Remarkable man at 100: still moving, still seeing, still thinking, still dreaming. What lucid, lovely prose. We all deserve such a blessed life.

“When I speak about making our city more affordable, my vision is not limited to the homes that we live in or the child care that we’re making universal — it’s also a vision where we make it possible for working people to afford lives of joy, of art, of rest, of expression.”

A friend shared his letter to his family, from 1960, prior to joining fourteen comrades in destroying some 40,000 draft records, then signing hymns while waiting for police to arrest them. Such valor may soon be called for. May our actions now honor their sacrifices then.

“I’m against the blackshirts because of the things they do to people, and make them do; and I mind that… because I love these people. Hate is nothing, even in politics, hate is only temper and unhappiness; it’s an accident. It is stupid and unkind to let it overtake one.” —Sybille Bedford (1963)

In a nation ruled by supremacy and all its many sabotages of the public good, every act of repair is a defiant act. *Every* act of repair is a defiant act.

Is it time to rewatch Bob Fosse’s ALL THAT JAZZ (1979)

Devastated to learn about the fire that destroyed the incredible Northtown Books in Arcata. Help if you can: giveahand.com/fundraiser/n...

New Interview: www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a...

BREAKING: Bottom of the Hill, the storied rock club that’s hosted countless local bands as well as global superstars like Oasis, the Strokes, and the White Stripes, will shutter at the end of this year, owners say. What’s next for the space isn’t clear. www.coyotemedia.org/san-francisc...

A very bike friendly street. Keeps cars slow and lets bikes ride smoothly. It’s Germany tjo so it must be grey at all costs

In news that should surprise no one…

As good as the speech was Zohran telegraphs Bernie more than Obama in tone and cadence. He risked boring us to make a point, he kept it as down to earth as Bernie’s coat

Mayor Zohran Mamdani at his desk

All good folks

Today is March 7309th, 2020

It should be harder to get a drivers license and easier to lose it.

One of the finest pieces I’ve read in a long time. Every day is a gift.

I am a pupa that will hatch and be reborn as a Jim Ignatowski

1) If your email is gushingly kind, wait a minute, dial it back and hit send. They’ll be touched by the trace of restraint, and feel the kindness more. 2) If the email is written in a spasm of hurt wrath, leave it for 2-3 days. If you must send, cut it by at least 1/2 and delete the adjectives.

Is it any wonder pedestrian deaths are up nearly 50% from a decade ago? Criminal mass manslaughter by car manufacturers

A fine and long overdue first step on the road to banning cars

This piece is a great illustration of how the long-term effect of Trump’s destruction of US institutions won’t be felt in a dramatic market collapse, but rather in permanently worse economic conditions, and lower prosperity. giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/... So long, American exceptionalism

San Francisco, wake up please. We don’t have to live this way…

Notably less traffic without Waymo in San Francisco. Turns out “autonomous” cars do not solve the problem created by cars.

San Francisco just had the smallest taste of what real disaster could look like—and trust us, you do not want “autonomous” cars going haywire in the middle of one.

Failed Waymo robot blocking emergency services during a widespread emergency: Grant St at Sacramento, heart of Chinatown, San Francisco I've been warning about this scenario for ~7 yrs. Safety drivers fix this in seconds. SFPD will prob have to drive this out of the way. OP:tiktok.joolyana

Waymo standoff — this is why we don’t want Waymos on Market Street. Blocking emergency vehicles, distracting first responders.

Jesus Christ

Cars are not freedom, they’re financial servitude. This is refreshing reporting. The San Francisco Chronicle, by contrast, will refer to an entire region’s “love of driving” (the North Bay) without acknowledging that people there have little real choice. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

fuck why is this funny

No courage, no convictions. A minority of a minority of motorists have convinced S.F. pols to waste time and money to close a popular public park. Might as well vote on bringing indoor smoking back to appease smokers

All the bars that swore they would close if indoor smoking bans passed. Op/eds that claimed DUI laws would destroy society. The fury that requiring seat belts would end Freedom. It's all pointless bitchery by the most entitled people on earth. Wage your War on Cars accordingly.

We need leaders who have seen the world on foot, not from the back of a black SUV. Our long-time S.F. supervisor drove 1.5 miles to City Hall every day for years. He also blocked the Central Subway from coming to our neighborhood, even though the tunnel was dug here to get the drill out.

This from @tomscocca.bsky.social has lived rent free in my brain for years, especially the part of taking stock of how you're enjoying the party after your 2 drinks. If you're not having fun, more drinks won't make it better. Go home. lifehacker.com/have-two-dri...

If the driver was on an e-bike we’d be treated to op/eds on the dangers of bicycles that can go 28 mph www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/arti...

Playtime and Lawrence of Arabia at the Castro—sigh. More recently OBAA in an art deco box seat at Amsterdam’s Koninklijk, the opera house of cinemas; and www.RachelOrmont.com in SF Chinatown’s Great Star, a film every other cinema in town refused to screen

MAGAZINER: How many veterans have you deported? NOEM: We haven't deported veterans MAGAZINER: We are now joined on Zoom by a combat veteran you deported to Korea

Today’s tech fantasy culture, from AI and robotics to utopian cities, is all about one thing: avoiding and erasing the underclass our techlords can’t yet live without. It’s a cognitive dissonance that drives them nuts. They’re gods who rule the world, but they’re babies who need servants to live.

The text generator generates text. If you ask it for persuasive text, it generates text that is more persuasive. The text generator cannot lie, or tell the truth—it just generates text. Every time we say “the bot lied” we are misleading ourselves.

1. Cars are the biggest source of climate pollution in the country. 2. Transportation is the biggest household expense after rent/mortgage. 2. State and local gov't could cut these numbers by about 25% in five years without any federal policy. Somebody solve this for me, what should we do? 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️

“In the early days it was a lonely battle. Studio heads whom Taylor had made lots of money for hung up on her … Some of her friends and advisers told her to stay away from HIV and AIDS because it could end her career.” www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/20...

Just another reminder that car culture is and always was a project of authoritarian division, privatization and control —the opposite of the freedom it sells as a vibe

I’m 41 today. Until the 20th century, odds are I would be dead by now. In fact, at 37 my own cells tried to kill me. I’m still here because of science, people who gave their lives for research, and billions in federal funding. What our ancestors didn’t know killed them. We must never go back.

Pediatricians say vaccines do not cause autism. A bear-eating heroin addict who fantasizes about sucking his own semen out of his lovers' orifices says they do. For busy parents, it can be hard to know who to trust.

A reminder that cars aren’t a technology problem. They’re a geometry problem.

“Sometimes these people give the impression that their minds would be blown by a newspaper.”

The Queens Daily Eagle remains undefeated.