Claude, use the web fetch tool to download en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compute... and then write a blog post for our CEO to review and edit

About a million years ago, Mapzen (RIP) banned the Trump administration from using our services. At the time it felt hypothetical, a preemptive ban on "what if" questions. I never imagined it would play out for real with today’s most prominent tech company. www.mapzen.com/blog/mapzen-...

tired: visions of grandeur when ChatGPT responds to your naive prompts suggesting that you suddenly have uncovered a profound new insight into a topic that requires years of study to understand wired: visions of grandeur when Claude Code lets you simultaneously open thousands of pull requests

Fellow armchair analysts, let's keep in mind many things going on at once: - the Trump regime is awful - too many US metros continue to lag int'l peers in quality of life but also: - US salaries are meaningfully higher than many other developed nations - there's genuine economic opportunity here

The field of candidates for governor is sad... but this is actually exciting. Yes, it's time to finally touch the third rail of California politics! www.sfexaminer.com/news/state/s...

Just as Las Vegas is nicknamed the "9th Island" of Hawaii, Maricopa County should be called the "10th County" of the SF Bay Area to understand cross-linked housing markets (* the domestic migration flow from LA to Phoenix is greater, but I don't have a zippy name for that pairing :)

Ha, I've never seen the inside of the BARTmobile... but thanks to the California Public Records Act, I have seen its birth: www.muckrock.com/news/archive...

Seems it never rains in southern California Seems I've often heard that kind of talk before It never rains in California But girl, don't they warn ya? It pours, man, it pours

Californians for originalism (i.e., the supremacy of CARB's authority to regulate tailpipe emissions, over the US EPA that was founded years later)

Must be a slow news day since the @calmatters.org front page is telling us that maybe modular housing will happen this year... and their go-to Republican columnist still doesn't like taxes or Newscum

Congratulations to San Francisco's teachers union -- as well as to the families who made due during the strike -- for demonstrating what "shared governance" can accomplish An overview of the final deal from @missionlocal.org:

Lower the cost of living by permitting more multi-family housing in the wealthiest ZIP codes in the country? Wouldn't it just be easier to pay people directly say San Mateo County Supervisors... www.mercurynews.com/2026/02/12/s...

"Singularity or just Chinese New Year?"

Props to the @sfstandard.com whose owners may have an agenda (like many newspaper owners do) but who, regardless, are paying for top-notch journalism, including great photography like this:

Claude, make me a website with a front page like Huff Post Next write an agentic workflow to run whenever I post to Twitter -- err, X. Turn each post into an article following Axios SmartBrevity format End each article with a call-to-action related to Abundance

When you have a Claude Code subscription , everything looks like nail you can hit with that hammer... including the entire city of Oakland district.myhamlet.com/articles/oak...

Reposting an LLM chat session is kind of like telling someone about a movie you just watched — very easy to bore 'em with unnecessary details

SFFD tending to a tree fallen on a parked SUV and a Waymo robot: 100 block of Sanchez, San Francisco San Francisco Fire Station 6 is on that block, by Market St. There was a wind gust warning today. Waymo robots often get befuddled by downed trees, but not often on them. OP: tiktok.pablotavera83

Is it time for the Salesforce board to strongly suggest Benioff retire full time to Hawaii? Dude went from having the best PR in the bay to being an unpredictable loudmouth

The National: [cracks knuckles, tunes instruments]

One single local BRT line in Oakland (AC Transit Tempo) serves more riders than the entire VTA Light Rail system, and has a Cost Effectiveness that rivals our top *regional* transit services Bay Area should be super-funding East Bay BRT if they distributed funding based on objective metrics

Bad news: Vision Zero policies and action plans haven't eliminated traffic deaths Good news: It's significantly safer to live/walk/bike/drive in a city that is working on VZ

That was the best show in Santa Clara since at least m.youtube.com/watch?v=2H-T...

HOF (high-occupancy football) lane

The local ice skater just completed her Olympics routine and edged ahead of all the other contestants! How soon until we hear the Greater East Oakland Thunderdome activating all the fireworks? ... oh, right, we're watching a delayed recording....

Today marks one year since Don Shoup died. I put on a jacket I didn’t realize I wore last at our memorial lunch, pockets stuffed with Kleenex. In Don’s memory today, think about how you commit yourself to change and leave a legacy of passion and love behind.

when I was an undergrad: re-enacting the "imagery debates" in which one cognitive scientist's research was over multiple years bested by another today's undergrads: reporting in the Stanford Daily all the awful (and potentially illegal) emails sent over many years by the winner of that debate

The Federal Transit Administration is so busy trying to make transit riders feel unsafe that their social-media staff didn't check and notice that BART isn't the transit agency that serves Levi's Stadium

When my younger kid (who never got to go to a Fry's, unlike his older sister) asked for an LED over the winter holidays, I drove him all the way down to the new Micro Center in Santa Clara. Illogical for a 5 cent part but the experience of an in-person electronics store was worth the hassle

Californians may remember Lizzie as the (former) SF Chronicle reporter who did a terrific job covering the 2018 Camp Fire.

Sitting outside a coffee shop in my random mid-sized suburb, trying to glare at the middle-aged man who's rapidly scrolling through TikTok with the volume turned all the way up. No wonder some people have cooked their brains so heavily...

who is this British dude in the California gubernatorial debate yapping on about oil? sorry but they have been banned from holding office here since Sir Francis Drake couldn’t find San Francisco Bay in 1579

We painted a white line and removed two parking spaces. What more do these bike riders want?

That new apartment-inferno logo is solid, but still can't beat the best California NIMBY group logo to date:

“delete jira tickets” 💀💀💀

Yes! Assembly Member @buffywicks.bsky.social would be a great candidate for governor -- she has the proven track record of successfully negotiating with powerful state interests that a California governor needs: www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/open...

Relatedly, high quality public transit is necessary for our community to engage in protest like this, both wrt travel to the event as well as the assembly space itself. Volunteer & donate to the #ConnectBayArea ballot measure to save Bay Area transit this year: connectbayarea.com

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

Geospatial data, slippy web maps, and web UI widgets can be used for many purposes... I'm very glad to make a living using those tools to support public transit.

2026 is sure to be remembered as the year Euclid turned 100

Waymo: when our car hit an student, it was traveling at only 6 mph! success! if you extrapolate this out, we are saving lives! Waymo: would a human driver have traveled as quickly around a double-parked SUV during school hours as our autonomous vehicle with no safety driver onboard? next question!

We are living in truly historic times.

On Friday, we launched the signature campaign for Connect Bay Area, a five-county transit funding measure headed for the November 2026 ballot. I wrote the legislation, and @connectbayareatransit is collecting signatures right now to qualify this measure for the ballot.

The dismantling of the San Jose Mercury News by private equity has had so many unfortunate effects around the South Bay — including leaving regional news to opinionated outlets like the Palo Alto Daily Post:

Without strong public transit, mobility doesn't work for anyone. Join me this morning at 10a at the Ferry Bldg to kick off signature gathering for Connect Bay Area. We need your help to win luma.com/le1g7slf?tk=...

The Mineta e-bike safety research is incredibly based.

The UAW will ensure that our member receives the full protection of all negotiated contract language safeguarding his job and his rights as a union member. Workers should never be subjected to vulgar language or behavior by anyone—including the President of the United States.

Not sure I can say I was a "card carrying member" of the UAW, since I don't recall if I had a literal card during my time as a unionized university teaching assistant. Anyway, as a former member of the UAW, I very much appreciate and agree with this statement:

Thanks for the reminder to get up off the couch and retrieve the newspaper from the rainy outdoors (Recently switching from the Sunday NYT to SF Chronicle has been a breath of fresh air)