Notices by scott f (scott@carfree.city)

“How a small but important Muni change will leave older Chinese Americans in S.F. stranded”

After March 15, the new “short” 30 route won’t connect to major transfer points on Geary (38), Market (Muni Metro), and Mission (14), which “defeats the 30 short route’s purpose: to add capacity where it is busiest.”

https://www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/openforum/article/sf-chinatown-bus-change-20049781.php

meanwhile in SF... it's fun how, while all the supervisors and interest groups try to cozy up to Mayor Lurie, Joe Eskenazi is a lone voice that keeps calling him out.

overshadowed by national politics for obvious reasons, but this also seems like rather bad mismanagement

https://missionlocal.org/2025/01/citywide-hiring-freeze-daniel-lurie-san-francisco/

@kingrat maybe just not the season for it right now

I remember a lot of calls to action on here around the speed camera bill when that was a thing

(I politely said nothing because I didn't like it but didn't want to pick fights over it)

listening to my late friend Ashrilyn's great techno/synthstrumental album. you might like it if you like Depeche Mode. they passed away in 2021 of complications from covid.

(a bug on archive.org makes all the tracks play twice, download it or just skip as needed)

https://archive.org/details/ashrilyn_crystal_flowers

i haven't been to scotland. i imagine it going like this:

scottish person: so what's your name?
me: scott
scottish person: 🙄
me: yeah...

@inquiline things could really go sideways there https://carfree.city/@scott/113874026713453444

If you spot ICE in San Francisco, or if someone you know was detained by ICE in San Francisco today and needs immediate legal assistance, call the SF rapid response hotline at 415-200-1548. This is just for San Francisco (there may be another hotline like this in your city elsewhere).

https://sfilen.org/resources/sf-rapid-response-network/

More tips/resources from Mission Local: https://missionlocal.org/2025/01/immigrants-resources-before-trump-inauguration/

@kingrat @christa sometimes I need an easier book for this reason

@kingrat @sanae If the conversation is taking place in a private space, yes. The question is how that interacts with the "no expectation of privacy in a public space" thing. Do you have specific knowledge about this?

Less serious than the other crashes recently but ugh. Tesla's fake self-driving can't be trusted but seems likely our corrupt felon-in-chief coming in tomorrow will try to prevent regulators doing anything about it.

@Elizabethcreely, glad you're safe and could give ML the tip
https://sfba.social/@MLNow/113857812036377313

Creepy that the Nest video just added to the article has sound. Business owners could be unaccountably eavesdropping on your conversations as you stand on the sidewalk, thinking no one else is around.

@sanae the argument would be there's no expectation of privacy in a public place, such as a sidewalk, but I'm not sure how cut-and-dried that is. One would at least hope the law would see recording everything all day every day as different from being able to overhear some things when you happen to be physically present.

This escaped containment and is now getting "It's the 5.5 million voters who are wrong, not Biden and Harris" replies. Spare me. It was obvious and predictable that enabling genocide was just as divisive to their base as it was (and is) morally abhorrent.

"among the 19 million people who voted for President Joe Biden in 2020 but did not vote in 2024, nearly a third named Israel's U.S.-backed war on Gaza as a top reason for staying home."

29% of 19 million is 5.5 million

The popular vote margin was 2.3 million

Less than 300,000 votes across certain swing states could've changed the outcome

https://www.commondreams.org/news/harris-gaza

if it's not clear: there is no way this or any Amazon worker could possibly deliver packages fast enough to keep their job while using 100% legal parking and loading spaces. the management doesn't even give them time to pee. this is not something that makes sense to blame on the worker.

yesterday outside Atlas Cafe I saw a dude on an e-bike yell at an Amazon delivery worker for double parking. he stayed and kept yelling til finally she drove around the block feeling threatened. it got me thinking how big companies make big profits by using our streets in illegal, often dangerous ways, but it's their overworked, underpaid employees they treat as disposable who face our anger over it.

@skinnylatte most SF restaurants that have “tofu scramble” just stir-fry cubes of tofu, which is not even scrambled! Beach’N’s is the one I like.

interesting argument for the left to lean into making public transit great to beat back the right. https://newrepublic.com/article/189842/public-transit-democrats-trump-climate

@skinnylatte it's too bad. Having a tea room open late was nice.

Generally when I talk to coffeeshop owners they cite staffing as the reason for reduced hours. Ritual on Valencia is open til 6pm, which is relatively late now. The sign says these are "temporary hours"...they used to be open til 7, and I guess still hope to return to that. Sometimes, I go by and find a one-off sign up saying they've closed early at 2 or 4 due to understaffing.

@skinnylatte anyway, just thinking out loud (you don't have to answer) as to why the zoomer dispreference for alcohol hasn't changed these economics at all.