All right, I've got it everybody: if it's AI, it's bad; if there's AI doing something good; it's not AI.

“No negative externalities allowed” results in blanket anti-actionable-change politics, because the status quo is so good. Never mind how real or unreal the negative externalities even are.

country violently allergic to acknowledging the existence of policy trade-offs, and steadfastly convinced that this allergy is virtuous and even a skeptical rejection of the powers that be instead of a prolonged temper tantrum by the most privileged people to ever live on this earth

The Enterprise-D bridge we got is my favourite from all the shows, so things worked out well. But I've always found these ideas for a much more casual, democratic bridge to be very appealing. I'd still like to see something like this in a Star Trek series one day. /1

people hate hearing this but it's 100% true, creating a huge pay gap between political leaders, their staffs, and other elites is a recipe for corruption. of course the flip side of that is taxes on the rich should be jacked way the hell up

Caltrain's electric trains run faster and smoother - and people LOVE it. Make service better, and riders will come, which means more people will vote to support transit.

My Bluesky account will not show up in Google search results, and I’m entirely at a loss.

Daly City

Bill Gates hasn’t made sense on Climate since he teamed up with Bjorn Lomberg in 2009. This is just a restating of Bjorn’s book from this year about how we have a finite amount of money and we shouldn’t use it for climate. What they get wrong is that climate solutions are now fully profitable.

"It's always DNS" is fun but gets reductive like DNS is a force of nature. DNS failures are downstream of other interesting socio-technical failures, from missing validation to complex infra/DB/monitoring failures that spill over into a bad (or stale) DNS records (eg in many public cloud outages).

The response to a WILDLY popular program is to cancel it and put the money somewhere less effective. Thanks Carifornia.

“Given absurd premise A, terrible situation B is rational“. *everyone fights about B*

This is a cool model of fare “gates”: - Cheap - Not a bottleneck - No problems with wheelchairs/bikes/luggage - Where to pay the fare is obvious and easy

I’m proud of how the spooky L turned out! Always lovely to see so many families enjoying the Great Hauntway from all over the city. Thanks to @sunsetdunes.org for all the work that goes into the Great Hauntway, and the support in getting the Spooky L authorized again.

Come to Embarcadero Station by 12:50 for something spooky. L Taraval headed to the Great Hauntway at ~12:55.

The amount of life I have spent waiting in traffic on this bus…

Going Places Glen Park BART, 2023

This is a great example of how the new Clipper 2.0 discounts will effect real trips. The “transfer tax” for regional trips is punishing, especially when a lot of regional trips are a pattern of local feeder + regional train/bus + local bus to destination. I’ll save on my 2-agency commute this way.

Finally! Clipper 2 is so important, as it will allow: 💵No-cost/reduced cost transfers between transit agencies 💳Ability to pay with credit cards or your phone ⏲️30 min grace period for BART excursion fares Note that if you want Clipper 2 immediately you’ll need to contact Clipper in December:

us-east-1 is our library of Alexandria

It’s great to see misguided mandates on public transit emissions go from a policy wonk topic, to getting real attention. $$$ goes further getting more people on transit than switching to costly and unreliable battery-only buses. missionlocal.org/2025/10/sfmt...

A fuzzy friend.

The world is so filled with beauty and wonder and I feel very strongly both that it should be a kinder place to live in and that it is within our power to make it as such

My average annual cost for public transit is 1k. (And the ebike amortizes to maybe $800 / year.)

BREAKING: The Governor signed our legislation to authorize a Bay Area regional funding ballot measure for transit. SB 63 is critical to avoid massive service cuts at Muni, BART, Caltrain & other systems. We need to stabilize & modernize these systems for the Bay Area’s future.

Trying to figure out how to stop bluesky from double deep frying every photo I upload. 🙃

Sutro

I generally encourage people to join camp “don’t make shit up” when discussing complex issues.

I'm at the SFMTA board meeting. A few highlights from Director of Transportation Julie Kirschbaum's report: -the Potrero Yard Modernization Project has drastically changed with no housing units above the the new bus yard due given construction costs, interest rates, volatility of market.

I don’t even work with SQL or databases that much, but my 300-level database class was maybe the most impactful class I’ve taken for “practical knowledge that I just have when I need it”.

At this point, I think >50% of my car-miles travelled in San Francisco have been for vet visits (long bus trips stress out the guinea pig, who does not seem to mind BART at all).

Meat is a blind spot for people who care about climate. When I used to have dinner with my colleague Wally Broecker, the climate scientist who coined the term “global warming”, he would always order a steak.

Who makes it into the room filters out who the service is for.

Guess the city.

Today, AC Transit buses will honor the memory and legacy of Director H. E. Christian "Chris" Peeples.

Reminder that "not acting" shapes the future as much as "acting" does and that not choosing is a choice.

Late-posting, but one of my favourite things every year is the Market Street lights.

fourth photo of these is one of my fav photos ive ever taken for sure, very excited to make a print of it in the near future

Transit riders throughout the Bay stepped up and together we won BIG! @transbaycoalition.bsky.social @sftru.bsky.social @streetsforallsf.org

I’m so energized by today’s rally to save transit! I spoke about how dependent El Cerrito is on transit. We’re one of the most pro-housing cities in the Bay Area, and almost all of it is being built near transit. We need robust transit. Gov Newsom: approve the $750 mil transit loan immediately!

Fantastic last-minute turnout for the Bay Area transit funding rally this morning with @transbaycoalition.bsky.social. We need @governor.ca.gov to follow through on a promised 750 million for transit, or risk devastating service cuts and a spiral of traffic nightmares.

Les fleurs de mon jardin en papier 🌱 #paperflower

It’s gaslighting, in the classic sense. Of course the car can drive itself. It’s right there in the name. No the car can’t drive itself. Why would you ever say anything so ridiculous? Didn’t you read the owner’s manual?

Earlier this evening at Market and Montgomery streets, transit, pedestrian and bike advocates denounced Mayor Daniel Lurie's decision to allow Waymo, Uber Black and Lyft Black to drive on parts of Market Street that had been "car-free" since 2020.

Thinking about how much of the process of long term learning is repetition plus immersion, and how you completely lose that by reading a LLM summary.

Muni buses are packed even for routes not connecting to downtown SF (i.e. 22 Fillmore, 28/28R 19th Ave, 44 O'Shaughnessy). this should be a point of SF's pride! hope AC Transit's new realign reorg will help with improving this metric, even if some new good routes come with terrible headways

HUGE HUGE victory for San Mateo County, for anyone who rides transit in the Bay Area, anyone who drives & hates traffic, people who like breathing clean air and a growing economy. San Mateo County will be joining IN to the regional measure for funding transit! Big group win & lots of work ahead!

As part of @muniforever.bsky.social's campaign to fund Muni, we invite you to the Muni Forever Summit on 8/20. We need to form a citywide vision to fund Muni. This summit will create the building blocks to create that vision and a way to achieve it. RSVP here: buff.ly/gUt28Nb

I’ve been cooling on film for sunrises/sunsets because the expose range is so limited, but this was a nice exception. Sunset on treasure island, shot on (I think) Portra 400.