Bryan Culbertson 🥄
@bryanculbertson.com
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Living the car-free life in Oakland, CA. Don't make me drive.
https://mastodon.social/@bryanculbertson
Living the car-free life in Oakland, CA. Don't make me drive.
https://mastodon.social/@bryanculbertson
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If you do not see the light, we will bring the fire --Rep. Ayanna Pressley
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I'm becoming convinced Lyft has a basic conflict of interest managing ridehail as well as bikeshare in NYC, DC, Boston, Chicago, SF, etc.
The more expensive bikeshare is for visitors, the more likely they are to take ridehail instead (great for Lyft; bad for cities).
Seems like a problem!
The more expensive bikeshare is for visitors, the more likely they are to take ridehail instead (great for Lyft; bad for cities).
Seems like a problem!
$10.69 for a 15-minute ride?
For visitors, public bikeshare often feels like a ripoff.
In CityLab, I explored why.
For visitors, public bikeshare often feels like a ripoff.
In CityLab, I explored why.
Bikeshare Shouldn’t Kick Tourists to the Curb
Barcelona’s bikeshare program excludes non-Spanish visitors. Other cities charge tourists much higher fees to rent two-wheelers. Which policy makes more sense?
www.bloomberg.com
November 25, 2025 at 8:30 PM
I'm becoming convinced Lyft has a basic conflict of interest managing ridehail as well as bikeshare in NYC, DC, Boston, Chicago, SF, etc.
The more expensive bikeshare is for visitors, the more likely they are to take ridehail instead (great for Lyft; bad for cities).
Seems like a problem!
The more expensive bikeshare is for visitors, the more likely they are to take ridehail instead (great for Lyft; bad for cities).
Seems like a problem!
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A couple doubling up on an e-scooter, hugging & smiling is adorable & should not be penalized. You can not convince me otherwise.
E-Scooters are not toys, and there are rules and regulations regarding their use in North Vancouver. All parents and riders should refer to this helpful infographic from North Vancouver RCMP and help keep our kids and streets safe.
November 25, 2025 at 10:34 PM
A couple doubling up on an e-scooter, hugging & smiling is adorable & should not be penalized. You can not convince me otherwise.
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I’ve never been so excited to see fencing!
Construction is beginning on El Cerrito Plaza BART TOD, replacing parking with 743 homes and hopefully a new library.
The first building will be 100% affordable with 70 homes.
I’ve been working on this project for nearly a decade and couldn’t be happier.
Construction is beginning on El Cerrito Plaza BART TOD, replacing parking with 743 homes and hopefully a new library.
The first building will be 100% affordable with 70 homes.
I’ve been working on this project for nearly a decade and couldn’t be happier.
November 26, 2025 at 12:44 AM
I’ve never been so excited to see fencing!
Construction is beginning on El Cerrito Plaza BART TOD, replacing parking with 743 homes and hopefully a new library.
The first building will be 100% affordable with 70 homes.
I’ve been working on this project for nearly a decade and couldn’t be happier.
Construction is beginning on El Cerrito Plaza BART TOD, replacing parking with 743 homes and hopefully a new library.
The first building will be 100% affordable with 70 homes.
I’ve been working on this project for nearly a decade and couldn’t be happier.
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Last year Piedmont was working on a pedestrian crossing upgrade at Grand/Linda. I was able to get involved & work with staff to upgrade it w bike left turn features as well, including a curbside waiting space & flashing beacon push button oriented to the street.
November 26, 2025 at 12:56 AM
Last year Piedmont was working on a pedestrian crossing upgrade at Grand/Linda. I was able to get involved & work with staff to upgrade it w bike left turn features as well, including a curbside waiting space & flashing beacon push button oriented to the street.
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SFMTA could afford to fund a whole new bus line if they could enforce the Southbound J church transit-only lane near Market.
November 26, 2025 at 1:50 AM
SFMTA could afford to fund a whole new bus line if they could enforce the Southbound J church transit-only lane near Market.
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there’s this constant mythology about the elusive centrist voter who isn’t represented by the media but whenever they use examples of people not represented by the media it’s always people like alan dershowitz who are still represented in the media and almost exclusively so!
Bari Weiss says she wants to use her new perch at CBS News to “redraw the lines of what falls in the 40 yards of acceptable debate” in American political and cultural life. She says the aim is to sideline voices like Hasan Piker, Tucker Carlson and Nick Fuentes, and elevate “charismatic”...
November 26, 2025 at 4:33 AM
there’s this constant mythology about the elusive centrist voter who isn’t represented by the media but whenever they use examples of people not represented by the media it’s always people like alan dershowitz who are still represented in the media and almost exclusively so!
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If you’re wondering who’s guiding our transition, it’s the best New Yorkers that money can’t buy.
November 25, 2025 at 10:39 PM
If you’re wondering who’s guiding our transition, it’s the best New Yorkers that money can’t buy.
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I’ve said this for years, but the real scandal of Russiagate wasn’t that Putin had something on Trump, but that Trump wanted to make the US like Putin’s Russia.
November 25, 2025 at 10:10 PM
I’ve said this for years, but the real scandal of Russiagate wasn’t that Putin had something on Trump, but that Trump wanted to make the US like Putin’s Russia.
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Sometimes I think it’s going to be the librarians who will save us all.
November 25, 2025 at 1:47 AM
Sometimes I think it’s going to be the librarians who will save us all.
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one of the coolest things about ChatGPT is how you can actually just never use it. you can fill your whole entire life with simply not once using it. it's incredible.
November 25, 2025 at 4:15 PM
one of the coolest things about ChatGPT is how you can actually just never use it. you can fill your whole entire life with simply not once using it. it's incredible.
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Folks, AI and Crypto are going to blow up, and we're going to bail them out.
It'll be disastrous.
We need to promote Dems who take on the broligarchy.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/b...
It'll be disastrous.
We need to promote Dems who take on the broligarchy.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/b...
Market Volatility Underscores Epic Buildup of Global Risk
www.nytimes.com
November 25, 2025 at 9:02 PM
Folks, AI and Crypto are going to blow up, and we're going to bail them out.
It'll be disastrous.
We need to promote Dems who take on the broligarchy.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/b...
It'll be disastrous.
We need to promote Dems who take on the broligarchy.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/b...
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the AEB mandate was voluntarily adopted by the entire US auto industry because it has an unambiguous and independently validated impact on safety... eliminating it is the stupidest automotive safety proposal I have heard in my entire life
Exclusive: Republicans plan to challenge vehicle-safety mandates, such as automatic emergency braking and alarms that remind drivers a child is in the back seat.
Senate Committee to Challenge Auto-Safety Mandates That Hurt ‘Affordability’
Republicans are questioning the value of some features, such as automatic braking and rear-seat reminders.
on.wsj.com
November 25, 2025 at 9:00 PM
the AEB mandate was voluntarily adopted by the entire US auto industry because it has an unambiguous and independently validated impact on safety... eliminating it is the stupidest automotive safety proposal I have heard in my entire life
The safety promise of robotaxis is that they will replace private cars
The problem is if you replace a vehicle carrying an average of 1.2 people with one carrying an average of 0.55 people then you need to more than double your road capacity
A robotaxi future is a future without walkable cities
The problem is if you replace a vehicle carrying an average of 1.2 people with one carrying an average of 0.55 people then you need to more than double your road capacity
A robotaxi future is a future without walkable cities
A reminder that cars aren’t a technology problem. They’re a geometry problem.
Waymo privatized another public street:
Chanel approaching 4th, San Francisco
Possibly queued for a Billie Eilish show at Chase Center ~half mile away.
The light rail train on 4th seen passing in front of this roboherd has more passenger capacity than all of them combined.
OP: .tiktok.renaspam18
Chanel approaching 4th, San Francisco
Possibly queued for a Billie Eilish show at Chase Center ~half mile away.
The light rail train on 4th seen passing in front of this roboherd has more passenger capacity than all of them combined.
OP: .tiktok.renaspam18
November 25, 2025 at 4:19 PM
The safety promise of robotaxis is that they will replace private cars
The problem is if you replace a vehicle carrying an average of 1.2 people with one carrying an average of 0.55 people then you need to more than double your road capacity
A robotaxi future is a future without walkable cities
The problem is if you replace a vehicle carrying an average of 1.2 people with one carrying an average of 0.55 people then you need to more than double your road capacity
A robotaxi future is a future without walkable cities
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climate denial looks like:
Waymo privatized another public street:
Chanel approaching 4th, San Francisco
Possibly queued for a Billie Eilish show at Chase Center ~half mile away.
The light rail train on 4th seen passing in front of this roboherd has more passenger capacity than all of them combined.
OP: .tiktok.renaspam18
Chanel approaching 4th, San Francisco
Possibly queued for a Billie Eilish show at Chase Center ~half mile away.
The light rail train on 4th seen passing in front of this roboherd has more passenger capacity than all of them combined.
OP: .tiktok.renaspam18
November 25, 2025 at 6:13 AM
climate denial looks like:
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The only thing less appropriate for cities than single-occupancy vehicles is zero occupancy vehicles.
November 25, 2025 at 5:47 AM
The only thing less appropriate for cities than single-occupancy vehicles is zero occupancy vehicles.
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A difference between robot cars vs. regular cars is that with regular cars, drivers walk to where they park, spreading traffic out.
With robot cars, every event turns city streets into an airport pickup line.
bsky.app/profile/thew...
With robot cars, every event turns city streets into an airport pickup line.
bsky.app/profile/thew...
A reminder that cars aren’t a technology problem. They’re a geometry problem.
Waymo privatized another public street:
Chanel approaching 4th, San Francisco
Possibly queued for a Billie Eilish show at Chase Center ~half mile away.
The light rail train on 4th seen passing in front of this roboherd has more passenger capacity than all of them combined.
OP: .tiktok.renaspam18
Chanel approaching 4th, San Francisco
Possibly queued for a Billie Eilish show at Chase Center ~half mile away.
The light rail train on 4th seen passing in front of this roboherd has more passenger capacity than all of them combined.
OP: .tiktok.renaspam18
November 25, 2025 at 5:04 AM
A difference between robot cars vs. regular cars is that with regular cars, drivers walk to where they park, spreading traffic out.
With robot cars, every event turns city streets into an airport pickup line.
bsky.app/profile/thew...
With robot cars, every event turns city streets into an airport pickup line.
bsky.app/profile/thew...
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Checking out the Valencia St bike lane. Unbelievable how much drama there was to get a parking protected bike lane here. More bikes and scooters have passed us than cars and there's still plenty of space for car parking, parklets and 2 travel lanes.
November 25, 2025 at 12:10 AM
Checking out the Valencia St bike lane. Unbelievable how much drama there was to get a parking protected bike lane here. More bikes and scooters have passed us than cars and there's still plenty of space for car parking, parklets and 2 travel lanes.
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You have to keep giving money to avoid collapse and if there’s collapse you have to give more money. It’s called the free market.
November 24, 2025 at 10:54 PM
You have to keep giving money to avoid collapse and if there’s collapse you have to give more money. It’s called the free market.
The 90s called and they want their "Smart" devices back
November 24, 2025 at 8:56 PM
The 90s called and they want their "Smart" devices back
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Let's build a superintelligent robot so that when we're at a party we can use it to think of the perfect thing to say and people will laugh and they'll like us so much.
Everything about this might be the saddest thing I’ve ever seen
November 24, 2025 at 6:58 PM
Let's build a superintelligent robot so that when we're at a party we can use it to think of the perfect thing to say and people will laugh and they'll like us so much.
Abolish, Prosecute, and Jail ICE and CBP
Emmanuel, a 15-year-old with intellectual disabilities, wandered away from his mom’s fruit stand in October.
She reported him missing to Houston police. But instead of reuniting them, the city turned him over to ICE.
“They’re failing all of us,” his mom said.
thebarbedwire.com/2025/11/24/d...
She reported him missing to Houston police. But instead of reuniting them, the city turned him over to ICE.
“They’re failing all of us,” his mom said.
thebarbedwire.com/2025/11/24/d...
A Disabled Child’s Mom Reported Him Missing. He Was Locked Away by Federal Immigration Authorities for 48 Days.
Emmanuel, a 15-year-old who has an intellectual disability, walked away from his mom’s fruit stand in October. Houston Police called ICE.
thebarbedwire.com
November 24, 2025 at 7:50 PM
Abolish, Prosecute, and Jail ICE and CBP
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They can’t make computers as intelligent as humans, but they can make humans as unthinking as computers.
November 24, 2025 at 5:18 PM
They can’t make computers as intelligent as humans, but they can make humans as unthinking as computers.
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I think it’s pretty clear at this point that one of the main impacts of LLMs is to disrupt thinking: to make it so that far too many people never properly learn how to do it, and then to control the output so there are thoughts that people never learn how to think.
November 24, 2025 at 5:18 PM
I think it’s pretty clear at this point that one of the main impacts of LLMs is to disrupt thinking: to make it so that far too many people never properly learn how to do it, and then to control the output so there are thoughts that people never learn how to think.
November 24, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Centrists: Whelp, looks like Democrats should campaign on invading Venezuela
Once again, an overwhelming majority of Americans don't want to get involved in Venezuela
November 24, 2025 at 5:21 PM
Centrists: Whelp, looks like Democrats should campaign on invading Venezuela