Brad Ewing
@bradleyewing.bsky.social
🏛️Santa Monica Planning Commissioner 🏙️ Urbanist Crank 🎛️ Electronic Noise Producer 🕹️ Game Modder 🌌 Astro Enthusiast
South Carolina is now the first state in the nation for the Democratic Primary and this just ran in The State, the newspaper of Columbia, South Carolina. Come out to the rally and lobby day next week in Sac and help get our legislators to undo the cuts! actionnetwork.org/events/emerg...
Policymakers need to be internalizing the costs of inaction/delay via escalation much earlier in the life cycle of infrastructure development, imo.
By request from @warrenjwells.bsky.social: median rents for various sized homes in Berkeley. Last month, 2-bedroom apartments went for $3000/moth and 3-bedrooms cost $4100/month. Similar trend across the sizes. Remember this is for older buildings and the bedroom count is self-reported by lessors.
3. You don't have to pretend like incorrect or baseless claims are anything more, and should call them out; you don't have to engage in "meet in the middle" midwittery. Speak with clarity about what will and won't work; even in 2026, being the person saying the true thing in a sea of BS is power.
The Falcon 9 stage has now impacted the lunar surface. Astronomers followed its approach until last night; haven't yet seen any reports of anyone detecting the impact flash itself.
for openai to mess up sandboxing this badly indicates openai didn't take the issue seriously, which you expect because they don't take anything seriously for anthropic to mess it up is rank incompetence
The best thing about Vote Blue No Matter Who is that it unloads a lot of cognitive burden. I wanted Tom Steyer to be in the Governor's race, but he's not so I'm gonna vote for Becerra. I don't follow his campaign at all: I'm voting for him because he's not a Republican.
this is literally what I do for a living and it's called "blameless root cause" where you identify everything that went wrong without assigning blame to any one person in particular. the NTSB really went all in on this and it's one of the reasons airplane travel is/(was?) so safe in the US.
Sarah Taber@sarahtaber.bsky.social · yesterdayI would like to propose the Taco Bell Principle When a person/institution Did A Problem, & IMMEDIATELY fesses up & takes proactive steps to solve it That's exactly what we want them to do? So how bout we let them live ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
The computer could never replace me haha I'm the key to this whole operation.
SB 79 at one month: 1) Very encouraging signs of developer interest in actually using the law 2) New projects are all in high resource areas with exclusionary histories 3) We won’t see the full impact in most of the state’s biggest cities for another 5 year 4) Beverly Hills is on some bullshit
Aaron 🏗️🚲🌲🏀@aceckhouse.bsky.social · 2d agoMost cities are doing their best to follow the law, but some are not. The worst is probably Beverly Hills, which is trying to use a shell game to disappear nearly 3,000 homes worth of zoned capacity. HCD should have nipped this in the bud, but there's still time for them to bring down the hammer.
the intentional abdication by Congress of nearly all of its constitutional responsibilities is at the core of most of our problems as a nation
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · yesterdayCornyn: "There's nothing we could do to rein in the president"
Much of my career boils down to: All code is liability. Minimize it. Feedback loops are everywhere. Speed them up; do them more. We're bad at predicting the future. Avoid it. More tests. Hire smart, motivated people, then get out of their way. Find the right thing to turn off and on again.
The biggest technological revolution of our lifetime and it has nothing to do with AI, crypto, metaverse, robots or any of the other massively hyped "tech" the media always talks about instead
Sarah Taber@sarahtaber.bsky.social · 2d agoAbsolutely unbelievable how solar power has taken off worldwide during the Hormuz oil crisis. You don't have to hand it to him, but Trump may have done more to finally kick off a global civilization of effete librul solar users than anyone else in the West
You actually don't have to do the "well, you know, I disagree with MAHA but they're right that there are real problems with The System" thing. That's a concession you absolutely do not have to make.
SB 79 has been in effect for a month now, so I wrote my take on how implementation is going. Pretty well, I think! But there are some important tests coming for HCD @cayimby.bsky.social cayimby.org/blog/sb-79-o...
SB 79, One Month In: Taking Stock of California YIMBY’s Signature Bill
SB 79, California YIMBY’s signature legislation that legalized apartment buildings near transit stops throughout California, went into effect on July 1, 2026. Under the law’s provisions, jurisdictions...
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"According to Raman, housing policy is the key issue that distinguishes her today from the Democratic Socialists of America." That's not all that distinguishes her from DSA, but good enough for me. www.vanityfair.com/story/nithya...
Los Angeles Mayoral Candidate Nithya Raman Was Once Poised to Be the City’s Mamdani—Then She Broke With the Local DSA
In an exclusive interview with Vanity Fair, Nithya Raman shares new details about her dramatic break with Karen Bass, reflects on her strained ties to the Democratic Socialists of America, and explain...
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We're working with @metroabundance.bsky.social to collect cost drivers in California building codes and standards above and beyond national model codes/standards. See here for more – please circulate among architects, engineers, etc. in the state! admin.centerforbuilding.org/wp-content/u...
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We need a pithy acronym to describe this behavior
Max Dubler 🏳️🌈@maxdubler.com · 2d agoPeople want more housing, just not near them.
"Commissioner…Wasserman focused on mobility, calling Pacific Coast Highway 'a dangerous, terrible thing between us and our beach' and suggesting a rebuilt Pier Bridge be reserved for pedestrians. He also pressed for statistically representative surveys rather than reliance on open-house attendance."
Santa Monica Launches Two-Year Beach and Pier Vision Plan
Santa Monica launches a two-year Beach and Pier Vision Plan covering 245 acres of coastline, including accessibility, water quality, and 2028 Olympics preparation.
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rents are up again, I can't move out of my rent-controlled shithole without spending at least half of my income on a new place. I and thousands of my peers would happily settle for mediocre design. cry about it
David Pollack@davidmpollack.bsky.social · 2d agoIf you reduce the barriers to entry for building, more local, small developers would invest in architecture for personal, subjective reasons and there would be fewer mediocre hot takes on design. www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/open...
In California, the “investment class” includes longtime homeowners sitting on million-dollar assets who are paying a fraction of the property taxes faced by newer buyers, thanks to Prop 13.
DocLT@doclt.bsky.social · 2d agoDemand goes up due to the investment class buying large swaths of homes, and this drives up housing prices. There is a book on this topic, “homewreckers”. Maybe you should read it.
CA Dem Proposition positions Yes✅ 1 Affordable Housing 2 Rainy day fund 3 School funds 4 Election public financing 5 Recall reform 37 Homeownership 38 Med research 40 Billionaire Tax No❌ 39 Vote suppression 41 blocks Prop40 42 blocks Prop40 43 Restricts taxes 44 Clinic spending reg 45 CEQA changes
You too can sit in a hotel conference room on a beautiful weekend and help set the direction of the California Democratic Party. I jest but democracy is really about rolling up your sleeve and getting involved at whatever level. Don’t like the results? Go be that change
Alfred Twu@alfredtwu.com · 3d agoCA Dem Proposition positions Yes✅ 1 Affordable Housing 2 Rainy day fund 3 School funds 4 Election public financing 5 Recall reform 37 Homeownership 38 Med research 40 Billionaire Tax No❌ 39 Vote suppression 41 blocks Prop40 42 blocks Prop40 43 Restricts taxes 44 Clinic spending reg 45 CEQA changes