JP
crush this wherever you encounter it. crime numbers have not appreciably changed - what changed is that SF got a mayor that billionaires were happy with, and the doomloop narrative machine was wound down. rents are up 20% in the last year, homelessness is still really bad it's just been relocated 10 feet outside this guy's line of sight. tech is a scourge, SF is not a progressive or leftist city, it's been ravaged by decades of neoliberalism.
Jun 19 at 3:58pmTusky
Show threadJP2d ago
Show threadJeffJun 19
@jplebreton
I read this whole post too quickly and my brain highlighted "AI scourge BART stations" and my first thought was yeah, the advertising at certain BART stations for AI products (coding assistants, coding reviews, reviews for your coding assistants, etc) is pretty dystopian. At least we don't have Minority Report style facial recognition personalized street level advertising yet. But I'm sure that's where we'll see it first.
Show threadFlipper 🐬🏳️‍🌈🌹Jun 19
@jplebreton he also spelled "bubble" wrong.
Show threadPaul RietschkaJun 19

@jplebreton San Francisco is the worst city in America, just not for the reasons that are generally understood.

Sure, tech has been a scourge and the "AI boom" has led the city to be filled with people whose bizarre worldview can charitably be described as mental illness, but San Francisco was never that nice to begin with. The city has always suffered from an inflated reputation that far exceeds reality; it's simply never been as advertised.

Show threadAymeric BaudJun 19
@prietschka @jplebreton I chuckled of truth. What's a good leftist, progressist city in USA?
Show threadPaul RietschkaJun 19

@ayba @jplebreton America is an ungovernable mess of a country, and I'm happy to be leaving it very shortly.

Municipal governance is particularly bad as its a cesspit of corruption, San Francisco very much included. But in a broader sense San Francisco likes to think of itself as on par with Paris, or London, or Berlin and it's just not. It's not that nice. The architecture is shit. The prices for everything are sky high. The weather is bad. It's the most overrated city in the US.

Show threadAymeric BaudJun 19
@prietschka @jplebreton marketing entered the chat... Congratulations on leaving, wish you satisfaction in what's to come.
Show threadJohn RipleyJun 19
@jplebreton Lurie is doing the billionaire trick of not building anything *durable*, just a series of calling up his non-profit buddies to bandaid over issues. None of this is built by consensus of the people, into durable funded institutions. They’ll all evaporate before he even leaves. But the trick works on media, because this failure to govern is longer than their cycle.
Show threadBen RosengartJun 20
@jripley @jplebreton and because the media owners see him as a peer, a friend, and most importantly a class ally; contradiction of his narrative is not a good career move for editors
Show threadnoiseician 🏴🖤🍉Jun 19
@jplebreton seems that what he's really saying is "the AI boom has turbocharged gentrification and i love that!"
Show threadophiocephalic 🐍Jun 19
@jplebreton
Moreover, this is a tweet on fascist twitter. This is a tech fascist talking to maga fascists, reporting that they need that Fox News caricature of SF to go away now that they own it
Show threadJKBJun 20
@jplebreton "It's pretty safe as long as you don't try to move around" sure is a very weird flex