There is still time to register for CIDR 2026 in Santa Cruz! If you need a roommate for the conference, there is also a spreadsheet you can use to find someone! www.cidrdb.org/cidr2026/reg...

Today is World AIDS Day. We lost a generation of gay men to HIV and a willful choice not to act. Dot matrix printouts like this pronounced a death sentence. Today, HIV can be controlled or prevented by a single pill. But access isn’t universal. We must use the tools we have to end HIV in our time.

“I kind of feel betrayed, to be honest. We do everything that we can to protect and serve our country. And then they betray us by treating us like we’ve never done anything.” www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

We first note that hand-wringing about the decline in US college enrollments has mistakenly linked such declines to the price of four-year colleges. But the decline is entirely driven by two-year community colleges (and by for-profit colleges). The four-year sector is the dog that didn't bark.

o thanks 😑

incredible quote lol

Does Dean think building housing makes you a fascist?

Honor roll.

we come to this place for magic

These posters for the South Korean stage production of Macbeth are the greatest thing ever? #art

The legal, media, and academic institutions capitulating to an authoritarian ordering payments for favorable treatment are damning themselves to irrelevance. They are destroying their institutions. They will be — and should be — shunned for failing in their most basic purposes for existing.

Who knew if you threw the people who project tough guy above the law images in prison they suddenly aren’t powerful anymore?

It’s kind of incredible that The Onion’s aiming to surpass the Washington Post in print circulation but I’m here for it.

Michael Bohacek, an Republican state senator in Indiana, says he is a “NO” on Trump’s redistricting push, pointing to the president’s use of a slur

Look nobody can afford health insurance anymore but we still got 4k noodle.

As a medical business doctor, I take no pleasure in confirming the SF Macy’s has that brain parasite that causes grasshoppers to drown themselves in water.

Stephen Miller’s power/influence is inversely correlated with a pic of him working a giant spoon in a jar of Miracle Whip.

Busiest travel day of the year at DEN:

Trump’s idea looks pretty much like what we proposed—extend and reform Affordable Care credits; Johnson instead wants to rummage around in Republican box of stupid health care notions.

Today, after months of requests, I toured the Broadview ICE Processing Facility. I want to share what I saw. The facility has no food vendor, no medical care, and detainees have to use toilets in the middle of shared cells. These are in no way suitable conditions to be holding anyone — period.

Arches at dawn:

> With the summer peak driven by tourists coming to Golden Gate Park behind the restaurant, the timing of the outage makes the drop in business and lack of service sting a bit more, Lee said. I’m so confused. It’s almost December?

> The best way to set standards is [via] lightweight templates and ceremonies for information sharing, discussion, and decision-making. Every good senior manager should have some toolkit of these. 💯

This Pope guy has some bangers

Saikat staring up at the easiest bar to clear like it’s ten feet tall.

Fox poll: 76% of voters view the economy negatively. That's worse than the 67% who felt that way in July, and the 70% who said the same at the end of President Biden's term.

What if housing weren’t so scarce and people could afford to live here without relying on building-specific carveouts for favored professions or identities?

Played him like a fiddle.

Hakeem Jeffries era of humiliation. It’s a dumb resolution. Just don’t vote!

In a city full of NIMBYs, Connie Chan is one of the biggest. she’s also super anti-transit and opposed measure RR that saved Caltrain during the pandemic. Meanwhile, Scott has led the cause for almost every pro-housing and transit bill Scott vs. Connie is the definition of good governance vs. bad

“Climate conference attendees have complained of heat and food shortages.”

This is rich. Connie Chan says she “built real affordable housing, not the Sacramento version that destroys our neighborhoods.” She points to new affordable housing on Geary: housing that she didn’t build but that *was* built using “Sacramento version” housing laws & $52M in state funds. 🧵

This has to be parody

Sounds like he thought he had a get out of jail free card on the underage sex charge since he was ICE www.cbsnews.com/minnesota/ne...

This is monstrous thisweekinworcester.com/exclusive-tr...

We had @superantonio64.bsky.social spend a week with Microsoft’s new Copilot PCs to see if you really can just talk to the computer. Reader, these are famous last words. www.theverge.com/report/82244...

Just got back from protesting ConnectedSF's gala. This org's leader Marie Hurabiell tweeted that trans women aren't women and undocumented people are violent criminals. And Mayor Lurie was a featured guest helping her fundraise! Clearly, Lurie is not good at vetting people. 🧵

Hey everybody who ever loved a video game: take a moment right now and say a little prayer for Rebecca, to whom you owe much.

> Children’s toymaker says it’s pulling its AI-powered teddy bear after the cuddly companion was giving wildly inappropriate and even dangerous responses, including tips on how to find and light matches, and detailed explanations about sexual kinks.

Border agent seen in viral arrest of U.S. citizen fatally overdosed, lawyer says “Everyone just f****** hates me here." ktla.com/news/local-n...

Pope Leo absolutely cooking

Chaya is on a bender about me. Glad she likes my leather tie.

Seems like the 24 is coming off the overhead wires at least twice per trip between Castro and Geary lately. Anyone know if something happened over the last few weeks? /cc @sfmta.bsky.social

Doctor says, 'Dont worry, parser design is simple. Great programmer Kate Compton has written the parser you seek’

A fun aspect of browsing Bay Area craigslist is you also get lore and failed startup stories.

I can’t even

Incredible framing.

to safely dispose of these hats, eat them. natural fibers — such as cotton, wool, silk, and linen — breakdown in the digestive track. synthetics do not. thus, if you eat your hat, the synthetics will pass through the other side. smush through the poop to find the synthetic fibers and recycle them.

Jesus Christ.