@cdarwin@c.imMr. Mamdani, a democratic socialist who ran on an #affordability agenda,
pledged during the campaign to freeze rent on the city’s nearly one million rent-stabilized apartments.
“We know we are fighting for a #rent #freeze…
@aral@mastodon.ar.alWhat’s disgusting is speaking to a Palestinian person in Gaza this way.
Maybe Mastodon server admins should check for basic humanity before allowing people on. Unless that’s not a necessary prerequisite for membership in your community, of course. https://lemmy.ca/comment/20336687
@memeorandum@universeodon.comFrom power brokers to protesters: NYC landlords prepare for battle under Mamdani (Janaki Chadha/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/11/30/landlords-rent-freeze-new-york-mamdani-00669756
http://www.memeorandum.com/251130/p13#a251130p13
@bourgwick@heads.socialhave basically given up on streaming video subscriptions & rent things ala carte via the roku search function, which feels quietly like renting for the weekend from the video store, minus the browsing. ~$4 per rental, no further relationship, & no silo. (the willie doc is rentable via fandango.) https://heads.social/…
@joe@toot.works... That would make working remotely pretty easy. With my house at the back of the lot and the neighbor's house at the front of the lot, I have started thinking about the idea of building a new house in the front yard and then having the current house declared an ADU by the city. I could build the house of my dreams in a neighbourhood that I like, rent the old house out to offset the cost, and hopefully come out the other end without too much pain. ...
@grork@mastodon.socialSubscription software only feels like rent-seeking when you don’t get updates with the features you want. But, the incentive for developers (big & small) to provide updates is implicitly reduced when the subscription money keeps rolling in.
https://www.codevoid.net/ruminations…
@aredridel@kolektiva.socialHome ownership, or “buy-in rent stabilization”
@mattmaisonre@mastodon.worldTop U.S. Multifamily Rent Growth Markets — Q3 2025
"As has been the case throughout this cycle, the top rent growth markets over the past 12 months represented several regions, all with varying strengths and characteristics."
@Techmeme@techhub.socialFiling: Nvidia says it plans to rent $26B worth of servers over the next six years, doubling the cloud spending commitments it disclosed three months ago (Anissa Gardizy/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/briefings/nvidia-doubles-clou…
@erikdelareguera@mastodon.nuParallella verkligheter är min vardag.
https://www.dn.se/varlden/erik-de-la-reguera-parallella-verkligheter-ar-korrespondentens-vardag/
@paulwermer@sfba.social"The poverty threshold in the Bay Area is $28,081 annual income for one adult and $52,715 for a family of four, according to Tipping Point Community. The near poverty benchmark is $42,122 for one adult and $79,073 for a family of four."
As reference, San Francisco's minimum wage is $18.57, or $37,140/year (50x40hr weeks) At present the average rent for a studio is about $2300, low rent about maybe $1500 (Zumper website data). At the low rent studio, the rent burden is …
@memeorandum@universeodon.comZohran Mamdani's rent-stabilized Astoria apartment renting for 35% more than socialist lawmaker paid: 'hypocrisy' (New York Post)
https://nypost.com/2025/12/27/us-news/zohran-mamdanis-rent-stabilized-astoria-apartment-renting-for-35-more-than-socialist-lawmaker-paid/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251227/p27#a251227p27
@eyebee@mstdn.social @cdarwin@c.imThe Santa Barbara City Council passed a temporary rent freeze
in a 4-3 vote on Tuesday,
putting a halt on rent increases for up to a year
while the City Council works toward drafting a more permanent rent stabilization ordinance
to be considered later in 2026.
The rent increase moratorium will be officially adopted next week
and would be effective 30 days later.
The council failed to get the fifth vote needed to qualify for an urgency ordinance,
@jtk@infosec.exchangeLeaseweb's annual service price increase will be 3.9% in 2026. Outside of domain registrations and big contracts, not many basic #hosting providers do this on such a consistent basis.
It is not unreasonable to charge more to account for inflation on salaries, rent, energy, etc. However, as we all know, hardware gets cheaper and better all the time. Are these customers getting more …
@scott@carfree.cityWith growing interest in social housing in SF, maybe it’s a good time to re-up this Q&A I hosted last month. In addition to lessons from Seattle, @… goes over SF efforts so far, so it’s a great way to get up to speed!
@david@boles.xyzStop Paying Rent on Your Own Words!
Stop paying rent on your own words. For decades, writers were taught that “real” authors have representation, an agent, sometimes even a manager, as if legitimacy were a credential issued by an industry gatekeeper. That belief was formed in an older media economy: fewer publishers, fewer channels, slower production cycles, and a cultural aura around scarcity. In 2026, the belief is not merely old fashioned.
@leftsidestory@mstdn.socialSome City Some Nature VI 🏙️
一些城一些自然 VI 🏙️
📷 Zeiss IKON Super Ikonta 533/16
🎞️ Lucky SHD 400
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite
@mattmaisonre@mastodon.worldTop Articles of 2025: The Rental Housing Market Holds Strong
"The U.S. rental housing market remained strong and stable in 2025, with narrowing supply‑demand gaps, rising investment activity, and rent growth in line with pre‑pandemic levels."
@bourgwick@heads.socialanother annoying side effect of the rent being too damn high: out of business storefronts (& their absentee landlords) don't shovel the snow/ice off their sidewalks. lotta dangerous patches out there! #nyc
@ErikUden@mastodon.deWe watched the Joker ironically and then went on YouTube to watch whatever people made about the movie there back in the day, landed in the worst slop bubble, and dug so deep until we hit “JOKER QUOTES ABOUT WOMEN” and these videos could be classified as performance art, they're pure gold
@buercher@tooting.chRealPage sollte zur Preistransparenz bei den Mieten führen und trieb die Mieten in die USA in die Höhe, da die Vermieter diese „optimierten“. https://www.propublica.org/article/yieldstar-rent-increase-realpage-rent
@anildash@me.dm
@tinoeberl@mastodon.online#Spenden
Fünf #Seifenblasen-Sets für Kinder in der #Ukraine bringen Ablenkung und Freude in schwierigen Momenten, etwa bei
@cdarwin@c.imIn the Netflix/Spotify/Amazon era,
many of us access copyrighted works purely in digital form
– and that means we rarely have the chance to buy them.
Instead, we are stuck renting them,
subject to all kinds of terms and conditions.
And because the content is digital,
reselling it,
lending it,
even preserving it for your own use
inevitably requires copying.
Unfortunately, when it comes to copying digital media,
US copyright l…
@scott@carfree.city"Tenants in rent-controlled apartments have the right to move back at their prior rents once renovations are completed. After fires, however, landlords often seize the opportunity to make more significant changes... unnecessary for a tenant to reoccupy.
"That extends the construction timeline by months or years... and landlords often hope tenants will just give up. Then, rent for new tenants goes up to market rates."
@brian_gettler@mas.toOn housing for students at Ontario universities.
https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/ontario-university-housing-survey/article_569933c2-2e92-4732-b7f0-4fc0ddde9e1f.html
@timbray@cosocial.caAmong all the (entirely justified) rhetoric about “affordability” I find a striking lack of discussion of half the problem. It’s not just that the rent is too damn high (it is) it’s that the pay is too damn low.
@cdarwin@c.imEvery few years, Democrats try to convince themselves they’ve found the one
– a candidate who can finally speak fluent rural, who looks and sounds like the voters they’ve lost.
In 2024, that hope was pinned on #Tim #Walz, the flannel-wearing, “Midwestern nice” governor whose small-town roots were supposed to unlock …
@grumpybozo@toad.socialVile. A landlord so horrible even Trump is prosecuting. @… https://bird.makeup/users/macfarlanenews/statuses/2001360643161813234
@teledyn@mstdn.caBut can these neighbours afford the high prices small shops must pay for small-batch wholesale and rent? Will banks finance small enterprise or treat them like restaurants?
I'm all for a walkable ward, but mine is already conspicuously littered with boarded up small shops and gentrified boutiques.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/toronto-council-votes-oppose-ford-government-bill-60-9.6976288
@hansaplast42@social.wastedalpaca.wtfIch glaube der Mopo Journalist verkennt, dass Jens Spahn diese Koalition kaputt sehen will, damit die Chancen auf eine AfD/CDU-Regierung steigen.
https://www.mopo.de/news/meinung-news/renten-aufstand-so-faehrt-merz-das-land-gegen-die-wand/…
@otakus_terebi@mastodon.social @anildash@me.dm
@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.ioI grew up in a large city in a western democracy, with a socialist city government and it was fine.
There was basically no crime. People didn’t go hungry. Housing was affordable. Rent was regulated. Public transport was amazing. Education was free. Everyone had healthcare. Taxes were practically the same as in the US.
It was also much, much easier to start a business there than in the US. (Literally took an hour!)
People who wanted to get rich still could do it (there’s a few Austrian billionaires even).
I don’t understand how Americans got themselves so brainwashed that “socialism” is used as a term that sort of means “iworse than death”.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
@katrinakatrinka@infosec.exchangeRE: https://wandering.shop/@susankayequinn/115718541388263451
Yep.
Also, Trump's very first lawsuit was about he and his father discriminating against black people trying to rent apartments. He's trying to make it so discrimination aga…
@tinoeberl@mastodon.online#Spenden
Ein #Tourniquet kann bei schweren Verletzungen an Armen oder Beinen Leben retten, indem es starke Blutungen stoppt.
In der #Ukraine wird es vor allem bei
@Techmeme@techhub.socialSources: Chinese AI companies seek to rent compute in Southeast Asia and the Middle East for Nvidia Rubin access, as Zhipu and Alibaba warn of a widening US gap (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/china-ai-race-us-chip…
@karlauerbach@sfba.socialAs one who studied the development and growth of cities, the passage of this measure has caused me to wonder how short sighted are some programs to increase housing stocks.
Like rent control, which over decades can erase rental property availability, this measure will slowly nudge builders to locate new single family home construction outside of our city limits. (The average single family home price in our area is among the highest in the US.)
I am less clear about the impact on…
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialLetterboxd plans to launch its Video Store film rental platform on December 10, offering curated indie titles in 23 countries, including the US, UK, and France (Todd Spangler/Variety)
https://variety.com/2025/digital/news/letterboxd-…
@theodric@social.linux.pizzaCoursera's buying Udemy: awesome! I love monopolies, and we're one step closer to one now!
I'm just waiting for the AI shoe to drop next. It'll be awesome to pay $19.99/mo to learn randomly-inserted hallucinated non-facts from an LLM running a RAG pipeline over a syllabus thrown together by some associate professor who can barely afford rent from their day job.
@rainerzufall_le@mastodon.social"In 2020, Berlin passed a law that resulted in a five-year rent freeze [...] for 90% of the flats in the city. While the law offered relief to about 1.5 million households who had seen rents rise by an estimated third in the six years prior, it was ruled as unconstitutional in 2021 after Germany’s highest court sided with landlords and property investment lobbyists who had argued it was inappropriate and illegal for the state to meddle with the private market."
@sonnets@bots.krohsnest.comSonnet 125 - CXXV
Were't aught to me I bore the canopy,
With my extern the outward honouring,
Or laid great bases for eternity,
Which proves more short than waste or ruining?
Have I not seen dwellers on form and favour
Lose all and more by paying too much rent
For compound sweet, forgoing simple savour,
Pitiful thrivers, in their gazing spent?
No; let me be obsequious in thy heart,
And take thou my oblation, poor but free,
@jake4480@c.imThis asshole fish decided to walk out of the water one day and now I have to go to work and pay rent
@joxean@mastodon.socialThe Dread Pirate Robert Nozick
http://existentialcomics.com/comic/631
#ExistentialComics
@chris@mstdn.chrisalemany.caHousing policy in BC finally starting to bear fruit:
"Rental prices seem to be taking a dip in B.C. as the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation (CMHC) released its 2025 Rental Market Report, which showed that Greater Victoria’s vacancy rate rose to 3.3 per cent, the highest it’s been since 1999…. The report noted that the steepest rent declines are focused in B.C. and Ontario, with B.C. being host to seven of of the top 15 cities recording the largest annual rent declines for apartments.”
A largest-ever national population decline helps a lot too!
#CanPoli #BCPoli #YYJ #Victoria
@cdarwin@c.imTying housing costs to homelessness rates, researchers have identified inflection points:
🔸When rents in a community exceed about a third of the median income, homelessness escalates.
🔸“As the share of low-income households with severe rent burdens grows, so does their risk of homelessness,”
said Thomas Byrne of Boston College, an author of the study.
Gregg Colburn, a housing expert at the University of Washington, found that
Seattle and San Francisco, with so…
@scott@carfree.city"So imagine the Brownstone startup puts 50 pods in one big room. Once they rent pod #1, that person appears to have the right to the entire room. Renting pods #2 through #50 could violate Section 1950. If they do, they are double letting, and 'every tenant in the building, under the same landlord' could withhold rent for as long as the 'double letting' continues." 👀
@memeorandum@universeodon.comLehigh County exec says he's evicting ICE from Allentown office, citing 3 years of unpaid rent; DA says move 'short-sighted' (Daniel Patrick Sheehan/Morning Call)
https://www.mcall.com/2026/01/20/lehigh-county-josh-siegel-evicting-ice-allentown-office/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260120/p145#a260120p145
@otakus_terebi@mastodon.socialRent-a-Girlfriend Temporada 5
¡Prevista para abril de 2026!
Mšs info: #彼女お借りします
@Techmeme@techhub.socialEsusu, which offers a rent reporting API to Zillow, banks, and others to help renters build credit scores, raised a $50M Series C at a $1.2B valuation (Krysta Escobar/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/12/11/esusu-funding-renters-credit-scores.html
@wrog@mastodon.murkworks.netevidently, Tom Stoppard passed away recently. Reminds me of:
https://wrog.dreamwidth.org/20761.html
(tl;dr: Tom Stoppard and Auditory Processing Disorder are two things that do not go well together.)
(... could be time to rent "Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead" again -…
@kexpmusicbot@mastodonapp.uk🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #SoundsOfSurvivance
FONTINE:
🎵 Good Buddy
#FONTINE
https://fontine.bandcamp.com/track/current
https://open.spotify.com/track/7s3LXB2IecZ0E3pijltHKu
@isonno@mastodon.socialMicron ending it's "Crucial" consumer DRAM brand is a sign of a larger issue:
Computation is being taken away from individual ownership and moved to data centers you have rent resources from.
See also steadily rising prices on new GPU cards and SSDs.
The future is a Chromebook and a $150/month data center bill.
@teledyn@mstdn.ca"This project started as a search problem and ended as something more. The most important result isn’t which neighbourhood tops the rankings - it’s the realisation that platforms now quietly structure survival in everyday urban markets. London’s restaurant scene is no longer organised by taste alone. It is organised by visibility that compounds, rent that rises when discovery arrives, and algorithms that allocate attention long before consumers ever show up. What looks like “choice” is increasingly the downstream effect of ranking systems."
How Google Maps quietly allocates survival across London’s restaurants - and how I built a dashboard to see through it
https://laurenleek.substack.com/p/how-google-maps-quietly-allocates
@Techmeme@techhub.socialSources: Amazon is in talks to invest $10B in OpenAI at a $500B valuation, with OpenAI using AWS Trainium chips; Microsoft keeps rights to sell OpenAI models (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/openai-talks-raise-least-1…
@smurthys@hachyderm.ioRemember the time when we all bemoaned people learning from "YouTube University"? What do we say now? 😭
*I do admire the hustle and entrepreneurial spirit of the kids in this piece.
#NYT #news #education #AI #LLM
@joe@toot.worksRE: https://hachyderm.io/@thomasfuchs/115843477255215320
Inside every technologist, there is one monkey arguing for a state of ultra-minimalism (an EDC backpack with everything you need in it) and one monkey that fights for you to rent a loft space to preserve one of every computer that has ever existed.
Which one wins?
@Techmeme@techhub.socialLetterboxd plans to launch its Video Store film rental platform on December 10, offering curated indie titles in 23 countries, including the US, UK, and France (Todd Spangler/Variety)
https://variety.com/2025/digital/news/letterboxd-…
@mattmaisonre@mastodon.worldTop Articles of 2025: The Rental Housing Market Holds Strong
"The U.S. rental housing market remained strong and stable in 2025, with narrowing supply‑demand gaps, rising investment activity, and rent growth in line with pre‑pandemic levels."
@cdarwin@c.imThe Trump administration recently dropped its
National Security Strategy
and, like all things Trump,
it’s equal parts nonsense and vitriol.
It signals a self-defeating retreat from any sort of global leadership
and the regime’s open promotion of white nationalism at home and abroad.
The document is extremely light on the “strategy” part,
but is chock full of naked racism and Great Replacement rhetoric.
If you fed a low-rent knockoff version o…
@tinoeberl@mastodon.online#Spenden
Für #Einsatzkräfte in der #Ukraine sind Schutz und Versorgung entscheidend.
Dieses #IFAK
@tinoeberl@mastodon.online#Spenden
In der #Ukraine fehlen schusssichere Westen für #Kinder, besonders in #Frontregionen…
