Mark Hogan

The main characters of the mayoral election continue to be the two disgraced 3rd party candidates who are no longer Democrats rather than the party's nominee who won a resounding victory. It reminds of @mtsw.bsky.social's favorite saying: The press prefers one of these two guys and want them to win.

No that was specifically carved out

There are no summer jams on this playlist about coordinating summer camp drop offs or sitting on zoom calls on a beautiful day

what ferritor needed was moral education — and the limits and boundaries that come with it. he needed to learn that he had obligations beyond his own interests & personal advancement. he needed to learn that he had duties to other people. his parents fostered his brilliance at the expense of a soul.

The Boy Genius Who Killed 14 Million Poor People What is the moral weight of responsibility for the men who carried out DOGE’s work?

i think i disagree with the idea that the ferritor should have been allowed to follow his own path during his schooling, neglecting assignments and being coddled for his apparent genius. i think, in fact, that this was the problem. www.thebulwark.com/p/the-boy-ge...

Does anyone else remember a couple of months ago when a Republican terrorist shot four people killing two of them in an effort to give control of the Minnesota legislature to Republicans?

Triangles, Crescents, Slivers: Can Odd-Shaped Lots Help Ease the Housing Crisis?

"New California laws have provided opportunities for Mark Hogan’s San Francisco architecture firm, OpenScope Studio, to work on larger multifamily projects at formerly vacant parts of apartment complexes like parking lots, storage spaces and amenity buildings."

www.nytimes.com/2025/08/02/b...

Triangles, Crescents, Slivers: Can Odd-Shaped Lots Help Ease the Housing Crisis?

great NYT piece by @patrickcsisson.bsky.social on odd-shaped lots and housing - with my friends @markasaurus.bsky.social and leah martin of allied8

www.nytimes.com/2025/08/02/b...

i know this is quaint of me but the white house renovation is crazy illegal and actually really emblematic of how trump sees the presidency as belonging to him

Per acre…of what

Turkey’s Erdogan Fires Statistics Chief After Record Inflation The president of the Turkish statistical institute, Sait Dincer, was removed from office and replaced by Erhan Cetinkaya, who had been deputy president of Turkey’s Banking Regulation and Supervision A...

um. www.wsj.com/world/middle...

I need to plan that watch shopping trip to Japan soon

Americans were gonna have to do that anyway with these 39% tariffs

Introducing: The New Seiko Prospex Alpinist SPB531, A New Blue European Exclusive The Japanese "mountain man's" watch now has a new blue hue.

Hmm you need to go to Switzerland to get the new blue Seiko Alpinist (it looks great)
www.hodinkee.com/articles/int...

I don't think article 34 applies to this type of project

And apparently this is not happening this year :(

Very good to see the Social Housing Act passing the assembly in California. It's modeled off a similar program in Montgomery County MD that has been successful in building mixed income housing without needing to rely on subsidies: a24.asmdc.org/press-releas...

Haven't these people heard about batteries

Yes exactly

There is no way a 90k square foot building fits in this location and if you want to seat 650 people you would only need a fraction of that space (under 10k per the building code!) in the ballroom. Even if you pad it for circulation and back of house it's hard to imagine needing more than 30k

Rendering of White House ballroom plan

Trump is building a White House ballroom.

It kind of looks like a Home Depot without the aisles and a sale on gold chairs.

I reviewed it and it's unrestricted per the state DBL if you are a half mile from a major transit hub or in a low VMT area for 100% affordable projects

under the current version of ED1 (v3) are you locked into the maximum unit count per using a double density bonus or is it still unrestricted

The Brooklyn Botanical Garden is one of my top choices for kid activities in NYC! It's so great.

Climate change isn't why it went up abruptly since February

I noticed this today on cheese and chocolate

Oh yes please this this this

Holy shit. Well…finally, some good fucking news

A few more

I looked around FL Wright's Darwin Martin house complex in Buffalo the other day and the restored gardens are fabulous (and I didn't photograph the best parts, sadly)