Yao Yue (@thinkingfish)

Half way between a Petty Activist and a Sensible Tech Bro, depending on my baseline stress level.

This is nothing more than a continuation of the president’s desperate weaponization of our justice system.

I am not fearful — I am fearless.

We will fight these baseless charges aggressively, and my office will continue to fiercely protect New Yorkers and their rights..

Yes. I'd go even further on speed cap. 25mph is fairly fast considering 15mph is a decent speed for riders of non-motorized bikes. If a 175-lb person travel on a heavy (say, 75lbs) motorized bikes travel at 25mph, their momentum is more than 2x that of the same person on a 25lbs bike at 15mph.

I think it is reasonable to consider momentum (mass x speed) as the primary risk factor, and instead of enforcing what's a moving violation (low % of success even with good enforcement), better pushing 2-wheelers that are both heavy and fast beyond a momentum threshold to be registered for a fee.

If the primary produces two candidates from two different parties, people largely vote along party line in GE. This was what happened in the last senate race. Given she’s the current leader in the primary, she may not need the Trump voters if she comes out as first and 2nd place is a GOPer.

Pritzker: "One of the reasons Trump wants to send troops into cities is bc he wants to be able to take control of the 2026 elections...if they've got troops in cities, & it becomes a kind of norm for people, then it won't be abnormal for them when they're going to vote having troops at ballot boxes"

Behind Grok's 'sexy' settings, workers review explicit and disturbing content Workers say they've faced sexually explicit content while xAI has marketed Grok to be deliberately provocative. Experts say the company should be cautious.

This is horrific and feels like it should be a bigger deal. Business Insider reports that people who have worked at xAI have seen Grok create images and written material with child sex abuse material.

www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-gr...

D all the way.

They are the parents/family of the SOMA Asians, but very different from the Sunset/Richmond Asians.

My impression is these are not the same Asians. The Asians that move to Dog Patch for AI/biotech jobs have near zero direct social connections to the multi-generational, SFH-owning Asians on the west side of the city.

I do think the block configuration of the Mission makes this exact design hard (trucks need access). But (north-bound) one way plus loading zone still very much feasible. Increasingly S.F. food delivery is carried by e-bikes, and even that lane can be car free in the evening.

Castro St viewed from middle of the street.

Castro St in Mountain View is fully pedestrianized and looks lovely/lively. This should be what Valencia St in San Francisco aims for.

The systems was designed when all branches were relatively independently minded. But party power and dynamics undermines that assumption. Having two highly powerful political parties and a winner-take-all election lead to instability.

"The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any."
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~Alice Walker

It’s time to wake up - we are literally on the verge of losing our democracy if Donald Trump cheats his way to those seats in Texas.

RFK Jr cancels $500m in mRNA vaccine development in the US Since taking office, the vaccine sceptic has made a number of changes to how vaccines are regulated.

Nobel Prize winning science being cancelled by a vaccine denier.

Texas House Democrats flee the state to block a vote on new congressional map Texas Republicans proposed a new map that could give the GOP five more seats in Congress after the 2026 midterm election.

🚨 Texas Democrats just pulled one of the boldest moves in recent political history: They walked out, got on airplanes, and broke quorum to block a Trump-backed GOP gerrymander. This is democracy on the line — and Texas Dems are fighting with everything they’ve got.

The shocking rise of one of the tech right’s favorite posters After he leaked Zohran Mamdani’s Columbia application data to the New York Times, critics called Jordan Lasker a “eugenicist.” A Mother Jones report shows there’s much more to his backstory.

NEW: Jordan Lasker recently made news by leaking hacked admissions data about Zohran Mamdani.

Our investigation shows a Reddit user who posted highly specific details that fit with his offline life once wrote: “I actually am a Jewish White Supremacist Nazi.”

www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Pioneering theoretical physicist Mary K. Gaillard has died at 86 - Berkeley News Gaillard's calculations correctly predicted the mass of the charm quark and contributed to the discovery of the Higgs boson as she triumphed over sexism in the field of physics.

Mary Gaillard's calculations correctly predicted the mass of the charm quark and contributed to the discovery of the Higgs boson as she triumphed over sexism in the field of physics. R.I.P. #physics

Take Off the Mask, ICE The federal government should prohibit the wearing of masks by ICE agents and require them to properly identify themselves.

Secret ICE police are terrifying people, undermining trust in law enforcement & creating a tinderbox where people don’t know whether the person grabbing them is law enforcement or some vigilante.

It has to stop. We’re advancing legislation to ban this liquor-store-robbery-style masking by agents.

All it takes is Option-Shift-(en dash) on a macOS keyboard, I don't know how people can so confidently judge LLM writing when they cannot even competently do a basic search to figure out if it is actually hard to type em-dashes.

The saga of the NYT's anti-Mamdani story taken from notorious white supremacist Jordan Lasker (they call him an "academic") gets even more amazing: Lasker's only impactful paper, which claimed white people are smarter, is infamous: it misused data so badly it got his tenured co-author fired. 2/

I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE.

This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.

It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.

Today's Supreme Court decision does not opine on the constitutionality of Trump's assault on birthright citizenship. It is limited to the question of universal injunctions. But its ruling on that front is MASSIVE—a huge blow to plaintiffs and judges trying to block Trump's most lawless policies.

I'll say it again: WA state should impose a 1,000,000% real estate excise tax on the purchase of federal lands.

Trump admin refuses to release Mahmoud Khalil, despite judge's order The Trump admin argued that the judge's injunction "does not interfere" with authority to detain Khalil on other grounds.

🚨 BREAKING: Trump admin refuses to release Mahmoud Khalil, despite judge's order

New car bonnets are trending higher and higher each year… bringing new safety concerns to our roads.

One study suggests that a 10 cm increase in bonnet height (from 80 cm to 90 cm) raises the risk of death by 27% for pedestrians, cyclists and others.

Read our analysis 👉 bit.ly/4mOJTnz

SCHATZ: "This is the stuff of dictatorships. He identified himself. That should be enough."