State Capacity Isn't FascismDec 19
tech companies give the government, historically dumb and slow, cutting-edge tools to enforce the law of the land. don't like it? change the law, don't blame the toolmakers.
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We Should Turn the Presidio Into a Special Economic Zone
if we want to fix california's housing crisis, we need to accelerate development. build the presidio into a mini tokyo and then flood the salton sea.
Tomas Pueyo
Jun 14, 2025
We have shackled ourselves.
The US is 250 years old. When it was young, anything was possible. Settlers built cities from nothing, laid railroads, and created the richest nation the world has ever seen.
But it came at a cost: a ravaged environment, the slave trade, and the annihilation of native civilizations. So the pendulum swung — and Americans began to fear progress instead of embrace it.
State Capacity Isn't Fascism
The Data Center Water Crisis Isn't RealDec 18
one guy is single-handedly correcting the ai water doomerism with a calculator and a chatbot
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No, We Shouldn’t Ban Waymos Over a CatDec 12
on kitkat, the beloved sf feline who was run over by an autonomous vehicle, and jackie fielder, the pandering sf politician who now wants to ban the vehicles altogether
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