iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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TK @40goingon28.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

My origin story, part 1 garbagecityfc.beehiiv.com/p/san-franci...

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San Francisco Days - Part 1

The author moves to San Francisco

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njudah.bsky.social @njudah.bsky.social · 9h

SNL was cutting edge in the 1970s. Is it even close to that after decades and the cornerstone of Lorne Michael’s wealth and power?

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njudah.bsky.social @njudah.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

New post up on Substack: The Steps of Coralino Lane (and a welcome to new friends online) njudah.substack.com/p/photo-post...

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Photo Post: The Steps of Coralino Lane

Also: A Welcome to New Followers and Subscribers

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njudah.bsky.social @njudah.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Genuinely surprised and flattered one of my posts ended up in @garbageday.email and it was a nice surprise! Thanks to @webuiltthiscity.bsky.social for the tip!

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ᴡᴇ ʙᴜɪʟᴛ ᴛʜɪꜱ ᴄɪᴛʏ @webuiltthiscity.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

@njudah.bsky.social Congrats on making it onto Garbage Day! I am a faithful reader and was very surprised when I clicked the link

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Peter Hartlaub @peterhartlaub.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I ranked the 10 best views in San Francisco. Probably most notable for the big one that I left on the honorable mentions. (No regrets.) How many have you seen? Until exploring the city became my job circa 2018, I had only experienced 4 of the 10 on this list. www.sfchronicle.com/project/sf-b...

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The 10 best views in San Francisco — ranked

The city’s vista points are so iconic, our list doesn’t include the most famous one

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njudah.bsky.social @njudah.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Don’t F with Chicago Pope…

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Mission Local @missionlocal.org · 28/09/2026

San Francisco's richest have never been richer, more brazen or faced weaker political opposition — going back to the Gold Rush. Latest column from @esksf.bsky.social missionlocal.org/2026/09/san-...

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San Francisco's wealthiest have unprecedented control of city politics

Our city fathers (if you like them) or oligarchs (if you don’t) have never been richer, more brazen or faced weaker opposition

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Caltrain @caltrain.com · 26/09/2026

Join us tomorrow at the community celebration for the SamTrans 50th Celebration! The festivities begin at 1 PM, see you there bit.ly/4ANrMFI !

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SamTrans 50th Anniversary | SamTrans

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ProgGrrl @proggrrl.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

F*ck these f*cking f*cks

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Catherine @catherineb.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Good morning @rollovereasy.org Funnily enough, I am riding the bus right now. Public transportation is vital and the lifeblood of any city. Let’s go muni

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Matt Ford @mford.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Ezra Klein asked Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang about AI making kids worse at math and reading. Huang’s reply: “Does it matter?” Then he said he doesn’t know his own address or phone number. “We’re going to lose some fine intellectual dexterity.” www.nytimes.com/2026/09/23/o...

So the message of this research out of China, where you were seeing a lot of kids using A.I. to help them, was that when they were using the A.I., they were getting things done faster. But it turned out that the skills they were learning were not holding, that their actual personal performance, at least in the way we traditionally measure it, was degrading.

What do you think when you hear that?

The last part — I completely agree. Try to get a kid to do long division right now. The multiplication table is starting to be forgotten. Doing square roots, my goodness. Basic math is being forgotten. Does it matter?

That’s my question for you.

Yeah. I don’t think it does. I don’t think it does.

But there must be some set of skills that matter.

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. But maybe not those. We’re going to discover new ones. Just maybe not those.

There are a lot of skills that don’t matter. My first confession, I actually don’t know my address.

And I ——

I don’t really believe that to be true.

It’s completely true. Janine will tell you and Lori will tell you.

One day I had to pump gas — it was a few years ago. They needed my ZIP code, and I panicked. I didn’t know my ZIP code. I don’t know my telephone number. I forget these things. I can live with it.

But let me take the other side because I don’t want to fall into a thing where, because some skills can be safely offloaded ——

Yeah.

I also can’t get anywhere without a mapping system now. Never could, frankly. But I’m a big reader. And one of the skills I really value, one of the capacities I have that I really value is an attention span formed on physical books.

You’re a big reader. I’ve read about the kind of reading you do. And there is, prior to A.I., a lot of concern and noticing among college professors and others that the way people use the internet has probably shortened attention spans.
Some skills can be safely given away. Others are valuable. They are capacities that are needed for that flexibility, for that creative thinking, for that focus. It can’t be the case that everything can be traded off.

Some skills can be safely given away. Others are valuable. They are capacities that are needed for that flexibility, for that creative thinking, for that focus. It can’t be the case that everything can be traded off.

Yeah. Well, I think that we’re going to lose some finer intellectual dexterity, but we’re going to be better systems thinkers.

Today’s engineers are far better systems thinkers than I was when I graduated from school. But I was a much better transistor thinker.

What do you mean by systems thinker?

They think of large systems. Today’s computers have trillions, hundreds of trillions of transistors in them. When I first graduated from school, the first chip I worked on had 200 transistors. I knew every one of them by name. No engineer does that today. Most engineers now work well above the transistor, well above the functionality, and they’re cobbling things together to do things.

So you need to think much more about systems and interactions of systems. So some of the lower-level knowledge is gone.

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shauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

so i’m on the train this morning and a guy gets on with a little dog and pops open a tiny folding chair and THE DOG SITS IN IT

a small grey folding canvas chair with a fluffy off-white dog curled up in it like a perfect lil angel

close-up of the previous photo of a small grey folding canvas chair with a fluffy off-white dog curled up in it like a perfect lil angel

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ProgGrrl @proggrrl.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

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San Francisco City FC @sfcityfc.com · 12/09/2026

See you Sunday. Hang out, eat, drink, and try on '26 jerseys in-person. Standard Deviant Brewing Pier 70 location Noon to 5PM. Most jerseys will be in XS, S, XL, XXL, and XXXL. FIERROYORO ⚫️🟡 Roll Fog ✌️😶‍🌫️

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Mark Hogan @markasaurus.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

S.F. is poised to spend $33M more on their no bid contract woth OpenGov. It’s still only handling basic permits and permit timelines are terrible. missionlocal.org/2026/09/open...

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S.F. is poised to spend $33M more on OpenGov. It’s still only handling basic permits.

OpenGov is supposed to consolidate the city’s disparate permitting systems. City workers keep using the old system.

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Yet another issue where every single person who touched it needs to end up in jail for us to have any semblance of the rule of law. You cannot have a functional democracy where the government creates a plan to literally throw away votes from places that don't support the incumbent party.

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njudah.bsky.social @njudah.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

so very 2026: thanks to the settlement sent to my Venmo from Sutter for violating my privacy, I can pay for tickets and popcorn to see Coyote Vs Acme. Hooray?

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august 🍂 @auguststreet.ca · 25/08/2026

only ~1 year ago, transit riders organized a race to beat the notoriously traffic-jammed 8 bus in seattle. some were literally walking. one of the attendees was then-mayoral candidate katie wilson. taking office earlier this year, she helped stencil in this bus lane a few days ago. advocacy works!

the mayor and other workers stenciling markings onto a bus lane in a closed off traffic lane

people moving along a crowded sidewalk next to a line of cars blocking an 8 bus

source: seattle transit blog

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ℳatt @matttomic.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

• a list of all of the supposed trade demands the US made to Canada goes viral with 900 shares • the list gets tracked back to the original source • turns out it's just an AI-hallucinated summary of a bunch of media rumours God damnit guys

Someone named fede shares a list on bsky earlier today: "The USA demanded Canada's capitulation as if it had lost a war"

Someone named Nils Gilman says: "it's an AI synthesis of all publicly reported demands"

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njudah.bsky.social @njudah.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

In my Mad Men script it was Don Draper but the real story is way more fun and interesting so read it!

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Katie 📚 @ktpersists.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

the real policy platform the sf congressional candidates need to appeal to voters is how they plan to bring back the tuesday noon siren

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njudah.bsky.social @njudah.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Seeing all the Conan O’Brien spotting on Instagram is the home game version of Outside Lands

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Steve B. @chillboypowerhead.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

B’s and beers ⚾️ 🍺

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njudah.bsky.social @njudah.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Watching the N outbound and it’s a Lumon office on rails, brightly lit and sparsely populated with nice well dressed people

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njudah.bsky.social @njudah.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Watching the N inbound and it looks like a steamy nightclub full of well dressed party people

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njudah.bsky.social @njudah.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Some dot com era tv ads for some Friday fun. Compare and contrast with today’s bubble youtu.be/ZrJy025iRjg?...

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Commercials of the Dot Com Bubble

YouTube video by Mr. Opportunity

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njudah.bsky.social @njudah.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

over on the newsletter I write about some SF movies coming up this week and a trip to see the Oakland Ballers open.substack.com/pub/njudah/p...

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Sunny Saturday with the Oakland Ballers, BART and AC Transit

Bonus: No Mortgage Financing Needed to Buy A Hot Dog

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That Mack @thatmc.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Heritage weekend is September 19th-20th, and Muni will give rides in a host of vintage and historic vehicles, and is always a great time. Definitely worth attending! www.sfmta.com/calendar/mun...

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Muni Heritage Weekend 2026

Muni Heritage Weekend - Join us for a Journey Through Time!

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njudah.bsky.social @njudah.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

someone from the bear silo had to clean

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@LAhistory @lahistory.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Saul Bass also redesigned LA's RTD logo in 1980. “I viewed it as a personal project. Los Angeles is my home. We all know that #publictransportation is one of the major issues that confronts society generally—and Los Angeles in particular," #SaulBass. RTD mug via @metrolosangeles.bsky.social store:

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darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

these photos from the east coast of the terrible air conditions are bringing back memories of the orange sky days in the bay area six years ago

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StreetsblogMASS @mass.streetsblog.org · 14/07/2026

SCOOP: In 2023-24, @mayorwu.boston.gov's streets cabinet IDed hazards and prepared safety improvement plans for the intersection where a driver killed Louisa Gag last week. But under her new second-term administration, those plans never got built. mass.streetsblog.org/2026/07/14/w...

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Wu Administration Shelved Safety Plans For Mission Hill Streets Where Driver Killed Louisa Gag - Streetsblog Massachusetts

"We knew there were dangers. We had a plan to make it safer. It is blatantly irresponsible for the city to make a deliberate decision to not follow through."

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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Thank you everyone who sent me horrible AI generated flyers from around the world at my request. I was fully overwhelmed with hundreds and hundreds of these. These are the worst I saw. The hall of shame. Please enjoy and/or numb your brain: www.404media.co/these-are-th...

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These Are the Worst ChatGPT Flyers You've Sent Us

Welcome to the AI-generated poster hall of shame.

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Mason Powell @masonpowell.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

The lighter side of…2026

A computer salesman says “and for small business, nothing beats Clod AI! It’ll cut your work in half!” The customer says “really! Can you give me a demonstration?” To which the salesman nervously says “sorry I can’t do that right now! All the servers are down!”

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Alissa Walker @awalkerinla.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

I accidentally deleted this from the thread? Or it just vanished? Anyway... posting again. The story behind Metro's World Cup jerseys, which were designed to match the bus wraps. And employees get asked this all day but no, you can't have one, unless you work for Metro

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When the Jersey Became the MVP

Fashion & LA Metro Mashup

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Alissa Walker @awalkerinla.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Situational awareness for 7/8 🚫 NO MATCHES TODAY 🚫 Instead here's some World Cup La Croix art at Gelson's (and yes, people were watching the games at the wine bar)

A stack of La Croix boxes made to look like the World Cup trophy with a 2 and 6 in the window of Gelson's supermarket

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Archaeo - Histories @archaeohistories.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

When you accidentally find your doppelganger on a painting made over 100 years old. 😀 🎨 : ''The broken Pitcher'' (1891 AD), by William - Adolphe Bouguereau. Legion of Honor Art Museum, San Francisco 🇺🇸 #archaeohistories

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darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

starting to think that being terminally online infects some people into becoming utterly unable to admit they might have been wrong about anything they posted online “keep posting through it” has become a desperate mantra

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njudah.bsky.social @njudah.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Weird to read how what was mainstream “safe” politics in 1971 is now branded as “radical” and too scary

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