David Bonowitz
@dbonowitz.bsky.social
Buildings. Earthquakes. Public policy.
Functional Recovery <--> Community Resilience.
Giants baseball. Princeton hoops.
contact: djbonowitz (with a 'j') at gmail
Functional Recovery <--> Community Resilience.
Giants baseball. Princeton hoops.
contact: djbonowitz (with a 'j') at gmail
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People always say that the East Bay had a great train system before BART that we should restore. So I re-created the Key System and Southern Pacific "Red trains" in SubwayBuilder to test this! The stops and routing are accurate and based on year 1940, when Bay Bridge rail service was at its peak
November 25, 2025 at 6:58 AM
People always say that the East Bay had a great train system before BART that we should restore. So I re-created the Key System and Southern Pacific "Red trains" in SubwayBuilder to test this! The stops and routing are accurate and based on year 1940, when Bay Bridge rail service was at its peak
When the feature rolled out, it raised the possibility of breaking through the maga wall: not just #HeLiedToYOU, but #YouAreAllLyingToEachOther.
With the backlash around a good chunk of the location data being wrong, it's just affirming the lack of trust & truth that actually fuel maga. smdh.
With the backlash around a good chunk of the location data being wrong, it's just affirming the lack of trust & truth that actually fuel maga. smdh.
November 25, 2025 at 7:07 AM
When the feature rolled out, it raised the possibility of breaking through the maga wall: not just #HeLiedToYOU, but #YouAreAllLyingToEachOther.
With the backlash around a good chunk of the location data being wrong, it's just affirming the lack of trust & truth that actually fuel maga. smdh.
With the backlash around a good chunk of the location data being wrong, it's just affirming the lack of trust & truth that actually fuel maga. smdh.
Say what you will about Frum (yeah, I know), but he's had his finger on the pulse of Trumpism for 10 years now.
Greene: Able to rally T's voters, but still too oblivious to actually work for him. A maga acolyte, but no JD Vance.
Greene: Able to rally T's voters, but still too oblivious to actually work for him. A maga acolyte, but no JD Vance.
“Marjorie Taylor Greene Came So Close to Getting the Joke”
@davidfrum.bsky.social for @theatlantic.com
@davidfrum.bsky.social for @theatlantic.com
Marjorie Taylor Greene Came So Close to Getting the Joke
What the Georgia representative learned in Washington
www.theatlantic.com
November 24, 2025 at 5:13 AM
Say what you will about Frum (yeah, I know), but he's had his finger on the pulse of Trumpism for 10 years now.
Greene: Able to rally T's voters, but still too oblivious to actually work for him. A maga acolyte, but no JD Vance.
Greene: Able to rally T's voters, but still too oblivious to actually work for him. A maga acolyte, but no JD Vance.
This is the meta-analysis I've been waiting for, an infuriating coda to Winners Take All.
"The business is laundering capital — money into prestige, prestige into fun, fun into intel, intel into money" ... with victims variously "evicted, gouged, foreclosed on, A.I.-obsolesced — or, yes, raped."
"The business is laundering capital — money into prestige, prestige into fun, fun into intel, intel into money" ... with victims variously "evicted, gouged, foreclosed on, A.I.-obsolesced — or, yes, raped."
Take the time -- it will be repaid. Gift article:
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/23/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/23/o...
Opinion | How the Elite Behave When No One Is Watching: Inside the Epstein Emails
www.nytimes.com
November 24, 2025 at 4:54 AM
This is the meta-analysis I've been waiting for, an infuriating coda to Winners Take All.
"The business is laundering capital — money into prestige, prestige into fun, fun into intel, intel into money" ... with victims variously "evicted, gouged, foreclosed on, A.I.-obsolesced — or, yes, raped."
"The business is laundering capital — money into prestige, prestige into fun, fun into intel, intel into money" ... with victims variously "evicted, gouged, foreclosed on, A.I.-obsolesced — or, yes, raped."
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My reigning favorite discussion of this is here:
Generative AI is a hammer and no one knows what is and isn’t a nail
medium.com/@colin.frase...
Generative AI is a hammer and no one knows what is and isn’t a nail
medium.com/@colin.frase...
November 22, 2025 at 5:18 PM
My reigning favorite discussion of this is here:
Generative AI is a hammer and no one knows what is and isn’t a nail
medium.com/@colin.frase...
Generative AI is a hammer and no one knows what is and isn’t a nail
medium.com/@colin.frase...
Strategy 1 posting some Ws.
bsky.app/profile/dbon...
bsky.app/profile/dbon...
We took the chaos of the Trump-Vance admin and turned it into a pro-democracy movement of more than 600 orgs using the power of the courts to protect people and communities.
Learn more about the legal resistance:
https://nonprofitquarterly.org/meeting-flood-the-zone-with-rule-of-law-shock-and-awe/
Learn more about the legal resistance:
https://nonprofitquarterly.org/meeting-flood-the-zone-with-rule-of-law-shock-and-awe/
November 21, 2025 at 2:36 AM
Strategy 1 posting some Ws.
bsky.app/profile/dbon...
bsky.app/profile/dbon...
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A Trump supporter started murdering his way through an assassination list of Democratic law makers FIVE MONTHS AGO. He murdered my colleague Melissa Hortman, and her husband Mark — and attempted to assassinate my dear friend John Hoffman and his wife Yvette. I was also on the hit list. WTF
November 20, 2025 at 5:56 PM
A Trump supporter started murdering his way through an assassination list of Democratic law makers FIVE MONTHS AGO. He murdered my colleague Melissa Hortman, and her husband Mark — and attempted to assassinate my dear friend John Hoffman and his wife Yvette. I was also on the hit list. WTF
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I call on the members of the #FEMAReviewCouncil not named #Noem or #Hegseth to release the 160-page report they drafted before Norm and #Lewandowski pulled their #EdwardScissorhands routine and whittled it down to 20 pages of hurtful blather. apnews.com/article/fema...
Trump administration makes major changes to a report it commissioned on FEMA reforms, AP sources say
A draft report on reforms to the Federal Emergency Management Agency has been significantly reduced in size, according to three people familiar with the matter.
apnews.com
November 20, 2025 at 2:08 AM
I call on the members of the #FEMAReviewCouncil not named #Noem or #Hegseth to release the 160-page report they drafted before Norm and #Lewandowski pulled their #EdwardScissorhands routine and whittled it down to 20 pages of hurtful blather. apnews.com/article/fema...
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The pieces of the FEMA reform puzzle are starting to come together. Not a ton of detail here but it is notable that the draft recommendations from the advisory committee include potentially restoring cabinet level status to FEMA. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/19/c...
Trump Wanted to Abolish FEMA. His Own Advisers Disagree.
www.nytimes.com
November 19, 2025 at 9:09 PM
The pieces of the FEMA reform puzzle are starting to come together. Not a ton of detail here but it is notable that the draft recommendations from the advisory committee include potentially restoring cabinet level status to FEMA. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/19/c...
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We tried to post before the press did but we were not quick enough on the draw. The senior official performing duties of FEMA Administrator David Richardson has resigned. Remember him, he threatened to run all over us, and didn’t know there was a hurricane season.
wapo.st/4nYPtDa
wapo.st/4nYPtDa
November 17, 2025 at 6:42 PM
We tried to post before the press did but we were not quick enough on the draw. The senior official performing duties of FEMA Administrator David Richardson has resigned. Remember him, he threatened to run all over us, and didn’t know there was a hurricane season.
wapo.st/4nYPtDa
wapo.st/4nYPtDa
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Climate Town's response at least got 1.1 million views www.youtube.com/watch?v=wBC_...
How Oil Propaganda Sneaks Into TV Shows | Climate Town
YouTube video by Climate Town
www.youtube.com
November 17, 2025 at 6:16 PM
Climate Town's response at least got 1.1 million views www.youtube.com/watch?v=wBC_...
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It seems to me that the public interest would be best served by moving a surviving earthquake shack to a park, restoring it, and opening it to the public as a museum rather than forcing people to live in these substandard homes forever.
‘Worst fears’: Historic S.F. earthquake shacks destroyed without permits, neighbors say
Preservationists have long fought a developer’s Noe Valley project, which the city red-tagged only after the buildings were reduced to roofs and frames.
www.sfchronicle.com
November 17, 2025 at 6:49 PM
It seems to me that the public interest would be best served by moving a surviving earthquake shack to a park, restoring it, and opening it to the public as a museum rather than forcing people to live in these substandard homes forever.
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Realism about the state of wildfire home hardening and defensible space is so refreshing.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
High fire hazard Wildland Urban Interface (WUI) residences in California lack voluntary and mandated wildfire risk mitigation compliance in Home Ignition Zones
Wildfire structure losses are increasing globally and particularly in California, USA. Losses can be mitigated in part by changes to the Home Ignition…
www.sciencedirect.com
November 17, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Realism about the state of wildfire home hardening and defensible space is so refreshing.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Free article.
The graphics used to show the water rising are devastating.
The fear those poor girls felt in their final minutes is excruciating to ponder.
By far the best account of this preventable tragedy.
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
The graphics used to show the water rising are devastating.
The fear those poor girls felt in their final minutes is excruciating to ponder.
By far the best account of this preventable tragedy.
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
New Videos, Data and Reporting Give a Detailed Account of the Camp Mystic Disaster (Gift Article)
Never-before-published videos, data from smart devices, a crash report and the first interview that Camp Mystic's owners have granted since the July 4 disaster offer the most detailed account yet.
www.nytimes.com
November 17, 2025 at 2:27 AM
Free article.
The graphics used to show the water rising are devastating.
The fear those poor girls felt in their final minutes is excruciating to ponder.
By far the best account of this preventable tragedy.
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
The graphics used to show the water rising are devastating.
The fear those poor girls felt in their final minutes is excruciating to ponder.
By far the best account of this preventable tragedy.
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
On the #Bills - Bucs radio broadcast, Compass Media announcers wanted to describe the shaking stadium, so they hinted at a Richter reading maybe recorded at nearby Rochester Inst of Tech.
Disappointed they did not know MCEER national EQ research center is right there in Buffalo ... sigh.
Disappointed they did not know MCEER national EQ research center is right there in Buffalo ... sigh.
November 16, 2025 at 9:18 PM
On the #Bills - Bucs radio broadcast, Compass Media announcers wanted to describe the shaking stadium, so they hinted at a Richter reading maybe recorded at nearby Rochester Inst of Tech.
Disappointed they did not know MCEER national EQ research center is right there in Buffalo ... sigh.
Disappointed they did not know MCEER national EQ research center is right there in Buffalo ... sigh.
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Much clearer optical satellite imagery today from @planet.com shows the landslide that resulted in the collapse of the Hongqi bridge in Sichuan.
November 16, 2025 at 3:49 PM
Much clearer optical satellite imagery today from @planet.com shows the landslide that resulted in the collapse of the Hongqi bridge in Sichuan.
As is often the case, the headline is misleading. Watch the clip, from TMZ, available on lots of bsky feeds.
She's not saying this as a lament. She's saying it as an accusation.
(And while she's mostly right, remember always that Clinton won the popular vote & Harris was right there too.)
She's not saying this as a lament. She's saying it as an accusation.
(And while she's mostly right, remember always that Clinton won the popular vote & Harris was right there too.)
Former first lady Michelle Obama said America is "not ready for a woman" president during a conversation at her New York book event. https://cnn.it/43ApuKZ
November 16, 2025 at 4:18 PM
As is often the case, the headline is misleading. Watch the clip, from TMZ, available on lots of bsky feeds.
She's not saying this as a lament. She's saying it as an accusation.
(And while she's mostly right, remember always that Clinton won the popular vote & Harris was right there too.)
She's not saying this as a lament. She's saying it as an accusation.
(And while she's mostly right, remember always that Clinton won the popular vote & Harris was right there too.)
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Trump just cut farm workers' wages $1-3/hr, and there IS something we can do about it.
youtu.be/AnCJfhLxk_c
youtu.be/AnCJfhLxk_c
Farm Workers: Here's How We Can Help
YouTube video by Farm to Taber
youtu.be
November 16, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Trump just cut farm workers' wages $1-3/hr, and there IS something we can do about it.
youtu.be/AnCJfhLxk_c
youtu.be/AnCJfhLxk_c
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We currently have all of the ingredients for these debris flows to occur – steep slopes, recently burned hillsides, and the potential for high intensity rainfall.
November 15, 2025 at 5:31 PM
We currently have all of the ingredients for these debris flows to occur – steep slopes, recently burned hillsides, and the potential for high intensity rainfall.
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When asked if he thought Trump was a bad president…
Pete: I would go well beyond a bad president. 🔥🔥🔥
Pete: I would go well beyond a bad president. 🔥🔥🔥
November 15, 2025 at 7:22 AM
When asked if he thought Trump was a bad president…
Pete: I would go well beyond a bad president. 🔥🔥🔥
Pete: I would go well beyond a bad president. 🔥🔥🔥
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Finally, national coverage on the loss of 9 seismic stations in #AK going dark this month due to #NOAA funding cuts. This leaves #tsunami forecasters without vital data used to determine if an #earthquake will send tsunami waves toward the #US West Coast.
www.nbcnews.com/science/tsun... #EM #greysky
www.nbcnews.com/science/tsun... #EM #greysky
U.S. tsunami warning system, reeling from funding and staffing cuts, is dealt another blow
Seismic monitoring stations in Alaska are closing after a denied federal grant, risking delayed tsunami warnings for people living on the West Coast.
www.nbcnews.com
November 13, 2025 at 11:58 AM
Finally, national coverage on the loss of 9 seismic stations in #AK going dark this month due to #NOAA funding cuts. This leaves #tsunami forecasters without vital data used to determine if an #earthquake will send tsunami waves toward the #US West Coast.
www.nbcnews.com/science/tsun... #EM #greysky
www.nbcnews.com/science/tsun... #EM #greysky
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My immigrant parents didn't know how to do Thanksgiving. My sister and I would bring home tidbits from classmates ("We need to buy 'cranberry sauce!'") and bit by bit, we built Thanksgiving. Not cos-playing, but participating.
It's my favorite holiday.
It's my favorite holiday.
It’s how you end up with language like “paperwork American” or the idea that Thanksgiving turkey is some sort of natural ethno-national tradition that certain other groups are incapable of ever appreciating
November 13, 2025 at 7:19 PM
My immigrant parents didn't know how to do Thanksgiving. My sister and I would bring home tidbits from classmates ("We need to buy 'cranberry sauce!'") and bit by bit, we built Thanksgiving. Not cos-playing, but participating.
It's my favorite holiday.
It's my favorite holiday.
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Pretty much all affordability discourse could benefit from just posting this chart.
If you're in the better off America, all the luxury goods you want in excess are for the most part much cheaper. If you're in the poorer America, most of the shit you need to live/grow is more expensive.
If you're in the better off America, all the luxury goods you want in excess are for the most part much cheaper. If you're in the poorer America, most of the shit you need to live/grow is more expensive.
November 10, 2025 at 2:53 PM
Pretty much all affordability discourse could benefit from just posting this chart.
If you're in the better off America, all the luxury goods you want in excess are for the most part much cheaper. If you're in the poorer America, most of the shit you need to live/grow is more expensive.
If you're in the better off America, all the luxury goods you want in excess are for the most part much cheaper. If you're in the poorer America, most of the shit you need to live/grow is more expensive.
(QPing because #structural_engineering is not the original topic.)
The article notes a series of damaging events. And that photo of the spontaneous facade failure ... yikes. From 2022:
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
The article notes a series of damaging events. And that photo of the spontaneous facade failure ... yikes. From 2022:
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
November 10, 2025 at 4:33 PM
(QPing because #structural_engineering is not the original topic.)
The article notes a series of damaging events. And that photo of the spontaneous facade failure ... yikes. From 2022:
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
The article notes a series of damaging events. And that photo of the spontaneous facade failure ... yikes. From 2022:
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
This is really cool. Translation (edited for length) of the intro post from X:
"In this EQ, the emergency EQ warning was issued before shaking hit land. (Real-time seismic intensity is calculated every 0.2 seconds from the 5-second acceleration waveform observed by the S-net accelerometer.)"
"In this EQ, the emergency EQ warning was issued before shaking hit land. (Real-time seismic intensity is calculated every 0.2 seconds from the 5-second acceleration waveform observed by the S-net accelerometer.)"
The underwater seismometer network is so great, as evidenced from yesterday's EQ off-Tohoku.
Reposting unofficial visualization by x.com/kotoho76/sta...
Reposting unofficial visualization by x.com/kotoho76/sta...
November 10, 2025 at 3:54 PM
This is really cool. Translation (edited for length) of the intro post from X:
"In this EQ, the emergency EQ warning was issued before shaking hit land. (Real-time seismic intensity is calculated every 0.2 seconds from the 5-second acceleration waveform observed by the S-net accelerometer.)"
"In this EQ, the emergency EQ warning was issued before shaking hit land. (Real-time seismic intensity is calculated every 0.2 seconds from the 5-second acceleration waveform observed by the S-net accelerometer.)"