I’ve been cramming on reading to fill out my Hugo ballot and it feels like a lot of the nominated short stories / novellas are people processing feelings about AI (understandably)

I was once at a city transpo meeting where a guy on the committee ironically suggested that we allow shattuck to go back to the earth by simply stopping repaving it, thereby slowing traffic naturally as the asphalt degrades Sometimes I genuinely think we should do this.

genuine question — If you have children you spend time with, a demanding job, and a commute AND you get exercise in, how do you make time to do that last one? I suspect it’s a “you just gotta do it” kinda situation but looking for stories

Just learned this term ”unassimilated straddlers” and it explains so much about me and ppl I identify with

Going to try to binge read Emily Wilson’s odyssey translation before I go see the Nolan movie Sunday watch this space for thoughts

TIL a kid’s meal at IKEA is $3.99. adding this to my “last good deals in the Bay Area“ list

feels like a real landmark of impunity that major corporations are making federal crimes part of the interview process

Paresh Dave@peard33.bsky.social · 4w ago

OpenAI hardware chief Tang Tan allegedly helped coach recruits on how to evade Apple’s data security protocols and directed them to bring confidential Apple parts to job interviews at OpenAI. www.wired.com/story/apple-...

Would you look at that trendline for Caltrain. Amazing stuff! Now let's pass this ballot initiative this fall!

Joey Politano🏳️‍🌈@josephpolitano.bsky.social · 4w ago

Ridership on the Bay Area's Caltrain also continues rising in the wake of the route's electrification, with passenger counts up 15% compared to this time last year! Caltrain has taken more than 14M passengers over the last twelve months, the highest since 2019

I've read that telegraph operators had a kind of "hand" that was recognizable. I feel the same way when I read someone's code: the way they name variables, or structure a file. They show me a little of who they are. I think those days are passing now, and I feel a little nostalgic about it.

The fundamental test of birthright citizenship is this: if someone illegally trafficked people to this country and forced them into bondage and then those people had children, would those children have rights to object to continued servitude? If you answer isn't "yes, they have rights" you lose.

I made this painting several years ago while living in Ottawa Summer Sky 30x40 acrylic on canvas

sample option of preschools near me: Pixar, cliff bar, French, German

NEW: Democratic Rep. Dan Goldman loses New York primary to Brad Lander.

Democratic Rep. Dan Goldman loses New York primary to former City Comptroller Brad Lander

NBC News projects that Lander, a progressive backed by Mayor Zohran Mamdani, won the Democratic nomination in the 10th District.

nbcnews.com

Depressingly low bar but I appreciate that a public school teacher can afford to live alone (!) with a car (!) if they want to in the east bay

might be a political machine run city but hey at least money can’t buy you everything www.sfchronicle.com/politics/joe...

Here’s what Saikat Chakrabarti got wrong about S.F. in his bid to replace Nancy Pelosi

Saikat Chakrabarti did not account for the fact that San Francisco has its own set of rules when it comes to running for office, Joe Garofoli writes.

sfchronicle.com

Still out here, still dying on this hill

Maggie Zhou@zmagg.com · 11mo ago

Collaborating with only robots and not humans seems like a fundamentally lonely endeavor, a cul de sac approach to anything worth building. I keep thinking about how even in video games we were quick to add chat and group interaction.

the hyper local (8 square blocks) parents of young children WhatsApp group gives me hope

the ads part of my Instagram feed is 40% targeted guilt about not being a SAHM, 30% grey hair tips, and 30% lesbian comics. You’d think the 3rd one would remove the first one away fashy fashy media I guess

ICE kidnapped a San Franciscan today. Call Congresswoman Pelosi’s office and demand they get him returned home safely: (415) 556-4862

Mission Local@missionlocal.org · 2mo ago

BREAKING: A handful of federal agents in unmarked cars this morning arrested a man outside his home in the Sunnyside neighborhood of San Francisco. He was later seen was being escorted into the ICE field office downtown. missionlocal.org/2026/05/fede...

“Several of these sad wives, my therapist added, have turned down job opportunities in AI themselves. Not because they weren’t qualified, but because it’s hard to raise kids and disrupt civilization at the same time.”

I highly encourage you to ask a man in his life what ai slop shows up on his Instagram feed Buro gets like, sad Marie curie dipping radishes into salt

Actually really stoked to vote in my 2nd ever us election

I just want a mid/high rise wide leg pant with a gusseted crotch that looks ok with a blouse and can suffer gardening (reinforced knees) and bike commuting is this so hard to ask

Is okonomayaki just a cabbage frittata

Tremendously grateful to work at a company without offsites this week as I hear people grumble about being tired from them

Had the grim realization that I’ve been building services on top of kubernetes for a decade.

Now that Anthropic is partnering with xAI, let me bring back this post from a few weeks ago, and remind you: NO COOKIE FOR DARIO www.anildash.com/2026/02/27/a...

A Cookie for Dario? — Anthropic and selling death - Anil Dash

A blog about making culture. Since 1999.

anildash.com

Techmeme@techmeme.com · 3mo ago

SpaceX signs an agreement with Anthropic to provide access to Colossus 1, and says Anthropic expressed interest in partnering for orbital compute capacity (xAI) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

Here are some more images showing the extent of the damage. The dirty area on the concrete is where the bike share station was before the crash. The asphalt & concrete areas shown are each bike/walk pathways that the person fully drove through, in addition to the entire bike share station.

OB Chargn@obchargn.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Car driver looks to have overshot the parking space at Berkeley Bowl West and took out the bike-share on the greenway.

I may have gotten the tomatoes in the ground by torch light but I got them in the ground in early May so it’s a success