@markasaurus

Architect at @OpenScopeStudio. Working in SF + LA. Housing, bikes, London, Buffalo. Also https://xitter.cf/t.co/np5axMgRkX

 San Francisco, California
openscopestudio.com
Joined January 2009
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Vote YES on RTM! It'll cost an East Bay family that spends $20k on taxable goods/year $100. That's far less than the cost of the time and additional gas it'd take to navigate the resulting congestion from far-reduced transit services
Buffy Wicks@BuffyWicks17h
Bay Area residents take 1M+ trips every weekday on our four largest transit systems — to get to work, school & everywhere in between. We can’t let devastating cuts take that away. I’m voting YES on the Regional Transit Measure to keep our region moving. sfgate.com/news/bayarea/arti…

Regional: Fate Of Bay Area Public Transit Hinges On Regional Transit Measure

On Nov. 3, voters in five Bay Area counties will vote on a regional sales tax measure that, if it fails, could prompt local transit agencies to close train stations and cut bus service.

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Jeff@SEAsheltie17h
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You get a few gallons of the thickest leaded white paint, and you just slather it over everything but the floor. Hinges? Yep. Doorknobs? You betcha. Window edges? Seal em shut with that paint. Steam rediator? Definitely.
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People on here claiming it takes 3 hours to paint a furnished living room have either never painted a room or have never done a remotely passable job of it
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This should be as a percentage of home value and if also doesnt take into account that most elderly property owners in Calif barely pay any taxes thanks to Prop 13...
Nathan Reeder
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Replying to @Eric_Erins
There's also a pretty clear strategy for old people mad about paying property taxes
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Except in CA where our electricity is (shockingly) more overpriced than our gas.
Josh Barzon
@JoshuaBarzonOct 26
Yet another reason to own a Tesla.
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Orwellian arguments, fuzzy math and a hippie cult: This is the dawning of the S.F. midterm election: “You cannot legislate a solution to a problem that is fundamentally a management problem. It requires good management” - @EskSF missionlocal.org/2026/10/dan… via @MLNow

Orwellian arguments, fuzzy math and a hippie cult: This is the dawning of the S.F. midterm election

Mayor Lurie's arguments have grown Orwellian and his math isn't mathing. But it's hard to foresee voters denying him anything he asks for.

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If you find a good drywall guy, hold him close. Watch his kids. Wash his car. Whatever it takes. Go into debt if you have to. We had a warranty call on a mini split and had to open the wall. Yay. HVAC plus drywall and paint $1060. 🚮
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Antonia
@antonia_mdprjctOct 25
Replying to @mattbaran
It would be so great if these people engaged in real conversations. There is so much to learn and understand about architecture, it’s interesting to see people completely turn off their curiosity when they can’t grasp a new subject.
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Brian Hanlon@hanlonbtOct 24
We spent $600B - $1.2T in real dollars fixing Y2K. It was a huge effort! The lack of major problems from Y2K was more a result of solid preparation than misplaced fears.
Sheel Mohnot
@pitdesiOct 24
Dario Amodei was so worried about Y2K that his high school teacher still remembers it decades later. He’s been a doomer for much longer than I thought!
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Here is one for @bobbyfijan
Philip Oldfield
@SustainableTallOct 24
Kitchens and bathrooms in many apartments are located at the ‘back’, away from light, air and view. This is challenged in this design by Leclercq Architects, with the en suite bathrooms and kitchens placed on the perimeter…
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The average new car payment is now almost $1000?!
Julie Chang
@JulieChangREOct 24
29% of trade-ins have negative equity. Yikes I don’t understand how people go on vacation when they have that much debt But this is fundamentally why being upper middle class means nothing. You’re competing with everyone willing to take on endless debt for a lot of experiences and perceived status or class / quality of life
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WTF, $3000 Samsung TV has an always-on mic, automatic content recognition, geo tracking, network mapping, and ships your data to Samsung + 400 partners. Bro Rooted a brand-new 2025 Samsung TV after noticing absurdly targeted ads. Firmware was locked down, so zero-days it was. Got a root shell. then found: always-on voice service, ACR, geo, full telemetry pipeline, and four separate DRM systems. This isn’t a bug, It’s the product bro.
log4j
@log4jOct 21
i own a relatively new (2025) samsung tv. i kept getting weirdly targeted ads. i tried reversing the firmware but it was aes encrypted and no keys unless tear it apart and do uart/jtag magic. zero days it is. root shell on new samsung TVs! discovered PRIVACY HORROR. write up?
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Claude can no longer “Reverse Engineer Anything.” Anthropic just quietly killed REA. But Interesting timing. After a few viral cases of people using Claude to reverse-engineer Samsung TV firmware and identify data-collection services, Anthropic appears to have restricted those reverse-engineering abilities.
Md Ismail Šojal 🕷️
@0x0SojalSecOct 22
WTF, $3000 Samsung TV has an always-on mic, automatic content recognition, geo tracking, network mapping, and ships your data to Samsung + 400 partners. Bro Rooted a brand-new 2025 Samsung TV after noticing absurdly targeted ads. Firmware was locked down, so zero-days it was. Got a root shell. then found: always-on voice service, ACR, geo, full telemetry pipeline, and four separate DRM systems. This isn’t a bug, It’s the product bro.
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Very useful voter guide for San Francisco:
Elai
@elaifreshOct 23
Replying to @elaifresh
revised with DSA's full recommendation list (beyond endorsements) missed because DSA's voter guide webpage is so long that Claude gave up lmao
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Only one stair!
Hotcock@hotcockedOct 22
Most psychotic floor plan I have ever seen, you would be so on edge shitting in that toilet with three doors
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Sean Sweeney
@seandsweeneyOct 23
Pretty cool to have an app like X where everyone knows exactly what’s going to happen over the 18-24 months. Makes business so much easier!
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Don't forget he also popularized the concepts of exploded view drawings of mechanical inventions and anatomy. He also painted what is considered to be the first true landscape painting. He called himself a discipline of experience. And he wrote backwards in a mirror script.
TVP
@TheveripostOct 21
Leonardo da Vinci created the first ever "satellite view" map in 1502 of Imola, Italy. He did this by manually measuring the angles and distance of every corner on every building in the city.
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
Leonardo’s 1502 Imola map was not the first overhead city plan. The Forma Urbis of Rome, made in 203–211 CE, mapped every building’s ground plan at 1:240 scale. Leonardo’s work was a surveyed Renaissance plan, but calling it the first “satellite view” is inaccurate. formaurbis.stanford.edu/docs/FURmap.ht… rct.uk/collection/912…
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Barndominium Life
@BarndoLifeMay 14
Is this 40x60 layout your dream home?

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now keep JD the fuck away from him
Pope Crave
@ClubConcraveOct 21
Pope Leo declared free of cancer, says Vatican
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Jeff Grenz
@JeffGrenzOct 22
#CustomCabinets: If you buy factory cabinets from a store you may not know this happens: The custom cabinet designer (shop owner typically) has been onsite several times measuring openings, ceiling heights, plumbing stub locations, clearances etc. Custom cabinets are delivered to jobsite within a few inches of install spot by people who care because they made them. "please take care of my babies" Precut to size Baltic birch "rough tops" are stacked nearby with identifying location marks Prefabricated island top w overhang has steel reinforcement installed already. The "packing" blankets leave with the delivery crew (no dumpster's worth of cardboard to remove and dispose of) The cabinets are overall taller to account for finished floor thickness installed after. No color matched laminate sides or trim pieces show up waiting to fade later. There's a name on the hardware & it doesn't look the same. (photo from 2020 project)
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