Brad Ewing

@bradleyewing

🏞️Santa Monica Recreation and Parks Commissioner 🏙️ Urbanist Crank 🎛️ Electronic Noise Producer 🕹️ Game Modder 🌌 Astro Enthusiast

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Brad Ewing@bradleyewing· 27d

You can drive for literal hours through Ohio without ever entering a precinct that voted for Kamala Harris

Brad Ewing@bradleyewing· 27d

Blows my mind that in July 2026 we have programmers insisting there is zero utility for LLMs despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary.

I have a masters degree in machine learning. It’s also part of my job. LLMs are not useful to programmers. LLMs are detrimental to programmers in every way imaginable.

The day that LLMs actually become useful is the day when no one has to work anymore, not just programmers. Let me know when we are there, and until then you can continue to needlessly subject yourself to LLM brainrot until you die.

And again, you clearly believe it takes skill to use AI, as you stated other developers will run circles around me. I wish them good luck with that. I will win. And the day that I lose to an AI is the same day your skill in using it becomes just as useless as my programming skills.

Go ahead and explain your skill in using AI without sounding like a moron, good luck!

Brad Ewing@bradleyewing· 28d

Will somebody think of the poor homeowners impacted by SB 79?

As I also mentioned, I agree that the paramount concern is preventing tenants from being forced from their home. However, we homeowners can be significantly impacted too. So, we shouldn’t unnecessarily subject such residents of the City to these impacts if a fair reading of the law does not require it

I certainly agree that being forced out of one’s home is far more severe than having a seven-story apartment building built, in whole or in part, in a residential district. But certainly, the latter is not a positive outcome either. The project at Ocean Park and 32nd comes to mind. If some of our leaders think otherwise, that’s what elections are for.

Brad Ewing@bradleyewing· Jul 13

Little known fact: Thomas Jefferson was the longest lived president

Brad Ewing@bradleyewing· Jul 10

Eli Gill: "So, my grandmother had an opportunity to buy land in Santa Monica for about $10,000 and she opted not to because it would make her hair frizz. So, the coast isn't for everybody. [clears throat] But my point is supply and demand does work here. It works everywhere."

Brad Ewing@bradleyewing· Jul 10

Lana Negrete: "the supply and demand model I don't believe works in places like Santa Monica. There's something called the coast and it's just much more expensive to live here. So that theory may work in a grocery store or in other places, and housing is much less expensive to build other places. "

Brad Ewing@bradleyewing· Jul 9

YIMBYs need to be REASONABLE

Brad Ewing@bradleyewing· Jul 8

Inspiration is theft (laudatory)

Brad Ewing@bradleyewing· Jul 6

Brad Ewing@bradleyewing· Jul 3

Landlords in markets with unfunded IZ can charge more because less housing is being built.

Brad Ewing@bradleyewing· Jul 2

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Brad Ewing@bradleyewing· Jun 26

Behold the tax assessment for the first apartment building I lived in here and despair

Brad Ewing@bradleyewing· Jun 26

Days since NIMBYs compared new apartments to a prison: 0

Brad Ewing@bradleyewing· Jun 26

I see your SF and raise SM

Brad Ewing@bradleyewing· Jun 26

Once you accept that all positive changes will negatively affect some poor people, and negatively affecting any poor people isn't progressive, then you'll understand the cornerstone of progressivism is doing nothing.

Brad Ewing@bradleyewing· Jun 26

Santa Monica's planning department is including 4 DTSM bus stops as Tier 2 TOD in its SB79 analysis. www.santamonica.gov/sb79-transit...

Brad Ewing@bradleyewing· Jun 26

Brad Ewing@bradleyewing· Jun 25

July 30, 1981 Santa Monica's population declined from 88k to 84k over the next two decades.

Brad Ewing@bradleyewing· Jun 21

Even the information the state already has is not readily accessible and a PITA to fetch. I built this graph (and an entire data ingestion pipeline) to track new-tenancy rents in Santa Monica's rent controlled housing stock because our current registry is so opaque!

Brad Ewing@bradleyewing· Jun 20

Unrelated of course

Brad Ewing@bradleyewing· Jun 20

The opening paragraph of Santa Monica's Rent Control charter amendment is interesting because it squarely names the root cause in the first 6 words of the first paragraph.

Brad Ewing@bradleyewing· Jun 17

Will Parker should come to some planning commission meetings in California, many policymakers still adamantly believe that there is no shortage of housing.