David Kissling

I got put on the pessimists list and I’m pretty sure it’s because I RT’d a Chris Hayes post. Someone took that very seriously

Mass remote work changed society in ways that are mostly not good! The huge upward shock in housing demand coupled with ability to work from anywhere meant that people with high wages flocked to the low CoL places and distorted the property markets

The Great Retcon The invention of "heritage Americans"

For my newsletter, I wrote about "heritage Americans" and the real meaning of nationhood. publiccomment.blog/p/the-great-...

California's main grid has produced more electricity from solar (110 GWh/d) than fossil gas (106 GWh/d) during the first 45 days of 2025

And it's WINTER

Gas is down 39% vs '25 & 55% vs '23

WWS has met >100% of demand for parts of 25 out of 45 days in '25 (vs 17/45 days in '24)

every time i see one, i can't stop myself from thinking about how ugly they are — how hostile the design is, how oversized and clumsy they look, they're, truly, one of the worst fucking car designs in history

Talking like a Stormfront forum *every day*

I can’t believe people still give him their money

Mahan hates every statewide intervention into land use and permitting. Opposes all reforms to make transit easier to build and has been an opponent of reforms to improve transit capital project delivery and operations improvements. His donor base is the far right of tech VC world. Bad bad bad news.

We bought Article II of the United Nations Charter with the blood of a hundred million human beings, and less than a century later, it's being sold for nothing by people who don't even understand what they're doing.

Imagine saying it about USC

“We should have housing for people whose wages aren’t high enough to afford a place to live, but we shouldn’t have poor people living here”

Steve Lies man

Hmm i wonder why the Danes might be extra fired up to play Team USA

you can tell that "i hate my employees" still dominates the tech boss groupchats because there's an alternative marketing for AI that says "this is going to make white collar workers so much more productive" instead of "bosses, we're giving you a way to replace the help"

A major reason that Gavin Newsom will not be the Democratic nominee is that it's very clear that he read the same stuff we all did last year about swing voters not liking orthodox social liberals and is "pivoting" on certain issues to try and pretend that he didn't have an entire career being one

the parties need to get together to push the button that gives me cheap health insurance and medical care without raising anyone's taxes

21st Century NUMMI incoming

It's not a new observation at this point but that wild Noem/Lewandowski story in WSJ really brings home the extent to which all the Trump 2 cabinet-level goblins see their jobs as flying private, doing short-form video, and screaming at underlings. They all hate each other and none of them can read.

San Francisco should have a beer garden in the Panhandle

I think people should stop trying to withdraw from society

Good news: there's no durable majority for fascism

Bad news: we are locked in a life or death struggle against fascism and our victory depends on people with less understanding of how the world functions than my 14-month old

It’s such an advantage to have a team that guys want to play for. Hernandez waited until spring training to sign so the dodgers wouldn’t have to cut anyone off 40 man roster. Muncy just signed a very team friendly extension because he doesn’t want to go anywhere else.

Culture matters!

This is the way to do the wager tax, as a convenience fee. In person betting is not taxed which adds a friction point for gamblers. igb.illinois.gov/content/dam/...

i think even in terms of software development, LLMs are making the developers have to be project managers. they aren't going away anytime soon

i think the fact that transit supporters are leftier than housing supporters is an opportunity to broaden the pro-urban coalitions

too few people in this city expect it to be anything but a singles bar. once you pair up and marry, you're expected to go to the suburbs (or another metro area) to raise a family.

i'm still here and raising young kids (in SFUSD), but basically nobody from my 2010s peer group stuck around to do it

The tail risk of the AI being so good it takes away all white color jobs is not something I really entertain because it's one of those risks you literally cannot prepare for, it's like worrying about a meteor hitting the earth, it's outside of my pay grade.

It's about CNN and rolling up the news orgs more than their ability to influence the studio properties

It’s kinda funny how the chief defense of “mass deportations now” at the RNC was “oh voters didn’t see that” but they were apparently absolutely dialed into pronouns and land acknowledgments at the DNC

my guess is that FAA asked DOD how long these ops would be occurring, in maximally aggressive form they replied "AS LONG AS IT TAKES FOR A WARFIGHTER" and the FAA maliciously complied by closing airspace for 10 days, expecting this response from Congress, airlines, etc.

Sacramento needs more condos To fix the housing crisis, close the gap between rental apartments and single-family homes

Condos are the dog that doesn’t bark in California housing. My article on how enabling middle-class homeownership requires fixing the multifamily for-sale market: housesac.substack.com/p/sacramento... @sacyimby.bsky.social @cayimby.bsky.social @muhammadspeaks.bsky.social