@ZugIslander

Parcels & property taxes. Research & Development @RegridApp. I also write about Detroit on Substack: https://xitter.cf/t.co/ZU15ptQFDV.

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Rule for #Detroit: Believe none of what you read, half of what you hear, all of what you see.
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Pâté en croûte over here.
Nabil Alouani
@Nabil_Alouani_10h
Replying to @nntaleb
I work in software. Honing my Tunisian pastry skills these days.
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Impressive how directionally consistent the Wayne County Register of Deeds has been with their website updates over the years. 15 years ago their website was complicated, but functional. 5 years ago it was confusing and mostly functional. Today, it is incoherent and unusable. 👍
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The whole site is plastered with warnings about how deed fraud is a felony. Brother, your whole job is recording and making deed information available. I feel defrauded by your website.
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Who’d have guessed red states would be the ones to defund the police?
POLITICO
@politicoOct 18
“I’m old. I’ve paid my home off,” said Ray Warner, a 72-year-old Akron resident. “Why would I pay property tax?” Across the country, homeowners are asking the same question and revolting against property taxes at a scale not seen in a half century. politico.com/news/magazine/2…

Do You Really Own Your Home? A Tax Revolt Says No.

The argument that property taxes make Americans renters in their own houses has fueled the biggest anti-tax uprising in half a century, and local governments are scrambling.

politico.com
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Yup.
James Medlock@jdcmedlockOct 18
One of the most concerning trends in politics. Red states are desperately trying to speed run recreating the California housing market.
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Oh that’s pretty good.
Janus Films
@janusfilmsOct 16
YOU CAN SEE EVERYTHING is the documentary version of MULHOLLAND DR.
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It's a skill issue. If we'd followed The Book of Tony Goldman here, real estate in downtown Detroit would be more valuable today and there probably would've been less objection along the way. Instead we took the Wynwood Walls and put them in a parking garage. Literally!
coney dog urbanist@detroitdevdocOct 15
Replying to @ZugIslander
Gilbert has prioritized things like Cosm or Hudson’s when downtown needs (and he has the money to build) more 5-10 story residential bldgs on the more prominent surface lots. The priorities are all out of wack. Hell, how is there no full service grocer still in 2026?
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Alex Alsup
@ZugIslanderOct 15
Like, RenCen episode is case in point: Why can't downtown support more than one tall building? It feels like there are other cities with two tall buildings -- or more!
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It also still feels like there's a lot of clapping to life going on to make downtown Detroit feel like an entertainment district. That's bc we skipped all the necessary evolutionary steps that would make it more organically active and tried to go straight to the end product.
Michael Domps@michaeldompsOct 15
Replying to @wolverine1041 @ZugIslander
I’m a downtown resident What’s apparent to me is that the goal has been to make downtown primarily an entertainment district It’s not as few residents as 2004 but I see no ambition by developers to cater to residents
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Like, RenCen episode is case in point: Why can't downtown support more than one tall building? It feels like there are other cities with two tall buildings -- or more!
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Ewald Circle Terraces are so cool.
Dainéil@dbinthedOct 15
Replying to @ZugIslander @ericnoterik
Detroit needs affordable row townhomes. That's the ideal density.
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No one read their copies of The Book of Tony Goldman.
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Nothing wrong with that rent. Detroiters largely don’t want to live in apartments anyway — this is a single family home town. Question is why isn’t downtown viable yet? Neighborhood redevelopment is self-sufficient. Downtown still isn’t.
Sam Robinson@samueljrobOct 13
Groans from the audience as Bedrock developers say the base rate for a one bedroom apartment as part of the proposed RenCen redevelopment will be ~$2,200/month. They say they will be “sizable units” priced at the market rate for riverfront living.
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It was when I was a paralegal on Wall Street a year out of college and my friend and I went to Harry’s Bar and everyone was saying “holy crap, the economy is actually crashing.” So I moved to Hanoi for a while, waited things out.
Riqs
@riqsz5Oct 12
For those who were adults during the 2008 financial crisis, what was your holy crap, the economy is actually crashing moment?
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Great episode. Just tactically speaking, extinction framing seems to me like it has a turkey problem: every day breathing breeds confidence the argument is wrong -- until Thanksgiving. A warning that can only be confirmed once it's too late loses force each day it isn't.
Joe Weisenthal
@TheStalwartOct 12
NEW ODD LOTS: @tracyalloway and I talk to @So8res to get the actual details on how AI would actually kill us all podcasts.apple.com/us/podcas…

Nate Soares on How AI Really Could Kill Us All

Podcast Episode · Odd Lots · October 12 · 1h 16m

podcasts.apple.com
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Incidents like Hugging Face are more useful. Nobody told the model to hack Hugging Face. It did that because it was the fastest way to its goal, and we found out days later. There will be more incidents like this, and more destructive ones. No one can relate to going extinct. Everyone can relate to unintended consequences.
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Pâté en Croûte
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
@nntalebOct 11
To generalize from the Kasparov & the math debacle: as a rule, all performative skills will be destroyed by AI. A computer will always outperform a human, so chess is no longer a skill. Same w/mathematical acrobatics. What's left is what makes us human.
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I guess I kind of have to.
rust belt roadtrip
@gmoultOct 1
anyone feel like buying zug island?
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1. Peep Show 2. Curb 3. Deadwood 4. Justified 5. 30 Rock (Timothy Olyphant stars / appears in 3 out of 5 of these -- you're not going to get me to say anything bad about Mickey.)
LOST
@TheLOSTworld_Sep 25
The New York Times’ final list of the 100 Best TV Shows of the 21st Century is now complete. What do you make of the final ranking? Which placements surprised you the most?
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I really enjoyed The City & The City. Not literally a novel about Detroit in any way, but I found it a very Detroit novel nonetheless.
jon repetti@pourfairelevideSep 21
China Miéville just published a 1200 page book he’s been working on for more than 20 years and nobody seems to have heard about it (??)
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