January 29, 2025

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BART killing exposes security gap — many train cameras are decoys – San Francisco Chronicle

Evan Sernoffsky, Michael Cabanatuan and Demian Bulwa026 mins

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Even in expensive cities, the sharing economy may just have its limits | Business | The Guardian

Suzanne McGee014 mins

I’ve never been a fan of the “sharing economy”. Not that there’s anything intrinsically wrong with Uber, Airbnb and their peers, it’s just that there doesn’t really seem to be much “sharing” going on. It’s more like adding a technological middleman to a rental market. Now having shaken up the taxi and hotel market, the…

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Live in a FedEx truck for $600 a month: The newest “solution” to San Francisco’s homelessness crisis – Salon.com

Tana Ganeva04 mins

This article originally appeared on AlterNet. In the past few years, San Francisco’s massive rents have displaced long-time residents and worsened the city’s already epic homelessness problem, sending more people into encampments or forcing them to live in cars or doubled up. Now, residents have the opportunity to experience that glamorous lifestyle by paying $600…

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Airbnb, Proposition F And The Shared Hypocrisy Of Bay Area Housing | TechCrunch

Kim-Mai Cutler0107 mins

Begin: Right Rail Advertisement Container End: Right Rail Advertisement Container Begin: WordPress Article Content In California, a state built on the idealism and tacit cruelty of real estate capitalism, no one is innocent.  That’s no different with Airbnb and Proposition F, merely the latest of San Francisco’s Brobdingnagian sagas over land-use politics that will go down in today’s election….

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I watched 14 police officers take down a one-legged homeless Black man outside Twitter HQ — Matter — Medium

Chaédria LaBouvier015 mins

Last week I was on my way to visit Medium’s headquarters in San Francisco to discuss a project that I’m working on, mainly focused around police brutality. Funnily enough (or not so), I ended up being over an hour late, because this happened. I recorded the incident August 4th 2015 during the lunch hour. It…

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We need to engineer the racism out of apps | Fusion

Latoya Peterson015 mins

Last year, San Francisco released BART Watch, an app for reporting crimes on the Bay Area’s main transit system. After filing a California Public Records Act request to see what people were reporting, the East Bay Express found a disturbing pattern: Of the 763 alerts sent to BART, 198 included a description of the race…

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