Jeff Hodges
@jmhodges.bsky.social
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This is a great video essay both on the specific vulnerabilities in Flock license plate cameras used by cops in many places, but how Flock lied about efficacy and prevent camera removal, and also a compromise policy position of how we could deploy camera systems at all youtu.be/uB0gr7Fh6lY?...
We Hacked Flock Safety Cameras in under 30 Seconds. 🫥
YouTube video by Benn Jordan
youtu.be
November 18, 2025 at 5:56 AM
This is a great video essay both on the specific vulnerabilities in Flock license plate cameras used by cops in many places, but how Flock lied about efficacy and prevent camera removal, and also a compromise policy position of how we could deploy camera systems at all youtu.be/uB0gr7Fh6lY?...
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I once read a really good paper that talked about the history of zoning and has this graph with timelines including Berkeleys single family ordinance. Anyone have a link to this?
November 18, 2025 at 11:22 PM
I once read a really good paper that talked about the history of zoning and has this graph with timelines including Berkeleys single family ordinance. Anyone have a link to this?
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This is a generational opportunity for the Coastal Commission to mess up or help and as such this project could shape a generation’s opinion of the CCC’s affordable housing efficacy. Here’s to hoping for NO delay!
Never have I had a cleaner and more direct opportunity to say:
YES.
IN.
MY.
BACK.
YARD!
www.sfchronicle.com/realestate/a...
YES.
IN.
MY.
BACK.
YARD!
www.sfchronicle.com/realestate/a...
Exclusive: Safeway near S.F.’s Ocean Beach to close as developer plans housing complex
The Safeway would temporarily close so the project could bring a total of 526 new homes spread across two, eight-story buildings to a neighborhood that has seen little new housing in recent...
www.sfchronicle.com
November 18, 2025 at 9:44 PM
This is a generational opportunity for the Coastal Commission to mess up or help and as such this project could shape a generation’s opinion of the CCC’s affordable housing efficacy. Here’s to hoping for NO delay!
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absolutely. call your R senators. this is something where your voice could really make a difference.
Yeah, this is why everybody should call both our Senators and insist that they pass the house Epstein bill exactly as it is, with no revisions. Google their phone number. We need this bill to get through clean. If you have GOP senators, even better, call them now and ask others to do the same.
November 18, 2025 at 4:51 PM
absolutely. call your R senators. this is something where your voice could really make a difference.
I hate knowing about them. I hate that it feels like I have to in order to understand how all the rest of the world we live in has come to be. The absolute rot
November 18, 2025 at 7:18 AM
I hate knowing about them. I hate that it feels like I have to in order to understand how all the rest of the world we live in has come to be. The absolute rot
This is a great video essay both on the specific vulnerabilities in Flock license plate cameras used by cops in many places, but how Flock lied about efficacy and prevent camera removal, and also a compromise policy position of how we could deploy camera systems at all youtu.be/uB0gr7Fh6lY?...
We Hacked Flock Safety Cameras in under 30 Seconds. 🫥
YouTube video by Benn Jordan
youtu.be
November 18, 2025 at 5:56 AM
This is a great video essay both on the specific vulnerabilities in Flock license plate cameras used by cops in many places, but how Flock lied about efficacy and prevent camera removal, and also a compromise policy position of how we could deploy camera systems at all youtu.be/uB0gr7Fh6lY?...
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high-dimensional geometry in general doesn't make any sense
for instance: as the number n of dimensions increases, the volume of an n-dimensional ball concentrates into a thin outer shell close to the boundary; the interior shrinks away
for instance: as the number n of dimensions increases, the volume of an n-dimensional ball concentrates into a thin outer shell close to the boundary; the interior shrinks away
i am convinced high dimensional optimization lives beyond the threshold of complexity where intuition works and/or refrains from leading people badly astray
November 17, 2025 at 9:53 PM
high-dimensional geometry in general doesn't make any sense
for instance: as the number n of dimensions increases, the volume of an n-dimensional ball concentrates into a thin outer shell close to the boundary; the interior shrinks away
for instance: as the number n of dimensions increases, the volume of an n-dimensional ball concentrates into a thin outer shell close to the boundary; the interior shrinks away
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"The Democratic Party hated their nominee for NYC Mayor & tried to sabotage him" is going to live on in the brainwormed minds of bluesky political hobbyists the same way "they made Tim Walz stop calling Rs weird" will: a claim totally disconnected from reality that survives bc it lets ppl bash Ds
I've seen multiple people QT this with "The party that couldn't endorse Zohran is endorsing MTG" and you guys gotta pay attention to what the party is actually doing before you get mad. Most Democrats have been enthusiastic about Zohran.
Raskin: We are a big tent. We must be a huge, vast tent. I say this is a party that’s got room for Marjorie Taylor Greene if she wants to come over.
November 17, 2025 at 2:48 PM
"The Democratic Party hated their nominee for NYC Mayor & tried to sabotage him" is going to live on in the brainwormed minds of bluesky political hobbyists the same way "they made Tim Walz stop calling Rs weird" will: a claim totally disconnected from reality that survives bc it lets ppl bash Ds
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it didn't even really provide me with any new information but that one email between epstein and some other random rich elite saying "when will the madness end" about the metoo movement felt like a key unlocking my brain that will explain every unforced institutional capitulation we've seen
November 17, 2025 at 2:28 PM
it didn't even really provide me with any new information but that one email between epstein and some other random rich elite saying "when will the madness end" about the metoo movement felt like a key unlocking my brain that will explain every unforced institutional capitulation we've seen
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Thinking about how Summers and Epstein both frequently manipulated the media into giving or withholding coverage when they wanted and how the same media mysteriously decided to wage a scorched earth jihad against Harvard's President Claudine Gay. It's a strange coincidence to ponder!
Faculty discipline committees should really normalize de-tenuring/dismissal investigations for the sort of behavior described in the Summers case
A senior academic using mentoring as leverage to obtain sex is a contemptible abuser of power.
November 17, 2025 at 2:44 PM
Thinking about how Summers and Epstein both frequently manipulated the media into giving or withholding coverage when they wanted and how the same media mysteriously decided to wage a scorched earth jihad against Harvard's President Claudine Gay. It's a strange coincidence to ponder!
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I urge members of the legal profession to realize that prosecuting individuals who seek to overturn the constitutional order is not "retaliation" in any normatively significant sense.
November 17, 2025 at 2:23 PM
I urge members of the legal profession to realize that prosecuting individuals who seek to overturn the constitutional order is not "retaliation" in any normatively significant sense.
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California supremacy being yielded for good:
UPDATE: Since launching our own methane-tracking satellite earlier this year, California has helped close 10 large methane leaks in our state.
That pollution reduction is roughly the same as taking 18,000 gas-powered cars off the road for an entire year.
That pollution reduction is roughly the same as taking 18,000 gas-powered cars off the road for an entire year.
California is moving forward with a groundbreaking satellite project to track and reduce methane emissions.
With this innovative technology, we’ll be able to move faster to cut methane emissions — protecting Californians and tackling harmful pollution.
With this innovative technology, we’ll be able to move faster to cut methane emissions — protecting Californians and tackling harmful pollution.
November 17, 2025 at 4:15 AM
California supremacy being yielded for good:
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Aside from alerting people to the presence of ICE nearby, the cool thing about deafening whistles is they make it very hard for these creeps to hear their radios and their phones, as you can see towards the end of this video
Incredible video from Reddit (too large to upload the screencap). CBP agents attempt to detain a flower vendor and end up getting chased into a vacant lot by a crowd of teenagers. What a bunch of impotent sad sacks.
www.reddit.com/r/EyesOnIce/...
www.reddit.com/r/EyesOnIce/...
November 17, 2025 at 2:26 AM
Aside from alerting people to the presence of ICE nearby, the cool thing about deafening whistles is they make it very hard for these creeps to hear their radios and their phones, as you can see towards the end of this video
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Apparently I’m terrible at using a fabric marker, but that’s ok because this shirt sucked to begin with
November 17, 2025 at 3:14 AM
Apparently I’m terrible at using a fabric marker, but that’s ok because this shirt sucked to begin with
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look man I think the president should be allowed to catch a dick whenever they want in total peace but that’s just not the world republicans are willing to build with me
November 16, 2025 at 10:17 PM
look man I think the president should be allowed to catch a dick whenever they want in total peace but that’s just not the world republicans are willing to build with me
If I say that this weekend I introduced my partner to a post-punk band and an anime, that makes me sound like a kind of guy I'm actually not but it does make me sound like the kind of guy I look
November 17, 2025 at 12:01 AM
If I say that this weekend I introduced my partner to a post-punk band and an anime, that makes me sound like a kind of guy I'm actually not but it does make me sound like the kind of guy I look
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5 headlines tonight on Charlotte Observer’s homepage:
“Manolo's Bakery closes to protect customers”
“Church members flee as federal agents arrive”
“Super G executive describes agents dragging out teen employee”
“Border Patrol questions people at Walmart”
“Border Patrol sweep sparks fear”
“Manolo's Bakery closes to protect customers”
“Church members flee as federal agents arrive”
“Super G executive describes agents dragging out teen employee”
“Border Patrol questions people at Walmart”
“Border Patrol sweep sparks fear”
November 16, 2025 at 4:25 AM
5 headlines tonight on Charlotte Observer’s homepage:
“Manolo's Bakery closes to protect customers”
“Church members flee as federal agents arrive”
“Super G executive describes agents dragging out teen employee”
“Border Patrol questions people at Walmart”
“Border Patrol sweep sparks fear”
“Manolo's Bakery closes to protect customers”
“Church members flee as federal agents arrive”
“Super G executive describes agents dragging out teen employee”
“Border Patrol questions people at Walmart”
“Border Patrol sweep sparks fear”
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Literally exactly what the Founders worried about. Exactly.
A foreign country bribed the president with a bar of gold.
Where are my Originalists at?
Where are my Originalists at?
"It was tough to beat Apple, but the Swiss did it." said one administration official.
How the Swiss convinced Trump to drop tariffs with gifts of a Rolex desk clock and a 1 kg gold bar.
www.axios.com/2025/11/14/t...
How the Swiss convinced Trump to drop tariffs with gifts of a Rolex desk clock and a 1 kg gold bar.
www.axios.com/2025/11/14/t...
November 15, 2025 at 11:27 PM
Literally exactly what the Founders worried about. Exactly.
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You should build bike lanes for people who are not currently biking and build housing for people who don't currently live in your neighborhood.
November 14, 2025 at 5:11 PM
You should build bike lanes for people who are not currently biking and build housing for people who don't currently live in your neighborhood.
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A lot of education discourse is at root an inability to decide whether the purpose of our education system is to 1) teach material and measure learning 2) reward students who work hard 3) separate the smart kids (destined for smart guy jobs) from the dumb kids (destined to serve the smart guys)
November 15, 2025 at 5:52 PM
A lot of education discourse is at root an inability to decide whether the purpose of our education system is to 1) teach material and measure learning 2) reward students who work hard 3) separate the smart kids (destined for smart guy jobs) from the dumb kids (destined to serve the smart guys)
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the astonishing thing about this wave of denialism is that we have more or less decidedly hit the point where clean energy is the *cheaper* option by some distance
I'm kind of baffled how the "moderates" have apparently all decided to turn against climate policy at once, just as China reaches green electrostate liftoff mode. I thought these people were all about National Greatness and making Hard Choices
November 14, 2025 at 3:25 PM
the astonishing thing about this wave of denialism is that we have more or less decidedly hit the point where clean energy is the *cheaper* option by some distance
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ICE vs the clergy
November 15, 2025 at 1:32 AM
ICE vs the clergy
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In which some poor person asks me "why did a pilates studio need discretionary sign-off?" and I kinda lose it.
San Francisco has a near blanket ban on "chain" businesses: if you have more than (IIRC) 3 locations already, it requires explicit approval from PlanCom after a public hearing where everyone gets to put their oar in. As dumb and corruption-prone as you think this sounds like, it's worse in practice.
November 14, 2025 at 10:19 PM
In which some poor person asks me "why did a pilates studio need discretionary sign-off?" and I kinda lose it.