#NoKings

I feel like this pic tells a larger story about the political-intellectual role of FedSoc

Here’s a map of precinct-level results in the Seattle mayoral primary, as of election night:

At one point Students for a Free Tibet even directly riffed on graphics from the “Threshold Crossed” report to make a point about how China discriminates against Tibetans

Felix Frankfurter cooked here

You think you just fell out of a coconut tree?

This “last-week-median-rent minus first-week-median-rent” metric is interesting too. I’d be curious about first-week-of-July minus first-week-of-June because my guess is a decent chunk of price-setting happens month-to-month in normal years, making this comparison to past years less helpful.

I went to the WA DOL today and it took me 5 mins to reach the counter and maybe 10 to get my license and be registered to vote. There’s no paying extra for a premium DMV experience, it’s just built to efficiently provide a necessity for all. I’d love a grocery store built around a similar ethos!

#NoKings

Not very impressed by this AI summary

-Presidents aren’t kings
-Congestion pricing works

A bunch of people in my feed are mocking this tweet. It seems like a clearly remarkable result that exemplifies why LLMs are fascinating? They trained a model on billions of words of text and now it is able to multiply, say, 8386284 by 6737614??

These are my favorite charts from the piece, showing how big a difference the program made for a broad swath of candidates. It’s really exciting to see these results from the program’s first cycle in effect. Lots more in there, though, so give it a read!

In 2024, New York State’s Public Campaign Finance Program dramatically changed how legislative candidates were funded. Boosted by matching funds, small in-district contributions accounted for almost half of candidates’ funding — up from ~5% before.

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Today I learned that Wyoming has a social wealth fund that is greater than half the state’s GDP in size. Pretty cool! www.nytimes.com/2024/12/26/u...

And just great urbanism in general, of course. Have we considered simply legalizing this?

Impressive frequency on the Tokaido Shinkansen