Sasha Aickin

@sashaaickin.bsky.social

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CEO/Founder of libretto.ai. Former CTO at Redfin. Avid home cook.

Text saying that the person found me on the pied a terre owner list and can help me with the tax
Gothamist headline: "Waymo robotaxis cause more fatal crashes and injuries per mile driven than other NYC for-hire vehicles, report says."
Chart showing how many miles you need to drive to get to 95% confidence that AVs are safer than humans.
Text from the cited article saying that 5B miles is needed to prove AVs are safer than humans with fatalities if AVs are truly 20% safer.
Screenshot of study with this text highlighted: "Because Waymo's interval overlaps with New York City' FHVs’, the data cannot rule out Waymo having a comparable KSI rate, nor can it rule out a substantially higher one"
Screenshot from FCC faq supporting the assertion in the post.
Long line of people waiting at JFK precheck
Screenshot from Waymo website about their human benchmark methodology.
Ad from nyc city council against housing proposals
Chart that shows percent of population in the largest and second largest racial/ethnic group by age.
Google search results for "1 watt year in kwh", which are incorrect.
Chart of units permitted per 1000 residents for NYC and NYC metro area
So what should Democrats learn from all this? Mike Madrid, a GOP pollster and critic of Trump who has studied the Latino vote for decades, has pored over postelection data and reached a precise conclusion: “Affordability,” he said, has replaced “jobs” as the key economic issue that is motivating Latino voters, and this shift in priorities favored Trump. To be sure, there is something perverse and paradoxical about the change: To a greater degree than any president in decades, Biden consciously strove to create a full-employment economy, and as the economics writer Zachary Carter explained in Slate, full employment might be Biden’s real legacy. But inflation, caused in large part by pandemic disruptions, outweighed those achievements, and even outweighed considerations of both candidates’ actual economic policy agendas.
Brad Lander's citizens assembly plan