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Skull Fisher

@paulfish.bsky.social

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Urbanist and Economist who likes Cats and Beta hats. Also writes mysteries for tabletop games. Site: pauljfisher.com Hot takes are my own and not employers. 🌩️👀 zQxLY643dPah

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Skull Fisher @paulfish.bsky.social · 9h

a city skyline at night with the cn tower in the center

Alt: a city skyline at night with the cn tower in the center

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Tamper Proof Lid @readuction.bsky.social · 10h

The Yankees lost? They got eliminated at home? That’s fucking funny, man. That’s fucking hilarious, bro

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Skull Fisher @paulfish.bsky.social · 10h

Yeah, at a recent protest a group ended up singing "This Land is Your Land" and it was one aspect that felt especially damn good.

Time to deploy John Browns Body.

Skull Fisher @paulfish.bsky.social · 23h

Doordash a lot more explicit form of one off commercial transaction. I find it much less harmful as everyone knows whats going on and it’s just another polite transaction. The creepy part of llm-chat bots is that it intends to replicate a deeply personal and toxic power dynamic.

Skull Fisher @paulfish.bsky.social · 1d

I’m pretty sure I heard more parodies of that than the song itself.

Also, I have a weird fever dream/memory of people singing crude/edgy parodies of patriotic songs at the school lunch table around 06. Was that a thing?

Like: “This land is my land/only my land…”

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Skull Fisher @paulfish.bsky.social · 1d

“I can’t be racist, all my unpaid servants are black.”

Skull Fisher @paulfish.bsky.social · 1d

It’s like the guy who configured an “editor chatbot” and immediately sexually harassed it. Thats these guys.

Skull Fisher @paulfish.bsky.social · 1d

Ahh, country star from before I was born.

Skull Fisher @paulfish.bsky.social · 1d

A lot of the AI stuff seems to have a similar vibe. The who “agent stuff”, a UI that copies bossing people around, and giving them hot women’s names gives off rancid fumes.

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Skull Fisher @paulfish.bsky.social · 1d

Like even who is Lee Greenwood? Did he do one of those songs thats always playing on the oldies stations? (I’m serious here, I’m 31 and have no idea who this is.)

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Kath Barbadoro @kathbarbadoro.bsky.social · 1d

I really think this is why the subway looms so large in the conservative American mind. Because 99% of the time it is proof that the American experiment in diversity triumphs, as long as paranoid white people aren’t there

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Kath Barbadoro @kathbarbadoro.bsky.social · 1d

These posts brought to you by “being on the train and looking around”

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Skull Fisher @paulfish.bsky.social · 1d

You can see on pg. 72 (77 pdf) the stat and appendix has market descriptions. The blackstone stuff was very silly but this looks much more like a cartel. Its still likely more of +10% rent in some markets with undersupply bing much bigger but I would love to see a trial.

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Skull Fisher @paulfish.bsky.social · 1d

RealPage makes more sense on my end. The FTC case had pretty good evidence they were setting prices for 29-60% of conventional units in some neighborhoods (think 100k residents). Thats enough to matter at first past. A scenario where 60% of buildings all raise rent at once is material IMO.