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I am not the right person to offer deep personal insight, as I don't have kids! That said, I'd want to have confidence in my child's situational awareness and ability to ask for help. I'd want ease into it - smaller rides first, talk about what they experienced, how they felt.

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Connect Bay Area · Events Calendar

Lot's of parent/kid(s) teams have been knocking doors for RTM and Prop H! You can find all the RTM + H events here: luma.com/connectbayar... If you have time this upcoming Sunday morning, join me as we canvass Mt. Davidson! luma.com/tb5eaxdy

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View and follow events from Connect Bay Area on Luma. Organizing for the Regional Transit Measure on the November 2026 ballot. Vote Yes on RTM November 3rd! Learn more, request window signs and lite...

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One of the strong arguments in support of dense, frequent transit is child and parent mobility autonomy once kids are mature enough. Parents who have figured this out in San Francisco are some of the biggest proponents of Muni. Suddenly everyone is happier and has more time!

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California Transit Association @caltransit.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

"Trump has said he will be known as the 'fertilization president.'" This timeline is so stupid; I regularly struggle to digest it.

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Local voices. Local choices. A stronger future for transit.

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Robert Prinz @prinzrob.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

The Bay Area public transit #MeasureRTM polling shows 48% support, 34% opposed, 18% undecided. This means only 1 in 9 of the undecideds need to vote YES to get over 50%. Volunteer w the campaign now to help make this happen, opportunities listed here: 👇👇👇 luma.com/connectbayarea

“WHO IS LIKELY TO SUPPORT TRANSIT TAX?
Support for the regional transit tax that would fund BART, Muni, Caltrain and AC Transit depends on age group and housing situation.

Registered voters
48% yes 18% not sure 34% no
By age group
18 to 34
69% yes
35 to 49
44% yes
50 to 60
35% yes
By housing situatlon
Renters
60% yes
Homeowners
34% yes

Source: Bay Area News Group/Joint Venture Silicon Valley poll of 1,801 adults in Alameda, Contra Costa, San Francisco, San Mateo and Santa Clara counties, conducted online Aug. 5-18, 2026. Margin of error is +/- 2.6 percentage points.
BAY AREA NEWS GROUP”

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Cyrus Hall @cyrushall.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

At least in public. The development of LLMs, and their particular capabilities, looks more and more to adopt the specificity of context and task of reinforcement models. That's intentionally blurred in the press releases and public hype.

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Cyrus Hall @cyrushall.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I'll add that Shane Legg -- one of the founders of Deep Mind -- produced a proof for his PhD thesis that no single agent will ever be maximally adopted for all tasks. This proof has been largely ignored as theologically inconvenient for two decades.

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Cyrus Hall @cyrushall.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

By far the most accessible article dovetailing the development of AI theology (I use that word intentionally) and the current state of LLM technology, right through the last few weeks.

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Connect Bay Area · Events Calendar

Momentum is building for RTM and Prop H, but we're still looking to reach more doors and phones! If you have an evening or a weekend morning, we'd really love to have you knock doors or make calls. Lots of events in SF and beyond here: luma.com/connectbayarea

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Canvassing for RTM and Prop H brings you to beautiful places.

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CA DMV had a Special Processing Unit that reviews complaints and will revoke plates that were missed. This seems like an obvious one! Phone #: 916-657-8545

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Join The Project - SFBA Bench Collective

Love this! If you're interested, there is a well tested bench design with instructions from the SF Bay Bench Collective. Very comfy!

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The San Francisco Bay Area Bench Collective

Alfred Twu @alfredtwu.com · 04/10/2026

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Fashion of the Day - staying cool on Muni! The big hats, hair clips, loose clothes, and fans are of a style from the days before air conditioning, and well, are still useful today 🌡️🌞 Bay Area, vote Yes on RTM to keep transit running (and San Francisco voters, vote Yes on H to strengthen Muni!)

Alfred wearing a straw hat, hair clip, lots of beads, yellow Chinese blouse, and pleated black skirt, holding a rainbow fan, inside a historic PCC streetcar

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Totally fair! I worded that in a way that reads like kink shamming. The context is really all the recent coverage of how the consensual bit isn't being respected.

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I think he's just 85. Age comes for us all.

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It's a really strange world right now.

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Quick reminder that Eliezer Yudowsky is where Bernie Sanders is getting his AI policy from. And Sanders is where Connie Chan is getting her AI policy from. Maybe don't adopt the policy of a egomaniac who runs a AI death cult, with a side of consensual non-consensual sex?

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Joey Politano🏳️‍🌈 @josephpolitano.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Election mail is so boring...but not this! Great concept and execution. Good messaging, too!

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Sort of insane fact about how broken US urban planning is—America now spends more building *just the lights for roads and highways* than on all subways & ground mass transit combined Spending on roadway *pavement* is 18x transit spending

a graph of roadway and mass transit lights

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Paul Byrne @theplanetaryguy.com · 02/10/2026

This will never stop blowing my mind. A 12-year sequence of real telescope images of a star 133 lightyears away. And around it, four planets slowly orbiting. Four real exoplanets, each more massive than Jupiter, imaged as they move around their host star.

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Warren Wells, AICP @warrenjwells.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

The Calmatters series was excellent, and the victims of reckless, repeat DUI driving described in it deserve much better than this. Honestly, the members of California legislature should be embarrassed that this counts as progress.

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Cyrus Hall @cyrushall.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

My shirt that reads "The ideological clowns are out. The patriotic cowboys are in. Testosterone testing for everyone," had people asking a lot of questions already answered by my shirt. What a stupid, stupid, stupid timeline.

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Cyrus Hall @cyrushall.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Gut churning, and I'm just sitting in a cafe on the ground.

Cyrus Hall @cyrushall.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

"Flip the BCC" seems like thinly coded NIMBYs dressed up in progressive clothing. Am I reading them right?

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Bob Henson @bhensonweather.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Excellent summary from @weatherwest.bsky.social on the continuing confusion between absolute and relative measures of the ongoing 2026-27 El Niño. Key points: —Both absolute and relative scales have value, but they’re meant for different purposes. —This is now a record-strong event either way!

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Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I wish there was a way to figure out which of my donations got me on all these spam lists so I could never donate to those causes again

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Emily Pinkerton ♿️ @poetryfriend.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I’ve been phonebanking for this and I’d highly recommend it! Or just tell your friends - YES on RTM!

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Robust market regulation sets the bounds of what makes sense to pursue. The main problem here is not the leadership of these companies, but the regulatory environment in which they are operating. The incentives are all wrong.

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You do sometimes see mature leadership declare that something isn't working and just shutdown. But it's rare. Financial (and legal) incentives tend to push toward pivots, even if they violate the supposed goals of the company and leadership.

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By "successful" I mean "still around and kicking." That's a pretty limited definition of success, but often the view from the executive board room doesn't go much further.

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ACLU @aclu.org · 27/09/2026

The fundamental truth about successful companies -- that a lot of people spend their lives trying to avoid -- is that they will do whatever it takes to survive. That strongly informs my policy beliefs, and is why I see a regulatory state as a hard necessity (if insufficient).

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The conditions in President Trump and Stephen Miller’s detention facilities remain inhumane. Demand immediate action from our elected leaders to prevent further loss of life at aclu.org/stop-ice_killings

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They're too busy making shit up about public transit and opposing basic public services (while supporting Prop 43).