As contrarian and provocative as you think this is, people on Twitter have been clamoring on about being “anti-smartphone” and “anti-internet” since 2009. Tech criticism is so derivative now.

This is the kind of piece you'd expect to find as an Op-Ed in the New York Times.

The ranks of academia are also filled with people who: - Think of themselves as high status despite having mediocre CVs etc. and below-average scholarly output - Cosplay as exploited proletariats despite being from upper middle class backgrounds and earning well above the median salary in their city - Imagine themselves as important experts despite a research output consisting exclusively of ideological frippery that nobody ever reads - Believe they earned their faculty position on merit, when it was really a combo of ideology and a nepotistic phone call from their grad adviser - Think of themselves as overworked even though they put in about 30 hrs a week during the semester with long summer and winter breaks in between

"I hired my 15-year-old as an intern this summer. He used Fable 5 to build a model for SpaceX and he says the stock should triple by 2030" is a thing that was just said with a straight face on CNBC.

SB 79 takes effect July 1, legalizing 6-9 story housing near transit statewide. A major CA developer: 'A lot of that is gonna unfortunately skip Los Angeles because of Measure ULA.' Cities like Glendale, Santa Monica, and Pasadena may see the first wave.

This is the most funny political ad I’ve seen in a long time

There's only room for one Boomtown in America. Not everyone can have one.

Rent control alleviates pressure on renters in the short term, but it’s not a permanent solution. It’s a Band-Aid on a gunshot wound. It’s unsustainable, and painting it as an end-all-be-all fix to the housing crisis needs to stop.

RT @JessicaBRiedl: Showing that "uncapping the payroll tax does not fully fund Social Security" is easy and requires no complicated models…

New CHIP developments filed in the last year in LA are overwhelmingly providing less than 1 parking space per unit.

I’ve officially reached the Dawson’s Creek rewatch level of depression. This too shall pass.

West Hollywood does not need two Trader Joe's.

I can nut-pick some anti-YIMBYs who criticize proposed quality of life improvements like new parks because they believe they will induce gentrification. Those of us who do actual YIMBY advocacy believe that parks are good and we should build a lot of housing near them.

Every once in a while I see a tweet so eager to manufacture an astute observation out of nothing through big words. I think this is one of them.

If you want any hope of being LA mayor as someone not coded as a standard Dem or progressive, you need to run as an actual moderate. You also probably need to have identified as a Dem for most of your public life. You certainly cannot praise Trump. Sorry. It’s a D 50 city.

If I lived in the Palisades, my house wouldn’t burn. It wouldn’t have gone down like that.

Dasha Nekrasova's whole thing is just being in Succession for like all of two minutes.

There is someone out there paying San Francisco prices for Austin, and that scares me.

Everyone in Yorba Linda still eats like this, by the way.