I don’t think it is progressive to force urban homeowners like me who live in fire-safe areas to pay higher home insurance premiums to subsidize people who choose to live in McMansions in places with very high fire risk.

Get more Law Library news in our mid-month E-Update, including info on upcoming closures and a new special date for our December Consumer Rights Clinic. SF Law Library - E-Update: hosted-p0.vresp.com/1095305/2596...

just learned we won an award for our blog post about Tom Holland and stormwater management. remember, when you see an article about stormwater management, you repost it. i don’t make the rules.

Wikipedia co-founder Larry Sanger argues The Epoch Times should be treated as reputable. MAGA Congressmen demand info on Wikipedia editors. Musk's Grokipedia cites Stormfront. The war for reality is being fought over "reliable sources" New from me on Substack: substack.com/home/post/p-...

Building a Drivable, Life-Size 3D-Printed LEGO Technic Buggy

"Doom scrolling" heißt auf Deutsch Dummscrollen, and I think that's beautiful. #linguistics #translation #engdeu

October marked the fifth consecutive month with over 1 million total riders! Thank you for riding with us! 💖

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When will Caltrans start adding time via transit to their freeway signs? ⏳

Gotta set some boundaries... 😅

📺 Happy Monday! We have another Cab Cam video for you! You’re watching sped-up footage of the Blue Line from Dublin to Daly City.

This was a fun and interesting read that got to the Hacker News frontpage yesterday. anniemueller.com/posts/how-i-...

33 years ago this month, the movie Sneakers hit theaters. 🕵️‍♂️💻 The studio even shipped a floppy disk press kit that reporters had to "hack" into for bios & production materials. www.mentalfloss.com/article/5029... 💾 Explore this rare relic on the Internet Archive: archive.org/details/Snea...

Join the Electronic Frontier Foundation in honoring heroes of digital freedom at the 2025 #EFF Awards! 🎉 Celebrate innovators, activists, & technologists shaping a better future. 📅 Wed, Sept 10 🕕 6:00 PM reception (awards 7:30) 📍 101 Henry Adams St, SF ℹ️ www.eff.org/event/eff-aw...

These two things help save the planet! My bike meets Professor Trashwheel in the Canton neighborhood of Baltimore. Baltimore has four solar powered Trashwheels that help collect and prevent debris from entering the Harbor. Learn more here: www.mrtrashwheel.com/trash-wheel-...

Came for the hacking - stayed for the community. 📺🎶🔥 Come join us for Resident Electronic Music - a recurring electronic music open mic every fourth Thursday of the month. 272 Capp Str 8-10pm. www.noisebridge.net/wiki/Residen...

My wife started DADA QUEST in a “dimly lit room”… 20 minutes later she was a spy on an assassination mission. Or maybe you'd like to explore the secrets of the Crenshaw Library? That’s the promise, chaos, and sometimes surreal whimsy of this retro text adventure with an AI game master. dada.quest

Beam me up!! 🖖🌉🚀🌌

"Pat, why do you carry that ridiculous 600mm lens on long hikes?" Buddy, I can see mountains reflected in the eyes of a trailside pika.

this x-files edit goes HARD idc

The Wikimedia Hackathon 2025 brought 200+ coders, builders, and dreamers from 30+ countries to Istanbul. From tools flagging gendered language to Wikidata-scale projects, 45 showcases proved one thing: when Wikimedia’s tech community meets, innovation sparks. Read more ➡️ w.wiki/EtXA

From the Clever Librarians Files.

Snake-in-the-Box Problem xkcd.com/3125/

“I’m not the same person I was as a child,” Navied Mahdavian writes. “But some things remain.” Read his comic on re-learning how to skateboard.

Indeed. 👉 archive.org/details/toml...

I can’t stop laughing. 😂

President Trump’s AI action plan “seeks to require that 'the government only contracts with' developers who meet the administration's ideological criteria," EFF’s Kit Walsh told Nextgov/FCW.

“Johns Hopkins has not merely preserved its discriminatory DEI framework — it has entrenched, expanded and openly celebrated it as a cornerstone of its institutional identity,” www.thebaltimorebanner.com/education/hi...

The Zen of Python says "Errors should never pass silently.". Here is a solution for that problem.

Always good to remember.

And now, grim news about my workplace, KQED.

Woke up this morning and checked the MTA status expecting a lot of subway delays and... nothing. A testament to how resilient the system really is.

The official DHS account is now tweeting about “your homeland’s heritage”

This is the most Mastodon post I've ever seen

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NASA is more than rockets and moonwalks. NASA is behind much of our everyday technology. From space discovery, to Air Jordans, to CAT scans, NASA has played a role. We get it all on less than a penny of every federal dollar. Now their science may be gutted by 50%. #NASADidThat

When I see someone happily show off something they're proud of and there's a hater in the comments: m.youtube.com/watch?v=v9y5...

A thing that deeply troubles me about my field is that people tell me that programming doesn’t give them a sense of purpose, challenge and fulfillment. No, the great big beautiful tomorrow is them yelling at a simulated human slave until a barely working piece of software materializes.

A truly historic day in California: a clean CEQA exemption for environmentally friendly infill housing has just passed the California legislature via the budget bill! No other way to put it: this is the most transformative positive shift in land use policy in this state of the last 50 years!

Worth a watch: Head of Signal, Meredith Whittaker, on so-called "agentic AI" and the difference between how it's described in the marketing and what access and control it would actually require to work as advertised.

The most vulnerable communities will be hit hardest by S.B. 690. This bill is a step backward at a time when surveillance is surging nationwide. We must #StopSB690 #StopCorporateCoverUp

There is a Guinness World Record certificate hanging in the BART Board Room! In March 2024, a group of seven UC Berkeley students and friends accomplished a BART speedrun in 5 hours, 47 minutes, and 42 seconds. Guinness has officially certified this BART speedrun.

Woooooo transit!!! 🚆🚉🚋🚇🚌🚎⛴️

LATEST CHINA SOLAR DATA: 93GW installed during May --- the same as EVER installed in TEXAS and CALIFORNIA.. combined 🤯🤯🤯 (yes, the Chinese are in a bit of a rush before policy changes, but even still!)

How do government documents, locked away on tiny sheets of microfiche, become searchable & accessible online? Now you can see it happen in real time. 🎞️⤵️ Watch it live: www.youtube.com/live/aPg2V5R... #InternetArchive #LiveStream #LiveNow

just beyond parody

hell yeah

This is a good start, but if you’re a member of Congress you can’t just walk away when they say no. You need to print out a large copy of the law, show it to them, walk in there anyway, and dare them to arrest you