, 2025 at 8:03 PM
In all the coverage of P4A since its implementation, I’ve been surprised to see very little about the families who benefit from the program. Now, they’re speaking out (along with county commissioners and other advocates).
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just as all biological evolution converges on the form of a crab, all cope ultimately converges on the form of "Elon went crazy on me"
June 6, 2025 at 2:58 PM
just as all biological evolution converges on the form of a crab, all cope ultimately converges on the form of "Elon went crazy on me"
Big “great hack week project, now when can we ship it” energy here
Wayfair's search automatically generates page titles and descriptions that fill in your search text, even if there are no matching product results. All it takes is for someone to link to that search on the web, wait for Google to index it, and boom! Wayfair now sells cuck chairs. 🪑
They really do
June 1, 2025 at 8:44 PM
Big “great hack week project, now when can we ship it” energy here
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Musk should be asked about this in every interview he does now and forever. To ignore it is a dereliction of duty.
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/o...
May 30, 2025 at 4:20 PM
Musk should be asked about this in every interview he does now and forever. To ignore it is a dereliction of duty.
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/o...
Implement a 100% tariff and ruin a movie.
The Tensor
The Tensor
Implement a 100% tariff and ruin a movie.
Ocean's 22.
Ocean's 22.
Implement a 100% tariff and ruin a movie.
The Twenty Commandments
The Twenty Commandments
May 5, 2025 at 4:43 PM
Implement a 100% tariff and ruin a movie.
The Tensor
The Tensor
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The savvy will scoff, but I am completely serious about this. Congressional Dems should introduce a constitutional amendment to limit the pardon power and force votes on it whenever they can. Dem presidential wannabes should endorse the idea. Blue states should signal support.
Rein In Trump's Pardon Power
Before it's too late... And presidential immunity, while we're at it.... Take it to Congress, to states, even to the streets.
www.offmessage.net
May 2, 2025 at 3:46 PM
The savvy will scoff, but I am completely serious about this. Congressional Dems should introduce a constitutional amendment to limit the pardon power and force votes on it whenever they can. Dem presidential wannabes should endorse the idea. Blue states should signal support.
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Concept sketch just dropped
January 28, 2025 at 7:58 PM
Concept sketch just dropped
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My favorite fact about the NYC subway is that there are way more daily riders (about 4 million) than the number of people who fly in the US out of all airports every day (~2.5 million). The scale is hard to get a grasp on.
Max capacity passengers per hour:
* Boring Co’s Vegas Loop: 4,500
* NYC subway 6 train: 105,000
* Boring Co’s Vegas Loop: 4,500
* NYC subway 6 train: 105,000
January 27, 2025 at 2:20 PM
My favorite fact about the NYC subway is that there are way more daily riders (about 4 million) than the number of people who fly in the US out of all airports every day (~2.5 million). The scale is hard to get a grasp on.
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From todays’s extra edition of “We’re Here”:
November 7, 2024 at 3:00 AM
From todays’s extra edition of “We’re Here”:
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118 people ran for Portland office this year as city govt undergoes sweeping change.
Crazy civic experiment by US standards?
Yes.
An historic local election?
Most definitely.
Also: Pretty f'ing cool, if you ask me.
Can't wait to see how it unfolds & what happens next.
🤠
Crazy civic experiment by US standards?
Yes.
An historic local election?
Most definitely.
Also: Pretty f'ing cool, if you ask me.
Can't wait to see how it unfolds & what happens next.
🤠
November 5, 2024 at 7:36 PM
118 people ran for Portland office this year as city govt undergoes sweeping change.
Crazy civic experiment by US standards?
Yes.
An historic local election?
Most definitely.
Also: Pretty f'ing cool, if you ask me.
Can't wait to see how it unfolds & what happens next.
🤠
Crazy civic experiment by US standards?
Yes.
An historic local election?
Most definitely.
Also: Pretty f'ing cool, if you ask me.
Can't wait to see how it unfolds & what happens next.
🤠
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