Favorites July 14 2021

Cyn Wang 王思惠 @cynyurita

Shared Spaces and outdoor dining are here to stay in SF! A huge win for small business, for families and residents, and for our city https://t.co/GZzRPCrzAi

Sharky Laguana @Sharkyl

I am extremely happy. We have a permanent Shared Spaces program. Outdoor dining is here to stay. This is the biggest change to SF's land use since the 1906 earthquake. A huge success. Thank you to all of the @sfbos for the unanimous vote in support.

If you haven't checked out the outdoor dining options in SF, you really should.

Josh Sternberg @joshsternberg

This is a fascinating content analysis of Tucker Carlson. Most impressive is that the reporter spoke with Carlson's first grade teacher, whom Carlson lied about in one of his origin stories washingtonpost.com/politics/tucke…

Now that the main Republican cause célèbre is teachers being too liberal, of course he had to invent something relevant.

The Urbanist @UrbanistOrg

Seattle took down a massive elevated highway on the waterfront only to wind up building a 10-lane surface highway.

I just can't understand how a city that understood induced demand well enough to get rid of their old elevated highway would now do something so obviously unproductive.

Colin McMillen @mcmillen

At least most software engineers I've worked with have the classiness to *not* shit on the people who inherited the projects they started two decades ago.

politico.com‘The consequences are going to be unbelievably bad’: Bush slams Biden’s Afghanistan withdrawalThe former president’s criticism comes amid warnings from western officials that the Taliban could soon topple the U.S.-backed government in Kabul.

Seriously, you only shit on the previous owners, it doesn't go the other way dude.

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

An interesting alternative to the politically unpopular carbon tax ideas. I think this is also called an ‘eco-tariff’.

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

Amtrak is so wild they’re actually asking for $117 billion to upgrade the northeast corridor

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

I am begging Amtrak executives to like read a Wikipedia article about a foreign high speed rail system or something.

So, that’s 1700 miles of rail for 117 billion dollars, so 68 million dollars per mile of rail, (42 million per km). Looks like France spends between 3 and 12 million Euros per km. But for *new* *high speed* track, neither of which apply to Amtrak’s plans for the Northeast corridor. I really don't understand what Amtrak thinks it's doing.

Mountain View, June 2021

Yes, this is food photography, although if it wasn’t on a plate it might look like a tile or something.