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Entry: 2026-03-02 15:25:28.002824+01 by Dan Lyke comments 0

On Saturday evening, Charlene and I were sitting out on our front patio eating dinner and watching drivers run the Mission & Mountain View stop signs (spending some more time gathering video of this in order to make a montage to post to Facebook and NextDoor titled "those fucking bicyclists" is a fantasy project).

The social media comments on the news of two recent killings of cyclists on rural roads around Petaluma are filled with "yeah, that road isn't safe for bicycles, I don't know what they were doing there".

We hear that the city has over 200 requests for traffic calming and safety improvements in their barely funded safe streets programs.

But here we have an example of where a metropolitan region of 1.5 million people has decided that killing people for convenience is not acceptable.

Helsinki just went a full year without a single traffic death.

Entry: 2026-02-26 18:11:41.359263+01 US has net emigration by Dan Lyke comments 0

WSJ on MSN: Americans are leaving the US in record numbers

Last year the U.S. experienced something that hasn’t definitively occurred since the Great Depression: More people moved out than moved in. The Trump administration has hailed the exodus—negative net migration—as the fulfillment of its promise to ramp up deportations and restrict new visas. Beneath the stormy optics of that immigration crackdown, however, lies a less-noticed reversal: America’s own citizens are leaving in record numbers, replanting themselves and their families in lands they find more affordable and safe.

Direct WSJ link, both via.

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Entry: 2026-02-20 18:04:16.753444+01 Please Explain Your Genocide by Dan Lyke comments 0

Just catching up on saved links: Pass the Rice, and Please Explain Your Genocide

At a thoughtfully organized dinner in Oakland, Palestinian culinary activists shared more than just food — they offered their stories, their resilience, and their patience

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Entry: 2026-02-20 00:03:24.837493+01 Protest Music by Dan Lyke comments 0

Just gathering more protest songs here...

Willie Nelson - Heart Of America (From The Gray House Original Soundtrack) (Not sure I like this trend of AI generated video)

"Minnesota" - Marsh Family adaptation of "San Francisco (Be Sure to Wear Some Flowers in Your Hair)"

From back in January, but it was still marked as pending in my queue MPR News: How Minnesota musicians are responding in real time to federal shootings.

Entry: 2026-02-19 18:33:09.249727+01 Tesla Robotaxi 4x worse than human drivers by Dan Lyke comments 0

An elderly friend of mine recently splurged on a Tesla with FSD. YouTubers have made him a Musk fanboy, and he's wanted something like this, and he's also of the opinion that his age and health mean that he's less safe to drive, and...

I took a ride with him in his car, and it is, indeed, pretty amazing. Had a little trouble in parking lots, though that may have been because he got impatient and overrode it, but it's managing most standard driving tasks pretty well.

However, he's also ordering dark glasses from Zenni so that he doesn't have to be quite so attentive, to fool the gaze direction stuff. And I wonder about attention fatigue. Anyway, this is with safety drivers, I suspect attention fatigue is a real thing. I hope that said friend manages to avoid this problem, and if he doesn't that he doesn't harm anyone...

Elektrek: Tesla ‘Robotaxi’ adds 5 more crashes in Austin in a month — 4x worse than humans

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Entry: 2026-02-12 00:59:02.264969+01 The Internet's business model is betrayal. by Dan Lyke comments 0

Michael W Lucas @mwl@io.mwl.io:

Inspired by a discussion elsewhere:

I've been on the Internet since 1987, started a career building the commercial Internet in 1995, and have spent the last 25 years writing books about how to build foundational Internet infrastructure. I've consulted for and worked with any number of dot-coms, and the one lesson I've gotten over and over again?

The Internet's business model is betrayal.

We have no smart lights. No voice assistants. No Alexa or Siri. No video doorbell. Our thermostat and appliances constantly complain about their lack of Internet. None of this stuff is safe.

The Internet tech I do use? A desktop PC. Email on my phone is for travel only: airplane tickets, hotel reservations, hockey and concert tix. Location on my phone? Nope, we use a dedicated non-networked GPS in the car. The microphones are off.

How can a light bulb betray me? I don't know. I do know that the vendors have put a LOT of thought into it, though, and I can't out-think all of them.

Entry: 2026-02-09 21:30:01.445965+01 SFUSD shovels money at OpenAI by Dan Lyke comments 0

How do we know AI is a grift? School admins are bypassing sanity in order to shovel money into it. San Francisco Unified School District Approves OpenAI Contract, Bypassing Board and Raising Student Privacy Concerns.

Via.

Entry: 2026-02-06 17:59:37.508384+01 units of sin by Dan Lyke comments 0

Mike Taylor 🦕 @mike@sauropods.win

I was thinking about how strange it is that the cupboard in a bathroom is called a "vanity unit", and then I got to thinking, what if all your furniture was named after the seven deadly sins?

* Bathroom cupboard = vanity unit

* Paid-work office = avarice unit

* Computer gaming station = anger unit

* Device running social media = envy unit

* Bed = lust unit

* Induction hob = gluttony unit

* Sofa = sloth unit

Entry: 2026-02-03 17:20:53.413689+01 burned alive by Kurt Russell by Dan Lyke comments 0

PC Gamer: Over 50% of game developers now think generative AI is bad for the industry, a dramatic increase from just 2 years ago: 'I'd rather quit the industry than use generative AI'

"Our standing rule is: If one of us brings up using GenAI in any of our work, then it's safe to assume we've been assimilated by The Thing and should be burned alive by Kurt Russell," said a game design consultant in the US.

Via.

Entry: 2026-01-24 00:40:19.738662+01 "The device, which Heyneman said does not work..." by Dan Lyke comments 0

‘I’m very stupid’: SF tech founder jailed in Davos for bomb-lookalike device — After leaving a prototype unattended at the World Economic Forum, Sebastian Heyneman was held by Swiss authorities for 13 hours.

The device, which Heyneman said does not work, is meant to recognize the unique characteristics of a silicon chip to prevent financial fraud.

Of course what's working is also vibe-coded.

Via.

Entry: 2026-01-22 18:15:07.991943+01 Reading about Georgism and coercive by Dan Lyke comments 0

Reading about Georgism and coercive economics, and then I see more employer provided housing in the SF Bay Area (this about an SF restaurant, but context included a convenience store owner in Sebastopol), and...

https://www.sfchronicle.com/fo...tment-san-francisco-21291046.php

Entry: 2026-01-22 00:52:59.512766+01 Mental illness and LLMs by Dan Lyke comments 0

Man Who Had Managed Mental Illness Effectively for Years Says ChatGPT Sent Him Into Hospitalization for Psychosis

"They straight up took my data and used it against me to capture me further and make me even more delusional."

Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff calls out AI models as 'suicide coaches'

In three public appearances, the executive of San Francisco’s largest tech company used the phrase “suicide coach” to describe the chatbot from Character.AI — a Menlo Park startup sued by multiple families over their children’s mental health crises. Benioff discussed the issue with TV interviewers from CNBC and Bloomberg, then on stage with President Donald Trump’s AI czar David Sacks. Calling out the United States’ failure to regulate social media, the CEO advocated for new accountability measures aimed at chatbot companies.

Entry: 2025-12-29 18:39:00.103486+01 ChatGPT tries to kill tourists by Dan Lyke comments 0

Wales Online: Restaurant boss saves two people's lives after desperately shouting for them to stop

One of them told her he had consulted ChatGPT to find tide times before deeming it safe to venture out to the island early on Wednesday. He said: “I made the mistake of using ChatGPT for research to see when the low tide was. It said 9.30am. So we were out on that side and then as soon as you come back over it was literally completely different. A lesson learned for me.”

Via.

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Entry: 2025-12-24 06:40:03.099458+01 Went into the city to hang with by Dan Lyke comments 0

Went into the city to hang with friends. Google Maps transit data has really gone to shit. From trying to direct me to non-existent bus stops, to sending me way out of my way for connections, it's... Not good.

And they still miss the feature I most want, a "maximize walking", because I know I'm gated through a once an hour bus, how many steps up Van Ness can I safely take before I risk being between stops?

Entry: 2025-12-23 18:17:44.449072+01 growing vaccines with yeasts by Dan Lyke comments 0

Science News: He made beer that’s also a vaccine. Now controversy is brewing kinda buries the lede under the sensationalism, or maybe the sensationalism is the point:

Buck’s body made antibodies against several types of the virus after drinking the beer and he suffered no ill effects, he and his brother Andrew Buck reported December 17 at the data sharing platform Zenodo.org, along with colleagues from NIH and Vilnius University in Lithuania. Andrew and other family members have also consumed the beer with no ill effects, he says. The Buck brothers posted a method for making vaccine beer December 17 at Zenodo.org. Chris Buck announced both publications in his blog Viruses Must Die on the online publishing platform Substack, but neither has been peer-reviewed by other scientists.

because it's about generating oral vaccines cultured in yeasts using FDA "generally recognized as safe" ingredients to count as supplements rather than medicines, which seems like all sorts o' both cans o' worms, and fascinating evolutions of how the regulatory and public health environment are evolving.

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Entry: 2025-12-15 18:21:00.465906+01 ICE cars no safer for pedestrians than EVs by Dan Lyke comments 0

University of Leeds: EVs 'just as safe for pedestrians'

The paper ‘Comparing pedestrian safety between electric and internal combustion engine vehicles’ by Zia Wadud, Professor of Mobility and Energy Futures at Leeds, was published on 9 December in Nature Communications.

As Brent Toderian points out:

They’re also no safer. Which reminds us that “better cars” aren’t the main answer to the consequences of cars. The main answer is fewer (and smaller) cars driven less frequently in better cities.

Entry: 2025-12-15 18:20:12.848173+01 ICE cars no safer for pedestrians than EVs by Dan Lyke comments 0

University of Leeds: EVs 'just as safe for pedestrians'

The paper ‘Comparing pedestrian safety between electric and internal combustion engine vehicles’ by Zia Wadud, Professor of Mobility and Energy Futures at Leeds, was published on 9 December in Nature Communications.

As Brent Toderian points out:

They’re also no safer. Which reminds us that “better cars” aren’t the main answer to the consequences of cars. The main answer is fewer (and smaller) cars driven less frequently in better cities.

Entry: 2025-12-05 17:50:42.104725+01 Reverse engineering Linux malware by Dan Lyke comments 0

LinkPro: eBPF rootkit analysis

LinkPro targets GNU/Linux systems and is developed in Golang. The Synacktiv CSIRT names it LinkPro in reference to the symbol defining its main module: github.com/link-pro/link-client. The GitHub account link-pro has no public repositories or contributions. LinkPro uses eBPF technology to only activate upon receiving a "magic packet", and to conceal itself on the compromised system.

(eBPF is the "extended Berkeley Packet Filter")

[ related topics: Free Software Open Source Bay Area Clowns ]

Entry: 2025-12-01 17:48:29.639118+01 Fire Department vs Safety Advocates by Dan Lyke comments 0

Darrell Owens: The Fire Department vs. Traffic Safety Advocates

A firefighter sympathetic to the fire officials argued to me that traffic calming slowed the fire department’s ability to respond to fires. But firefighters and EMT affiliates spend far more time collecting bodies from car accidents enabled by car-oriented road design than they do fighting structural fires. Between 2010 and 2022, structural fires in Berkeley injured an average of 2 people per year, while between just 2017 and 2022, traffic accidents injured or killed an average of 694 people annually. (Report here). This is proportionally true of most cities in the United States. This month, a cyclist was hit and killed on one of the streets fire officials want to keep free of street festivals.

Entry: 2025-11-20 19:55:42.068485+01 ‘Ha ha, bitches, I got a new scooter!’ by Dan Lyke comments 0

Meet the Veteran Who Chases ICE on a Scooter — Clifford “Buzz” Grambo patrols the streets of Baltimore to keep his neighbors safe—and make federal agents uncomfortable.

Recently, Clifford “Buzz” Grambo decided to upgrade his electric scooter. The old one he had purchased online reached only 16 mph and wasn’t cutting it anymore. He needed to go faster to keep up with the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement cars he chases around Baltimore. So Grambo bought a Segway Max G3, which features a 2,000-watt motor and can get up to 28 mph.

“The first time I caught up to them, I could tell that they already knew who I was,” he told me when we first spoke on the phone in late October. “They had seen me before, so they thought they were just going to speed away. I was like, ‘Ha ha, bitches, I got a new scooter!’”

Via through this love for Baltimore.

[ related topics: Politics Invention and Design Bay Area Segway/Ginger/IT ]

Entry: 2025-11-16 16:30:02.14459+01 Went in to SF yesterday for the Emacs by Dan Lyke comments 0

Went in to SF yesterday for the Emacs meetup, and it was so refreshing to hang out for a few hours with people who want to make computing useful, who want to solve actual problems and build tools for organization. A wonderful counter to the constant refrain of "how can we cram an LLM into this?"

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Entry: 2025-11-13 06:50:02.932099+01 I'm planning to head into SF on by Dan Lyke comments 0

I'm planning to head into SF on Saturday to go to the Emacs meetup from 11 to 1 on 24th a few blocks off Mission. Seems silly to not amortize the travel over multiple things, anyone got suggestions for other things to do?

The Misalignment Museum isn't currently open...

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Entry: 2025-11-04 22:46:58.276336+01 Gun Town by Dan Lyke comments 0

Jef Poskanzer @jef@mastodon.social

Gun Town

There's a town near you where most of the residents spend much of their days running around with guns. The guns are real. They are loaded with real bullets. Their fingers are on the triggers. But they don't pull the triggers, they just yell "BANG, BANG, BANG!"

Except occasionally something happens. Maybe they hit a bump. Or they are distracted by their cell phone. Or they had a little too much to drink before going out for a gun run. Or they see a non-gun person and want to teach them a lesson.

The gun goes off.

The gun people nod sadly to each other. "Such a tragic accident," they say. The police arrive, interview people, and make a report: "Accident." The dead are not interviewed. Then everyone runs off yelling "BANG, BANG, BANG!"

Of course we don't live in Gun Town. That place is obviously absurd and could never exist in real life.

We live in nice safe Car Town.

Entry: 2025-10-29 17:42:30.399929+01 Remove I980? by Dan Lyke comments 0

The Oaklandside: At I-980 block party, old-school West Oaklanders hold forth on redlining

“The I-980 was made to serve suburbanites, and look at all the homes and businesses from the Black community that had to pay for that,” Leonard, a consultant for the local decarbonization project EcoBlock, said, gesturing at the wooden model. “For people who don’t even live in Oakland, don’t pay taxes in Oakland, don’t pay taxes in our county, right?”

Entry: 2025-10-29 17:03:49.30028+01 Fil-C by Dan Lyke comments 0

Eeenteresting: Fil-C: A memory-safe C implementation. Uses a double-indirection pointer scheme to keep pointers the platform size, but track the metadata.

Via lobste.rs

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Entry: 2025-10-28 16:56:55.239136+01 When science teachers go bad by Dan Lyke comments 1

Sorry for the tracking spew on this link, but I think it's part of an article share. Anyway, high school chemistry teacher goes for "spew back what I wanted you to say on the test, rather than what's correct". And reading this article is giving me flashbacks.

San Francisco Chronicle: A Silicon Valley family wanted their son’s science test graded fairly. It became a battle

The district failed to acknowledge that the teacher’s answer violated scientific fact as well as the publisher’s answer key, which confirmed the correct answer was heat and light, since “combustion is a chemical reaction that typically releases energy in the form of heat and light, which makes it an exothermic process.”

Entry: 2025-10-27 20:40:37.997391+01 Metaprogramming and regular expressions by Dan Lyke comments 0

I've been fumbling around new languages. The last time I updated my C++ was for, I dunno, 11 or 17 or something. I've done some template programming, and some optimizations, and my static site generator is written in that framework. I kinda thought that if I could build myself a set of libraries and abstractions for the things I most wanted to do for hobby projects I'd do more with it, but the ugliness of Boost changes and the horrors of trying to compile with the same libraries on Mac and Linux, even with CMake, mean I don't do as much hobby coding in it as I expected.

Not that I've been doing a lot of hobby coding.

I've gotten pretty handy at Objective-C, but it's a language with a lot of baked in inefficiency and weirdness that makes it something I'll use, but not something I'm like "oh, yeah, I wanna do more in this". A coworker is leaning in to Swift pretty hard, but that's like "what if we pulled all of the good concepts out of Objective-C".

I've bounced off of Rust, but there's a whole lot about the philosophy of that tooling that makes it hard to have it feel like an expressive language. It's like trying to code through an isolation box, or with tele-operation, having to do all of the memory management through indexes into arrays and stuff. Like, I get it, but I think it's possible to build a systems language that lets me express and figures out the details for me, rather than binding me to only very safe things.

Evan Ovadia: The Impossible Optimization, and the Metaprogramming To Achieve It (Via) talks about using Mojo to resolve regular expressions at compile time, and that's some pretty cool stuff.

And that via link above eventually leads to Russ Cox — Regular Expression Matching Can Be Simple And Fast (but is slow in Java, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby, ...) all of which is a reminder that it'd be fun to get back to my language and parsing stuff expanding on the parser/language/thing I built for work, because finding better ways for us to express ourselves to computers is cool.

Entry: 2025-09-08 18:09:02.085329+02 Bay Area Regional Planner (the game) by Dan Lyke comments 0

OMG, I can't believe I missed the Kickstarter for this! We may have to pick up a copy to play with our neighbors... Bay Area Regional Planner (the game)

Discovered via Joey Politano🏳️‍🌈 ‪@josephpolitano.bsky.social‬ who posted a picture of the rules highlighting:

You can't upzone any squares in Marin

Bonus, this thread about the Highway 37 widening which contains this pull quote:

In testimony to the state Assembvly Water, Parks and Wildlife Committee, Marin County Supervisor and MTC Vice Chair Stephanie Moulton-Peters noted that two members of her staff who commute to San Rafael from Solano County lose up to 90 minutes a day to congestion. "This bill is urgent," said Moulton-Peters. "We've been working on this project for more than a decade... We shouldn't let another generation sit in traffic or let wetland restoration opportunities slip away."

(Emphasis in Robert Prinz's screen cap) I mean, ya could build some damned housing and work towards wetland restoration, but, no, you've gotta increase VMT and fuck the climate instead...

Entry: 2025-08-31 04:58:53.14513+02 Cynthia Plaster Caster Albritton by Dan Lyke comments 0

Friend sent me this cool article about Cynthia "Plaster Caster" Albritton. I mentioned exhibit in SF in 2002 and got to that exhibit, linked to a Salon article about her back in 2000, and marked her passing in 2022.

[ related topics: Bay Area Archival ]

Entry: 2025-08-20 21:40:58.882255+02 indoor air quality by Dan Lyke comments 0

It's been pretty obvious for quite a while that money isn't, in fact, what drives most companies. From obvious inefficiencies in processes to employee relationships, it's clear that maintaining various social norms and fictions are far more important than "the almighty dollar".

Another example: mhoye @mhoye@mastodon.social

One thing that I want to mention, true in 2023 and just as true in 2025: the number of corporations I’ve seen making a point to say that their HVAC systems have been upgraded, that they’ve been working to make collaboration safe in their spaces during this whole RTO push, has been zero. It has been exactly zero.

Compared to the cost of a single employee getting sick this shit is basically free. It is cheaper than toilet paper or soda. But somehow.

[ related topics: Bay Area Work, productivity and environment Currency ]

Entry: 2025-08-18 18:55:02.667865+02 Charlene and I are exploring various by Dan Lyke comments 0

Charlene and I are exploring various places around the Bay. Yesterday we ended up in Oakland on Broadway around 19th, and were disappointed by the level of street activation on a Sunday afternoon.

When we do another visit, where are the pedestrian throngs at? Where should we hang out?

[ related topics: Bay Area Theater & Plays California Culture ]

Entry: 2025-08-18 18:10:34.451249+02 Anti-AI protests by Dan Lyke comments 0

The Internet Review — The Nightmare of the 2020s is Alive in Portland for August 15, 2025 — The Anti-AI Protests Have Arrived in Portland, and This is Only the Beginning

Yesterday, in a "holy crap we need to get out of the house" day, Charlene and I went down to the Rosie the Riveter WWII Home Front National Historical Park, wandered through the exhibits there, and then down into Oakland. We spent quite a while in the park, and after a lunch in a downtown that desperately needs more street activation on a Sunday afternoon, the lowrider club with their really loud audio systems wasn't our scene, but I was struck by some of the graffiti and stickers that indicated people in urban settings are thinking about relationships with technology in ways that we out in the burbs probably aren't addressing similarly.

Via Jared White (🏳️‍⚧️ ally) @jaredwhite@indieweb.social.\

Entry: 2025-07-31 01:17:55.352513+02 OpenAI's future by Dan Lyke comments 0

Sam Altman on OpenAI's future:

We have no current plans to make revenue, we have no idea how we may one day generate revenue. Uhm. We have made a soft-promise to investors that once we've built this sort of generally intelligent system, basically we will ask it to figure out a way to generate an investment return for you.

In video at this post and this post.

The crash is gonna hurt, me, personally, and a lot of people. We need to make damned sure that as a matter of policy, it hurts the people who doubled down on this bullshit more than it hurts those who said "no, this is fucking stupid."

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Entry: 2025-07-21 23:45:03.254879+02 Further trying to learn how to think in by Dan Lyke comments 0

Further trying to learn how to think in Rust, and... is there any attempt to build a safe low level language that's focused on expressive code? From the outside, Go, Zig and Rust are all feeling like a lot of boilerplate and wrapper and such that get in the way of writing clean readable code.

[ related topics: Bay Area Writing ]

Entry: 2025-07-19 19:45:02.822455+02 Hanging out in Mill Valley writing Rust by Dan Lyke comments 0

Hanging out in Mill Valley writing Rust code when I wait, and having trouble figuring out how to express myself elegantly in this language. Too many intermediate variables and indexes into arenas for variables that feel like they should be pointers. Maybe I should be generating this from a domain specific language?

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Entry: 2025-07-07 18:50:55.213034+02 Texas flooding by Dan Lyke comments 0

NPR: Here's a timeline of the catastrophic Texas floods.

Quick action by Texas summer camp led to timely evacuations ahead of flood

Despite an absence of warning by local authorities, [Presbyterian Mo-Ranch Assembly] camp officials acted quickly on their own, relocating about 70 children and adults staying overnight in a building near the river. With the kids safe, camp leaders including President and CEO Tim Huchton were able to avoid the catastrophe that hit at least one other camp near Hunt, where the 500-acre Mo-Ranch is located.

Via Mike Ely ‪@bluesky.taupehat.com‬, who noted:

This is why you never wait for an official warning or order. If things look bad, go. Worst outcome of that is a little inconvenience if nothing ends up happening. Far better than the alternative. Same with the fires we have here.

Entry: 2025-06-29 08:25:02.409141+02 I think the last time my legs were this by Dan Lyke comments 0

I think the last time my legs were this tired, is walked 36 miles. Danced checker at the Sunnyvale caller workshop all day, then called 3 hour square dance for Foggy City dancers in SF. Feels good, in a feels bad sort of way.

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Entry: 2025-06-25 19:43:15.628768+02 Trust nothing any more by Dan Lyke comments 0

One of the projects for work is building a startup research tool demo on our platform, and in the process of that I asked gpt-4o-mini for details about one of the unicorns that bought a billboard mentioned in Bay Area Current: San Francisco's Billboards Aren't For You, and if I'd started this search from just Googling on various terms, I think I would have come to the conclusion that this company is a pile of hot air, but that those involved are real.

On the basis of the LLM output, initials rather than names for many of the key players, lots of titles that are just ... off ..., I'm now wondering if much of the backstory of this startup isn't LLM generated.

Entry: 2025-06-23 20:20:02.889236+02 Thinking about low poly count driving by Dan Lyke comments 0

Thinking about low poly count driving games that involved terrorizing a fictional San Francisco (the "Rush" franchise, Crazy Taxi, etc) and wondering if we can draw any lines to current the horrors that the automated speed ticketing traffic cameras are revealing.

Entry: 2025-06-22 15:42:16.560477+02 The Beaverton on US travel by Dan Lyke comments 0

The Beaverton: Canadians travelling to the US advised to not fucking do that

“Canadians are welcome in California. It’s perfectly safe to visit,” said Governor Gavin Newsom. “Just so long as you take a few basic travel precautions, like travelling on a valid passport, teleporting over the border, moving undetected in the shadows in the dead of night, getting the telephone number of an immigration attorney tattooed to your upper thigh, saying a heartfelt goodbye to your pets and the people who love you, and appointing someone to water your plants just in case you disappear into a labyrinthian nightmare of an extrajudicial immigration enforcement system that no longer answers to judge nor common mercy.”

Via

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