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Entry: 2024-03-28 17:07:05.828244+01 Society is broken by Dan Lyke comments 0

Streetsblog SF: Guest Commentary: Traffic Engineers Must Put Safety Over Driver Throughput

No other field would tolerate this level of death and destruction. The tragedy of West Portal is more evidence that the traffic engineering profession is fundamentally broken

I mean, yes, in most other engineering-adjacent professions designing systems like we do for traffic would be career limiting, but... City of Petaluma has two traffic engineers who come out and do walk arounds, point out all of the ways that our roads are awful and deadly, and that our relative lack of pedestrian and cyclist deaths comes primarily from suppressing those activities and ceding our public spaces to automobiles, but they're also hampered by budget and public will.

We need to fix society, not just traffic engineering.

[ related topics: Bay Area Automobiles ]



Entry: 2024-03-27 18:09:15.697783+01 Easter Approaches. Be Afraid. by Dan Lyke comments 0

RT Inertial Invites @intransitivelie@beige.party

Jesus: impossible to kill, reproduced asexually. Jesus is canonically a fungus. Clearly the part the Romans crucified was a fruiting body of some kind, leaving the bulk of the organism below ground, safe and secure. And every Easter, we find Jesus' multi-colored spores hidden in dark places. The rabbits tried to warn us. But now it's too late. He's metastasized across the whole planet. Soon enough, he will come again, and when he does, no cross in the world will be big enough to keep him at bay.

*Twilight Zone music intensifies*

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Entry: 2024-03-16 20:30:01.905228+01 I love how staff and consultants put by Dan Lyke comments 0

I love how staff and consultants put subtext into contextual documents.. "The downtown was a mix of commercial and residential uses during the late-nineteenth century, as lack of easy transportation led people to live near their place of business or job."

This Berkeley Shattuck Avenue Commercial Corridor Historic Context and Survey is a thing of beauty.

https://ohp.parks.ca.gov/pages...ttuck%20context%2005-28-2015.pdf

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Entry: 2024-03-13 00:41:43.194164+01 New Orleans PD "losing" evidence by Dan Lyke comments 2

Y'all have read about this New Orleans Police Chief Anne Kirkpatrick complaining about the conditions in headquarters, and that rats are eating evidence?

"Golly, I don't know where that cannabis went, the rats must have eaten it" is about the most bullshit line a cop can deliver.

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Entry: 2024-03-08 19:02:59.40213+01 If our science is right, this will be fine. by Dan Lyke comments 0

A fantastic thread by ⋆✧Catherine✧⋆ @whitequark@mastodon.social about "... one of the most violently unhinged CSB reports i've ever read ...

U.S. Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board: Tank Explosions at Midland Resource Recovery

Before starting the MP odorizer draining operation, SPSI’s business development and special project manager, a former DuPont employee with 30 years of emergency response experience and at that time a governor-appointed officer on the West Virginia State Fire Commission, conducted a briefing for MRR and agency representatives. When asked by a representative from a state agency why SPSI thought this operation would be safe – given that a similar approach to draining the MP odorizer had resulted in the May 24, 2017, explosion – the SPSI manager asserted, “If our science is right, this will be fine.”

Unable to directly engage SPSI about the safety issues regarding its plan and lacking confidence that MRR or SPSI understood either the cause of the May 24, 2017 incident or the full range of possible reactive chemistry involved, CSB investigators took shelter behind a shipping container (conex box) located behind a building more than 150 feet away from the SPSI operation.

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Entry: 2024-03-08 18:45:03.64606+01 SF Downtown by Dan Lyke comments 0

RT Adrianna Tan @skinnylatte@hachyderm.io

Tired of the SF Downtown is dying stories when (1) downtown has always been dead (2) it was planned that way (3) most of the businesses complaining about crime and poor sales are simply not relevant (4) no SF resident goes downtown for fun or voluntarily (even me, and I'm only a mile away)

It's so easy to blame homeless people, when imho it's much clearer to blame poor planning and poor business people for most of it

RT Adrianna Tan @skinnylatte@hachyderm.io

Homeless people are not gathering in Union Square in great numbers. Have you seen the number of police cars there?

You can't build a downtown with little to no housing, fill it with bad restaurants, and then say no one's coming

No one was going to Macy's even pre-pandemic except tourists

I always had to explain to my European and Asian friends that American downtowns are not... downtowns you think of. SF downtown was already underwhelming before any of these breathless stories

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Entry: 2024-03-04 21:13:34.624737+01 the IDEs of March by Dan Lyke comments 2

RT fraggle @fraggle@octodon.social

A reminder to everyone to stay safe and only use basic text editors this month. Beware the IDEs of March

A reminder that I should probably figure out how to get LSP-mode for Emacs configured...

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Entry: 2024-02-28 21:15:02.786216+01 But that's going to damage the trolley by Dan Lyke comments 1

"But that's going to damage the trolley and disrupt service! Why do you hate public transit?"

(Image says that the solution to the trolley problem is to "slip the switch" by flipping it while the trolley's front wheels have passed through, but before the back wheels do, in order to cause a controlled derailment bringing the trolley to a safe halt, from https://kolektiva.social/@sidereal/111779015415697244 )

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Entry: 2024-02-24 22:40:02.923631+01 At Elsie Allen High School for the by Dan Lyke comments 0

At Elsie Allen High School for the Sonoma County District 3 Candidates forum, and I guess this is the school sportsball team, but the "Lobos are safe" banner is just making me think "See the doggy! Pet the doggy! Doggy!"

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Entry: 2024-02-15 18:55:38.682174+01 Traffic enforcement by Dan Lyke comments 0

Portland Police Bureau officer admits traffic enforcement messaging was politically motivated

Various people have looked at San Francisco's enforcement suggestions say that it sure looks like SFPD has stopped doing traffic enforcement.

Via Matt Haughey 🦣 @mathowie@xoxo.zone who notes:

During covid, the Portland Police Bureau's budget was cut by 5% and the cops revolted, stopped enforcing crimes, and claimed it was due to defunding. The city is less safe due to the last few years of cops not doing their jobs.

I missed last summer when during a press conference a cop admitted they disbanded their traffic enforcement, told everyone in public there was no traffic enforcement, and all to score political points and get their funding back.

And:

it's kind of amazing when something dumb happens in city politics, and everyone says hey it looks like they're faking a story to push fear into the public while holding the city hostage until we pay the cops off (cops are already the biggest portion of the city budget), and then two years later a cop admits on record yeah, we totally made all that shit up to force everyone into a funding increase for cops.

[ related topics: Bay Area Law Enforcement California Culture ]



Entry: 2024-02-14 01:19:19.820714+01 E2EE & EU Comission by Dan Lyke comments 0

RT Patrick Breyer @echo_pbreyer@digitalcourage.social

🇬🇧European Court of Human Rights today bans general weakening of secure end-to-end encryption #E2EE because it keeps us all safe. https://hudoc.echr.coe.int/eng/?i=001-230854 (par. 76 pp.)

This makes the client-side scanning on all smartphones contained in the EU Commission's #ChatControl 2.0 proposal clearly illegal.

EU governments must now finally remove the destruction of secure encryption from the #Chatcontrol 2.0 plans - as well as the blanket surveillance of non-suspects! We #Pirates will continue to fight for this.

[ related topics: Bay Area Civil Liberties Cryptography ]



Entry: 2024-02-12 21:20:45.793194+01 Waymo fireworks in the cabin by Dan Lyke comments 0

There are a number of different takes on this: San Francisco crowd attacks Waymo driverless car. Apparently the vehicle tried to drive through the middle of a Chinese New Year celebration in Chinatown.

I like this one: RT Charlie Stross @cstross@wandering.shop

@AndyGER @mastodonmigration Reading between the lines: an EMPTY car tried barging its way through a Chinese New Year CROWD in Chinatown. Totally unsurprised they got angry!

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Entry: 2024-02-07 05:04:13.692544+01 Square Dance Calling whine of the moment by Dan Lyke comments 0

Tomorrow night we're going down to Marin for a song circle with Marv Zauderer. Thursday I'm driving... I'm allowing 2 hours there, probably an hour and a half back... so 3 to 4 hours ... to call in the East Bay. And I've turned down quite a few East Bay calling gigs recently. And I'm thinking about square dance calling vs song circles, and what I'm putting my energy into, and how square dancing *needs* more callers here willing to subsidize the hobby ('cause calling is not a cheap hobby), let alone in the East Bay, and what we put our energies into.

One of the nearer clubs getting my services of late made some huge shifts in their calling because they wanted to feel like the caller was more a part of their social circles. And as I compare square dancing to song circles, I see just how much the idea of the caller as separate is baked into the activity, and how the song circle community can have nurturing additional leaders integrated into the activity.

One of Charlene's complaints with me calling is that we don't get a chance to dance together as much as she'd like. I don't know how to change, to reimagine, square dancing as an activity to be less hierarchical, to be more nurturing of new callers, to have a better mix of dancing and calling.

It really means an extreme re-work of the activity.

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Entry: 2024-02-06 20:18:12.61718+01 AirTag attack surfaces by Dan Lyke comments 0

RT brettshavers @brettshavers@infosec.exchange

I just peer-reviewed a forensic analysis in a case.

The suspect mailed a package with a hidden Apple AirTag in it to a victim's old home address.

The package was forwarded to her new (and formerly safe) address....

Might be good to warn DV victims of unexpected mail.

@SwiftOnSecurity Just

Pernicious that this is a route that wouldn't show up with AirTracker or similar...

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Entry: 2024-01-15 02:15:02.13692+01 Bike parking at the Safe Streets by Dan Lyke comments 0

Bike parking at the Safe Streets Petaluma meeting, on the new city racks

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Entry: 2024-01-11 17:21:16.094537+01 The Big Dig, mentioned again by Dan Lyke comments 0

The thing about listening to "The Big Dig" podcast from WGBH is that, sure, we can look back on that project and say it was a boondoggle and disaster of epic proportions, but at the time people were saying the same thing.

Anyway, thinking a lot about the 101 widening (for the same price we could have gotten electrified SMART with 15 minute headways) and the upcoming highway 37 project (where, you know, we could also tear it out and just make Marin County, and, let's be fair, Petaluma, allow developers to build some workforce housing.

Meanwhile, as a bunch of people have pointed out, 2023 was the warmest year of your life and likely the coolest year of the rest of your life. And the IPCC 1990 predictions for "no action" are pretty much exactly on track.

Anyway, I'm in Episode 4, and it's a good listen.

https://www.wgbh.org/podcasts/the-big-dig

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Entry: 2024-01-05 18:34:06.174502+01 The Endurance of an Unmanageable Language by Dan Lyke comments 0

Some were meant for C — The Endurance of an Unmanageable Language

For true “systems” programming (as I will define), C’s benefits are of another kind. Again, performance is not the issue; I will argue that communication is what defines system-building, and that C’s design, particularly its use of memory and explicit representations, embodies a “first-class” approach to communication which is lacking in existing “safe” languages

Via

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Entry: 2023-12-22 20:14:40.575113+01 Paving & speeding by Dan Lyke comments 0

RT Marc Hedlund @marcprecipice@xoxo.zone

With apologies for the Twitter link, this is an excellent thread on why paving without traffic calming is unacceptable: https://twitter.com/BerkSafeStreets/status/1737951950228877754

The key finding from @navgattu is that speeds on a recently-repaved street in #Berkeley went up by about 5 mph—next to a school—because the poor condition of the pavement was effectively acting as traffic calming before. Our position (https://www.berkeleysafestreets.com) is that paving and safety features need to be paired.

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Entry: 2023-12-20 18:07:15.281025+01 Food safe 3d printing by Dan Lyke comments 0

Hackaday: Food safe 3d printing

Matt Thomas] wanted to answer the question of whether 3D printed structures can be food-safe or even medical-safe, since there is an awful lot of opinion out there but not a lot of actual science about the subject. As a mechanical engineer who dabbles in medical technical matters, he designed as series of tests using a wide range of nasty-sounding pathogens, to find once and for all what works and what does not.

Though that blog post is August 2022, it references (and looks like a republishing in HTML of) The Impact of Sanitation Methods of 3D-printed Parts for Food and Medical Applications, January 2019 Advances in Science Technology and Engineering Systems Journal

Results from various testing methods used in hospitals and FDA approved microbial surface testing, indicate that 3D printed parts of PLA/PLA+ (Polylactic Acid), and PETG (Polyethylene terephthalate glycol) can be cleaned to safe levels using warm water (120 °F), and non-concentrated dish soap. Examination and verification of cleanliness were completed via Petri dish preparations, and protein residue testing. It was found that Colony Forming Units (CFU) and Plaque Forming Units (PFU) had been reduced by 90%. Experimental results indicate that using 2g of baking soda, when used with soapy water, eliminates biofilms by chemical and physical action, neutralizes acidic bacteria, and removes mucus. It is recommended (not required) and tested by surgical technicians, that a 2-minute room temperature bleach water soak (200ppm), after washing and rinsing should be done to ensure pathogens are at safe levels. Acetic acid from vinegar was tested as well via petri dish for CFU reduction and can effectively eradicate biofilms due to the ability to penetrate the biofilm matrix and the cell membrane. Acetic acid is not recommended for disinfecting, only for biofilm reduction. It is noted to the reader that sanitation in this context refers to the method of bringing a surface or object to safe levels of cleanliness for food or medical preparation and storage. Furthermore, mass spectrometry readings indicate that no contamination from heavy metals, or other toxins are present in PLA+, and PETG before and after printing. Lastly, filaments made from a pull-trusion method from recycled soda or water bottles has been tested and found to be safe.. When using 3D-printed items for liquids, it is highly recommended to coat the 3D-printed parts in resin.</bockquote>

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Entry: 2023-12-11 01:35:02.079446+01 At a Safe Streets Petaluma meeting by Dan Lyke comments 0

At a Safe Streets Petaluma meeting, as the sun goes down.

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Entry: 2023-11-29 20:38:03.925277+01 ChatGPT training data by Dan Lyke comments 0

404 Media: Google Researchers’ Attack Prompts ChatGPT to Reveal Its Training Data

“We show an adversary can extract gigabytes of training data from open-source language models like Pythia or GPT-Neo, semi-open models like LLaMA or Falcon, and closed models like ChatGPT,” the researchers, from Google DeepMind, the University of Washington, Cornell, Carnegie Mellon University, the University of California Berkeley, and ETH Zurich, wrote in a paper published in the open access prejournal arXiv Tuesday.

Extracting Training Data from ChatGPT

Via @SnoopJ@hachyderm.io

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Entry: 2023-11-23 19:02:46.823929+01 Advances in Bullshit Generation by Dan Lyke comments 0

Nature: ChatGPT generates fake data set to support scientific hypothesis

Our aim was to highlight that, in a few minutes, you can create a data set that is not supported by real original data, and it is also opposite or in the other direction compared to the evidence that are available,” says study co-author Giuseppe Giannaccare, an eye surgeon at the University of Cagliari in Italy.

The ability of AI to fabricate convincing data adds to concern among researchers and journal editors about research integrity. “It was one thing that generative AI could be used to generate texts that would not be detectable using plagiarism software, but the capacity to create fake but realistic data sets is a next level of worry,” says Elisabeth Bik, a microbiologist and independent research-integrity consultant in San Francisco, California. “It will make it very easy for any researcher or group of researchers to create fake measurements on non-existent patients, fake answers to questionnaires or to generate a large data set on animal experiments.”

JAMA Opthalmology — Research Letter — November 9, 2023 — Large Language Model Advanced Data Analysis Abuse to Create a Fake Data Set in Medical Research.

doi:10.1001/jamaophthalmol.2023.5162

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Entry: 2023-11-08 20:01:11.174451+01 Doom Loop by Dan Lyke comments 0

Peter Hartlaub and Joe Garofoli in the SF Chronicle: How to write your own San Francisco ‘doom loop’ story: An essential guide for visiting APEC writers

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Entry: 2023-10-31 17:44:13.862185+01 [they] Accidentally Saved Half A Million Dollars by Dan Lyke comments 0

I Accidentally Saved Half A Million Dollars

While my managers are very happy, they quietly suggest it may be unwise to roll out the changes to all the computers (I only did a few to be safe) because it would oversaturate the department to hear about us all day. And invite unwelcome questions. The subtext is that if we do this all slowly enough, it might seem like it took a lot of effort instead of just clicking buttons that I said had to be clicked almost a year ago.

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Entry: 2023-10-21 01:02:06.111954+02 Self-enforcing streets by Dan Lyke comments 0

I've been thinking a lot about infrastructure for passive traffic enforcement via vehicle damage. Like if you drive through the middle of a roundabout and it tears out your oil pan, well, we don't want to have to go around fixing cars, but unsafe behavior should have consequences. Traffic engineering "recovery zones" are part of the problem.

So I have to admit I'm intrigued by exploring this idea. RT😀🚲 @enobacon@urbanists.social

Why are we trying to make autonomous cars when we could be making autonomous streets with much simpler logic? Car = speeding => bollard = up. No license plate => please wait here and an attendant will be with you shortly. It's like 1st graders could write this code, come on. #BanCars

RT 😀🚲 @enobacon@urbanists.social

First get self-enforcing streets figured out, then maybe robot taxis can be safe to test.

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Entry: 2023-10-20 01:06:40.712931+02 Golden Gate Bridge sunset calculator by Dan Lyke comments 0

Jeff Poskanzer: Golden Gate Sunsets — An ACME GeoRSS Map. For helping to figure out where you need to be to take a picture of the sunset on the Golden Gate Bridge at any particular time of year.

[ related topics: Bay Area Maps and Mapping ]



Entry: 2023-10-06 17:45:01.332565+02 WaPo deconstructs a Tesla crash by Dan Lyke comments 0

So there's a lot of missing data in trying to understand the actual impacts of Tesla's "autopilot" on automobile collisions. It seems like a lot of the analyses are finding that right now it's less safe than a human driver (2019: +59%, 2023: +11%).

This is an interesting deconstruction of a crash, that's got me thinking a lot more about the notion of "moral crumple zones", especially when a technology is marketed as "autopilot" and, despite having good map data, allows drivers to set parameters outside of legal limits. Washington Post: The final 11 seconds of a fatal Tesla Autopilot crash

Gift article link.

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Entry: 2023-10-05 21:01:51.824933+02 Crime & Target by Dan Lyke comments 0

Target says it's closing 9 stores due to theft. The crime data tells a different story.

Popular Information analyzed publicly available crime data for the stores Target is closing in New York and San Francisco. This data reveals that stores that are being closed have lower levels of theft than nearby stores that have remained open. An analysis of the stores Target is shuttering in the Seattle area follows a similar pattern. This data suggests that factors other than crime are driving Target's decisions.

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Entry: 2023-09-28 20:00:44.873161+02 More on tire microplastics by Dan Lyke comments 0

Road Hazard: Evidence Mounts on Toxic Pollution from Tires

Both natural and synthetic rubber break down in the environment, but synthetic fragments last a lot longer. Seventy-eight percent of ocean microplastics are synthetic tire rubber, according to a report by the Pew Charitable Trust. These fragments are ingested by marine animals — particles have been found in gills and stomachs — and can cause a range of effects, from neurotoxicity to growth retardation and behavioral abnormalities.

“We found extremely high levels of microplastics in our stormwater,” said Rebecca Sutton, an environmental scientist with the San Francisco Estuary Institute who studied runoff. “Our estimated annual discharge of microplastics into San Francisco Bay from stormwater was 7 trillion particles, and half of that was suspected tire particles.”

Previously

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Entry: 2023-09-21 20:09:26.030876+02 When do we use K rail? by Dan Lyke comments 0

Oh snap: SF Streetsblog: City has Concrete Barriers for Salesforce But Not to Stop Traffic Violence?

But morally confused bureaucrats and careerist officials believe, correctly, that it's in their interest to temporarily erect concrete barriers to protect those attending a $90 million conference, while residents and commuters are left with plastic bollards, and green and white paint. So they just did it.

In other words, Salesforce's Mark Benioff draws a lot of proverbial water in this town.

Cyclists and pedestrians, including dead children apparently, not so much.

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Entry: 2023-09-17 00:20:02.24166+02 "Is this dishwasher safe?" by Dan Lyke comments 0

"Is this dishwasher safe?", I ask, as I approach in a submissive posture, eyes averted, offering a dirty saucer in an outstretched hand as greeting, hoping that in time I will be able to give it scritches.

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Entry: 2023-09-07 19:27:28.799841+02 Housing supply and demand by Dan Lyke comments 0

Darrell Owens: Berkeley Rents Fall Amid Construction Boom

The city's government rental registry reveals that rent controlled apartments are declining in price as Berkeley undergoes a housing boom.

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Entry: 2023-09-06 23:37:18.632099+02 Crash Rates by Dan Lyke comments 2

Missy Cummings, George Mason University: Assessing Readiness of Self-Driving Vehicles (preprint)

State agencies are increasingly faced with self-driving permit and licensing requests as self-driving operations expand. However, these expansions have led to congestion and problematic interactions with first responders, as well as increasing public distrust. To respond to these self-driving permit requests with evidence-based recommendations, government agencies need straightforward tools to help them objectively and holistically assess such requests. To this end, using self-driving disengagement data from California, as well as federal non-fatal and CA transportation network companies’ crash reports, this effort demonstrates how the combination of human- and autonomy-initiated disengagements, coupled with non-fatal crash rates, can provide insight into assessing self-driving vehicle readiness for commercial operations. Additional results show that Cruise’s and Waymo’s robo-taxis in San Francisco are 4-8x morelikely to be involved in non-fatal crashes, equivalent to the CA crash rates of Uber and Lyft. One major drawback to this approach is a lack of reporting by the majority of companies conducting self-driving operations on public roads in CA. This lack of reporting and companies’ avoidance of publicly address emerging problems, while simultaneously claiming their technologies are superior to human drivers, suggests there are systemic problematic safety cultures in the self-driving community. If self-driving companies do not adopt more transparent and responsive safety practices, their non-fatal crash rates could continue to exceed that of human drivers. They also risk further eroding public sentiment, which could lead to further public rejection of what otherwise could have been a promising technology.

I'mma just repeat that in bold: "Cruise’s and Waymo’s robo-taxis in San Francisco are 4-8x morelikely to be involved in non-fatal crashes, equivalent to the CA crash rates of Uber and Lyft"

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Entry: 2023-08-24 03:05:04.785966+02 That painted bulb out sure is by Dan Lyke comments 0

That painted bulb out sure is discouraging illegal and unsafe behavior. Drivers are definitely not peeling out right over the paint or anything. So glad that we can keep our neighborhood safe with some perfunctory markings.

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Entry: 2023-08-17 19:37:00.950605+02 Fires by Dan Lyke comments 0

100 years ago: BERKELEY LOSS $9,000,000: 3,000 HOMELESS, 100 INJURED - The San Francisco Examiner, Wednesday, September 19, 1923

In Marin, a wildfire on September 17 burned from Ignacio through Lucas and Nicasio Valleys, to Woodacre, Lagunitas, and Bolinas Ridge. This happened at the same time as huge fires burned in Sonoma County and in Berkeley, along with 15 other counties in California.

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Entry: 2023-08-17 03:00:02.482125+02 Down to San Rafael to call for Tam by Dan Lyke comments 0

Down to San Rafael to call for Tam Twirlers, watching the tankers glide by.

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Entry: 2023-08-16 01:33:40.597884+02 Get off your bike by Dan Lyke comments 0

RT 🚲 @dx@social.ridetrans.it

@enobacon "Get your kid off that bike! It's not safe with me on the road!"

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Entry: 2023-08-11 17:40:03.374023+02 Upcoming North SF Bay area square dance by Dan Lyke comments 0

Upcoming North SF Bay area square dance gigs! Ongoing, Fifth Thursdays with Circle 'n Squares in Monroe Hall in Santa Rosa (I think this is gonna be SSD through Plus), and select Fridays, August 18th and September 15th, at Wischemann Hall in Sebastopol, SSD through Advanced, whatever the floor wants.

If you square dance, come challenge me on my assertions that it's always the caller's fault.

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Entry: 2023-08-04 20:40:02.145859+02 Flying OAK through Midway to Detroit to by Dan Lyke comments 0

Flying OAK through Midway to Detroit to visit family near Toledo. Some masks in Oakland, I'm the only one I've seen in Midway. In transit phone calls and text messages suggest family visit is gonna be... A visit.

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Entry: 2023-07-28 20:45:03.026746+02 news that Washington Freedom was by Dan Lyke comments 0

The news that Washington Freedom was eliminated last night has led me to discover that there are, unsurprisingly, San Francisco Unicorns and Seattle Orcas (and everyone's rooting for orcas these days), but also Texas Super Kings.

Which... kinda makes sense that they'd be fans of monarchy with special powers.

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