Adam
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Still beautiful; still one of SF’s most popular parks. Sunset Dunes forever.
September 18, 2025 at 2:14 AM
Still beautiful; still one of SF’s most popular parks. Sunset Dunes forever.
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Four years ago, SSR was started to make the great highway permanently car-free. Now, sunset dunes is one of SF's most popular parks. Like the embarcadero and central freeway removals, there may be more fights ahead, but we're not going back.
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September 17, 2025 at 7:49 PM
Four years ago, SSR was started to make the great highway permanently car-free. Now, sunset dunes is one of SF's most popular parks. Like the embarcadero and central freeway removals, there may be more fights ahead, but we're not going back.
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It is so cool that, at the same moment that reactionary elites are making a massive frontal assault on the basic concept of education, there's a new fake university funded by those same elites that exists to teach briefcase-to-school kids how to say "that is so INTERESTING" to their future bosses.
Image stolen from the other site, and apparently on display at UATX
June 7, 2025 at 4:58 PM
It is so cool that, at the same moment that reactionary elites are making a massive frontal assault on the basic concept of education, there's a new fake university funded by those same elites that exists to teach briefcase-to-school kids how to say "that is so INTERESTING" to their future bosses.
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After attending public comment one time:
This is something I've really come to believe over the years: everything would be so much easier if we could just design systems for the 70-80ish% of normal, decent people. But that 20-30ish% of fearful, angry authoritarian personalities is *extraordinarily* capable at destroying things.
May 24, 2025 at 8:09 PM
After attending public comment one time:
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lol, lmao
11/10 article
fuck fetterman
go birds
11/10 article
fuck fetterman
go birds
May 22, 2025 at 10:17 PM
lol, lmao
11/10 article
fuck fetterman
go birds
11/10 article
fuck fetterman
go birds
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It’s perfectly possible that large language models have wonderful use cases, but specific examples of them seem unusually elusive, whereas unbuttressed assertions that the use cases are clear or obvious from people who refuse to answer any follow up questions are rather thick on the ground.
people are getting mad at Hank about this but he’s just objectively correct here; there’s this pseudo-Luddite thing going on where folks insist that LLMs do not have any use cases despite that clearly not being true, particularly with how cheap they are to operate (you can run deepseek on a raspi)
There are a lot of critiques of LLMs that I agree with but "they suck and aren't useful" doesn't really hold water.
I understand people not using them because of social, economic, and environmental concerns. And I also understand people using them because they can be very useful.
Thoughts?
I understand people not using them because of social, economic, and environmental concerns. And I also understand people using them because they can be very useful.
Thoughts?
April 26, 2025 at 8:29 PM
It’s perfectly possible that large language models have wonderful use cases, but specific examples of them seem unusually elusive, whereas unbuttressed assertions that the use cases are clear or obvious from people who refuse to answer any follow up questions are rather thick on the ground.
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well that completely kills it. pack it in.
Musk: "I like this phrase 'sustainable abundance for all.'"
April 22, 2025 at 10:10 PM
well that completely kills it. pack it in.
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fun historical fact: among the core political forces in the development of mass incarceration was the "Victims' Rights Movement". Its first major legislative national legislative victory was under President Reagan. The prison population doubled under his administration.
An innocent man who committed no crime but is the same race as the person who murdered your daughter should have to spend the rest of his life in a concentration camp is the argument?
April 19, 2025 at 12:38 AM
fun historical fact: among the core political forces in the development of mass incarceration was the "Victims' Rights Movement". Its first major legislative national legislative victory was under President Reagan. The prison population doubled under his administration.
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With a sunny forecast for Saturday, come out for the park’s grand opening on 4/12 from 11:30AM-4PM at Noriega Street & see what the buzz is all about! Details here: tinyurl.com/58pm7y4v
April 10, 2025 at 10:01 PM
With a sunny forecast for Saturday, come out for the park’s grand opening on 4/12 from 11:30AM-4PM at Noriega Street & see what the buzz is all about! Details here: tinyurl.com/58pm7y4v
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On 3/29, visits surged to 5,700, & on 4/5 & 4/6, they reached approximately 5,800 & 6,100—far surpassing historical weekend traffic. The boom in visits highlights Sunset Dunes’ growing role as a must-visit coastal destination.
April 10, 2025 at 10:01 PM
On 3/29, visits surged to 5,700, & on 4/5 & 4/6, they reached approximately 5,800 & 6,100—far surpassing historical weekend traffic. The boom in visits highlights Sunset Dunes’ growing role as a must-visit coastal destination.
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Sunset Dunes doesn’t officially open until Saturday, but that hasn’t stopped thousands of San Franciscans from flocking to it. Since 3/24, the oceanside park has drawn an average of 3,400 visits per day, despite being under construction. Learn more here: tinyurl.com/2p9bjs68
April 10, 2025 at 10:01 PM
Sunset Dunes doesn’t officially open until Saturday, but that hasn’t stopped thousands of San Franciscans from flocking to it. Since 3/24, the oceanside park has drawn an average of 3,400 visits per day, despite being under construction. Learn more here: tinyurl.com/2p9bjs68
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people often talk about the Marina or Tenderloin as aural chaos centers of San Francisco but Stonestown got its own, equally powerful demons too. I knew menswear guy was a madman when he challenged a rando to a fight at Stonestown Uniqlo
derek guy apparently tricked two people into getting into a fight outside a uniqlo
April 7, 2025 at 3:14 AM
people often talk about the Marina or Tenderloin as aural chaos centers of San Francisco but Stonestown got its own, equally powerful demons too. I knew menswear guy was a madman when he challenged a rando to a fight at Stonestown Uniqlo
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truly one of the most disgusting ledes I’ve ever read in the NYT
April 4, 2025 at 3:23 AM
truly one of the most disgusting ledes I’ve ever read in the NYT
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The throughline connecting most of the issues facing us today is that American elite institutions in so many different fields (media, academia, legal, political, etc) want the respect, deference, and privilege of serving important societal roles and none of the responsibility that would with that.
March 30, 2025 at 4:08 PM
The throughline connecting most of the issues facing us today is that American elite institutions in so many different fields (media, academia, legal, political, etc) want the respect, deference, and privilege of serving important societal roles and none of the responsibility that would with that.
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March 28, 2025 at 4:56 PM
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I compiled this list on my recent Substack post because I was exactly afraid that all non-car-focused transportation infrastructure in the US would be under threat (or intense scrutiny at least) under this administration www.substack-bahn.net/i/156507983/...
March 12, 2025 at 11:21 PM
I compiled this list on my recent Substack post because I was exactly afraid that all non-car-focused transportation infrastructure in the US would be under threat (or intense scrutiny at least) under this administration www.substack-bahn.net/i/156507983/...
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one of my online tics from years of timeline based brain poisoning is that i just cannot read a post past somebody using a nickname for a politician/public figure, regardless of party. like my brain turns off at 'felon musk' or 't-rump' or 'gavin newscum' or whatever
March 12, 2025 at 6:27 PM
one of my online tics from years of timeline based brain poisoning is that i just cannot read a post past somebody using a nickname for a politician/public figure, regardless of party. like my brain turns off at 'felon musk' or 't-rump' or 'gavin newscum' or whatever
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One of the disturbing reactions to the Mahmoud Khalil arrest is people making things up that he did to justify it that even the Trump admin doesn't claim he did. People just see him as the *type* of person who did the things they're mad about, so punishing him for it is acceptable. Lynching logic.
March 12, 2025 at 2:29 PM
One of the disturbing reactions to the Mahmoud Khalil arrest is people making things up that he did to justify it that even the Trump admin doesn't claim he did. People just see him as the *type* of person who did the things they're mad about, so punishing him for it is acceptable. Lynching logic.
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This Friday, March 14th at 5 AM, the Upper Great Highway will permanently close to cars, and its transformation into a world-class park will begin.
March 10, 2025 at 6:43 PM
This Friday, March 14th at 5 AM, the Upper Great Highway will permanently close to cars, and its transformation into a world-class park will begin.
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To be absolutely, 100% clear, THIS is something that ends in “then they came for me, and there was no one left to speak out”
This extreme escalation is an egregious violation of first amendment rights. Now is the moment to speak out and oppose this as fiercely and loudly as possible.
March 9, 2025 at 10:42 PM
To be absolutely, 100% clear, THIS is something that ends in “then they came for me, and there was no one left to speak out”
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news in america: you will have to drink shit in water. we are going to end education. we will deport you for having the wrong opinion
news in any other country:
news in any other country:
“In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Those affected receive a small apartment & counselling with no preconditions. 4 out of 5 people affected make their way back into a stable life. And all this is CHEAPER than accepting homelessness.”
Finland ends homelessness and provides shelter for all in need - scoop.me
In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Why? The country applies the "Housing First" concept agains homelessness.
thebetter.news
March 7, 2025 at 10:05 PM
news in america: you will have to drink shit in water. we are going to end education. we will deport you for having the wrong opinion
news in any other country:
news in any other country:
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scores of pissed off Mormon CIA agents who just got canned are ideologically cross-pollinating with platoons of fired trans FBI agents. we are on the verge of new types of politics our ancestors could only dream about
March 1, 2025 at 6:49 AM
scores of pissed off Mormon CIA agents who just got canned are ideologically cross-pollinating with platoons of fired trans FBI agents. we are on the verge of new types of politics our ancestors could only dream about
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People assume Andrew Cuomo is tough and A Fighter because he always looks angry and acts weird. Mistaking a total lack of emotional self-regulation and wild, self-destructive spite for Masculine Strength is one of the defining political errors to me. No one even tries to keep it together anymore.
March 2, 2025 at 4:56 PM
People assume Andrew Cuomo is tough and A Fighter because he always looks angry and acts weird. Mistaking a total lack of emotional self-regulation and wild, self-destructive spite for Masculine Strength is one of the defining political errors to me. No one even tries to keep it together anymore.