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Sonja Drimmer @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social · 6h

LLM extruded essays are like being cornered by the most boring person at a party while they monotone monologue small talk at you, convinced that they’re pronouncing something profound.

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Cyrus Hall @cyrushall.bsky.social · 5h

Point being, this will continue until the state gets it shit together and forces YouTube and others to not advertise products deceptively.

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Cyrus Hall @cyrushall.bsky.social · 5h

Every time I open YouTube I get ads for e-mopeds masquerading as bikes.

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Amy Maxmen, PhD @amymaxmen.bsky.social · 8h

The Trump admin is in the midst of laying off 1,100-1,200 HHS staff. The CDC's outbreak responders, gone. The office producing CDC's weekly journal MMWR is gone. CDC staff securing sensitive data, gone. Worker safety, gone. Immunization group, gone.

Instead, Congress watches RFK "make the proof"

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

RFK Jr on Tylenol and autism: "It is not proof. We're doing the studies to make the proof."

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · Nov 13

another curmudgeonly thread for the many of you who will be entering organizing spaces.

all other things being equal, when confronted with one team of people recruiting you to Be a Thing and another team recruiting you to Do a Thing, please give serious thought to joining the second.

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Cyrus Hall @cyrushall.bsky.social · 21h

The 12 Folsom could really use some transit priority love.

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Cyrus Hall @cyrushall.bsky.social · 21h

Hundreds of U.S. students quarantined amid measles outbreaks

At least 270 unvaccinated kids are staying home from school as measles continues to spread nationwide. "Expect more," one expert said.

www.nbcnews.com

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social · 1d

aaand we are officially in the hide-your-neighbors stage

Sophie Sherry @sophiesherry.bsky.social · 1d

During a military-style raid on a building in Chicago’s South Shore, one resident heard a knock on his door.   It wasn’t the feds — it was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for help.

He let them hide in his unit for the next 3 days.

chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

Neighbor shielded 7-year-old during South Shore federal raid: ‘I didn’t want them to take her’

During the Sept. 30 raid one tenant protected a terrified girl and her mom. Remnants at the complex, including a detailed map of all the units, offer clues to what authorities may have known before th...

chicago.suntimes.com

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Cyrus Hall @cyrushall.bsky.social · 1d

Looks like the lack of afterburners in the Snowbirds' acrobatics resolves ~90% of the complaints the Blue Angels used to get.

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Transform California @transformca.bsky.social · 1d

Preliminary results from the Clipper BayPass Phase 2 pilot show riders took 35% more transit trips in late 2024 compared to 2023.

The increased ridership generated $1.1 million in new fare revenue for Bay Area transit agencies.

blog.bayareametro.gov/posts/second...

Second phase of BayPass pilot looks like a winner

Preliminary results from the first year of the Clipper BayPass Phase 2 pilot indicate participating riders at the first three partner organizations in aggregate took 35% more transit trips in the last six months of 2024 compared to the same period in 2023

blog.bayareametro.gov

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Cyrus Hall @cyrushall.bsky.social · 1d

Extremely sad. Sounds like his daughter is now orphaned.

‘He was her whole world’: San Francisco hit-and-run victim identified as 30-year-old father

The man killed in a hit-and-run collision in San Francisco’s Bernal Heights was identified as Binod Budhathoki, a 30-year-old immigrant from Nepal who leaves behind an 8-year-old daughter.

www.sfchronicle.com

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Cyrus Hall @cyrushall.bsky.social · 1d

Getting groups of riders up to Sac once or twice a year is good, but it's deeply insufficient. Public transit needs multiple people pushing legislators full time, getting to know them well, understanding how they think, understanding how they power map.

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Cyrus Hall @cyrushall.bsky.social · 1d

Lobbying, you say? Yes, lobbying. Most politicians in Sacramento are woefully uninformed about public transit. They've rarely if ever taken it, they see it as a subsidy for the poor (and thus negotiable), and see the only state role as support capital investment/small county ops support.

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Cyrus Hall @cyrushall.bsky.social · 1d

...yet the state loan to keep Bay Area transit from collapsing? Still not finalized, and not a clear priority for Newsom.

Outside of @caltransit.bsky.social, I'm not aware of any full-time public transit advocates in Sac. Advocates need to figure out how pipeline funding to lobbying like YIMBY has.

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Cyrus Hall @cyrushall.bsky.social · 1d

I'm happy to see Newsom signed SB 79. It's an imperfect step in the right direction, and we wait for perfect at our peril.

But it is frustrating that there is so little holistic vision at the state level. There was no delay and virtually no debate over AB 697 to spend half a billion on SR 37...

Bryan Culbertson 🥄 @bryanculbertson.com · 1d

A state that is prioritizing building housing near transit stations should fund transit operations

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Popehat Agitates And Irritates @kenwhite.bsky.social · 1d

But that’s no excuse for not showing up.

Show up to a protest on the 18th. It’s a way to stand up and be counted for the proposition that what these people are doing to your country is not right, not acceptable.

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L.A. TACO @lataco.bsky.social · 1d

DAILY MEMO: Another ICE Detention Death and A Woman is Saved From ICE By Police 🧵 2 parts

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Californians for Electric Rail @calelectricrail.org · 2d

This one highway is projected to cost 85% of what CA has spent on high-speed rail over 15 years and hundreds of miles. If we can afford this, we can afford high-speed rail.

Alfred Twu @alfredtwu.com · 3d

The entire proposed Highway 37 Solano-Marin super bridge is estimated to cost $11 billion, all to replace an existing road between a couple of suburbs. And it's proposed at 114 feet wide.

For comparison, the Golden Gate Bridge is 90 feet wide.

Warren Wells, AICP @warrenjwells.bsky.social · 3d

Caltrans has released a cross section for the ultimate (raised viaduct) version of SR-37.

Now maybe I'm just being paranoid, but if you were building a road that you planned to keep at 4 lanes wide, I don't think it would look like this.

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