Raquel Rolnik's Urban Warfare elegantly frames mortgage-backed homeownership system as a global phenomenon creating "an intimate link between individuals' biological lives and the global process of income extraction and speculation." US housing thinkpiece discourse is totally bereft of this kind of analysis; it's like every American urbanist has memory-holed 2008

if you had "Public University of California System Goes Full Globe Emoji Market Urbanist" on your 2022 Hellworld Bingo card, congratulations

I can't decide if Elon is truly showing his ass (optimism of the will) or if it's an "I'd like to see old Donny Trump wriggle his way out of this jam" situation (pessimism of the intellect)

thanks to some divorced loser I'm going to have to try to get the Chapo Bump all over again