Jeff Byrnes 🚰 🏙️
@thejeffbyrnes.com
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🏗️ Steering Committee member & co-founder of Somerville YIMBY
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👔 snappy dresser
📚 avid reader
🗺️ Somerville, MA, USA
👨🏻💻 SRE manager @ athenahealth
🏗️ Steering Committee member & co-founder of Somerville YIMBY
🎮 video gamer
👔 snappy dresser
📚 avid reader
🗺️ Somerville, MA, USA
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Jeff Byrnes 🚰 🏙️
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· Nov 12
Co-founder & steering committee member of @somervilleyimby.org, member of Abundant Housing MA, trying to foster housing abundance to bring down prices & make our cities & towns more welcoming! #MApoli #VilleMA #SomerPoli #YIMBY
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Legitimately impressive to be sending it that hard on a citibike.
The scene now at Lafayette and Howard, diagonal to the ICE garage which activists remain camped out in front of on both sides of the building.
November 29, 2025 at 9:53 PM
Legitimately impressive to be sending it that hard on a citibike.
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Her: I need to be with a guy who's an out of the box thinker
Schrödinger: *grabbing his coat* Goddammit
Schrödinger: *grabbing his coat* Goddammit
November 29, 2025 at 10:38 PM
Her: I need to be with a guy who's an out of the box thinker
Schrödinger: *grabbing his coat* Goddammit
Schrödinger: *grabbing his coat* Goddammit
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Am I surprised at the company at the top of this list? No. Not at all. The cheap deals offered on that website come with a cost.
The Boston Globe identified the companies in Massachusetts that employ the most SNAP recipients. A key stat: "In Massachusetts, 74% of working-age recipients of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program are employed, half of them full-time."
Full article: www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/28/m...
Full article: www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/28/m...
November 29, 2025 at 8:10 PM
Am I surprised at the company at the top of this list? No. Not at all. The cheap deals offered on that website come with a cost.
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After trying to do some Googling, the stats I found (dornsife.usc.edu/news/stories... + datacenter.aecf.org/data/tables/...) suggest that 31,179,139 kids age 0-17 have gotten at least one dose of the Covid vaccine as of 2023.
So 10 deaths gives us a death rate of 0.0000320727265753%
...yeah.
So 10 deaths gives us a death rate of 0.0000320727265753%
...yeah.
Vinay Prasad of the FDA claims that he has proof that 10 children died from COVID19 vaccines, so the FDA will now target flu shots, look at whether people should receive multiple vaccines at the same time, and make the vaccine approval process significantly more difficult.
FDA to impose strict new vaccine requirements, claiming child covid shot deaths
Vinay Prasad, the nation’s top vaccine regulator, said his team concluded that coronavirus shots were linked to children’s deaths, necessitating a new approach.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 29, 2025 at 10:42 PM
After trying to do some Googling, the stats I found (dornsife.usc.edu/news/stories... + datacenter.aecf.org/data/tables/...) suggest that 31,179,139 kids age 0-17 have gotten at least one dose of the Covid vaccine as of 2023.
So 10 deaths gives us a death rate of 0.0000320727265753%
...yeah.
So 10 deaths gives us a death rate of 0.0000320727265753%
...yeah.
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My local coffee shop owner and roaster told me that the Europeans already bought out most of the coffee, so even with tariffs dropped, pickings will be slim for Americans
President Trump’s latest move cut tariffs on over 100 products, including coffee, beef, bananas and orange juice.
While the reduced tariffs may ease food inflation, shoppers are unlikely to see major price drops in stores.
While the reduced tariffs may ease food inflation, shoppers are unlikely to see major price drops in stores.
Trump cut tariffs on these five foods. It’s too late to stop price hikes.
Prices on coffee, orange juice, bananas and beef have soared this year.
wapo.st
November 29, 2025 at 10:46 PM
My local coffee shop owner and roaster told me that the Europeans already bought out most of the coffee, so even with tariffs dropped, pickings will be slim for Americans
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new south wales (sydney) govenment's pattern handbook - which fast tracks permitting applications - features 4-7 story single stair buildings
shop-pattern-book.planning.nsw.gov.au/collections/...
shop-pattern-book.planning.nsw.gov.au/collections/...
Corner Lot Apartments 01 by Tonkin Zulaikha Greer
Corner Lot Apartments 01 by Tonkin Zulaikha Greer is a 4 - 6 storey shop-top housing or residential flat building. The design places dwellings above a flexible ground floor, which can be used for comm...
shop-pattern-book.planning.nsw.gov.au
November 29, 2025 at 5:23 PM
new south wales (sydney) govenment's pattern handbook - which fast tracks permitting applications - features 4-7 story single stair buildings
shop-pattern-book.planning.nsw.gov.au/collections/...
shop-pattern-book.planning.nsw.gov.au/collections/...
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Finally getting some theological clarity on the ethics of reclining in one’s plane seat
November 29, 2025 at 12:13 PM
Finally getting some theological clarity on the ethics of reclining in one’s plane seat
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Open source to the rescue yet again as Google orphans older Nest thermostats liliputing.com/open-source-...
Open source project keeps old Nest thermostats working after Google has ended support - Liliputing
Open source project keeps old Nest thermostats working after Google has ended support
liliputing.com
November 29, 2025 at 10:57 PM
Open source to the rescue yet again as Google orphans older Nest thermostats liliputing.com/open-source-...
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Great thread and responses exposing the inaccurate headline and the limits of the study underneath. To take just one of the sectors where they’re talking about AI replacing tasks, I’m not looking forward to the consequences of an AI hallucination in logistics.
Headline: "AI can replace 11.7% of workforce"
Actual study: Anthropic paid MIT to use a "labor simulation tool" that said 11.7% of TASKS could be done by AI
Actual study: Anthropic paid MIT to use a "labor simulation tool" that said 11.7% of TASKS could be done by AI
MIT study finds AI can already replace 11.7% of U.S. workforce
Artificial intelligence can already replace 11.7% of the U.S. labor market, across finance, health care and professional services, according to MIT's study.
www.cnbc.com
November 29, 2025 at 10:59 PM
Great thread and responses exposing the inaccurate headline and the limits of the study underneath. To take just one of the sectors where they’re talking about AI replacing tasks, I’m not looking forward to the consequences of an AI hallucination in logistics.
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Unvaccinated infants are the second most likely group to get hospitalized for Covid after older adults. Any effort to minimize the effectiveness for kids is evil.
November 29, 2025 at 10:10 PM
Unvaccinated infants are the second most likely group to get hospitalized for Covid after older adults. Any effort to minimize the effectiveness for kids is evil.
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Oh, so this is why the Department of Labor decided to deploy the term bizarre term "Americanism" in its winking neo-Nazi post today
November 29, 2025 at 10:23 PM
Oh, so this is why the Department of Labor decided to deploy the term bizarre term "Americanism" in its winking neo-Nazi post today
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yes. i encourage everyone to find ways to watch random movies you know nothing about at least some of the time as a sanity check on your taste and a guard against algorithmic nicheification. you might find stuff you really like!
The death of browsing is part of the reason art is the way it is now. Our opinions are largely fed to us by algorithms. Spending a spare 15 minutes wandering around a bookstore or comic shop or video rental place was how you found stuff you wouldn't ordinarily pick up and thereby expanded your taste
Bookselling is like the most "people go to the store and buy what looks cool to them without a particular agenda" type business left, and your purchases have a huge influence on what is ordered, what is displayed, and what is recommended.
November 29, 2025 at 7:35 PM
yes. i encourage everyone to find ways to watch random movies you know nothing about at least some of the time as a sanity check on your taste and a guard against algorithmic nicheification. you might find stuff you really like!
So much this.
It gets way more complex than just statistics (what you described is essentially a Markov chain). One problem with LLMs is that they've been trained to make the user happy, and users generally don't know what the fuck they want and will be happy when they get _an_ answer.
November 28, 2025 at 2:01 AM
So much this.
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Not wanting to disappoint you so much that it lies is the last quality I want in a computer.
November 28, 2025 at 12:02 AM
Not wanting to disappoint you so much that it lies is the last quality I want in a computer.
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I won't start ranting about it because I just get myself worked up, but quickly: I literally can not think of an investment of public funds that has a higher return than *cleaning the indoor air in schools*. It's so easy, so cheap, & has such HUGE payoff. Criminal that we basically don't do it.
November 19, 2025 at 7:05 PM
I won't start ranting about it because I just get myself worked up, but quickly: I literally can not think of an investment of public funds that has a higher return than *cleaning the indoor air in schools*. It's so easy, so cheap, & has such HUGE payoff. Criminal that we basically don't do it.
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Great listen! Wondering how to improve kids’ health and educational experience? Cleaner indoor air might be part of the solution.
Today on Volts: for years, I've wanted to do a podcast on indoor air quality, and I finally found the perfect guest! Dr. Lagoudas & I discuss indoor air pollutants, the policies and technologies that can control them, and the growing need to frame indoor air quality as a basic human right.
What's the deal with indoor air quality?
From CO2 monitors to better building codes, Dr. Georgia Lagoudas outlines how to clean up the spaces where we spend 90% of our lives.
www.volts.wtf
November 28, 2025 at 1:19 AM
Great listen! Wondering how to improve kids’ health and educational experience? Cleaner indoor air might be part of the solution.
Introduce yourself with 5 concerts you've been to:
Dave Matthews Band (1st, 9× total)
Galactic (7×)
Soulive (7×)
Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings (2×)
Elizabeth & the Catapult (2×)
Dave Matthews Band (1st, 9× total)
Galactic (7×)
Soulive (7×)
Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings (2×)
Elizabeth & the Catapult (2×)
Introduce yourself with 5 concerts you've been to:
Autechre (x5)
Seefeel
SND
NIN
Tricky
Autechre (x5)
Seefeel
SND
NIN
Tricky
Introduce yourself with 5 concerts you've been to:
NiN
Orbital
Soundgarden
Tom Petty
David Byrne
NiN
Orbital
Soundgarden
Tom Petty
David Byrne
November 28, 2025 at 12:04 AM
Introduce yourself with 5 concerts you've been to:
Dave Matthews Band (1st, 9× total)
Galactic (7×)
Soulive (7×)
Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings (2×)
Elizabeth & the Catapult (2×)
Dave Matthews Band (1st, 9× total)
Galactic (7×)
Soulive (7×)
Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings (2×)
Elizabeth & the Catapult (2×)
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It’s really funny how a generation will roll its eyes at parents who watch Fox News but doesn’t see why being immersed in Twitter is having the same effect. Lots of serious people show up on Fox News too but that shouldn’t be your primary source on the news.
November 27, 2025 at 9:52 AM
It’s really funny how a generation will roll its eyes at parents who watch Fox News but doesn’t see why being immersed in Twitter is having the same effect. Lots of serious people show up on Fox News too but that shouldn’t be your primary source on the news.
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The irony for me is how Musk bought Twitter with the clear intention of capturing & manipulating the press culture there — something many journalists reported on — and yet they stay there because each assumes they can’t be manipulated… while totally getting manipulated.
This is the correct take. Stewing in white supremacist propaganda is bad for your thinking. And if think you are so savvy that it won’t impact you, you are the exact kind of mark they are slowly converting (I’m looking at you, centrist pundits).
It’s really funny how a generation will roll its eyes at parents who watch Fox News but doesn’t see why being immersed in Twitter is having the same effect. Lots of serious people show up on Fox News too but that shouldn’t be your primary source on the news.
November 27, 2025 at 4:22 PM
The irony for me is how Musk bought Twitter with the clear intention of capturing & manipulating the press culture there — something many journalists reported on — and yet they stay there because each assumes they can’t be manipulated… while totally getting manipulated.
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They cut care for trans youth on trans day of remembrance right before the holidays. It's not only cowardly, it's sociopathic. They left families scrambling to find care on Thanksgiving.
www.kqed.org/news/1206548...
www.kqed.org/news/1206548...
‘It’s Just Cruel’: Bay Area Parents Say Sutter Health Is Set to Halt Trans Youth Care | KQED
Multiple parents say Sutter Health caregivers told them the network will end gender-affirming care to youth in December, leaving them scrambling to find new physicians for their transgender children.
www.kqed.org
November 27, 2025 at 5:34 PM
They cut care for trans youth on trans day of remembrance right before the holidays. It's not only cowardly, it's sociopathic. They left families scrambling to find care on Thanksgiving.
www.kqed.org/news/1206548...
www.kqed.org/news/1206548...
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Now here’s the kind of news you drop going into a long holiday weekend. Maybe no one will notice. 🤡
@nytimes.com
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...
@nytimes.com
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...
November 26, 2025 at 10:05 AM
Now here’s the kind of news you drop going into a long holiday weekend. Maybe no one will notice. 🤡
@nytimes.com
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...
@nytimes.com
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...
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I need everybody to read this and understand what’s going on. These are spouses of US citizens in the country legally. They have entry clearance and green cards, they’ve passed background checks and have no criminal records. ICE is taking them anyway.
Gift link:
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...
Gift link:
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...
Green Card Interviews End in Handcuffs for Spouses of U.S. Citizens
www.nytimes.com
November 26, 2025 at 8:40 PM
I need everybody to read this and understand what’s going on. These are spouses of US citizens in the country legally. They have entry clearance and green cards, they’ve passed background checks and have no criminal records. ICE is taking them anyway.
Gift link:
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...
Gift link:
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...
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I reviewed all of the recently released Epstein emails for our story and found no evidence the now ex-nyt reporter or any other nyt journalist followed up on Epstein’s 2015 offer of photos of Trump and “girls in bikinis.”
www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...
www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...
November 26, 2025 at 3:36 PM
I reviewed all of the recently released Epstein emails for our story and found no evidence the now ex-nyt reporter or any other nyt journalist followed up on Epstein’s 2015 offer of photos of Trump and “girls in bikinis.”
www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...
www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...
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we just got to the point where they actually had to research women’s bodies and the effects of drugs on women and that golden era of science and medicine lasted <checks notes> maybe 9 years, but don’t worry, everyone, it’s over now
They shelved women's bodies. Fuck women, who cares about them anyway?
Just watch her. And then share. And then tell your friends.
Just watch her. And then share. And then tell your friends.
Hang on, WHAT?!?!? #sabv #science #female #reproductive #research #drugs #insane #humantrials #trump
YouTube video by Hawk's Podcasts / mdg650hawk
youtube.com
November 27, 2025 at 12:00 AM
we just got to the point where they actually had to research women’s bodies and the effects of drugs on women and that golden era of science and medicine lasted <checks notes> maybe 9 years, but don’t worry, everyone, it’s over now
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Electric bikes are appealing and can lead the shift to more trips done by bike than by car. See this analysis of Boston's shared bike system and the impact of ebike introduction. @ridebluebikes.bsky.social www.abettercity.org/docs-new/pub...
November 27, 2025 at 12:10 AM
Electric bikes are appealing and can lead the shift to more trips done by bike than by car. See this analysis of Boston's shared bike system and the impact of ebike introduction. @ridebluebikes.bsky.social www.abettercity.org/docs-new/pub...