Evergreen:

"Bikes aren't practical because I have a child." The only thing holding people back is better infrastructure, the right bike, and an open mind.

you love to see it

Anyway, me and my partner are signing a lease at a market rate apartment today, that was built in the last 5 years, and is currently being rented at rents affordable to 60% AMI. Tenant advocates have really inflicted untold suffering on Californian renters it’s unreal.

me, every day lately:

he is a cynical, malicious, monstrous black hole of a human being and we’ve been caught in his event horizon for ten years, *of course* we are feeling the effects of that, making everyone feel awful is his superpower

at the risk of oversimplifying, i do not find it especially surprising that a full ten years into the era of donald trump dominating our politics, americans find ourselves angry, bitter, cynical and resentful no matter our material conditions.

an awful thing about this is how Biden massively reduced foreign combat operations and drone strike casualties, and got absolutely zero credit for it from anyone on any side. don't think Democratic leaders haven't taken a lesson from that

look at my AI critics, dawg. we're never getting a more responsible industry

Folks, it's now ebike summer!

this is a classic move; once AI solves a problem we decide that problem doesn't really involve intelligence and therefore isn't AI (see: OCR)

certain people build a strong sense of identity over a moral framing of a certain problem, and a technology that magically solves that problem just drives them absolutely insane

the Brits seemingly spend their whole lives feeling awkward in seventeen different ways at any one time, what difference is another one

funny that Ted Cruz has spent so many years now licking MAGA balls only to have his colleagues try to disqualify him from holding his office

my dad could beat up this guy's dad

it's actually true that you cannot fund good government entirely by taxing the rich, which is why slopulist proposals to gut the tax base are a bad idea but taxing the rich at punitive levels is a goal in and of itself, billionaires are simply too dangerous to public policy to exist

The replies are interesting because it’s a dozen journalists united around “SLAY QUEEN GET HIS ASS” and then a hundred normal people going “what the fuck is this, get over yourself”

update: I am being told that editorial director is not the same as editor-in-chief, so I guess I am now formally disqualified from seeking public office. oh well.

sorry Japan, your time is up. you too, Armenia

This is a fantastic example of everything wrong with the "progressive" wing of the San Francisco political establishment. You cannot claim to care about the affordability crisis while espousing pro-car, anti-upzoning policy positions and messaging. Sorry!

starting to block those who reflexively respond to every single instance of "Trump did this incredibly evil thing" with "it's Democrats' fault/they won't do anything", not out of love for the Democrats but because this eventually just becomes indistinguishable from right-wing ratfucking

it's cool that the president is trying to steal two billion dollars from my taxes to give to his pedophile friends and i'm supposed to like keep doing my job or whatever

The median engineer and researcher is a soft left-lib with a W2 who wants to make the world better. The modal Engineering/Research company owner is a egotistical reactionary made up largely of Shockley particles.

Absolute disaster to put the worst people in charge of genuine tech progress

Melania Trump infesting the White House with bees is the funniest thing no one's talking about right now #Bees #WhiteHouse

This is so weird. Aaron Swartz did not dislike technology or the tech industry. He was involved with YC and Reddit. He was against information gatekeepers and was very much an EFF-style "independence of cyberspace" type.

Really gotta say the constant shitting on everyone educated and somewhat credentialed (often by even more credentialed people) is getting to me and not great in general.

who decided to call it this and not a gas town tax

really insightful and horrifying stuff from @thefarce.org

I’m straight-up ripping off Dorothy Thompson here, but the dividing line isn’t whether or not you had bigoted or authoritarian views to begin with. It’s whether you had some freestanding internal creed or code, or if your inner life is just a reflection of what your social environment lets you be.

really gotta emphasize that these people hate america

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"You are responsible for your work regardless of how it was generated" is a much more coherent and enforceable policy than some of the "no AI allowed at all" framings that are popular on social media and would put the onus on reviewers to somehow know what counts as "AI" when they see it.

lol, the blockbot got tagged for anti-cyclist sentiment

Seriously, if you can do this, you really should. Getting up close and personal both with the machinery of democracy and the electorate itself is enormously educational.

this seems like a no-brainer; even those who aren't offended by using AI tools in research should still respect that the tool user is assuming responsibility for any content they put their name on. in what domain should this not apply?

The best thing Seattleites can do right now to help queer folks is build an absolute shit ton of housing so anyone fleeing oppressive states can afford to move here

this is, i think, the single most important thing to understand about donald trump and his boyars in this second admin; the whole administration is engaged in total culture war against the very idea of principles and dignity and virtue, it’s the most crudely cynical administration in US history

This is a subsidy from all Californian renters to wealthy people who live in fire zones.

we have a republican trifecta government and this is what they have delivered to us. put your petty fucking bullshit beefs aside and loudly blame who is responsible for what fucking ails you, or, if you can’t help yourself, shut the entire fuck up.

bluesky — i am talking to you, all of you — need to internalize this and you need to tell everyone you know this. shampoo more expensive? republicans. burgers more expensive? republicans. beer more expensive? republicans.

a classic Connie Chan moment

lol, so the League of Pissed Off Voyers will just flat out go right-wing rather than give up SF NIMBYism. next they'll endorse Hurabiell over Wiener

this brings me to a related concern I wonder about as I bike to work: is playing non-ear-splittingly loud music from one's speaker on a bike rude? I have done this sometimes in the past. commuters around me have earbuds, which unfortunately is (1) possibly dangerous and (2) apparently illegal in CA

to be fair, do we really ever want to hear anything from this guy again other than "I'm very sorry for my extensive relationship with the pedophile pimp"

people on here will post anything. 'you need meat for a healthy diet.' no you don't. that isn’t true.

Anyone considering voting for garbage person Connie Chan PLEASE remember that she is completely car-brained and is STILL trying to shut down Sunset Dunes park and turn the Great Highway back into a car road. She is terrible. Vote for literally anyone else.

I roll my eyes at guillotine talk like everyone not an extremely online tankie, but in this country $15/gal gas might actually inspire some public executions