Tootfinder

I shop at the Petco there and can confirm it's incredibly dangerous... to make the left turn into the parking lot on your bike. Somehow that's not what this article is about, though.
https://missionlocal.org/2025/06/sf-potrero-center-drugs-16th-missi…

good news: California Assembly passed a bill to require Caltrans to develop a quick-build program for bike lane and intersection safety projects on state highways! it's #AB891 (Zbur)
https://

Quick-Build Legislation Makes It Through the Assembly - Streetsblog California
Following the success of Quick-Build projects in Santa Monica, their Assemblymember wants to allow them on state highways.

people cheering for a story rbi which would have mattered if we didn't walk in two runs in the top of the inning

Making a Gil Scott-Heron mix tape for some friends. "Winter in America" really hits hard.
The Constitution, a noble piece of paper
Would free society. It struggled but then died in vain
And now Democracy is ragtime on the corner
Hoping for some rain
It's winter in America
And all of the healers have been killed or betrayed
It's winter in America
Ain't nobody fighting
‘Cause nobody knows what to save
Save your soul

Tim Scott's video attacking CBO: Nine errors in 60 seconds (Glenn Kessler/Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/06/16/tim-scott-cbo-nine-errors/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250616/p25#a250616p25

One of my takeaways from reading _War and Peace_ last year was that Napoleon, whose warmongering killed millions across Europe, was basically a buffoon, a clown. Many of the most destructive men in history were ridiculous and laughable, and it just added insult to injury for contemporaries watching them come to power. There's nothing new under the sun.

https://kolektiva.social/@susurros/114701605671238735
""A couple of unmarked vehicles were here trying to take day laborers," described Teodoro, adding that some day laborers, who are U.S. citizens, distracted the ICE agents, giving undocumented fri…

Scott Campbell (@susurros@kolektiva.social)
Attached: 1 image Well done, Inland Empire! "A group of immigrant [sic] agents Monday tried to detain undocumented day laborers at a Home Depot store parking lot in the Inland Empire until community members intervened, according to witnesses and a nonprofit." https://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/local/ice-agents-fail-to-detain-day-laborers-at-upland-home-depot-after-bystanders-intervene/ #California #Upland #InlandEmpire #immigration #ICE

There is little about Scott Jennings,
or the words that come out of his mouth,
that corresponds to reality.
A decade into Trump’s capture of the Republican Party, Jennings is the premier crossover enabler.
He is perhaps CNN’s most recognizable face alongside its primetime anchors,
and he is feted on jokey, tough-talk shows like Bill Maher. 
But Jennings is a representation of our own malady,
a projection of a country whose political culture is now…

Scott Jennings in the Hyperreal and the Myth of the Escape Hatch
Jennings is like a simulation of a Trump enabler.

SFMTA board is hearing Mayor Lurie’s mass displacement plan to banish working-poor, mostly Latino families living in RVs from the city.
Here’s the “refuge permit” designed as window dressing to make liberals feel ok about this. Notice to get one, you have to “agree to accept offer of… interim… housing,” ie agree to be displaced a little later anyway. 💩
#sfpol

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #SundaySoul
Jill Scott:
🎵 He Loves Me (Lyzel in E Flat)
#JillScott
https://redsoulmusicv2.bandcamp.com/album/jill-scott-he-loves-me-redsoul-edits

why is Rob refsnyder not the everyday first baseman atp

MeerKAT HI observations of Low Surface Brightness/Ultradiffuse Galaxy Candidates Projected around Two Southern Loose Groups
Chandreyee Sengupta, Tom C. Scott, Hao Chen, Hyein Yoon, Yogesh Chandola, Mengtian Li, Gyula I. G. J\'ozsa, O. Ivy Wong, Yin-Zhe Ma, Patricio Lagos, Ruta Kale, Denis Tramonte
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.…

MeerKAT HI observations of Low Surface Brightness/Ultradiffuse Galaxy Candidates Projected around Two Southern Loose Groups
A large catalogue of low surface brightness galaxies (LSBGs) from the Dark Energy Survey showed significant clustering around nearby galaxy groups and clusters. Using the HIPASS survey, we tried to determine the redshift of a sub-sample of these LSBGs and determine whether they were members of the groups they were projected near, but this was hampered by HIPASS's high spectral rms. This letter reports on MeerKAT H I observations to determine the redshifts of 52 LSBG candidates projected in the …

'First I heard': Scott Bessent admits he didn't know Trump is withholding cash - Raw Story
https://www.rawstory.com/scott-bessent-2672359294/

🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
Jill Scott:
🎵 Golden
#NowPlaying #JillScott
https://kwamzy.bandcamp.com/track/jill-scott-golden-dj-kwamzy-amapiano-remix
https://open.spotify.com/track/28EL5veTZtx38TqxIZwFyQ

Ball path curvature and in-game free throw shooting proficiency in the National Basketball Association
Ruoqian Zhu, Dave Love, Scott Powers
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.13779

Ball path curvature and in-game free throw shooting proficiency in the National Basketball Association
Basketball shooting coaches agree that smoother shooting motions are better, but there is less agreement about what "smooth" means quantitatively or what part of the shooting motion needs to be smooth. Using ball tracking data from the 2023-2024 National Basketball Association regular season, we explore the relationship between ball path curvature and free throw shooting performance. We fit Bézier curves to the ball tracking data in the sagittal plane and test different methods of calculating …

The Second and Third Data Releases from the UKIRT Hemisphere Survey
Adam C. Schneider, Frederick J. Vrba, Justice Bruursema, Jeffrey A. Munn, Mike Irwin, Mike Read, Watson Varricatt, Tom Kerr, Klaus Hodapp, Simon Dye, Stephen J. Williams, Andrew T. Cenko, Trudy M. Tilleman, Marc A. Murison, Barry Rothberg, Scott Dahm, Bryan Dorland, Andy Lawrence, Kenneth C. Chambers

The Second and Third Data Releases from the UKIRT Hemisphere Survey
This paper describes the second and third data releases (DR2 and DR3, respectively) from the ongoing United Kingdom Infrared Telescope (UKIRT) Hemisphere Survey (UHS). DR2 is primarily comprised of the $K$-band portion of the UHS survey, and was released to the public on June 1, 2023. DR3 mainly includes the $H$-band portion of the survey, with a public release scheduled for September 2025. The $H$- and $K$-band data releases complement the previous $J$-band data release (DR1) from 2018. The su…

Will Carroll's 'Favorite Guy' Become Fan Favorite for the Raiders https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/las-vegas-pete-carroll-laki-tasi-scott-pioli-john-spytek

Time to get rid of the monarchs birthday holiday and associated honours list. When someone like Scott Morrison makes the list it's just a slap in the face of people who deserve recognition.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-06-08/sco

Scott Morrison receives country's highest honour for leading Australia through COVID crisis
The 30th prime minister has been appointed a Companion of the Order of Australia for his "eminent service" to the country and direction during the COVID-19 pandemic.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #RoundMidnight
Hazel Scott:
🎵 Peace Of Mind
#HazelScott
https://open.spotify.com/track/0wjDA4nXJ7iTtMNDzvMM4q

4,000 employees took "fork in the road" at Justice Dept., with more cuts to come (Scott Macfarlane/CBS News)
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/4000-employees-took-fork-in-road-justice-dept-more-cuts-coming/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250617/p130#a250617p130

Boundary rigidity of systolic and Helly complexes
Mart\'in Blufstein, J\'er\'emie Chalopin, Victor Chepoi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.13219 http…

Boundary rigidity of systolic and Helly complexes
In this article, we prove that finite (weakly) systolic and Helly complexes can be reconstructed from their boundary distances (computed in their 1-skeleta). Furthermore, Helly complexes and 2-dimensional systolic complexes can be reconstructed by an algorithm that runs in polynomial time with respect to the number of vertices of the complex. Both results can be viewed as a positive contribution to a general question of Haslegrave, Scott, Tamitegama, and Tan (2025). The reconstruction of a fini…

Optimal Experimental Design Criteria for Data-Consistent Inversion
Troy Butler, John Jakeman, Michael Pilosov, Scott Walsh, Timothy Wildey
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.12157

Optimal Experimental Design Criteria for Data-Consistent Inversion
The ability to design effective experiments is crucial for obtaining data that can substantially reduce the uncertainty in the predictions made using computational models. An optimal experimental design (OED) refers to the choice of a particular experiment that optimizes a particular design criteria, e.g., maximizing a utility function, which measures the information content of the data. However, traditional approaches for optimal experimental design typically require solving a large number of …

"Despite good-faith efforts by DSI [dense street imagery] providers to protect individual privacy through blurring faces and license plates, these measures fail to address broader privacy concerns. In this work, we find that increased data density and advancements in artificial intelligence enable harmful group membership inferences from supposedly anonymized data."
via @…

Privacy of Groups in Dense Street Imagery
Spatially and temporally dense street imagery (DSI) datasets have grown unbounded. In 2024, individual companies possessed around 3 trillion unique images of public streets. DSI data streams are only set to grow as companies like Lyft and Waymo use DSI to train autonomous vehicle algorithms and analyze collisions. Academic researchers leverage DSI to explore novel approaches to urban analysis. Despite good-faith efforts by DSI providers to protect individual privacy through blurring faces and l…

Nucleation feedback can drive establishment and maintenance of biased microtubule polarity in neurites
Hannah G. Scanlon, Gibarni Mahata, Anna C. Nelson, Scott A. McKinley, Melissa M. Rolls, Maria-Veronica Ciocanel
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.12209

Nucleation feedback can drive establishment and maintenance of biased microtubule polarity in neurites
The microtubule cytoskeleton is comprised of dynamic, polarized filaments that facilitate transport within the cell. Polarized microtubule arrays are key to facilitating cargo transport in long cells such as neurons. Microtubules also undergo dynamic instability, where the plus and minus ends of the filaments switch between growth and shrinking phases, leading to frequent microtubule turnover. Although microtubules often completely disassemble and new filaments nucleate, microtubule arrays have…

 
A climate of fear is perceptible in the United States today,
and it must be resisted no matter what,
CBS News correspondent Scott Pelley says.
“People are silencing themselves for fear that the government will retaliate against them,
and that’s not the America that we all love,”
Pelley told Anderson Cooper in an exclusive interview after CNN’s Saturday telecast of
“Good Night, and Good Luck.”
The Broadway play, which recounts CBS newsman Edwar…

‘If you fall silent, the country is doomed’: CBS News’ Scott Pelley stresses courage as network faces pressure campaign
A climate of fear is perceptible in the United States today, and it must be resisted no matter what, CBS News correspondent Scott Pelley says.

Laser ablated sub-wavelength structure anti-reflection coating on an alumina lens
Shaul Hanany, Scott Cray, Samuel Dietterich, Jan Dusing, Calvin Firth, Jurgen Koch, Rex Lam, Tomotake Matsumura, Haruyuki Sakurai, Yuki Sakurai, Aritoki Suzuki, Ryota Takaku, Qi Wen, Alexander Wienke, Andrew Y. Yan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.13042

Laser ablated sub-wavelength structure anti-reflection coating on an alumina lens
We used laser ablation to fabricate sub-wavelength structure anti-reflection coating (SWS-ARC) on a 5 cm diameter alumina lens. With an aspect ratio of 2.5, the SWS-ARC are designed to give a broad-band low reflectance response between 110 and 290 GHz. SWS shape measurements conducted on both sides of the lens give 303 $μ$m pitch and total height between 750 and 790 $μ$m, matching or exceeding the aspect ratio design values. Millimeter-wave transmittance measurements in a band between 140 and…

An interview with US Press Freedom Tracker Senior Reporter Stephanie Sugars on documenting nearly 62,000 anti-press social posts by Trump over the past 10 years (Liam Scott/Freedom of the Press Foundation)
http://freedom.press/issues/the-repor

The reporter documenting 10 years of Trump’s anti-media posts
Since Trump’s first term as president, Stephanie Sugars has managed an extensive database that documents each and every anti-media post from Trump.

Gregg Scott named Springdale boys basketball coach https://www.arkansasonline.com/news/2025/may/30/gregg-scott-named-springdale-boys-basketball-coach/

I wrote about why Zohran Mamdani's free bus fare policy is a good idea actually, and the difference between thinking about transit as a consultant versus as a voter and activist.
(public replies to this toot will appear as comments)
https://scott.mn/2025/06/11/consultant

Consultant's mindset, or why Jarrett Walker is wrong about free buses

On minimal bases in homotopical combinatorics
Katharine Adamyk, Scott Balchin, Miguel Barrero, Steven Scheirer, Noah Wisdom, Valentina Zapata Castro
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.11159

On minimal bases in homotopical combinatorics
We present a development in the computational suite for the study of $N_\infty$ operads for a finite group $G$. This progress is achieved using the simple yet powerful observation that Rubin's generation algorithm can be interpreted as a closure operator. Leveraging this perspective, we establish the existence of minimal bases for $N_\infty$ operads. By investigating these bases for certain families of groups we are led to introduce and analyze several novel combinatorial invariants for finite …

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #6Musics90sForever
Jill Scott:
🎵 Gettin' In The Way
#JillScott
https://open.spotify.com/track/11ALTV8rb17AYi1v4rtE59

Closures of 1-tangles and annulus twists
Scott A. Taylor
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.11226 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2506.11226

Closures of 1-tangles and annulus twists
A 1-tangle is a properly embedded arc $ψ$ in an unknotted solid torus $V$ in $S^3$. Attaching an arc $ϕ$ in the complementary solid torus $W$ to its endpoints creates a knot $K(ϕ)$ called the closure of $ψ$. We show that for a given nontrivial 1-tangle $ψ$ there exist at most two closures that are the unknot. We give a general method for producing nontrivial 1-tangles admitting two distinct closures and show that our construction accounts for all such examples. As an application, we show t…

Netanyahu's Iran Attack Trumps Trump
https://prospect.org/politics/2025-06-13-trump-netanyahu-iran-war/

🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
Gil Scott-Heron:
🎵 The Revolution Will Not Be Televised
#NowPlaying #GilScottHeron
https://sfbdhq.bandcamp.com/track/gil-scott-heron-the-revolution-will-not-be-televised
https://open.spotify.com/track/7ni78Vjslqo2VxiDOahYlV

Trump's pardons cost victims and taxpayers $1.3 billion, House Judiciary Committee Democrats' review says (Scott Macfarlane/CBS News)
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trumps-pardons-cost-victims-and-taxpayers-1-3-billion-house-judiciary-committee-democrats-review/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250617/p126#a250617p126

https://bsky.app/profile/scottohara.me/post/3lrbkvowass2q
Mine are also linked:
https://

General Manager of Azure AI at Microsoft Don Scott shares a second consecutive year win in this post on the AI and Machine Learning portion of the official Azure blog. Gartner Group has identified Microsoft as a industry leader in data science and machine learning platforms.
"Microsoft recognized for second consecutive year as a Leader in the 2025 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Data Science and Machine Learning Platforms"

Thread about the two Palestinians invited to speak at Kehilla Community Synagogue in Piedmont, who were instead detained at SFO with their visas arbitrarily canceled:
https://social.coop/@raph/114674710005408478

It’s authoritarianism and in-your-face grift all in a neat little uniquely American package
That it it’s his personal brand, not the state, is just the cherry on top.
https://bsky.app/profile/scottlincicome.bsky.social/post/3lrqa6jslpy2x

Scott Lincicome (@scottlincicome.bsky.social)
So the guy who can singlehandedly set US tariffs on smartphones is launching his own US smartphone company do I have that right

'Just Desperate for a Paycheck': Sen. Tim Scott Mercilessly Mocked for Jumping In to Defend Trump Who 'Abandoned His A--' to Take Shots At Elon Musk In Growing Billionaire Feud
https://atlantablackstar.com/2025/06/08/sen-tim-scott-mercilessly-mocked-for-jumping-in-to-defend-trump-who-abandoned-his-a-to-take-shots-at-elon-musk-in-growing-billionaire-feud/

Tim Scott Slammed with Community Note After False Claim About CBO History (J.D. Wolf/MeidasTouch News)
https://meidasnews.com/news/tim-scott-slammed-with-community-note-after-false-claim-about-cbo-history
http://www.memeorandum.com/250613/p87#a250613p87

To one large turkey add one gallon of vermouth and a demijohn of Angostura
bitters. Shake.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald, recipe for turkey cocktail.

"If your tactics disrupt the order of things under capitalism, you may well be accused of violence, because 'violence' is an elastic term often deployed to vilify people who threaten the status quo."
https://organizingmythoughts.org/protes…

Protest, Power, and the Violence Debate
"We are told we are experiencing peace, so long as everyone is cooperating."

BREAKING: Iran's Capital Struck By Israel, Air Sirens Sounding - WW3 Begins
https://youtube.com/shorts/oIYBFULCp0Q?si=cYxtljzLn21fF9t_

with the bar for safe bike infrastructure as low as it is, it's hard to strike the right balance after a project between "hooray! it's so much better!" and "this, that, and the other thing still suck."
Streetsblog SF often errs on the latter side... I'm happier than ever with #ValenciaStreet, but their critiques are not wrong.

SFMTA Leaves Valencia Bike Lanes Unfinished - Streetsblog San Francisco
The center-running lane is long gone and some finishing touches are coming to the parking-protected section from 15th to 23rd, but the lack of concrete infrastructure remains problematic. And then there's the last four blocks from 23rd to Cesar Chavez, which is still just a striped lane wedged between parked cars and moving traffic.

Another eclectic collection of books has been dropped off at the local “Little Free Library” with their “please don’t sell me” stamps and QR codes to the various books pages at https://Bookwyrm.social (Fedi GR alt) & @thestorygraph.com (Black owned GR alt) so that people can read about/review the books.

Call for Papers: Theology, Religion, and Middle Earth
https://ift.tt/etYA2GE
Theology, Religion, and Middle Earth Edited by Scott Donahue-Martens, Ph.D., and Brandon Simonson,…
via Input 4 RELCFP

Call for Papers: Theology, Religion, and Middle Earth
Theology, Religion, and Middle Earth Edited by Scott Donahue-Martens, Ph.D., and Brandon Simonson, Ph.D. Few works have made such a lasting impact on the fantasy genre or captured the imagination a…

"These vehicle homes sheltered dozens of working-class Latinx families, who could no longer afford the city’s soaring rents. Living in RVs was the only way many could keep their jobs in food service, janitorial work and construction while their children stayed enrolled in nearby schools.
"To city officials, it looked like homelessness. But residents didn’t see it that way. Living in RVs was a survival strategy—a way to stay housed, employed and near their communities."…

Resilience through Automated Adaptive Configuration for Distribution and Replication
Scott D. Stoller, Balaji Jayasankar, Yanhong A. Liu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.10248

Resilience through Automated Adaptive Configuration for Distribution and Replication
This paper presents a powerful automated framework for making complex systems resilient under failures, by optimized adaptive distribution and replication of interdependent software components across heterogeneous hardware components with widely varying capabilities. A configuration specifies how software is distributed and replicated: which software components to run on each computer, which software components to replicate, which replication protocols to use, etc. We present an algorithm that,…

#MastodonPoll: Who gave Elon Musk his black eye?
1. "little X" (as Elon claimed)
2. Stephen Miller (as is popularly assumed)
3. Scott Bessent (as Bannon claimed)
4. Elon himself
"little X"
Stephen Miller
Scott Bessent
Elon himself

21 años del debut discogršfico de Velvet Revolver. Fue todo un éxito haber juntado a los ex Guns n' Roses con la voz de Stone Temple Pilots, Scott Weiland. Un disco que me voló la cabeza por esa época.
#VelvetRevolver #Contraband

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Young Thug:
🎵 On Fire
#YoungThug
https://keysonfirebeats.bandcamp.com/track/trap-beat-piano-2022-type-drake-x-young-thug-x-travis-scott
https://open.spotify.com/track/07YlTLGFG2LsTkqGFwY5jC

Scott Pelley Says Trump Settlement Would Be "Very Damaging" To CBS
https://deadline.com/2025/06/trump-60-minutes-cbs-settlement-scott-pelley-1236426822/

Minneapolis and Saint Paul are finally launching this BRT line that was already in the planning phase when I last visited in ... 2019.
Good, but if it's gonna take that long, maybe agencies should just incrementally upgrade the buses that exist instead of these big fancy unicorn "BRT" projects?
https://

Creating Buzz for the B Line
The Twin Cities’ newest BRT line is an attractive option that could turn more people into transit users — if they know about it!

Small-town newspapers are shutting down due to the lack of a succession plan, not financial issues, in nearly a dozen US states, a growing problem (Liam Scott/Columbia Journalism Review)
https://www.cjr.org/analysis/small-town-newspapers-aging-succession.ph…

Small-Town Newspapers Are Dying Because No One Wants to Run Them
And it’s not just about the money.

SFMTA is adding left turns back to Valencia at 17th, 21st and 23rd streets with a new phase, which will cut down on time for pedestrian and bike crossings. The word is that Mayor Lurie directly ordered this. Signal modifications are very expensive and that money could have gone to safety or transit priority.
Seems small, but it's wasteful and adds to the "death by a thousand cuts" for Transit First in Lurie's SF.

The only good senators
Durbin (D-IL), Yea
Heinrich (D-NM), Yea
Hirono (D-HI), Yea
Kaine (D-VA), Yea (surprising!)
Kim (D-NJ), Yea
Lujan (D-NM), Yea
Markey (D-MA), Yea
Merkley (D-OR), Yea
Murphy (D-CT), Yea
Sanders (I-VT), Yea
Schatz (D-HI), Yea
Smith (D-MN), Yea
Van Hollen (D-MD), Yea
Warren (D-MA), Yea
Welch (D-VT), Yea

Former Coast Guard officer charged with threatening to kill President Trump (Scott Macfarlane/CBS News)
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/former-coast-guard-officer-charged-with-threatening-to-kill-president-trump/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250616/p151#a250616p151

Potrero Yard working group has an open seat for a representative of a senior-serving organization, if that’s you or someone you know.
The group advises SFMTA on the bus yard modernization housing development on the Mission/Potrero Hill border
https://www.sfmta.com/projects/potrero-yar

Potrero Yard Modernization Project
Rebuilding Potrero Yard to better serve you!

the hardest 1990s Stereolab album for me to get into is Cobra and Phases Group, and I think it's because "Infinity Girl" and "Op Hop Detonation" sound so much like songs they made previously. it trips me up, like I'm listening to a remix with new lyrics. other than that it's a fine album

Wisconsin dairy farmer sues Trump administration claiming discrimination against white farmers (Scott Bauer/Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/trump-republican-usda-dei-lawsuit-5a524fedc611cb201a43c1967e3f12bf
http://www.memeorandum.com/250616/p72#a250616p72

as a transit advocate, I would like to be able to embrace Scott Wiener as a champion for transit funding, but unfortunately he has also regularly attacked and defamed pro-Palestine activists. his actions have contributed to a neo-McCarthyist atmosphere around this issue that was immediately seized upon by Trump on coming back to power

Doctor Says UCSF Fired Her Due to Pressure From Wiener, Dillers Over Pro-Palestinian Speech
CA State Senator Scott Wiener and UCSF’s largest donor, the Diller Foundation, are named in new allegations by Dr. Rupa Marya, prominent physician, activist, and musician, who is suing UCSF over her recent termination stemming from public criticism of Israel.

🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
Scott Matthew:
🎵 The Wish
#NowPlaying #ScottMatthew
#radioeins gespielten Titel als #Spotify Playliste: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3hdH98B6uyXilhcWxCA6nv

Profiles of three employees at VOA's fact-checking unit, who fled Russia and are now among the many journalists losing their jobs under President Trump's orders (Scott Nover/Washington Post)

The U.S. granted these journalists asylum. Then it fired them.
Three employees at Voice of America’s fact-checking unit fled Putin’s wrath and are now among the many journalists losing their jobs under Trump’s orders.

I realize there's a lot going on, but I'm surprised I didn't hear anything about the Richmond-San Rafael Bridge partially shutting down for emergency repairs. How does this affect the bike path debate? No word if it's affected by the shutdown.
https://www.

Scott Galloway's Brutal Takedown Of Elon Musk's Utter 'Depravity' | Crooks and Liars
https://crooksandliars.com/2025/06/scott-galloways-brutal-takedown-elon-musks

Trump says 'it's possible' US gets involved in Israel-Iran conflict (Rachel Scott/ABC News)
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/trump-us-gets-involved-israel-iran-conflict/story?id=122865561
http://www.memeorandum.com/250615/p64#a250615p64

Protest filling the street at 24th and Mission in San Francisco
#ICEProtests #FuckICE

immigrant rights is a bike issue https://usa.streetsblog.org/2025/05/02/freedom-to-move-why-immigration-belongs-in-the-mobility-conversation

Freedom to Move: Why Immigration Belongs in the Mobility Conversation — Streetsblog USA
"If movement is a right, then that right must apply to everyone regardless of identity."

Scott Horton: "Trump attempts to explain why he has proclaimed today "Russia Day" in a tribute to his mentor, Vladimir Putin." — Bluesky
https://bsky.app/profile/robertscotthorton.bsky.social/post/3lrghge5hps2f

Trump says he 'may' call Walz after Minnesota shootings, calls him 'grossly incompetent' (Rachel Scott/ABC News)
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/trump-call-walz-after-minnesota-shootings-calls-grossly/story?id=122870353
http://www.memeorandum.com/250615/p65#a250615p65

nice coverage of new bus-stop benches kindly installed by some unidentified people!
https://sfist.com/2025/06/09/renegade-transit-activists-install-their-own-guerilla-benches-at-sf-bus-stops-that-do…

Renegade Transit Activists Install their Own ‘Guerilla Benches’ at SF Bus Stops That Don’t Have Benches
A rogue group of activists won’t stand for the lack of benches at many SF Muni stops, so they went and installed a bunch of their own unauthorized benches this past weekend. But we’ll see how this sits with SF Public Works.

Solnit: "It's...routine to blame the Democratic Party for what the Republican Party does. The two parties are unconsciously regarded as akin to a husband and wife in a traditional marriage in which it's the job of the wife to placate and soothe the husband and help him realize his goals or be held responsible for his outbursts and outrages."

Some Notes on the City of Angels and the Nature of Violence
I think maybe it's begun, the bigger fiercer backlash against the Trump Administration which is itself a violent backlash against every good thing that's happened over the past several decades – the advance of rights for nature, women, children, indigenous peoples, BIPOC and immigrants/refugees, queer people, trans people, people with

In Jason Henderson's 2013 book Street Fight he writes of SF transportation politics as a function of 3 factions: conservatives, neoliberals, progressives. How the street fights go depends on how those factions align. If you slot in YIMBYish urbanist types—those who are pro-bike, pro-business, believe that Dean Preston was blocking housing—as the neoliberals, this holds up surprisingly well today.

Voice of America brings back 50 staffers amid Iran-Israel conflict (Scott Nover/Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/style/media/2025/06/13/voa-staff-iran-israel/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250613/p142#a250613p142

I’m a big enough Stereolab fan to know the song I can faintly hear issuing from the bar next door is off _Cobra and Phases Group_, but not to know the song title

some guy is putting placards all over the Mission labeling sidewalk plants with their common and scientific name and a QR code to his vibe-coded AI landscaping service.
not only does he seem to have nothing to do with the planting of the plants, he can't tell which ones are weeds and has faithfully labeled a "Spiny sowthistle (Sonchus asper)" ahaha

Sonchus asper - Wikipedia

This is so out of touch. ICE is ambushing and kidnapping our neighbors and we're going to "cover the entire city with drones"? The SFBOS should reject this "gift"
https://missionlocal.org/2025/06/were-

‘We’re going to be covering the entire city with drones’: Billionaire’s donation to SFPD accepted
San Francisco police commission accepts tech billionaire's gift, to provide cops with drones, cameras and a massive new office

Glad to see this! Imagine if Chesa Boudin, post-recall, had called out Jenkins like this too instead of quietly disappearing into academia.
https://mastodon.social/@RealJournalism/114627602443737313

“‘It’s very difficult to not take corporate money … we’ve hired grant writers who have asked, “Well, how about Bank of America, how about Apple?” How about no,’ laughed Sullivan, who explained, ‘Even if a sponsor never asks you to edit any of your work, you are going to be censoring yourself, like, “If we say this, maybe they won’t give us money next year.”’”

And by “prevent crime,” what they mean is AI will be able to automatically yell at homeless people to move along! Innovation!
https://mastodon.social/@eff/114626708912715793

Planned PBS, NPR cuts would overwhelmingly hit outlets in states Trump won, report finds (Scott Macfarlane/CBS News)
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/pbs-npr-cuts-states-won-by-trump/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250612/p70#a250612p70

lovely thread and poem by Muni bus operator @…!
https://bsky.app/profile/thatmc.bsky.social/post/3lqoirslm2k23

That Mack (@thatmc.bsky.social)
Willie Brown Middle School is a San Francisco 6-8 in the Bayview District. For the entire ‘24-‘25 school year, I have been driving the 44 O’Shaughnessy bus that stops there right after school gets out. That trip has been the busiest and most challenging part of my working day.

LFG
The proposed transit sales tax is “‘problematic for two reasons; one, it does not fully fund the operational shortfall. It’s also a politically vulnerable ballot measure,’ said Ryan Williams, the campaign director for Bay Area Forward, founded this year by local transit unions.”

The U.S. granted these journalists asylum. Then it fired them. (Scott Nover/Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/style/media/2025/06/11/voa-firing-journalists-asylum-russia-putin/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250611/p25#a250611p25

This seems bad. We just learned in the past week via @… that ICE agents are searching Flock cameras nationwide, and so did a Texas cop trying to track down a woman who got an out-of-state abortion. Now, without any guardrails against that, a crypto billionaire wants $9m more of these cameras in SF.
There's an ordinance to accept the gift that will…

Trump says governors should be able to handle disasters without FEMA (Scott Dance/Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2025/06/10/trump-fema-states-hurricane-season/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250611/p7#a250611p7

Looks like it wouldn’t be too hard for ICE to tap the Flock cameras increasingly deployed around SF, if they aren’t already, by asking either SFPD or other PDs it shares access with to do the searches for them
https://www.404media.co/ice-taps-into-nati

ICE Taps into Nationwide AI-Enabled Camera Network, Data Shows
Flock's automatic license plate reader (ALPR) cameras are in more than 5,000 communities around the U.S. Local police are doing lookups in the nationwide system for ICE.

"as dense urban neighborhoods grow more costly, lower- and moderate-income renters, the very people most likely to ride the bus, are pushed out and replaced by a more affluent set who, on the whole, tend to favor getting around by car."
This finding should temper expectations that building lots of market-rate, i.e., expensive, housing will automagically bring about some kind of transit renaissance.

I didn't notice this in person but that's pretty funny https://www.sfgate.com/local/article/sf-street-signs-vandalized-allude-sex-work-20335773.php

highly recommend Nixta Foods, a plant-based pop-up at Radio Habana Sat/Sun 12-7pm. my omnivore friends said it was the best vegan food they remember having in some time. we shared everything on the menu: various pupusas; hibiscus tacos; nachos; and glazed plantains for a dessert.

this!! make something mediocre and imperfect and human, because you care. https://dansinker.com/posts/2025-05-23-who-cares/
(found this via @…’s …

Silicon Valley's not crying for Musk (Scott Rosenberg/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/06/09/musk-trump-fallout-big-tech
http://www.memeorandum.com/250609/p15#a250609p15

Crowdsourced map of Flock ALPRs (automated license plate readers):
https://deflock.me/map

DeFlock
Spot, map, and resist automated license plate readers (ALPRs) near you.

"The big problem is 'bottlenecks' that make it harder to produce housing, expand energy production, or build new roads and bridges."
vs.
"The big problem is that big corporations have way too much power over our economy and our government."
By 12pts all voters and by 42pts Dem voters prefer the second statement. They're right!

Poll: Democratic voters prefer "populism" over "abundance"
Democrats are asking themselves some hard questions as they ponder how they lost the 2024 election.

Jan. 6 riot victims, Democrats see hypocrisy in Trump's response to L.A. protests (Scott Macfarlane/CBS News)
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/jan-6-officers-los-angeles-protests/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250609/p157#a250609p157

new Stereolab was worth the 15-year wait https://stereolab.bandcamp.com/album/instant-holograms-on-metal-film

ugh, just came home from vacation to discover I forgot some arrows in the pantry. of course they're swarming with time flies. disgusting.

The new safer 17th Street bike lanes in Potrero Hill increased average daily bicycle volumes by 53%, from 1,167 to 1,782. #bikeSF
Report: https://www.sfmta.com/media/42512/download?inli…

if you want to read the new translation of Capital, it's 50% off until May 31st, which means there is only half as much socially-necessary labor time embodied in it
https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691190075/capital