Zach Lipton
@zachlipton.com
🌉🚌🚲 || San Francisco || Data infrastructure @COVID19Tracking alum || To stop the train in cases of emergency pull down the chain; penalty for improper use, five pounds (he/him)
it's heeeeeere, you may now read my essay about how i achieved the millennial dream of home ownership and immediately lost my mind on nextdoor. thanks to the @oaklandreviewofbooks.org crew for their ongoing support of me being Like This
How I became the villain of El Cerrito’s Nextdoor
“I had a panic attack. Then I wrote an apology letter.”
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this, right here. As i always tell new devs, the challenge isn't writing code. it's learning to write easily maintainable code.
Darío@dariosamo.bsky.social · 17h agoSomebody asked me on Reddit why people who use AI to generate Recomp projects are currently being rejected from the communities and what they can do to fix this. I might tweak parts of this to be a more general blog post at some point, but this should be of help to anyone in a similar situation.
South Carolina is now the first state in the nation for the Democratic Primary and this just ran in The State, the newspaper of Columbia, South Carolina. Come out to the rally and lobby day next week in Sac and help get our legislators to undo the cuts! actionnetwork.org/events/emerg...
by "remember me on this device," we actually mean "immediately forget that this device ever existed and treat my next login as if it's coming from an IP address registered to Scam Central" oh you "setup a passkey?" we'll just get that from you right before we text you another six-digit code
get me away from here, I’m deadass@saramchenry.bsky.social · 2w agoI've always had good password security. In college I had my debit card number memorized for making 2002-era online purchases. I have used a very secure password manager for over a decade. My reward? A life of retrieving six-digit codes from my email and phone. Every day I suffer
first they try to rename Oakland airport and now they want our corner of Alameda? first, Alameda will move to annex this land. Then Contra Costa will get ideas and come for Red Rock Island. Then it's only a matter of time before Hawaii claims the Farallons, and suddenly we've got Civil War 2.0
Alameda Post@alamedapost.com · 2d agoOpinion: Give it Back, San Francisco – Let’s Make Alameda Whole https://alamedapost.com/op-ed/opinion-give-it-back-san-francisco-lets-make-alameda-whole/
I have long wanted to write for the excellent Bay Area publishing collective COYOTE...and they let me write something that honestly no other publication would. All hail independent media!!
Reo Eveleth@reveleth.com · 2d agoEarly on @coyotemedia.org made a list of dream bylines we'd LOVE to have on the site and @annaleen.bsky.social was one of the first on it for me. So stoked to see this piece about ~~speculative transit~~ and big dreams for the Bay Area. www.coyotemedia.org/funding-bay-...
yep, emergency situations are really just a special case—in which the failure modes are most obvious—of the much broader issues around integrating robotaxis into cities that nobody wants to talk about
Veena Dubal@veenadubal.bsky.social · 2d agoThis is somehow being touted as a robust response to the many logistical, safety, environmental, and surveillance problems these robotaxis posed. It is NOT. Mullen's legislation basically just attempts to address emergency situations (of which there are many). www.politico.com/news/2026/07...
New innovations in rail engineering allow Sound Transit trains to change tracks without crossovers
there are two possibilities: either there's a deep class anxiety among some the profession of architecture that prioritizes the aesthetics of squalor as a marker of authenticity over public health and the general right to not live in filth, or a rat wrote this
Neil Flanagan 🧱🗃️@jgbollard.bsky.social · 4d agoThis is it boys, the platonic "New York can never get better" piece www.archpaper.com/2026/07/litt...
Ebola may have been spreading for months in the DRC before anyone recognized it. A new reconstruction suggests the outbreak was already widespread in the gold-mining town of Mongbwalu by January. It wasn’t officially declared until 15 May. Why did no-one raise the alarm? My story for @science.org 🧪
EXCLUSIVE: Congo’s Ebola epidemic started at least 4 months before it was detected
A remote mining town gripped by fear saw hundreds of suspected cases before the government declared an outbreak, report says
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french patrol to jean valjean french patrol to jean valjean take your loaf of bread and put your shackles on (two) french patrol to jean valjean (four, six, zero, one) his sentence ends, parole’s begun (two, four, six, zero) said the bishop “and may god’s love be with you” (one, run off)
Definitely accurate. Was listening to scanner at the time when the second fire broke out at Ocean Cove Campground. Very windy day along the North Coast! Here are the two incidents per Sonoma County log, via pulse point.
Daniel Swain@weatherwest.bsky.social · 6d agoIf the latest FIRIS perimeter for #WoodsideFire is accurate, this would be one of the stranger fire footprints & trajectories I've seen. Under strong NWly winds parallel to coastline, it appears fire has spotted *over oceanic coves* & into downwind forest...twice!! Whoa.
the docs are amazing here. OpenAI actually produced an infographic to highlight how in their entire history, they've donated a whopping $800K to local civic causes the Mayor just out here trying to do reputation cleanup for OpenAI and they're just "nah we already gave 47% of a public toilet"
San Francisco Chronicle@sfchronicle.com · 6d agoRecords obtained by the Chronicle reveal how the mayor has unsuccessfully sought to get the maker of ChatGPT to step up its involvement in the city as its technology reshapes the economy.
A lot of Discourse around the NYC Groceries proposal has been on a very abstract level, so I decided to download the actual operator RFP and read through it to see what Mamdani is actually proposing to do. You can download it here by clicking the "Download" button. edc.nyc/nyc-grocerie...
N.Y.C. Groceries Operator(s) RFP
New York City Economic Development Corporation (“NYCEDC”), in collaboration with the City of New York (the “City”), is releasing a Request for
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Flock cameras have been used to stalk, surveil, and falsely arrest a growing number of Americans. Now, they’re fueling the war against livable streets. Read here:
'Flock Off': Mass Surveillance Surge Jeopardizes Lifesaving Crash Reduction Strategy — Streetsblog USA
A surveillance company's controversial business model has made traffic enforcement look bad by association. The effects could cost hundreds of lives.
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“I abhor the fatalistic pessimism that regards American public transit as unfixable, and I extend that to Los Angeles.” — defector.com/all-the-trai...
All The Trains I Rode In Los Angeles | Defector
This is not really a blog about trains. A blog about trains in Los Angeles, and my experience with them across 10 days, would ultimately be very short: Despite its notorious gaps in coverage, LA Metro...
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Hopkins bike lane passes! 6-3 Tregub went Yes! But otherwise Ishii, Taplin, Humbert, Lunaparra and Kesarwani yes on the bike lane plan. Rest no. Well...
San Francisco is already piloting this scheme: we perpetually debate Sunset Dunes with a formal ceremonial vote every two years and even already have a fancy outfit that we dance in
Darrell Owens@idothethinking.bsky.social · last wk.I think Berkeley should perpetually debate Hopkins Bike Lanes forever while the road just eventually turns to dirt. Have it be like a formal ceremony between Save Hopkins and Walk Bike Berkeley in the same way India and Pakistan's armies aggressively dance at the border every year.
News in global health: Sen. Susan Collins announces that GAVI, the vaccine alliance, will get hundreds of millions of dollars in funding after all. Trump officials last year said they would halt funding.
TIL one of the first public uses of "infodemic" was in a (pre-Bezos) WaPo editorial about how people were way too worried about SARS(!) and fear of pandemics is worse than viruses bc it hurts industries would love a party committed to pantsing these people and shoving them into the (policy) garbage
public health guy@publichealthguy1.bsky.social · last wk.we need to be rapidly & massively increasing public health funding. yet we have one party that is explicitly anti-public health, while the other thinks preventing funding cuts each year is good enough (which they still fail to do half the time). the pandemicene is here. something’s gotta change
COVID-19 concentrations are rising across many Bay Area wastewater sites, signaling increased summer transmission even as hospital admissions remain very low.
COVID is rising again in the Bay Area. Here’s what’s different this time
COVID-19 concentrations are rising across many Bay Area wastewater sites, signaling increased summer transmission even as hospital admissions remain very low.
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they clarified there's less than a 1% rate of the devices reporting that a rider didn't tap, when they did. Which, uh, is not a small number.
It is bad news when a perfectly reasonable, well-established pretrial diversion program is being cut by "moderate Democrats," the same people who are all "we cannot abolish ICE" www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
A fight over a San Francisco nonprofit tests how far Democrats will move on crime
The fate of SF Pretrial, a group that runs diversion programs, reflects the tough-on-crime sentiment emerging even in liberal cities.
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For all its talk, the State of California still spends 5/6 of its transpo funding on cars www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/arti...
California is demanding more housing near transit, even as it starves its transit systems to death
OPINION: We can’t have a land-use policy that says “build around transit,” with a budget policy that says, “good luck funding it,” columnist Allison Arieff writes.
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cannot emphasize enough how a small unhinged contingent in the Sunset District is dedicated to ruining things for everybody, to the point of sending legal threats to volunteer groups devoted to cleaning up weeds on the side of the road
Inside the battle over a Sunset District group’s name — and its list of neighbors
A cease-and-desist letter sent to a founder’s home has reopened a rift among volunteers who’ve successfully pushed the city for greenway funding since 2018
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This is the product of massive backsliding on the left around the issue of free expression and a fundamental lack of power analysis. People hate mark zuckerberg so they think it would be funny to blow up section 230 and watch it all burn. You only think this if you are not actually an organizer
Erin Kissane@kissane.myatproto.social · 2w agoI ask bc it seems to me that we're not going to stabilize democracy without pulling our info ecosystem out of its death spiral, which won't happen if the big platforms retain their monopoly control of social connections. But this appears to be the furthest thing from US leftist and liberal concerns.
