Matthew Stenberg

PostDoc @ UC Berkeley — local politics, urban governance, subnational democracy, infrastructure, EU, Central Europe

[Matthew Stenberg @MatthewStenberg]

Happy my paper with Conor O’Dwyer is out now—Open Access—in @govandopp. Using data from Poland and Hungary, we look at two factors in local elections that might inhibit dominant party regime consolidation: runoff elections and strategic coordination https://t.co/mdH0K6DYIk (1/n)

[Cambridge University Press - Politics @CUP_PoliSci]

#OpenAccess from @govandopp

Local-Level Democratic Backsliding? The Consolidation of Aspiring Dominant-Party Regimes in Hungary and Poland - https://t.co/TSZW2xZFz2

- Conor O'Dwyer (@UFPoliSci) & @MatthewStenberg

#FirstView

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@HVNYrefugee Do I get Quebec City in E or is it outside the circle

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@frankmikesmith I think a specific feedback for today’s is that when the answer is general (like a whole country) it’s much more difficult to be able to know where to click and much more likely to punish a player who knows the answer. So it’s preferable to avoid those questions.

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@RecParkSF Very happy to get to see the park in place — I think there needs to be better frequent signage on the slow vs shared path. Many people biking fast on the slow side and singing bells at people frustratedly

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@the_transit_guy Daylighting is a good thing but they should be painting the curbs red.

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@alz_zyd_ @scalinglaws Accuracy of information can matter even if it isn’t simple regurgitation.

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@alz_zyd_ @scalinglaws That feels deeply discipline specific. I imagine it could easily be true for entry level math classes or comp sci classes, but even the latest ai models get factual things wrong so regularly it seems untrue for a lot of other ones.

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@kerstanley @about_dave With a red curb, ambiguity is gone, everyone has complete information.

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@kerstanley @about_dave These things make sense but I’m very concerned with the enforcement especially as increasingly municipalities are contracting parking enforcement to private companies. If someone is parked 19 feet 6 inches eyeballing it they shouldn’t get a ticket. But private company will do it

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@SafeStreetRebel @SFMTA_Muni needs to paint the curbs so the burden of stepping out the day lighting doesn’t fall on citizens. I support the policy but it needs to have proper infrastructure

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@rudygobert27 @RobertKennedyJr oh this team is going into just full meltdown mode now huh

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@IDoTheThinking Might be time to add some additional cars back to the trains

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@charhende @SFBART Would probably help if they managed to maintain their timed transfer at all.

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@liron @ptrschmdtnlsn Have you ever done anything in the apple built in photos app? I’m continually shocked by how slow it is and how they have seemingly no idea people want to have more than 5000 photos in a library

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The Economist just published a deeply-researched story about car bloat, and it's very, very damning:

"For every life that the heaviest 1% of SUVs and trucks save, there are more than a dozen lives lost in other vehicles."

Well worth your time: https://t.co/eHalcNkiBX

[Matthew Stenberg @MatthewStenberg]

@IDoTheThinking I’d be very interested to compare timed transfer success stats before and after the retiming to add additional yellow line trains. I raised this issue at the time and I was dismissed that it wouldn’t be a problem.

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@IDoTheThinking On my commute I often end up waiting at Daly City for a red line instead of taking an earlier yellow because I just assume the timed transfer won’t work properly and I’ll end up having to transfer to that same red line train eventually anyway.

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@briankturner101 @hotdamhistorian could be an interesting thread for you

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@BillLindeke It’s becoming a trend I see: https://t.co/WosEv8Ws98