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nwchapman

@nwchapman@sfba.social

Your basic Bay Area boy: flâneur, film buff, hiker, foodie, culture vulture, PhD drop out—underemployed and over-caffeinated.

Liberté, Egalité, Flâneurité!

Frisco-Australian

"No, I am not a reasonable being, nor do I consider our scheme reasonable. Who the hell wants to be reasonable?"

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skinnylatte, (edited ) to transit
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I’m interested in a lot of transit activism in N America but I swear people would think you’re a total weeb if you talk about transit in places with good transit. Trying to imagine talking to people in Singapore or Hong Kong or Seoul about.. loving trains

I think they would back tf away from me and run away.

Like my friend always says ‘I don’t want to be a transit fan. I just want great transit’

nwchapman,
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@skinnylatte non-profits or some marginally gamified City organized crowdsourced effort to get basic stuff done, like keeping storm drains clear so streets don't flood...

annaleen, to random
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I'm enjoying the giant laser in the sky tonight. It's coherent light weather in

nwchapman,
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@annaleen Shoot. I forgot all about that - up from Coit Tower? Some RSA convention marketing thing... so, yeah... that

nwchapman, to random
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The California Board of Education is taking control of the San Francisco Unified School District's spending after auditors determined the district is in "distressed financial condition" and could run out of money. https://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/san-francisco/san-francisco-schools-funds/3531583/

nwchapman, to random
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If you get 5150ed, you may get 3 nights of meals and a bed, and possibly a refill on your meds and some medical care.

Or you might just be tranquilized to the eyeballs for 72 hours then pushed out the door groggy and back where you started.

Welcome to 21st Century mental health care and social services in one of the wealthiest areas of the wealthiest society in human history

https://sfba.social/@SFPublicPress/112395054670216015

nwchapman, to random
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‘We deserve more’: US workers’ share of the pie dwindles

Bureau of Labor Statistics releases latest estimate of how much labor receives of national income, showing bleak decline
#Inequality https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/may/06/workers-income-labor-?CMP=share_btn_url

nwchapman, to climate
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Nearly 10 million people in central US under threat of severe weather, agency warns

National Weather Service’s Storm Prediction Center issued a rare high risk for central Oklahoma and southern Kansas

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/may/06/severe-weather-warnings?CMP=share_btn_url

nwchapman, to random
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If all it takes to get the government and others to declare protests not peaceful and unacceptable is for some right-wingers to show up and beat up, or even just try to beat up, some of the protestors...

Expect right-wingers to show up at A LOT of protests and beat up A LOT of people.

(Because they don't seem to get stopped by law enforcement, and even when they shoot and kill people they basically get away with it. See also attempts to basically make it okay to ram protestors with cars.)

nwchapman, to random
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What a great description of what TFG sounds like: "a chatbot programmed by a fascist parrot." https://www.publicnotice.co/p/trump-time-magazine-interview-2024

nwchapman, to random
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Kaiser breach may have leaked private data of 13.4M customers

[sounds like no medical records were leaked, but searches on their website, which may reveal medical conditions may have been]

https://www.sfexaminer.com/news/technology/kaiser-admits-breach-could-affect-134-million-customers/article_61d90558-0436-11ef-bad3-7b3c1dc86bfa.html

nwchapman, to random
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William Morris on work

Here, you see, are two kinds of work - one good, the other bad; one not far removed from a blessing, a lightening of life; the other a mere curse, a burden to life.

What is the difference between them, then? This: one has hope in it, the other has not...

worthy work carries with it the hope of pleasure in rest, the hope of pleasure in our using what it makes, and the hope of pleasure in our daily creative skill.

All other work but this is worthless; it is slaves' work - mere toiling to live, that we may live to toil.

nwchapman, to random
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"Without surcharges, restaurants will have to raise prices or absorb the cost of higher wages and local mandates"

To be clear, what is required is that the part of the price of the meal that was buried in the surcharge, now has to be shifted to the price for the item on the menu. It's not raising prices, it's just changing how those prices are shown. But restaurants such as Pacific Height's Spruce don't want to do it and are making it sound like an attack on workers and consumers.

https://www.sfchronicle.com/food/restaurants/article/junk-fees-restaurant-surcharges-19430871.php

nwchapman,
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If the SF Chronicle practiced real journalism instead of serving predominantly as a PR agency for business and the wealthy, it might actually explain/clarify stuff like that.

skinnylatte, (edited ) to random
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I feel like I'd go back in time happily in Malaysia / Malaya to try to eat all the foods, now lost or changed, in the 50s.

I am not sure I would want to eat this other than as a joke.

https://getpocket.com/explore/item/making-and-eating-the-1950s-most-nauseating-jell-o-soaked-recipes?utm_source=pocket-newtab-en-us

nwchapman,
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@skinnylatte I hear you, but actually that article more generally is really good - so interesting

nwchapman, to random
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Luke Spray discusses activating the public realm in his piece in the substack "Space Craft"

He says "San Francisco’s public realm is overseen by a dozen departments whose responsibilities are often as singular as a street pole."

There's some truth to that.

But.

I'm one of those departments. And I don't see myself as a street pole so much as a street light, trying to illuminate processes and possibilities for people. And permitting certain kinds of interventions in the public realm is (most of) my job.

If you have ideas for public place-making you'd like to see, reach out to me. You can find me on (shudder) LinkedIn or just look me up in City government.

https://spacecraft.substack.com/p/the-lost-art-of-the-living-innovation

nwchapman, to random
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"The conservative project of the past 40 years has been ... to return the great majority of us to the status of desperate, forelock-tugging plebs who know our places. Hence the return of child labor, the tradwife movement, and of course the attacks on labor unions and voting rights"
~ @pluralistic
https://pluralistic.net/2024/04/27/for-the-little-people/

nwchapman, to random
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Nazis in San Francisco’s City Hall

Long text about fascism coming to the United States and to San Francisco specifically
A comparison of Silicon Valley figures to German industrialists who supported and facilitated the Nazi takeover in the 1930s
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nwchapman, to random
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From the people who didn’t bring you the return of the noon siren :

SF Opens New ‘State-of-the-Art’ 911 Call Center, System Promptly Melts Down the Next Day https://sfist.com/2024/04/25/sf-opens-new-state-of-the-art-911-call-center-system-promptly-melts-down-the-next-day/

nwchapman, to architecture
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‘It should feel like an extension of the living room’: radical study centre is named best building in Europe

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2024/apr/25/technical-university-of-braunschweig-study-centre-named-best-building-in-europe-dusing-hacke?CMP=share_btn_url

nwchapman, to climate
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Survey finds that 60 firms are responsible for half of world’s plastic pollution

Study confirms Philip Morris International, Danone, Nestlé, PepsiCo and Coca-Cola are worst offenders https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/apr/24/survey-finds-that-60-firms-are-responsible-for-half-of-worlds-plastic-pollution?CMP=share_btn_url

nwchapman, to random
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PG&E bills are absolutely killing Bay Area restaurants

Utilities inflation arguably hurts restaurants more than higher food and labor costs
https://www.sfgate.com/food/article/pge-price-hikes-bay-area-restaurants-19406403.php

nwchapman, to random
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7 Waymo robotaxis block traffic to San Francisco freeway on-ramp

[Will Waymo have to pay reparations?]

https://techcrunch.com/2024/04/17/seven-waymo-robotaxis-block-traffic-to-san-francisco-freeway-on-ramp/

divya, to random
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    nwchapman,
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    @divya That clown! He’s (1) so awful and (2) far too typical of the rich tech bro ecosystem in this town.

    nwchapman, to random
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    The cherryist VW van I have ever seen

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    nwchapman, to random
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    This is appalling:

    Italy passes measures to allow anti-abortion activists to enter abortion clinics https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/apr/16/italy-passes-measures-to-allow-anti-abortion-activists-to-enter-abortion-clinics

    nwchapman, to random
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    ‘Water is more valuable than oil’: the corporation cashing in on America’s drought

    In an unprecedented deal, a private company purchased land in a tiny Arizona town – and sold its water rights to a suburb 200 miles away. Local residents fear the agreement has ‘opened Pandora’s box’ https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/apr/16/arizona-colorado-river-water-rights-drought

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