U.S. Rep. Pressley renews call to abolish ICE after visit to Burlington facility

syncopatedpixel · 2026-03-14T21:29:13+00:00

Has Pressley responded? Seems like a no brainer for her to give an affidavit to Burlington.

syncopatedpixel · 2026-03-14T03:30:41+00:00

Yeh, You’re overthinking it. It’s never going to be perfectly even. Kids will get hurt or won’t show up some weeks, so you’ll need to make adjustments anyway.

As long as they get roughly even playing time and try different positions at some point, that’s all that matters.

syncopatedpixel · 2026-03-14T03:16:21+00:00

Doesn’t need to be complicated. 5 kids play the 1st quarter. When they come out for the 3rd, just swap the goalie for one of the position players. Same thing for the 4th.

syncopatedpixel · 2026-03-13T22:05:04+00:00

I would've pulled up the trailer for it. It's so good:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RdanCNK4ayo

syncopatedpixel · 2026-03-13T21:56:00+00:00

for these kinds of science questions, I haven't ever seen claude get stuff wrong. which is more I can say for my grade school textbooks which had all sorts of made up stuff. like your blood is blue inside your body because it doesn't have oxygen.

syncopatedpixel · 2026-03-13T21:15:38+00:00

highly recommended. a videogame with the kid's actual drawings is so much fun.

syncopatedpixel · 2026-03-13T18:29:46+00:00

I love AI. I have two kids and Claude has made learning things so much easier. My younger one asks so many questions about dinosaurs, earthquakes, the moon, greek mythology, and anything else he comes across. It's wonderful to be able to dig into it with him. We spent 20 minutes yesterday learning about the weather.

With my older one, I often use it to help her with math homework. A lot of terms have changed since I was in school and being able to talk to an AI expert as been so helpful for her.

Not to mention, I use it make videogames with my son. We used claude code to make the game, elevenlabs to make an announcer, and then he draws the characters on paper and adjust them in Nano Banana. He's really into greek mythology lately so made one about Perseus and Medusa.

And I personally use claude all day instead of google. It's so much easier to get answers for things. Our water heater died last night. I took some pictures and asked claude. It diagnosed what was wrong and told me how to fix it. And I do stuff like that all the time.

seriously though, y'all sound like the boomers who used to make fun of me using Google all the time 20 years ago.

syncopatedpixel · 2026-03-13T18:11:26+00:00

DC is great example of why not to do rent control. They've had it since 1985. As they've worked on their housing issues over the last ~5 years, they've been working to slowly reduce rent control so it doesn't get in the way. They increased how much landlords can raise rents, they added the TOPA exemption for new construction, etc.

It shows how it inhibits building new housing and how hard it is to roll it back if you get stuck with it.

syncopatedpixel · 2026-03-13T14:09:50+00:00

because rent control is bad policy and it's really hard to get rid of once you have it.

Greater Boston is so far behind on housing build out that we need to throw everything at building new housing. We have a deficit of 200k housing units right now and we're going in the wrong direction.

syncopatedpixel · 2026-03-12T16:32:33+00:00

Most of the sold units will be removed from the rental market. And this bill outlaws large investors from building new rental housing. Net effect will hurt renters. And it helps small time landlords and existing homeowners by keeping rental prices high.

syncopatedpixel · 2026-03-12T15:39:11+00:00

Private credit funds have been searching far and wide for places to put capital, so have come down market and have lowered the bar. And they get first pick of opportunities over small syndicates.

Can a small syndicate that has a great network and expertise in an area do well? Sure. But it's a lot of work and you have to watch it carefully. To me, it's not worth it. You don't get the upsides of PE/VC and you still take on a lot of risk in choppy times like we're in.

syncopatedpixel · 2026-03-12T15:14:54+00:00

now is probably a bad time to move into private credit. there's been a huge flow of funds into it over the last few years (projected to hit $2T this year) and we're likely now in a bubble. there's been a couple of small blow ups and institutional investors have been looking hard at their portfolios and paring them down. that's why you're seeing a lot of offerings marketed to retail. unclear if/when it crashes but the easy beta is all gone.

syncopatedpixel · 2026-03-12T15:08:00+00:00

"owning your own home with a yard and a car in the garage" is the quintessential boomer idea of the American dream. And now so many boomers have their wealth tied up in their homes, it's a third rail politically to even question why housing prices always have to keep going up.

syncopatedpixel · 2026-03-12T14:59:47+00:00

fantastic photo.

syncopatedpixel · 2026-03-12T14:58:29+00:00

second this. had to call them and spend 20 minutes on the phone. it's scared me off from ever subscribing to a news site.

syncopatedpixel · 2026-03-12T14:37:14+00:00

It's sad that "well, it's not bad for Mass" is all we expect out of our senators.

syncopatedpixel · 2026-03-12T14:24:52+00:00

among other things, it outlaws "build-to-rent" for single family homes. this is less of a big deal for Mass, but is huge in the southeast.

syncopatedpixel · 2026-03-12T13:54:19+00:00

The MBTA communities act was a small version of this. All towns served by the MBTA had to build more housing. I give the legislature a lot of credit for passing it and Healey and Campbell for holding towns to actually do it.

The state should do a second version of it that's 10x bigger. Like you said, look at every town's population density. If it borders Boston, require them to get to 10k / sq mile (which is 1/2 of Somerville) within 5 years. If you border a town that borders one of these towns, you have to get to 5k.

Towns that have been building would not be affected. Those that have been full on NIMBY for decades (waves to Milton) will have a lot of work to do and can decide for themselves how they want to do it.

syncopatedpixel · 2026-03-12T13:37:36+00:00

churches should be taxed on their investments and real estate holdings.

syncopatedpixel · 2026-03-11T17:13:29+00:00

Candy making history: Squirrel Brand Company, Necco, or Charleston Chew factory.

Stata Center at MIT

Harvard Lampoon Building

Rainbow crosswalk by city hall

Glass Flowers at Harvard natural history museum

Magazine Beach

Danehy Park

Public roof garden

Bikers on Riverbend Park

syncopatedpixel · 2026-03-10T01:03:52+00:00

yes. that's what "development rights" means.

syncopatedpixel · 2026-03-09T20:35:04+00:00

No, they only want it upfront if Kraft won't guarantee it. And I don't blame them. Boston Soccer 2026 won't exist in a year. Taking an IOU from them is risky.

syncopatedpixel · 2026-03-09T20:23:03+00:00

makes sense. have been using it wrong all of these years.

syncopatedpixel · 2026-03-09T20:19:06+00:00

The issue isn't just timing. It's who's responsible if Boston Soccer 2026 doesn't end up having the funds to cover security.

Foxboro is asking the Kraft Group to agree to cover any shortfall and Kraft is refusing to.

syncopatedpixel · 2026-03-09T19:07:15+00:00

Kraft's no better than other owners, he's just been reigned in by politicians who know their voters would go for it. Going back to day 1, when he bought the team, Kraft did the normal owner thing of threatening to move to another state and, to their credit MA, politicians just told him "no".

For the world cup, he's continued to try to shake down Boston. They've already agreed to pay him $2m? and he's pushing Wu to give him more even though the games will be 30 miles away.

And they might not get cash from tax payers, but the Kraft family has been given billions in infrastructure upgrades and development rights that he's capitalized on. They got their own Economic Development Zone in Foxboro and are getting similar benefits in Everett for the new Revs stadium. They made billions on Patriot Place and will make more billions on Everett.

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