What do we want? Housing for the homeless!
When do we want it? After an exhaustive and yearslong community input process that caters to the concerns of businesses and homeowners!
Where do we want it? Somewhere else!
Once you push through the crypto gaslighting, you realise there's no meaningful tech here at all all, and the whole of it just gambling, regulatory arbitrage, and scams.
Torching the planet to sell expensive entries in a database really is as stupid as it seems.
Top GOP recall candidate Larry Elder used his radio show to push anti-vaccine conspiracy theories. He could be our next Governor if we don't vote by September 14. huffpost.com/entry/californiā¦
I've been really enjoying the marketing for the electric trucks / mustangs / etc. It's interesting to see their strategy to allow demographics that have disliked Tesla / identify as gas-loving to like these vehicles.
Virginia's weekly vaccine breakthrough report is out. Here is data from June 1 to July 30, which is when Delta circulated. The breakthroughs are still very rare. 97.1% of all cases are unvaxxed. And this is all positives, not just symptomatic. vdh.virginia.gov/coronavirusā¦
There's been a lot of discussion recently about how "Safari is the new IE", and some interesting rebuttals that Safari's approach is actually protecting the web.
I don't agree: httptoolkit.tech/blog/safariā¦
We are SO STOKED by how many people showed up for our first Orlando YIMBY meeting! Thank you!
We're all excited to say yes to housing, yes to people, and yes in my backyard. Stay plugged in with us here: orlandoyimby.org/email-list
171 scientists find calculation error that proves the electric vehicle is not greener!
That's the gist of many German papers today but a better headline would be:
THE COMBUSTION ENGINE LOBBY IS GASLIGHTING AGAIN
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Once redlining became illegal and the FHA became law, racist folks took their cabal to local codes. āLocal Controlā is not a racist dog whistle in housing, itās a goddamn bullhorn. Itās the pretext used by modern day racists to keep communities white and to keep poor people poor.
š¼Hiring to Chrome Web Platform Capabilities team, and the device team. Ping me. Google I/O 2021 highlights our teams' work!:
ā Web platform Keynote "Capabilities" section - piped.video/0UiaD059eqM?t=442
ā Chrome OS Keynote "Web Apps and PWAs" section - piped.video/a8kkzdOfAgU?t=228
ā60s preservationists: historic districts will increase property values
[property values increase a lot]
ā90s preservationists: wait did we say that? we meant they will fight gentrification
Chrome is reducing User-Agent strings (not in 2021 though). The string is too complex and carries a lot of info that might be used for fingerprinting.
What's changing and why
blog.chromium.org/2021/05/upā¦
Some examples of the reduced strings here:
chromium.org/updates/ua-reduā¦