Notices by Dan Morris (coldfish@sfba.social)

@evan I don't know. I think AI is just gonna be here whether we like it or not. I also think that we're going to be roped into it and suddenly it will magically get much more expensive.

So, I've been on a mission to find the "good" in what's happening here. I think if we get more local AI tools to offset the needs for "big AI" then we may be able to come to some kind of direction that isn't just a horrific dystopian future that I tend to see coming.

My last project: Do document analysis on Gemini, but handle all the vector embedding on Ollama locally. The thing is, so much can be done locally that it hard to believe that the next versions of Chrome or Office won't have an LLM built in, if only to offset the load on the remote AI.

@evan I use Ollama locally to scan my own files and server logs. Does that count?

@evan what about when people use to to make something you hate to make by hand?

@sysop408 @skinnylatte
I discovered that it's not just tourist chinese restaurants that do this!

I live right in chinatown, and my inlaws are all chinese. And we eat at some pretty sketchy places where they can get the best stinky-fish pot and argue about who's chicken feet are better.

When we go, my mother-in-law will get the menu (it used to be her husband before he died) and order for everyone. We don't really get a say.

When I used to go to the same restaurant with non-chinese friends, we all get menus with individual plates and I have to ask for the family menu.

Now that they all know me, when I'm there with non-chinese friends, they automatically give me the family menu and I get to ignore everyone else at the table.

then again.... the check also goes to me. :)

The idea of a bunch of billionaires using a group signal chat (so there's no record) to organize millions and millions of dollars in political funding to stop themselves from having to pay a one-time wealth tax to save CA Healthcare is fucking nauseating.

"Gee bob, I love the 10th 50M vacation house you bought this year while yachting around the world. We'd better gather up another 50M or so to make sure we don't contribute anything positive to America and certainly don't help anyone we don't know."

https://www.sfgate.com/politics/article/michael-moritz-billionaire-wealth-tax-21329682.php

@evan 99% of republicans are totally in support of genocide. I'd say 50% of liberals just are so overwhelmed with shit in the USA they try not to think about it. And of those, many are like, "WE CANNOT SUPPORT PALISTINE BECAUSE WE MIGHT LOSE POTENTIAL VOTES AND MONEY FROM RICH PEOPLE!!!!"

The remainder of us.... feel it's basically hopeless and have spun into a spiral of depression and defeatism

Which, I suppose, is probably the goal of this administration.

so, I got so mad at corporate america, basically laundering money and handing it right to CEOs, regardless of what company it was like choosing between "Just plain Evil" and "Really Bad", I decided that I wanted to invest in my city, but it had to be something super stable, since it's my retirement.

Well.... I bought a 4 plex of rent controlled units. It doesn't make any money, but I think in 20yrs it will be some income and maybe something I can leave my kids.

However, no matter how good intentioned, I still get the "you're profiting off my labor" type of vibe from people.

Is there actually a good way to invest in your own city that's low risk and will provide for the family when I'm old and unable to work? I can't count on medicare and SS being around.

Wtf is someone supposed to do when you truly believe there are zero good options on the stock market, and an IRA is just a bunch of stocks by proxy?

@georgetakei There are already a ton of these groyper people posting that she's trans. Unbelievable.

@skinnylatte I actually have some Konjac noodles and coconut cream. Going to have to find some decent fish-stock, but it looks like I have just about everything else but lime-leaves and the curry paste. Prob get some down the street in chinatown.

Unfortunately, I'm going to have to make one for my vegan wife as well. So that's going to be fun, but it think she has some fish-like goop I can use. lol

@skinnylatte I had to look up what Laska was, and now I need to make it. Unfortunately, the kids have Celiac, so I'm gonna have to make it from scratch with tamari instead of soysauce, but I bet I can do it.

Any tips?

I've been a steelers fan for years. Half my damn wardrobe is steelers gear that people have gifted me. I really enjoyed the inclusiveness of how I'd have a bunch of Frat-bros and sitting with a table of butch lesbians, screaming about how the bengals suck and cheering for touchdowns. Black, White, Gay, Straight, etc... It was so nice.

Later on, it got a bit trumpie. Some people would wear their little maga hats and make it clear that they were NOT inclusive, that "those" people weren't wanted. But, that would pass, right?

Instead, it just got worse and worse.

I was pissed about Big Ben, but I was like, "ugh, I'm not going to abandon my team because of one guy". I was pissed about Michael Vick, but again.... one guy. I was super pissed about Rogers, and decided to simply not watch for a years)

But now.... This shit is too much. I'm done.

https://www.wboy.com/news/regional/president-trump-named-an-honorary-pittsburgh-steeler/amp/

@skinnylatte miso? Really?

Ok. I'll give it a shot. That's a new one for me

@skinnylatte I remember talking to my brother-in-law's wife's mom, who immigrated here from the Philippines. I was asking about Duarte and he was letting cops execute drug dealers they caught right in the street. Like, caught selling a bag of pot: get on your knees and die.

This sweet little old lady was like, "oh, he's a great man. my home town is so much safer. ".

I was dumbstruck. Like, here's the sweetest little lady. LIke 100yrs old, 4' tall, making me awful coffee and singing songs to my kids.... totally supporting a crazy dictator.

I'm afraid to ask who she supports now.

so, it seems that my only el salvadoran friend, who hasn't been back to El Salvador in 20+ yrs, is convinced that the country is incredibly safe now and that all gang members have tatoos and the government knows the secret translation of what each one means, so they can all go to prison forever.

and now it's safe, so if someone says to do it here, then it's a good thing.

This is the immigrant class that's totally getting fucked by trump, yet they take from their history and imagined history to make decisions about this country rather than seeing how THAT is the kind of thing that happens so far back in the chain of social evolution that we can't even see it from here.

#uspol
I remember when the supreme court ruled against gay marriage. People protested and held sit-ins and complained online.

Our Mayor, Newsom, Said, "Screw you. My clerk of courts will marry any gay couple. What are you going to do about it?"

And there were lines down the street of people getting married. And THAT is why we have same sex marriage now. Not because of a protest, not because of a lawsuit, but because a democrat just went ahead and said, "Do it and let them come for me".

I hated Newsom until that day. Since then, I still sometimes get irritated with him, but because of that one decision, I've backed him for decades.

We need to be that way if we are going to survive this. We need democrats who are in power and willing to take real risks.

#uspol
New law about to be passed in Mississippi:

Being an undocumented person in Mississippi will be a life without parole prison sentence:

https://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2025/pdf/HB/1400-1499/HB1484IN.pdf

@skinnylatte H1Bs need to be disconnected from employers.

I had a co-worker on a work visa and she had to go back to Brazil every year and wait for my boss to finish the paperwork to let her back in. Each time, she left her BF, her apartment, her cat, everything she owned here in SF and then had to stay at a friend's house in Brazil - where she no longer had any family - in hopes that her asshole boss actually fulfilled his end of the deal.

AND.... I got hired with zero experience, yet made substantially more than her - and she was terrified to ask for a raise.

It's inappropriate for an employer to have that level of power over any human's personal life.

@mizblueprint @evan ugh.... How do I change my vote?

@evan Any time you can just "buy" control over millions of people's social lives, it's a bad thing. Doesn't matter who's hat the helm now, because *someday* it will be bought by a bad person and everyone's lives will be turned upside down.

Whoever designed ActivityPub/Fediverse....

that was brilliant. There's literally no way to "own" it.

Some friends we've known for 30+ years came to visit. A woman and her mom. Mom, an immigrant single mother, daughter had a disabled child at 16. Heavily supported by state and federal aid their entire lives.

Now... Big trumpies. So, yeah, Uber Christian son-in-law plus moving to Georgia, we should have known.

But I wonder if they realize (or care) that announcing it like it was just choosing a different meal, but for us - and everyone else on the planet - that was a massive attack on our families, our future, a body-blow to those of us with gay/enby kids/family.

I wonder if they know they just got disinvited to every single family event for the foreseeable future.

It's now a one-day choice. It's not "oh, I didn't know". This time, it was an attack on my children. An active and intentional attack that could very easily cut their lives short.

I wonder if they have any idea how serious we take this.

People I've known for 30yrs and now are simply "trump supporters I know". Ugh