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@signaltap.bsky.social

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Sane transit/biking fan and insane Spurs/A&M/Valkyries fan he/him 🚍🚌🚎🚋🚉🚇🚆🚴‍♂️🏀🏈

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Austin 🚎 @signaltap.bsky.social · 2h

"swinging is an example of being unsatisfied with the options you currently see"
I never thought I'd live in a world where Lane Kiffin needs to hear personal relationship advice from Zohran Mamdani

Austin 🚎 @signaltap.bsky.social · 13h

Everything I've read on this indicates the long term plans are to replace it with a worse park (other replies here detail a bit more), and the general agreement is that removal gives them the excuse of saying "oh it costs too much to bring it back, might as well stick with the new plans then"

Austin 🚎 @signaltap.bsky.social · 14h

Wooooof

Austin 🚎 @signaltap.bsky.social · 14h

www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/arti...

Removal of controversial fountain from S.F.’s Embarcadero Plaza formally approved

A divided San Francisco Arts Commission voted 8-5 on Monday to remove the Vaillancourt Fountain from Embarcadero Plaza at least temporarily in advance of a $32.5 million remodel.

www.sfchronicle.com

Austin 🚎 @signaltap.bsky.social · 14h

Lotta worse stuff happening in the world but it's real sad they're tearing down the vaillancourt fountain, it's super historically cool and it's also been a center for a lot of fun and silliness for skaters and bike people and all kinds of folks who are key to the city but not always appreciated

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Solomon @solomonmissouri.bsky.social · 18h

This is how it feels when a woman winks at you

a man in a suit and tie is kissing another man on the cheek .

ALT: a man in a suit and tie is kissing another man on the cheek .

media.tenor.com

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Hector Diaz @iamhectordiaz.com · 20h

the STFU sportsball people of bluesky take an L

*an L is short for loss, as in one of the many outcomes of a sporting event

Jim Calabro @calabro.io · 1d

This is a fun chart!

The green is the main bsky load balancer traffic throughput from Saturday night, and the purple is how much traffic there was 7 days before (the previous Saturday)

The spike is due to the world series - pretty incredible! ⚾

A chart of the main bsky backend load balancer request throughput compared to 7 days earlier (the previous Saturday). There's a massive spike during the world series game.

Austin 🚎 @signaltap.bsky.social · 20h

It was great to get an old sports Twitter run here for the world series. Even random political accounts that still use the word "sportsball" were commenting on how nice it was to see people coming together about something fun in place of toxic doomer political stuff they spend all day with

Austin 🚎 @signaltap.bsky.social · 1d

If the car is responsible for causing a death, nobody knows what to do with that. Ban the whole fleet? Try the entire company in court? Arguably, the safer the fleet, the more confusing this question gets.

Austin 🚎 @signaltap.bsky.social · 1d

For humans, we understand who specifically might be responsible, and what to do if they're found responsible. Unfortunately, most people see themselves as drivers, and therefore cops, judges, and jurors are all looking for some way to absolve the driver from being responsible.

Austin 🚎 @signaltap.bsky.social · 1d

Uber killed someone, fired the test driver, and shut down the entire autonomous division. Cruise severely injured someone, nothing happened, then they got caught lying and lost their permit, fired the ceo, and ultimately shut down the company. Neither of these feels like a satisfying answer!

Austin 🚎 @signaltap.bsky.social · 1d

Regardless of safety, there is no agreed upon ethical way to hold a driverless car accountable. When a death happens (which is inevitable, even if 20x safer than cars), who gets held accountable? The engineers that wrote the code? The validation/testers? Some level of management?

Austin 🚎 @signaltap.bsky.social · 1d

There's a difference too between the possibility of the statement and the truth of it. Plenty of poor managers are never held accountable, and that's definitely happened at IBM! It's that it's possible to clearly hold a human manager accountable, in a way that it isn't possible to for a computer

Austin 🚎 @signaltap.bsky.social · 2d

Indiana definitely has a long engaged history of alumni and institutional support for the basketball program, so it wasn't as big of a lift for them to get people engaged in football. I guess figuring out how to get alumni/booster engagement is probably the big challenge for Cal then?

Austin 🚎 @signaltap.bsky.social · 2d

In a post-Cignetti at Indiana world, would it be possible to look for a successful FBS coach while trying to engage alumni for NIL money? I've been curious to see Cal not really move a lot on the NIL front even though their alumni base is large and quite wealthy, but I don't know much about them

Austin 🚎 @signaltap.bsky.social · 3d

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Solomon @solomonmissouri.bsky.social · Sep 23

So when we are ridiculing the fascists that is NOT the time to ponder our collective being and finding the good in everyone

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Elizabeth Sampat @twoscooters.bsky.social · 4d

Lord, I see what you have done for others

A screenshot of a video captioned THE CREATORS OF MAGIC: THE GATHERING WERE SO BUSY, RANDOM PEOPLE WHO WEREN’T EMPLOYEES GOT ON THEIR PAYROLL

Austin 🚎 @signaltap.bsky.social · 4d

Probably good they're only doing local adoptions because this feels like me as a dog and we'd get up to too much trouble together

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 4d

RASCAL

Austin 🚎 @signaltap.bsky.social · 5d

Wow, the haters were wrong, the new Bart Gates really are effective at stopping fare evasion

Picture of the mezzanine at Montgomery Bart, all the gates are frozen open

Austin 🚎 @signaltap.bsky.social · 5d

It feels like San Francisco is gonna be the first one in/last one out of the nimby movement

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Urban Land Rent🚰 @handle.invalid · 5d

This is why “Big Truck Abundance” is so viscerally offensive to me. We’ve done everything possible to subsidize people’s ability to buy machines who they could never actually afford if they took on the costs of their externalities.

Austin 🚎 @signaltap.bsky.social · 6d

My mom grew up that way and I grew up in a suburban small town/suburban big city, and since I've gotten older we've talked and she comments a lot about how different our childhoods were

Austin 🚎 @signaltap.bsky.social · 6d

I sold these at a concession stand once lol

Austin 🚎 @signaltap.bsky.social · 6d

I will gladly hang out by the beach in the beautiful new park and live in the beautiful newly upzoned corridor along a light rail line and eat at many delicious restaurants and ultimately lose re-election

Austin 🚎 @signaltap.bsky.social · 6d

Has he considered me? He has enough money to pay my relocation expenses