RJ Sheperd
@rjsheperd.com
Sentient human interested in all things Cycling / Transit / Cities / Decentralized Web / Lisp / Clojure / Geospatial.
📍 Portland, OR
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📍 Portland, OR
Check out: #RailSky #WalkNRoll #PDXBikes #BikeBus #Transit #YIMBY #DWeb #Clojure #GIS #maps
On #3 (from r/bayarea www.reddit.com/r/bayarea/co...)
Inverse relationship b/w home value and the subsidy Prop 13 provides. Lots of "old money" locked up in multi-million dollar homes that in desirable zip codes. Loads of $3M+ homes are being assessed at less than 20% of RMV.
Inverse relationship b/w home value and the subsidy Prop 13 provides. Lots of "old money" locked up in multi-million dollar homes that in desirable zip codes. Loads of $3M+ homes are being assessed at less than 20% of RMV.
December 29, 2025 at 9:17 PM
On #3 (from r/bayarea www.reddit.com/r/bayarea/co...)
Inverse relationship b/w home value and the subsidy Prop 13 provides. Lots of "old money" locked up in multi-million dollar homes that in desirable zip codes. Loads of $3M+ homes are being assessed at less than 20% of RMV.
Inverse relationship b/w home value and the subsidy Prop 13 provides. Lots of "old money" locked up in multi-million dollar homes that in desirable zip codes. Loads of $3M+ homes are being assessed at less than 20% of RMV.
A few more:
4. Universal Building Exemption (Alternative to Land Value Tax - see Lars Doucet's work here: progressandpoverty.substack.com/p/so-you-wan... )
5. Exempt ADU's under 1200 SF from Title 24 - allowing ADU's to be built with less stringent regulations (read: cheaper).
4. Universal Building Exemption (Alternative to Land Value Tax - see Lars Doucet's work here: progressandpoverty.substack.com/p/so-you-wan... )
5. Exempt ADU's under 1200 SF from Title 24 - allowing ADU's to be built with less stringent regulations (read: cheaper).
So You Want to Abolish Property Taxes
Or: "how to not turn your red state into California"
progressandpoverty.substack.com
December 29, 2025 at 8:58 PM
A few more:
4. Universal Building Exemption (Alternative to Land Value Tax - see Lars Doucet's work here: progressandpoverty.substack.com/p/so-you-wan... )
5. Exempt ADU's under 1200 SF from Title 24 - allowing ADU's to be built with less stringent regulations (read: cheaper).
4. Universal Building Exemption (Alternative to Land Value Tax - see Lars Doucet's work here: progressandpoverty.substack.com/p/so-you-wan... )
5. Exempt ADU's under 1200 SF from Title 24 - allowing ADU's to be built with less stringent regulations (read: cheaper).
I'll throw a few out of left field:
1. Remove minimum lot requirements within Urban Growth centers.
2. Adopt Japan's "tiny lot" tax cut, where prop. taxes are 1/6th if lot is less than 1,500 SF and exempts the value of the building.
3. Remove Prop 13 for all properties over $5M (reassess annually).
1. Remove minimum lot requirements within Urban Growth centers.
2. Adopt Japan's "tiny lot" tax cut, where prop. taxes are 1/6th if lot is less than 1,500 SF and exempts the value of the building.
3. Remove Prop 13 for all properties over $5M (reassess annually).
December 29, 2025 at 8:50 PM
I'll throw a few out of left field:
1. Remove minimum lot requirements within Urban Growth centers.
2. Adopt Japan's "tiny lot" tax cut, where prop. taxes are 1/6th if lot is less than 1,500 SF and exempts the value of the building.
3. Remove Prop 13 for all properties over $5M (reassess annually).
1. Remove minimum lot requirements within Urban Growth centers.
2. Adopt Japan's "tiny lot" tax cut, where prop. taxes are 1/6th if lot is less than 1,500 SF and exempts the value of the building.
3. Remove Prop 13 for all properties over $5M (reassess annually).
Share your prompt/model!
December 29, 2025 at 8:12 PM
Share your prompt/model!
Can you share routes? My Irish-American friend tried to do this 20 years ago, and ended up giving up and taking a flight to Spain instead. 😅
December 29, 2025 at 8:06 PM
Can you share routes? My Irish-American friend tried to do this 20 years ago, and ended up giving up and taking a flight to Spain instead. 😅
Backdoors may not be created, but certainly there are vulnerabilities that can be exploited.
@ronanfarrow.bsky.social's reporting on the IDF's use of Pegasus is the most terrifying example of that: www.democracynow.org/2025/1/1/sur...
@ronanfarrow.bsky.social's reporting on the IDF's use of Pegasus is the most terrifying example of that: www.democracynow.org/2025/1/1/sur...
A Spy in Your Pocket? Ronan Farrow Exposes Secrets of High-Tech Spyware in New Film “Surveilled”
Is that a spy in your pocket? In a holiday special we speak to Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Ronan Farrow and filmmaker Matthew O’Neill about Surveilled, their new HBO documentary looking at how h...
www.democracynow.org
December 29, 2025 at 8:05 PM
Backdoors may not be created, but certainly there are vulnerabilities that can be exploited.
@ronanfarrow.bsky.social's reporting on the IDF's use of Pegasus is the most terrifying example of that: www.democracynow.org/2025/1/1/sur...
@ronanfarrow.bsky.social's reporting on the IDF's use of Pegasus is the most terrifying example of that: www.democracynow.org/2025/1/1/sur...
@spiegel.de revealed this in 2013. NSA internal documents show the NSA exploiting vulnerabilities in Windows to infiltrate computers: www.spiegel.de/internationa...
The NSA Uses Powerful Toolbox in Effort to Spy on Global Networks
The NSA's TAO hacking unit is considered to be the intelligence agency's top secret weapon. It maintains its own covert network, infiltrates computers around the world and even intercepts shipping del...
www.spiegel.de
December 29, 2025 at 8:03 PM
@spiegel.de revealed this in 2013. NSA internal documents show the NSA exploiting vulnerabilities in Windows to infiltrate computers: www.spiegel.de/internationa...
Planning and transit are still totally divorced from one another across the US. We have repeatedly failed to put “tall buildings” adjacent to stations in Portland, and instead gave way to community push back (see Overlook, Laurelhurst, Westmoreland, Sellwood)
December 29, 2025 at 5:40 PM
Planning and transit are still totally divorced from one another across the US. We have repeatedly failed to put “tall buildings” adjacent to stations in Portland, and instead gave way to community push back (see Overlook, Laurelhurst, Westmoreland, Sellwood)
The Author of this should really consider hosting this off Github, owned by Microsoft (a company that has repeatedly allowed holes in their OS to go unpatched so the NSA can spy on you).
December 29, 2025 at 5:37 PM
The Author of this should really consider hosting this off Github, owned by Microsoft (a company that has repeatedly allowed holes in their OS to go unpatched so the NSA can spy on you).
Where do I Venmo you some $?
December 28, 2025 at 5:12 PM
Where do I Venmo you some $?