@steveshoemaker.bsky.social
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In 1978, the San Francisco Board of Supervisors downzoned the city, banning multifamily homes in many areas and sparking a decades-long affordability crisis.
47 years later, on a 7–4 vote, they passed the Family Zoning Plan to finally begin to undo that mistake.
The times, they are a-changin’!
47 years later, on a 7–4 vote, they passed the Family Zoning Plan to finally begin to undo that mistake.
The times, they are a-changin’!
December 3, 2025 at 1:16 AM
In 1978, the San Francisco Board of Supervisors downzoned the city, banning multifamily homes in many areas and sparking a decades-long affordability crisis.
47 years later, on a 7–4 vote, they passed the Family Zoning Plan to finally begin to undo that mistake.
The times, they are a-changin’!
47 years later, on a 7–4 vote, they passed the Family Zoning Plan to finally begin to undo that mistake.
The times, they are a-changin’!
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i'm currently in the middle of a small city surrounded by 3-5 story buildings.
all i can hear is a stream and birds.
i'm looking out over a stream and back yard of a project i have been consumed by for over 20 years
cities aren't loud. cars are loud.
all i can hear is a stream and birds.
i'm looking out over a stream and back yard of a project i have been consumed by for over 20 years
cities aren't loud. cars are loud.
July 6, 2025 at 6:49 PM
i'm currently in the middle of a small city surrounded by 3-5 story buildings.
all i can hear is a stream and birds.
i'm looking out over a stream and back yard of a project i have been consumed by for over 20 years
cities aren't loud. cars are loud.
all i can hear is a stream and birds.
i'm looking out over a stream and back yard of a project i have been consumed by for over 20 years
cities aren't loud. cars are loud.
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Family Zoning passes the first reading 7-4 at the Board of Supervisors. I've legit been working on this for 3 years. LET'S FUCKING GO.
If you showed up at a hearing, sent a letter, told your friends, or organized to make this happen, THANK YOU
If you showed up at a hearing, sent a letter, told your friends, or organized to make this happen, THANK YOU
December 3, 2025 at 1:04 AM
Family Zoning passes the first reading 7-4 at the Board of Supervisors. I've legit been working on this for 3 years. LET'S FUCKING GO.
If you showed up at a hearing, sent a letter, told your friends, or organized to make this happen, THANK YOU
If you showed up at a hearing, sent a letter, told your friends, or organized to make this happen, THANK YOU
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Three years into the generative-AI wave, demand for the technology seems surprisingly flimsy
Investors expect AI use to soar. That’s not happening
Recent surveys point to flatlining business adoption
econ.st
November 29, 2025 at 9:20 PM
Three years into the generative-AI wave, demand for the technology seems surprisingly flimsy
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“AI is here to stay” from the visionaries who brought you “NFTs are the future.”
November 28, 2025 at 11:47 PM
“AI is here to stay” from the visionaries who brought you “NFTs are the future.”
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Curious if anyone out there has written a draft letter expressing resistance to AI in schools (grade and post-sec) for public use. If not, I might be up for the job in drafting a template letter that points to facts and examples, verified by actual experts in the field. Something needs to be done.
These videos need to be sent to the administration of every school espousing "AI is the future" to remind them of the kind of future they are helping to solidify where violence, racism, and misogyny are enacted under a veil of fantasy.
The purpose of a system of is what it does.
November 29, 2025 at 2:39 PM
Curious if anyone out there has written a draft letter expressing resistance to AI in schools (grade and post-sec) for public use. If not, I might be up for the job in drafting a template letter that points to facts and examples, verified by actual experts in the field. Something needs to be done.
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Here’s this Better Offline. I’m joined by @gerritd.bsky.social of The Washington Post to discuss what an analysis of 47,000 ChatGPT conversations can tell us about how people use the service - and how eager it is to fuel any conversation.
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/b...
Linktr.ee/betteroffline
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/b...
Linktr.ee/betteroffline
What People Actually Use ChatGPT For With Gerrit De Vynck
Podcast Episode · Better Offline · 11/20/2025 · 42m
podcasts.apple.com
November 20, 2025 at 5:27 AM
Here’s this Better Offline. I’m joined by @gerritd.bsky.social of The Washington Post to discuss what an analysis of 47,000 ChatGPT conversations can tell us about how people use the service - and how eager it is to fuel any conversation.
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/b...
Linktr.ee/betteroffline
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/b...
Linktr.ee/betteroffline
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‘Artificial intelligence might be the most transformative technology in generations. It is also the most joyless. While Wall Street greets AI with open arms, ordinary Americans respond with ambivalence, anxiety, even dread.’ www.wsj.com/tech/ai/the-...
November 18, 2025 at 3:35 PM
‘Artificial intelligence might be the most transformative technology in generations. It is also the most joyless. While Wall Street greets AI with open arms, ordinary Americans respond with ambivalence, anxiety, even dread.’ www.wsj.com/tech/ai/the-...
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I don’t want to seem out of touch but I don’t actually understand the economy anymore.
November 18, 2025 at 3:23 AM
I don’t want to seem out of touch but I don’t actually understand the economy anymore.
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Love to see community action against this AI nonsense! neighborhoodview.org/2025/11/13/d...
November 14, 2025 at 11:42 AM
Love to see community action against this AI nonsense! neighborhoodview.org/2025/11/13/d...
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“So you’re saying we should bully companies that use AI?”
“Yes absolutely.”
“Yes absolutely.”
October 20, 2025 at 8:08 PM
“So you’re saying we should bully companies that use AI?”
“Yes absolutely.”
“Yes absolutely.”
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I honestly don’t get the value of this company. They hoover up energy and water. Their product constantly gets things wrong and, in extreme cases, coaches people into suicide.
And it’s all built on what seems to be malicious and vast intellectual property theft.
What does OpenAI offer the world?
And it’s all built on what seems to be malicious and vast intellectual property theft.
What does OpenAI offer the world?
“authors & publishers who filed a lawsuit against the Sam Altman-led firm have secured access to internal Slack messages… discussing the mass deletion of a pirated books dataset… A NY district court ordered OpenAI to hand over the communications regarding data deletion”
futurism.com/artificial-i...
futurism.com/artificial-i...
OpenAI in Danger After Authors Suing It Gain Access to Its Internal Slack Messages
Authors and publishers, who are suing OpenAI, secured access to internal Slack messages and emails discussing the deletion of pirated books.
futurism.com
November 9, 2025 at 7:35 AM
I honestly don’t get the value of this company. They hoover up energy and water. Their product constantly gets things wrong and, in extreme cases, coaches people into suicide.
And it’s all built on what seems to be malicious and vast intellectual property theft.
What does OpenAI offer the world?
And it’s all built on what seems to be malicious and vast intellectual property theft.
What does OpenAI offer the world?
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Tech guys six months ago: haha yes we’re cutting all this WASTEFUL spending by eliminating medical research and USAID
Tech guys now: yes I think taxpayers will be excited to bailout my non consensual pornography machine
Tech guys now: yes I think taxpayers will be excited to bailout my non consensual pornography machine
November 8, 2025 at 11:02 PM
Tech guys six months ago: haha yes we’re cutting all this WASTEFUL spending by eliminating medical research and USAID
Tech guys now: yes I think taxpayers will be excited to bailout my non consensual pornography machine
Tech guys now: yes I think taxpayers will be excited to bailout my non consensual pornography machine
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Six people died from tampered Tylenol and the company pulled 30 million bottles off the market. ChatGPT is accused of urging seven people towards suicide, and OpenAI just assures us they’re still working out the kinks. Billions in investment, zero accountability.
OpenAI faces 7 lawsuits claiming ChatGPT drove people to suicide, delusions
OpenAI is facing seven lawsuits claiming ChatGPT drove people to suicide and harmful delusions even when they had no prior mental health issues.
apnews.com
November 8, 2025 at 2:46 PM
Six people died from tampered Tylenol and the company pulled 30 million bottles off the market. ChatGPT is accused of urging seven people towards suicide, and OpenAI just assures us they’re still working out the kinks. Billions in investment, zero accountability.
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ICE & Border Patrol & their ski masks aren’t welcome in San Francisco. Full stop.
Exclusive: Major federal immigration operation headed to San Francisco Bay Area
The Trump administration has dispatched more than 100 federal agents, including from U.S. Customs and Border Protection, to Coast Guard Base Alameda and they’ll begin to arrive Thursday.
www.sfchronicle.com
October 22, 2025 at 10:26 PM
ICE & Border Patrol & their ski masks aren’t welcome in San Francisco. Full stop.
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Hi. I wrote an essay about AI slop: How it feels like an invasive species for the internet. How its boosters describe building a future that’s devoid of craft. How frictionlessness can be nihilistic & how this stuff seems to leach part of our shared humanity out of the world. I hope you'll read it.
AI’s Invasive Species
The slop is winning.
www.theatlantic.com
October 20, 2025 at 10:47 PM
Hi. I wrote an essay about AI slop: How it feels like an invasive species for the internet. How its boosters describe building a future that’s devoid of craft. How frictionlessness can be nihilistic & how this stuff seems to leach part of our shared humanity out of the world. I hope you'll read it.
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In @nytopinion.nytimes.com
“At a time when we are surrounded by fakes and fabrications, Sora seems precisely designed to further erode the idea of objective truth. It is a jackhammer that demolishes the barrier between the real and the unreal,” Bobbie Johnson writes.
“At a time when we are surrounded by fakes and fabrications, Sora seems precisely designed to further erode the idea of objective truth. It is a jackhammer that demolishes the barrier between the real and the unreal,” Bobbie Johnson writes.
Opinion | What Is OpenAI’s Sora Slop App For, Exactly?
Trying to find purpose in an endless scroll of A.I.-generated videos.
nyti.ms
October 20, 2025 at 2:45 AM
In @nytopinion.nytimes.com
“At a time when we are surrounded by fakes and fabrications, Sora seems precisely designed to further erode the idea of objective truth. It is a jackhammer that demolishes the barrier between the real and the unreal,” Bobbie Johnson writes.
“At a time when we are surrounded by fakes and fabrications, Sora seems precisely designed to further erode the idea of objective truth. It is a jackhammer that demolishes the barrier between the real and the unreal,” Bobbie Johnson writes.
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Wrote for @thenation.com about how we're all gonna drown in hot oceans because we are air conditioning slop bots 💫
www.thenation.com/article/envi...
www.thenation.com/article/envi...
AI Is Going to Kill Everyone You Love. The Surprise Is How.
It’s not hostile super robots you should worry about—it’s the heat they’ll generate.
www.thenation.com
October 17, 2025 at 3:19 PM
Wrote for @thenation.com about how we're all gonna drown in hot oceans because we are air conditioning slop bots 💫
www.thenation.com/article/envi...
www.thenation.com/article/envi...
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"What if, in the process of trying to ban AI products that quite actually encourage children to kill themselves, we wind up banning chatbots that help children cheat on their homework, diminish their propensity for critical thought, and lead to the development of other forms of AI psychosis?"
CA governor Gavin Newsom vetoed both of the major AI bills on his desk that Silicon Valley meaningfully opposed—one making it illegal for bosses to use AI to fire workers with no oversight, one requiring chatbot sellers to ensure their products do not harm children before marketing to them.
Silicon Valley's capture of our political institutions is all but complete
The tech lobby kills off two key California AI bills, and why it matters. Plus: How Sam Altman played Hollywood with Sora 2, organized mass social media deletions, and more.
www.bloodinthemachine.com
October 16, 2025 at 11:23 PM
"What if, in the process of trying to ban AI products that quite actually encourage children to kill themselves, we wind up banning chatbots that help children cheat on their homework, diminish their propensity for critical thought, and lead to the development of other forms of AI psychosis?"
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a lot of people don't want to be here, man
This is the future of Windows. Microsoft wants to rewrite Windows to turn computers into AI PCs that you talk to. It's now bringing AI features to all Windows 11 PCs today, in a bid to convince you to talk to your PC and let AI control it. Full details 👇 www.theverge.com/news/799768/...
Microsoft wants you to talk to your PC and let AI control it
Copilot Voice and Vision are now rolling out.
www.theverge.com
October 16, 2025 at 3:40 PM
a lot of people don't want to be here, man
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Nobody’s building shit. They’re just swiping money from whatever company will offer them the most at any given moment
Apple’s AI division faces fresh turmoil as Ke Yang, head of its ChatGPT-like web search project for Siri, quits to join Meta — the latest in a wave of top-level AI exits. The departure deepens Apple’s struggle to stabilize its AI leadership while Meta aggressively poaches talent
October 15, 2025 at 11:44 PM
Nobody’s building shit. They’re just swiping money from whatever company will offer them the most at any given moment
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Fullcast After Dark will be sometime around 11 tonight. Prepare/caffeinate accordingly.
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EDSBS - Twitch
EDSBS streams live on Twitch! Check out their videos, sign up to chat, and join their community.
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October 11, 2025 at 10:39 PM
Fullcast After Dark will be sometime around 11 tonight. Prepare/caffeinate accordingly.
TWITCH: www.twitch.tv/EDSBS
LINKEDIN: www.linkedin.com/events/fullc...
STREAMYARD: streamyard.com/watch/X3G6CM...
TWITCH: www.twitch.tv/EDSBS
LINKEDIN: www.linkedin.com/events/fullc...
STREAMYARD: streamyard.com/watch/X3G6CM...
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These are all flagrant lies, unsourced yet printed in a newspaper that allegedly fact checks things. The rest of it is meandering panic-bait that treats jail breaking LLMs. They don’t even describe the virus! They just said someone made one. Bullshit!
October 10, 2025 at 5:11 PM
These are all flagrant lies, unsourced yet printed in a newspaper that allegedly fact checks things. The rest of it is meandering panic-bait that treats jail breaking LLMs. They don’t even describe the virus! They just said someone made one. Bullshit!
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Another perfect Fullcast
a sonic the hedgehog video game scene with a bunch of rings surrounding him
Alt: a sonic the hedgehog video game scene with a bunch of rings surrounding him
media.tenor.com
October 5, 2025 at 5:53 AM
Another perfect Fullcast