Reposted by @eventhorizonblues.bsky.socialStan Oklobdzija @stano.bsky.social · 03/10/2026There are still surface parking lots in central Los Angeles. We don't need new developments out in the WUI outside Fontana. 1232 0
Reposted by @eventhorizonblues.bsky.socialStan Oklobdzija @stano.bsky.social · 27/09/2026It's not something I feel like doing myself, but it would be really cool to break down total water rights in California by partisanship of the owners. It might really shift perspectives to learn that we're turning our state into a desert when 70% of acre-feet are owned by Republicans. 63411 0
Reposted by @eventhorizonblues.bsky.socialGerry Doyle @mgerrydoyle.bsky.social · 25/09/2026I object pretty strongly to this framing tbh the ukraine war is probably a one-off--we don't know for sure but we do know that nato countries' forces look much different than ukraine's prewar--and planning as though it's the war of the future ain't great 3436 0
Reposted by @eventhorizonblues.bsky.socialLaurens @laurenshof.online · 23/09/2026related: if people really want to do Discourse on whether a strange and spooky network is 'conscious', "is mycelium conscious?" seems like a much more fun and interesting question to me 6637 0
Reposted by @eventhorizonblues.bsky.socialDavid Ciani @davidciani.com · 22/09/2026In this case, it's less ADA and more our building codes. Those nice compact elevators are illegal in the US because the bunch of retired firefighters who write our building codes insist that if you can't fit a full ambulance stretcher in an elevator, you might as well not have one at all. 181 0
Reposted by @eventhorizonblues.bsky.socialStan Oklobdzija @stano.bsky.social · 18/09/2026It seems that Trump has irrevocably broken the global fossil fuel energy chain such that moving people and freight using electric power will be a national priority over the next decade. It would've been great to build this infrastructure during the ZIRP, but the 2nd best time is right now. 37720 0
Reposted by @eventhorizonblues.bsky.socialMax Dubler 🏳️🌈 @maxdubler.com · 17/09/2026The anonymity of the big city liberates people to be themselves, which is why me must build more homes in San Francisco. 325322 0
Reposted by @eventhorizonblues.bsky.socialHoosier Homer is reading The Fifth Sun by Camilla Townsend @hoosierhomer.bsky.social · 16/09/2026"OUSW[C] estimated the cost of OEF to be $33.4 billion as of June 29. The estimate includes $7.4 billion of cumulative obligations for OEF, $22.3 billion for expended munitions, and $3.7 billion in equipment losses." OEF= Operation Epic Fury media.defense.gov/2026/Sep/09/...media.defense.gov 4318 0
Reposted by @eventhorizonblues.bsky.socialStan Oklobdzija @stano.bsky.social · 09/09/2026Here is a great example of Chud Thought in action. We can solve the problem of climate-change induced disaster in California if only we punish greedy insurance companies. 0162 0
Reposted by @eventhorizonblues.bsky.socialOlúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 08/09/2026at this point: carbon removal is, at best, essentially a research project. renewable expansion is a policy project 452655536 0
Reposted by @eventhorizonblues.bsky.socialB. A. Friedman @bafriedman.bsky.social · 10/09/2026Major Pardagaz voice: "How often those attributes align." 0838 0
Reposted by @eventhorizonblues.bsky.socialStan Oklobdzija @stano.bsky.social · 03/09/2026Also deliverism, as the GOP has grasped far better than the Democrats, does not need to be an economic benefit. Instead, it can be watching the state beat up on people you hate. Plenty of people within and adjacent to this administration deserve a turn in the barrel. 14811 0
Reposted by @eventhorizonblues.bsky.socialAlbasoup @albasoup.itch.io · 29/08/2026Was walking past this building and through the window saw this backrooms-ass room, so I accidentally took the coolest picture ever due to the window's reflection 205246145905 0
Reposted by @eventhorizonblues.bsky.socialMike Black @mikeblack114.bsky.social · 25/08/2026the issue with the audit is traceability everyone knows where all the money is going (if we didn't the appropriators would raise holy hell), the problem is being able to account for every dollar throughout the entire life cycle of that dollar, through depreciation and ultimate disposal 4908 0
Reposted by @eventhorizonblues.bsky.socialSky Marchini @sky.skymarchini.net · 14/08/2026my take is that we just lie about the tax increase on the middle class we're also gonna have to do. "oh that's just a basis change, it's a technical adjustment" = fancy way of saying your taxes went up. it'll be like $500/yr for most households 2033726 0
Reposted by @eventhorizonblues.bsky.socialQuantian @quantian.bsky.social · 13/08/2026Boy there’s nothing like driving a ponderous whale SUV as a loaner for a few days to remind you that sports cars are fucking sick and it’s a shame they were a casualty of the car size arms race 1427114 0
Reposted by @eventhorizonblues.bsky.socialbrasidas @brasidas.bsky.social · 10/08/2026But there’s major span of control problems we are ignoring at our peril. What’s the difference between multidomain and joint? It’s that you shouldn’t ask questions. 171 0
Reposted by @eventhorizonblues.bsky.socialStan Oklobdzija @stano.bsky.social · 07/08/2026If you live in a blue state that isn't reviewing legislation to allow direct to customer car sales, you live in a state where Democrats don't know what they're doing. 191238178 0
Reposted by @eventhorizonblues.bsky.socialBeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 04/08/2026something which has one paper on it is probably a solvable problem that has a limited set of interests involved, something with a hundred is almost certainly a wicked problem. 1813 0
Reposted by @eventhorizonblues.bsky.socialBeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 04/08/2026palmer's rule: the chance that the U.S. government will solve a problem is inversely proportional to the number of think tank papers produced on it. 621221 0
Reposted by @eventhorizonblues.bsky.socialae @aelkus.bsky.social · 31/07/2026he’s there to register a complaint about an apartment building in a “historic neighborhood”, vote himself out of needing to pay taxes, or argue that motorists should be able to hunt cyclists for sport 11017 0
Reposted by @eventhorizonblues.bsky.socialSecretary of Defense Rock @sodrock.bsky.social · 30/07/2026Ah 2233965 0
Reposted by @eventhorizonblues.bsky.socialsharrowhater.bsky.social @sharrowhater.bsky.social · 27/07/2026Waaay too many progressives fail to understand that to get good policy, you have to Do Politics. And yes, that means you have to appeal to icky white collar middle class people and suburbanites once in awhile 192 0
Reposted by @eventhorizonblues.bsky.socialB. A. Friedman @bafriedman.bsky.social · 28/07/2026A core assumption of U.S. defense strategy since the early 1990’s has been that as the precision-strike regime matures, greater precision will make fires decisive. csbaonline.org/resource/the...csbaonline.orgThe Military-Technical Revolution: A Preliminary Assessment - CSBA 1844 0
Reposted by @eventhorizonblues.bsky.socialA Frogs Gent @frogsgent.bsky.social · 27/06/2026Found my favorite film critic's revisit of "Sicario" just now and I have to admit, this made me laugh. 1678 0
Reposted by @eventhorizonblues.bsky.socialMark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 26/06/2026People desperately want mutiparty democracy with multi-member districts & proportional representation protectdemocracy.org/work/democra...protectdemocracy.orgOver 200 democracy scholars call on Congress to end single-member Congressional districts and adopt proportional representationMore than 200 political scientists, legal scholars, and historians released an open letter calling on Congress to reject the United States’ winner-take-all elections. 25815 0
Reposted by @eventhorizonblues.bsky.socialgolfdelendaest.bsky.social @golfdelendaest.bsky.social · 23/06/2026The root cause these guys are ignoring is a lack of coherent strategy. Good equipment is downstream of good requirements which is downstream of clear goals which is downstream of political consensus. But then they couldn’t pitch their shittech defense startup and would have to work on messy politics 422731 0
Reposted by @eventhorizonblues.bsky.socialB. A. Friedman @bafriedman.bsky.social · 21/06/2026This. You need people that can rebuild institutions. 333357 0
Reposted by @eventhorizonblues.bsky.socialTony Stark @tonystark.bsky.social · 17/06/2026lol you know what else impairs weapons system production and stockpiling? Doing a SPENDEX in the Gulf 1384 0
Reposted by @eventhorizonblues.bsky.socialJames @gravitysra1nbow.bsky.social · 03/06/2026A failed op-ed writer bankrolled by billionaires purging a universally liked and credible straight news journalist from 60 Minutes really has to be the height of the complete slide of American news media into a complete death spiral. 394358775 0
Reposted by @eventhorizonblues.bsky.socialQuantian @quantian.bsky.social · 14/05/2026Many people have a vested interest in pretending otherwise, but the US research university is globally dominant to an almost unbelievable degree. The typical state university is a football team stapled to a R&D lab with a budget bigger than the entire nation of Belgium. 464334944 0
Reposted by @eventhorizonblues.bsky.socialAmy McCarthy @aemccarthy.bsky.social · 26/05/2026one might also just call this "effective communication," which is an increasingly lost art. turns out that being able to clearly articulate a point and anticipate/respond to counterpoints is a distinctly valuable skill! doesn't matter how much you know about something if you can't communicate it 47817 0
Reposted by @eventhorizonblues.bsky.socialGerald C Brown @geraldcbrown.bsky.social · 16/05/2026Lol I can't see the original, but the Justin Jacob's "calling all dynasties just 'China' is like calling the Roman Empire just Italy" is one of my favorites 1426 0
Reposted by @eventhorizonblues.bsky.socialMark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 07/04/2025Once again, your regular reminder that 🇨🇳 & the RMB cannot replace 🇺🇸 & the USD at the center of the international monetary/financial system while Xi/🇨🇳 insist on running massive current account surpluses, subsiding exports through its state-owned financial system, & using extensive capital controls.nytimes.com‘The Tsunami Is Coming’: China’s Global Exports Are Just Getting StartedA staggering $1.9 trillion in extra industrial lending is fueling a continued flood of exports that could be spread even wider across the world by the Trump tariffs. 310423 0
Reposted by @eventhorizonblues.bsky.socialMark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 19/05/2026I'll again make what appears to be a lonely position in re: the IR/foreign policy of 🇺🇸-🇨🇳 relations, which is that folks are applying 2 totally different theoretical models to 🇺🇸 vs 🇨🇳. If all the awful domestic political stuff matters for 🇺🇸, then you can't ignore it in 🇨🇳. Either it all matters or not. 2252 0
Reposted by @eventhorizonblues.bsky.socialBeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 17/05/2026I don't know where this bizarre idea that China has universal health care comes from, but it very much does not by any normal standard. It has a highly tiered system that brutally discriminates against rural patients and imposes often crippling financial costs. 682122431 0
Reposted by @eventhorizonblues.bsky.socialFaine Greenwood @faineg.com · 29/04/2026this is very rapidly becoming the standard American opinion, and our lawmakers have absolutely not figured this out yet 451708279 0
Reposted by @eventhorizonblues.bsky.socialSharon 🪳🌹 @sharonk.bsky.social · 29/04/2026you get the feeling that the American lawyer class (especially the professors!) would rather slap itself on the back then admit any professional responsibility for the contemporary era of politics 1444255 0
Reposted by @eventhorizonblues.bsky.socialReconstructionist @unavaleable.bsky.social · 21/03/2026do think you can tie ADA procurement into a general trend with DOD that we want cold war capabilities with comparatively low budgets, and the way we've made that work is by investing in exquisite stuff and coasting on our tremendous inheritance of boring stuff that makes all the exquisite usable 215218 0
Reposted by @eventhorizonblues.bsky.socialJames @gravitysra1nbow.bsky.social · 28/02/2026Well. He’s a list of actually credible defense people to follow I suppose. 2042476 0
Reposted by @eventhorizonblues.bsky.socialNed Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 19/12/2025One big takeaway from Mamdani bringing YIMBYs into his transition is that advocates can often gain a lot of power by 1.) having useful answers to questions and accurate information 2.) being reasonably polite and pleasant to elected officials 3.) understanding the actual mechanics of government 661895 0
Reposted by @eventhorizonblues.bsky.socialRachel Porter @rachelporter.bsky.social · 03/11/2025Political inexperience in Congress has measurable effects on legislative outcomes. Our research finds that when districts elect political newcomers over career politicians, congressional dysfunction tends to increase. New explainer of our PNAS study: theconversation.com/amateur-hour...theconversation.comAmateur hour in Congress: How political newcomers fuel gridlock and government shutdownsThe public’s frustration with ‘politics as usual’ has led more political newcomers to win office. But amateurs are more likely to view bipartisanship as a concession, not a tool for advancing policy. 55522 0
Reposted by @eventhorizonblues.bsky.socialMatt @tiredgenerally.bsky.social · 02/05/2025but conservatives started to lose an intra-liberal fight and decided to reject society as a concept. the defining question of our time is basically liberalism or barbarism 331746 0
eventhorizonblues.bsky.social @eventhorizonblues.bsky.social · 17/06/2025HOUSING THEORY OF EVERYTHING MENTIONED 030 0
Reposted by @eventhorizonblues.bsky.socialSte Jormur @stejormur.bsky.social · 12/05/2025There was an old tweet that stuck with me: "If you can easily walk to the coffee shop but your barista has a one hour commute, you don't live in a walkable 15 minute city; you live in a theme park" 47106323206 0
Reposted by @eventhorizonblues.bsky.socialAnton @anton1900.bsky.social · 04/04/2025“Rent seeking “ is something that doesn’t get talked about enough by lay people and non-specialist pundits in terms of what makes our political economy the way it is 1406 0
Reposted by @eventhorizonblues.bsky.socialWilliam B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 18/03/2025Housing really is a ‘decide if you want to win’ issue for the Democratic Party. 311751336 0
