Notices by scott f (scott@carfree.city), page 3

"It is Kafkaesque cruelty to legally prohibit people from simply existing outside when the same government has not taken sufficient action to ensure they have somewhere to go. More practically, it’s also not going to work."

Sweeps are not just cruel, they're stupid

https://prospect.org/infrastructure/2024-08-02-gavin-newsom-homeless-sweeps/

@raganwald Reminds me of Moxie Marlinspike's observations about the guys sitting in first class on the airplane; this had a deep effect on me. https://moxie.org/2013/01/07/career-advice.html

@jalcine

#fediblock: Unblocking ursal.zone based on this thread. It’s a left-wing Brazilian instance that was on a widely-used block list we imported, but seems ok.
https://ursal.zone/@Ursalzona/112887835305291433

I’ll hand it to Peskin on this one. Price-fixing with an algorithm is still price-fixing.

Also relieved it wasn’t controversial and passed unanimously

https://www.sfexaminer.com/news/politics/sf-bans-automated-software-accused-of-price-fixing-housing-rents/article_800f5ade-4ebb-11ef-8a48-93144e457db1.html #sfPol

median voter 🤷♂️

goddammit i was just thinking how we may be stuck with invasive security theater in airports but at least it hasn't spread to other forms of transportation. and here comes Officer Adams to ruin that
https://mastodon.social/@blogdiva/112855390360131896

61 parking spots here is 61 too many!

- 2 grocery stores and Church metro station within a block
- Duboce bikeway across the street

Building parking here will allow wealthier car-brains who can live anywhere to displace potential car-free households that specifically want to live in this extremely walkable area.

https://missionlocal.org/2024/07/new-23-story-200-unit-housing-building-planned-for-duboce-and-market/ #sfPol #housing

In case you wanted to buy falafel from someone who supports a self-described “MAGA Republican” for mayor, you can now do so at Yasmin 🤨

He reconsidered

Joe Biden is resigning, endorsing Harris. Here’s why that’s bad news for the Valencia bike lane.

Breed wants us to blame a disproportionately Black and Latino “other” for all San Francisco’s problems and is performing maximum cruelty on purpose.

oh, and she rejects all the evidence it’s a housing problem. So much for “Yimby mayor”

tell me this isn’t the same energy

@luis_in_brief maybe because it could be used in very racist ways

@kingrat Yeah, that too! The roads need serious road diets.

Have you seen me post this? It's the dimensions of Harrison and Bryant streets showing how a block of them could be turned into a narrow street for people and a park.

In this article about Central SoMa, the visible presence of homeless people is repeatedly tossed out in a dehumanizing way as evidence of the neighborhood's failure.

"Homeless encampments come and go, sidewalks sometimes blocked by tents and shopping carts piled high with bicycle parts."

It doesn't seem to occur to anyone quoted, or to the authors, these are struggling human beings you could maybe help. It's only scenery to establish it's a loser neighborhood.

https://www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/central-soma-development-revitalization-19522607.php?utm_source=marketing&utm_medium=copy-url-link&utm_campaign=article-share&hash=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuc2ZjaHJvbmljbGUuY29tL3NmL2FydGljbGUvY2VudHJhbC1zb21hLWRldmVsb3BtZW50LXJldml0YWxpemF0aW9uLTE5NTIyNjA3LnBocA%3D%3D&time=MTcyMTA5ODMxMTA4MA%3D%3D&rid=MzBiMWE5ZjAtOWY5Yi00ZmY4LTk0ZDAtMTkxYTE5NmYyNTlj&sharecount=NA%3D%3D
#sfPol

I was going to make comments on the development side of it but the dehumanizing treatment of homeless people stuck out to me more. (For the record: tripling-down on office over housing development was a bad idea in 2017/18 too, and many of us said so at the time. Also it's a symptom of Friedmanite austerity and Reagan/Trump/Bush tax cuts that we don't have money for parks and other public goods without tying it to pricey developments.)

@kingrat nice!

Colusa was one I got the first time because there’s a small one-block street in the Hub called Colusa Court, plus it was the name of Jerry Brown’s dog. https://archive.gov.ca.gov/archive/gov39/first-dogs/index.html

ICYMI, Tan hosted an event about "political theology" with Peter Thiel, who has said he left SF because it was too unfriendly to conservatives, and that he "no longer believe[s] freedom and democracy are compatible." This is who's sponsoring the new Democratic Party in San Francisco.

https://x.com/gilduran76/status/1784273875305710038

Garry Tan, a literal Christofascist, is a top sponsor of the "new" San Francisco Democrats. https://missionlocal.org/2024/07/see-how-they-run-london-breed-gets-glitzy-at-gala-for-sf-dems-the-new-sf-dems/ #sfPol

Today the San Francisco BOS passed a resolution endorsing California #Prop33, the #JusticeForRenters Act, by an 8-2 vote. Prop 33 would repeal the law that bans SF from ever applying rent control to buildings built after 1979.

Aye - Melgar, Peskin, Preston, Ronen, Safai, Walton, Chan, Mandelman
No - Dorsey, Engardio
Abstain - Stefani

#SFPol