scott f @scott@carfree.city
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city loving #socialist, #vegan, into #hiking, #bikes #BikeTooter, #transit, #carfree living. read a lot and drink lots of tea and coffee. learning guitar. post a lot about local stuff #sfpol #bikesf
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I'm a city-loving, car-hating socialist living in SF. I toot a lot about local politics and bike/transit issues
Worked for big tech for a while, looking for ways to use my code skills for the common good instead
Also learning guitar, into loose-leaf tea, reading a lot (fiction, nonfiction, poetry), and hiking
this kind of surveillance, combined with big data and facial-recognition AIs, poses an existential risk to a free and open society. the real AI risk imo. https://www.businessinsider.com/clearview-scraped-30-billion-images-facebook-police-facial-recogntion-database-2023-4
an important political task is to stop the proliferation of surveillance cameras in public places. laws limiting how and when cops can access footage are good, but as we see, often ignored. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/05/sfpd-obtained-live-access-business-camera-network-anticipation-tyre-nichols
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New documents reveal San Francisco police got live access to hundreds of business surveillance cameras in anticipation of First Amendment-protected protests following the police killing of Tyre Nichols. #sfpd #sfpol #sf #sanfrancisco #acab
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“A sustainable lifestyle will require something close to the abolition of the private car.”
- Simon Fairlie, in a 1996 book
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"Our study found that continuing to forcibly displace people who are experiencing homelessness, as is being proposed in San Francisco, is responsible for up to 25 percent more deaths in a 10-year period. That policy literally kills people in the long run."
- Alex Kral, epidemiologist
https://missionlocal.org/2023/05/fentanyl-arrest-san-francisco-drugs/
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At last, we present a full audio version of "The Forest In The City," covering two years of forest defense in Atlanta, Georgia.
https://crimethinc.com/exworker96
The government of Atlanta is attempting to destroy the Weelaunee Forest in order to build a vast training compound known as Cop City where police will train to suppress social movements. Because Cop City represents a tremendous financial incentive for police and their allies, they have begun to charge everyone who protests against it with domestic terrorism, a clear move towards outright fascism.
Listen here to hear how courageous activists have blocked the construction of the training compound for two years.
This statement from BART really underscores how Phil Ting is playing with fire by not committing to emergency bridge funds for public transit. Ting, do the right thing so we don't have to watch BART collapse like this. https://www.bart.gov/news/articles/2023/news20230526-0
Hayward has some amazing landscaping-protected bike lanes on Mission Blvd. Here’s a terrible photo of them from the bus. #BikeTooter
They seem lightly used, probably because it’s a relatively short section that doesn’t connect to much. Imagine this on the entire Oakland to San Jose corridor!
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San Francisco’s sustainable mode share is decreasing — we’re literally going in the wrong direction!
Between Fiscal Year 2016–17 and 2020–21, sustainable mode share decreased from 54% to 38%, below our goal of 60% by Fiscal Year 2020 😔
We need leadership to turn things around.
That summary is from David Graeber's Direct Action: An Ethnography, and he cites an essay in DiY Culture: Party and Protest in Nineties Britain for a longer account. https://www.versobooks.com/products/1625-diy-culture
Inspiration: in the 1990s the UK group Reclaim the Streets held a party where "on a newly constructed bypass road in London, two women stilt-walkers circulated about in gargantuan flounced dresses to deafening music, as underneath each of their skirts, a man with jackhammer systematically destroyed the roadway underneath, and volunteers followed behind planting trees in the openings."
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Thank you KTVU for covering our Potrero and 16th St protest! “It could have been any of us waiting for the bus. The sheer width of the street allows cars to get going really fast, going speeds that really aren't appropriate for a busy city street with a lot of pedestrians and bus riders.”
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The mess that is automated license plate readers #ALPR is in the news again today. Tell your legislator support Oakland Privacy's sponsored bill #AB1463 with one easy click. Audits, 30-day purge and no out of state sharing without a warrant from a CA Court. Protects #abortion-seekers, #trans youth AND your #privacy. https://takeaction.salsalabs.org/AB1463/index.html
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San Franciscans passed the Overpaid Executive Tax in November 2020.
The tax only impacted companies that paid their CEOs more than 100 times the median compensation paid to their employees in SF.
The most recent recent budget revenue projections show it will bring in $190 million. That is $130 million more than was expected.
This will go a long way in offsetting other shortfalls, saving public services.
https://sf.gov/sites/default/files/2023-05/FY22-23%20Nine%20Month%20Report_Final.pdf
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city loving #socialist, #vegan, into #hiking, #bikes #BikeTooter, #transit, #carfree living. read a lot and drink lots of tea and coffee. learning guitar. post a lot about local stuff #sfpol #bikesf
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