Austin Knipper

”This is a world of compensations; and he who would *be* no slave, must consent to *have* no slave. Those who deny freedom to others, deserve it not for themselves; and, under a just God, can not long retain it.”

Allston-Brighton Housing Action invites you too! Coffee with Neighbors Feb 15 at Cafe Lava and Bento, 298 Washington St, Brighton, MA.

#Allston #Brighton come join your neighbors and meet new friends to talk about housing, zoning reform, and mobility this Sunday, Feb 15, at Cafe Lava &Bento in Brighton Center, 11:30am.

Disappointing that @mayorwu.boston.gov wouldn't answer this question from a constituent directly. Residents deserve to know what the city is doing to bring services back online for cyclists and pedestrians and what practical steps the city is taking to address these shortcomings in the future.

Washington Post endorsement of Pam Bondi for Attorney General: "Florida's former attorney general is qualified; lawyers who have worked with her report that she is serious."

simply one of the greatest calls of all time

Listen to this. Not a penny more for this. Abolish and prosecute anyone who had anything to do with it.

now that's the power of a union

Less than a year since President Trump's executive order allowing crypto into Americans' retirement savings accounts.
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A reminder to the news media: “conflicting accounts” is what you say BEFORE the incontrovertible video evidence appears. After that, your job is to ask why one side is lying, not to repeat the lie and pretend no one knows the truth.

I find this language really gross. First off, it's weak as hell. But second, if your demand is simply that ICE leaves Minnesota, that's just telling them to go to another state to terrorize people.

These centrist squishes need to push for full abolition of ICE.

Spectacularly pathetic. Minnesota is being attacked. The federal government literally said “ICE > MN.” We are shot to death in the street and are deemed terrorists the moment the bullet enters our back. And these self-styled Minnesota civic leaders can’t find it within themselves to pick a side.

I keep thinking about this fact that his last words were are you okay and hers were I'm not mad at you and it feels like a weird coincidence but it's just a reflection of the fact that the people who are coming out to take care of their neighbors are good and the people who are after them are bad

Really want the academics and think tanks to start churning out pdfs on what tribunals and truth and reconciliation commissions look like. Political leaders are absolutely not going to come up with this on their own.

Would happily take time to help write and edit any of that, too.

NYT's house style is genuinely deranged

20-01-1934 GERMANY: The Nazis abolish collective bargaining and union elections. According to the law "the head of the company decides for the employees and workers in any matter concerning the company [...] The workers owe their loyalty to him".

Mad Men presentation meme with "can't be kidnapped" on the board

Me pitching a train ad campaign

Compare & contrast. This is Trump’s demand for Greenland. And this is Hitler’s for the Sudetenland.

There is no difference. The language. The unstoppable need to dominate. The megalomania. It’s the same.

And Keir Starmer’s response is appeasement. We are in that moment.
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oh cool you can just do that huh?

Men who look upon themselves born to reign, and others to obey, soon grow insolent; selected from the rest of mankind their minds are early poisoned by importance; and the world they act in differs so materially from the world at large, that they have but little opportunity of knowing its true interests, and when they succeed to the government are frequently the most ignorant and unfit of any throughout the dominions.

Common Sense, published 250 years ago today.

Any staffer who did this would face up to 5 years in prison.

okay, Bing AI is still a work in progress 😂

Washington Post Opinions @postopinions.bsky.social I "The purpose of entitlements is not to spend as much as possible," the Editorial Board writes. "It is to make sure the truly vulnerable get the help they need without becoming dependent on government handouts. Scrutinizing food stamp rolls is a small step in that direction."

No. No. No.

Punitive processes make narrowly targeted programs *less* efficient and *more* costly. Because more scrutiny requires more bureaucracy.

Punitive processes also make it *less* likely that people will get aid for which they qualify. Because of the roadblocks and stigma scrutiny creates.

Report Shows Bike Lane Initiative Positively Impacting Traffic In Boston | WBZ NewsRadio 1030 The City of Boston says its bike lane initiative appears to be working.

Report Shows Bike Lane Initiative Positively Impacting Traffic In Boston.

If AI ends up being as transformatively disruptive to labor markets as suggested, it's more important than ever to consider how to make companies pay into workforce development systems they benefit from, so the costs of innovation are not merely - and inadequately - socialized like they usually are.

The bandaid is seemingly a win for all involved, but each workforce project comes at a high public cost per participant, and most people affected by these labor market changes do not end up the beneficiaries of these programs - as the # of slots are generally crafted to meet a given industry's needs

I think the why is pretty obvious: Well-meaning actors throughout get to boast about "X dollars spent" on "Y number of (marginally better) jobs" for "Z underserved populations" while simultaneously subsidizing corporations' training and recruitment, freeing scarce political capital for other issues.

Unfortunately, this tactic works time and time again because it's more politically popular for politicians and bureaucrats alike to default to solving issues of "skills shortages" rather than root causes like systemic disinvestment by employers chasing short term profits over sustainability.

And, like clockwork, every chamber of commerce in the country will attempt to solve this problem by demanding public dollars be spent on countless new workforce development programs to replace the internal talent pipelines they destroyed