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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 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/

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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

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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

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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

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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/

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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.

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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

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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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    Revealed: how companies made $100m clearing California homeless camps

    Public spending on private sweep contractors is soaring across the state – and unhoused people allege poor treatment
    https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/apr/16/us-homeless-encampments-companies-profiting-sweeps

    nwchapman, to random
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    [from Next City]

    Vacant Storefronts Are Killing Our Downtowns. Small-Scale Manufacturing Can Help.

    Op-ed: Restaurants and gyms aren’t the only options for downtown office buildings with empty retail space. https://nextcity.org/urbanist-news/vacant-storefronts-are-killing-our-downtowns.-small-scale-manufacturing-can

    nwchapman, to random
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    It’s a valid question

    nwchapman,
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    @skinnylatte Not sure I could bring myself to go there because of my history with that location but that’s good to know

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    Regarding the concerns raised about Overdrive/Libby and privacy/data sharing...

    I contacted SFPL and received a reply which suggests there may not be an issue, or as much of an issue, as it at first appeared.

    The response I received follows

    nwchapman,
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    @divya So that actually sounds fine.- and actually makes me feel bad about how sternly worded the email I sent to them was. Am I missing something? Doesn't that seem to say there is no real area for concern?

    I suppose the one question I might have is whether Overdrive (or its owners) can change the terms of the agreement so that they would be able to do more sharing later of data already in the system.

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    This is shocking - particularly when you think back to when librarians were so excellent about resisting requests for lists of borrowed titles a decade or two ago.

    This should be raised immediately - in very firm tones - with SF Public Library

    Michael Lambert, City Librarian
    (415) 557-4236
    Email: citylibrarian@sfpl.org

    I'm ceasing all use of their ebook systems immediately.

    https://infosec.exchange/@longobord/112243109399209904

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    From the Mission to Montecito, rich people use boulders to stop other people from doing stuff that harshes the buzz of their rich lives:

    Residents in wealthy California town block access to public hot springs with boulders https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/apr/09/montecito-california-hot-springs

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    nwchapman,
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    @mtheriaultsf @lzg Aeschylus eats Euripides’ moussaka

    ai6yr, to random
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    Ah, sad to see our county, Ventura County, California, is no longer reporting COVID-19 data (they had been until last week). Still seeing a handful of deaths every week from COVID-19 when they were reporting--which is a lot more than influenza ever has had here (used to be three or four deaths from influenza in a season was an
    "influenza outbreak") https://vchca.org/covid-19

    nwchapman,
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    @ai6yr

    COVID hospitalization rate7x that of flu

    COVID death rate 8x that of flu

    COVID vaccination rate less than half that of flu

    nwchapman, to random
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    His mom just spent $1 million to try to get him a decent job.

    nwchapman, to random
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    "We can't count on oligarchs to rescue us from oligarchy – not even when oligarchy's failures push society to the breaking point. There's always a rationalization explaining why we just had to lean harder into oligarchy."

    Be like @pluralistic : be angry, be unreasonable.

    As Auntie Em said, who the hell wants to be reasonable.
    https://pluralistic.net/2024/03/30/dewey-502/

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