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amb @amb.fyi · 3h

see also: autonomous vehicles

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amb @amb.fyi · 5h

sounds familiar

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amb @amb.fyi · 6h

quittin' time

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amb @amb.fyi · 6h

sometimes it really hits home how much Brazil really is bizarro deeply beautiful and kinda evil USA

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amb @amb.fyi · 6h

based on my limited knowledge of these topics it wouldn't surprise me whatsoever if brazilian club soccer, always on the precipice of financial collapse and full of aspirations of competing with europe for legitimacy, had zero hesitation going all-in and taking every possible kalshi dollar

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amb @amb.fyi · 6h

i think neymar is ultimately a tragic figure in that had he reached his true potential this wouldn't be the only thing he had in common with michael jordan

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amb @amb.fyi · 6h

today i learned!

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amb @amb.fyi · 6h

"When the soccer icon Neymar posted a video after his selection to Brazil’s World Cup squad, he promptly marked the moment on social media by urging fans to visit a betting platform that sponsors him."

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amb @amb.fyi · 7h

deadly heat waves in october

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mitch (he/him) @drmitchpdx.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

astonishing to see them file suit over this. it exempts 100s of thousands of Portlanders from the tax, while raising it a bit ($15 for the year) on those with the most ability to pay. it would be a shame if council had a hearing on the Clean and Safe ESD rates and how those have been hiked > 10%

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whatever your thoughts on whether the state should spend three and a half billion dollars to double the width of a polluting freeway through North Portland, it's very shitty to see this agency string along community leaders for nearly a decade only to yet again stumble and under deliver.

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amb @amb.fyi · 11h

genuinely shitty for all involved that ODOT's freeway boondoggle spent several years assuring everybody that the Rose Quarter Freeway Expansion would provide tangible and targeted economic investment in Black contractors and jobs only to once again walk it back and ultimately break their promise

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 23h

Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo put her vision for the city like this: "A city where you can get let go of your child's hand"

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amb @amb.fyi · 02/10/2026

Shaun of the Dead

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amb @amb.fyi · 02/10/2026

Texas really dodged a bullet

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amb @amb.fyi · 02/10/2026

Please don’t.

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amb @amb.fyi · 02/10/2026

OHNA is just underway so results TBH, but I’d echo @benrosstransit.bsky.social’s point that jurisdictions are broke and this law in this immediate political and economic and budget moment is less likely to spur new cities to pursue/fund IZ but rather to prevent unfunded bad faith IZ from spreading

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amb @amb.fyi · 02/10/2026

oregon has other state housing regulatory mechanisms to force wealthy suburbs to advance affordable housing units, notably the OHNA process. in exchange for the funding mandate the state gave cities greater flexibility on specific IZ programming and reporting

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amb @amb.fyi · 01/10/2026

only one jurisdiction currently has IZ (Portland); it's funded by a city/county partnership. the bill would require the program to wind down if the funding dried up. the bill also ensures exclusionary wealthy suburban cities can't use unfunded IZ mandates to stifle new homes directed by the state

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amb @amb.fyi · 01/10/2026

oregon's lucky to have the incomparable @senkhanhpham.bsky.social as chair of the senate housing committee (and i'm lucky to have her as a boss)

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amb @amb.fyi · 01/10/2026

I'll be speaking at @yimby.town in Raleigh this November about our efforts to pass a bill for funded Inclusionary Zoning in the Oregon Legislature this last session, a wonky and complicated and nuanced issue that @andersem.bsky.social did a better job summarizing than I ever could

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Oregon’s New Path to Inclusionary Housing: Fully Funded and Flexible | Sightline Institute

An environmental justice champion led the push to end counterproductive, unfunded mandates.

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amb @amb.fyi · 01/10/2026

just going to smugly butt into this thread to proudly tout that we passed a bill in oregon this year that understands IZ programs are good if they are funded, bad if they aren't, and it passed the chambers with bipartisan support and had champions including Portland's socialist city councilors

sightline.org

Oregon’s New Path to Inclusionary Housing: Fully Funded and Flexible | Sightline Institute

An environmental justice champion led the push to end counterproductive, unfunded mandates.

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Angie Nixon @angieforfl.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I don't wanna COUCH my words here: I know JD Vance, his eyeliner, and absent Ashley Moody are used to running away from people when things get tough because they care more about themselves and their billionaire buddies than the people they represent. But this is my home. /1

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Emory Like Memory @emorymemory.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Proud to be working for 🤩Virginia Stapleton🥳 WFP-endorsed Democrat from rural Salem, running for Oregon State Senate in a Salem-Woodburn seat held by Republicans She’s so damn good Phil Knight is lighting some of his pocket change on fire to prop up her opponent Link to donate to Virginia:

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Kori 🌹 @koriander.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

The 9000 sampled Oregonians (40% not from PDX) thought transit should be 19% of OR’s transpo budget. From 2023-2025, the legislature proposed 8% of budget to to transit; the governor cut that to 7%.

Results of the Oregon transportation survey; respondents think 25% of transpo budget should go to system maintenance; 23% to key asset preservation; 19% to Public Transit; 12% to public safety; 11% to traffic flow; 10% to Bike & Pedestrian improvements

2023-2025 state biennium budget. The legislature proposed 8% of it go to transit; the governor lowered that to 7%

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amb @amb.fyi · 01/10/2026

oil executives better end up on trial at the hague for crimes against humanity

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

That's where I've been for a while. We can't even reach questions about the death penalty itself because we fail essential predicates such as "fair and consistent criminal justice system" and "reliable death penalty verdicts that leave no reasonable doubt" and, as shown tonight, "humane execution."

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amb @amb.fyi · 01/10/2026

Would be a disaster for fighting freeways

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CAHSR's Strongest Soldier @emoscientist.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Teens doing dumb and dangerous stuff on what are essential electric motorcycles is real and a problem in some places but I'd remind everyone that teens doing dangerous stuff on actual gas-powered motorcyles is the cornerstone of the 50's greaser culture everyone worships now.

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amb @amb.fyi · 30/09/2026

gonna be a stressful month, and if we're not careful, a wretched four years

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amb @amb.fyi · 29/09/2026

i think getting my name on a bench of a bus stop could be a flattering way to be remembered, but i'm personally less interested in my name on the bench itself than the bench existing and serving a bunch of frequent service bus lines i helped fight for

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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

There is a moment at the very very end of Abdul El-Sayed's podcast with Ezra Klein (book recommendation section) where he talks about the idea of "speaking truth to pain" and this will be staying with me for an extremely long time. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/25/o...

But there’s also something about truth to pain. We talk a lot about truth to power, but I think it’s actually a lot harder to speak truth to pain. I say that as someone who went to medical school, realizing that in a lot of our politics right now, we’ve got to get a lot better at speaking truth to pain if we’re going to get through some of these challenges that we have.

What does “truth to pain” mean?

It’s one thing to look power in the eye and say: You’re wrong about this. But there’s a way in which pain is very difficult to reason with. Because when somebody is in their pain, they’re in their trauma. They see that pain, and they may not see what’s causing it.

I remember just very explicitly being in a trauma ward with a gunshot wound patient and watching this big guy with his hand on his gunshot wound. All the folks are trying to pull his hand off his pain, that point of his gunshot wound, this clear vulnerability.

And this emergency room doctor had the presence of mind to be like: Everyone, stop. And she looks him in the eyes, and she’s like: I get that really hurts, and I’m so sorry that you’re here. You don’t want to be here. We don’t want you to be here. But if you don’t let us fix this, you could die. So I’m going to take your hand, and I’m going to move it off, OK? Because I need to get there so that you can live.

She was speaking truth to pain. He understands he’s at the hospital, he needs care, but he also doesn’t want anybody to touch the wound. Which is a natural thing. And I think it is a really great metaphor for how we think about a lot of these challenges we talked about today.

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amb @amb.fyi · 30/09/2026

"....it was surreal to see a picture celebrating the 1977 team hanging next to the dais Monday morning. The Blazers’ current posture within this year’s context feels akin to watching somebody threaten to divorce their spouse the same night they plan to take them out to dinner for their anniversary."

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amb @amb.fyi · 30/09/2026

"NBA media days are strange events even in normal circumstances, marrying the vibe of the first day of school with Halloween. Players wear full uniforms to pose for pictures, but they also walk around and talk to people wearing slacks...the NBA is a very sophisticated television show"

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amb @amb.fyi · 30/09/2026

yes, but also, there's a demonstrable difference between a professionally managed, fully resourced campaign to share with voters that one candidate sucks vs a couple errant angry individuals shouting to the same couple dozen people who were always going to vote the same way anyway

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amb @amb.fyi · 30/09/2026

while the campaign was literally about “not ranking” him, i think it ultimately existed to affirm and uplift all the negative qualities about him that made him a uniquely a bad choice. Major “get a load of this guy” energy. He was riding very high in 2022/23 and DRR helped counter that

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amb @amb.fyi · 30/09/2026

idk it absolutely worked for mayor

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amb @amb.fyi · 29/09/2026

Blocks from light rail, the lake street bus and the best urban bike path in North America! Forget the parking, good lord, build homes

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amb @amb.fyi · 29/09/2026

That parking lot is a horrific missed opportunity

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amb @amb.fyi · 29/09/2026

just waiting to be overdubbed with the curb your enthusiasm jingle

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amb @amb.fyi · 29/09/2026

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amb @amb.fyi · 29/09/2026

lmao how PPB's initial press response to shooting and killing a dog on the day before his retirement was "we're going to miss him, he was such a good dog" and that was the dominant media narrative for the entire weekend

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pnwpolicyangel aka Angelita 👼 @pnwpolicyangel.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Updated information shows PPB killed the man and the dog. Absolutely shameful how some media talked about this man’s life like it was an afterthought, and unquestioningly put out copaganda.

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Athul K. Acharya @athul.acharya.cc · 29/09/2026

The moderate option 👇

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