Musk doesn't even have his own ideas about how to start a theocracy
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Musk doesn't even have his own ideas about how to start a theocracy
The United States had one of the worst COVID outcomes in the entire world from a body count standpoint. Anyone who argues with a straight face we were TOO cautious is an unserious imbecile.
Why do you both reply and quote post every time you respond?
This is a reminder for me to take photos of wayfinding signs while on vacation. The Bay Area just needs to steal what works well elsewhere and run with it.
[CUE MUSIC: “IN THE ARMS OF AN ANGEL” PLAYING SOFTLY] [FADE IN BACKGROUND SOUND: A solemn voice reads names] Nate Silver. Matthew Yglesias. Megan McArdle. Mark Cuban. [FADE IN: SALLY STRUTHERS sits on a stool in a pool of light on a minimalist set. She looks SAD.] /1
So then it sounds like you do understand why many people are frustrated about having to deal with a low quality mansplainer as the top result
This ‘blue states closed schools too long’ narrative is becoming increasingly entrenched in the Polite Center but it’s arguable at best. Republican states had far more deaths during COVID and their students have roughly comparable learning loss.
Yep, I suppose I am just surprised that this parking lot station has higher ridership than some Caltrain stations
During Jim Crow, many states mandated that anyone seeking to register to vote or apply to a state university had to have multiple voters/alumni “vouch” for their character. It was an easy if unsubtle way to maintain all-white (or mostly-white) institutions
In London when using public transport you can scan your contactless credit card when entering and exiting, then it automatically calculates the fare and bills you. If, like me, you forget which card you scanned on the way in & scan a different card on exit, you get charged a fine on both 💀
It really sucks that the takeaway many elites have about the COVID pandemic is not "pandemics are awful and we should invest lots of money to make sure they don't happen" and instead have decided "when the next pandemic happens we shouldn't do anything about it"
We’re only a few years removed from creatjng a vaccine to protect against a deadly airborne virus in a matter of months. Now, we have a scion fail son running the CDC into the ground not because it failed, but because its success conflicts with RFK Jr’s eugenicist ideology.
Per station ridership numbers from @tsch.uy do have this station as the lowest ridership station, but not that much lower
There is a lot of evidence that you should not trust the AI slop at the top of the search results. Verify it with primary sources.
Pure fucking evil. Everyone involved in this shit needs to be held accountable.
This is what hes referring to btw. He thinks the property on the left has more character than the right.
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Unions built the middle class
“Mainsplaining” perfectly captures the tone of AI.
Google developer #1: "That's it. Our search engine is simple, efficient, and reliable. It's perfect. We're done." Google developer #2, presumably: "But wouldn't it be *more* perfect if the first search result was always a robot who mansplained your search results to you incorrectly?"
At a minimum every station needs two accessible gates
Another day, another broken accessible gate on BART 😮💨 The old gates were more reliable and better for riders. I know it is too late to reverse this mistake, but BART and MTC need to own it and fix the gates
When this hype machine runs out juice in a month or two this weird effort to make Newsom a thing will seem rather cringe
machine men with machine hearts
New Mexico is overriding the federal government on the topic of COVID19 vaccines to ensure their residents can access them. States hold a tremendous amount of public health power. They should use it.
This is correct, and we got a demonstration of how correct it is with John Fetterman. His social media team got him over the finish line (against a joke of an opponent). He’s now one of the worst Senate Dems, most recently seen defending Trump’s plans to spend millions on a White House ballroom.
Thanks for the research! It matches my intuition that bike share works best integrated with a public transit network.
As our neighbors vanish daily, this serves as a meaningful way to honor them and highlight the extent of this issue throughout the city’s
This is not a complete list, but I looked at the largest bike sharing systems and most are publicly owned Publicly owned: Montreal Toronto CDMX Boston Barcelona Chicago LA DC Portland Philadelphia Paris Taipei London Amsterdam Seville Privately owned: SF NYC Toyko
No matter what @MarshaBlackburn keeps saying, it’s not criminals they’re targeting. www.cnn.com/2025/08/30/u...
They’re doing all this to prevent people from MEMORIALIZING A MASS SHOOTING
And expanded to include all residents in participating cities at a price they can afford It wouldn't even cost that much. DC Bikeshare costs about $10M a year to operate a similarly sized system. Covers 96% of those costs with prices that are less than half what Bay Wheel charges
I have found Bay Wheels most useful as a backup to AC Transit at off-peak hours for just myself The stations are too unbalanced to use Bay Wheels with a group at peak hours :(
Bay Area's biggest failing is too many tech people who want to try novel neo-liberal ideas for public services that depend on profit Other cities have publicly owned bike share with a democratic process for this We should be preparing now to switch Bay Wheels to that more successful model
Tried to take a @baywheels.bsky.social trip w my mom today but the destination station was full & there weren’t any others w/in walking distance for her.
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Irrespective of ownership or ridehail, I continue to believe that AV technology will likely increase total VMT and congestion instead of reducing it. As solo occupants sleep or watch TV rather than drive, the perceived cost of the trip - no matter how slow - goes down.
I'm in Switzerland and used Fairtiq to pay for transit for the first time yesterday. The concept is simple: * On your phone, swipe to start a ride * Swipe to end the ride * Fairtiq finds the cheapest fare for the journey and charges your payment method There is a lot going on to make this work. 🧵
Doh! So then infill station in Richmond or somewhere between Pleasant Hill and Concord, probably near Oak Grove Rd maps.app.goo.gl/jeNEqa4REbP3...
Or even better, an infill station in Richmond and Albany!
Unbelievably bad. “The CDC you knew is over. Unless someone takes radical action, there is nothing there that can be salvaged.” www.advocate.com/politics/dem...
These views are not inconsistent once you realize that conservatives ultimately want chattel slavery for domestic manufacturing
On one hand, reducing car use reduces urban pollution. But on the other, everyone likes it and cities become more livable
Lot of people not familiar with RFK’s fucked up brain so let me translate: he thinks he can walk around and see how many kids are autistic, and he thinks vaccines caused it. Pretty much that simple
CDC currently has a page debunking the conspiracy theory that vaccines cause mitochondrial diseases which cause autism I don't expect this page will be around for much longer despite all of the scientific research backing it www.cdc.gov/autism/faq/i...
RFK Jr. doesn't want to provide health care to Americans because he believes mass murder improves the gene pool
That disastrous reshaping of the world's ocean currents that would leave the EU in an ice age & shift the world's fertile regions thus causing persistent global famine? According to science, it's no longer "low probability." Sleep tight.
Most people want lasting changes that end homelessness, not more policing And the people who want more policing are going to vote GOP regardless of how far right Newsom goes on this issue endhomelessness.org/resources/sh...
Good point. I have also noticed that US has particularly high phone levels usage in general The stats I could find do have US above average and EU below average www.ooma.com/blog/countri...
Reason #361334 why Newsom will never be President
When I bike past cars in the US 90% of the drivers are looking down at their phone When I bike past cars in Mexico City, Paris, Amsterdam, etc. 90% of the drivers were looking at the road If US roads had bollards that smashed a drifting car then drivers here would pay attention to the road
I loved reading sci-fi, and I still do, but it is as real of a future as medieval fantasy was a true depiction of the past Reject the promise of a futuristic afterlife that requires sacrificing our present to appease the whims of the wealthy It is as false of a promise of salvation as any religion
Exactly. The rest of the universe is so incredibly inhospitable to human life that even the worst places on Earth are more livable than any environment we could create elsewhere.
Earth is our only habitable planet. There is no backup. Billionaires have hijacked the fantasy of interstellar travel to discourage any meaningful response to a climate crisis that is on track to destroy our only home We must quickly learn to protect a livable planet Earth before it is too late
Humanity is never going to live on another planet, no matter how advanced we get There will never be a Moonbase We will never terraform Mars No one is launching a multigenerational starship to Alpha Centauri I hate to smash anyone's dreams, but this fantasy has become too political to coddle
Sadly Burning Man requires you to arrive via car or plane. They will turn you away if you arrive via bike.
Is it just me, or has there been a pretty steady increase in what seems like very generic "vote blue no matter who" type accounts that are almost like a parody of boomer liberals, who mostly repost anti-Trump memes/stories? Are these real people or is it a bot swarm that'll be weaponized eventually?
The average American simply has no idea how quickly the infrastructure that keeps us safe and healthy is collapsing. These systems run in the background thanks to government employees who quietly do critical work. Those employees are being purged and systems are being destroyed.
The problem with this response is it accepts the framing that sending the military to a city is a helpful response to suppress crime, and Democrats main disagreement is just which priority order to send the military
Art depicting “Sandwich Guy” now at the scene of the alleged misdemeanor.
If you think militarizing cities reduces crime then Newsom is a bad leader for wanting to send military to cities outside CA If you think militarizing cities is totalitarian then Newsom is a bad leader for wanting to send military to cities outside CA Either way you are not voting for Newsom
If you think militarizing cities reduces crime then Newsom is a bad leader for wanting to send military to cities outside CA If you think militarizing cities is totalitarian then Newsom is a bad leader for wanting to send military to cities outside CA Either way you are not voting for Newsom
Newsom's response is terminal centrist brain Validates fascism while rejecting anti-fascism, mainly for the self-serving purpose of casting himself in a better light There is no constituency for this response
Inhuman. “I don’t have any choice” is a lie.
MTC forced BART to install slow and broken gates The new gates are worse for riders, especially riders who need to use wide accessible gates 😡 MTC and BART need a plan to fix this mistake. If toll gates were this broken Caltrans would have already fixed them. www.reddit.com/r/Bart/s/yuI...
The single most important thing to understand about digital futurism is this: When the digital future that Sam Altman ( or Elon, or Andreessen, etc) predicts fails to materialize, he doesn’t have to give the money back.
The City of Atlanta is opening its first municipal grocery store today. The city is spending $3.5 million in partnership with a neighborhood grocery chain in an effort to eliminate a downtown food desert. www.wsbtv.com/news/local/a...
I will never get over how a handful of tech bros set billions of dollars on fire to build a plagiarism machine that doesn't work and will destroy human society when they could have used a fraction of that money to fund a new golden age of creativity and knowledge.
Driving an SUV should require a commercial driver's license, or at least an enhanced driver's license that requires renewal every 4 years
I’ll be real with you: not even a Cybertruck owner deserves this
RFK Jr.'s #2 is stepping in as acting CDC director. You need to call your Congress people now and demand hearings until RFK is forced out. They're politically weak for another 48-72 hours, then they'll do unbelievable damage in the next month. Show me that you called and I will give you a reward 👇
Peter Thiel crony named acting director of CDC. Jim O'Neill was CEO of the Thiel Foundation and was managing director for Thiel's Clarium Capital and Mithril Capital. He also co-founded the Thiel Fellowship. gift link to WaPo, which barely mentions these things:
Neo-liberalism has strangled countries for far too long It is time for the US to follow in Mexico's footsteps and elect a socialist for President www.tiktok.com/t/ZT6pDPyaJ/
Hey, @mattyglesias.bsky.social, have you literally just not left your apartment? They’re in every single metro station, all over the mall, and doing checkpoints on 14th and U. DHS is all over Hispanic neighborhoods and harassing uber drivers. You genuinely cannot not see this. Go outside.
Is it possible that…urbanism is a winning strategy in cities?
We will lose the country to fascism if the Dems response is the problem with the GOP is that they are doing fascism less efficiently than the Dems could do it
There is a massive walk out at the CDC by staff unfolding right now. It is NECESSARY. I stand in solidarity with my CDC colleagues. standing up for science and public health. It is a moral imperative.
For the bay area, if we got $100B in transit capital funds I would exhaust it all on transit improvements before getting the tiny operational cost saving of automating BART more than it already is Automation is a poor capital investment until after you have frequent expansive service already
The problem with this response is it accepts the framing that sending the military to a city is a helpful response to suppress crime, and Democrats main disagreement is just which priority order to send the military
Massive walkout underway at CDC. RFK jr. must resign so that we can be safe.
Just tried watching Ezra Klein’s latest NYT podcast episode on how the U.S. got to this point where vaccines are so politicized. It’s pretty clear that Klein and his guests—David Wallace Wells and Rachael Bedard—really do not understand why/how the political right turned on vaccines.
Autonomous trains require a lot of capital funding to build. There are normally higher priority transit projects to work on Autonomous buses aren't a thing, and probably will never be a thing. Maybe autonomous BRT is possible, but again there are higher priority transit projects to work on
if this doesnt make you want to abolish ice idk what would
Vaccines are safe and effective. RFK Jr. isn’t.
Are vaccines safe? Let's ask this guy who sounds like a dying refrigerator compressor
Free transit gets people out of their cars. Spread the word.
EVANSTON DEFLOCKS: City just issued a news release announcing that all 19 license plate cameras have been deactivated, and the contract will be fully terminated effective Sept. 26. Story TK.
wtf is this nonsense? He thinks he can understand kid’s “mitochondrial challenges” just by looking at them? This is an insane person.
GOP is a death cult Get your vaccines early and often, because RFK Jr. will soon ban Americans from accessing healthcare that is standard throughout the world
Ban guns.
Getting the facts correct here is important Muni buses are overcrowded especially at peak times. If we lived in a transit-first city then SF would increase transit service with funding from the general budget Service is not being cut for lack of ridership or lack of fare revenue
“A federal grand jury refused to indict a man who threw a sandwich at a federal officer, and grand jurors refused three times to indict a woman accused of assaulting an FBI agent” This is a clear mandate to throw sandwiches!!!!!
Every time I hear a kid talk about how they practiced for the mass shooting that eventually came, I think it's a searing indictment of our country's failure to actually give a shit about the safety of kids.
"Air pollution from oil and gas causes more than 90,000 premature deaths and sickens hundreds of thousands of people across the US each year, a new study shows..." If MAHA were anything other than dipshit reactionary fantasies & conspiracy theories, it would focus overwhelmingly on air pollution.
When tech enshittifies, you can at least sign out & escape it. When the natural environment enshittifies, there is no escape.
Paris is converting many of their streets to garden roads where local cars are guests and AVs are not allowed Even if we magically converted all cars to AVs in SF, the Paris streets are way more livable and pleasant
Tramways are compatible with people-first streets all throughout the world Instead of abandoning the Better Market Street plan, SF could have follow in the footsteps of cities around the world Instead we are handing Market over to AVs instead
You cannot have a people-first street with fast moving cars Fast car travel and pedestrian travel are incompatible modes in the same street regardless of technology If you want streets like Barcelona then you have to inconvenience ALL cars regardless of who is driving them
Yep, Waymos used to stop before the crosswalk, but now they do this to get a jump on the light
"The dying pedestrian asks the AV why it ran over them despite knowing the consequence, to which the AV replies: "I am sorry, but I couldn't help myself. It's my character."