tptacek

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by tptacek 3d ago
That'll show me!
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by tptacek 3d ago
Flock is on the front page of the Y Combinator site. Nobody is hiding anything.
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by tptacek 3d ago
Happy to help. 911 is the primary "call for service" channel for most police departments.
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by tptacek 3d ago
I don't know what to tell you. I watch these videos all the time (it's one of my vices, bodycam footage in particular) and what I see every time --- when it's "auditors" harassing businesses, not when it's audi
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by tptacek 3d ago
It's the only crime defined explicitly in the Constitution, specifically to make it harder to charge people with it.
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by tptacek 3d ago
It's not bananas. It happens all the time. The police show up, check things out, and inform the caller that the person recording has a right to do so. In this case, it's even less bananas, because the people recording him were lit
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by tptacek 3d ago
Nobody disagrees, though "calling 911" is exactly what he's supposed to do if he thinks he's being followed.
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by tptacek 3d ago
This again sounds like national politics and not local. They really are totally different. In local politics the electeds are your neighbors. They serve part time. All of them have full-time jobs (except sometimes the mayor). You don't
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by tptacek 3d ago
Random people calling 911 on other people filming them is a staple of Youtube; banks, coffee store workers, hairdressers, most especially restaurant managers. I don't know why anyone would expect technicians from Flock to be different.
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by tptacek 4d ago
They should have exactly the same say as everybody else in that electorate who votes. They should not get an extra say.
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by tptacek 4d ago
If you have your own private back yard you're not allowed to refer to condominiums as "luxury".
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by tptacek 4d ago
Yes. I'm specifically not saying that working the refs with canvassed public comment invalidates an underlying substantive grievance. Public comment can be used "for good" or for evil. All I'm saying is that people using
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by tptacek 4d ago
Mostly it's stopped the construction of housing.
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by tptacek 4d ago
In the campaign I'm a part of to end exclusionary zoning ("Yes Oak Park"), housing reform opponents claimed to residents that we were advocating for the construction of rock quarries next to people's houses. It's li
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by tptacek 4d ago
Yes, that's a multifamily development.
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by tptacek 5d ago
We arrange to have everybody vote on a designated day. We publicize that day. We make a very big deal out of getting people to vote. We don't do it too often. People show up and make decisions. They should then be able to leave and ass
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by tptacek 5d ago
No, I did not! I've written at length about how I engaged with my local municipality on Flock cameras. The search bar will avail. None of it involved public comment.
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by tptacek 5d ago
Texas is a weird case because they're the fastest growing state in the country and they run their own independent power grid --- badly (see: the winter outage a couple years back). And even then: data centers are going to get built in
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by tptacek 5d ago
People naturally have varying levels of skin in the game on various issues. They should not have varying levels of voting power. But that's essentially what public comment process does. And your natural inclination is to assume that tu
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by tptacek 5d ago
The only evidence you've provided is a vanilla MZ/DZ study from 2008.
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by tptacek 5d ago
I'm really not sure how I can be clearer about the fact that I don't agree with the prevailing sentiment on these threads about data centers† but that my reason for commenting here is that public comment processes are a nightmare
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by tptacek 5d ago
Zoning laws accomplished what they were intended to do, which was to enforce economic and racial segregation by preventing new affordable housing from being built near areas of opportunity. I don't think anybody working on housing affo
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by tptacek 5d ago
We don't agree, but either way, the only thing I'm here to say is that public comment distorts democratic process and entrenches concentrated local interest groups. You're happy about it (in the abstract, apparently) because
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by tptacek 5d ago
See, I think it's better if every vote is counted equally, and people with concentrated or high-amplitude opinions about specific issues don't get extra votes. Different strokes, I guess.
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by tptacek 5d ago
I did and was not referring to the article. Also: Please don't comment on whether someone read an article. "Did you even read the article? It mentions that" can be shortened to "The article mentions that".
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by tptacek 5d ago
We can agree to disagree, so long as we can at least recognize NIMBYism when we see it. "Public comment works great because it enabled us to organize to keep a multifamily development out of our vicinity" is like the archetypical
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by tptacek 5d ago
This sounds like porting assumptions about national and statewide politics into local politics, which is a totally different animal. I hear this a lot from people, and if you're referring to local electeds as "politicians fucking
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by tptacek 5d ago
It's literally "don't build on this one spot I really like". It's in the name!
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by tptacek 5d ago
That's literally what NIMBYs exploiting public comment say: whatever else is happening, at least they're striking back against the psychopathic Private Equity firms who are building all this evil housing.
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by tptacek 5d ago
Like, I'm not moralizing about it or anything; I'm extraordinarily AI-positive. But I think if you're trying to help people break through the noise to communicate to developers, "it's fine to have AI write your post

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