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Hunter Owens
@hunterowens.net
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los angeles-area resident, your friendly state transportation policy bureaucrat, architecture, tacos.
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Hunter Owens @hunterowens.net · 18h
lifelong CA / IL voter: I suspect I voted in ~2 elections that actually mattered at a national level (first election 2012). 2016 + 2020 Dem primaries.

And frankly the CA 2020 Dem primary "mattering" is a reach
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Hunter Owens @hunterowens.net · 19h
this is what living in a swing state must feel like
Ballot drop box and ballot
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Hunter Owens @hunterowens.net · 1d
the dodgers bullpen experience
Fangraphs win probability chart
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Hunter Owens @hunterowens.net · 1d
completely predictable

www.dispatch.com/story/busine...
Anduril and Palantir battlefield communication system 'very high risk,' US Army memo says
The modernization of the Army's battlefield communications network is rife with "fundamental security" problems, according to an internal Army memo.
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Hunter Owens @hunterowens.net · 1d
Oh yeah especially for the international gates. Part of my LAX is good actually hot take
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Hunter Owens @hunterowens.net · 1d
The landline is real and cannot hurt you www.aa.com/i18n/travel-...
www.aa.com
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Hunter Owens @hunterowens.net · 1d
read theory

(WATCH FALLING DOWN)
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sick public transit, gloria @seung.bsky.social · 1d
it's indescribable to outsiders how much the West Coast has been shaped by the postwar aerospace/missiles industry
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Hunter Owens @hunterowens.net · 2d
At least in the socal sub market feels like the various Hyundai and Kia EVs are doing this
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☠️deadward niedermurder☠️ @niedermeyer.online · 2d
American cars are very much stuck in a similar dynamic to the post-war boom, where they keep getting bigger and flashier and more expensive without really delivering much more in utility, and seem to just be waiting for a new VW Beetle to land like a comet amidst dinosaurs all over again.
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Hunter Owens @hunterowens.net · 2d
LA Halloween built different
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Hunter Owens @hunterowens.net · 2d
hard to believe but there is an honest to god almost open subway station at Wilshire / Fairfax
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Hunter Owens @hunterowens.net · 2d
Hard fail lol
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Hunter Owens @hunterowens.net · 2d
Extremely wild office to residential conversion roof deck on the former Pierce National Life building in Ktown
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Hunter Owens @hunterowens.net · 2d
Ktown once again proving it is the only real all day all night LA neighborhood by having multiple coffee shop options open past 4pm
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Hunter Owens @hunterowens.net · 2d
def not a must read but... interesting!
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Hunter Owens @hunterowens.net · 2d
I thought it was a pretty good "here's a through line" between the end of the new deal era and the current moment with not too much of a focus of america, and it is not a slog since pretty well written
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Hunter Owens @hunterowens.net · 3d
Local maxima in algorithms rules everything around me
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Hunter Owens @hunterowens.net · 5d
El Segundo, ie, “the second”, is named that due to it being the second standard oil refinery on the west coast
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Reconstructionist @unavaleable.bsky.social · 5d
like my god
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Hunter Owens @hunterowens.net · 5d
I can see that but also I could def see the nation heading the way of California after Pete Wilson / Prop 186
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Hunter Owens @hunterowens.net · 5d
Might be overly influenced by my recent visit to Le Corbisier Convent La Tourette but THE BRUTALIST also up there
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Hunter Owens @hunterowens.net · 5d
see www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Jane Street Boss Says He Was Duped Into Funding AK-47s for Coup
The indictment reads like a cinematic plot: A Harvard Fellow and another activist allegedly wanted to buy AK-47s, Stinger missiles and grenades to topple South Sudan’s government. What they lacked was...
www.bloomberg.com
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Hunter Owens @hunterowens.net · 5d
JANE STREET cofounder "accidentally" funds coup in Africa is a headline designed to trigger me, personally www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
The Mysterious Billionaire Boss at Jane Street Smashing Trading Records
The firm’s secrecy-loving co-founder is raking in money faster than he can spend it on Burning Man, his own casino and, unwittingly, an African coup.
www.bloomberg.com
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Hunter Owens @hunterowens.net · 7d
shohei good
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Hunter Owens @hunterowens.net · 7d
good news for us nerds www.cnn.com/2025/09/30/p...
White House withdraws Trump’s controversial nominee to lead BLS after ousting predecessor over jobs data | CNN Politics
The White House has sent paperwork to the Senate to withdraw the nomination of E.J. Antoni as head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics, three sources told CNN.
www.cnn.com
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Hunter Owens @hunterowens.net · 8d
State capacity rules everything around me, regime consolidation edition
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Hunter Owens @hunterowens.net · 8d
(spoilers)

Important ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER news: 450 N St, which I'm pretty sure is one of the buildings used for the shoot of the bank heist, is being put on the state's surplus property list www.bizjournals.com/sacramento/n...
State of California puts 450 N St. in Downtown Sacramento on surplus list for possible disposal - Sacramento Business Journal
The schedule for disposal is not specified at this point.
www.bizjournals.com
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