If they changed the @bart.gov head sign at Berkeley to read "San Francisco via MacArthur", instead of "Berryessa" then more people would board and have a shorter journey, instead of waiting for a red line train.

The whole Anthropic-OpenAI-Hegseth thing is just another way for Trump to send hundreds of billions of dollars to Larry Ellison. There isn't anything deeper going on.

The business at this address is called "Kitchen on Fire" which must have cause a Laurel and Hardy-type comedy sketch on the dispatch radio.

At what point will this city demonstrate even a shred of competence? Just assign a guy to go out there and pour concrete tomorrow. No public input! You can simply do things!

“I am angry that the city that I love allowed an accident that should not have happened." www.berkeleyscanner.com/2026/02/28/t...

Is this false spring, fool's spring, or spring of deception? Anyway it's 80 I just threw open all the windows and took a nap.

I usually love some Wicks legislation but I don't think they should have legislated computer software APIs. That's just silly.

The "Berkeley Neighborhoods Council" invited this guy from SF to do a literal "for whomst" bit, live and in person last week. Incredible stuff from the NIBMYs.

85% of the TV news audience is age 55+ and half of the remaining audience is age 50-55. Age 50+ are also most of the electorate.

These layoffs having nothing to do with AI and workforce efficiency, but everything to do with the fact that Jack Dorsey got his faced ripped off by Bitcoin. They were holding memes in a bag valued at $777 million 60 days ago, that is worth < $500 million now, and their BTC biz has GMs under 10%.

Good stuff. Bend has permitted over 1,500 homes since last July. About 10% of those are income restricted. See the data here councilgoals-bendoregon.hub.arcgis.com/pages/housing

The CEO of "Impulse Labs"—a vaporware company selling preorders for a stove, run by one of Garry Tan's acolytes—has created a page called "Banned in California" explaining why he can't ship product. Meanwhile, Berkeley-based Copper is shipping the product that Impulse claims to sell.

Thank you, Sierra Club, for your bravery. www.sierraclub.org/loma-prieta/...

Word not appearing in story: "Biden". These documents sat in Joe's filing cabinet for 4 years.

electrek.co/2026/02/24/a... Looks better than the competing license plate bill.

One of the things I keep my eye on to gauge the local housing market is the advertised rents for the upcoming student apartment season vs. existing rents for the same unit. This one, for example, is being advertised now for $100 less than it rented for in 2023 and 2024.

A Senator has limited time and capacity to advance bills, and an electorate has limited attention to spend on understanding issues. This tactic by Warren squanders both.

How come nobody ever tries to establish subsidized loan programs for first-time homeBUILDERS?

Raise home prices by $150k with one weird trick.

Haven't seen it on Bluesky yet: a nice paper is making the rounds, estimating that the cost of housing permits in LA can explain 1/3 of the gap between construction costs and housing prices. That is: LA's terribly slow housing permitting is extremely costly!

I guess winter athletes looked at the collective action problems of pro cycling, decided they wanted some of that, and that's how we got mass start speed skating?

The person currently threatening violence against me on nextdoor is 28% silicone by volume and most of the remainder is AI. Be on the lookout I guess.

These Austin garage wraps are so cursed.

The way to align the state's fire insurance issues with the state's housing goals is to offer state-managed universal disaster insurance to new buildings in designated fire-safe areas only. That achieves the stated goals of Jane Kim's policy paper without all the moral hazards.

My solution: these people should be taxed until their $44000 insurance bill and their 7000sf house and their $250k in jewelry no longer burden them.

I read this policy paper "Shared Fates" that is apparently the basis of proposed California insurance reform and I have to say I was not impressed. "Equity" is in there 34 times but at no point does it attempt to address the fact that the benefit of fire insurance is overwhelming paid to the rich.

All international conflict should be settled by short track relay speed skating.

Trump defunded hydrogen projects? TheWorstPerson.jpg www.sacbee.com/news/politic...

I wonder if this dysfunction is as simple as this: the moratorium list didn't work because the street in question is Haste but the door of the property that got the permit is 2437 Shattuck. Even if so, this is a failure of systems.

Here's PG&E doing a full-width demolition of Haste Street just east of Shattuck, which the City of Berkeley paved and placed on the 5-year excavation moratorium less than 90 days ago in the district of the esteemed @igortregub.bsky.social

Remember to make eye contact with drivers before crossing the street. Or at least make eye contact with all the crap that they have hanging in their windshield.

Congrats to BART rider and Oakland legend Alysa Liu on winning a gold medal at the Olympics and making the Bay Area proud!

That Buchholz, Storper, et. al. preprint is really making the rounds on the NIMBY listservs. You can barely talk about housing without some NIMBY walrus butting in to cite it. But the paper has these two hilarious disclaimers.

1) Absolutely not. 2) Missed opportunity to call this "MicroMarimba" or something.

Straight into my veins sfyimby.com/2026/02/zoni...

Sometimes you just stumble upon some really choice public emails to the government, such as this one that hallucinated a member of the city council.

I am now just unfollowing people who post or repost strawman anti-AI stuff. The most tiresome discourse.

Here is a very interesting slide from the budget presentation of the Alameda County Assessor. The rate of property assessment appeals more than doubled in 3 years.

I wonder if similar local rules caused this thing in Berkeley, where every apartment _would_ have flow-through breeze ventilation, if any of them did.

This is why the local demolition ordinance drives me crazy. It makes it impossible to bulldoze these things. We need the opposite policy, something that makes it illegal to offer this for rent.

I am seeing a lot of praise for this opinion piece, but to me it remains highly problematic. They have their finger, and a 45lb dumbbell, on the scale. The odds of selecting 13 Democrats and none of them are from CA, NY, TX, FL, or PA is 0.004%. This is still a rural diner interview panel.

Thunder? In my Bay Area?

I'm not really complaining but it's clear from the mass balance here that they could omit the 10mm and sell the rest of this for a much lower price.

Took my camera to the San Francisco geometry palace.

Today I learned: in the City of Berkeley, developers have to tip the planning staff.

Do we know who these two traitors are?

Was just thinking about how the guy who appealed this garage-to-homes project, multiple times, is still an official of the City of Berkeley and it is making me mad. I wonder if state "YIGBY" laws were a direct response to this fiasco.

I would like to inspect the source code of the algorithm that believes this bus is 1 minute away. Been wondering this since the origins of the nextbus project honestly. Is this problem even hard?

Here are the completed protected bikeway project tallies for jurisdictions around the East Bay. Among the worst are most of the jurisdictions in @bauerkahan.bsky.social's AD16. These are also among the wealthiest districts in the East Bay, some in the whole state, so they have no excuse.