Chekhov's Footgun

Outta my sight, scrub

Great reporting from @sfgate.com and @gilduran.com We San Franciscans have had a front row view of technofascists trying to overturn American democracy and we have a moral obligation to call it out. GrowSF is now GrowUSA.

dear local business owners, nobody is going to tell you they’re bailing on your business because of the AI ads. they’ll just stop going. in a year you’ll have run out of customers and you’ll be totally mystified as to the reason

This might be the most blatant example in existence of "rich guy who created a problem attempting to place the blame for that problem on immigrants"

I’ve been purchased by private equity and am now disintegrating into the air like when Thanos did the gauntlet thing. Somehow the PE firm is making billions from th

New from me: Five years ago, I criticized a San Francisco TV reporter for getting her facts wrong. Ever since, she and her allies have alleged that I was part of a conspiracy to end her career. That narrative just got a boost with her new book, which is being promoted by some powerful tech people.

There, I fixed it.

"California is pledging to put 7.5 million acres under tribal stewardship in the state’s first-ever tribal stewardship policy." Absolutely *phenomenal* news & essential. We need this, across Turtle Island, fast. We don't time. But WOW. What an amazing thing to see in my lifetime.

Happy St. Patrick's Day, New York.

Your job is to pick the worst actor to play James Bond.

I have to just speed through these things with the first games that come to mind, knowing that I'm leaving out dozens of incredible titles, or I'll spend all day second-guessing my choices.

This is starting to get like universal basic income where every single objective study shows the same result but the people who don't like that result go "uh, well there's just really no way to know"

This collection, borrowed from my dad's shelf and reread many times over, was formative for me as a tween. You know the Twilight Zone ep about the creepy kid with godlike powers? The Star Trek one with the Gorn? I first encountered those stories here.

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After a lengthy appeals process and productive discussion with the Blue Sky safety team I will no loinger be sending George Thorogood lyrics to beautiful women on here via DM. Thank you all

I'm seeing a lot of people calling this performative, and honestly, I think that's giving it way too much credit. What audience could this possibly be meant for?

Never mind the jobs you had, tell me five classes you had at university. Dante (in English) Discrete Mathematics Medical Ethnobotany Neural Basis of Thought and Language Programming Languages and Compilers

"But in an existing codebase (brownfield) with years of accumulated conventions... they’ll happily introduce a new pattern that contradicts the three other ways this codebase already solves the same problem." Yup, can confirm. (thousand yard stare)

Share a television show that raised you.

I have never been more proud of my Minnesotan heritage.

Here is a video of a frozen creek that had begun to thaw, and the water was flowing beneath the thin ice on top. I took this because it was soothing and wonderfully bloopy and I wanted to listen to it for hours. You are all welcome to enjoy it, too. Let your brain settle here and rest for a moment.

I've been seeing a smokescreen of AI-hallucinated faces and AI-hallucinated names for this guy all day, so it's nice to have an actual news org out there doing the actual research.

I’m at the spot where ICE murdered Renee Nicolle Good today, along with my daughter and her bf. Still lots of people here at 11:00 pm. (Avoiding getting anyone in the picture) It’s beautiful, surreal but still mostly enraging. Abolish ICE.

I've never lived outside California, but I've visited/stayed with friends and family in a lot of places. Green states have airports where I've stopped long enough for a meal, blue states have scenery I've enjoyed from a moving train.

This articulates my exact feelings about San Francisco, the tech industry, & the entire social crisis of Capitalism we are all facing. Ms. Solnit writes with fierce precision & grace, connecting the dots with damning evidence rather than hyperbole. Essential reading. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Stop taking your decorations down IT’S ONLY TURTLE DOVES

I haven't played CO:E33 and probably won't now... It's like learning that an award-winning distiller took a tiny little piss in the mash. Clearly it didn't affect the flavor of the whiskey; everyone raved about it! But now that I know it's there... well, there are a lot of other things to drink.

A much better critique than "this show about loneliness doesn't have enough dialogue to keep my attention".

Time for me to cathartically rewatch "Dennis Takes a Mental Health Day" for the dozenth time.

Film you’ve seen more than six times. Hard mode: no Stars (Wars nor Trek), LOTR, or Marvel.

Introduce yourself with five concerts you've seen: CAKE Doc Watson They Might Be Giants The Zombies Garbage

hey, did we ever get an update on how this turned out

Share a TV series you've watched from beginning to end more than once.