Notices by Tito Swineflu (tito_swineflu@sfba.social), page 2

@clanger9 @mewbassprr @khobochka Yes. I configure my nginx to send all AI bots to a bunch of stuff written in old/middle english - the canterbury tales, beowulf. Hopefully that helps make their language models worse.

@kingrat it's nearly as likely as winning.

@kingrat It's amazing how the city just chooses neighborhoods to be bad. In 2012, I lived by 13th, and the city told the homeless people to go there. It was like the city put a giant thumb on my neighborhood and it all went to shit (not that it was great before) Just once, I'd like to see the city decide that west portal needed to be the epicenter of misery.

This is excellent work, SF! It's street sweeping day, so this dude drives his car up onto the sidewalk among the kids waiting for the school bus, in front of the PCO, who will not write the much more lucrative ticket for parking on the sidewalk, because that's how this works.

@kingrat yes.

@jwz I don't see any reference to the OSS manual. Maybe I'm missing that somewhere? Every time I've seen this presented, it's been presented as something new, but it does look exactly like the OSS manual, so maybe I'm the only one who didn't get the joke? I keep seeing it presented without the OSS context, so it was confusing for me. I guess the joke was there all along and it just didn't land for me.

@jwz I'm not certain what your concern is. I saw that web site a while ago, the one that you link to, and I was struck by how much it mimics the tactics in the old 1950's/60's CIA sabotage manual that was popular to have in the 1980's. It says, "for the 21st century", which is funny, because I feel like it was written before, around 70 years ago, with only slight changes.

@jwz Which article? Yours? The web site? I've been there, and it reminds me wholesale of the old CIA slow-walk sabotage book that I linked to.

@jwz Isn't that just this? https://www.cia.gov/static/5c875f3ec660e092cf893f60b4a288df/SimpleSabotage.pdf

@kingrat Wat Tyler?

Oh, remember when you were young and made a necklace from your wisdom teeth to give to your sweetheart?

@scott I live up on the rich part of Bernal hill, and we're super progressive too. No idea why.

@chema @scott you may be right. This property tax map shows a significant number of property tax rates that are low enough to be from the 90s or even 80s. I would have thought the whole hill had flipped by now. https://www.officialdata.org/ca-property-tax/#37.74129746310414,-122.41265729069711,19

Anyone know what was on fire in Oakland /Alameda today? There was a big plume of black smoke.

These stock market gains are short-term, right? Why such a surge? Are people hoping they'll sell before the crash?

How does it work that some post of mine from weeks ago will suddenly get a bunch of boosts, if there's no algorithm to surface it?

@mekkaokereke @rasmus91 Holy shit. That is not an .. easy drum part. Playing the kick in those shoes too!

@scott Rent control doesn't mean you can't increase rent, it doesn't mean you can't pass on capital improvements, etc. It amazes me that there are two types of landlords in SF: normal ones who make rational economic decisions, and the ones who pay $50 for property tax on a building they inherited and do nothing to the property until it melts into the ground or burns down.

@scott Considering that the 4 unit building next to my old place pays $3,000 in annual property tax and $0 in maintenance, that should be an easy bar to clear.

@kingrat I use a different email address for everything I sign up for, so I can tell who sells my address. The most interesting one was when I signed up for a Ted Cruz raffle to win a shotgun and that email was later sold to the Democratic party.