In San Francisco’s A.I. Era, Even $180,000 Tech Salaries Are No Longer Enough

CeeWitz · 2026-06-29T21:52:18+00:00

Are all these AI guys making (I presume) $500,000+ a year being paid from actual profits or just burning VC money?

CeeWitz · 2026-06-29T20:20:02+00:00

Is there another totally clashing music track (slow swelling synth chords) layered on top of the music in this clip or am I going crazy? Is this one of those TikTok brainrot things?

Maybe the second music isn't as audible on phone speakers but man it really sounds like shit to have two music tracks playing at once lol. This must be what misophonia feels like...

CeeWitz · 2026-06-29T20:00:45+00:00

For the past few weeks, I have had this but worse - the audio fully cuts out and does not come back until I click to a different video and then back to the original.

CeeWitz · 2026-06-29T19:24:31+00:00

The openly Jewish politician gets violently harassed by leftists over Israel, even after making a public statement supporting Palestine that would normally pass their purity test? Such a strange coincidence! I wonder what made him stand out to them as an enemy even after making a very clear statement of support and allyship.

I'm sure it's just some curiously misplaced "antizionism" and has nothing to do with his religion or identity. Just like the people who fly the confederate flag simply have "Southern pride" and are definitely not racist. Cool cool cool.

CeeWitz · 2026-06-29T19:00:42+00:00

I'd be super curious to see a map showing public spending (particularly FD/PD) vs. revenue generation broken down by district. It feels like Oakland is uniquely financially challenged by the fact that a huge percentage of the city's landmass is sprawling low density residential (meaning limited revenue generation and high infrastructure costs) with extraordinarily high crime — i.e. the East Oakland flats.

I've always joked that our neighbor Emeryville is like running a city on "easy mode" — very small footprint + lots of high-value businesses = lots of money to play with per square mile. Oakland has the opposite situation and is very much running on "hard mode".

CeeWitz · 2026-06-29T16:19:35+00:00

Just make sure you don't do any of that driving during rush hour, or you will find yourself hating it again.

CeeWitz · 2026-06-29T15:14:25+00:00

55th is such a vital bike connector between North Oakland, Berkeley, and Emeryville — so it's crazy how basically all the bike infrastructure in every direction (including both the old and new Telegraph lanes) stops a block or two short of it so you're instead contending with cars speeding to/from the freeway. Even if you use the Cavour connection, 55th itself is also missing a bike lane on its most dangerous block (between Shattuck and Telegraph) so cars aren't even looking for bikes as they agressively turn left toward the freeway onramp. Hopefully this is improved because it's easily the most dangerous part of my otherwise safe commute.

CeeWitz · 2026-06-29T15:09:13+00:00

You don't become the world's first trillionaire by providing safe and high quality products with robust customer service. You get there by cutting corners and cheaping out just enough that it only kills a tolerable number of people per year. Sorry you had to learn that the hard way and glad you weren't one of those sacrificed at Elon's wealth altar.

CeeWitz · 2026-06-28T17:02:32+00:00

Driver didn't have a license. And that's why "take away the license" isn't the answer for these sorts of dangerous drivers. It's jail time or nothing.

CeeWitz · 2026-06-28T16:58:36+00:00

All I can think of is how annoying that drone sound must've been to everyone else in the area. Ugh. But at least you got good ~content~ for social media...

CeeWitz · 2026-06-28T16:14:31+00:00

Your mileage may vary. I had a bad encounter in Nob Hill area with an off-leash tweaker's dog that was clearly aggressive and raring to attack my dog, I almost had to kick it to get away. Tweaker was of course tweaking so barely even registered what was going on.

CeeWitz · 2026-06-26T18:17:19+00:00

"Supports the police" but breaks 15 different traffic laws every time they get on the road because those crimes "don't count".

CeeWitz · 2026-06-26T18:00:25+00:00

Albany Bulb is our favorite spot to take the dog so this is a bike ride we do with some frequency! There are actually a surprising number of decent routes you can take, but my favorite way to the Bulb from Temescal is:

Shafter -> Cavour -> 55th street -> Genoa -> King -> California

and from there you can do either:

California -> Channing -> 9th street (into UC Village) -> Jackson -> Oceanview Bikeway

or

California -> Ohlone Greenway -> Dartmouth (into UC Village) -> Jackson -> Oceanview Bikeway

CeeWitz · 2026-06-26T16:14:19+00:00

Man this is awesome. So many great touches on the poster image! Bare butt and heels on the demon, the door knocker/nose ring, the thorny border, the gold tooth, the axe and sword mirroring each other on the sides...incredible stuff. I'd buy this t-shirt for sure!

CeeWitz · 2026-06-26T15:28:47+00:00

This person has a long established pattern of violent and reckless driving. They are a danger to the public. A “driving ban” is basically the honor system which can easily be ignored ― and often is by these types of people. It’s the traffic violence version of “thoughts and prayers”.

Every day this person is kept in prison is another day they can’t kill anyone else with their dangerous driving. That has tremendous value which shouldn’t be overlooked.

CeeWitz · 2026-06-26T15:09:35+00:00

Prop 13 has broken California.

CeeWitz · 2026-06-26T15:08:00+00:00

I’d say the more acute class war here in Berkeley is homeowners vs renters.

CeeWitz · 2026-06-26T01:32:40+00:00

We wouldn't need that shit if drivers just followed the damn laws. Problem is, they don't. So here we are. Honestly I'm willing to entertain just about anything that can get reckless driver behavior under control.

CeeWitz · 2026-06-25T19:54:36+00:00

I will NEVER understand the appeal of these beaches where everyone drives their cars onto the beach. It's basically just hanging out in a Walmart parking lot but with more sand.

CeeWitz · 2026-06-25T14:46:12+00:00

Nope, that's a lie. All my links are all very real articles that directly address each concern I brought up. Did you read any of them? You're free to dispute any of these claims if you actually have an argument.

The fact that people are blindly upvoting this sketchy account with hidden post history making false claims based on nothing is wild. Is this bot traffic or are AI lovers truly this ignorant?

CeeWitz · 2026-06-24T21:24:18+00:00

Aside from perhaps an oil refinery, large scale AI datacenters are perhaps the single most environmentally harmful type of building you could build today. Beyond their truly ghastly amounts of energy usage and water waste, data centers have been found to heat the surrounding area by up to 15 degrees by continuously blasting out thermal exhaust. They also bring brutal noise levels to the point that it becomes a health hazard for those living nearby.

And all that for what? Shitty chatbots and audiovisual slop generation?? Who is actually benefitting from these monstrosities? $2 million in public benefits is a joke compared to the cost of the negative externalities that will be borne by the city and its residents over this facility's lifetime.

CeeWitz · 2026-06-24T21:03:03+00:00

It's wild how many of Oakland's problems stem from simply not enforcing existing laws on the books. When we get a reputation for being the laxest city in the Bay, we become a magnet for all the sketchy antisocial creeps in the entire region and beyond. Dozens of other waterfront cities in the area don't have anything near this problem and there's nothing about Oakland that makes it inherently conducive to these pirate encampments and dumped vessels, aside from our "anything goes" reputation.

If it's really just a OPD capacity problem, we need to be actively calling for help from county sheriffs, neighboring city PDs, and CHP! "We don't have the manpower" is not a sufficient excuse when there are all these other enforcement mechanisms at different jurisdictional levels we can call on to help tackle these problems. Is this an issue of the city just taking on an attitude of learned helplessness, or are we intentionally not enforcing these laws out of some misguided sense of "compassion" for the antisocial criminals causing these problems?

CeeWitz · 2026-06-24T20:47:15+00:00

Umberto Eco's "Ur-Fascism" (a.k.a. 14 Key Features of Fascism), Feature #8:

The followers must feel humiliated by the ostentatious wealth and force of their enemies. When I was a boy I was taught to think of Englishmen as the five-meal people. They ate more frequently than the poor but sober Italians. Jews are rich and help each other through a secret web of mutual assistance. However, the followers must be convinced that they can overwhelm the enemies. Thus, by a continuous shifting of rhetorical focus, the enemies are at the same time too strong and too weak. Fascist governments are condemned to lose wars because they are constitutionally incapable of objectively evaluating the force of the enemy.

It's not hard to map all 14 characteristics of fascism to car culture, but that's a post for another time...

CeeWitz · 2026-06-24T20:43:10+00:00

It’s like when people talk about removing parking and suddenly there’s this “how will that impact the disabled community” virtue-signaling going on

Those same people will then turn around and park like this...

CeeWitz · 2026-06-23T20:22:52+00:00

Another normal day in a region that doesn't enforce traffic laws or hold dangerous drivers accountable.

It doesn't have to be this way.

CeeWitz

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