Highway robbery
06.03.2026 18:32
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Highway robbery
$75 billion of value locked up in the land occupied by urban highways of four CA cities alone. Easily reaches more than $100 billion if you include Sacramento, LA, the rest of the Bay Area and SoCal.
What a waste of economic potential.
This is my first real “insurance rules” life event. What a neat little instrument
They totally stripped it too. Kinda sucks.
On the other hand: no more car payment
Car got stole
Gorgeous! Envious of the michigan transit one too
These are both great additions to the emerging theme in my apartment’s wall art which is very much “chicago + early-mid century public works + retro advertisements”
Anyway the Army Corps has no interest in merchandising and there’s no gift shop at the Bay Model warehouse so Helen went online and got a print done of this plan specially bc she rules
Yes those are photos of me and Helen’s trip to the model, which is sitting there in Sausalito still and offers free tours on the weekends
Have been coveting this since moving to the Bay - a midcentury plan to dam the SF Bay dreamed up by theater guy John Reber, who somehow persuaded the Army Corps of Engineers to draw up an official proposal and build a massive hydrological scale model of the Bay to test it
Framed up some xmas and bday gifts today - an old Chicago tourism advert and a CA DPW draft of the Reber Plan
NY State will put speed limiters (5MPH over limit) in cars of drivers caught 6 times by red light or speed cameras. Meanwhile, in Ontario, go as fast as you like!
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Sounds like this is DOF being stalwart, not negotiating.
Does anyone know if this means the transit loan is being released? @seamlessbayareaca.bsky.social @cyrushall.bsky.social
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I’m being serious when I say I was convinced I just didn’t enjoy music that much anymore
Discovered today in configuring settings on a new phone that I had been listening to mono audio since… well I can’t remember when I set it to that. Possibly years ago to deal with a futzy car stereo.
It’s like listening to music for the first time again.
I truly love this movie (I know, we all do), tried to capture why:
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Friction is good and one of the most consequential tasks facing the designers and managers of social-technical systems in the 21st century is putting it back in in the right ways and right places.
News Team, Thank you for the notes and texts. I apologize for not reaching out earlier. I learned on Saturday that Bari Weiss spiked our story, INSIDE CECOT, which was supposed to air tonight. We (Ori and I) asked for a call to discuss her decision. She did not afford us that courtesy/opportunity. Our story was screened five times and cleared by both CBS attorneys and Standards and Practices. It is factually correct. In my view, pulling it now-after every rigorous internal check has been met is not an editorial decision, it is a political one. We requested responses to questions and/or interviews with DHS, the White House, and the State Department. Government silence is a statement, not a VETO. Their refusal to be interviewed is a tactical maneuver designed to kill the story. If the administration's refusal to participate becomes a valid reason to spike a story, we
have effectively handed them a "kill switch" for any reporting they find inconvenient. If the standard for airing a story becomes "the government must agree to be interviewed," then the government effectively gains control over the 60 Minutes broadcast. We go from an investigative powerhouse to a stenographer for the state. These men risked their lives to speak with us. We have a moral and professional obligation to the sources who entrusted us with their stories. Abandoning them now is a betrayal of the most basic tenet of journalism: giving voice to the voiceless. CBS spiked the Jeffrey Wigand interview due to legal concerns, nearly destroying the credibility of this broadcast. It took years to recover from that "low point." By pulling this story to shield an administration, we are repeating that history, but for political optics rather than legal ones.
We have been promoting this story on social media for days. Our viewers are expecting it. When it fails to air without a credible explanation, the public will correctly identify this as corporate censorship. We are trading 50 years of "Gold Standard" reputation for a single week of political quiet. I care too much about this broadcast to watch it be dismantled without a fight. Sharyn
Per NY Times’s Michael Grynbaum on X, this is Sharyn Alfonsi’s email to her “60 Minutes” colleagues in full:
from The Insider (1999)
Lowell Bergman warned us!!!
I think there’s a broad hunger for this kind of shift and journalists/writers/podcasters should evangelize it aggressively. And we should say that it doesn’t need to be total: You don’t need a print newspaper to tone down the algorithm’s role in your life. mattdpearce.substack.com/p/four-big-t...
The atomic ensemble time scale at the NIST Boulder campus has failed.
Update: it has been six fucking days and clippercard.com continues to error out at every attempt to login or reset password.
Stand By Me is a movie that means a lot to me. I wrote this last year after revisiting it. Along with The Princess Bride, it’s one of those movies that taught me, as a child and adolescent, about love and death in a deeply felt way that few movies can.
Rest in peace Rob Reiner.
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In addition to avoiding neighborhood explosions, it could save ratepayers money! (at least it did in Mass.)
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Massachusetts has ordered gas companies to prioritize shutting down leaky gas lines and installing heat pumps instead of replacing pipelines. Curious whether California PUC has taken the same steps (genuine question)
When you have one job:
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