Kudos to the elections team at @sfgov.sf.gov for very clear ballot tracking info!

I love everything about this

I still get goosebumps thinking about Direct File, and what it could have been.

This is incredibly dumb: cross-national collaborations are part of what makes science great. No country has a monopoly on good ideas.

Saïd Sayrafiezadeh is so good at writing about paranoia. A new story from him: www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

Should eliminating the presidential pardon be part of the pro-democracy reforms that are needed? Methinks yes. Especially appreciate the @ruthmarcus.bsky.social historical lens (constitutional convention!) in @newyorker.com: delegates worried no checks/balances www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

Yankees, Yankees, Astros

👉 A reminder that our Nonprofit Explorer lets you browse millions of annual returns filed by tax-exempt organizations. See details like executive compensation, revenue, expenses and more.

Exhibits A and B on how car-centric Atlanta is — no functional transit to the relatively new ballpark district, and a public safety alert for a highway closure (have never experienced the latter anywhere else)

The City of Ottawa posted the raw speed data from before and after Doug Ford banned speed cameras and the effect is so obvious it's not even necessary put a line marking when that happened. This chart shows the percentage of drivers going 15km/h or more over the posted limit.

Registration is open for Cyber Civil Defense Summit: East! Co-hosted by the UC Berkeley Center for Long-Term Cybersecurity and NJCCIC. www.eventbrite.com/e/cyber-civi... #CyberCivilDefense #Take9

San Francisco has long let neighbors block new housing by citing building shadows as an "environmental concern." Supervisor Bilal Mahmood's new legislation would end that. via @io-y-g.bsky.social missionlocal.org/2026/05/sf-b...

So blue!

A recent CoinDesk survey found 73% disapprove of government officials having crypto business ties, yet 55% weren’t aware of Trump’s involvement, and only 17% knew he co-founded World Liberty Financial. This underscores why my work at Citation Needed is so necessary. www.citationneeded.news/signup/

Our baseline estimate implies that preserving trust in the integrity and quality of official statistics generates economic benefits of about $25 for every $1 spent on the BLS budget — @nickbloom.bsky.social @ericagroshen.bsky.social Duncan Hobbs @michaelrstrain.bsky.social www.nber.org/papers/w35135

Think of the children… it’s been more than a year since our last parade. Whatever shall we do?!

Had to check it out.

BREAKING: The Chinese government pressured Zambia to screen + exclude Taiwanese speakers attending @rightscon.org, leading to the largest international convention on digital rights being canceled a week before it takes place, the host org @accessnow.org tells WIRED. By @telliotter.bsky.social + me

“Even if you never flew Spirit, you benefited from the airline’s presence. Competing airlines vigorously matched its fares … you can bet that dirt cheap fares … will be harder to come by.” @dawngilbertson.bsky.social www.wsj.com/lifestyle/tr...

2am flights are crazy (separate from everything Spirit going on)

When a King and direct descendent of King George III has to remind the American government about the utmost importance of checks and balances, you know we're in deep trouble.

fine i will manage the red sox

Payton Pritchard hits a running buzzer beater to end the first qtr

Loving how much NFL draft content I’m seeing on Bluesky

Payton Tolle was dealing in his first start of the season

B O S T O N

This is absolutely wonderful, set aside some time and some butter to enjoy it.

NEW VIDEO: How did sports debate shows turn into the way we talk about everything? I went inside the rise of hot take culture, talked to the people who built it and traced how hot takes took over media. In collaboration with Vice Sports: youtu.be/ndGUBh3EjJw?...

Red Sox uniform rotation this weekend: Green Yellow Yellow White with Boston across the front

Masa called game. 🗒️ bit.ly/3OOIcu6

Sports owners are using tech to build private surveillance states — while taking public money. Which means that Knicks owner James Dolan is the future. In a new collaboration with @wired.com, we go inside how MSG secretly watches fans, surveils kids, tracks players… youtu.be/yNZ3hJPN5Vc?...

We all have days like this

Voting on spy powers at 2am will definitely help with trust in the government!

🎁 The @sfchronicle.com details how it got the Swalwel story, how it worked to get the accuser to come forward, how it raced CNN... Really interesting account of how journalism actually works. Gift link: 🎁 www.sfchronicle.com/politics/art...

Large parts of the business of keeping the US military fed were privatised to civilian contractors. And then last year DOGE started making cuts in those civilian contractors. eu.usatoday.com/story/news/p...

That said, skills-based is a bipartisan area of agreement that Trump 1.0, Biden and Trump 2.0 have pursued. Tech skills can be learned lots of places other than higher education.

Huge UX improvement - shoutout Google Calendar. No longer need to figure out "what time zone is this city in?" It's the small chef's kiss things...

"Supposing we hit the body with a tremendous—whether it's ultraviolet or just very powerful light....Supposing you brought the light inside the body, which you can do either through the skin or in some other way....And then I see the disinfectant...by injection inside or almost a cleaning."

When a USAID whistleblower told Trump people that it'd be hard to pull together accurate info on Malaria since DOGE had turned off access to the whole team who worked on that issue, one of the guys shouted “See, this is why, just because it might work at Twitter does not mean you can do it here!”

Good to see (belatedly, for me). Job mobility is critical for upward mobility. www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

As the planet gets hotter, cities around the world are experiencing rain storms with record-smashing intensity. I spent the last few months visiting places -Copenhagen, Hoboken, & NYC- that have adopted a counterintuitive idea: the safest city is one that can take water in. In @newyorker.com

tough road trip for Vance

STL batter gets HBP, goes to 1B .. but the Red Sox successfully challenge it didn't him .. so it's a ball .. then STL challenges that actually it was catcher's interference, so the batter goes *back* to 1B I have never seen that. I don't think anyone's ever seen that.

Here’s hoping NYC’s new regs have spillover benefits for the rest of us.

Interesting from Red Sox/Cardinals. Sox are away team but don’t have names on their road jerseys, while Cards are home team and have names on theirs.

I think we are far beyond the point where a serious person can plausibly claim that the immigration courts are offering a fair adjudication consistent with foundational principles of the American legal tradition. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/11/u...

Very relatable to the average American, who has six boat loans

BREAKING: the judges who dismissed high-profile cases in immigration court against two international students who have advocated for Palestinian causes, Rümeysa Öztürk and Mohsen Mahdawi, were fired yesterday, alongside four other judges. /w @haleaziz.bsky.social and @nicknehamas.bsky.social