Mark Sawchuk

Thank you! This is wonderful. I actually learned a lot. And for the record, I've finally gone to a white-light tree this year because I just gave up trying to ever find a strand of multicolored LEDs that could replicate the lovely rainbow incandescents we used to enjoy.

Look at you getting the purple first!

there's a parallel between nonprofit world and academia, where there's a constant tide of idealistic, hopeful people coming in the door, and the people on top are able to lever that commitment to The Cause to extract from them in a way that's harder when everyone's just there to make a buck

Amen to all of this

Gotcha

Thanks for the information. I remember them discussing it, but didn't know that they'd determined it's infeasible

Vanity Fair, Olivia Nuzzi Agree to Part Ways Nuzzi and the magazine will let her contract expire at year-end, following new allegations and revelations about her conduct while she reported on Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

Calling it now that she'll eventually end up at CBS www.wsj.com/business/med...

He's the worst!

Has there been any discussion about making Tube 2 dual-guage for both standard gauge and BART trains, or is that technically impossible?

This dreadful cold makes me want to curl up on the sofa and watch vintage Smurfs

The planning commission has stated repeatedly that they do not foresee mass demolition of rent-controlled units, and buildings with 3+ such units are illegal to demolish.

Trolleybuses pull power directly into efficient, hill-climbing engines without need for massive, pavement-crushing batteries. Next gen trolleys with in-motion charging offer significant off-wire travel, allowing incremental wire extension. SF and Seattle partnering:
www.sfmta.com/media/43118/...

This is exactly the pattern in San Francisco. If any parking spots are threatened by any infrastructure project, the city gives in to citizen protests and the project gets delayed or canceled.

Elon Musk X @elonmusk• 10h X If current trends continue, Whites will go from being a small minority of world population today to virtually extinct! Wall Street Apes & @WallStreetAp... • 13h White people are on the verge of extinction Global population of white people: 100 years ago roughly 35% 50 years ago roughly 20% 25 years ago 15% Today just 8% White people are the minorities and must take their countries back. No more tolerance. No more suicidal empathy

it should probably be a bigger story that the richest man on earth and leading Republican is a fucking Nazi

media needs to stop beating around the bush. this is Nazi shit.

Purple skies under the trolleybus wires

Thanks for the great opinion piece.

And confirm via text three times

I just attended his two-day planning workshop in Portland. It was wonderful.

There’s just nothing left of a university’s mission if instructors can be disciplined and fired for teaching the current state of knowledge in their fields, the degrees they issue are worth precisely the value of the paper they’re printed on and not a jot more

This thing where we engaged in commerce once and now you get to email me for the rest of my life needs to stop.

Silicon Valley’s Man in the White House Is Benefiting Himself and His Friends

Who would have guessed that David Sacks would be doing unethical shit in the White House? Not a single guy in that cohort who’s not a raging sociopath www.nytimes.com/2025/11/30/t...

It takes real effort to be this stupid

feels like one out of three cars on the road in SF is a Waymo. but not for me!!! waiting for the bus is hot girl shit

He means well but he’s kind of insufferable.

My new VP reeeaaally wants me to go on LinkedIn, and I have already emailed her more than one like 1000+ word essay about why I'd rather swallow a bunch of rusty nails and claw my eyes out with a dull grapefruit spoon.

Never in the history of the world has someone gone so far on takes that are so weak

I know you're right, and I'm so ashamed on behalf of my country.

It's a total capitulation that would leave Ukraine effectively without full sovereignty.

Design review exempt too. Because only apartments change “neighborhood character”