Cyrus Hall
@cyrushall.bsky.social
Mass car use is geometrically incompatible with great cities. Transit & bikes are the future. Tech things sometimes.
The contest to become the next hated D4 supervisor will be whittled down by Mission Local digging up dirt until only one person is left standing. That person will then sell weapons to the Philippines, fulfilling the long standing district tradition started by Leland Yee.
S.F. District 4 supervisor hopeful 'forgot' to file tax returns for his nonprofit
Merchant group has no tax returns on record past 2019 — and has received hundreds of thousands of dollars in city funds since that time
missionlocal.org
November 29, 2025 at 6:40 AM
The contest to become the next hated D4 supervisor will be whittled down by Mission Local digging up dirt until only one person is left standing. That person will then sell weapons to the Philippines, fulfilling the long standing district tradition started by Leland Yee.
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I had an interesting set of interactions w AI-generated content that I think is instructive. A very bright student made a claim in an essay that struck me as outlandish, so I searched the question on Google which turned up that phrasing the search a certain way makes the AI summary agree w the claim
November 28, 2025 at 2:18 PM
I had an interesting set of interactions w AI-generated content that I think is instructive. A very bright student made a claim in an essay that struck me as outlandish, so I searched the question on Google which turned up that phrasing the search a certain way makes the AI summary agree w the claim
Reposted by Cyrus Hall
On of the core principles of information literacy is the information is constructed and contextual. One problem with AI-generated summaries is that they obscure the constructedness and context of information, impeding information literacy development.
Part of what makes this different from previous iterations of misreading/misunderstanding is that these claims do not arrive to the students within specific sources and contexts, but rather appear as generalized un-sourced truisms.
November 28, 2025 at 6:07 PM
On of the core principles of information literacy is the information is constructed and contextual. One problem with AI-generated summaries is that they obscure the constructedness and context of information, impeding information literacy development.
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Tule fog fills California’s Central Valley.
November 28, 2025 at 4:04 PM
Tule fog fills California’s Central Valley.
Happy Thanksgiving America, where we are still trying to deport all indigenous people because they aren't white.
“When the men did not believe Miles’ tribal ID, she pointed to a phone number for the Umatilla Tribal enrollment office on the back of the card.
“Call it,” she said.
When they didn’t, she took out her phone to call the office herself, but the agents tried unsuccessfully to take her phone...”
“Call it,” she said.
When they didn’t, she took out her phone to call the office herself, but the agents tried unsuccessfully to take her phone...”
‘Northern Exposure’ actor gave ICE agents in Redmond her tribal ID. They called it ‘fake,’ she says
Indigenous actor Elaine Miles of "Northern Exposure" was detained by ICE at a Redmond bus stop. When she showed them her Tribal ID, they told her it was fake.
www.seattletimes.com
November 27, 2025 at 10:01 PM
Happy Thanksgiving America, where we are still trying to deport all indigenous people because they aren't white.
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"Agents are arresting foreign-born spouses when they report for the final step to obtain permanent residency, and charging them with visa violations that could result in deportation." www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...
Green Card Interviews End in Handcuffs for Spouses of U.S. Citizens
www.nytimes.com
November 26, 2025 at 9:19 PM
"Agents are arresting foreign-born spouses when they report for the final step to obtain permanent residency, and charging them with visa violations that could result in deportation." www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...
Good ruling that ICE will circumvent by changing the venue of detention. But every clear finding of inhumane treatment is more evidence for the much needed post-Trump trials.
ICE ordered to stop holding immigrants in S.F. until it improves facility conditions
The judge said declarations from immigrants showed that ICE “routinely” holds immigrants in freezing temperatures without providing beds, mattresses, pillows or blankets.
www.sfchronicle.com
November 26, 2025 at 9:59 PM
Good ruling that ICE will circumvent by changing the venue of detention. But every clear finding of inhumane treatment is more evidence for the much needed post-Trump trials.
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What happens when you downzone?
Our new open-access research paper in @findingspress.org investigates effects of decades of downzoning in Chicago.
Findings:
—Downzoned areas added 1/7th of the new units as comparable non-downzoned areas;
—Downzoned areas became more white & were more expensive.
Our new open-access research paper in @findingspress.org investigates effects of decades of downzoning in Chicago.
Findings:
—Downzoned areas added 1/7th of the new units as comparable non-downzoned areas;
—Downzoned areas became more white & were more expensive.
Downzoning Chicago: How Local Land Use Policy Has Reduced Housing Construction and Reinforced Segregation | Published in Findings
By Yonah Freemark, George Kisiel. Downzonings were used by US cities in the postwar period to preserve neighborhood character. These land-use policies were associated with lower housing supply, higher...
findingspress.org
November 26, 2025 at 8:33 PM
What happens when you downzone?
Our new open-access research paper in @findingspress.org investigates effects of decades of downzoning in Chicago.
Findings:
—Downzoned areas added 1/7th of the new units as comparable non-downzoned areas;
—Downzoned areas became more white & were more expensive.
Our new open-access research paper in @findingspress.org investigates effects of decades of downzoning in Chicago.
Findings:
—Downzoned areas added 1/7th of the new units as comparable non-downzoned areas;
—Downzoned areas became more white & were more expensive.
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The San Francisco judge said the “dismantling” of the immigration court was preceded by “inhumane” workloads and trauma-filled workdays.
Tears flowed in S.F. courtroom as immigration judge was fired mid-hearing
The San Francisco judge said the “dismantling” of the immigration court was preceded by “inhumane” workloads and trauma-filled workdays.
bit.ly
November 26, 2025 at 7:30 AM
The San Francisco judge said the “dismantling” of the immigration court was preceded by “inhumane” workloads and trauma-filled workdays.
I'm sorry weather, but this building wasn't made for it to ever be under 50 degrees fahrenheit outside. 🥶 Please warm up.
November 26, 2025 at 7:07 AM
I'm sorry weather, but this building wasn't made for it to ever be under 50 degrees fahrenheit outside. 🥶 Please warm up.
SFMTA could afford to fund a whole new bus line if they could enforce the Southbound J church transit-only lane near Market.
November 26, 2025 at 1:50 AM
SFMTA could afford to fund a whole new bus line if they could enforce the Southbound J church transit-only lane near Market.
I want to make a complaint to the media executive who submits us to the worst music ever written for a solid two months every year.
November 26, 2025 at 1:29 AM
I want to make a complaint to the media executive who submits us to the worst music ever written for a solid two months every year.
Got some new reading in the mail today. Thanks for writing and sharing your thoughts, @carterlavin.bsky.social!
November 24, 2025 at 10:20 PM
Got some new reading in the mail today. Thanks for writing and sharing your thoughts, @carterlavin.bsky.social!
When I say Waymo "doesn't scale," this is what I mean.
Waymo privatized another public street:
Chanel approaching 4th, San Francisco
Possibly queued for a Billie Eilish show at Chase Center ~half mile away.
The light rail train on 4th seen passing in front of this roboherd has more passenger capacity than all of them combined.
OP: .tiktok.renaspam18
Chanel approaching 4th, San Francisco
Possibly queued for a Billie Eilish show at Chase Center ~half mile away.
The light rail train on 4th seen passing in front of this roboherd has more passenger capacity than all of them combined.
OP: .tiktok.renaspam18
November 24, 2025 at 3:44 PM
When I say Waymo "doesn't scale," this is what I mean.
Bots and grifters will start using proxies in days. It'll take them time to establish new accounts in the social graph, but not that long.
GeoIP works exactly once to expose bad actors, and I'd guess the more aware actors haven't been caught out by Twitter's change.
GeoIP works exactly once to expose bad actors, and I'd guess the more aware actors haven't been caught out by Twitter's change.
November 23, 2025 at 6:59 PM
Bots and grifters will start using proxies in days. It'll take them time to establish new accounts in the social graph, but not that long.
GeoIP works exactly once to expose bad actors, and I'd guess the more aware actors haven't been caught out by Twitter's change.
GeoIP works exactly once to expose bad actors, and I'd guess the more aware actors haven't been caught out by Twitter's change.
Just saw a Waymo make a left directly in front of an outbound K. Waymo turned left off West Portal Ave, westbound on Vincente. Train was not at full speed, but had to break relatively hard. The passenger in the Waymo (if there was one, I couldn't tell) would have had one hell of an 'oh shit' moment.
November 23, 2025 at 6:46 PM
Just saw a Waymo make a left directly in front of an outbound K. Waymo turned left off West Portal Ave, westbound on Vincente. Train was not at full speed, but had to break relatively hard. The passenger in the Waymo (if there was one, I couldn't tell) would have had one hell of an 'oh shit' moment.
GrowSF is calling for a 10% signature threshold on the justification it will keep "half baked" initatives off the ballot. All that would do is ensure only well-heeled interests can run initatives, half baked or not.
There are process reforms that will do more good than changing the threshold. 🧵
There are process reforms that will do more good than changing the threshold. 🧵
November 23, 2025 at 5:22 PM
GrowSF is calling for a 10% signature threshold on the justification it will keep "half baked" initatives off the ballot. All that would do is ensure only well-heeled interests can run initatives, half baked or not.
There are process reforms that will do more good than changing the threshold. 🧵
There are process reforms that will do more good than changing the threshold. 🧵
Can I interest you in a vastly inferior solution that just happens to pump my stock value rather than one that pays a teacher a living wage but doesn't make me any money?
November 22, 2025 at 5:28 PM
Can I interest you in a vastly inferior solution that just happens to pump my stock value rather than one that pays a teacher a living wage but doesn't make me any money?
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5 immigration judges were summarily fired in San Francisco today, the largest such firing in the city all year.
It continues a trend of the Trump admin. targeting immigration judges nationwide. In San Francisco, at least 12 have been sacked this year.
missionlocal.org/2025/11/sf-i...
It continues a trend of the Trump admin. targeting immigration judges nationwide. In San Francisco, at least 12 have been sacked this year.
missionlocal.org/2025/11/sf-i...
Friday night massacre: 5 judges fired from S.F. immigration court today
The Department of Justice fired at least five San Francisco immigration court judges on Friday in the largest cut of immigration judges in the city so far
missionlocal.org
November 22, 2025 at 12:39 AM
5 immigration judges were summarily fired in San Francisco today, the largest such firing in the city all year.
It continues a trend of the Trump admin. targeting immigration judges nationwide. In San Francisco, at least 12 have been sacked this year.
missionlocal.org/2025/11/sf-i...
It continues a trend of the Trump admin. targeting immigration judges nationwide. In San Francisco, at least 12 have been sacked this year.
missionlocal.org/2025/11/sf-i...
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I think entirely too much about how California’s climate plan explicitly says that converting to EVs is not nearly enough to meet our greenhouse gas reduction targets so we need to reduce VMT 25% by 2030, and then we do basically nothing to try to achieve that goal
November 22, 2025 at 2:48 AM
I think entirely too much about how California’s climate plan explicitly says that converting to EVs is not nearly enough to meet our greenhouse gas reduction targets so we need to reduce VMT 25% by 2030, and then we do basically nothing to try to achieve that goal
I'm sorry, but what even is going on.
Q: “Are you affirming you think Trump is a fascist?”
TRUMP: “That’s ok, you can just say yes.”
ZOHRAN: “Ok. Yes.”
TRUMP: “That’s ok, you can just say yes.”
ZOHRAN: “Ok. Yes.”
November 22, 2025 at 12:21 AM
I'm sorry, but what even is going on.
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THREAD: Judge Ellis is the first federal judge to review extensive body cam video of DHS's actions in Chicago. She finds that DHS *repeatedly* misled the public and made claims that were disproven by agents' own videos.
I'll go through some of the most egregious ones here.
I'll go through some of the most egregious ones here.
![II. Credibility
The Court next addresses the credibility of the parties’ evidence and witnesses. After reviewing all the evidence submitted to the Court and listening to the testimony elicited at the preliminary injunction hearing, during depositions, and in other court proceedings, the Court finds Defendants’ evidence simply not credible. [FN 6]
Plaintiffs submitted a mountain of evidence, providing the Court with over eighty declarations, numerous videos and articles, and other evidence. Defendants did not rebut anything that Plaintiffs set forth in their declarations or testimony, even with BWC footage.
[FN 6] In another case considering some of the same evidence presented to this Court, another court in this district also found that the perceptions of certain of Defendants’ declarants, such as Hott and Parra, were not reliable. See Illinois v. Trump, No. 25-cv-12174, 2025 WL 2886645, at *5 (N.D. Ill. Oct. 10, 2025) (noting a “troubling trend of Defendants’ declarants equating protests with riots and a lack of appreciation for the wide spectrum that exists between citizens who are observing, questioning, and criticizing their government, and those who are obstructing, assaulting, or doing violence”), motion to stay denied in part, 155 F.4th 929 (7th Cir. 2025).](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:2vtbmhmrwzbqcfv4we4uxzzt/bafkreifpyry2il5toxbr3iejgrsxs6kmnwve75qwnhebfp44ieyjrfpsdu@jpeg)
November 20, 2025 at 11:04 PM
THREAD: Judge Ellis is the first federal judge to review extensive body cam video of DHS's actions in Chicago. She finds that DHS *repeatedly* misled the public and made claims that were disproven by agents' own videos.
I'll go through some of the most egregious ones here.
I'll go through some of the most egregious ones here.
Did this, and lo and behold, they have gated spell and grammar check (and autocorrect) behind using your content for training. Enshittification in action.
If you use GMail, AI (Gemini) was turned on yesterday by default and now scans all of your content for machine learning. To turn off, go to Settings>General and scroll down. Uncheck the box for "Smart features."
There's other "Smart" add-ons as well, but that's the one that reads your content.
There's other "Smart" add-ons as well, but that's the one that reads your content.
November 20, 2025 at 9:07 PM
Did this, and lo and behold, they have gated spell and grammar check (and autocorrect) behind using your content for training. Enshittification in action.
The woman feds shot five times and then left to bleed has had the charges against *her" dropped. Where are the charges against the fed that shot her five times and then bragged about it, or the feds that lied and twisted the narrative about the incident?
BREAKING: Federal prosecutors have dismissed all charges against two Chicagoans, including a woman shot by federal agents, who were accused of ramming a vehicle driven by Border Patrol agents on Oct. 4, court records show.
Background, for @wttw.bsky.social: news.wttw.com/2025/10/05/2...
Background, for @wttw.bsky.social: news.wttw.com/2025/10/05/2...
2 Chicagoans, Including Woman Shot by Federal Agents, Charged with Ramming Border Patrol Vehicle
Marimar Martinez, 30, and Anthony Ian Santos Ruiz, 21, are facing felony charges of “forcibly assaulting, impeding, and interfering with a federal law enforcement officer,” federal prosecutors announc...
news.wttw.com
November 20, 2025 at 5:12 PM
The woman feds shot five times and then left to bleed has had the charges against *her" dropped. Where are the charges against the fed that shot her five times and then bragged about it, or the feds that lied and twisted the narrative about the incident?
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"The goal was to shift surveillance from strictly utilitarian into something residents could feel proud of...the playful, abstract shapes invite a second look and spark curiosity and engagement with your environment instead of dread."
cyberpunk is a warning, not a manual & I am going to explode
cyberpunk is a warning, not a manual & I am going to explode
What if we made the panopticon aesthetically pleasing.
Can surveillance tech ever be beautiful?
Swift Creatives' Carsten Eriksen on turning eyesores into art.
www.creativebloq.com
November 20, 2025 at 4:03 PM
"The goal was to shift surveillance from strictly utilitarian into something residents could feel proud of...the playful, abstract shapes invite a second look and spark curiosity and engagement with your environment instead of dread."
cyberpunk is a warning, not a manual & I am going to explode
cyberpunk is a warning, not a manual & I am going to explode