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Dec 7 • 5 tweets • 3 min read
Hello from #pinolemtg !
#VisitPinole 🍐 A meeting in Pinole city hall
Most of tonight's meeting is ceremonial but we do have some public comments, including one about the need to act now to improve pedestrian safety at a downtown crosswalk #pinolemtg 🐦
And it's official! @MaliaCohen swears in the new Mayor of #Pinole, @DevinMurphyDTM ! 🎉🎉🎉🍐🐦 City council meeting at Pin...
One of my favorite moments from tonight - Devin Murphy introducing young people of #Pinole to local leaders. This city is going to be a leader in the East Bay! 🍐 Devin Murphy at a city coun...
Another highlight of #pinolemtg tonight - Cameron Sasai's mom swears him in as Pinole's newest councilmember as family, friends, and community members record this historic day. 🍐🐦 People film on phones as Ca...

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Dec 7
Thoughts on what AI means for artists: AI art often has a sci-fi / fantasy style to it as it's one of the last big industries for illustrators. In 1960s-70s, color photos took over most work depicting things that exist, but artists were still needed to draw things that didn't. 1/
The style of a lot of AI art - realism with high contrast and bold colors - is similar to that used in video, card, and board games, which often have sci-fi or fantasy settings. It's likely the AI was trained on images from websites such as DeviantArt or ArtStation. 2/
A physical game will have a couple hundred pieces of "card art" - standalone images to represent a character, object, event, or place. Video games have even more. This is likely one of the first things that AI images would replace. 3/
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Dec 6
I don't think I've seen a city council meeting go this late before, 2:59 am might be some kind of record.

San Mateo has a five person council but there is one vacant seat, so they are stuck at 2-2 on both filling the vacancy and appointing a mayor (who could break the tie)
Like most cities where members of the city council take turns being the mayor, the process in San Mateo is supposed to be just a formality, until now
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Nov 28
The growing protests in China reminds me of the research that revolutions are most likely when the standard of living rises but then goes in reverse, causing anger due to unmet expectations.

China's last 20 years have got to be one of the most extreme versions of this.
1/
China's economy today is several times larger than it was in 2000, but the lifestyle changes are more than just about a number, the two decades saw an even bigger change in mobility: high speed trains, car ownership, international travel.

With lockdowns, mobility went to zero
2/
During the first couple years of the pandemic relatively few places were locked down in China, and at the same time, people in other parts of the world were also staying home.

2022 is different. People are out and about everywhere else, while China has had more lockdowns
3/
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Jul 6
My thoughts on the San Francisco fourplex debate.... Because SF lots are tiny and prices are so high, for a house in San Francisco to be worth more as a site for apartments than as a luxury house, it's got to be zoned for a lot more than 4 homes. More like 15-30 of them. 🧵🏠1/ a skyscraper next to a house
Houses in San Francisco sell for median price of around $2 million. Even the cheap ones are well over a million. In comparison, new apartment projects pay $100,000 to $150,000 per unit of zoned capacity for a site. (For example, 1.5 million for a site that allows 10 units) 2/
That means that someone who wants to build a fourplex might only offer $600,000 for a house, while someone who wants to use it as a house will be willing to pay at least double. 3/
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Jun 9
While national news focuses on San Francisco, if you really want to know where California's headed - look at the East Bay. Home to nearly 3 million people (3x the size of SF), it's a window into the future of America's suburbs & non-superstar cities. And the future is bright. 🧵
Contra Costa County - home to refinery towns, wealthy suburbs such as San Ramon, as well as diverse suburbs like Antioch, re-elected pro-reform District Attorney Diana Becton by a large margin.
In Fremont, landlords and realtors spent over a million dollars against Assemblymember Alex Lee, who is one of only a handful of legislators that doesn't take corporate money. Still, they failed to get any of the moderate Dems into the general election.
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Mar 29
2022 California Housing Legislation - over 100 bills this year.
More details: alfredtwu.medium.com/2022-californi…
PDF: dropbox.com/s/36zv8r1eacjr…
Details in thread! 1/
#CALeg California Housing Legislation Highlights as of March 27, 20
More bills this year on limiting wildfire risk:
#SB1292 from @HenrySternCA: Allows cities to limit housing in fire zones & replacing the zoned capacity elsewhere. For every unit of removed from a fire zone, 2 units of capacity must be added elsewhere. leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billText…
Sharon @quirk_silva has several housing bills this year. a65.asmdc.org/legislative-up… including one that's wildfire related:
#AB2705 Fire hardening & retrofitting standards. Also provides funding for hardening 300,000 homes in very high fire hazard zones. leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billText…
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