Jamie Pew
@jpew.bsky.social
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Friction is good and one of the most consequential tasks facing the designers and managers of social-technical systems in the 21st century is putting it back in in the right ways and right places.
I think one of the lessons that the huge success of congestion pricing in NYC is that charging a nominal upfront fee- even one far less the the levellized cost you are paying for elsewhere- is very good at cutting off the bottom 5% of bad behavior that makes things worse for everyone.
December 24, 2025 at 12:24 AM
Friction is good and one of the most consequential tasks facing the designers and managers of social-technical systems in the 21st century is putting it back in in the right ways and right places.
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Per NY Times’s Michael Grynbaum on X, this is Sharyn Alfonsi’s email to her “60 Minutes” colleagues in full:
December 22, 2025 at 3:37 AM
Per NY Times’s Michael Grynbaum on X, this is Sharyn Alfonsi’s email to her “60 Minutes” colleagues in full:
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I think there’s a broad hunger for this kind of shift and journalists/writers/podcasters should evangelize it aggressively. And we should say that it doesn’t need to be total: You don’t need a print newspaper to tone down the algorithm’s role in your life. mattdpearce.substack.com/p/four-big-t...
December 19, 2025 at 4:19 PM
I think there’s a broad hunger for this kind of shift and journalists/writers/podcasters should evangelize it aggressively. And we should say that it doesn’t need to be total: You don’t need a print newspaper to tone down the algorithm’s role in your life. mattdpearce.substack.com/p/four-big-t...
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The atomic ensemble time scale at the NIST Boulder campus has failed.
December 20, 2025 at 10:53 PM
The atomic ensemble time scale at the NIST Boulder campus has failed.
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Update: it has been six fucking days and clippercard.com continues to error out at every attempt to login or reset password.
My Clipper 2.0 status: logged into clippercard.com, password I used Monday didn't work, hit "forgot password", got an error message on that too.
(I don't use any apps, just have a physical card hooked up to web account for auto-refills.)
(I don't use any apps, just have a physical card hooked up to web account for auto-refills.)
Clipper 2.0 status: updated the Android app and the cards are gone and it's generally busted. Watch this space for more Clipper 2.0 news.
December 16, 2025 at 4:29 PM
Update: it has been six fucking days and clippercard.com continues to error out at every attempt to login or reset password.
Stand By Me is a movie that means a lot to me. I wrote this last year after revisiting it. Along with The Princess Bride, it’s one of those movies that taught me, as a child and adolescent, about love and death in a deeply felt way that few movies can.
Rest in peace Rob Reiner.
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Rest in peace Rob Reiner.
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A ★★★★½ review of Stand by Me (1986)
Entering early adolescence is more about grappling with mortality for the first time than most coming-of-age stories allow for. Steven King understands that. You turn twelve, and suddenly things start...
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December 15, 2025 at 6:44 PM
Stand By Me is a movie that means a lot to me. I wrote this last year after revisiting it. Along with The Princess Bride, it’s one of those movies that taught me, as a child and adolescent, about love and death in a deeply felt way that few movies can.
Rest in peace Rob Reiner.
boxd.it/7eYQoV
Rest in peace Rob Reiner.
boxd.it/7eYQoV
Massachusetts has ordered gas companies to prioritize shutting down leaky gas lines and installing heat pumps instead of replacing pipelines. Curious whether California PUC has taken the same steps (genuine question)
Six people were injured and three buildings were destroyed in a residential explosion and fire Thursday morning near Hayward in Alameda County, which happened hours after a construction crew hit an underground gas line.
December 12, 2025 at 6:33 PM
Massachusetts has ordered gas companies to prioritize shutting down leaky gas lines and installing heat pumps instead of replacing pipelines. Curious whether California PUC has taken the same steps (genuine question)
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When you have one job:
Datumcenter
December 12, 2025 at 1:28 AM
When you have one job:
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The Bay took over the highway during this morning's #KingTides in Marin.
December 4, 2025 at 10:25 PM
The Bay took over the highway during this morning's #KingTides in Marin.
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Walcott Junction (Elk Mountain),
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December 3, 2025 at 5:57 AM
Walcott Junction (Elk Mountain),
12/2/2025, 10:57:39 PM
12/2/2025, 10:57:39 PM
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to the extent that "back yard" implies urban infill with already-existing infrastructure, advocating for this project is ipso facto not "yimby" advocacy
December 1, 2025 at 8:49 PM
to the extent that "back yard" implies urban infill with already-existing infrastructure, advocating for this project is ipso facto not "yimby" advocacy
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“Environmental review is not planning” is one of those statements that is so obviously true but nearly every thing about transportation institutions and environmental review in California/US pushes against it.
November 28, 2025 at 11:45 PM
“Environmental review is not planning” is one of those statements that is so obviously true but nearly every thing about transportation institutions and environmental review in California/US pushes against it.
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“This ain’t gonna look good on our report, Leroy.”
November 25, 2025 at 11:04 PM
“This ain’t gonna look good on our report, Leroy.”
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🚨We analyzed 138 million geocoded property tax records to quantify how municipal boundaries spatially overlap onto economic segregation in every US metro area—creating disparities in localities’ ability to fund public goods. And we made an interactive map of our results! [1/16]
November 24, 2025 at 4:31 PM
🚨We analyzed 138 million geocoded property tax records to quantify how municipal boundaries spatially overlap onto economic segregation in every US metro area—creating disparities in localities’ ability to fund public goods. And we made an interactive map of our results! [1/16]
Dallas Airport may be the most cursed i’ve been through
November 20, 2025 at 12:01 AM
Dallas Airport may be the most cursed i’ve been through
Honestly, I think this guy has some good ideas
youtu.be/BmDok2JTJlk
youtu.be/BmDok2JTJlk
Back to Basics: Tom Steyer for California Governor
YouTube video by Tom Steyer
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November 19, 2025 at 5:38 PM
Honestly, I think this guy has some good ideas
youtu.be/BmDok2JTJlk
youtu.be/BmDok2JTJlk
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Kudos Bars (1986-2017): A line of chocolate-covered chewy granola bars, marketed as a healthier snack for kids, despite ostensibly being candy bars. Available in flavors like chocolate chip, peanut butter, cookies n creme, and many more. then eventually actual candy variants like Snickers and M&Ms.
November 17, 2025 at 5:29 PM
Kudos Bars (1986-2017): A line of chocolate-covered chewy granola bars, marketed as a healthier snack for kids, despite ostensibly being candy bars. Available in flavors like chocolate chip, peanut butter, cookies n creme, and many more. then eventually actual candy variants like Snickers and M&Ms.
Credit to Mikie for trying, but this is also a response that is deeply felt as a candidate whose donor base and background is living in Montclair, NJ, which I had to stop comparing Berkeley and Ann Arbor when i went home a couple years ago and realized we still had zero (0) bike lanes.
@thenewjerseyer.bsky.social has unearthed a crazy nugget here, from an interview with incoming NJ governor Mikie Sherrill. She clearly says that she stopped talking about building new housing, even though she thinks it's a good idea, because most every voter she spoke to hated the idea!! (1/5)
November 14, 2025 at 3:34 PM
Credit to Mikie for trying, but this is also a response that is deeply felt as a candidate whose donor base and background is living in Montclair, NJ, which I had to stop comparing Berkeley and Ann Arbor when i went home a couple years ago and realized we still had zero (0) bike lanes.
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i find this discourse so odd because, "candidates who match their districts" is seperate from "moderate candidate"
It's mildly disappointing that Lakshya Jain basically didn't engage at all with @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social and @adambonica.bsky.social's critique that WAR confuses correlation and causation in his latest piece for The Argument.
www.theargumentmag.com/p/we-checked...
www.theargumentmag.com/p/we-checked...
We checked NYT’s data. Moderates still win.
Democrats win more often when they run candidates who match their districts, not their Bluesky feeds.
www.theargumentmag.com
November 13, 2025 at 1:38 AM
i find this discourse so odd because, "candidates who match their districts" is seperate from "moderate candidate"
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NEW: A provocative idea, if Trump’s EPA abandons climate policy, could California take over on greenhouse gases? calmatters.org/environment/...
If Trump’s EPA abandons climate policy, could California take over on greenhouse gases?
California, the state that helped define U.S. clean-air policy, is once again considering how far it can go without Washington’s permission.
calmatters.org
November 7, 2025 at 4:07 PM
NEW: A provocative idea, if Trump’s EPA abandons climate policy, could California take over on greenhouse gases? calmatters.org/environment/...
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NEW: Jeffrey Epstein said in emails that he had been advising the Russian government on how to deal with Donald Trump, one of several cases in which he wielded his connections to try to influence the course of foreign affairs. w @nahaltoosi
www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
November 12, 2025 at 8:43 PM
NEW: Jeffrey Epstein said in emails that he had been advising the Russian government on how to deal with Donald Trump, one of several cases in which he wielded his connections to try to influence the course of foreign affairs. w @nahaltoosi
www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
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Following up on this. This remains a ‘cave is minutes or hours away’ situation. If you want to impact how this plays out you need to contact senators literally now. I want to add additional points of context. What I’m relaying is what I’ve picked up from highly reliable sources.
Sounds like the squishes in the senate caucus are ready to pull the plug with no ACA changes. This is real. If you want to register your opinion you shld call yr senator in the next hour. They not only want to reopen w/nothing. They want cover from their colleagues who still want to hold out.
November 9, 2025 at 10:42 PM
Following up on this. This remains a ‘cave is minutes or hours away’ situation. If you want to impact how this plays out you need to contact senators literally now. I want to add additional points of context. What I’m relaying is what I’ve picked up from highly reliable sources.