How to Save Oakland from an Anti-Social Future 1. Recognize the problem. With presidential drama dominating mindshare, it’s important not to forget local politics… especially when faced with rampant crime, unkempt streets, and inhumane levels of homelessness. Oakland has seen better days. Incessant car break ins. Reckless driving. Public indecency. Public defecation. This is anti-social behavior. And it’s not helped by our totally inept elected leaders and their messy trail of failed policies, preoccupation with virtue signaling, performative antics, and fiscal incompetence that got us here. Ask anyone on the street, and 9 of 10 will agree: what we’re doing isn’t working. They’ll also agree on a vision for a better future: safe and clean streets, thriving families and businesses, and practical, commonsense governing. 2. Cultivate a well-informed electorate. Thankfully, we live in a country where every couple of years we have the power to overthrow the government… and this November is likely the most consequential election in Oakland history. The problem is that most Oakland voters (myself included) feel ill-informed (and often misinformed…) about local issues, making it extremely difficult to reconcile the hard truths of living in Oakland today and the future we’d like to see. So, I’ve teamed up with @gaganbiyani and @lorenmtaylor to launch the next iteration of @empoweroak. Our mission is to educate and mobilize voters across Oakland to make that future a reality. We’ll have a weekly newsletter covering the most important news and perspectives, as well as a comprehensive voter guide closer to the election. 3. Vote for the future we want. I moved to the east bay 16 years ago and fell in love, first with Berkeley, and for the past 12 years, with Oakland. I genuinely believe it’s the best place in the world to live. With the most important election in Oakland’s history upon us, I’m hopeful we can rebuild the Oakland we fell in love with and be proud of it for years to come.

Earlier this year, I was very skeptical of the claim that smartphones reduced birthrates, because fertility declined so, so long before the arrival of smartphones. But @JesusFerna7026 changed my mind, and studies like this have confirmed that my mind should stay changed. The way I think about now is something like this: One set of factors best describes why birthrates declined toward 2 around the world in the last few decades—modernization, contraception, women's education and social freedom, etc. But another set of factors seems to better describe why birthrates have fallen toward 1 and below one in many places and among many groups. And smartphones belong in the second category.

One motivation to ban SAT/ACT in UC admissions was to eliminate perceived bias against black and latino students. But the biggest shift by banning the SAT was a transfer of admit seats from Asian students to white: docs.google.com/spreadsheets… E->F, rows 12-19.

Pretty damning from two math professors at Cal…

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the thunder play basketball like if the children of rich people was a basketball style

but what if it was a seed announcement and the players’ names were VCs

non technical members of the permanent underclass, please stand up

More of this pls

Berkeley // Oakland // Walnut Creek

36 years on the mic at ESPN. Thank you, @MarkJonesESPN ❤️

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Knicks up by 3 with 2 min to go… do we think Spike Lee is on League Pass at the Oscars? Also did he see the Podz pass?

Where is the lie?

Sacramento Kings fans be like:

“I’m just glad that I could bring Oakland to Milan.” — Alysa Liu The new face of figure skating, and the swag she brings to the new era. nytimes.com/athletic/7060355…

East Bay vs. Peninsula

wait this graph is crazy BART installed anti-fare-hopping gates and the amount of station maintenance and cleanup they had to do went to basically zero strong evidence that the poor condition of public transit is fairly easy to fix caused by a very small group of people

First step in solving a problem is recognizing there is one… “The incredible economy we have nurtured here has added roughly 8 jobs for every 1 new home we have built over the last couple of decades.”

anthropic vs openai is like kendrick vs drake but for nerds

A couple weeks ago, I came home and my wife, Silvia, said something I almost couldn’t believe.   She looked at me and she said, “I think our state needs you.” Because she believed I could help our kids. Help San José. And help California.   And if you know anything about Silvia — when she talks, you listen.   So I’m running for Governor of California — because we can do better.   I know we can, because we’re proving it in San Jose. We’ve reduced unsheltered homelessness by nearly 1/3rd after a decade of growth. We were rated the safest big city in America last year for the first time in over 20 years. We’re the only city to have solved 100% of homicides nearly 4 years running. And we’re taking on affordability with urgency and honesty — unlocking thousands of housing units in the past couple years.  We need to stand up for our rights, for our freedoms and for our neighbors. We need to use the tools we have at hand to protect our democracy. One tool is the law. The other tool is our results. We have to use both. That’s how we fix California. We don’t just need to be against something. We need to be for something — a government that proves it can solve problems for working people again. And before we ask Californians to give more, we owe them proof that their government can do better.   So I’m running to bring focus back to government. To give cities the tools they need to succeed. To show that the best resistance to division is results.   And to prove that California can work again — for everyone.   That’s why I’m running.   And that’s the future Silvia and I are fighting for. mahanforcalifornia.com/