Aakash Japi @AakashJapi

Software engineer by trade. Tweets about history and urbanism. https://t.co/yxegZULTDk aakash.substack.com San Francisco, CA Joined November 2013

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Chris Gaun @cgaunerd

17 hours ago

@mattyglesias Super relevant that the Queens housing Zohran opposed based on affordability just got scrapped yesterday so instead of the 1100 affordable units, there will be 140 6sqft.com/2b-astoria-pro… Great negotiation skills

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Aakash Japi @AakashJapi

12 hours ago

How was France able to iterate on their democracy without revolution? Specifically, the transition from the fourth to the fifth republic. Or am I underrating the scale of the crisis in 1958?

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Cassie Pritchard @hecubian_devil

a day ago

phillys black marxist ☭ @Forever_noir_

a day ago

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Unc Jess | Founder @ Blockus @theweb3jess

2 days ago

@julianweisser There’s only 2 jobs at any pre-50 people startup: engineering and sales. Either you build that shit, or you go out and ask people to use your shit. Arguably, this is true up to 200 people. There’s no biz to op and product to manage. You yell across the fucking room to get shit…

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TracingWoodgrains @tracewoodgrains

2 days ago

Great to see The Free Press drawing attention to Zohran Mamdani’s interest in dismantling advanced education.

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Nicholas Fabiano, MD @NTFabiano

3 days ago

Life satisfaction is highly consistent with your personality.

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Real Estate Lawyer @SinaiLawFirm

2 days ago

Since everyone liked the previous post, here are actual laws in Los Angeles restricting evictions that are way worse than the JCO (Just Cause Ordinance) rules in LA (long post): 1. Interest Free Loans to Tenants - before you evict a tenant for non-payment in LA, you have to make…

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Megan McArdle @asymmetricinfo

3 days ago

The magnitude of the preference falsification left it ripe for what @timurkuran calls a preference cascade--when people start realizing that they're in the silent majority, not the outlying minority, true opinion manifests rapidly, like one of those chemical reactions where a…

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Kane 謝凱堯 @kane

4 days ago

Modern unions are why America doesn’t have automated ports, why major cities don’t have Waymo, why public services are mired in cost disease, and why public school reading and math proficiency is tanking despite record per-student spending.

Sen. Bernie Sanders @SenSanders

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Goodeguy @Goodeguystuff

a week ago

@RenOfMen Young men of the 2020s: if only we were safe and comfortable like our fathers in the 90s. Young men of the 90s: urban areas are decaying rapidly and everything predictable is disintegrating. If only we were hopeful like our fathers in the 60s. Young men of the 60s: truth is gone…

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T. Greer @Scholars_Stage

a week ago

I don't think you need to read every page of Robert Caro's POWER BROKER or his LIFE OF LYNDON B JOHNSON series. But you should read parts. I have not found a better account of how power actually works in a democratic society. And really, how it works in most societies.

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Dissproportionately @dissproportion

2 weeks ago

The final boss of People Who Can’t Do Anything—she got drunk and fell asleep in a sauna while on a work trip and then said it was the company’s fault for not getting her a special coach to help her with her ADHD, which is why she lost her room key. She argued that yes, she was…

max tempers @maxtempers

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Andy Masley @AndyMasley

2 weeks ago

Google publishes a paper showing that its AI models only use 0.26 mL of water in data centers per prompt. After, this article gets published: "Google says a typical AI prompt only uses 5 drops of water - experts say that's misleading." The reason the expert says this is…

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Garry Tan @garrytan

2 weeks ago

If you *only* used SAT to admit to elite colleges, share of admits from top 1% income falls 15.8% → 9.9% and representation from <$200k rises by +8.8%, with no reduction in post-college outcomes. It's 'holistic review' and 'ban SAT' policy that allows the most wealthy and…

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St. Rev. Dr. Rev ⏭️☯️🏴😻 @St_Rev

2 weeks ago

Going to repeat this, and be ignored, and repeat it again later until I die probably: Welfare systems, as they actually exist, harshly punish any marginal improvements in a beneficiary's position, via clawbacks and disqualification. Poor people aren't immune to incentives!

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Rush Doshi @RushDoshi

3 weeks ago

Some of these political commentators on the right remind me of Qing-era traditionalists. They are largely unaware of the fact the world is changing rapidly and that the West must urgently adapt or risk falling behind.

Pascal-Emmanuel Gobry @pegobry_en

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noah @nkreu113r

2 weeks ago

@MattZeitlin No one is more oppressed than the mid 30s w2 office worker from a tax pov

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Bella 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🌹 @soc_bella

3 weeks ago

“if everyone would just stop eating meat…”

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Dean_089 @Dean_Sliger

4 weeks ago

@JamesMelville "The trouble with socialism is that eventually you run out of other people’s money." Margaret Thatcher

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Aakash Japi @AakashJapi

4 weeks ago

This framing in particular is horrid. The author speaks of "favoring" by test scores as if test scores are some entirely exogenous factor. No, people earned those scores. Being "favored" for having higher test scores is exactly the point of testing!