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Dozens gathered on the steps of City Hall to call attention to the Lurie Administration’s criminalization of homelessness. The administration is closing shelters, cutting down on Permanent Supportive Housing, and redirecting resources to law-enforcement. 48hills.org/2026/06/some-h…

@Scott_Wiener Listen, the people alleging fraud are doing it for disingenuous reasons. But Jesus Christ. Get your act together California. The incredibly slow count is just incompetent.

Let’s be very clear what’s happening: MAGA operatives are working overtime to cast doubt on the LA Mayor’s race to justify passing their atrocious proposals to make it much harder or impossible for people to vote. They’re laying groundwork for straight up voter suppression.

@Garrett_Archer Agree. But at the same time California has elected to do absolutely nothing to improve the efficiency of the vote count. We deserved to be shamed into doing something about it.

Way to grow confidence in elections Ron. You can complain about the speed of the count without going full bonkers conspiracy theory you know.

@garrytan It really started with the school board recall

SF is pro-growth pro-business, and we have to keep winning Keep voting, keep talking about the real issues, don't get distracted by culture war, keep building

@soncharm @ettingermentum Hey hey. They were pretty racist to Asian people too.

@ettingermentum a big thing it got wrong was being virulently racist against one particular racial grouping

For those of us (nearly everyone) who recognize Woke 1.0 as a failure, what’s something specific you’re willing to say it got wrong? Here’s mine: the practice of describing policies that were, like, Kerner Commission recommendations as “prison abolition” to get attention was dumb

@SenecaSpeaks21 They have a point. We shouldn’t put 90000 people and their carbon emissions on the road. Just fire them instead.

After 6 years no of them want to return to work because many of them moved and/or have another remote job. Oakland is the same.

@garrytan I think you are underestimating the appeal of “bullshit jobs” to most people.

Bob McGrew has a framework I keep thinking about: in the AI future there are only two jobs. The Lone Genius and the Manager. That's it. Everything else gets absorbed. The Lone Genius is the person sitting alone at a computer, amplified 1000x by AI. One person with taste, vision, and relentless focus who can now do what used to take a team of 50. The Manager is the person who becomes CEO of their own "firm" where most of the employees are AI agents. They define the goals. They decide what matters. They coordinate. The AI does the execution. The Marxists will hear "two jobs" and panic. "What about everyone else?!" But here's what they're missing: AI doesn't shrink these two categories. It explodes them open. More people get to be geniuses. More people get to be managers. The barrier to entry for both just collapsed. What actually gets eliminated? David Graeber called them "bullshit jobs." Graeber was no libertarian! He inspired Occupy Wall Street. His words: "Huge swaths of people spend their entire working lives performing tasks they secretly believe don't really need to be performed. The moral and spiritual damage that comes from this situation is profound. It is a scar across our collective soul." Graeber said bullshit jobs are "a form of spiritual violence directed at the essence of what it means to be a human being." They induce "hopelessness, depression, and self-loathing." This is who the left should be fighting for. Not to preserve those jobs. To liberate people from them and give them better ones. The dirty secret of the modern economy: millions of people sit in roles so pointless that even they can't justify their existence. Compliance layers. Reporting layers. Coordination layers. Meeting-about-the-meeting layers. They know it's meaningless. It eats them alive. AI eats those layers. Good. That's a jailbreak. What I love about Bob's framework is where it points. The Lone Genius used to require a PhD, a lab, institutional backing. Now a 19-year-old with taste and Codex can ship what took a research team a year. The genius bottleneck was never talent. It was access. The Manager used to mean you needed to hire 50 people, raise money, build an org chart. Now you can orchestrate a fleet of AI agents from your laptop. The management bottleneck was never skill. It was capital. AI doesn't concentrate genius and management into fewer hands. It distributes them into more hands. The working class kid in West Virginia. The single mom in Ohio. The 55-year-old who got laid off and now builds software for the first time. Those are some of Bob's future geniuses and managers. The best founders I see at YC are already living this. They toggle between both modes in the same day. Morning: lone genius, creative insight, the thing nobody else sees. Afternoon: manager, spinning up agents, steering, shipping. The cycle time between genius and manager IS the new productivity metric. So when someone tells you AI means "only two jobs and everyone else starves," quote Graeber to them, they’ll get it. Graeber knew the real violence was making people do meaningless work and pretending it was dignity. AI ends that. More genius. More agency. Fewer spiritual prisons.

@siimland Why did you call out the extremely high frequency? It’s better than the 12-51 range which you did not call out

Americans who had sex 1-3x/week (52–103x/year) had the lowest risk of cardiovascular disease and death. Both very low frequency (<12x/year) and extremely high frequency (≥365x/year) were linked to a higher risk. Low sexual activity might suggest cardiovascular problems (ED), hormonal dysfunction, or some other underlying risk. Hypersexual activity might suggest compulsive behavior, impulsivity, or a higher risk of STDs. PMID: 39738405

@garrytan You want to spend your money in a way to get the biggest bang for your buck? Focus on the judge races. Maybe some recalls. Imagine what you might be able to do in a couple cycles

SF judges matter a lot, and we have to make a stand. It's time you educated yourself on how to vote for judges in San Francisco

@DanAmira @bendreyfuss I’m from Queens. What the hell is lurr?

I’ve never felt more gaslit. I’m from Long Island. I’ve taken the LIRR my whole life. I’ve never once heard a single person pronounce it “lurr,” ever

@engleberta6279 @mattyglesias @epnohelty Do you honestly think an intentionally race swapped version of a story like say “roots” would go anywhere? No matter how talented or how creative a hook someone came up with.

@DOSF71 @mattyglesias @epnohelty But there's an actual point to that. It would probably be challenging, but I'm sure someone talented could come up with a compelling hook for why Hopkins should play Mandela - but that race swap would become a thematic element just as it is in Hamilton

@BayAreaNewLibs It’s not the issue specifically. Using intentionally inflammatory language like that when he full well knows he is lying is disqualifying.

@DOSF71 I don't think a single foreign policy issue should really disqualify anyone here. It's far from the most important thing a representative would be voting on, and most foreign policy is handled by the executive at this point.

Endorsing a completely unworthy successor is a terrible way to end such a storied career. A real shame.

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@DOSF71 @jbarro Door County. Idk what door peninsula is but please never say it again

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@bettersoma @Scott_Wiener Even worse, he joins in

@Scott_Wiener Scott. When local Jews are attacked you didn’t listen. Full stop bro.

Swastikas on Jewish sites in New York City. Stars of David placed on the yard signs of a Jewish candidate in San Jose, to mark the candidate. Not surprisingly assaults against Jews are now spiking. The normalization of antisemitic rhetoric has consequences. We must stop it.

@PavlovicNBCS Wasn’t that the Willie Brown Bridge already?

The Giants and some city officials announced that a portion of the Bay Bridge (basically from Treasure Island to the ballpark) has been renamed the Willie Mays Highway. Today would have been his 95th birthday.

@Scott_Wiener You are such a hypocrite.

When people claim antisemitism only exists in right wing spaces, they normalize the antisemitism that spans the spectrum. This latest example of straight up antisemitism — a choir refusing to perform with a Jewish choir because of Gaza — is similar to what we see locally, with attacks on Hillel on college campuses, the targeting of Jewish-owned businesses like Manny’s or the targeting of Civic Joy Fund (a San Francisco organization that funds community events) because it’s funded by Jews. Opposing efforts to address antisemitism — effectively claiming it’s made up — fuels it.

@CoryBooker This is not compassion. Compassion is helping him off the course to get medical care. This is cheating.

If you want to go far, go together. This is what America looks like at its best: not racing alone, but lifting each other up. Compassion over competition. Love in action. We are better when we run as one.