Prestidigitation, double shuffling, honey-fugling, hornswaggling, & skullduggery. @wikimedia & @iftf, previously @18f, @gsa_tts, & @codeforamerica.
Austin, TX
Joined August 2006
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Lane Becker retweeted
Mom asked, "I wonder when cherries bloom in Japan?" So I found 1200 years of data online and made her a plot.
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Tom Lehrer has put all his songs online (including lyrics & sheet music), and given away all rights to them. The site will only be up for a limited time. This is a very niche tweet that will make a small segment of people very happy. tomlehrersongs.com/
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Local politics will always be fascinating to me and this election was the most interesting one in a LONG time. Because it marked, for the first time, a major shift from the Boomer-centric politics of Austin yore to the Millennial/Gen Z demographic. #austinpolitics
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Probably the biggest consequence of last night's Council elections is that the caucus of diehard supply side skeptics has been reduced to two.
There's now a veto-proof majority for a broader, more rapid approach to increasing the housing supply in Austin.
Lane Becker retweeted
That Time a Car Manufacturer Decided He Wanted to Own a Publisher in Order to Advance His Own Political Agenda
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NEW: The application to apply for student debt cancelation JUST WENT LIVE.
Apply:
studentaid.gov/debt-relief/a…
Lane Becker retweeted
this plan for brodie oaks is really remarkable
austin.towers.net/transformi…
Lane Becker retweeted
With their backs against the wall, Big Tech-allies @RepZoeLofgren & @Jim_Jordan are pushing bad faith arguments about the antitrust package.
Lofgren claims H.R. 3843 bans content moderation. Jordan claims it will let Big Tech “censor content.” Don’t believe either of them.
Lane Becker retweeted
Now you're cutting it close. If you aren't registered to vote by Oct. 11, you'll completely miss out on the best Texas governors race in 28 years.
That's just 15 days. But, alas, I'm here to help. Here's the state's voter registration website
votetexas.gov/register-to-vo…
Lane Becker retweeted
Now that Rihanna is confirmed for the Super Bowl halftime show, everyone has to watch this at least three times in a row. I don't make the rules.
Lane Becker retweeted
How should we think about the recent set of merger case losses by antitrust enforcers? Well, the shooting war in the antitrust world has started. mattstoller.substack.com/p/t…
Lane Becker retweeted
So many hospitals in this country act like straight up criminal enterprises
New Investigation: Nonprofit hospitals avoid billions of dollars in taxes. But are they living up to their charitable missions? @jbsgreenberg and I have spent months investigating this question. Today, we're publishing the first two stories in our series. nyti.ms/3xOCGMr
Lane Becker retweeted
Years ago, Austin said it wanted to build 60,000 homes over the next decade that people making less than the median income could afford.
Here's how that's going:
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In 'Silicon Valley and the English Language', Katherine Ye manages to excavate the whole sorry substructure of Silicon Valley hubris from the simple sentence "We build human-centered tools that scale" book.affecting-technologies.…
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Everyone, let’s take 5 minutes to dwell on this fact:
20 million beautiful human beings will have $0 of debt. We’ve moved mountains. Only a few more Himalayas left to go 😀
Lane Becker retweeted
Remember when all the Very Real Populists™ complaining about student debt relief also complained about billionaire tax breaks and giant government subsidies to bank and tech CEOs?
Right…neither do I.
