Dan Federman

The @propublica.org to @lastweektonight.com pipeline is stronger than I realized

When my dog gets extremely dirty, I call her a dirt clod. Given the current technological landscape, I’m considering calling her clod-slop now.

You know, the thing is, I had drafted this piece a month ago, and then never published it, because I thought maybe it was too mean.

Siri, what is irony?

Climate Researcher Colleen Golja always thought science and reason would have a seat at the table in deciding the planet’s fate. That was until one morning last September in London, when she took part in the first in a series of war games.

Here's part 2 of my California voter guide. This one covers how I'm voting on all 14 propositions that are on the ballot this year: publiccomment.blog/p/the-public...

YIMBY Action leads are voting on a recommendation for Prop 45 today. If you or any of your friends are on the fence, I highly recommend reading this great thread. Tl;dr: AB130 already exempted infill housing from CEQA. Prop 45 would just open the floodgates for sprawl.

This is art

Hauled some stuff on the bike. Birthday party supplies got to the park faster than they would have in a car.

Absolutely scorching endorsement, bringing serious heat for Weiner and against Chan, but a blast furnace at Pelosi for her role in this race and her true reasons for it. Never read an editorial this heated in Chron www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/edit...

Let SF know what you think of freezing thr Castro in amber here: www.surveymonkey.com/r/qr_code/Pr...

Items prices by markets do not suffer from an induced supply problem. Prices counter demand. That’s the point.

Climate researcher opposes dense housing near transit. Berkeley is not okay.

Bike lanes are provably good for local businesses. transformca.org/bike-lanes-a...

Backing Prop G is madness. We have already voted on this TWICE. Chan is the new avatar of SF NIMBYs, always opposed to parks and transit and housing.

when METR used GPT Sol to analyze the transcripts of the attack, it would claim that the attack was fine because *the agent message board* had approved it.

Major news: SF's most infamous empty car wash will finally start to become housing this year. The empty car wash on 400 Divis has become a symbol of SF's stalled housing pipeline. It's no accident that this project will be one of the first housing projects to break ground this year.

We keep paying more for SFPD and we keep getting less out of them

Why do we subsidize new car ownership more than used car ownership? Doesn’t Sacramento know that used cars are more environmentally friendly than new cars?

Chat: Are you voting yes or no on Prop 45, which overhauls CEQA? Does the fact that it explicitly carves out California High Speed Rail so that CEQA continues to slow down CAHSR, change your opinion? oag.ca.gov/system/files...

Yesterday, WIRED learned that Madison Square Garden was suing us for our accurate reporting. We stand by our work. That’s why we’re removing the paywall from two of the MSG stories they don’t want you to read, making them free for everyone.

We need our member of Congress to go to the mat for transit, not obstruct it.

The takeaway for cities: “The best bang for your buck is protected bike lanes,” Moran told Bike Talk‘s Nick Richert. “Really focus on bike infrastructure that’s protected. That’s how you grow ridership. That’s how you diversify ridership.” sf.streetsblog.org/2026/07/08/s...

Did you know SF's conflicting housing laws can make us choose between a bathroom and housing? Our Building code requires a restroom on a rooftop common space. But our Planning code inadvertently requires that restroom count against the building's height limit. Make it make sense!

As I've said many times before, we need to be much more aggressive about taking away people's licenses. No one was harmed this time, but what about next time?

For context, the 9 counties of the San Francisco Bay Area has a population of 7.8M (compared to NYC's 8.5M), covers 6,966 square miles (compared to NYC's 472) and permitted just 16,008 new housing units last year.

Oh my fucking god

This is the most purely anti-American thing I've ever heard a politician say, but the media is too obsessed with 3 DSA candidates winning local elections in NY to pay any attention I guess.

What on earth are these… pellets? They look like a pile of shit

Did DoD just admit in a court filing that it used xAI's Grok Gov Model to hit the girls' school on the first day of the Iran war? Based on some passages flagged by @rgoodlaw.bsky.social in DoD's recent filing in NAACP's case against X, it looks like it did 1/

TIL I do not exist!

Decision Desk HQ projects Nithya Raman wins the second of two spots in the CA Los Angeles Mayor Nonpartisan Primary #DecisionMade: 7:57 PM EDT

I’m a proponent of the Housing Theory of Everything but even for me this is a bridge too far

How did Noe Valley get gentrified? We just may never know

Pretty disappointing to see SFPD parked in the bike lane directly in front of their station, just 50 feet from their designated parking lot.

New SF Swift talk: “Agentify Your Swift Repo: Turning Ideas Into Working Pull Requests While Walking the Dog” by @dfed.me How Portola AI uses coding agents to turn ideas into validated Swift PRs. Filmed in spatial video, best viewed on Apple Vision Pro. vimeo.com/1195418169?s...

"Gen Z has a hip new approach to truth, it's called 'believing whatever flatters the priors of you and your peer cohort'!" I'm going to have nightmares about this piece.

IZ is the equivalent to a tax on water production during a drought. I’ve personally seen it kill multiple buildings in my neighborhood. Judging from results, IZ is a tool for reducing housing production. If the government wants the private market to provide something, it should pay for it.