Jim Ausman
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Jim Ausman
@ausman.bsky.social
· Aug 30
The MOST IMPORTANT thing we can do now politically is to expand and strengthen our tribes.
No one knows what is going to happen but we do know that we are going to need each other more than ever to thrive facing the rising tide of darkness and evil. We will need to lean on core values of Mutual Aid
No one knows what is going to happen but we do know that we are going to need each other more than ever to thrive facing the rising tide of darkness and evil. We will need to lean on core values of Mutual Aid
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In 2025, AI slop is everywhere. The best way to beat it is systemic change, regulatory overhaul. But the second-best way is by rebelling against it in our everyday lives.
That means sustained, active engagement with non-slop—real people, challenging art, new ideas—in the real world and online.
That means sustained, active engagement with non-slop—real people, challenging art, new ideas—in the real world and online.
Monster of 2025: AI slop
The drive for a frictionless existence has sloppified our offline lives, too.
www.motherjones.com
December 30, 2025 at 4:00 AM
In 2025, AI slop is everywhere. The best way to beat it is systemic change, regulatory overhaul. But the second-best way is by rebelling against it in our everyday lives.
That means sustained, active engagement with non-slop—real people, challenging art, new ideas—in the real world and online.
That means sustained, active engagement with non-slop—real people, challenging art, new ideas—in the real world and online.
More of this please. Non violent resistance wins the day.
Sorry ass sons a bitches.
Watch this.
Open your eyes to this brutality.
ICE beats up, drags & abducts this disabled visually impaired man.
Now share this.
Everyone must see the brutality of this administration & ask themselves what they are doing to push back.
You have power.
Even sharing this video exerts that power.
Open your eyes to this brutality.
ICE beats up, drags & abducts this disabled visually impaired man.
Now share this.
Everyone must see the brutality of this administration & ask themselves what they are doing to push back.
You have power.
Even sharing this video exerts that power.
December 30, 2025 at 4:25 AM
More of this please. Non violent resistance wins the day.
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look we're all making a big bet on AI! and if it pays off as big as we hope, well, it's going to make a handful of people super rich and you're going to lose your job but get to watch mickey mouse fuck geralt from the witcher. if it doesn't pay off well then you get to pay for the bailouts
December 29, 2025 at 2:25 AM
look we're all making a big bet on AI! and if it pays off as big as we hope, well, it's going to make a handful of people super rich and you're going to lose your job but get to watch mickey mouse fuck geralt from the witcher. if it doesn't pay off well then you get to pay for the bailouts
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What we’re being told is that a guy who is an adjudicated rapist, who was credibly accused of sexual assault by dozens of women, who paid hush money to a porn star, who cheated on all his wives, who is mentioned hundreds of times in the Epstein files, couldn’t possibly be a sexual predator.
December 24, 2025 at 5:12 AM
What we’re being told is that a guy who is an adjudicated rapist, who was credibly accused of sexual assault by dozens of women, who paid hush money to a porn star, who cheated on all his wives, who is mentioned hundreds of times in the Epstein files, couldn’t possibly be a sexual predator.
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Rules are made to be broken. Injustice makes the rules, and courage breaks them.
December 19, 2025 at 10:53 PM
Rules are made to be broken. Injustice makes the rules, and courage breaks them.
Ideology thrives on insulation. Communities that never encounter opposing ideas lose the ability to reason; they memorize talking points instead. One of the simplest acts of civic recovery is to restore curiosity.
December 15, 2025 at 3:44 AM
Ideology thrives on insulation. Communities that never encounter opposing ideas lose the ability to reason; they memorize talking points instead. One of the simplest acts of civic recovery is to restore curiosity.
This is good not bad. If OpenAI does well so should its employees.
OpenAI will spend $6 billion on stock-based compensation this year, half of its revenue: www.wsj.com/tech/ai/open...
December 14, 2025 at 1:35 AM
This is good not bad. If OpenAI does well so should its employees.
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My least popular (and most correct) view is that cars should be automatically limited to the local speed limit. Put the pedal to the floor and you still can't go over 25mph in a residential area.
(15 in Manhattan btw)
(15 in Manhattan btw)
There is no possible justification for limiting e-bikes to 15mph but not cars.
New York Has a New E-Bike Speed Limit—and No Way to Enforce It
August 9, 2025 at 4:47 PM
My least popular (and most correct) view is that cars should be automatically limited to the local speed limit. Put the pedal to the floor and you still can't go over 25mph in a residential area.
(15 in Manhattan btw)
(15 in Manhattan btw)
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This chart should be on the driver's license test.
December 14, 2025 at 12:10 AM
This chart should be on the driver's license test.
Good point.
“Both Sherrill and Mayor Daniel Lurie, who each have strong support in the YIMBY community, blasted the proposal”
Mayor backs building luxury towers on Safeway lot to gentrify the Fillmore but not luxury towers on the Safeway lot in the Marina. What could possibly account for the difference?
Mayor backs building luxury towers on Safeway lot to gentrify the Fillmore but not luxury towers on the Safeway lot in the Marina. What could possibly account for the difference?
Marina’s reaction to Safeway tower plans: ‘Along comes this behemoth right on the waterfront’
Plans to put a 25-story apartment complex on San Francisco’s Marina district sparked concerts about a future where the city’s waterfront is ringed by tall housing structures.
www.sfchronicle.com
December 8, 2025 at 7:01 AM
Good point.
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Those who build walls are their own prisoners.
December 8, 2025 at 2:15 AM
Those who build walls are their own prisoners.
Save Muni!
Join DSA SF and @jackiefielder.bsky.social at city hall Monday at 12 to rally for a Muni measure that grows service while protecting tenants!
The MuniForever proposal:
- expands service by 10%
- prohibits tax pass-throughs to rent-controlled tenants
- shifts tax burden onto corporations and mansions
The MuniForever proposal:
- expands service by 10%
- prohibits tax pass-throughs to rent-controlled tenants
- shifts tax burden onto corporations and mansions
December 8, 2025 at 6:32 AM
Save Muni!
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NO-ONE EVER, with the courage of their convictions, has worn a mask.
These thugs are cowards in more ways than one.
These thugs are cowards in more ways than one.
December 6, 2025 at 2:23 AM
NO-ONE EVER, with the courage of their convictions, has worn a mask.
These thugs are cowards in more ways than one.
These thugs are cowards in more ways than one.
This is exactly what happened in San Francisco. Calvin Welch and the other fauxgressives downzoned The City in 1978 and set in motion the framework which has inevitably led to rising rents and home prices and gentrification.
What happens when you downzone?
Our new open-access research paper in @findingspress.org investigates effects of decades of downzoning in Chicago.
Findings:
—Downzoned areas added 1/7th of the new units as comparable non-downzoned areas;
—Downzoned areas became more white & were more expensive.
Our new open-access research paper in @findingspress.org investigates effects of decades of downzoning in Chicago.
Findings:
—Downzoned areas added 1/7th of the new units as comparable non-downzoned areas;
—Downzoned areas became more white & were more expensive.
Downzoning Chicago: How Local Land Use Policy Has Reduced Housing Construction and Reinforced Segregation | Published in Findings
By Yonah Freemark, George Kisiel. Downzonings were used by US cities in the postwar period to preserve neighborhood character. These land-use policies were associated with lower housing supply, higher...
findingspress.org
November 27, 2025 at 5:18 PM
This is exactly what happened in San Francisco. Calvin Welch and the other fauxgressives downzoned The City in 1978 and set in motion the framework which has inevitably led to rising rents and home prices and gentrification.
Thanks fauxgressives! You did it! You slayed the evil market rate housing. Be proud!
November 26, 2025 at 4:22 AM
Thanks fauxgressives! You did it! You slayed the evil market rate housing. Be proud!
"The more corrupt the state, the more numerous its laws,"- Tacitus
November 25, 2025 at 3:07 AM
"The more corrupt the state, the more numerous its laws,"- Tacitus
Why do fauxgressives lie about things like this?
“It highlights the lie that all we need to do is remove the protections and processes for community input and democratic land use and get out of the way of the real estate industry, and they’ll solve our affordability problems,”
“It highlights the lie that all we need to do is remove the protections and processes for community input and democratic land use and get out of the way of the real estate industry, and they’ll solve our affordability problems,”
November 24, 2025 at 4:30 AM
Why do fauxgressives lie about things like this?
“It highlights the lie that all we need to do is remove the protections and processes for community input and democratic land use and get out of the way of the real estate industry, and they’ll solve our affordability problems,”
“It highlights the lie that all we need to do is remove the protections and processes for community input and democratic land use and get out of the way of the real estate industry, and they’ll solve our affordability problems,”
It’s deliberate policy choices by both the fauxgressives and the conservatives that got us here.
"My Centrelink payment is $1600 a fortnight, but my rent is $1700, so already everything has gone to paying the rent."
it's not the rental crisis that is causing such misery.
It's decades of bipartisan housing, tax & welfare policy which has pushed up housing costs and kept 1 in 6 kids #poverty.
it's not the rental crisis that is causing such misery.
It's decades of bipartisan housing, tax & welfare policy which has pushed up housing costs and kept 1 in 6 kids #poverty.
'It's climbing the ladder': The rental crisis pushing working families to the brink
November 24, 2025 at 1:33 AM
It’s deliberate policy choices by both the fauxgressives and the conservatives that got us here.
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The people of Chicago won
Trump, Kristi Noem and ICE lost
Not only did Greg Bovino and his agents leave the city in disgrace
A judge ruled that they must release as many as 615 unjustly detained immigrants
Plus-they must stop pressuring immigrants to voluntarily leave
Never
Stop
Resisting
Trump, Kristi Noem and ICE lost
Not only did Greg Bovino and his agents leave the city in disgrace
A judge ruled that they must release as many as 615 unjustly detained immigrants
Plus-they must stop pressuring immigrants to voluntarily leave
Never
Stop
Resisting
November 18, 2025 at 4:29 AM
The people of Chicago won
Trump, Kristi Noem and ICE lost
Not only did Greg Bovino and his agents leave the city in disgrace
A judge ruled that they must release as many as 615 unjustly detained immigrants
Plus-they must stop pressuring immigrants to voluntarily leave
Never
Stop
Resisting
Trump, Kristi Noem and ICE lost
Not only did Greg Bovino and his agents leave the city in disgrace
A judge ruled that they must release as many as 615 unjustly detained immigrants
Plus-they must stop pressuring immigrants to voluntarily leave
Never
Stop
Resisting
We can do this California.
November 18, 2025 at 4:59 AM
We can do this California.
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Path to citizenship means you fill out a bit of paperwork swear an oath. This happens on the same day. If you literally have Ebola you gotta apply again in a few weeks
Otherwise if you’re not on a *vetted* terrorist watchlist I honestly don’t give a shit
Otherwise if you’re not on a *vetted* terrorist watchlist I honestly don’t give a shit
November 16, 2025 at 10:04 AM
Path to citizenship means you fill out a bit of paperwork swear an oath. This happens on the same day. If you literally have Ebola you gotta apply again in a few weeks
Otherwise if you’re not on a *vetted* terrorist watchlist I honestly don’t give a shit
Otherwise if you’re not on a *vetted* terrorist watchlist I honestly don’t give a shit
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