Brian Keare

Technology, cycling, and cooking/good eats fanatic.

[Brian Keare @bkeare]

@Caltrain it has been months and months and this is still broken at San Carlos station…

[Brian Keare @bkeare]

@MirjamSwanson Amazing interview

[Brian Keare @bkeare]

@Caltrain San Carlos info display has been broken for 2 months now.

[Brian Keare @bkeare]

@CaltrainAlerts You had one chance to prove to thousands and thousands of people to prove that CalTrain is a good and reliable option. And you failed 100% spectacularly

[Brian Keare @bkeare]

@Caltrain @CaltrainAlerts CAL-SACNB.05 at San Carlos needs to be fixed. Not reading phone-based electronic clipper cards

[Brian Keare @bkeare]

@WSPMissingPers1 @WSPMissingPers1 Crazy that Washington State Patrol can abuse the Public Alert system, broadcasting to millions of residents and then just pretend it didn't happen. Is there no accountability or duty to preserve here?

[Celia @CeliaYCHo]

@WSPMissingPers1 Stop using public safety alerts for a single missing person. It should be reserved for threats against the mass public. Create more categories for us to decide what should blare our phone and give us a panic attack.

[Brian Keare @bkeare]

@SFBART hey BART. It’s 2024. Any plans to update the 30 year old Stephen Hawking voice to something this century?

[Charlotte Clymer 🇺🇦 @cmclymer]

Dear Mr. Bezos:

We don't believe you. At all.

We don't think this is about encouraging news neutrality or building trust or fighting disinformation or competing against indie media.

You know why?

Because you did it 11 days before the election, after your editorial board came to a conclusion and drafted an endorsement, after your senior brass gave a green light internally.

If this were somehow about principle, you could have nixed the endorsement before the general election began.

Hell, you could have done it the day Pres. Biden stepped aside as an understandable moment for a reset.

But you didn't.

You claim major newspaper endorsements largely don't matter in a presidential election.

And honestly, I'm inclined to somewhat agree. I think their influence is overrated.

Unless it's an outlet endorsing their perceived ideological opposite (ex: NYT or WaPo for Trump, WSJ or New York Post for Harris), it doesn't matter a whole lot.

Although it's quite curious you claim to believe WaPo's presidential endorsements are too impotent to matter in elections, yet too powerful over public attitudes to be allowed to continue.

That doesn't make sense.

But it's also missing the point.

People aren't angry at you because we think Harris will somehow lose based on WaPo not endorsing her.

We're furious because you, one of the richest people in the world, bought one of the leading newspapers in our country--a storied bulwark against censorship and corrupt governing--and abused that power to kill the autonomy of the staff of that newspaper.

You have subverted the free press right before a presidential election in which one of the candidates is aggressively totalitarian in outlook, and you now pretend to be surprised at the shock and outrage.

We do not trust you.

We now find it very difficult to trust your newspaper despite the many excellent journalists who work there.

And we believe you either ultimately care only about your own greed OR you are dangerously incompetent regarding the importance of a free press.

Maybe both.

In any case, there's no way in hell I'm paying for The Washington Post while you still own it.

[Ari Drennen @AriDrennen]

It's crazy that everyone who worked in the first Trump administration is like "he's basically the Mad King from Game of Thrones and he must be stopped at all costs" and every major newspaper is like "there's simply not enough information to decide either way"

[Brent Toderian @BrentToderian]

Remember, Paris wasn’t “always this way.”

It wasn’t even this way in late 2019 when I was last there.

Just a few years ago, #Paris was choking in car traffic much more.

This is new. This is leadership.

Cities are a result of choices.

HT @Khayat_Fouad

[Natasha Korecki @natashakorecki]

Van Jones on CNN just now talking about Trump and Harris being held to different standards.
“They’re not taking the same exam. He gets to be lawless. She has to be flawless."

[Brian Keare @bkeare]

@harrisonjaime "You asked about the temperature..."

[Brian Keare @bkeare]

@CHPAlerts @LAPDHQ This feels like an amber alert to me. How did this get qualified as a general emergency alert?

[Tim Wise @timjacobwise]

When you send your kids to school there is zero chance they will come back to you "a different gender," but there is certainly a chance they won't come back at all. Yet some of y'all are worried about the former while shrugging about the latter.

[Brian Keare @bkeare]

@BillAckman @CNN @realDonaldTrump Are you ok?

[Simon Rosenberg @SimonWDC]

Journalism is more than reading Republican talking points and asking Democrats to respond to them.

[Melissa Murray (@ProfMMurray on Threads 🧵) @ProfMMurray]

Brilliant ad.

[BikinginLA (same name on the sky app) @bikinginla]

Mayor Hidalgo also had the courage to reimagine the streets of Paris, and de-emphasize reliance on motor vehicles, to increase livability and create a 15-minute city.