Cyrus Hall
@cyrushall.bsky.social
Mass car use is geometrically incompatible with great cities. Transit & bikes are the future. Tech things sometimes.
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Thank you to everyone who came out for the #AlexPretti memorial ride in Oakland today. It was a huge turnout, even more than shown here at Lake Merritt, as some people peeled off since the start at Rockridge BART. @bikeeastbay.bsky.social @ebbp.bsky.social
January 31, 2026 at 8:32 PM
Thank you to everyone who came out for the #AlexPretti memorial ride in Oakland today. It was a huge turnout, even more than shown here at Lake Merritt, as some people peeled off since the start at Rockridge BART. @bikeeastbay.bsky.social @ebbp.bsky.social
This video ends up interviewing George Bliss, and now I want to know a lot more about George Bliss and what he does.
What happens when small businesses stop using delivery vans?
YouTube video by Propel
www.youtube.com
January 31, 2026 at 8:24 PM
This video ends up interviewing George Bliss, and now I want to know a lot more about George Bliss and what he does.
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Yesterday I got a preview of the possible cuts Muni would have to make without new funding sources. It's bad. 20 lines gone, only OWL service after 9pm, half the frequency on all remaining routes. No F or cable cars. Ridership numbers would plummet, and our streets would be gridlocked.
What S.F. looks like with Muni cuts: Traffic nightmares and no buses after 9 p.m.
San Francisco’s financially strapped transit agency has released its first detailed scenarios of how it could cut service if ballot initiatives fail. It would include suspended cable cars.
www.sfchronicle.com
January 30, 2026 at 3:53 PM
Yesterday I got a preview of the possible cuts Muni would have to make without new funding sources. It's bad. 20 lines gone, only OWL service after 9pm, half the frequency on all remaining routes. No F or cable cars. Ridership numbers would plummet, and our streets would be gridlocked.
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The best first mile / last mile transit technology even invented is a good sidewalk. That’s how all the world’s successful transit systems work.
Recent Danish paper suggests that transit's first-mile/last-mile discourse is overblown.
Pretty much any FM/LM "solution" fails to improve total welfare for distances <1km.
A big reason: Walking is really healthy!
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Pretty much any FM/LM "solution" fails to improve total welfare for distances <1km.
A big reason: Walking is really healthy!
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
January 31, 2026 at 2:30 PM
The best first mile / last mile transit technology even invented is a good sidewalk. That’s how all the world’s successful transit systems work.
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this is so bad! owl service starting at 9 is wild but no f market or cable cars is just crushing the soul of the city
Yesterday I got a preview of the possible cuts Muni would have to make without new funding sources. It's bad. 20 lines gone, only OWL service after 9pm, half the frequency on all remaining routes. No F or cable cars. Ridership numbers would plummet, and our streets would be gridlocked.
What S.F. looks like with Muni cuts: Traffic nightmares and no buses after 9 p.m.
San Francisco’s financially strapped transit agency has released its first detailed scenarios of how it could cut service if ballot initiatives fail. It would include suspended cable cars.
www.sfchronicle.com
January 30, 2026 at 4:19 PM
this is so bad! owl service starting at 9 is wild but no f market or cable cars is just crushing the soul of the city
Yesterday I got a preview of the possible cuts Muni would have to make without new funding sources. It's bad. 20 lines gone, only OWL service after 9pm, half the frequency on all remaining routes. No F or cable cars. Ridership numbers would plummet, and our streets would be gridlocked.
What S.F. looks like with Muni cuts: Traffic nightmares and no buses after 9 p.m.
San Francisco’s financially strapped transit agency has released its first detailed scenarios of how it could cut service if ballot initiatives fail. It would include suspended cable cars.
www.sfchronicle.com
January 30, 2026 at 3:53 PM
Yesterday I got a preview of the possible cuts Muni would have to make without new funding sources. It's bad. 20 lines gone, only OWL service after 9pm, half the frequency on all remaining routes. No F or cable cars. Ridership numbers would plummet, and our streets would be gridlocked.
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Minnesota based Independent Journalist GEORGIA FORT has been arrested for filming a protest of the church pastor that works as an ICE manager. SPREAD THE WORD! Georgia has been doing outstanding reporting from ground zero!
January 30, 2026 at 1:23 PM
Minnesota based Independent Journalist GEORGIA FORT has been arrested for filming a protest of the church pastor that works as an ICE manager. SPREAD THE WORD! Georgia has been doing outstanding reporting from ground zero!
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I know we’re so far past even considering the possibility that Republicans ever actually believed in the Constitution, but it’s a useful thought experiment to read this article as if it was about Biden using technology developed by a billionaire donor to surveil anti-abortion and 2A activists.
A Minnesota woman observing ICE agents in her car was cornered on one-way streets. An agent approached, called her by name—citing facial recognition. Days later, her Global Entry and TSA privileges were revoked, with no explanation.
How ICE Already Knows Who Minneapolis Protesters Are
www.nytimes.com
January 30, 2026 at 2:35 PM
I know we’re so far past even considering the possibility that Republicans ever actually believed in the Constitution, but it’s a useful thought experiment to read this article as if it was about Biden using technology developed by a billionaire donor to surveil anti-abortion and 2A activists.
Neoliberalism in government has been a giant drain on government capacity and efficiency. It's a major contributor to governments' inability to address pressing problems. It's based on the fantasy that companies extracting maximal profit will somehow be cheaper than managing large programs directly.
New at Can We Still Govern: Here is one thing I wish more people understood about government. There is a lot of rent-seeking by private vendors in our social safety net. Trump's policies will make this worse.
@lukef.bsky.social breaks it down. 🧵
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-means-...
@lukef.bsky.social breaks it down. 🧵
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-means-...
The Means-Testing Industrial Complex
The vendors getting rich from putting administrative burdens on the poor
donmoynihan.substack.com
January 29, 2026 at 5:05 PM
Neoliberalism in government has been a giant drain on government capacity and efficiency. It's a major contributor to governments' inability to address pressing problems. It's based on the fantasy that companies extracting maximal profit will somehow be cheaper than managing large programs directly.
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New at Can We Still Govern: Here is one thing I wish more people understood about government. There is a lot of rent-seeking by private vendors in our social safety net. Trump's policies will make this worse.
@lukef.bsky.social breaks it down. 🧵
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-means-...
@lukef.bsky.social breaks it down. 🧵
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-means-...
The Means-Testing Industrial Complex
The vendors getting rich from putting administrative burdens on the poor
donmoynihan.substack.com
January 29, 2026 at 4:12 PM
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For a bunch of self-declared isolationists, they sure do seem like a bunch of colonialists. Color me surprised.
Rubio Says Venezuela Will Submit Monthly Budget to White House
www.nytimes.com
January 29, 2026 at 3:57 AM
For a bunch of self-declared isolationists, they sure do seem like a bunch of colonialists. Color me surprised.
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If advocates gather 186,000 signatures across the Bay Area, a half-cent sales tax proposal will appear on the November ballot. Passage would mean an infusion of cash for BART, AC Transit, and other mass transit agencies.
Signature gathering begins in Oakland for multi-billion-dollar transit measure
If advocates gather 186,000 signatures across the Bay Area, a half-cent sales tax proposal will appear on the November ballot. Passage would mean an infusion of cash for BART, AC Transit, and other mass transit agencies.
oaklandside.org
January 29, 2026 at 1:11 AM
If advocates gather 186,000 signatures across the Bay Area, a half-cent sales tax proposal will appear on the November ballot. Passage would mean an infusion of cash for BART, AC Transit, and other mass transit agencies.
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Finished my first packet of signatures for the regional Bay Area transit funding measure! 🫡✨🚎
January 29, 2026 at 12:20 AM
Finished my first packet of signatures for the regional Bay Area transit funding measure! 🫡✨🚎
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Peer review science relies, more than we care to admit, on what @zey.bsky.social calls "load bearing frictions" that make it difficult to fake good science, and on trust that most ppl also value science itself & won't cheat just for personal gain. This creates the wrong environment for that to hold.
OpenAI just released Prism, a LaTeX editor with embedded ChatGPT for free.
Writing a paper has never been easier.
Clogging the scientific publishing pipeline has never been easier.
It took me 54 seconds to write up an experiment I did not actually conduct.
prism.openai.com
Writing a paper has never been easier.
Clogging the scientific publishing pipeline has never been easier.
It took me 54 seconds to write up an experiment I did not actually conduct.
prism.openai.com
January 28, 2026 at 6:10 AM
Peer review science relies, more than we care to admit, on what @zey.bsky.social calls "load bearing frictions" that make it difficult to fake good science, and on trust that most ppl also value science itself & won't cheat just for personal gain. This creates the wrong environment for that to hold.
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Public transit doesn’t move faster when we just talk about fixing it. It moves faster when we actually cut the red tape holding back the fixes. I’ve led the fight in California to streamline transit projects, get bus and bike lanes added and improved, and save communities time and money.
January 28, 2026 at 7:01 PM
Public transit doesn’t move faster when we just talk about fixing it. It moves faster when we actually cut the red tape holding back the fixes. I’ve led the fight in California to streamline transit projects, get bus and bike lanes added and improved, and save communities time and money.
This Chronicle article is short on details, and I would love to know more about this case. A lot of echos from my experience as editor-and-chief of my high school newspaper, and a school administration who wanted to suppress students first amendment rights.
Judge rules that Lowell High School journalism teacher’s reassignment was illegal
School administrators violated state law when they reassigned the newspaper adviser for protecting students’ First Amendment rights, according to the court order.
www.sfchronicle.com
January 28, 2026 at 6:25 AM
This Chronicle article is short on details, and I would love to know more about this case. A lot of echos from my experience as editor-and-chief of my high school newspaper, and a school administration who wanted to suppress students first amendment rights.
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Love to see so many people riding BART!
Don’t love thinking about how all of us on this red line train would be impacted if the orange line was cut and service was just once an hour.
We need to pass the Connect Bay Area to prevent this and save transit. Sign the petition and vote in November!
Don’t love thinking about how all of us on this red line train would be impacted if the orange line was cut and service was just once an hour.
We need to pass the Connect Bay Area to prevent this and save transit. Sign the petition and vote in November!
January 27, 2026 at 4:43 PM
Love to see so many people riding BART!
Don’t love thinking about how all of us on this red line train would be impacted if the orange line was cut and service was just once an hour.
We need to pass the Connect Bay Area to prevent this and save transit. Sign the petition and vote in November!
Don’t love thinking about how all of us on this red line train would be impacted if the orange line was cut and service was just once an hour.
We need to pass the Connect Bay Area to prevent this and save transit. Sign the petition and vote in November!
Now imagine BART collapses and Muni cuts service by 50%.
Downtown’s back — and so is the traffic. S.F. is now among the nation’s most congested
Last year the volume of cars on San Francisco roads increased drive times by nearly 50%, compared to “free-flowing” conditions.
www.sfchronicle.com
January 27, 2026 at 3:52 PM
Now imagine BART collapses and Muni cuts service by 50%.
Night all!
Dorman: Child’s Play - IV.Tag | Lucas Campara Diniz & Vivi Vassileva
YouTube video by Vivi Vassileva
www.youtube.com
January 27, 2026 at 6:45 AM
Night all!
If Muni still ran to the Marin Headlands, the lion could just take the bus.
A mountain lion was spotted on video in San Francisco overnight Sunday and may still be at large in the city, S.F. Animal Care and Control said on Monday.
January 27, 2026 at 6:02 AM
If Muni still ran to the Marin Headlands, the lion could just take the bus.
"'Two things we need right now,' Remington said, 'are more art and more transit.'"
People *turned out* for the opening of the new Muni exhibition in San Francisco's City Hall. Check it out for yourself: missionlocal.org/2026/01/sf-m...
#SanFrancisco #Muni #theworm #opening #art #cityhall #SF
#SanFrancisco #Muni #theworm #opening #art #cityhall #SF
'Moving San Francisco' exhibit highlights 122 years of Muni magic
The transit exhibition becomes a history of San Francisco, showcasing notable figures like Phyllis Diller and Harvey Milk.
missionlocal.org
January 27, 2026 at 2:27 AM
"'Two things we need right now,' Remington said, 'are more art and more transit.'"
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The biggest risk in this moment is something sociologists call “symbolic compliance.”
That’s when an institution that is violating civil rights gives the public just enough symbolic victories that accountability efforts lose steam before there has been any meaningful change.
That’s when an institution that is violating civil rights gives the public just enough symbolic victories that accountability efforts lose steam before there has been any meaningful change.
January 26, 2026 at 11:35 PM
The biggest risk in this moment is something sociologists call “symbolic compliance.”
That’s when an institution that is violating civil rights gives the public just enough symbolic victories that accountability efforts lose steam before there has been any meaningful change.
That’s when an institution that is violating civil rights gives the public just enough symbolic victories that accountability efforts lose steam before there has been any meaningful change.
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Last Friday, we joined our partners from across the Bay Area to officially kick off the Connect Bay Area Transit campaign, the five-county regional transit funding measure. Now they need your help with signature gathering to qualify this measure for the November election!
January 26, 2026 at 9:00 PM
Last Friday, we joined our partners from across the Bay Area to officially kick off the Connect Bay Area Transit campaign, the five-county regional transit funding measure. Now they need your help with signature gathering to qualify this measure for the November election!
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For people with tech background concerned about the Clipper 2 upgrade/migration, check out the Cubic slides being presented today at Clipper Executive Board. Many of the problems are failures of basic scaling and QA missing predictable corner cases. mtc.legistar.com/LegislationD...
Metropolitan Transportation Commission - File #: 26-0162
Title: Next Generation Clipper Implementation and Transition Update
Update on Next Generation Clipper System implementation, transition of current Clipper cardholders to the Next Generation Account-b...
mtc.legistar.com
January 26, 2026 at 8:28 PM
For people with tech background concerned about the Clipper 2 upgrade/migration, check out the Cubic slides being presented today at Clipper Executive Board. Many of the problems are failures of basic scaling and QA missing predictable corner cases. mtc.legistar.com/LegislationD...