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It's changing so fast that a couple months ago I gladly paid $1,000 for Fable to work through a very complicated problem. I wouldn't pay that today, Opus 5.5 on subscription is good enough.

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Good old fashioned European rivalry. (Alstom is French)

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You may not like it but this is what peak performance looks like. 25 stories straight up vertical on every lot line. sfyimby.com/2026/10/new-...

Proposal for an affordable housing high-rise in San Jose with a pure box design and no setbacks.

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Unlimited housing development on every lot, end of discussion.

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Adriana Valencia for AC Transit Ward 3 2026 @valencia4actransit.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

There is no justification for using twitter. The "reach" is not worth it.

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Folks of Bluesky: election day is in 35 days and I'm trying to reach as many people as possible across Oakland, Alameda, and Piedmont. I'm running for @rideact.bsky.social board of directors on a platform of reliability, affordability, and agency transparency. I have two requests! 1/x

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How I kept cool with NYC's free battery program for window AC units

Welcome to the future, we've tied ourselves in knots to make it impossible to upgrade the grid to handle warming climates, but we can use consumer battery tech IoT devices to manage air conditioners through brownouts. arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026...

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Bonus: Every Electric’s batteries are beloved by household cats.

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Emily @emilydawn.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

@hockeyviz.com I found some beautiful data viz for you

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The job of campus police is to protect the administration.

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🚲 @bicycle.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Digging deep into the richest veins of Soviet anti-semitism.

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Robert Caro: In my book I documented Robert Moses as a cautionary tale Zohran Mamdani: At long last, I have become Robert Moses from classic biography Don’t Become Robert Moses

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Inside Gorbachev's USSR (1990)

The loss of real public media is felt now, but far more gravely 40 years from now when we don't have an established archive of independent, mission driven, contemporaneous, primary reporting. E.g. this 1990 PBS documentary of USSR workers in their own words on perestroika. youtu.be/4MlMQPfoq3I?...

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YouTube video by Mike Guardia

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How Deep Can Nuclear Submarines Actually Dive?

Looking out my window and imagining how reckless and dangerous it would be for a car to drive 45 mph on this street. And then thinking how it would look if a 270 ft long Soviet Alfa class submarine with a lead-bismuth liquid metal reactor whizzed by at 41 knots / 47 mph. youtu.be/GhQAxio_4_o?...

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YouTube video by Second Order Science

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Kirsten Bladh @kerstanley.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

LA’s zoning rules require that the building not create shade but also that the developer must plant 53 trees on the lot to…create shade.

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Ian @woolie.meowmeow.city · 01/10/2026

Just noticed I had all of the public safety alerts turned off on my phone.

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Ian @woolie.meowmeow.city · 01/10/2026

Apparently this is a very regional thing. How would you describe the food known as a "kolache".

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Ian @woolie.meowmeow.city · 30/09/2026

tfw you watch a person rebuild a burned out castle from rubble over the course of several years, and when they start on the interior you learn they have absolutely terrible taste.

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The Onion @theonion.com · 29/09/2026

Cornell Vows That Rapists Will Be Forced To Write Much Longer Essays In The Future theonion.com/cornell-vows...

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I'm looking forward to seeing a fresh new generation having very public timeline crash-outs over the Water Temple.

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Up 3x in 5 years. In 15 more years people are going to forget there was ever a time when solar was considered prohibitively expensive as a climate solution. It will be the cheapest and first line solution.

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The AI psychosis I'm experiencing is Claude making me work until 5am every night.

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It's almost like there's a theory of how this works.

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A fun quirk of American urban planning is production of 990 page documents where the observable universe is a narrow strip a hundred feet wide. The yellow areas are unmeasurable and unknowable, we can only infer their existence through the forces they exert elsewhere. berkeleyca.gov/sites/defaul...

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Montreal rejected a REM expansion project because it would have put elevated trains on this road. After seeing it in person, this road is an abomination and would be greatly improved by elevated trains down the middle.

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We should allow unlimited height and density near San Pablo Ave.

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At this point I'm not sure it matters if we hit the plateau or not.

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Few things are more beautiful than an elevated train. Along with the bicycle, one of two perfect technologies.

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The Walking Dead is such a silly show. 12th century technology like a moat would have made their settlements safe from zombies. Surely there were excavators just sitting around. They could have put their houses on stilts like they do at the beach.

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Clem Tillier @ctillier.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

It's not too late. It's never too late.

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I always thought under-slung BART wouldn’t fit through the Golden Gate Bridge towers, but it turns out BART is small and the bridge is huge. Here is a mockup in 1/100 scale, BART fits easily.

A photo of a 1/100 scale model of a tower of the Golden Gate Bridge, showing a paper cutout of a cross section of a BART line under the road deck. It fits easily.

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Ian @woolie.meowmeow.city · 27/09/2026

October is almost here! Which means it's time for the annual Festival of Intrusive Thoughts about running away from it all and joining the ren faire circuit.

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The Spaceshipper 🚀 @thespaceshipper.com · 26/09/2026

The Abyss (1989): Deep Core, art by Ron Cobb

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Ian @woolie.meowmeow.city · 27/09/2026

First name Fuck, last name Fuck.

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Marcel Moran @marcelmoran.com · 25/09/2026

Why would I possibly care if a candidate brought an iced coffee to the interview?

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New Study! How many stairs does it take to get from the street to the platform of a New York City subway station? How long are the passageways? And what fare gates are present at different stations? We sought to find out at 85 different stations + 308 distinct entrances: doi.org/10.1016/j.jp...

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We always thought AI would be created by a special generational genius scientist, what actually happened was more akin to a lab accident made possible by computer game hardware.

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Americans want fancy cars to be cheap when they buy them personally and super expensive when bought by anyone else they know.

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Very excited to return home to every level of government is broken in fun and different ways - city, county, state, and federal each have a different bloom.

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