Leif Hancox-Li, PhD
@struthious.bsky.social
Applied scientist working on LLM evaluation and publishing in AI ethics. Formerly: technical writing, philosophy. Urbanism nerd in my spare time. Opinions here my own. he/they 🏳️⚧️. https://boltzmann-brain.github.io/
california coastal commission continuing to be one of the biggest destroyers of the california coast
Check out the depth of this @thecacoast.bsky.social required parking lot for a new apartment building in Santa Monica. This looks like an expensive hole! Great news for renters. And I’m sure the neighbors will love all the additional cars this puts on the road.
November 11, 2025 at 2:29 AM
california coastal commission continuing to be one of the biggest destroyers of the california coast
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normie dems are posting about why the senate was created...
November 9, 2025 at 10:42 PM
normie dems are posting about why the senate was created...
Real question: everyone’s premiums are going up even if they don’t qualify for ACA tax credits. If those tax credits are magically restored, I assume the rest of us are still stuck with higher premiums? I dont see insurance companies readjusting after the fact?
November 9, 2025 at 10:25 PM
Real question: everyone’s premiums are going up even if they don’t qualify for ACA tax credits. If those tax credits are magically restored, I assume the rest of us are still stuck with higher premiums? I dont see insurance companies readjusting after the fact?
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All right, I've got it everybody: if it's AI, it's bad; if there's AI doing something good; it's not AI.
November 9, 2025 at 9:17 PM
All right, I've got it everybody: if it's AI, it's bad; if there's AI doing something good; it's not AI.
I thought IZ in pittsburgh has been bad but this is orders of magnitude worse lmao
In 2018, then-Mayor Ada Colau called Barcelona’s new 30% inclusionary housing requirement for projects over 600m^2 a “paradigm shift,” making housing “a right and not a commodity.” It was supposed to produce 330 affordable units a year. The reality: just 31 affordable apartments in all these years.
Cuando se ha aprobó esta medida dije repetidamente que iba a ser un fracaso y que no construirían nada de vivienda asequible. Se ha probado en mil sitios y no funciona.
Acerté. www.lavanguardia.com/local/barcel...
Acerté. www.lavanguardia.com/local/barcel...
November 9, 2025 at 9:06 PM
I thought IZ in pittsburgh has been bad but this is orders of magnitude worse lmao
There are these Italian tweens watching Roma vs Udinese in the bar and they are dressed sooo well. I can’t imagine other American tweens putting on a dress shirt and a nice sweater of their own accord
November 9, 2025 at 6:05 PM
There are these Italian tweens watching Roma vs Udinese in the bar and they are dressed sooo well. I can’t imagine other American tweens putting on a dress shirt and a nice sweater of their own accord
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Subway Cadbury Creme Egg Submelt (2023-2023): A 6-inch sub roll, filled with Cadbury Creme Eggs and grill-pressed until toasty golden brown. Was available for free, for one day only, at 4 Subway locations in the UK, with only 500 subs available at each location.
April 17, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Subway Cadbury Creme Egg Submelt (2023-2023): A 6-inch sub roll, filled with Cadbury Creme Eggs and grill-pressed until toasty golden brown. Was available for free, for one day only, at 4 Subway locations in the UK, with only 500 subs available at each location.
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True on some level, but misleading. Air traffic controllers are paid (or, right now, not paid) by the FAA, with funding from user fees generated from taxes on airline tickets, jet fuel, etc. – not (at least not mostly?) out of general federal government revenues. usafacts.org/articles/who...
November 9, 2025 at 3:49 AM
True on some level, but misleading. Air traffic controllers are paid (or, right now, not paid) by the FAA, with funding from user fees generated from taxes on airline tickets, jet fuel, etc. – not (at least not mostly?) out of general federal government revenues. usafacts.org/articles/who...
amazing
November 9, 2025 at 12:54 AM
amazing
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Nobody who spouts this position on European politics has had a single solitary conversation with a center left European about immigration.
November 8, 2025 at 4:27 PM
Nobody who spouts this position on European politics has had a single solitary conversation with a center left European about immigration.
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anyways here's the platform for 2026
November 8, 2025 at 11:18 PM
anyways here's the platform for 2026
Ok, I can accept this function of the fact-free left
every socialist candidate for office is gonna need to keep a whack job to their left in their pocket for some easy point-scoring
November 8, 2025 at 8:08 PM
Ok, I can accept this function of the fact-free left
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A big problem that a lot of folks are environmentalists as an outlet for puritanism (or anti-induatrialization), which causes big fights when folks come up with solutions that aren't about (or even in direct conflict with) puritanism or anti industrialization
November 7, 2025 at 11:46 PM
A big problem that a lot of folks are environmentalists as an outlet for puritanism (or anti-induatrialization), which causes big fights when folks come up with solutions that aren't about (or even in direct conflict with) puritanism or anti industrialization
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after a nontrivial amount of various things (metaphorically) lighting on fire, i have fixed my keyboard.
November 7, 2025 at 10:53 PM
after a nontrivial amount of various things (metaphorically) lighting on fire, i have fixed my keyboard.
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all the fopo people who treat this administration credulously desperately need to get left out in the cold
November 7, 2025 at 5:39 PM
all the fopo people who treat this administration credulously desperately need to get left out in the cold
We need better haters. Source: fly.io/blog/everyon...
November 7, 2025 at 10:24 PM
We need better haters. Source: fly.io/blog/everyon...
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"gentrifiers are anyone who moved in after me" remains the only definition of "gentrifiers" i've ever seen
November 7, 2025 at 6:58 PM
"gentrifiers are anyone who moved in after me" remains the only definition of "gentrifiers" i've ever seen
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this really captures the specific set of cached/unconfronted assumptions that underlie a lot of discourse, especially here (from @andymasley.bsky.social)
November 7, 2025 at 1:16 PM
this really captures the specific set of cached/unconfronted assumptions that underlie a lot of discourse, especially here (from @andymasley.bsky.social)
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it is very amusing that the DC abundance bros are mad about Lina Khan being one of Zohran’s transition co-chairs even though the other co-chair is Maria Torres Springer, NYC’s ultimate abundance YIMBY technocrat
November 7, 2025 at 3:01 PM
it is very amusing that the DC abundance bros are mad about Lina Khan being one of Zohran’s transition co-chairs even though the other co-chair is Maria Torres Springer, NYC’s ultimate abundance YIMBY technocrat
C.f. Academia
You get what you pay for! Not only does it fuel corruption, but even if they're not corrupt, you get people who are relatively more obsessed with the title and ego and power-tripping perks of the job because that's all they get for eating a massive pay cut compared to their other options.
November 7, 2025 at 3:48 PM
C.f. Academia
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you could replace “data centers“ here with so many other topics and the sentiment would still hold
I would love it if public discourse on data centers could be just a skosh more sophisticated than "data centers good vs. data centers bad."
November 7, 2025 at 1:27 PM
you could replace “data centers“ here with so many other topics and the sentiment would still hold
this is a good year to Not Travel for the holidays
I'd already decided not to on account of having traveled too much earlier this year partly due to cheeto prez
I'd already decided not to on account of having traveled too much earlier this year partly due to cheeto prez
Yeah I don’t think this ends until air traffic shuts down entirely
November 7, 2025 at 2:35 AM
this is a good year to Not Travel for the holidays
I'd already decided not to on account of having traveled too much earlier this year partly due to cheeto prez
I'd already decided not to on account of having traveled too much earlier this year partly due to cheeto prez