read this on Reddit. I have some quibbles, but I thought this was a deep and well thought out deconstruction of BART and Muni’s financial history and current position. I’d read 10 more of these than some half-baked WaPo op-ed open.substack.com/pub/aakash/p...
Most people are tracking gas prices, but our losses in INTANGIBLE assets across the planet are much bigger, sadder and long-term.
"post-Trump, the United States will become little America. Smaller, meaner, less shiny."
www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
Almost all millennials and the oldest members of Gen Z can say that the US president has been a white guy born in the summer of 1946 for the majority of our life.
Bill Clinton: August 19, 1946
George W. Bush: July 6, 1946
Donald Trump: June 4, 1946
I love Oakland because where else am I gonna be sitting here eating dinner and overhear a lesbian explaining Imperialism The Highest Stage Of Capitalism to their date
Counterpoint: I knocked on ~1000 doors for Zohran, and it was the most energizing thing I’ve done since the Obama campaign. Unaffiliated voters were amongst the most fun to talk to — and people would stop us on the street as we canvassed to tell us they were going to vote! Only Cuomo voters fussed.
After taking time to connect with the Pretti family and with their consent, we are honored to share that we have created the Alex Pretti Nursing Scholarship.
For those interested, you can learn more and make a gift here: crowdfund.umn.edu/campaigns/Al...
This week, I confirmed with the City that the Flock contract expansion authorized by Council in December remains unexecuted. I also confirmed expansion, which includes video surveillance from city-operated cams & cooperating resident-owned streams has, thus, not been activated.
A discussion of "biological naturalism" about the mind, and a candidate for biological properties that might matter to consciousness: Oscillations & other large-scale dynamic properties of nervous systems. (Free link for now.)
iai.tv/articles/stu...
I hope this works out! I can't think of anything that more desperately needs a good open source alternative than inkjet printers.
Less than 10% of cards have been upgraded to Clipper 2, there have been many outages leading to lost revenue for transit agencies and frustrated riders, and it will be months until the system is fixed.
MTC must hold Cubic accountable.
Huge thanks to @azul415.bsky.social for staying on this story!
We are launching a big project today with MIT —
The Electricity Price Hub!
You can view monthly electricity prices per kwh and avg. bills for every major utility in the country going back to Jan 2020.
electricity.heatmap.news
I’m thrilled! Truly a once-in-a-lifetime chance for residents in Berkeley, Albany, and the East Bay to establish a beautiful new park along the waterfront, thanks to the Trust for Public Land and the East Bay Regional Park District.
What are your ideas for this new park and amazing open space?
A general strike might do the trick
In a smaller city like Oakland, few organizations can afford to spend hundreds of thousands of dollars for a city wide poll that meets a high bar for confidence. That's why its extremely important to ask questions about where polls come from, by who and to what end.
Reports suggest the same helicopters buzzed the No Kings protest in Nashville earlier that same day. A green light is being given to military freelancing in support of fascism.
Repeat after me: If they can overturn Roe v. Wade, we can overturn Citizens United…
And we will.
New from the BJPS Review of Books
The Organism
– Jan Baedke
Reviewed by Matthew Sims
www.thebsps.org/reviewofbook...
#philsci #hpbio #philsky
My main gripe with the alphafold example is how it shows you need decades and decades of high quality data, well structured, open and accessible to train a model -- and yet they always gloss over it and pretend it's just AI and magic. No, we need to continuously invest in real data and FAIR data.
this is why we're so fucking mad at democratic leadership
the small group of humans with a national voice and a modicum of political leverage and they're talking about gas tax holidays instead of tribunals
Editors’ Note: March 30, 2026: A reader recently alerted The Times that this review included language and details similar to those in a review of the same book published in The Guardian. We spoke to the author of this piece, a freelancer reviewer, who told us he used an A.I. tool that incorporated material from the Guardian review into his draft, which he failed to identify and remove. His reliance on A.I. and his use of unattributed work by another writer are a clear violation of The Times’s standards. The reviewer said he had not used A.I. in his previous reviews for The Times, and we have found no issues in those pieces. The Guardian review of “Watching Over Her” can be read here.
Jaysus Effin' Christ. I hope this leads to a better policy of scrutiny. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/06/b...
The Town of Chapel Hill announced it will no longer post or monitor its accounts on the social media platform X, formerly known as Twitter.
Read more here:
good 🧵 from a scholar of social movements
... Monarchs?
This is great.
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/26/c... (free link)
"Notably, half of the whales attending were not related to the mother."
"The calf was rarely left untouched, and it was usually being touched by at least two whales simultaneously."
Service Trips (UPT) SFMTA Bus 77,857,337 BART 53,222,212 SFMTA Trolleybus 46,447,945 AC Transit Local 33,931,071 SFMTA MUNI Metro 28,230,682 VTA Bus 22,626,518 SamTrans Bus 9,991,507 Caltrain 7,405,005 AC Transit Tempo 4,798,970 VTA Light Rail 4,723,010 SFMTA Cable Car 3,925,803 SFMTA Historic Streetcars 3,828,113 Marin Transit Bus 2,823,735 Concord County Connection Bus 2,572,370 SF Ferry 2,388,379 Golden Gate Transit Bus 1,432,232 Santa Rosa CityBus 1,423,226 Golden Gate Transit Ferry 1,421,356 LAVTA Wheels 1,353,810 BART eBART 1,273,133 Tri Delta Transit Bus 1,129,025 SMART 850,270 Sonoma County Transit Bus 744,550 AC Transit Transbay 536,641 WestCAT Bus 509,486 SolTrans Commuter Bus 491,870 SolTrans Bus 461,550 BART Airport Connector 432,021 Napa NVTA Bus 398,093 Petaluma Transit Bus 272,852 Union City Transit Bus 269,375 AC Transit Dumbarton 197,510 Vacaville City Coach Bus 196,473 Fairfield FAST Bus 185,764 WestCAT Commuter Bus 149,525 Napa NVTA Commuter Bus 57,376 Source: 2024 FTA NTD Metrics
Service Cost per Vehicle Mile (OE/VRM) Napa NVTA Commuter Bus $5.00 WestCAT Commuter Bus $6.85 SolTrans Commuter Bus $7.76 Vacaville City Coach Bus $8.11 AC Transit Dumbarton $9.34 Sonoma County Transit Bus $10.65 Union City Transit Bus $10.73 WestCAT Bus $10.92 Napa NVTA Bus $11.37 BART $11.85 Tri Delta Transit Bus $12.44 Marin Transit Bus $12.54 LAVTA Wheels $12.61 Petaluma Transit Bus $14.52 SolTrans Bus $15.40 Santa Rosa CityBus $16.06 Concord County Connection Bus $16.37 AC Transit Transbay $19.61 BART eBART $20.17 VTA Bus $20.57 Fairfield FAST Bus $21.44 AC Transit Local $28.82 SamTrans Bus $30.96 Caltrain $31.80 AC Transit Tempo $32.45 BART Airport Connector $34.39 SMART $35.10 SFMTA Bus $38.38 Golden Gate Transit Bus $45.59 SFMTA Trolleybus $46.76 SFMTA MUNI Metro $48.38 VTA Light Rail $52.08 SF Ferry $113.98 SFMTA Historic Streetcars $126.00 Golden Gate Transit Ferry $201.93 SFMTA Cable Car $406.14 Source: 2024 FTA NTD Metrics
Service Cost per Passenger Mile (OE/PMT) Union City Transit Bus $0.00 Vacaville City Coach Bus $0.00 WestCAT Commuter Bus $0.61 SolTrans Commuter Bus $0.89 BART $1.15 Caltrain $1.34 AC Transit Transbay $1.48 Napa NVTA Commuter Bus $1.49 AC Transit Dumbarton $1.61 SF Ferry $1.71 AC Transit Tempo $1.85 SMART $1.93 Sonoma County Transit Bus $1.98 BART eBART $2.50 Marin Transit Bus $2.58 Santa Rosa CityBus $2.67 Golden Gate Transit Ferry $2.88 LAVTA Wheels $2.98 Napa NVTA Bus $3.00 SFMTA Bus $3.04 VTA Bus $3.05 SFMTA Trolleybus $3.61 SFMTA MUNI Metro $3.65 Concord County Connection Bus $3.91 Tri Delta Transit Bus $4.06 AC Transit Local $4.16 Petaluma Transit Bus $4.31 Golden Gate Transit Bus $4.42 WestCAT Bus $4.91 SamTrans Bus $5.01 VTA Light Rail $5.59 SolTrans Bus $5.64 SFMTA Historic Streetcars $6.19 BART Airport Connector $6.47 Fairfield FAST Bus $10.29 SFMTA Cable Car $16.62 Source: 2024 FTA NTD Metrics
Service Farebox Recovery (FR/OE) Golden Gate Transit Ferry 31.1% BART Airport Connector 31.0% AC Transit Transbay 25.6% BART 24.9% Caltrain 24.3% SFMTA Cable Car 22.3% WestCAT Commuter Bus 21.6% SF Ferry 21.3% BART eBART 17.5% SolTrans Commuter Bus 14.8% AC Transit Dumbarton 13.1% LAVTA Wheels 12.3% Vacaville City Coach Bus 11.0% SFMTA Trolleybus 9.8% Marin Transit Bus 8.8% Santa Rosa CityBus 8.7% AC Transit Local 8.5% AC Transit Tempo 8.3% Concord County Connection Bus 8.3% Golden Gate Transit Bus 8.2% SFMTA Bus 7.6% VTA Bus 7.3% WestCAT Bus 7.0% Petaluma Transit Bus 6.9% Napa NVTA Commuter Bus 6.5% SamTrans Bus 6.4% SMART 6.2% SFMTA Historic Streetcars 6.1% SFMTA MUNI Metro 5.9% Tri Delta Transit Bus 5.1% Fairfield FAST Bus 4.8% Sonoma County Transit Bus 4.6% Napa NVTA Bus 4.5% SolTrans Bus 4.2% Union City Transit Bus 4.2% VTA Light Rail 3.6% Source: 2024 FTA NTD Metrics
BART is the GOAT
They has been asked to provide more service with less funding than any agency in the nation and yet they still deliver fast, reliable, frequent, safe and affordable transit
Thank your local ATU 1555, AFSCME 3993, and SEIU 1021 members today 🫡
In the words of the great Frederick Douglass about the cult of Robert E. Lee, “is it it not about time that this bombastic laudation of the rebel chief should cease?”
I finished a dataset with complete boundary perspectives for Europe, Middle East, and Central Asia. This almost-fully scratches a major itch I’ve had about yielding validated, reliable, large-coverage data from OpenStreetMap.
medium.com/@michalmigur...
Had to write about the monumental stupidity of @sanders.senate.gov "interview" with Claude was, and how the only thing it really revealed is that Sanders has no fucking clue how the tech works, which is not great for someone planning to regulate it.
I joke about this stuff but 15 minutes before the Trump post hit the tape there was a surge in e-mini price and volume. Someone knew and traded.
