Dan Federman

Now that’s what I’m talking about!

We can’t clean up Washington without restoring integrity to the Supreme Court.

That’s why I believe we should expand the Supreme Court to 13 justices. And then, institute term limits.

Because an appointment to the Supreme Court shouldn’t mean a lifetime lack of accountability.

Assassinating a head of state of a country we haven’t declared war with feels like a new bridge, though, no?

So we’re doing assassinations now? This doesn’t seem like good precedent

I would expect no further recipients will be named

Your framing is off. It’s not about convenience. It’s about a theory of power. If you have none, your values are worthless.

Ethics only matter in context.

what is the point of working ethically if your work is irrelevant

There’s a lot of uncertainty right now, but I can confidently predict that the FIFA Peace Prize committee will never recover from this.

What? The ethics of a non-competitive company literally do not matter. The reason the feds threw a shit fit at Anthropic this week is they wanted to use Claude, presumably because it offered the better model

This move was arguably in service of their mission. If Anthropic’s models can’t compete on capability then it doesn’t matter if they have strong alignment.

Pretty impressed with Anthropic today. Less so by their competition.

So I had Claude analyze if there was a statistically significant correlation between the day an app was submitted and review times, and the results are somewhat interesting.

Ship on Sunday or Wednesday for the best results.

every tool in my stack that requires manual intervention to paper over an API gap is friction that compounds. make things seamless. I'm increasingly willing to swap out dependencies that don't support agentic workflows in favour ones that do.

For sure. But would be curious to put that graph next to funding levels for the traffic enforcement division

A chart showing traffic tickets issued in San Francisco, with a sharp drop that began in 2014, hit bottom in 2022 when just a few tickets were issued, and has now rebounded almost to 2014 levels.

We’re back, baby!

The reason no one can explain how this works is because it is pure snake oil.

I’m pretty confident in calling this fake. The user who posted it seems to be part of a substantial network of accounts with similar usernames all posting and commenting on each other’s content. Ironically it’s a great example of an AI agent making stuff up to tell you what you want to hear

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My point is that your policy prescriptions are based on incorrect numbers and effectively amount to wishcasting.

Meanwhile you’re attacking YIMBY folk, who are actually doing the work of creating housing and making it easier to build supportive housing.

What is your goal here?

For rent 34,278 31.4% Rented, not occupied 9,998 9.2% For sale only 5,636 5.2% Sold, not occupied 4,500 4.1% For seasonal, recreational, or occasional use 13,850 12.7% For migrant workers 92 0.1% Other vacant 40,885 37.4% Total 109,239 100%

Yeah the majority of these homes are not actually long-term vacant. These are mostly homes that are in the process of changing owners/tenants. There are still some long-term vacant homes, sure, but… far fewer than you suggest.

And what is your evidence that these homes would be filled by homeless? You’re making wild and baseless assertions here

What? No. If they’re paying the tax the units are empty

Your point? SF has some of the strongest restrictions on short term rentals in the nation. You seem under-informed

We’ve built more homes per year since that tax was passed than have gone to market due to Prop M. Truly barely making a dent given how anemic our home construction industry has been.

4000 homes. Out of 400,000

Big whoop?

The city literally exempted SFH and duplexes in that bill. The income from the bill was projected to be well under $20MM annually even after the full vacancy tax went into effect.

Drop in the bucket. Pretty useless stuff.

Have you bothered to look into the breakdown on those vacant residences?

I’m guessing no. Otherwise you’d know the vast majority of those homes are in the process of turning over (between renters or owners). Only ~10k homes are long-term vacant, out of 400+k homes in the city.

Resolved! Solid sleuthing btw

Not who you would expect

Wait they haven’t re-run this on Opus 4.5 or Codex 5.2? That’s a huge miss