sick public transit, gloria
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next station is the end of history, please gather your belongings as you exit
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Aura of Success: The First Years of Japan's Privatized National Railways
What does it take to make a railway a "success"?
www.substack-bahn.net
new S(ubstack)-Bahn post: I evaluate Japanese Railways' first years post-privatization and examine the conditions set prior to its launch to guarantee its success. But how does one grade such success -- and can JR be deemed as a success story?
www.substack-bahn.net/p/aura-of-su...
www.substack-bahn.net/p/aura-of-su...
pretty interesting development in South Korea: the ruling Democratic Party is trying to stop the conservative mayor of Seoul of building a high rise commercial complex nearby the Jongmyo Shrine in central Seoul, citing it may threaten Jongmyo's UNESCO designation www.koreaherald.com/article/1061...
Prime minister voices objection to high-rise near Jongmyo Shrine
Prime Minister Kim Min-seok has expressed opposition to building a high-rise commercial complex near Jongmyo Shrine, a UNESCO World Heritage site in central Seo
www.koreaherald.com
November 11, 2025 at 1:07 AM
pretty interesting development in South Korea: the ruling Democratic Party is trying to stop the conservative mayor of Seoul of building a high rise commercial complex nearby the Jongmyo Shrine in central Seoul, citing it may threaten Jongmyo's UNESCO designation www.koreaherald.com/article/1061...
as someone who's written about the same phenomenon, I enjoyed this piece in The New Yorker about train-surfing and its attempt at placement in the current transitory state of the city: from COVID to post-COVID, from Eric Adams to Zohran Mamdani www.newyorker.com/culture/crit...
The Allure—and the Policing—of Subway Surfing
Mayor Eric Adams’s administration has wrapped an expansion of invasive surveillance in the apolitical packaging of saving teen-agers from their addled selves.
www.newyorker.com
November 10, 2025 at 6:00 PM
as someone who's written about the same phenomenon, I enjoyed this piece in The New Yorker about train-surfing and its attempt at placement in the current transitory state of the city: from COVID to post-COVID, from Eric Adams to Zohran Mamdani www.newyorker.com/culture/crit...
starting this was not a good idea if you have to go to work and perform expectant adult things
November 10, 2025 at 5:12 PM
starting this was not a good idea if you have to go to work and perform expectant adult things
crazy to see SAVE THE GREEN PLANET(!) discourse in my lifetime bc I remember watching this on a rental VCR with my dad in middle school. we then really liked the lead actor Shin Ha-kyun. don't remember anything about it; think I filed it under "too weird to ever talk about" file in my brain
While I understand why they remade this, I am going to Be That Guy. The Original is not just better overall, it’s funnier, tonally more coherent and better paced. Bugonia is both shockingly 1 to 1 in many details, but the changes it makes are often to the detriment of the movie.
Watched Bugonia earlier and now I’m giving the original a rewatch to compare.
November 10, 2025 at 12:06 AM
crazy to see SAVE THE GREEN PLANET(!) discourse in my lifetime bc I remember watching this on a rental VCR with my dad in middle school. we then really liked the lead actor Shin Ha-kyun. don't remember anything about it; think I filed it under "too weird to ever talk about" file in my brain
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RIP Baudrillard you would have loved this shit
New uncanny valley unlocked: inflatable corn maze for urban fall fests.
November 9, 2025 at 4:25 AM
RIP Baudrillard you would have loved this shit
indictments such as these are why I wrote this post about Seoul Metro's journey toward Platform Screen Doors. it took a lot of deaths and those who spoke out despite feeling hopeless things will get better www.substack-bahn.net/p/how-seoul-...
November 9, 2025 at 10:09 PM
indictments such as these are why I wrote this post about Seoul Metro's journey toward Platform Screen Doors. it took a lot of deaths and those who spoke out despite feeling hopeless things will get better www.substack-bahn.net/p/how-seoul-...
maybe I should not have read 200 chapters of chainsaw man the past 72 hours bc brain feels funny ngl
November 9, 2025 at 6:35 PM
maybe I should not have read 200 chapters of chainsaw man the past 72 hours bc brain feels funny ngl
without the Nov 2026 ballot measure approved, both BART and Caltrain are saying they will run 60-minute headways, 9pm closures, no weekend service, and close low-usage stations down. that's a regional death knell
Caltrain Outlines Cuts to Come Without External Funding. Read more: https://www.caltrain.com/news/caltrain-outlines-cuts-come-without-external-funding.
Caltrain Outlines Cuts to Come Without External Funding | Caltrain
Elimination of weekend service and the end of half-hourly trains could be required to reduce budget shortfalls despite strong ridership recovery and high rider satisfaction
www.caltrain.com
November 7, 2025 at 7:17 PM
without the Nov 2026 ballot measure approved, both BART and Caltrain are saying they will run 60-minute headways, 9pm closures, no weekend service, and close low-usage stations down. that's a regional death knell
*Hans Moleman voice* I was saying mom
I lived and worked in SF for over a decade, in media and in the labor movement, and never heard a single person refer to Nancy Pelosi as “mom” wtaf
November 7, 2025 at 5:02 PM
*Hans Moleman voice* I was saying mom
this read like a truly awful time, with Sam Altman having the personality of a ham sandwich. would rather get a tooth pulled out. great stuff @redford.bsky.social
Out of morbid curiosity, Patrick Redford went to a conversation between Sam Altman and Steve Kerr about "leadership, innovation, and San Francisco." defector.com/an-evening-w...
An Evening With Sam Altman And Steve Kerr | Defector
SAN FRANCISCO — “I don’t think this will be an only good story,” OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said after being asked a question about whether his company, valued around $1 trillion, might bring some bad…
defector.com
November 7, 2025 at 1:03 AM
this read like a truly awful time, with Sam Altman having the personality of a ham sandwich. would rather get a tooth pulled out. great stuff @redford.bsky.social
Californians:
November 7, 2025 at 12:48 AM
Californians:
@wmata.com, talk your shit on here too, man. King Randy holds the Mandate of Heaven
November 7, 2025 at 12:26 AM
@wmata.com, talk your shit on here too, man. King Randy holds the Mandate of Heaven
the man who decided to build 9.7 fWAR 2004 Adrian Beltre in the aggregate (JD Drew, Jeff Kent, Jayson Werth) and set the Dodgers in .500 hell for a few more years. commiserations to any baseball lovers in Colorado
www.nytimes.com/athletic/678... Rockies to hire Browns’ Paul DePodesta as head of baseball operations: Sources
Rockies to hire Browns' Paul DePodesta as head of baseball operations: Sources
www.nytimes.com
November 6, 2025 at 9:25 PM
the man who decided to build 9.7 fWAR 2004 Adrian Beltre in the aggregate (JD Drew, Jeff Kent, Jayson Werth) and set the Dodgers in .500 hell for a few more years. commiserations to any baseball lovers in Colorado
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I want Robert Caro to write a book on Pelosi because there's just so much you could probably gleam about the path of America from her story.
with Pelosi retiring from Congress, there goes the last direct descendant of the San Francisco Burton Machine. but in a sense, it was going the way of the dodo since the Gingrich Revolution of 94. felt this story with Phil Burton’s office chair captured the feeling of extinction well
November 6, 2025 at 4:41 PM
I want Robert Caro to write a book on Pelosi because there's just so much you could probably gleam about the path of America from her story.
with Pelosi retiring from Congress, there goes the last direct descendant of the San Francisco Burton Machine. but in a sense, it was going the way of the dodo since the Gingrich Revolution of 94. felt this story with Phil Burton’s office chair captured the feeling of extinction well
November 6, 2025 at 3:57 PM
with Pelosi retiring from Congress, there goes the last direct descendant of the San Francisco Burton Machine. but in a sense, it was going the way of the dodo since the Gingrich Revolution of 94. felt this story with Phil Burton’s office chair captured the feeling of extinction well
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November 6, 2025 at 1:32 AM
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it's crazy to think that I was alive (as a baby) when Prop 187 passed in California under a pretty popular GOP governor. may as well happened five centuries ago when they spoke in Ye Old Californian accent
November 5, 2025 at 11:28 PM
it's crazy to think that I was alive (as a baby) when Prop 187 passed in California under a pretty popular GOP governor. may as well happened five centuries ago when they spoke in Ye Old Californian accent
pushing a big red stop button on the “South Korean politics is just a five year preview of US politics” machine until further notice
Young men too 😮😮
November 5, 2025 at 4:00 PM
pushing a big red stop button on the “South Korean politics is just a five year preview of US politics” machine until further notice
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Here's another bit of conventional wisdom Zohran completely blew away: His speech was at well above a 10th-grade level. It was complex, erudite, punctuated by deep and fluent references. You don't have to condescend to voters with baby talk! Part of re-establishing norms is speaking like an adult.
November 5, 2025 at 5:14 AM
Here's another bit of conventional wisdom Zohran completely blew away: His speech was at well above a 10th-grade level. It was complex, erudite, punctuated by deep and fluent references. You don't have to condescend to voters with baby talk! Part of re-establishing norms is speaking like an adult.
OC has gone woke, I repeat, OC has gone woke
November 5, 2025 at 4:29 AM
OC has gone woke, I repeat, OC has gone woke
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I will NOT lib out. (expression of stony resolve softening, warm smile spreading across face) Ah what the hell. Pass me a lib, brother
November 5, 2025 at 2:56 AM
I will NOT lib out. (expression of stony resolve softening, warm smile spreading across face) Ah what the hell. Pass me a lib, brother
just had a hard talk with the missus…she identifies as a aloof wife
November 5, 2025 at 4:04 AM
just had a hard talk with the missus…she identifies as a aloof wife
maybe Zohran will finally make New York pizza taste good in his term
November 5, 2025 at 3:24 AM
maybe Zohran will finally make New York pizza taste good in his term