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Michael A. Rodriguez, PhD

@mroddc.bsky.social

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Director of Research @ Smart Growth America / @smartgrowthusa.bsky.social . Economist & urban planner. Passion for cities, data, real estate, & transpo. 🚉 DC area's journeyman adjunct professor of planning and policy. 🎓. 🐶 are the best.

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Michael A. Rodriguez, PhD @mroddc.bsky.social · 8h

When you think of a lot of the services that the rich pay for, especially for dumb things like "sorority consultants", you find there are two things they pay through the nose for: to buy time (buy themselves out of burden), and to buy certainty so as to live with less uncertainty that others do.

Michael A. Rodriguez, PhD @mroddc.bsky.social · 9h

This is just going to create a crop of consultants, possibly also using AI, to learn how to game the AI

Michael A. Rodriguez, PhD @mroddc.bsky.social · 13h

As a gift article, an interesting perspective from Bouie
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/o...

Opinion | The Second Trump Administration Is a Museum of America’s Worst Moments

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Michael A. Rodriguez, PhD @mroddc.bsky.social · 2d

FM Davout rocks

Michael A. Rodriguez, PhD @mroddc.bsky.social · 6d

Like, my Nicaraguan family had the unique distinction of wanting the US government to stick it to Somoza, but then also, the Sandinistas.

Michael A. Rodriguez, PhD @mroddc.bsky.social · 6d

Many Hispanic diasporas opposing the regime in power in their own nation?

Michael A. Rodriguez, PhD @mroddc.bsky.social · 6d

When you can’t get it up anymore you need this type of thing

Michael A. Rodriguez, PhD @mroddc.bsky.social · 6d

Wonder if views have changed on stock options market trading, too.

Michael A. Rodriguez, PhD @mroddc.bsky.social · 8d

Michael A. Rodriguez, PhD @mroddc.bsky.social · 9d

What the guy said about man city. But imagine she’s running for Mayor of Manchester and picks a City vs United side

Michael A. Rodriguez, PhD @mroddc.bsky.social · 9d

Literally. BLS indicates roughly 41k people work in coal, while over 51.2k work at vineyards alone. One study estimates the total impact of wine production on the US (direct) is 972k when you account for the warehousing, distribution, and retailing of wine.

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Yonah Freemark @yonahfreemark.com · 10d

New paper uses national zoning & housing metrics to test associations between zoning, housing supply & demographics, finds:
—Increasing max. allowed density is not associated with more housing.
—But increases in housing are associated with a higher Black resident share & lower white resident share.

Testing the chain of inclusion: Examining if upzoning changes the housing supply and demographics of places using national data

Zoning policies have contributed to segregation in the United States, and recent government initiatives have aimed to reform these policies through upzoning—increasing allowable housing density. In...

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Michael A. Rodriguez, PhD @mroddc.bsky.social · 12d

Nah.

Michael A. Rodriguez, PhD @mroddc.bsky.social · 14d

I have been listening to Duke while reading Teachout’s great biography of him. It’s awesome to sort of follow along with the book to be able to hear. FYI Webster’s sax on Cottontail is my jam.

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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 14d

The full 28-minute Jimmy Kimmel monologue. Please share.

Jimmy Kimmel is Back!

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Michael A. Rodriguez, PhD @mroddc.bsky.social · 14d

Coffee inflation (monthly year-over-year) is at a 10-year high and accelerating since January.

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Michael A. Rodriguez, PhD @mroddc.bsky.social · 15d

CVS in northern Virginia did not inquire *why* I was eligible for my Covid booster shot today. The app makes you simply say that you are, yes or no. After that I faced no questions.

Michael A. Rodriguez, PhD @mroddc.bsky.social · 16d

I thought you were writing new lyrics to We didn’t start the fire

Michael A. Rodriguez, PhD @mroddc.bsky.social · 17d

I just want a music AI that can tell me the chord progression of a song to do that faster than I can by ear.

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Michael A. Rodriguez, PhD @mroddc.bsky.social · 17d

Yep. I’m a long suffering Marlins fan who has basically two sports years that mattered.

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Michael A. Rodriguez, PhD @mroddc.bsky.social · 17d

The Marlins will have another losing season. Since 1993 they’ve only had 8 winning seasons out of 32. It is the third worst track record of losing season during that period. Only Pittsburgh (4 winning seasons) and Kansas City (7 winning seasons) have fared worse.

Michael A. Rodriguez, PhD @mroddc.bsky.social · 18d

I prefer colder weather seasons because I can layer and wear outerwear, and men’s fashion is far superior with those aspects involved.

Michael A. Rodriguez, PhD @mroddc.bsky.social · 19d

Wut?

Michael A. Rodriguez, PhD @mroddc.bsky.social · 20d

The thing with stuff like this is these data centers provide a very minimal number of jobs post construction. There’s like a dude in a dark room making sure it doesn’t break here and there.

FinTwitter @fintwitter.bsky.social · 20d

NADELLA ANNOUNCES 'MOST POWERFUL AI DATA CENTER' IN WISCONSIN

Michael A. Rodriguez, PhD @mroddc.bsky.social · 20d

Do the unions have clauses for them for exactly these contingencies? Like protections in case your boss does something / or arbitrarily gets fired ?