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I dont think it was well executed, i think it just got popular while everyone was locked down and needed some feel good nostalgia. From beginning to end this story feels like fanfiction.

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It was part of ACTs massive 1991 expansion.

From Reddit: A 67 AC Transit schedule from 1995.
The Berkeley Hills bus line once ran till midnight every half-hour and stretched all the way to El Cerrito via Albany High. Thanks to Prop 13, this line now only goes between downtown and Grizzly Peak, weekdays only, every hour and quits at 7:30

2 budget balancing charts showing the math to produce a balanced budget if a funding measure passes and if a measure fails. FY27 Base Budget Balancing Actions – Measure Succeeds Budget Balancing Actions – FY27 Measure Succeeds Scenario Incremental Budget Actions (in Million of Dollars) FY27 Base Budget Table – Measure Fails Budget Balancing Actions – FY27 Measure Fails Scenario In a “Measure Fails” scenario, we will need $132M in additional solutions over 6 months (Jan-June 2027) • This presentation describes possibilities (and tradeoffs) of service, non-service, and revenue solutions to meet the target • It also discusses how budget balancing efforts might continue into the next full fiscal year (FY28

Here is our loan plan as proposed by staff for board adoption under 2 different funding scenarios.

If a funding measure succeeds, BART will use $97M in loan funds to balance our FY27 budget. The loan money is needed for cash flow while we wait for the sale tax revenue to become available in FY28.

I find it interesting that this stuff was assumed as so obvious that there wasnt much actual research on it until the last 10 years -- now its like a new study each month on vacancy chains. Mostly finding the same results.

Like this is your twin brother

The "backup plan" is probably Section 338 of the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act, which explicitly allows the President to bypass Congress without justification to impose up to 50% tariffs on other countries

Here's a crash course from Rep. Brad Schneider's office:

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We just started watching and i think you have a striking resemblence to the prison guard.

It turns out that it’s ok to do something illegal and/or unconstitutional as long as it‘s hard to clean up the mess you made.

I'll miss it like i miss the old ihop tudor buildings. Cute but more disneyland than maybeck

I predict this project will reactivate the ground floor vibrancy at this section than Poulet and its giant parking lot ever did. A cafe will probably move in on the ground floor.

Berkeley City Council Unanimously Approves Eight-Story Project at 2109 Virginia Street in Berkeley Last Week, the Berkeley City Council met to discuss the proposal of a new eight-story apartment building located at 2109 Virginia Street.

This one project in North Berkeley (much needed and long overdue) will bring as many homes as what planning staff predict is expected from the entire Elmwood upzoning (120 units likely).
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Monica have u seen orange is the new black

The political effects of X's feed algorithm https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-026-10098-2 Received: 16 December 2024 Accepted: 4 January 2026 Published online: 18 February 2026 Open access • Check for updates Germain Gauthier,5, Roland Hodler?5, Philine Widmer35 & Ekaterina Zhuravskaya3,4,5 m Feed algorithms are widely suspected to influence political attitudes. However, previous evidence from switching off the algorithm on Meta platforms found no political effects'. Here we present results from a 2023 field experiment on Elon Musk's platform X shedding light on this puzzle. We assigned active US-based users randomly to either an algorithmic or a chronological feed for 7 weeks, measuring political attitudes and online behaviour. Switching from a chronological to an algorithmic feed increased engagement and shifted political opinion towards more conservative positions, particularly regarding policy priorities, perceptions of criminal investigations into Donald Trump and views on the war in Ukraine. In contrast, switching from the algorithmic to the chronological feed had no comparable effects. Neither switching the algorithm on nor switching it off significantly affected affective polarization or self-reported partisanship. To investigate the mechanism, we analysed users' feed content and behaviour. We found that the algorithm promotes conservative content and demotes posts by traditional media. Exposure to algorithmic content leads users to follow conservative political activist accounts, which they continue to follow even after switching off the algorithm, helping explain the asymmetry in effects. These results suggest that initial exposure to X's algorithm has persistent effects on users' current political attitudes and account-following behaviour, even in the absence of a detectable effect on partisanship.

A new paper shows that less than 2 months of exposure to Twitter’s algorithmic feed significantly shifts people’s political views to the right.

Moving from chronological feed to the algorithmic feed also increases engagement.

This is one of the most concerning papers I’ve read in awhile.

JD: Fuck you if you're not white, go back to your country!

Also JD: Bro why dont you, a non-white, want to represent me?!

I feel like every time I look at new housing projects underway on sf yimby dot com the Berkeley ones are all mid and high-rise apartments and the San Francisco ones are like really small, usually 4 story apartments.

Im really enjoying Orange is the New Black. Pretty good writing through and through for its time.

Congrats to BART rider and Oakland legend Alysa Liu on winning a gold medal at the Olympics and making the Bay Area proud!

Former Governor Jerry Brown quote: “The reason that everybody likes planning is that nobody has to do anything”

Mood

BREAKING: The Department of Education has ended its directive that attempted to restrict diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts in schools nationwide.

This is a victory for academic freedom and education equity.

I'm sure these Black and Latino families who appear to dominate yelp reviews of the building are either middle class (like earning more than $100k) and stuff but its just a very interesting dynamic thinking back to the literal protests that happened there after the buildings were finished

Agreed. Even though the retail has been stubborn to materiaize at MacArthur, the walking area is just much more pleasant and seemingly connects the station with the Telegraph commercial areas rather than be this dead-zone of parking it once was.

Its kinda forgotten how controversial during the peak of Oakland gentrification discourse the MacArthur BART TOD apartments were. 10 years later, I'm browsing the MacArthur Commons and Skyline at Temescal Yelp reviews and noticing a lot of the families living there are Black and Latino people.

I mean why specify row if its not about rail crossings?

Oh no it specifies seperate rows from which all vehicles are excluded. So grade crossings should make it commuter rail not heavy rail

Under sb79s definition, does caltrain stops served by EMU trains (so Diridon to SF) count as heavy rail and all stations south of Diridon count as commuter rail service?

Its a very beautiful and wacky looking house. Ive admired it for years. Like something out of Harry Potter.And it looks as wacky and absurd on the inside as it does the outside.

The Trump economy. www.ms.now/opinion/trum...

Oh ive longed wondered whats the deal with that addition