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Zach Lipton @zachlipton.com · 11h
hell yes ✊
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Zach Lipton @zachlipton.com · 12h
California is fairly unique in having a chronically under-enforced law that says employees have to be allowed to sit down whenever their tasks allow feels like it's more well known for periodic settlements when big employers violate it than for actually being followed
shrm.org
California’s Suitable Seating Law: A Task-Based Requirement
Review California’s Suitable Seating Law, which requires employers to assess the tasks involved in every job to determine whether seating should be provided.
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Zach Lipton @zachlipton.com · 14h
and there it is
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Zach Lipton @zachlipton.com · 14h
was just coming to say this and here you were
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Zach Lipton @zachlipton.com · 14h
ok surely now he'll drop out, right?
everyone pulled their endorsments except Fiona Ma, SFPOA, Dem party (special meeting called for Oct 11), and the deputy sheriffs assocation (hasn't responded)
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Annalee Newitz @annaleen.bsky.social · 17h
After watching the first episode of this season of Slow Horses, I'm dreaming of a show that actually does follow the daring adventures of transit authority operatives, fixing potholes and thinking about many kinds of vehicles. Rescuing pedestrians! Making protected bike lines! Reducing traffic!
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Zach Lipton @zachlipton.com · 16h
Season 2 of Hijack didn't go full transit nerd, but it was at least pretty close to "the daring adventures of transit authority operatives responding to a hijacked U-Bahn" And Utopia/Dreamland out of Australia is the non-daring version for urban planning bureaucracy
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George Pearkes @peark.es · 17h
IE is out here skeeting bond market analysis using potato-quality pics of Bloomberg Mobile on another phone's cracked screen, I am in AWE.
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Zach Lipton @zachlipton.com · 17h
yeah just absolutely clowncar stuff the whole way around. Looks like they can't walk back their endorsement without a special meeting, which the chair has now called for Oct 11 (stalling much?) www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/m... missionlocal.org/2026/08/san-...
To file a complaint, members of the public can go directly to a Democratic club or fill out an online form that goes directly to the ombudsperson. That’s how Chapin filed his report, twice: first in March and then again in April after weeks had gone by without a response. 

But it wasn’t until June 30, after Chapin’s allegations were first published by the San Francisco Standard, that he received an email from the ombudsperson acknowledging receipt of his complaint. 

He said he replied to the message on July 9 asking for more information about what the investigation would entail. He never received a response.  On July 11, Chapin reached out to the ombudspersonman for the state Democratic Party, John Trasvina, in the hopes that state party officials could nudge the process forward or start an inquiry of their own. 

Days later and nearly five months after filing his report, Chapin said he was finally contacted by investigators. He met with them for the first time on July 17, a meeting he described as a conversation about the broad contours of what he said had happened between him and Yekutiel at a house party more than six years ago. On Friday, he met with them again.
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Zach Lipton @zachlipton.com · 17h
yep. and the DCCC's "report harassment" form should have gone to an actual person and not a black hole. and the policy should not be "if it didn't happen at a party event, we know nothing." an awful lot of people failed what should not have been a hard test.
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Zach Lipton @zachlipton.com · 18h
I swear Sam seems to know every single person in this city
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Zach Lipton @zachlipton.com · 18h
Rafael Mandelman pick up the damn phone
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Zach Lipton @zachlipton.com · 18h
ok I'll save it for the next Incident
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Zach Lipton @zachlipton.com · 18h
and now the Mayor pulled his endorsement. that's got to be the end, right?
sfstandard.com
Lurie withdraws Yekutiel endorsement, others say he should drop from supervisor race
With ballots dropping this week, key officials abandon the District 8 candidate after additional accusers came forward in The Standard.
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Jane Natoli 🥑🚲🍍 @wafoli.bsky.social · 19h
jfc...Manny needs to get out of this race now. This is awful. "I may have had too much to drink" is not an excuse sfstandard.com/2026/10/01/m...
sfstandard.com
Manny Yekutiel ‘crossed so many boundaries’: New allegation against SF candidate
Yekutiel, who said he does not recall the alleged 2023 incident, was previously accused of sexually assaulting Brad Joseph Chapin in 2020.
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geoffrey @parsnip.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
there are moral arguments against the death penalty in its ideal form but in real life you never need to get there. the prior question is "can the state be trusted to end the life only of the rightly convicted without torture?" and the answer is no
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Zach Lipton @zachlipton.com · 30/09/2026
how...how is the plane still in (mostly) one piece?
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Zach Lipton @zachlipton.com · 30/09/2026
no that can't be. if the Mayor and Alan Wong didn't do it, it didn't happen.
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Zach Lipton @zachlipton.com · 30/09/2026
not me wanting to post this in the group chat at this exact moment when it would be inappropriate...or really appropriate?
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Zach Lipton @zachlipton.com · 30/09/2026
local defender of women's sports beclowns himself because he forgot women's sports exist
Schmitt said in an interview Wednesday that the mix-up was due to the fact that there were no other NBA games that same night with a 7:30 p.m. starting time.

“Well, we had text messages from [Smith’s] team that he was at a basketball game, and the only game at 7:30 tip-off in the NBA was in Atlanta,” Schmitt said, adding, “I didn’t know he was a Caitlin Clark fan. Now we know.”
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Zach Lipton @zachlipton.com · 30/09/2026
rather telling result in the SF city survey: the vibe shift is concentrated in certain neighborhoods and income groups that get all the attention www.sf.gov/reports--sep...
four neighborhoods approved ratings across most service areas, 2023 to 2026: fidi, outer richmond, pac heights, sunset/parkside (6/6 or 5/6 service areas). average all other neighborhoods: 2.4/6 service areas
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Leah Stokes @leahstokes.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
“Unlike A.I., climate change’s existential threat is not hypothetical. It is killing people now." Amidst the AI-pocalypse, we can't lose sight of the climate crisis and the urgency of electrification. Gift link! shorturl.at/On4Jk
nytimes.com
The Big Threat Has Been Climate Change. Now Comes A.I. (Gift Article)
Both are human-caused, both are frightening, and one of them has raced to the forefront of the global conversation.
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That Mack @thatmc.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
In addition to being a Muni Operator, I am a Muni Diaries Live Haiku Champion. Tonight MDL is holding a take all comers Haiku Brawl at Minibar. Out duel me with a Muni Haiku of your own, win a drink! 7 pm, 837 Divisadero St.
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Zach Lipton @zachlipton.com · 29/09/2026
as I was saying
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Zach Lipton @zachlipton.com · 29/09/2026
I ran sound when this production came on tour in college. When they were rehearsing the 20 minutes of projections on screens placed sideways, I was straight up asking Trajal Harrell "is this what you want? anything you'd like us adjust for you?" because I could not believe this was intentional
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Zach Lipton @zachlipton.com · 29/09/2026
in honor of Trajal Harrell getting a McArthur Fellowship, please enjoy the most scathing performing arts review I've ever read www.nytimes.com/2008/10/17/a...
At one point in Trajal Harrell’s 80-minute “Quartet for the End of Time” each of the four performers comes to the front of the stage and says, more than once, “I hope there is someone that will take care of me when I die.” I am afraid that appearing in this production may not prove their best way to realize that hope.

For about the first 20 minutes the audience watches collages of film and photographs, projected now on a screen facing the audience, now on screens placed sideways so that the view is at best oblique. Most of the rest of the show — punctuated by a few episodes during which there is nothing and nobody onstage — involves the performers changing and removing their clothes, walking on and offstage, kneeling and lying down. Sections of Messiaen’s eponymous quartet are played, along with rock, choral music and recorded dialogue, none apparently relevant. There is a good deal of nudity.

Although Mr. Harrell calls his four performers dancers, the only passage that could sensibly be described as dancing occurs when one woman, wearing baggy pants and a loose top, gyrates her pelvis and upper body. It lasts a few seconds.
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Zach Lipton @zachlipton.com · 28/09/2026
Which leads to the obvious question: if qwen or glm already can do a good enough job on many tasks, why are OpenAI and Anthropic valued based on the assumption anybody will pay a hefty premium for their models?
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Zach Lipton @zachlipton.com · 26/09/2026
It’s becoming increasingly clear that some people don’t understand how fraud works either
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Zach Lipton @zachlipton.com · 26/09/2026
sfchronicle.com
S.F.’s newest playground is a shipwreck mystery built into Sunset Dunes
The new Shipwreck Cove is the only playground on the 2-mile stretch of park that forms Sunset Dunes in San Francisco’s Ocean Beach — and may be in place for only one year.
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Zach Lipton @zachlipton.com · 26/09/2026
Happen to be passing by. Can’t imagine the sheer assault of an 8 story building across the street from this 4 story one
Safeway
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Zach Lipton @zachlipton.com · 26/09/2026
It will have to be pirate themed too though. “Next stop: Arrrrguello station”
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Zach Lipton @zachlipton.com · 26/09/2026
Y’all. Shipwreck Cove looks absolutely amazing. And somehow it’s a construction project in San Francisco, on public land no less, that actually finished more-or-less on time?!
View of the playground on Sunset DunesThe ship
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Jordan Grimes @cafedujord.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
You mean to tell me that building more sprawl doesn't actually do anything for urban affordability and is instead predominantly a wealth transfer from those areas to exurban ones? I'm shocked! Anyway, vote no on Prop 45.
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Dr Grace S Peng @gspeng.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Air samplers installed next to queues of people at international terminals waiting to enter US. SFO, Newark, IAD Washington DC, DFW Dallas Ft Worth. 98% found Covid, 17% found Flu A !!! Flu levels track nasal swabs & wastewater data. Covid does not
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COYOTE @coyotemedia.org · 25/09/2026
Today, we're launching our first women's sports story co-published with @valkyriesbeat.bsky.social: on how the inclusive culture touted by the Golden State Valkyries is faring amid the culture wars embroiling the rest of the WNBA. www.coyotemedia.org/valkyries-tr...
coyotemedia.org
Amid Anti-Trans Uproar in the WNBA, the Valkyries Are Standing Their Ground. Is That Enough?
For Valkyries fans, the inclusiveness of Ballhalla is sacred — even moreso as the culture war comes for the WNBA.
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Marcel Moran @marcelmoran.com · 25/09/2026
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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Zach Lipton @zachlipton.com · 25/09/2026
I have a ticket for opening night and have never been more scared to see a movie
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Zach Lipton @zachlipton.com · 24/09/2026
uhhhh
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Zach Lipton @zachlipton.com · 24/09/2026
I still have nightmares from having to look so closely at his hairline to cut it out with an xacto knife to make the Gavin mask
Man in a Gavin mask smashing a model Caltrain in the middle of Market and Octavia. The caption says "please fund the transit"
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Zach Lipton @zachlipton.com · 24/09/2026
tfw someone finally says it "But reopening the road would force the removal of park amenities, reducing it to a strip of asphalt for weekend visitors, hardly a compromise."
sfchronicle.com
Endorsement: Let Sunset Dunes live. No on G
OPINION: The Chronicle’s editorial board endorsed a yes vote on Prop K in 2024. We still believe that Sunset Dunes offers San Francisco the opportunity to build a transformative public space.
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Zach Lipton @zachlipton.com · 24/09/2026
yeah there was a broadly anti-flock resolution that was rejected while a pro-flock resolution was adopted (including with the votes of two flock employees on the DCCC)
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Zach Lipton @zachlipton.com · 24/09/2026
of course they did
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Zach Lipton @zachlipton.com · 24/09/2026
Bernie’s “the Trump Administration gets to decide how much linear algebra you’re allowed to do” plan has a few potential flaws
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eva (^_^)/ @eva.computer · 24/09/2026
and there it is: regulatory capture

6 SEC. 12. CHARTERS FOR ADVANCED ARTIFICIAL INTEL-
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(a) AUTHORITY TO ISSUE.—The Secretary may issue

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Zach Lipton @zachlipton.com · 23/09/2026
what possible journalistic reason is there to jump on a conference call with the Vice President so he can tell obvious lies without having his name attached, particularly when publishing those lies will later be used to attack and discredit your outlet?
One of Politico’s six alleged offenses, according to the White House letter, is a June 2026 article that begins by quoting a “senior administration official” who details a push to end the war in Iran.
“In June 2026, Politico cited a ‘senior administration official … granted anonymity’ said the odds of a preliminary deal to end the conflict with Iran were between 80 and 85 percent,” the White House letter reads, alongside a message that unauthorized leaks can harm national security.
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Zach Lipton @zachlipton.com · 23/09/2026
there was some real soul-searching about this after it became clear that briefings by various Anonymous Senior Administration Officials played a major role in selling the Iraq War, and then absolutely nothing was learned
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Zach Lipton @zachlipton.com · 23/09/2026
if nothing else, this does make everyone look exceedingly stupid for accepting the beyond embarrassing practice of giving the Vice President anonymity for a background briefing
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Zach Lipton @zachlipton.com · 23/09/2026
it's looking so good! I gave the slide a good test last week
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Bart⚓️ @bartgonnissen.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
The Facial Expressions of Tethys by artist Julius von Bismarck. A suspended high-sea buoy that moves in real time. Sensors on a twin buoy out in the Atlantic Ocean send live satellite data to motors inside the museum. This makes the indoor buoy copy the exact, real-time movements of the ocean waves.
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Zach Lipton @zachlipton.com · 23/09/2026
definitely not my field, but the parallels just seem so striking. I guess I'm wondering if they're inventing the more cult-like practices from first principles or if someone with knowledge is just adapting them more directly
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