Ken Kao

My article got published on @TechCrunch! I’ve always been impressed by how inclusive a fighting gym could be, and hope we can do better in tech. Let me know what you think :)

@bennetthaselton @zachweinberg You haven’t visited Minnesota, Oregon, Washington, California, or New York.

Also, if you think you are "politically homeless" because you think "criminals should go to jail", that's reacting to myths spread by the right wing about the left, not reacting to anything that e.g. the Democratic Party has actually said. Police and prison abolition is a fringe issue. Mainstream progressives believe criminals should go to jail but also want to ask why, if certain crimes are higher in some times and places than others, how you can address the causes instead of *just* jailing people out of the fact.

Back in my day, being a liberal meant: - Do you and we won't judge (be gay, be black, be Jewish, whatever, do you) - Crime is bad. Believing criminals should go to jail and are accountable for their own actions (because society needs safety). Families in particular need safe communities. And safe communities help poor Americans up level their life. - Business is good! Growing business funds social programs. Pro business! We loved growth. We loved American companies who succeeded, because that helps grow future tax revenue. We believed the pie gets bigger. - America, while flawed, is awesome. We still loved America and wanted to win. - Legal immigration is a great thing. Brings smart people to America. Do more of this. More smart people, legally coming here. - Illegal immigration is not a great thing, because illegal immigrants aren't paying taxes but pull on benefits...this harms the average American who relies on some budget discipline to afford social programs for citizens. We are now politically homeless. It's sad.

Eating the breakfast at a hotel you're not staying at Eating the bread at a restaurant & not ordering anything else All of these "hacks" are just different way of stealing from high trust businesses When restaurants & hotels stop doing these things, you know who to blame

“80% of those arrested for crimes on BART hadn’t even paid their fare.” @GarryTan quoted it in his recent #transitcrime piece in @garryslist. But where did that number come from? It came from ME — after years of fighting the @SFBART execs and board over an awful rider experience. 🧵1/

WHAT. IS. THIS. Apparently not a travel in today’s NBA 😂😂 The league ain’t what it used to be.

Fare gates are the easiest way to reduce crime on public transit. After BART installed gates, violent crime dropped 36%. Overall crime dropped 41%. NYC got the same result in 1990. Enforcement, not hand-wringing about "root causes," works. gli.st/xycylqnc

What a JOKE. Between the flopping, the travels, and ego’s— THIS is why a lot of people have stopped watching the NBA 🔥🔥 How many steps did Shai Gilgeous Alexander get away with on this travel??

In a city with competent government, misplacing $106M would be headline news that would result in firings and criminal prosecutions. But it’s @sfgov, so it’ll barely even get a few tweets.

It’s hilarious that Mamdani’s defense is “my wife is a private citizen, leave her alone,” and not “of course she doesn’t hate Jews, blacks, and gays.”

We made Al Franken resign over a joke, but this woman can cheerlead the rape, slaughter, and torture of Jewish civilians and no one in my party gives a fuck.

They tried to put Daniel Penny in prison for years.

If Americans had media that could do it‘s fucking job, we’ll be having a national conversation right now about how a Hezbollah splinter cell just tried to slaughter American children at a synagogue. And we would be standing as one regardless of party.

Japanese society is so civilized that the fires simply drive themselves to the fire station

San Francisco progressives tried this! It increased homelessness and cost the city additional tens of millions in damages on top of the lost tax revenue and hotels.

I lost a cousin on 10/7. I didn’t go attack a mosque. Stop excusing antisemitism

Reminder that the previous product lead of Maps at Google was fucking insane and purposefully fought against a "nice/scenic" product. Presumably because he was primarily concerned with Google as an agent of social justice rather than Google as a company that offers products.

There was a HUGE spike in hate crimes committed against Jews during Zohran Mamdani's 1st month in office. So to hide the spike in antisemitic crime Mamdani had the NYPD change the way it counts hate crimes to lower the reported number & make comparisons to previous years harder.

🚨 BREAKING: NYPD Chief Aaron Edwards speaks on viral photo of him leaping over a barricade to chase Islamic Terrorists “I don’t want that picture to be about me. I want it to be a reminder to New Yorkers that the NYPD is relentless in pursuing justice!” True hero 🇺🇸🙏🏻

CNN Reports On Japanese Teenagers Who Came To Hawaii For What Could've Been Beautiful Day At Beach buff.ly/e7UZnTg

“Mohamed Atta boarded a plane on September 11th, 2001 for what could’ve been a normal flight enjoying the friendly skies. But his life would drastically change when he found himself in the cockpit of the plane right outside a NYC skyscraper.” - CNN