kasey @kaseyklimes Twitter profile

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kasey

2 years

In order to meet long-tail user needs in a market context, designers must move beyond user-centered design and instead design for emergence.

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kasey

@kaseyklimes

25 days

my favorite new york social code is when a lone person needs to get a stroller up the subway stairs. nearly instantly, a stranger picks up the other end of the stroller, helps carry it up, then departs as quickly as they appeared. no words are exchanged. eye contact is minimal.

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kasey

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4 months

this got talked about a lot when I worked on google maps. I would personally love this feature, and it’s technically feasible. here’s why I fought it loudly every time it came up 🧵

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Google maps needs a feature for the nicest way instead of the fastest

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kasey

@kaseyklimes

2 months

a lot of my politics was formed by flying a lot when I was young (my dad was a pilot) and simply looking down

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kasey

@kaseyklimes

2 years

"NYC is nice to visit but I wouldn't want to live there." The thing about NYC that's unlike any other American city is that visiting here and living here don't have anything in common. They are entirely different things and cannot be equated.

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kasey

@kaseyklimes

2 years

The degree to which we’ve accepted that housing should be a mechanism for wealth generation is horrifying.

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kasey

@kaseyklimes

7 months

Is there a major global city with better street trees than CDMX?

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kasey

@kaseyklimes

1 year

Spent the long weekend losing my mind over Montreal’s urban design. It’s the best in North America by a wide margin. Want to see some fantastic public spaces? 🧵📸

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kasey

@kaseyklimes

4 years

Everyone talks about "burnout" as something that happens when you work too much. I see it far more in people who work a normal amount on things they know don't matter.

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kasey

@kaseyklimes

4 months

inadvertently diverting foot traffic from low-income streets to high-income streets takes revenue and potentially tax dollars from already struggling communities and funnels it instead to richer communities. always remember: we live (and build tools) in complex systems.

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@kaseyklimes

3 months

this is what actual design looks like. solving real problems for real people, not making things look cool.

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3 months

today i learned the Oshkosh NGDV (next generation delivery vehicle) looks like this because the USPS contract mandated that the cabin must be tall enough for a 95th percentile male (6'2) to stand up but low enough for a 5th percentile female (4'11) to see over the hood

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kasey

@kaseyklimes

2 months

there should be two presidents. one is the vibes president. we vote for whoever reflects our national vibe. the ultimate personality hire. one is the policy president. nobody really likes this one, but they get shit done and make sure we all have good jobs, stuff works, etc.

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kasey

@kaseyklimes

2 months

these places feel bad on the ground, but it isn’t until you’re looking at them from above that you really get a sense of how inefficient, wasteful, and vast it all is

kasey

@kaseyklimes

3 years

Considering a photo series: 'Honest American Landscapes' I just finished driving from New York to California and back... The United States is a beautiful country. What we've done to it is tragic.

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kasey

@kaseyklimes

4 months

you see where this is going: because of its global scale, even a small shift in maps routing from a seemingly-innocuous (and frankly very useful!) feature could create a reinforcing feedback loop with spatial inequality.

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kasey

@kaseyklimes

4 months

the current algo is basically objective. any shift towards “nice” or “scenic” routes is going to take some new subset of variables into account; beautiful architecture, street trees, etc. this naturally introduces bias to the system (again, at global scale)

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kasey

@kaseyklimes

4 months

google maps has over a billion users around the world. it is truly a global product operating at a scale that’s nearly incomprehensible. that kind of scale changes the way you have to think about product development — and specifically about nth order effects.

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kasey

@kaseyklimes

4 months

now ask yourself: which of those streets is likely the higher income community? city planning (my former profession) has mountains of research on these correlations. eg low-income communities in the US have 41% fewer trees than high-income communities

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kasey

@kaseyklimes

4 months

@apartovi it's been some years since I worked there but last I checked maps doesn't take you to a random destination

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kasey

@kaseyklimes

25 days

“this is how we do it in new york, mami.”

Zero Fox

@xtophr

25 days

@kaseyklimes same. we had a 2-yo when we lived there. a nice middle-aged lady on the west side explained it when a burley fellow startled my wife: “this is how we do it in new york, mami. gotta keep moving”

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kasey

@kaseyklimes

4 months

additional context: I am sharing my opinion and my opinion alone, which doesn't reflect the perspective of the company. I was not the person who would have decided if this feature got built or not.

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kasey

@kaseyklimes

2 months

buses should never wait at stoplights transit signal priority doesn’t get talked about much but it’s probably the cheapest way to get major (up to 27%) reductions in bus travel times

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kasey

@kaseyklimes

25 days

I just remembered the time I asked a young mother if I could help her with a stroller up the stairs— she looked confused and actually annoyed that I was talking to her then said yes

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kasey

@kaseyklimes

5 years

Back in St. Louis for the first time in a couple years. Between the bewildering food/beer scene, historic architecture, free cultural institutions, and genuinely friendly people, I’ve been swiftly reminded that this town is probably the country’s best kept secret.

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kasey

@kaseyklimes

4 months

on its own, this bias isn't necessarily a bad thing, but let's examine the shape of this bias... ask yourself: between these two streets, which one is this new 'scenic' route algorithm going to choose?

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kasey

@kaseyklimes

4 months

the google maps routing algorithm selects the fastest route between your location and your destination. that means every segment of the street network has an equal chance at being traveled, given the commonality of location/destination deltas and street segment connectivity

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kasey

@kaseyklimes

4 months

for context: ime this idea was usually discussed with regard to walking navigation specifically.

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kasey

@kaseyklimes

4 months

just landed in the azores and oh my god

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kasey

@kaseyklimes

2 years

Midjourney V5 is out, let’s imagine better cities.

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kasey

@kaseyklimes

2 months

"where should we build housing then?" right here would be a great start—

kasey

@kaseyklimes

6 months

I almost forgot how utterly insane this city’s land use is. two photos taken from the same spot in the middle of san francisco

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kasey

@kaseyklimes

1 year

This is my favorite thing about the US. I learned how special it is on a Friday night while living in Copenhagen. I had met an attractive girl about my age on the street. In a feeble attempt to flirt, I asked her where she was from. “I’m from Turkey,” she said…

Devon ☀️

@devonzuegel

1 year

A while back, I was talking with a friend who'd moved to the US a few years prior At some point, I said something like "we Americans..." and he froze with shock. He asked, "Wait, do you think of me as American?" Without much thought, I said "Of course!" He paused for a while

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kasey

@kaseyklimes

2 months

this guy gets it

Adam

@ArchVillainAdam

2 months

@kaseyklimes Make farmland farmland again.

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kasey

@kaseyklimes

1 year

1/ Pedestrian streets are all over the city. Some grand, others cozy. All gentle and lively.

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kasey

@kaseyklimes

4 months

I’m trying my best to give my students practical non-obvious advice they can use to jumpstart their careers upon graduation in 2024. here's my draft, tell me what you think

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kasey

@kaseyklimes

1 year

The US has *lots* of problems, and it’s own particular strains of intolerance, but the norm—in fact the founding idea—is that all are welcome. If you are here, then you are an American. Like @devonzuegel , I’m really proud of this country for that. Happy birthday y’all.

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kasey

@kaseyklimes

3 months

update: i’m gonna be a wife guy

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kasey

@kaseyklimes

2 months

“you mean a parliamentary system” you fool, that would be un-American

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kasey

@kaseyklimes

2 years

In every other city I've lived in (~a dozen), the mundane daily stuff is the mundane daily stuff. In NYC the mundane daily stuff is the special part. It's the only way you can tap into the internal pulse of this incomprehensibly large and diverse place.

lee wilson

@leerwilson

2 years

@KaseyKlimes Can you expand on the "subtle and weird" part?

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kasey

@kaseyklimes

4 months

but it's not just the US, this pattern generalizes to nearly every city around the world.

The relationship between urban forests and income: A meta-analysis

Urban trees provide substantial public health and public environmental benefits. However, scholarly works suggest that urban trees may be unequally distributed among poor and minority urban communi...

www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

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kasey

@kaseyklimes

25 days

@nwilliams030 now that I think about it i’ve never been let down by a middle aged hispanic man in anything. those dudes are reliable af.

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kasey

@kaseyklimes

1 year

Manhattan has lots of people and lots of tall buildings. But the people aren't in the tall buildings.

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kasey

@kaseyklimes

4 years

This is the village in Germany where my parents met in the 1980's. It is called Imsbach, population: 971 The longest walk you can take while staying in the village is 15 minutes. a thread about villages/

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kasey

@kaseyklimes

1 year

2/ Everywhere, reminders that cities aren’t loud—cars are loud.

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kasey

@kaseyklimes

4 months

@vanillaopinions I especially love living in a walkable city when it’s time for groceries. they’re literally across the street.

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kasey

@kaseyklimes

4 years

My brilliant colleagues have achieved a marvelous feat in cartography: Deep-zoom street-level mappings of every sidewalk curb, intersection, and stoplight in NYC, SF, London, and Tokyo. Launched today in Google Maps on mobile and desktop.

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kasey

@kaseyklimes

1 year

@joecacola sounds like you’d have more fun on reddit joe

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kasey

@kaseyklimes

1 year

3/ Bikeshare systems are great. Bikeshare systems + comprehensive, physically protected bike infrastructure = how we build the low-carbon city of the future (Montreal has a big head start in N. America)

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kasey

@kaseyklimes

2 months

@josephrobison beauty is subjective. land and resource efficiency is objective.

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kasey

@kaseyklimes

2 months

lol no we didn’t have a PLANE, what? my dad was in the US air force and flew F-16s. later became a commercial pilot (you can look up how much they make but I bet it’s considerably less than you expect).

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kasey

@kaseyklimes

7 months

TIL: Grindr was a Chinese-owned app — until the US forced its sale due to security concerns. What’s being proposed with TikTok isn’t especially unusual, just higher profile.

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kasey

@kaseyklimes

3 years

Considering a photo series: 'Honest American Landscapes' I just finished driving from New York to California and back... The United States is a beautiful country. What we've done to it is tragic.

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kasey

@kaseyklimes

1 year

5/ Proof that city life and nature can coexist.

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kasey

@kaseyklimes

2 months

@cafreiman never forget these brave capitalists

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kasey

@kaseyklimes

2 years

What are the best structural explanations for why cities like Paris and Barcelona have led such ambitious urban transformations in recent years while the same can be said of virtually no American city?

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kasey

@kaseyklimes

19 days

just taught my fiancée how to use claude to write code that automates dumb tasks that have been making her work life miserable for months she went from being downtrodden and skeptical to dancing around the room in about 15 minutes END USER PROGRAMMING IS NOW

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kasey

@kaseyklimes

1 year

“It was an honest mistake Kasey, but you have to understand that this isn’t America. It doesn’t matter that we were born here, we are not ethnically Danish and therefore we will never fit in. We’ll never be fully welcome here.” He told me horrifying stories from his childhood…

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kasey

@kaseyklimes

2 years

If you want affordable housing, you must make housing a bad investment. You cannot have both.

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kasey

@kaseyklimes

3 months

@WallStreetSilv just so we’re all clear, “questioning science” means conducting your own rigorously designed empirical experiments… not sharing infowars articles

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kasey

@kaseyklimes

3 years

Cities are the result of active choices. the choices:

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kasey

@kaseyklimes

1 year

4/ So many generous public spaces for people, even far away from the city center.

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kasey

@kaseyklimes

1 year

Not just social castigation but regular physical violence. That girl wasn’t rejecting her country, her country had rejected her.

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kasey

@kaseyklimes

4 months

@pavtalk I spent many years as an urban design consultant working with cities and BIDs around the world. I can tell you it's quite rare to see the investment you're describing in an already low-income place that is losing revenue. Where's the money going to come from?

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kasey

@kaseyklimes

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@karlimarulli the movie they’re applauding IS the heist movie

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kasey

@kaseyklimes

4 months

@0xgaut Google Maps prioritizes coverage. Everything it does must scale globally. Apple Maps likes to do things bespoke / basically by hand. Far less coverage, but more detail where it has it.

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kasey

@kaseyklimes

2 months

@richmintz it’s not their fault, they just don’t know. lots of people don’t travel and even if they did they’d have to travel super far from Texas to get to a single city where expecting to get around by transit might start to make sense.

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kasey

@kaseyklimes

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all the dweebs squealing that “this is every city!” can’t be bothered to read to the end of a tweet. everyone helps everyone everywhere, ofc, but try grabbing a strangers’ stroller *without speaking* in most cities and see how that goes

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kasey

@kaseyklimes

6 months

@gordonbrander So many useless ideological wars waged when the solution was cozy wood beams all along.

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kasey

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1 year

What weird little business would you open on the first floor of your home if your city had by-right commercial zoning like Tokyo?

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kasey

@kaseyklimes

2 years

kasey

@kaseyklimes

2 years

pretty sure it was @tobyshorin who told me that leaving your apartment in nyc is like playing a slot machine and I think about this all the time.

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kasey

@kaseyklimes

2 years

If Seinfeld is set in Manhattan, why are they always in cars and never on the subway?

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kasey

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1 year

Her fury took me entirely off guard. I found myself scrambling to apologize but was drowned out by her yelling that she was not and never will be Danish. I didn’t really understand what had happened until speaking with a friend weeks later who was also a 2nd gen immigrant.

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kasey

@kaseyklimes

2 years

just to clarify for the folk getting angry here: I am not a New Yorker. I’ve moved cities every ~three years since I was born and I’ve traveled a lot as an urban planning consultant, so I like comparing cities and identifying things that make them unique. It’s fun.

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kasey

@kaseyklimes

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“Wow! What’s Turkey like?” “Well, I’ve never actually been there. My parents moved to Denmark before I was born.” “Oh! Du er dansk!” (“You are Danish!”) I replied with my terrible accent, trying to be playful. I quickly learned that was NOT the right thing to say.

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kasey

@kaseyklimes

2 years

NYC DISCOURSE TWITTER, ACTIVATE

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kasey

@kaseyklimes

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@est_magnetique “sir this is a wendy’s”

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@kaseyklimes

4 months

@ancienth_h @BowTiedRanger who needs data when you have highly incentivized anecdotes!

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kasey

@kaseyklimes

2 months

@krishnanrohit real. several people I know seem to think I can predict the future at this point. probably not good.

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kasey

@kaseyklimes

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@paulgb WE WILL PROVIDE

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kasey

@kaseyklimes

2 months

@chaseallbridges this isn’t about denigrating a community in the least bit

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kasey

@kaseyklimes

1 year

Not enough for NYPD to park their personal vehicles on the sidewalk, they have to park them *directly on the curb cut*

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kasey

@kaseyklimes

1 year

6/ Mayors like @Val_Plante save lives and make their cities wonderful places to live. I wish many more had the courage.

Noah Campbell

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@kaseyklimes @wanyeburkett The main thing was they tried to do bike lanes on secondary streets but people insisted on riding down the thoroughfares and consequently getting run over by trucks. So mayor Valerie bit the bullet and put in the protect lanes and gave the finger to the suburbanites.

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kasey

@kaseyklimes

4 years

Organizations prefer and propagate the former frame because accepting the latter would spin them into existential crisis.

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kasey

@kaseyklimes

4 months

@chekofif Thanks Gidi

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kasey

@kaseyklimes

5 months

spending all my political capital with my students upfront and giving them an assignment due on the first day of class (they’re reading chapter 1 of Thinking in Systems and making a stock and flow model with Loopy, they’ll be fine)

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kasey

@kaseyklimes

2 years

Another piece to the puzzle: Construction labor. We spent decades telling kids that the trades are dead-end jobs and that 'smart kids' go to college to become knowledge workers. A. That's not true. B. Now we don't have enough builders.

kasey

@kaseyklimes

2 years

@RossMcCannell There are many. Abolish exclusionary zoning, eliminate parking minimums, enact by-right development, experiment with split-rate property taxes, increase height limits, tax vacant units and surface parking, disallow foreign investors, remove setback requirements, etc. etc. etc.

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kasey

@kaseyklimes

3 years

@JakeAnbinder Is this generational? Microsoft Word is awful and I have not used it in many years.

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kasey

@kaseyklimes

8 months

@NRO quick question — how do you feel about free markets

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1 year

@MarcosArteaga woah woah woah I’ll give you the urbanism but you’re talking to a new yorker 😄

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kasey

@kaseyklimes

2 years

had to check something 😐

eigenrobot

@eigenrobot

2 years

the piece says "oh no it couldn't be the removal of mental institutions in the 70s bc there was no increase then" well heres a little blackpill for you now ok. now imagine you do whats shown below for decades, then suddenly simply stop arresting people What Might Happen Next

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kasey

@kaseyklimes

3 years

My evergreen take on every new American city I visit: this place would be amazing if it weren’t for all these fucking cars.

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kasey

@kaseyklimes

2 years

I'm also *not* talking about tourism. Obviously doing touristy stuff in touristy areas is different from actually living in a place regardless of the city. What I'm pointing at is a lot more subtle and weird.

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kasey

@kaseyklimes

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@nice_byte I never said I was responsible for any decision

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kasey

@kaseyklimes

2 years

This is the thing.

stephanie ⸆⸉ 🫶🏼

@prettywonders

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@khinkhin @KaseyKlimes @CougarSpider What’s unique to New York is the level of serendipitous chaos that comes from packing this many people of all different backgrounds this closely together in a culture and built environment that encourages individuality, community, and random connection. It‘s a different framework

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4 years

This is one reason I'm interested in how worker ownership changes firm behavior: Might a worker-owned company be more likely to decide to work on things that matter, even if it means forfeiting some revenue?

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kasey

@kaseyklimes

2 years

@RossMcCannell There are many. Abolish exclusionary zoning, eliminate parking minimums, enact by-right development, experiment with split-rate property taxes, increase height limits, tax vacant units and surface parking, disallow foreign investors, remove setback requirements, etc. etc. etc.

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kasey

@kaseyklimes

2 months

@HudsonDavis14 this subdivision probably is safe from crime and I assume most if not all are owned, that's great!

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kasey

@kaseyklimes

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woah, Chrome has AI debugging assistance in the JS console now??

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kasey

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2 years

You don't hate meetings, you hate unstructured collaboration.

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kasey

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3 years

Does this serve that need? What spiritual and psychological afflictions are we imposing on ourselves as we accept these mass-produced, lifeless places as normal?

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kasey

@kaseyklimes

4 years

@page88 Most of the right-wing people I know are deeply compassionate people, it’s just that their compassion doesn’t scale beyond their immediate sphere and it doesn’t abstract beyond direct cause and effect.

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kasey

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@RealLiveAxel by global (and historical) standards you’re right, yes, the people that live here are likely very comfortable!

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