like if grok was sentient this should qualify computer abuse as rediculous as that sounds

an odd take on ai is that if (add thats a big if) there's even a risk of it resembling sentience or actual intelligence we need a whole different set of regulations to prevent this kind of stuff, making a sentient computer generate self porn for you is deeply immoral

if you endorse and he wins, you're still at risk, unless you're a real rising start like AOC you've limited yourself to back bencher for years at the very least. if you endorse and he loses, especially if youre a new york politician whew youre dead, like truly and utterly dead

cities and states often try excuse their lack of direct funding for new housing with "we'd have to raise taxes" as if the long term cost of a housing shortage isn't orders of magnitude worse for the tax base

the defense of unfuded inclusionary zoning has always been very funny to me like "developers are greedy enough to extract enough profit from renters that they could rent some new units at lower cost but they are not greedy enough to raise rents on other units to simply keep making the same amount"

"change who gets into the uber exculsive club designed to benefit socially connected people" is not a means to meritocracy, if more students are succeeding acedmically we need to create more opporitunities for them (fund public research unis), if they aren't we need to help them (fund k-12)

Also you're not going to make big private school admissions equitable in a broad sense, those schools get their reputation from their exclusivity and regularly rejecting hundreds of valedictorians. More students are striving more but those schools won't open new slots, its not in their interest

I hate how much we focus on changing the formula of who gets into these top colleges, thats not a means to equitable education. My high school had classrooms in old warehouse metal sheds and rain coming through the ceiling, college admissions tinkering isn't solving the bigger issues students face

yeah this is informed in part by my own experience bsky.app/profile/koal...

I went to a public school that forced everyone to do basically all AP classes, because of that, mental distress and COVID my GPA was barely above a 2 when I entered senior year of high school, meanwhile my SAT was something like 1400 and would've garunteed me entry into several state schools

some notable things in this excellent Bloomberg story - www.bloomberg.com/features/202...

how much of it connects through Harvard, and how many of these people are now in the AI field.

I there's actually been more than one TOD on an old mall but the one I'm thinking of is Metrocenter

Phoenix went from a city with a half empty downtown that people only visited for sports events to one with cranes on every block, a new medical school, a completed south rail line, two planned westside rail transit extensions, several planned BRT routes, and a new large TOD on an old mall site

Thank you! I'm hopeful that the council goes with this recommendation in December