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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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nwchapman, to climate
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Forecasters are predicting that 2024's hurricane season could be among the most active on record. To understand what a super hurricane season is like, we spoke to people who have already lived through one.

#ClimateCrisis https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20240523-what-a-record-breaking-hurricane-season-looks-like

nwchapman, to random
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On Google's monkeying around with search:

"Google controls the roads. If tomorrow they decide the roads won't go to an entire town, that town dies. It's too much power to just shrug and say, 'Oh well, it's just the free market.'"

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20240524-how-googles-new-algorithm-will-shape-your-internet

nwchapman, to random
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“Tear White Supremacy a New One”

bus stop ad alteration in San Francisco

vga256, (edited ) to Fonts
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oh hell yes. i think i just found the original typeface used: it was LTC Spire by the Lanston Type Company

edit: it led to a fascinating web preservation backstory about the origins of the font itself:
https://dialup.cafe/@vga256/112460660100094359

nwchapman,
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@vga256 I bought some P22 fonts back in the day - they had some great stuff. Must have been great - it's the only font shop name I recall from back when I had to deal with such things, and it's a fond memory.

nwchapman, to random
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Yes, it was a Boeing https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/united-boeing-737-diverted-19474460.php

nwchapman, to random
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Those were the days

nwchapman, to random
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I wonder if US Congress members do as much for EVERY OTHER AMERICAN WHO VIOLATES THE LAW IN ANOTHER COUNTRY

or if it is just for firearms, which the US seems to think are their God-given right and as vital as prescription meds to bring on holiday. Or something.
https://abc7news.com/post/tyler-wenrich-american-arrested-turks-caicos-pleads-guilty/14853425/

nwchapman, to climate
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Scientists have warned of increased turbulence, particularly “clear air turbulence” which is harder to detect or forecast, as global heating warms air at higher altitudes and makes weather more unpredictable.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/21/severe-turbulence-london-to-singapore-flight

divya, to random
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How is it legal for petition gatherers to get paid per signature??? this is nuts

"Dana said the petitioner told her that he receives $12 for every signature he collects for California Forever. Another petition circulator collecting signatures in Solano County, who preferred not to give a name, told the Vallejo Sun that California Forever pays $6 per signature and an additional $3 bonus for a total of $9 per signature if the initiative qualifies for the ballot. The other petitions the circulator was offering to voters paid $3 per signature."

https://www.vallejosun.com/solano-residents-say-california-forever-petitioners-spread-misinformation-about-voting-process/

nwchapman,
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@divya And funded by dark money it ends up being another way that these days we get all the democracy we - or, more often, they - can buy.

lzg, to random
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muni keeps tricking me into waiting for ghost buses that never come

nwchapman,
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@lzg It's the new policy to encourage a more vibrant public realm by having a bunch of people standing around the streets. "Return to work" requirements was not getting it done. You might buy a taco or something while waiting.

nwchapman, to random
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Revealed: Meta approved political ads in India that incited violence

Exclusive: Ads containing AI-manipulated images were submitted to Facebook by civil and corporate accountability groups https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/20/revealed-meta-approved-political-ads-in-india-that-incited-violence?CMP=share_btn_url

nwchapman, to random
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For Walkable Neighborhoods, We Need More Useful Businesses

Op-ed: It’s not just about density. Urban residents need fewer dentists’ offices and mattress stores – and more corner stores and gyms.
https://nextcity.org/urbanist-news/for-walkable-neighborhoods-we-need-more-useful-businesses

nwchapman, to random
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I’m not saying that everything done by the Mayor’s office and departments under their direct control is sleazy, essentially corrupt and self-interested. But I’m not not saying that. https://sfstandard.com/2024/05/16/operation-genesis-investigated-san-francisco-police/?utm_campaign=SF%20Standard%20Breaking%20News%20Alerts&utm_content=breaking-read-more&utm_medium=email&utm_source=SF%20Standard

historyofpunkrock, to punk
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House number 8 has almost the perfect cast ⚡👍

Which one would you take or would you rather put your own together

nwchapman,
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@historyofpunkrock Cruel, impossible choice. There's not one house that has no one I don't care for, and there's not one house that doesn't have someone I do care for...

If I had to lose one house, though, it would be 5.

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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‘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
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/may/06/workers-income-labor-?CMP=share_btn_url

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 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.

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