Architect at @OpenScopeStudio. Working in SF + LA. Housing, bikes, London, Buffalo. Also @markasaurus.bsky.social
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Given all the voter concern about Flock cameras you would think our local San Francisco Democratic party would have required the two member who work for Flock to recuse themselves from a vote concerning their use
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But they did not! Limiting surveillance is something even Bernie Sanders and Ron DeSantis agree on! There have aleeady been 30O illegal uses of Flock data this year according to the SFPD.
More on the situation from @MLNow
missionlocal.org/2026/09/san…
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Mark Hogan retweeted
One of the most expensive things I’ve seen people do this year is manage counsel using AI-generated feedback.
Anything that creates more work than necessary is simply added expense.
Unfortunately, AI now allows people to create extra work for everyone else at considerable volume.
That has a real cost.
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Mark Hogan retweeted
She had NO idea who she just sat between. 🤣🤣
I love that she plopped down right in the middle of Mamdani and the Irish Prime Minister for her photo.
And the best part is they both just went with it.
NYC is so unserious for this LOL @NYCMayor @MichealMartinTD
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Mark Hogan retweeted
If I tried this, my kids would start waking up at 4:31am.
Every single day
My current lifemaxxing stack:
- 4:30am wake up
- Read classic books
- 3 hours creative work before 8am
- Lift/run 6x/week
- Eat single ingredient foods
- Present time with fam/friends
- 20-min evening sauna
- Wild Roman skincare routine
- 8:30pm bedtime
Wouldn't change a thing.
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Mark Hogan retweeted
Great dishwashers from $200 - $2000 will clean without rinsing... BUT you need to keep the filter clean.
My sister and I got into a massive fight when we were teenagers about whether you're supposed to rinse dishes before putting them in the dishwasher. She said yes, I said no, that's literally what the dishwasher is for. This argument went on for YEARS. We'd bring it up at holidays, get our parents involved, poll our friends. Everyone had strong opinions. It became this ongoing debate in our family. She got married and her husband sided with me, which I considered a victory. Then I got married and my wife sided with her. We're at a stalemate. The fight has now spanned two decades. We're both in our 30s with our own dishwashers and our own rinsing philosophies. Every time I visit her I see her rinsing dishes and I bite my tongue. She does the same at my place. We've agreed to disagree but neither of us actually agrees. This will probably continue until one of us dies.
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Mark Hogan retweeted
There are a lot of psychos on this platform who think we should Strait-of-Hormuz Bay Area traffic by opposing the transit measure in November.
Don’t listen to them. Don’t rip up the JCPOA and double all your transit times. spur.org/sites/default/files…
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You might want to hold off on using Muse for everything
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Mark Hogan retweeted
custom cabinets vs import, hardwood/tile vs lvp, 8' or tall? Appliance & plumbing under $5K or over $50K?
White quartz vs Quartzite full splash
$30 pulls..... each vs total
Often we're not comparing similar
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I suspect a lot of the people who thought this was exorbitantly expensive are comparing it to a kitchen reno in a tract house in much cheaper market
A lot of people lost their shit over the $75K kitchen / paint quote. I get it. It’s a lot, but look…
We’ve done homes with a quarter million in cabinets and $50K in tile. In Carlsbad, we installed 3 doors worth $75K (materials only, no markup.)
People buy Ferraris every day. That doesn’t mean they got scammed. 😘
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How much will this Bernard Maybeck tiny home (1 bed/1.5 bath) in Berkeley sell for over the asking price of $1.125 million? 1/2
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This was designed for a site where the previous home burned in a wildfire. I'd love to live in a Maybeck but I'm not sure this is the one:
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Mark Hogan retweeted
It used to be that if people were lazy, we just didn't see them produce much work.
Now, we get to read their thoughts about the hard calls, where the project will land, the things nobody tells you, all that they do quietly, and when the real work starts.
At unprecedented volume, especially on social media.
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Link to the @MLNow article here missionlocal.org/2026/09/wal… 2/2
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Mark Hogan retweeted
The situation that SF faces is more money or less service. Unless you're for more money, you're for less service.
There are plenty of things you could identify about BART specifically which could be changed to save money. BART has plenty of board meetings you can attend to pitch your ideas. If they don't like them, they have a legislative process where you pitch your bureaucratic reform proposal directly to the public. It seems like they'll be receptive!
But "I wish BART were better-run" is not a policy, and as such it cannot be a solution to a policy problem. Good management is not natural: millions of people have spent whole careers investigating what good management is, and implementing it. Absent any concrete policies that BART could *feasibly* implement (so, excluding things outside of BART's control, such as "overhaul the way public sector agencies interface with unions in California) the only options are more money or less service.
"I don't like how BART is spending my money, I don't want them to get any more of mine" is a proposal for less service. And I'm actually perfectly fine with people making the case for less service: the Bay Area isn't *that* dense on average, and you can have a theory of change which involves higher tolls or better bus service (which comes through different agencies).
But what I don't like is advocacy for less service while ducking the question of what that would mean or what replaces it. And I see a lot of that.
Anthropic is spending $750k to raise our property and sales taxes and give more money to our poorly run transit systems.
$500k for higher property taxes
$250k for a 1% SF sales tax hike
Love public transit but hate how poorly ours is run, I don’t think money solves it.
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I might need to clarify that I use AI for a lot of things but this use case isn't relatable as a way it's going to make our lives easier
Every time someone talks about AI agents helping in their personal life the example is getting a restaurant reservation and I have a hard time believing this is a thing the vast majority of the public would ever care about
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