sick public transit, gloria
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next station is the end of history, please gather your belongings as you exit
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Aura of Success: The First Years of Japan's Privatized National Railways
What does it take to make a railway a "success"?
www.substack-bahn.net
new S(ubstack)-Bahn post: I evaluate Japanese Railways' first years post-privatization and examine the conditions set prior to its launch to guarantee its success. But how does one grade such success -- and can JR be deemed as a success story?
www.substack-bahn.net/p/aura-of-su...
www.substack-bahn.net/p/aura-of-su...
a recurring theme of 20th century East Asia history is the once-shared belief that Manchuria was where the future was and its downstream effects to all countries the region touched once that future was foreclosed (China/Japan/both Koreas/Mongolia?)
For decades, China's only electrified suburban railway was a 300km-system in Fushun, an industrial city of a little over a million in Liaoning province. I wrote a little about it: kaptrice.blogspot.com/2025/11/the-...
The Fushun Electric Railway - China's First Electric Railway
China is not a country well-known for legacy suburban railways. Although lately several dozen new-build lines have appeared, and several mai...
kaptrice.blogspot.com
November 26, 2025 at 6:50 PM
a recurring theme of 20th century East Asia history is the once-shared belief that Manchuria was where the future was and its downstream effects to all countries the region touched once that future was foreclosed (China/Japan/both Koreas/Mongolia?)
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- jean-francois lyotard, for much of the 80s and 90s
starting to think we might be living in a moment where narratives just keep collapsing under the mania and hysteria. not great!
November 26, 2025 at 6:34 PM
- jean-francois lyotard, for much of the 80s and 90s
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food takes are what got jean valjean into trouble
November 25, 2025 at 10:20 PM
food takes are what got jean valjean into trouble
perhaps sacrilegious take but I would like to see a 2020s retelling of Scorsese's AFTER HOURS with a big budget and a new young director
If you were a despotic president, what movie would you force Hollywood to make? I want to see Quentin's Star Trek movie or maybe Kill Bill Vol 3.
November 25, 2025 at 6:59 PM
perhaps sacrilegious take but I would like to see a 2020s retelling of Scorsese's AFTER HOURS with a big budget and a new young director
a similar series of events played out to usher in Platform Screen Doors in Seoul Metro -- but $80m may be a far higher litigation price, proportionally, MTA has to pay vs what Seoul Metro paid in 2005
November 25, 2025 at 6:36 PM
a similar series of events played out to usher in Platform Screen Doors in Seoul Metro -- but $80m may be a far higher litigation price, proportionally, MTA has to pay vs what Seoul Metro paid in 2005
Al Gore, 2000, when the state was too close to call:
November 25, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Al Gore, 2000, when the state was too close to call:
I get things are hard at Rad Power Bikes rn, but like you gotta have a better PR statement than "trust our word over the federal regulators and also there's no recourse for affected customers to take" press.radpowerbikes.com/258269-rad-p...
Rad Power Bikes' Response to CPSC Safety Statement
Rad Power Bikes firmly stands behind our batteries and our reputation as leaders in the ebike industry, and strongly disagrees with the CPSC's characterization of certain Rad batteries as defective or...
press.radpowerbikes.com
November 24, 2025 at 10:41 PM
I get things are hard at Rad Power Bikes rn, but like you gotta have a better PR statement than "trust our word over the federal regulators and also there's no recourse for affected customers to take" press.radpowerbikes.com/258269-rad-p...
oh COME ON
CPSC Warns Consumers to Immediately Stop Using Batteries for E-Bikes from Rad Power Bikes Due to Fire Hazard; Risk of Serious Injury or Death www.cpsc.gov/Warnings/202...
November 24, 2025 at 7:10 PM
oh COME ON
but that's not Taylorism either...(and who is saying this?)
“Capitalism forces you to wake up at 7am against your body’s natural rhythms” no that’s Taylorism and if you don’t like living in a society that coordinates effort to ensure a better outcome for all then I don’t think you’ll love the alternatives
November 24, 2025 at 6:59 PM
but that's not Taylorism either...(and who is saying this?)
you can just skip the turkey and get KFC on thanksgiving. that’s what most Koreans I knew growing up did. I didn’t have a carved-and-served turkey on thanksgiving until college
November 24, 2025 at 4:00 AM
you can just skip the turkey and get KFC on thanksgiving. that’s what most Koreans I knew growing up did. I didn’t have a carved-and-served turkey on thanksgiving until college
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Arsenal are really good and will walk the league this year, but that tactical setup was naïve and unconscionable.
November 23, 2025 at 6:24 PM
Arsenal are really good and will walk the league this year, but that tactical setup was naïve and unconscionable.
this is going to be the start of so many montage tiktoks and reels smh
November 23, 2025 at 5:38 PM
this is going to be the start of so many montage tiktoks and reels smh
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very jealous I didn't come up with this beautiful IG account dedicated to photographing open-air modernist stairwells across South Korea and Japan -- and be a wordplay on gyedan ("stairs" in Korean) and dandadan my fav anime atm
November 22, 2025 at 11:03 PM
very jealous I didn't come up with this beautiful IG account dedicated to photographing open-air modernist stairwells across South Korea and Japan -- and be a wordplay on gyedan ("stairs" in Korean) and dandadan my fav anime atm
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since it’s Big Game Week, here are Stanford students gracing an ancient Mesopotamian relief with some school spirit! Iraq, 1963. Ontologically evil school
November 21, 2024 at 3:34 AM
since it’s Big Game Week, here are Stanford students gracing an ancient Mesopotamian relief with some school spirit! Iraq, 1963. Ontologically evil school
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the photo trio of close-up together, zoom out together and the portrait shot of zohran only is something my father-in-law would do on facebook lmfao
Trump also just posted these photos to Truth Social, including the one with Mamdani standing next to a portrait of FDR. Trump mentioned Mamdani asked if he could have his picture taken there.
"It's an amazing portrait in the cabinet room," Trump said. "So he's a big fan of the New Deal, I guess..."
"It's an amazing portrait in the cabinet room," Trump said. "So he's a big fan of the New Deal, I guess..."
November 22, 2025 at 12:10 AM
the photo trio of close-up together, zoom out together and the portrait shot of zohran only is something my father-in-law would do on facebook lmfao
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TRUMP: and this Daniel, he went into the den?
MAMDANI: The lion's den, yes
TRUMP: surely they ate him
MAMDANI: Here's the part where it gets a little Broadway: they didn't
TRUMP: Unbelievable
MAMDANI: The lion's den, yes
TRUMP: surely they ate him
MAMDANI: Here's the part where it gets a little Broadway: they didn't
TRUMP: Unbelievable
November 21, 2025 at 9:41 PM
TRUMP: and this Daniel, he went into the den?
MAMDANI: The lion's den, yes
TRUMP: surely they ate him
MAMDANI: Here's the part where it gets a little Broadway: they didn't
TRUMP: Unbelievable
MAMDANI: The lion's den, yes
TRUMP: surely they ate him
MAMDANI: Here's the part where it gets a little Broadway: they didn't
TRUMP: Unbelievable
if you like this kinda dynamic honestly check out the 2002 Sam Mendes movie ROAD TO PERDITION
November 21, 2025 at 9:40 PM
if you like this kinda dynamic honestly check out the 2002 Sam Mendes movie ROAD TO PERDITION
this reads like yaoi
A reporter asks if Mamdani stands by calling Trump a fascist. Mamdani starts to give a delicate answer.
Trump (smiles, pats Mamdani's arm): "That's OK, you can just say yes. It's easier. I don't mind."
Trump (smiles, pats Mamdani's arm): "That's OK, you can just say yes. It's easier. I don't mind."
November 21, 2025 at 8:58 PM
this reads like yaoi
it's Nujabes November btw, you gotta be lofi-maxxing
November 21, 2025 at 5:49 PM
it's Nujabes November btw, you gotta be lofi-maxxing
“Once my head flew off...I started whaling on him. I was going to do whatever. It was cat and dog. I just wanted to beat the f—k out of him. But I knew it was on TV at that point. I knew I could continue to punch him and reveal my identity, or try to salvage this.”
www.sfgate.com/collegesport...
www.sfgate.com/collegesport...
What really happened the night Cal's Oski beat up the Stanford Tree
"I must've been 18 beers deep at that point. I was in big trouble."
www.sfgate.com
November 21, 2025 at 5:15 PM
“Once my head flew off...I started whaling on him. I was going to do whatever. It was cat and dog. I just wanted to beat the f—k out of him. But I knew it was on TV at that point. I knew I could continue to punch him and reveal my identity, or try to salvage this.”
www.sfgate.com/collegesport...
www.sfgate.com/collegesport...
talking to the lady on the bus about stancil vs housing bluesky with increasing excitement about the points made on both sides until she unloads a whole can of pepper spray directly at my face
November 21, 2025 at 12:14 AM
talking to the lady on the bus about stancil vs housing bluesky with increasing excitement about the points made on both sides until she unloads a whole can of pepper spray directly at my face
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“The new timetable assumes each bus will spend nearly 45% of its runtime idling at BART (or about 6.2 hours of a 14 hour shift).
It is hard to escape the conclusion that the timetable is being designed around the limitations of the aging [BEB] capacity.”
www.seamlessbayarea.org/blog/2025/11...
It is hard to escape the conclusion that the timetable is being designed around the limitations of the aging [BEB] capacity.”
www.seamlessbayarea.org/blog/2025/11...
November 20, 2025 at 4:44 AM
“The new timetable assumes each bus will spend nearly 45% of its runtime idling at BART (or about 6.2 hours of a 14 hour shift).
It is hard to escape the conclusion that the timetable is being designed around the limitations of the aging [BEB] capacity.”
www.seamlessbayarea.org/blog/2025/11...
It is hard to escape the conclusion that the timetable is being designed around the limitations of the aging [BEB] capacity.”
www.seamlessbayarea.org/blog/2025/11...
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The best description I ever read of copy editors is this, from Lawrence Downes in 2008:
“The copy editor’s job, to the extent possible under deadline, is to slow down, think things through, do the math and ask the irritating question.”
“The copy editor’s job, to the extent possible under deadline, is to slow down, think things through, do the math and ask the irritating question.”
Opinion | In a Changing World of News, an Elegy for Copy Editors (Published 2008)
www.nytimes.com
November 20, 2025 at 6:13 AM
The best description I ever read of copy editors is this, from Lawrence Downes in 2008:
“The copy editor’s job, to the extent possible under deadline, is to slow down, think things through, do the math and ask the irritating question.”
“The copy editor’s job, to the extent possible under deadline, is to slow down, think things through, do the math and ask the irritating question.”