I don’t understand how days before the election a leading gubernatorial candidate doesn’t understand the biggest CA infrastructure project. Up until a few weeks ago Becerra barely seemed to grasp the housing crisis, with few ideas on how to address it. Why are so many Democrats supporting him?

Gavin Newsom is raiding our public transit funds to hand out subsidies to oil companies 🤬 actionnetwork.org/events/emerg...

I switched to Kagi a couple months ago and it is amazing to have working search again

hey so lots going on i know but this right here is a whole fucking slow motion ongoing tragedy

CARB is proposing major changes to CA's Cap & Trade program -- a new carbon allowance program for promises of future reductions -- that the LAO estimates would cut $2B from revenue, and economists at UC Santa Barbra putting the cuts at $4B.

Another day another BART gate fail I miss the old gates that actually worked

My next monthly #Slowkland slow roll group bike ride around Lake Merritt is coming up Tuesday May 26, starting 5:30pm from Lake Merritt BART. We'll get to check out the new green, protected bikeway on 20th St, as well as the fresh paving on Franklin in advance of protected bikeway there this summer

The only reason society temporarily had a middle class after the industrial revolution was labor unions forced capital to acquiesce We will regress back to a feudal society on the edge of subsistence if we don't fight back against capital now with everything we've got

I'm with @nerd4cities.bsky.social — get rid of the BQE. This video makes a convincing case.

The title defense starts now 😤

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The proposed datacenter in Utah would be powered by a 9GW methane power plant 7x larger than any other in the nation 😱 You could power the entire state of Utah with this one plant but it will be used to power just one datacenter We are burning the planet to a crisp to produce slop no one wants

LIRR is the 5th most cost effective rail agency in the nation, and the union workers deserve the bulk of the credit for that

Inflation is at a three-year high. Everything costs more — groceries, gas, healthcare, a plane ticket. The math is simple. Every American dollar spent overseas on war is a dollar that could’ve been spent here at home to pay for a dignified life. It's time we change the equation.

The most significant thing we can do to protect the life support systems that make our life on earth possible is to stop systematically destroying them

Matt Mahan's housing platform is banning apartments in residential areas and fast tracking housing if bundled with a datacenter 😵‍💫

Disappointing that @cayimby.bsky.social said Mahan is a good choice when he proudly proclaimed how he was against dense housing as mayor

Nothing says Caltrans' vision of "The Future of California's Freeways" like a *triple decker* interchange. bsky.app/profile/infr...

Can we ban datacenters now? calmatters.org/economy/2026...

On April 27th a driver hit Bart Drawsand as he was biking on E22nd & 23rd Ave Bart was riding his bike west and turned uphill onto 23rd when a driver headed downhill struck and killed him We extend our deepest sympathies to Bart's family and friends www.oakrapidresponse.org/posts/fatali...

When we took office, NYC had a $12B deficit. Today it’s zero. And we didn’t close that gap on the backs of working people. We closed it while funding parks, libraries, safer streets, & public housing. Call it Pothole Politics or Democratic Socialism: We are government that delivers for the people.

Watering down increased vehicle miles traveled (VMT) mitigations for some roadway widening projects seems like a bad move. Climate change doesn’t care whether increased VMT is in a rural or urban area.

"One study found that increasing the number of people who receive SNAP benefits by 5 percent could have prevented nearly 32,000 suicides over 15 years. And a $1 increase in minimum wage has been linked to roughly 8,000 fewer suicide deaths over a decade."

I'll believe datacenters are a local benefit when they build them in wealthy neighborhoods and not exclusively in low income communities

None of us alive will experience climate better than what we have now. How much worse it gets is up to us.

Atmospheric CO₂ of 340 ppm

It is wrong and criminal for government agents to kidnap someone, send them to die in a concentration camp, and disappear them, regardless of immigration status. But it's still worth noting she has a green card. The government doesn't even pretend this is about deporting undocumented people.

I don't know who needs to hear this, but an economy controlled by a handful of oligarchs isn't a "free market."

AI does not have the juice

It is a myth that Waymo follows traffic laws

everybody above senior engineer at open AI should have their wealth expropriated and be thrown in prison and while were at it every c suite at nvidia and oracle and microsoft who has continued pushing this bubble and supporting open ai should be persecuted

It's funny how much extra insight into politics you get these days by avoiding the twitter brainworms that have infested most of the pundit class

Bankruptcy and dissolution is the moderate outcome

74% of us want government regulation of AI 65% of us oppose building datacenters Oppostion to AI and datacenters is universal across all ages, incomes, education levels, and political backgrounds No constituency supports what tech is imposing on us against our will poll.qu.edu/poll-release...

I’ve listened to this a couple of times now, and it is such a great statement of intent and purpose. We are so lucky to have her working towards these goals.

Stratos will consume DOUBLE the energy that is currently used by the ENTIRE state of Utah Releasing 16GW of thermal load, equivalent to ~23 atom bombs every single day! All powered by methane piped directly to the datacenter We are losing our only livable planet! www.sltrib.com/news/environ...

Worth revisiting today:

Oh wow the thing that tenant organizers warned would happen after the Altadena fire—the disappearance of affordable housing in the wave of rebuilding—is in fact happening!

The GOP have captured the courts so they know that they can get away with anything they want now without electoral consequences If our only resistance is to vote under a rigged system in November we will lose our democracy

So, the Democrats’ failure to ban gerrymandering in 2021 may cost us democracy after all.

At the developer meeting for Mandela Station that was prompted after the outage over the tree removal plan The only reason I know about this meeting is my neighborhood WhatsApp group There were no notifications posted and no mailers sent to neighbors 🫩

Pro-business conservatives are always going to NIMBY every single time If you want someone who is going to be radically pro-housing then you need to look to the left www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/y...

Just realizing that Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade's plot hinges on the idea that an amoral American businessman would be so obsessed with seeking immortality he'd easily conspire with Nazis and... well, good call there, film.

Only a YINO would vote for someone who proudly banned apartments in majority of San Jose Yimby In Name Only www.sjmayormatt.com/meet-matt

Here, I searched up the study this is about: dot.ca.gov/-/media/dot-...

BART is the most efficient heavy rail agency in the nation, partially because they are already mostly automated Only $70M out of BART's $1.08B budget (6%) is used to pay operators California should be doubling down on investing in BART's amazingly efficient union operated rail service

Here’s how the AI Boom, such as it is, has impacted my life: it has been used as an excuse to lay off my friends for bot equivalents that never came. It has made mass culture and art immeasurably worse. I have a stalker with AI psychosis. So, no, I don’t more data centers. I want less of all that.