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There are valid arguments against the specifics of the tax. But my attitude is 'let's poke them and see what happens'.

[Reputation management firm asks to connect on LinkedIn] Uh oh. What did I say?

What an adorable scandal.

I wish tech bros would read a goddamn book or have any familiarity with history. People were excited about cars. They thought cars were f'ing cool. They wanted one. THAT'S HOW FORD GOT RICH.

I'm the annoying dude who just came back from the Netherlands to tell you about bike infrastructure. I think our suburbs have more to learn than our cities. They still have the space to make some easy, cheap decisions about bollards, spacing and slowing drivers down.

I just don't find Shane Gillis funny. It's not like I just hate problematic white men. I loved Woody Allen and Louis C.K. And let's be honest, the signs were there. Just don't get how Gillis is funny.

I want a clone of myself to watch this and tell me if it's worth it.

Friday opinion dump time. I've never liked Original Joes. Not San Jose, nor San Francisco versions.

"Have you decided who you're voting for for Senator?" Me, glancing at the fading Scott Wiener sign I've had up for months. "I dunno. Who's running?"

Dream: "Self driving cars will have to make split second moral decisions!" Reality: Too fucking stupid to get out of the trash truck's way. It sat there until a remote operator grabbed it and moved it.

Even if you're not a local ya gotta read this.

Oh cool! Wait, Dreamforce. So was it residents trying to get out of SF?

Had to explain Ed Sheeran to the partner. So.... so bland. Coupla Big Freedia tracks was sufficient antidote.

I've started thinking of LLM tools as a really advanced scripting language. It's kind of working for me. Every place I'm running into them, professionally and such, it maps nicely.

Okay, wait a sec, Neuromancer may still hold up because it's actually more Noir than Cyberpunk.

Goddamn, it really does not dissappoint.

'Dirty' can be whatever, but 'filthy' should involve some moisture, in my mind.

Even though I approve my own time off requests I still put "None of your damn business" in the "Reason for time off" field.

I like the slide out doors and I'm past my stroller parking years, but that's pretty nice. www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/m...

I love marketing emails: "Quick one, first_name — are you looking to add four to eight more"

The major maps do this for all sorts of countries all the time, so it's not that big a surprise. But if Google catches a few strays over this, fine with me.

I've actually watched this movie and... yeah. youtu.be/TFsTWqYuRbk?...

LLMs are very good at pulling engineers down the rabbit hole. I feel bad for managers who don't understand their systems well enough to pull them back out.

This picture is triggering. I've spent many days in a chair like that (it's for observers) staring at the backs of voters.

A thing that gives me pause about AI is when you search for something specific and technical about the technology it's surrounded by a barrage of noisy nonsense. That's odd.

Get in losers, we're marking a bunch of LinkedIn "AI Slop".

There are two wolves inside LinkedIn and one of them is very anti-AI apparently.

The data center opposition is fascinating. My attitude, as someone in tech, is sort of anti-data center. There's lots of stuff good about the internet, but we're living in the internet's world now and it kinda sucks. So why not. Stop building data centers. Let's try that.

Fuck yeah

I thought LinkedIn was AllIn for AI, so this is kind of fascinating.

@aoihana.bsky.social OMG that handle!

"We added AI to our debugger!" Cool, cool. Does it crash less? "..." "We added AI to our debugger!"

I wonder if the Left can dislike Gavin Newsom without getting really gross about it. <checks feed> Nope.

Damn. I can't sum up my thoughts on TED talks any more perfectly than this.

Let's keep taking away streets until they give up.

I mean, ya gotta justify it to the funding agencies with words like "studying ocean habitats" but we all know this deserves funding because it's objectively awesome.

I often get an error when I try to use some random AI add-in. It might be an extension of my power over skateboarders. No skateboarder can land a trick in my presence. I've never seen one succeed in person and suspect I never will.

The discourse on this is going to be unmoored from popular opinion.

This doesn't happen when we nominate women. <remembers Kristen Sinema> Goddamnit.

It's wild to me how anti-historical people are. "If Ford had asked people what they wanted, they would have said a faster horse." Yeah, no. There were cars around, but they were expensive. Ford was one of a number trying to make them cheaper. He was just successful at it.

You know, you really couldn't make Birth of a Nation today.

A rent freeze on rent control units is a pretty mundane technocratic solution.... which means a lot to the people affected, of course. But it's relatively small. Nonetheless, they made the promise, delivered on it and are now making a big deal about it. Brilliant.

<looks around to make sure no one's nearby> Jimmy Carter was also bad at his job.

Sat next to a couple of AI employees at dinner. I wanted to give them advice they wouldn't listen to. "Save most of your windfall. This probably won't happen again for you." "If you need a next job, it won't net you as much. Get used to that idea now." "If you can't keep up, make cheaper friends."

Be the algae you want to see in the world.