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Davey Kim

@dvyk.bsky.social
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+tech, trust and safety, fairness | internet sanity +politics, nonprofits, global affairs | democracy is good +housing, transit and urbanism | integration now Ethics+Society+Tech@Stanford Lead@SF YIMBY #GoKingsGo *opinions are my own!* 🇺🇲🇨🇦

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Davey Kim @dvyk.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
It is still insane to me that the most popular bus routes in the city are forced sit with private vehicle traffic.
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Davey Kim @dvyk.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
There's a term for this... Not in My something something. www.marinij.com/2026/09/27/s...
Marin County is poised to move forward with a plan to use a San Rafael hotel as interim housing for homeless residents, despite city opposition.

“I am not supportive of this,” San Rafael Mayor Kate Colin told county officials at a Sept. 17 meeting of the city’s homelessness subcommittee. “I wish it was not in San Rafael.”
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Davey Kim @dvyk.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
If I had a unit of affordable housing everytime I heard this refrain. www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/arti...
“We are in favor of affordable housing,” said Gary Batroff, president of Friends of Hauke Park, which includes hundreds of members, many of whom live in the Enchanted Knolls neighborhood that overlooks the proposed site. “But...
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Davey Kim @dvyk.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
To my fellow San Franciscan urbanists: if you are feeling jaded at the level of political intransigence of the West Side, please know that even the most car-pilled of people can be won over by good urbanism.
"I wanted to hate the closure. I drive for work and have to go from western Addition to Pacifica area multiple times a week. I always enjoyed taking Skyline and UGH to get home and was so annoyed when it closed. I decided to throw myself into it and start taking my dog with me for adventures at OB. I am so conflicted now because- it’s wonderful. I love it. I don’t mind the commute. I want to hate the closure but…..I just don’t anymore. If there was a way to open  both directions from Sloat to Skyline that would be huge. As of right now the Northbound lane from Skylone is open but not Sourhbound. That is weird and not at all useful."
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Davey Kim @dvyk.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
About sums up the state of platform conduct in the modern era. www.kqed.org/news/1209588...
The former Meta safety engineer said that features the company built to support mental health and counter social media addiction were “designed to fail.”

“It’s like [if] you have a car and they give you some brakes, but the brakes are in the trunk,” he said. “You have to go look for it and install it before you turn it on.”
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Davey Kim @dvyk.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
It's almost as if there's a high cost of free parking
Reddit post complaining about how one family occupies all available parking in their culdesac.
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Davey Kim @dvyk.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Holy sweet spaghetti.
Grand opening of Jollibee in SF. Market st.
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Davey Kim @dvyk.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
That's one way to make a crater
Space X stock showing record lows as if mom July 27
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Davey Kim @dvyk.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Financial Times: Japans trains are getting much faster as the country embraces moonshotsSquidward staring down in the dark out the window while his neighbors are having fun
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Davey Kim @dvyk.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Spermanent. I mean this is not really a laughing matter but...
New Spermanent supportive housing required to be drug free
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Davey Kim @dvyk.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
www.britannica.com/topic/liars-...
Encyclopedia Britannica
 
liar’s dividend
social phenomenon
 
Learn about this topic in these articles:
misinformation and disinformation
/ Free speech and the liar’s dividend
The liar’s dividend refers to cases where people will claim that real information is mis- and disinformation. This approach has the benefit of muddying the waters so that people, especially those who traffic in misinformation, are able to evade or blunt scrutiny embedded in accurate words… Read More
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Davey Kim @dvyk.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
I'm glad the rain cools us off to 102F
Flight announcement. Next stop cleveland. Thunderstorms with highs of 102F.
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Davey Kim @dvyk.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
Stay classy San Francisco
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Davey Kim @dvyk.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
It just astounds me how much these podcasters pose as regular ole guys completely disinterested in politics, but then seem happy to strategize over running cover for an administration. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/10/m...
The vice president once again pushed to release as much of the Epstein files as possible. And with an eye on the public messaging, he proposed that he should be the one to appear on Rogan’s influential podcast. Vance had just gotten off the phone with Rogan, and he later told others that Rogan said he wouldn’t have Blanche on his show but would take Vance.

Vance argued that if he were the one to appear on Rogan’s show, then only a part of the conversation would be about Epstein. The rest of the interview, he told the group, could be about the president’s recently passed legislation and what it would do for working families.
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Davey Kim @dvyk.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
Id like to toot this tidbit:
But beyond practical benefits and safety, we also wonder about our son’s developmental maturity. If I do this transit dad thing right, my son will grow up knowing how to navigate his city confidently and, eventually, independently.

He’ll learn to embrace neighbors less fortunate than him rather than fear them, with regular, daily interactions showing him that they have more in common than not. He’ll have a relationship with San Francisco that is only possible from sharing space with others not just on the bus but in all the public spaces that make up our civic life.
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Davey Kim @dvyk.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
C,man Zoox
AV caught in cross walk
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Davey Kim @dvyk.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
Philz on a Saturday morning is pretty sparse. Anyone know if it's because of their recent private equity play?
Philz coffee inside with few customers
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Davey Kim @dvyk.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
It's a little hard to buy the throat clearing about not opposing rail, knowing well that for most people the takeaway is: don't build it.
This is not to say Alto shouldn’t be built, nor that it’s a bad idea. The construction and operation of a high-speed rail line would generate growth and socioeconomic value for Canada.

It would create tens of thousands of construction jobs, billions of dollars in new opportunities annually and could help revive Canada’s suffering steel sector (currently dealing with tariff pressures from the United States).
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Davey Kim @dvyk.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
Oh interesting: economic growth causes more activity that can cancel out emissions reductions from rail? Good point! Oh you don't account externalities of economic growth from EVs or electric planes? Okay (nods head)
One of the real benefits of high-speed rail development is economic growth. This arises because a new high-speed train makes new forms of economic activity possible.

It reduces the time it takes to travel between cities, making greater connectivity possible, while also increasing tourism opportunities. In theory, it also expands the distance that workers are willing to commute, which could create new housing development opportunities in regions that otherwise would not have experienced them.

Nevertheless, these same benefits potentially undermine some of the environmental arguments for high-speed rail. These new economic opportunities induce new transport demand — not only for the new train but for other modes of travel as well.
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Davey Kim @dvyk.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
Like yes, you have to account for emissions from high speed rail construction. You have my attention. Oh, EVs and electric planes are better options you say? Oh and you didn't account for emissions from manufacturing and infrastructure of those alternatives? Okay (nods head)
Much of the diverted automobile traffic for high-speed rail — by the time the train line is built — will likely come from EVs. That leaves diverting traffic from aircraft as the main way to reduce transport emissions. Yet even this sector is also expected to electrify in the coming decades.

In fact, it is precisely the short-haul flight market within the busy Québec City-Windsor corridor where small electric aircraft are set to debut in Canada. Airlines have already put in orders for electric planes, which may even enter into service before the first rail link is built.
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Davey Kim @dvyk.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
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Davey Kim @dvyk.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
Okay now Im gonna cry #gokingsgo
Anzw kopitars last game
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Davey Kim @dvyk.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
Let's go CTA!!!
Chicago transit direction sign
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Davey Kim @dvyk.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
If I don't see halmonies and harmonicas tonight, I'm going to freak out. #gokingsgo
2025 LA kings playoffs, Korean seniors playing the national anthem with harmonicas
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Davey Kim @dvyk.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
Cahmahn. True locals don't need parking.
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Davey Kim @dvyk.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
I dont want to be a snob, but do you have to debut your new jerseys in shorts and shower flip flops? #gokingsgo
new ontario reign jerseys modeled by players in shorts and flip flops
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Davey Kim @dvyk.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
For height-phobic NIMBYs who fear we are "turning San Francisco into Miami," here's an actual rendering of the recently passed Family Zoning Plan. Thanks to @foglinesf.bsky.social SF actual zoning =Orange/Red Miami heights = Blue
Zoning height map showing modest height increases Same zoning map but with high miami level height limits.
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Davey Kim @dvyk.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
Excerpt from @eitanhersh.bsky.social Politics is for Power: the culture of the modern Democratic party is to sub your responsibility for action toward material social change (i.e. building housing at local levels) for...
Even so,<mark style="background: #FFEB4FA6;"> why has the college-educated middle class generally failed to participate in concrete local committees where they might work to ad- dress issues such as environmental policy or civil rights? The answer is also, of course, self-interest, in the form of NIMBYism (Not In My Back- Yard). For someone who cares about environmental protection or racial justice, it's easier to sign a petition or send in a donation to an organi- zation in Washington supporting liberal positions than to face one's neighbors and deal with the issue in one's own backyard.</mark>26 It's easier for parents to let their children skip school to march in sup- port of national and international climate action than to let them skip school to demand serious and immediate changes from their own cities and towns. Carol's county Democratic committee in Oregon takes positions in municipal races because it wants to push the agenda its members care about at the local level. But other local party committees don't do that because the professional class of liberals who dominate local Democratic groups either aren't themselves on board with economic, environ- mental, and racial policy priorities when it comes to local politics or else they do not want to face their immediate neighbors on those issues.
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Davey Kim @dvyk.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
Gonna cry #gokingsgo
Kopitars last home game before retirement.
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Davey Kim @dvyk.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
Real headline from the New York Post. Who laundered this pro-rail innuendo into car-brained reactionary media? #15minutecities lives! Muahahaha.
Metro
LA’s $24B high-speed tunnel project could slash 405 Freeway commute to just 18 minutes
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Davey Kim @dvyk.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
Had to rub my eyes for this one. Whose sense of justice is served by seizing an 11-year-old's piggy bank hidden under his bed? Remember kids: hiding assets from the law is illegal.
If the parents were found not at fault, Levine said, damages could be limited to the child’s assets. Those could include money held in a bank account the parents had set up for the child, and also future assets — judgments in civil suits can remain enforceable for as long as 20 years if the plaintiffs do the right paperwork, Levine said.
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Davey Kim @dvyk.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
One of these folks (besides the person in pink) will be take Nancy Pelosi's Congressional seat.
Congressional candidates for San Francisco
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Davey Kim @dvyk.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
Who's eggcited for the post-Hiller era? #gokingsgo
Portrait of new Kings head coach DJ SmithEggplant
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Davey Kim @dvyk.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
I fell for the click bait. Damn these people. #gokingsgo
YouTube thumbnail that says Auston Matthews to LA.
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Davey Kim @dvyk.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
I think I'm gonna need more than 90 days (cleaning out childhood boxes)
90 day limited warranty on a Nintendo entertainment system
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Davey Kim @dvyk.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
The wealthy denizens of SF's West Portal are unhappy that their location, named after a major transit stop, will see dense housing built right next their major transit stop.
screen cap of a NIMBY petition against apartment construction in West Portal
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Davey Kim @dvyk.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
Love the smell of hockey in the morning
Olympic hockey at mad dog in the fog.
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Davey Kim @dvyk.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
In a hockey mood, watching Red Army (Soviet hockey documentary). Watch it if you haven't already, you coward.
Propaganda song: "cowards don't play hockey"
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Davey Kim @dvyk.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
now I know my AB3s
brady tkachuk with elmo
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Davey Kim @dvyk.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
Many policymakers foresee disaster, if Bay Area residents foist a mass transit from 50 years ago onto a region that keeps expanding. Local economies might crater. Business could fail. Real estate could sputter. 

For thousands of BART riders, the consequences are personal. Most would need to drastically change their commutes.
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Davey Kim @dvyk.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
unsubscribed for mom
unsubscribing window for medicare.gov for Stay Healthy with Dr. Oz Email Series.
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Davey Kim @dvyk.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
Even the scammers are quiet quitting.
Email claiming to be micr0s0ft
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Davey Kim @dvyk.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
Perfect summation as to why content guard rails against CSAM is a losing battle.
Do you try your damnedest, as a malicious actor would, to make your model produce sexual imagery of children, and risk criminal prosecution? (Even for good-faith testing purposes to prevent malicious misuse, is privately creating that imagery justifiable?) Or do you steer clear of this sort of testing, and risk the regulatory and public relations fallout currently engulfing xAI?
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Davey Kim @dvyk.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
Just a reminder to everyone that authors dont determine the headline and can sometimes be blindsided by editors.
Journalist Kate Conger indicating she was not aware of the word choice of the headline describing Grok's behavior as "racy"
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Davey Kim @dvyk.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
Ren and Stimpy did commercial parodies of beef tallow for breakfast as a joke in the 1990s. Hard to believe it's no longer a joke.
billy the beef tallow, deep frying everything
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Davey Kim @dvyk.bsky.social · 31/12/2025
The Brits teach us that "real men" need horsepower
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Davey Kim @dvyk.bsky.social · 29/12/2025
Wifey reporting from the SFMTA 1 bus toward Chinatown, which let off everyone halfway at Presidi. Chinatown elders refusing to get off the bus and let the muni driver leave without giving them an explanation.
Unscheduled last stop at a Presidio and all the Chinatown bound elders are very mad
They do not want to wait 10 minutes for the next bus (fair)
They are demanding an explanation and the driver will not give one!
dont mess with the town in town elders
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Davey Kim @dvyk.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
Facial rec is here... www.404media.co/email/331104...
Without Gutiérrez’s ID, the agents resorted to another approach. They took a photo of his face. A short while later, the agents got their answer: “Oh yeah, he’s right. He’s saying the right thing. He does got papers,” Gutiérrez recalled the agents saying.
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Davey Kim @dvyk.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
You know things are bad at the Daily Wire when they send three grown men to report on the Fall of America at McDonalds PlayPlace
This is a unedited screen cap of a daily wire post with its three hosts in front of mcdonalds lamenting the "fall of America"
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Davey Kim @dvyk.bsky.social · 29/11/2025
Canucks v Sharks. Sigh, Toffolli where did we go wrong. #gokingsgo
Picture of Tyler Toffolli at SAP center.
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