On the Meta Ray-Ban Display

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  • They’re moving the smartwatch display to a monocular lens.
  • The neural wristband is as important and vital to the glasses as the display, if not more so.
  • This is a first step toward what was shown in the Project Orion demo.
  • This is not 3D or 6DOF, no obvious uses for games.
  • This is meant for displaying information and basic 2D interaction:
    • phone calls (audio/video)
    • photos
    • shortform video
    • notifications
    • messages
    • basic local navigation
  • This is definitely NOT an entertainment device.
  • Unlike the smartwatch, this is also probably not a health device (potential room for Apple here).
  • Meta remains one of the scummier conglomerates in Silicon Valley.

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California and Other Blue States Should Declare a Congressional Redistricting Emergency

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From Hunter @StatisticUrban: “It’s fully possible to draw a VRA-compliant 52D-0R California gerrymander where the worst seat is still D+10.”

In 2008, California voters established the California Citizens’ Redistricting Commission to redraw state legislative districts, and in 2010, extended its powers to redraw congressional districts.

Within portions of the California Democratic Party in 2025, the latter power to redraw congressional districts is widely perceived as an act of unilateral disarmament when it comes to the empowered Republican legislative majorities in Florida, Texas and North Carolina. And now that both Trump’s White House and the Texas Republican Party want to eliminate as many as five more Democratic-held metropolitan seats in Congress, the idea of Newsom calling a special legislative session to refer an amendment to the voters to restore partisan gerrymandering powers to the legislature is being trafficked to news outlets.

In my opinion, California should keep their citizens’ redistricting commission, but should amend their constitution to provide for a “congressional redistricting emergency” period for legislative redistricting of congressional districts until the majority of congressional districts nationwide (217 out of 435 seats), or more broadly, every state assigned three or more congressional districts through reapportionment after each census, are covered by state constitutions which provide for citizens’ redistricting commissions.

Based in part off of the 2016 Interstate Compact for Fair Representation Act (SB 0322), which was proposed by then-Illinois State Senator (now Illinois Attorney General) Kwame Raoul, and passed the State Senate before dying in committee in the State House, here’s how I would amend the California State Constitution Article XXI Section 1 to carve out this exception:

“(b) In the year following the year in which the national census is taken under the direction of Congress at the beginning of each decade and in which at least one state with three or more congressional districts at the time of redistricting has not enacted the terms of Article XXI in substantially the same form in their own state constitution as applies to the constitutional districts of their state, the Legislature shall retain the right to amend a map of congressional boundary lines as proposed by the Citizens’ Redistricting Commission and to approve said amendments by majority vote of both houses and approval by the Governor. The Legislature shall retain the right to amend said boundary lines in an intervening year if any state enacts a similarly-timed adjustment of congressional boundary lines which fails to espouse the terms of Article XXI. Such compliance with this subsection shall be determined by the Secretary of State, who shall declare a state of congressional redistricting emergency to terminate upon determination of such compliance.”

This way:

  • only a small portion of Article XXI would be amended to carve out the time-dependent congressional exception, since we’re wanting more states to adopt Article XXI in substantially the same form for their state government.
  • Furthermore, it would encourage more Democratic-led states to keep their congressional gerrymandering powder dry for when it is needed for when interstate and anti-presidential conflicts arise.
  • it would allow the Legislature to respond to mid-decade redistricting by another state if necessary.
  • Finally, it would empower the Secretary of State to determine if any state has failed to adopt the terms of Article XXI in their state constitution to trigger legislative intervention.

This power should not be held by the legislature in perpetuity. This should be an emergency power that is used to stabilize Congress in a time of interstate conflict. It would be a departure from unilateral disarmament, instead treating interstate relations as a theater in which to seek diplomacy, mutual defense and good government.

But I can see such a move irking those who have pushed for decades in the trenches to unilaterally enact citizen redistricting by ballot initiative or legislation. I also acknowledge that Republican-led states like Arizona and Montana would be within their right to adopt similar exceptions to nonpartisan redistricting for congressional gerrymandering. Yes, this could become a “race to the bottom” as put by State Assemblymember Alex Lee.

In the Anglophone hell that is our first-past-the-post, single-winner elections for legislative branches nationwide, unilateral disarmament is no virtue, and keeping your gerrymandering powder dry to force concessions from other states is no vice.

I encourage readers to read this Penn State Law Review paper by Zachary J Krislov as well as this University of Chicago Law Review paper by Samuel P. LeRoy for great breakdowns on these “interstate compact” trigger laws on redistricting, the histories of such proposals and their potential efficacy.

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A setback and a milestone for xenotransplantation

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I just learned that the record holder for longest use of a pig kidney transplant had to have it removed in early April due to an unrelated infection and had to go back on dialysis.

Hate this for her, glad she’s alive, hope it goes better for the most recent recipient.

it started to fail when Towana Looney had to reduce her antirejection medicine due to the unrelated infection. But she can at least claim to be the first of the trial patients to have it removed and live. And 130 days with a functioning pig kidney remains the record for now.

xenotransplantation continues to show an incredible amount of promise. Hoping that Looney gets a new kidney, and also hoping the best for Tim Andrews, who received his pig kidney on 25 January.

Arreguin’s SB 9 and its possibilities

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SB 9, authored by freshman state senator Jesse Arreguin, was the first major pro-housing bill passed by the California State Senate this session. It now goes to the Assembly.

[BILL ALERT] SB 9 (2025), which clarifies and strengthens HCD's enforcement authority over local ADU ordinances, has passed the Senate floor by a vote of 27-4! Congrats to author @jessearreguin.bsky.social on this win. Learn more about this bill: cayimby.org/legislation/…

— California YIMBY (@cayimby.bsky.social) 2025-05-28T18:11:14.308Z

SB 9 was originally written to “remove the requirement of property occupancy and amend parking standards” for ADUs, but was amended in committee to simply allow the California Department of Housing and Community Development (HCD) to 1) void any noncompliant local ADU ordinance 2) substitute with state ADU law until local govt passes remedial fixes.

Also noting that, under AB 72 (2017), the HCD is allowed to decertify a local government’s noncompliant housing element (after locals’ nonresponse to repeated notices), which results in “builder’s remedy” kicking in until a complaint housing element is approved. This is the most direct enforcement action possible for HCD under current law.

SB 9 (Arreguin) would give some more teeth to HCD’s reactive enforcement powers beyond simply informing the AG of violations to trigger litigation. Theoretically, it would also function as another “builder’s remedy” for developers seeking to build more housing in the interim. (Would have been nice to keep the original text as well, but whatevs.)

Thinking that if SB 9 (Arreguin) becomes law for ADU ordinances, this could also become a template for future bills allowing HCD to temporarily void other implementing ordinances (as allowed by the HOME Act, SB 10, SB 6, AB 2011, etc.) and trigger builder’s remedy.

I’m getting the sense that Arreguin’s bill received better treatment in the Senate than Scott Wiener’s SB 79 (or Buffy Wicks’ AB 609, which just passed the Assembly this week) will likely receive because legislators are more receptive in this term to codifying stronger enforcement of existing state law rather than expanding allowed types of housing, exempting them from certain barriers, or investing more money into “affordable” housing.

Given that HCD will likely be placed by Newsom’s budget under a new California Housing and Homelessness Agency (CHHA), Arreguin’s SB 9 (if passed) will strengthen the state’s hand (and that of housing developers) against intransigent counties and cities in the years to come.