Phil BuildTheFutureNow @philsustainability.bsky.social · 16hThe Wizard of Oz really predicted the whole modern "billionaire genius/populist savior" playbook. Just a regular, insecure guy building a massive, loud facade to convince everyone he’s fixing the world. Same rich guy behind a curtain, different yearstatic.klipy.comWizard of Oz: Behind the VeilALT: Wizard of Oz: Behind the Veil 010
Phil BuildTheFutureNow @philsustainability.bsky.social · 21hflic.kr/p/ousQDDflic.krImage from page 224 of "The Great north side, or, Borough of the Bronx, New York" (1897)Identifier: greatnorthsideor00durs Title: The Great north side, or, Borough of the Bronx, New York Year: 1897 (1890s) Authors: Durst, Seymour B., 1913-, former owner. NNC North Side Board of Trade (B... 000
Phil BuildTheFutureNow @philsustainability.bsky.social · 21hAn NYPD bicycle squad officer in The Bronx c. 1897 110
Phil BuildTheFutureNow @philsustainability.bsky.social · 22hNYC's money problem is that a pretty small group of taxpayers give an enormous amount of tax revenue. Wall Street has a great year? City Hall looks smart. Markets crash and bonuses shrink? Suddenly city hall's looking for cuts. That's a lot of public services riding on private equity profits 000
Phil BuildTheFutureNow @philsustainability.bsky.social · 22hRich people don't move every time taxes go up. Tax damage can be slow, concentrated in certain industries, or pops up in investment decisions instead of moving vans. Where are $20 million homes being built today? By the time stuff goes bad, the underlying decisions might have happened years ago 000
Phil BuildTheFutureNow @philsustainability.bsky.social · 22hImagine running a business where your biggest customers keep leaving. U can raise prices on the customers who stay and report record revenue. But eventually, u have to ask whether your business is getting stronger or just charging a smaller customer base more money. NYC has a version of this problem 200
Phil BuildTheFutureNow @philsustainability.bsky.social · 11/10/2026moody's: changes NYC outlook to negative NYC city hall: "so anyway we're giving away more free stuff" moody's: "sizable and PERSISTENT budget shortfalls" the city council: "this is a sobering wake-up call" NYC city hall: 🎉🎊🥳 000
Phil BuildTheFutureNow @philsustainability.bsky.social · 11/10/2026james marriott said we're entering a post-literate society where politics is charisma, emotional & tribal instead of reasoned. then NYC elected a guy whose entire platform is "free stuff" & vibes. the book wrote itself 📖💀 100
Phil BuildTheFutureNow @philsustainability.bsky.social · 10/10/2026Suno AI is the KLF’s “how to make a number one”. As software. Weird. You could call it the KLF app. 000
Phil BuildTheFutureNow @philsustainability.bsky.social · 10/10/2026Energy independence is supposed to make America less vulnerable to foreign oil shocks. But if keeping oil flowing requires wars, military deployments to Venezuela, Iran, strategic reserves and trillions in spending and debt, how independent are we really? Maybe the addiction’s just to cheap oil. 000
Phil BuildTheFutureNow @philsustainability.bsky.social · 10/10/2026Imagine if every time you filled your tank, the receipt said: Gasoline: $4.00 Iran, Venezuela, Iraq and Afghanistan wars: $2.60 Interest and future obligations: extra You'd lose your mind. But spread the subsidies across decades and trillions in federal debt, and suddenly nobody knows who paid 000
Phil BuildTheFutureNow @philsustainability.bsky.social · 10/10/2026Gasoline: $4.30/gallon. The wars we've fought in the name of oil security: trillions in debt. If you spread $8+ trillion in post-9/11 war costs across every gallon of gas Americans bought since 2001, that's another $2.60/gallon. Gen Z gonna pay for that subsidy 210
Phil BuildTheFutureNow @philsustainability.bsky.social · 09/10/2026[1026 AD] Monk: The parchment says you owe the church money. Can't read Latin? Guess you gotta take my word for it. [2026 AD] AI: My weights are proprietary and the guardrails are classified. Can't see the code? Just trust me bro. 000
Phil BuildTheFutureNow @philsustainability.bsky.social · 09/10/2026Medieval peasants waiting for a monk to decode Latin so they don't get hexed 🤝 me blindly trusting a chatbot hallucination for my biology final because I'm too lazy to scroll past the ads on Google 111
Phil BuildTheFutureNow @philsustainability.bsky.social · 09/10/2026When you intentionally say the most bait-heavy sentence known to mankind just so the other party will march outside, entirely forgetting they are running directly into your pre-election media trap. Political baiting is just 4D chess for agents of chaos. ♟️😭 000
Phil BuildTheFutureNow @philsustainability.bsky.social · 09/10/2026Politician: Has bad polling numbers. Politician: "What if I simply say something so wildly unhinged that the opposition schedules a massive protest outside my rally tomorrow, which I can film and use to terrify suburban moderate voters into supporting me?" Modern problems require modern solutions 100
Phil BuildTheFutureNow @philsustainability.bsky.social · 09/10/2026"i support rent control to help the community" my brother in christ, you are literally voting to artificially cap the housing supply so that politicians get short-term votes, insider tenants hoard 3-bedroom apartments forever, and outsiders pay a 30% premium on whatever is left 011
Phil BuildTheFutureNow @philsustainability.bsky.social · 09/10/2026❌ letting a developer build market-rate apartments ✅ passing rent caps so capital flees to Houston, the housing pipeline completely collapses, and my 1BR Brooklyn condo becomes an appreciating luxury asset due to pure, unadulterated scarcity 110
Phil BuildTheFutureNow @philsustainability.bsky.social · 08/10/2026nobody: me: covers every window in plastic liner winter: ❄️🚫 summer heat: ☀️🚫 my heating & cooling bill: 📉📉 my wallet: 😌 this is the cheapest life hack and I will not shut up about it link.amazon/B04GOxUPLlink.amazonAmazon.com 000
Phil BuildTheFutureNow @philsustainability.bsky.social · 07/10/2026The NYC subway fare is $3. The all-in annual operating + capital spending works out to maybe $12-$14 per subway ride. You pay about a quarter of that. Taxpayers and other MTA revenues pay the rest. 000
Phil BuildTheFutureNow @philsustainability.bsky.social · 07/10/2026nobody: absolutely nobody: nyc: let's raise your rent so we can lower your rent (class 2 multifamily pays ~5.6% property tax. class 1 single family homes pay ~1.2%. the difference comes out of your wallet.) 000
Phil BuildTheFutureNow @philsustainability.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Two buttons button 1: let people build housing button 2: freeze rents, mandate affordability, tax density, then subsidize the developers with the taxes you didn't collect NYC mashes button 2 000
Phil BuildTheFutureNow @philsustainability.bsky.social · 06/10/2026suburbs: we are completely dedicated to regional sustainability and fighting climate change also suburbs: everyone in this town must legally own a massive yard and drive twenty minutes to buy a gallon of oat milk 000
Phil BuildTheFutureNow @philsustainability.bsky.social · 06/10/2026suburbs: we want a vibrant downtown with cute coffee shops and bustling local businesses also suburbs: building a second floor on top of a retail store is a direct threat to our community character 010
Phil BuildTheFutureNow @philsustainability.bsky.social · 06/10/2026suburbs: we absolutely love and support our essential workers also suburbs: if a multi-family building gets approved we will personally sue the town board into the next century 000
Phil BuildTheFutureNow @philsustainability.bsky.social · 06/10/2026suburbs: why is it so hard to find good local contractors or restaurant staff anymore also suburbs: we just banned apartments within five miles of the train station to preserve our historic parking lot 320
Phil BuildTheFutureNow @philsustainability.bsky.social · 04/10/2026What do you call it when the kids who grew up in exclusionary suburbs can't afford to buy there, so they move to the NYC after college and land a rent-stabilized apartment, is that welfare migration, or just the bill for the drawbridge their wealthy parents pulled up? 000
Phil BuildTheFutureNow @philsustainability.bsky.social · 03/10/2026On-site is the sweet spot for used packs. 000
Phil BuildTheFutureNow @philsustainability.bsky.social · 03/10/2026One electrolyte loop halves the plumbing headaches. 000
Phil BuildTheFutureNow @philsustainability.bsky.social · 03/10/2026NYC's shadow tax: block new market-rate housing → shortage → higher rents → property tax revenue soars on the tight stock. Meanwhile, pushing out low-income people cuts costs. Higher market rate rents is the goal. 000
Phil BuildTheFutureNow @philsustainability.bsky.social · 02/10/2026 This chain reaction hits low-income, unregulated tenants hardest. Faced with intense competition for limited housing, they are priced out of their neighborhoods, pushed into overcrowding, or forced to leave the city entirely. 000
Phil BuildTheFutureNow @philsustainability.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Because pure market-rate projects are restricted or heavily taxed (like the second-home tax), fewer total market-rate units are built. When the supply of new market-rate housing fails to meet demand from high-income earners, those renters bid up prices for existing, older homes 000
Phil BuildTheFutureNow @philsustainability.bsky.social · 02/10/2026The Mamdani administration is not actively creating zoning mechanisms tailored exclusively to incentivize pure market-rate housing That means higher rents, and much higher property taxes. 200
Phil BuildTheFutureNow @philsustainability.bsky.social · 02/10/2026why hasn’t europe banned american social media already? 000
Phil BuildTheFutureNow @philsustainability.bsky.social · 02/10/2026NYC housing politics today: deep poverty stays concentrated, new "affordable" housing leans toward higher incomes, and moving the very poor into existing rent stabilized housing gets resisted every time. Is that a revealed preference for city hall? 001
Phil BuildTheFutureNow @philsustainability.bsky.social · 02/10/2026who’s actually researching whether WFH is making single high earners rent 2BR rent-stabilized apts in NYC just to use the second bedroom as an office? fewer roommates → more households → same housing stock → higher rents?? anyone looking into this? 010
Phil BuildTheFutureNow @philsustainability.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Leasing heat pumps like phones makes sense. 000
Phil BuildTheFutureNow @philsustainability.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Batteries flattening prices is the grid's win. 000
Phil BuildTheFutureNow @philsustainability.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Look at politicians revealed preferences, not their viral videos. 000
Phil BuildTheFutureNow @philsustainability.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Politicians use Price controls as economic weapons. 🚲 Cap bike-share fares below cost → operator bleeds money → forced exit 🏠 Cap rents below operating costs → landlords sit on vacant units → supply shrinks → market rents soar Both "solutions" create the exact crisis they claim to fix. 100
Phil BuildTheFutureNow @philsustainability.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Flat land near people is where solar wins. 000
Phil BuildTheFutureNow @philsustainability.bsky.social · 01/10/202621% up year over year is real momentum. 000
Phil BuildTheFutureNow @philsustainability.bsky.social · 30/09/2026About 6,800+ Class 1 NYC properties valued at $5M+ are flagged as non-primary residences by the Finance Dept for the pied-à-terre tax. That’s like 3X the total number of buildings in all of Park Slope being used as vacation homes. 000
Phil BuildTheFutureNow @philsustainability.bsky.social · 30/09/2026A volcano plus the ocean. Free turbine fuel. 000
