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Defenestration @madwonk.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

The two go-tos I usually send people are the Darrell Owens piece: darrellowens.substack.com/p/vacant-nua... & The GGWash article: ggwash.org/view/97898/d...

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Vacant Nuance in the Vacant Housing Debate

We should want more/less vacancies depending on the kind of vacancies we're talking about but nobody likes to specify

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Defenestration @madwonk.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

It's honestly shocking the people who do (and don't!!) get the reference. Like at some point we're going to have a millennial president make this joke and half the room will groan, the other half will be very confused

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Defenestration @madwonk.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

If conservatives didn't exoticsize California as a terrible heathen place people would quickly realize how messed up their states are! Like yes California isn't perfect but it's genuinely still better than most of the US!

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Defenestration @madwonk.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I can't speak for my LGBTQ+ friends but I have heard many, many stories of brandishing and threats of violence that closely parallel this. The far right seems to be just drooling over the opportunity to open fire.

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Defenestration @madwonk.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

This is not filmmaking. This is a violent murder fantasy.

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Defenestration @madwonk.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Oh, this is totally true yes. My comments were specifically re: as a mechanism to preserve domestic industry for e.g. national security purposes

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Defenestration @madwonk.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

also does he think every church has a hunchback of notre dame assigned to change all the clocks

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Defenestration @madwonk.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Eh, it's not terrible imo. Much better than tariffs at keeping domestic industry alive.

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U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission @cpsc.gov · 01/10/2026

#Recall: Gazelle USA Recalls Urban Arrow Cargo Electric Bikes; The front bolt in the seat post clamping mechanism can break, causing the seat to become loose, posing a fall hazard. Get repair. www.cpsc.gov/Recalls/2027...

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Defenestration @madwonk.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

The Economist recently had an article on this and the stats are frankly nuts! www.economist.com/graphic-deta...

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Defenestration @madwonk.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Ah, but most of those people moved to cities and not "real" america. Real america, where you die of alcoholism and depression after your kids all leave your shitty town that's been destroyed by auto dependence, poverty, and addiction.

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Defenestration @madwonk.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

DC/DMV is an interesting case study because right now brand-new houses are selling for cheaper than used almost like developers aren't the problem here because their profit incentive is to build housing even as the price declines!

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Defenestration @madwonk.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Like.... I'm not crazy right?

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Defenestration @madwonk.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Sorry but don't most workers who live outside of DC contribute very little to the city balances? Like either we build more housing or raise taxes, jobs are not the issue?

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Defenestration @madwonk.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

It's an excellent book, really. Always amazing how the conversations of the cold war parallel those of today re: academic freedom vs security

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Defenestration @madwonk.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

It's truly so sad. Our grandparents tried to speedrun social democracy, now they're trying to speedrun stupidity. Only a few years away from our own Kansas experiment en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kansas_...

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Kansas experiment - Wikipedia

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Defenestration @madwonk.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

The really concerning part is who comes next. Nobody at the state level inspires confidence, particularly if someone like Rick Becker gets in (tea party and far right adjacent)

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Defenestration @madwonk.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

North Dakota (my old state) has just a string of incompetent nincompoops running for office. Fedorchak isn't terrible but Armstrong was just a total idiot.

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Defenestration @madwonk.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

This is one of the often cited ways that California was able to quickly build housing in the 1970s! You could essentially walk into a bank as a random person with a plot and walk out with financing and the plans to build a small apartment building!

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Defenestration @madwonk.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Meanwhile.... bsky.app/profile/madw...

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Defenestration @madwonk.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Republicans: "We must prevent all chinese nationals from buying farmland" Also Republicans: "Saudi Arabia buying up farmland and exporting its products, using up tons of water in the desert, is totally fine"

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Defenestration @madwonk.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Me when I finance my trillion dollar buildout with debt (interest rates go brrr and I still have to replace all the expensive bits in 2-4 years)

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Defenestration @madwonk.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

An interesting tidbit - I assume the rightmost bar is slightly higher because of heat pumps, which have greater than 100% efficiency at heating? In theory electricity can be above 100% overall!

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Defenestration @madwonk.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

None of y'all are ready for the truth nuke that many farmers view institutional investors from NYC positively. After all, these people are against the estate tax. They think their kids should inherit farmland for generations even with no connection to ag!

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Defenestration @madwonk.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Genuinely one of the reasons I hate working in the suburbs is the weird stigma around bringing in bags/bike gear Literally nobody cares downtown, there's literally a storage cubby outside the office for everyone's bags! Exact same agency

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Defenestration @madwonk.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

When I bought I *explicitly* found something on enough of a hill that I don't need a sump. Best decision ever

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Defenestration @madwonk.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Also: many countries are well equipped for short-haul electric trucks because they can pair them with electrified freight rail!

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Defenestration @madwonk.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Maybe it's a regional thing because this is unheard of where I'm from in the Midwest

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Defenestration @madwonk.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Many gas stations do not in fact do this?

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AP Stylebook @apstylebook.com · 23/09/2026

Artificial intelligence systems do not think, feel, want or understand. Avoid language that gives them human characteristics.

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https://apnews.com/article/openai-safety-ai-framework-089e75b95bc935af092da7b79d92706d

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Defenestration @madwonk.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

These things are actually one and the same, I'm afraid. "Corporate" farms are almost all family owned. Just a distinction of whether you own your land or rent it from your neighbors.

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Defenestration @madwonk.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

This is true, but their numbers aren't exactly promising either. I suppose my question is mainly whether Amtrak has the money/resources to take over the line as necessary or if someone else will have to do so...

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Defenestration @madwonk.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Will it be possible for Amtrak (or another outside entity) to swoop in and keep the lines running?

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Defenestration @madwonk.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Correction: "Marco Rubio tells reporters that negotiators have given up and are demanding things that simply will not happen"

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Defenestration @madwonk.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Like things have gotta be REALLY bad if even he's starting to get to this point!

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Defenestration @madwonk.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

In prior admins the value of DOE was proving hard facts. We have the national labs and have the receipts re: decent scientific analysis and research across many disciplines! I really, really do worry that has been constrained by this admin tbh. How can you report facts if Wright won't back you?

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Defenestration @madwonk.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

the munchie menu goes so fucking hard and I say this as someone who cannot partake in getting high (drug tested at work)

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Defenestration @madwonk.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Some people do not know the joy of a 2am jack in the box run and I think that's a shame

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Defenestration @madwonk.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Would be very funny if he got elected then goes "psych!" and goes on to implement full YIMBY urbanism

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Defenestration @madwonk.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I have a Bolt! Sadly my job got relocated away from transit but I basically just use it for commuting, transit/bikeshare everything else. It's a perfect commuter car, just grinds through miles and only needs a regular outlet to charge because it's so efficient.

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Defenestration @madwonk.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Ozone generator! Not great to use too frequently (can degrade plastics over time) and you have to be away for a number of hours to let the ozone disappate afterwards but it's what hotels use to remove the smell of smoke from rooms.

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Defenestration @madwonk.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Caloric self-sufficiency rate?

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Defenestration @madwonk.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Nearly a dollar up in the last month according to AAA

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Defenestration @madwonk.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Step 1: be joe biden (or similar) Step 2: get elected Step 3: have a "gaffe" coming out in favor of gay marriage Step 4: ok everyone is cool with being gay now. there are no more steps. Y'all this wasn't THAT long ago!!! www.huffpost.com/entry/joe-bi...

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'Remember Those 5 Minutes When Biden Was For Gay Marriage?'

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Defenestration @madwonk.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I'm willing to entertain the idea that there is an "alignment" problem where the model doesn't follow instructions. But also, I think the people giving OpenClaw (or any LLM harness) sudo permissions are nuts and would never allow them access to my systems.

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Defenestration @madwonk.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Yup, reading the actual report (and knowing a bit about how Kali can already automate a TON of tasks) it really seems like a nothingburger to me. "Oh it did all this strange emergent behavior" what it did is literally less functional than an agentic workflow or just a model with more tokens!

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Defenestration @madwonk.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

During the new Acela rollout I had the chance to chat with some amtrak folks about this and it was genuinely a bizarre conversation. Like there was genuinely no interest in electrification aside from an "oddity" of the NEC.

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Defenestration @madwonk.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

FWIW, the immediate post-Mao conclusion was that having a single leader last that long was probably pretty bad! All those safeguards have been dismantled by Xi, unfortunately

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Defenestration @madwonk.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

As someone who falls into the latter category (and happens to keep running into people I follow on here in the nuke space through happenstance) can confirm it's very fun!

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