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Part of me is like this building proposal is deeply unserious and also, you degens might meme it into existence.
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This would be the 12th tallest building in SF but the Planning Dept is already criticizing the proposal sfyimby.com/2023/04/exclus
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BARTs ridership is down so bad. I hope people realize that absent a bailout the BART system is on the verge of the greatest rail collapse not seen im Bay history since the elimination of Bay Area streetcars and interurbans.
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Well OK!
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Happy 9th anniversary to the still prescient How Burrowing Owls Lead To Vomiting Anarchists by @kimmaicutler techcrunch.com/2014/04/14/sf-
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iPhone snap of this mornings superbloom find. Never seen the variety of color so insane & widespread
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One of the important stories that's gone only lightly reported is how smoothly the rollout of fully autonomous Cruise cars went in SF. It reminds me of when the Wright brothers invented the airplane and nobody noticed for a few years.
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In any case, I feel sorry for anyone who gets pregnant and has complications in Florida. Miscarriages and PPROM are surprisingly common:
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But he's a moderate!
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BREAKING -- Florida Legislature has passed a 6-week abortion ban nbcnews.com/politics/polit by @Mdixon55
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Not just us!
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Toronto office vacancy rates now touching 20%, up from 10% or so before the pandemic
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There are 4,000 miles of canals in California, used for water conveyance. Thinking creatively about renewable energy land use issues yields these kinds of solutions.
This also limits evaporation in a drought-prone state.
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The Bob Lee attack was by this guy- they were driving in the same car together when he was stabbed.
Wonder if we’ll ever get to know the circumstances.
This is the guy that was arrested.
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BREAKING: Mission Local has learned that San Francisco police this morning traveled to Emeryville to make an arrest in the April 4 killing of tech exec Bob Lee.
The alleged killer also works in tech and purportedly knew Lee.
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If you thought it was bad that 2 senators represented 39 million Californians, don’t worry, the actual number for the foreseeable future is just 1 senator.
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Dianne Feinstein has spent nearly two months away from the Capitol recovering from shingles.
But multiple Democrats close to her, as well as congressional aides, are growing concerned that she may never return to Washington.
w/ @ccadelago
& @jenhab politico.com/news/2023/04/1
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This phenomenal idea could revitalize and transform SF for the better.
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Everyone's roasting this program, but I think it's fine. No, it doesn't help with housing affordability. But it does give households without inter-generational wealth a shot at homeownership and it's fully self-funding.
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California’s down payment assistance program ran out of money in 11 days and the largest beneficiaries were white households near Sacramento. Decent chance this was mostly legislative staffers and lobbyists who knew the program was coming soon.
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Wow.
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In an unprecedented move, the federal government proposes intervening to save the Colorado River by evenly cutting water supply to California, Arizona and Nevada. Historically, the natural resource has been allocated based on seniority of water rights. nytimes.com/2023/04/11/cli
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I'm assuming this is a joke, but in case its not...
Using electricity does not emit CO2. Producing electricity by burning fossil fuels does. Unless it all comes from clean energy (e.g. nuclear, hydro, wind, solar, geothermal), using electricity causes CO2 to be emitted.
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Bitcoin mining has zero carbon emissions.
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Carbon removal is about 10% of the solution, while emission reductions are around 90%. Doing 10% without the other 90% doesn't make much of a dent in the problem.
At the same time climate is such a big issue that mitigating it is going to require stacking a lot of 10% solutions!
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I find the narrative "we need BOTH emission reductions AND carbon dioxide removal" increasingly problematic.
We need emission reductions. Full stop. Period. End of story.
Here is another attempt to show why emission reductions must come first & be prioritised.
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The FBI, FCC and local airports warn bad actors may be targeting travelers. sfstandard.com/criminal-justi
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A really well-written op-ed on recovering from fentanyl addiction.
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I wrote this as my sincerest plea. Stop demonizing harm reduction, from a person who is intimately familiar with the issue sfgate.com/politics-op-ed
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Guns take a hideous toll among the dead and wounded, but their price is far higher. They poison society, spread terror, amplify hate. They are destroying what is best about America not, as their lobbyists lie, somehow preserving it.
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Two motorists got into a rolling gunfight on a Florida highway. Each wounded the other's daughter: one 5; one 14. The man who actually fired first will go free under "stand your ground" because he was retaliating against a hurled water bottle. nypost.com/2023/04/10/cha
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Here was the idea when I had it six months ago.
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My small 2 cents here is the city and the state of California should work with @UofCalifornia and/or @stanford to see if we could anchor a re-imagined CBD/neighborhood with an urban university campus flanked by mixed-use/residential/creative space.... twitter.com/sfchronicle/st…
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We have some progressive support. We have support from tech leaders. Let’s do it! 🤝
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Inspired by a @kimmaicutler tweet, I proposed we repurpose parts of downtown for classrooms and student housing … and everyone seems to like the idea.
Now some smart people are running with it:
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Amazing to see that a lot of different SF leaders are thinking the same way I was thinking when I said last fall that we should embrace universities to re-imagine our downtown central business districts after the pandemic.
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The Downtown Adaptive Reuse legislation we drafted was definitely crafted with student housing and live/work arts spaces in mind.
Would love to see @Stanford Artist-in-Residency programs or @UCBerkeley sites where students are a part of reimagining Downtown as capstone projects. twitter.com/sfstandard/sta…
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Breaking the SF Doom Loop: Student Housing is one of many potential options for vacant buildings (w/ a quote from me) sfstandard.com/housing-develo via
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Another child shot to death on a Bay Area freeway. #ItsTheGuns
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Eliyanah Crisostomo,5,shot dead while riding w/family on I-880 in Fremont. @CHP_GoldenGate. 2nd shooting, gang-related, Fremont & Norris: @FremontPD. Wanted car spotted by @SantaCruzPolice Ofc. Robert Caposio;3 held, gun located w/help by @CHPscrz #ScottsValley after Hwy 17 chase
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I hadn't known about Morocco's high-speed rail. They decided to build it in 2007. The first part, a 200 mile line connecting Tangier and Casablanca, opened in 2018, cutting travel time from 5 hours to 2. Lots more expansion apparently planned.
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We moved out of San Francisco to Menlo Park a year ago after two meth addicts broke into our house while we were home and robbed us. They are both free now. The police who arrested them -- and were later forced to release them by the DA -- said these criminals were "frequent… Show more
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“One of the things we learned from some of that research was that people were not open to listening to more of what we had to say unless we first acknowledged the existence of their fears, their discomfort, their doubts.”
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“There is a sense of futility and hopelessness…that bleeds into larger perceptions about inaction around other issues…like violence.”
Interesting interview by @susieneilson with a data researcher about why crime stats don’t ring true for many in SF.
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The U.S. government cannot function when lawless judges ceaselessly toss out nationwide injunctions seizing control of major policy decisions, from immigration and pollution to public health and reproductive rights. This is rule not by the people, but by a clique of rogue judges.
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Gun deaths among U.S. children and teens rose 50% in two years
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Biden: "The Court in this case has substituted its judgment for FDA ... If this ruling were to stand, then there will be virtually no prescription, approved by the FDA, that would be safe from these kinds of political, ideological attacks."
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This case is now a moment of truth for the Supreme Court after Dobbs. Was Kavanaugh telling the truth that he would still vote to strike down brazenly lawless and unconstitutional attempts to restrict abortion? Or will he side with the anti-abortion side in every single case?
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The U.S. data is terrible and extremely sad but shows that suicide is a problem specific to the U.S. There is no broader Western crisis. Do you know of any GOOD papers explaining why the U.S. is an outlier among advanced countries?
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From a distressed loan sale on a 50% occupied office building … to 268 apartments
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Sometimes in YIMBY world I have to remind folks does so much more than housing. The world would be a better place if we had more legislators as fearless as he is when it comes to LGBTQ+ issues
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