Jay Werber

I am shocked -- shocked! -- to learn that housing prices fell the most in metros where inventory of homes increased by a lot. via @harvard-jchs.bsky.social
www.jchs.harvard.edu/blog/home-pr...

that said, any city that allows rights on reds is not serious about pedestrian safety

I kind of like them...despite they're being wrong and misleading.

I'm always sad after finishing my last coffee of the day.

Hell yeah. Is this a pre-fab?

Thinking about solar panels and how they are getting trivially cheap, but installation remains a big challenge. I hope that as pre-fab/modular housing becomes more of a thing that designers can incorporate an insane amount of solar panels. They should be on vertical walls and roofs at this point.

I have found that I have mostly still used LinkedIn, rather than bsky, but I want to use bsky more. I'm going to be posting lots of random thoughts here.

I used Toronto's bike share program for the first time a few days back. Train was delayed. It was so easy and yes, makes our transportation networks much more resilient!

Feds yank funds from Harvard breast cancer, fertility, antibiotics research The Trump administration is following through on threats to terminate $2.7 billion dollars in federal grants and other funding at Harvard University, punishment for alleged antisemitism on campus. One...

Trump administration is terminating $2.7 billion in research funding to Harvard:

Work on breast cancer, impact of nutrition on fertility, antibiotic resistance and hundreds of other topics all dead

“It feels like the academic equivalent of nuclear war"

www.wbur.org/news/2025/05...

Exclusive: NSF faces radical shake-up as officials abolish its 37 divisions Changes seen as a response to presidential directives on what research to fund

RIP American science: NSF faces radical shake-up as officials abolish its 37 divisions, layoff staff, and terminate more funded grants.

Trump family's net worth has increased by $2.9 billion thanks to crypto investments, new report says As the Trump family's crypto ventures increase their wealth, the president's administration pauses a dozen federal crypto probes.

Since Trump took office, his family has made $2.9 billion in crypto.

Again, this is a level of corruption so cartoonish, so obvious & on the surface, that it seems to have stunned everyone to silence.

UK funds controversial geoengineering projects to trial Earth-cooling tech The Advanced Research and Invention Agency is investing £57 million to study climate-manipulating technologies, but says it is taking a cautious approach.

The UK's high-risk research agency will fund £56.8 million worth of projects in the controversial area of geoengineering — manipulating Earth’s environment to avert negative effects of climate change

https://go.nature.com/3Sv3fA1

Do imports of cheap solar panel and other technologies help or hurt domestic jobs in clean energy? Without a comparative advantage, cheaper energy imports often help domestic jobs.

If your main concern is *jobs*, import restrictions on solar panels are crazy. Even if you create a few manufacturing jobs, you lose way more installation jobs, which are far more numerous.

@hannahritchie.bsky.social runs the numbers.

Great article about Bluesky

What I mean is that both countries have forgotten how to build anything except highways. We need to change that and stop preventing anything from happening, and build!

This is the energy Canada and the US need

YouTube video by The Fast Lane Truck I Drive the Most Revolutionary Truck In Decades: Meet the Telo MT1!

Have you seen the Telo truck? youtu.be/aEq-vTLimrQ?...

Hellll yea

Exceeding 1.5°C global warming could trigger multiple climate tipping points Global warming greater than 1.5°C could trigger multiple climate tipping points.

Apparently the "realist" position is to ... ignore this?

I learned today (just YouTube feed) about how there used to be millions of penguins (the Great Auk) in the Arctic, until Europeans and European settlers just killed them all. Super sad way to start the day.

YouTube video by The Fast Lane Truck I Drive the Most Revolutionary Truck In Decades: Meet the Telo MT1!

Fun video about the Telo, a new electric minitruck that's the size of a two-door Mini Cooper.

The Telo's standard bed is 5 feet (same as a Ford Ranger). Its back seats can fold down to make a 8-foot bed (same as the F-150 "long bed" option).

We don't need to just build, we need to build the right things. Musk for example would build stupid underground tunnels for Teslas, instead of the right thing which would be cheap and ubiquitous subways.

Anyway, it's clear that the lack of building is causing the demise of the West.

Do Democrats Need to Learn How to Build? Liberals have long emphasized protections over progress. Champions of the “abundance agenda” think it’s high time to speed things up.

I had high hopes for this article. My biggest politics is that we need to build. More housing. More transit. More renewable energy. Make it all happen!

But BWW seemingly equates what Trump/Musk are doing as the same but without equity. This is wrong. 1/2

www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

they have no idea they're playing with fire here

The bike lanes on Bloor Danforth were completely unusable until yesterday. Ten days after the storm.

BP shifts course, boosting fossil fuel investments and cutting renewables BP said on Wednesday it would increase annual oil and gas investment to $10 billion, returning the focus to fossil fuels, as part of CEO Murray Auchincloss' efforts to boost returns and improve financial performance.

The Stone Age didn’t end because we ran out of stone.

Society has changed before at the scale we need it to today: but that change was never catalyzed by presidents, PMs, or CEOs of the richest companies of the time.

The fossil fuel age won’t end until we ordinary people demand it does.

Doug Ford's 401 tunnel vision could come with a nearly $100B price tag, expert says | CBC News Doug Ford’s Highway 401 tunnel has gone from a surprise announcement to a full on re-election pledge — and according to one expert’s cost estimate, it could be a near $100 billion promise.

This is even dumber than the bike lane nonsense. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Reason #4822 why it's difficult to work from home:

how can I say no to the toddler waddling up carrying a book?

15% is kind of insane, but there being some sort of rational indirect cost maximum honestly makes sense. The US does all sorts of weird, backdoor things to fund universities. Things would be much better if we just straight-up funded universities. Right now, most policies incentivize bloat.