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A Tunnel to Transform Los Angeles The ambitious Sepulveda Transit Corridor project — an automated subway line underneath Bel Air — aims to do something rare in LA: Get people out of their cars.

“A year after the $1.1 billion overhaul,” which added a new lane each direction, “the 405’s rush hour drive times were a minute slower than they were before the workers broke ground. Five years later, traffic was worse at all times of day.”

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the reason that it's dangerous to blindly chase the polls in between elections isn't that national politicians should be saying unpopular things to convince people -- honestly a bonkers idea that's not how minds are changed -- it's that Events change people's minds and you need to be ready to adapt

That said, I have occasionally had the thought that men wear things that lend themselves better to striking up conversations (more likely to wear their interests and experiences on their literal sleeves)

I really like this drawing.

On one hand, gratitude for all the opportunities that are within reach for us, which previous generations would have killed for

On the other hand - it is exhausting though! Expectations of us keep rising too, and all the opportunities that we *miss* loom ever larger too

I'm increasingly of the opinion that tech in general needs an increased liability surface. expanded liability for what your algorithm pushes, expanded liability for what your model outputs. if you make the danger real the incentives align.

Taylor Swift album called 1949 about the Confederation of Newfoundland

starting to feel like there's a direct relationship between the growing obsession with lifestyle hygeine (no drinking, no caffeine, no sex, obsessive working out and looksmaxxing) and the inability to meaningful moral stands on issues of actual import

If it weren’t for the LDP’s lack of PR candidates, we would have been at 15 ex-CDP MPs, a full decimation (or reverse decimation ig, where one-tenth remains)

As always, a check-in to which parties have gender-balanced caucuses and... oh, it's just Sanseito.

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自民「名簿不足」で14議席譲る　重複立候補の大勝で南関東6　東京5　北陸信越2　中国1 自民党は衆院選で、比例代表の獲得議席が名簿に載せた候補者数を上回る「名簿不足」が相次ぎ、全国4ブロックで計14議席を他党に譲った。重複立候補者が小選挙区で大勝…

産経は正しいです。

www.sankei.com/article/2026...

多分分かりにくい画像ですが、東京ブロックの票数をドント方式で議席数に換算しますとこういう結果です。

日本語でも書いてみます。

自分の計算によりますと、自民党が候補不足で失ったのは14議席（東京ブロックでは4ではなく5議席）。

その分議席数が増えたのは：
中道 6
国民 2
みらい 2
維新 2
参政 1
れいわ 1

自民の候補不足がなければ中道は43議席にとどまり（その内立憲出身は15）、そしてれいわは議席なしとなっていた。

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Okay doing the math. By my D'Hondt calculator the LDP actually forfeited 14 seats (+1 in Tokyo), to the benefit of:

CRA 6
DPFP 2
Mirai 2
Ishin 2
Sansei 1
Reiwa 1

(Were it not for this, the number of ex-CDPers would have been 15.)

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(greater Tokyo has 80 seats, not 70!)

With the rise of third-parties, Komeito stopped being able to win district seats, so by joining CDP, they would stop trying and be given priority in party lists instead

This meant the few seats the alliance got went to them. They kept 28, this puts ex-CDP MPs at 21? 1/7 of last election?

Fired up my scraper from last time. LDP candidates scored a full 10 pp. better than last time; CDP went from an avg of 40% where they ran (they never run a full slate) to an avg of 30%. That'll do it

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Update: LDP at 36.7% of party-list votes, which is actually pretty expected.

(Note to self, somehow the LDP share goes down as counting proceeds? Smaller municipalities finish counting first maybe?)

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Amazing, LDP had the votes to take 329 seats (70% of Parliament) but didn't have enough candidates to fill 13 seats so they went to other parties (district losers win party-list seats, but essentially no candidates lost districts)

mainichi.jp/articles/202...

Elevator from the Kennedy Station concourse level to the Line 5 platform

Nerd Tardis.

Horizontal route diagram of stops along the new Eglinton Line 5 scaled by the travel times between station and coloured by average speed between stations along the line

little saturday experiment --- trying to parse out travel times and speeds from gtfs schedule data to style a route diagram for the new Eglinton Line 5

higher-res here: jamaps.github.io/maps/line5-t...

#transit #toronto #maps #dataviz

There it is. The LDP - defined by its success - wins its largest share of seats ever

Currently at 266 sears with over 100 left to be assigned. 287 would give it the largest share of parliament in its history

These regions with significant votes counted put the LDP on its own over 40%, which hasn’t been seen since… 1990?

For me it's very easy to explain why Takaichi is popular w/o any mention of foreigners, but in English it's become the one thing people know about her and informed how everything else she says is perceived

(ofc, it's her fault for bashing on Nara Park tourists as our determinative 1st impression!)

If it were Carney giving this speech, would it not be considered sensible industrial policy in an era of global uncertainty? (I guess he'd mention a trade agreement or two - but as markets for Canadian exports, not the other way around.)

I think it boils down to: in the electoral arena it's standard operating procedure to emphasize the country's potential and everything it can contribute to the world (like, that was the standard Obama speech), *especially* if your central pitch is using fiscal policy to end stagnation

Tbc I really enjoy following your work and refer to your pieces often! This is one of those "an individual, particular thing crystallized a broader, latent feeling"

Tbc I think the article (from a few months ago) is broadly persuasive

But idk, I've noticed a disconnect between how Takaichi is covered in English and what I'm seeing with my own eyes and this specific post feels like an example of that

I think I see where this is coming from? She discussed a *lot* of potential threats (natural disasters, which is normal, but also attacks on infrastructure?) + self-sufficiency thru mining rare earths (good) but also food independence (a dead-end)

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Ngl, as an LDP skeptic, this is impressively substantive. In my eyes, she needs to make the case for why this time will be different for the economy than the LDP record so far, and this is roughly what that case would look like (to be clear, I didn't vote LDP)