Notices by scott f (scott@carfree.city)

@skinnylatte check the fine print... maybe it's attributed to the owner's mom

@beckett The other side of the street is very left-leaning! @BobHorowitz @bmacDonald94

I sometimes griped about my former supervisor Hillary Ronen, but cheers to her for joining a nonprofit that protects immigrants after leaving office, rather than go to a cushy lobbying gig.

The contrast is especially stark with her would-be "moderate" successor who, after losing his election, immediately joined ICE-collaborating Flock Safety as a lobbyist.

https://missionlocal.org/2026/04/san-francisco-hillary-ronen-mission-district-la-raza-centro-legal/

It's revealing what candidates for local office do after they lose an election. If they continue serving their community, maybe they were a good one and should have won. If they promptly move hundreds of miles away, or become hired guns for an unethical corporation, you dodged a bullet.

@kingrat oh it's all over my Instagram. "Californians Against Wasteful Spending"

@kingrat I'm loving seeing the ad against the billionaire tax 100 times. Reinforces why it's needed, since they have so much money to burn trying to buy our elections.

@tchambers Hmm, link seems to have also vanished.

@skinnylatte this side of SF is totally unknown to me. I'm not in those circles... entrees in the $30-$40 range is about the highest-end I've ever experienced here, even when I was making a BigTech salary.

@skinnylatte huh, I’ve done Amtrak Thruway bus to Emeryville; transfer at Richmond; and bike/walk from Lake Merritt BART to Jack London station; but never this. What do you like about this option?

@skinnylatte any vegan-friendly LA food recs nearish downtown?

“Asking an AI chatbot a question consumes a great deal more energy than finding the answer via simple web search or calculator. It adds extra demand for no good reason... a bit like driving to the shops in an SUV instead of riding your bike.”

Or driving any kind of car. AI, like cars, aims to reconfigure everyday life in a way that’s vastly more energy-hungry and polluting… and profitable for a few.

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/mar/13/ai-datacentres-environmental-impacts

The SF Chronicle's senior meteorologist says your phone weather app is wrong and underestimating how hot it's gonna be in the city the next couple of days (high 80s, possibly 90 in parts). https://www.sfchronicle.com/weather-forecast/article/heat-google-apple-apps-22075792.php

@skinnylatte Ooh, obviously the hearts are favorites but what's the rest of the scheme?

@kingrat "My candy boy Schopenhauer says we love to buy books because we believe we're buying the time to read them." - Warren Zevon

@skinnylatte SF-LA Amtrak’s under that if you got 9 or 12 hours to spare

As an ethical AI user, I begin each session by asking the chatbot to give a stolen data acknowledgement. It is an important first step toward justice.

@skinnylatte I didn't know Sana'a was in Oakland!

I switched to DuckDuckGo to avoid getting AI answers on Google but now DDG repeatedly turns its own AI answers back on even though I keep setting them to “never.” Is there a better search engine?

First they made useless demands, then they also caved even on their useless demands. The US is a one-party state but in our typical extravagance we have two of them.
https://truthout.org/articles/democrats-cave-on-demands-for-dhs-reforms-agree-to-short-term-spending-bill/

@luis_in_brief @skinnylatte That just makes me wonder what horrifying new stage the Marina has evolved into in the 2020s.