A.I.

29 Jul 2025

San Francisco’s Skyrocketing Rents Are a Nightmare on Elm Street

San Francisco landlords are like the supervillains in horror movies from the 1980s that never seem to die. You think the pandemic was enough to slow them down, but like every good horror villain, they always come back in the sequel, resurrected by a new evil. And in San Francisco, that

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09 Apr 2024

Why Does Google Maps Get So Many Things About The Bay Area Wrong?

It’s pretty normal to hate on tech in the Bay Area. It’s actually cliche at this point. The hip kids hate A.I. now. It’s tech, but for people who want to circumstantially murder the working class so they don’t have to interact with the people that they’re displacing when they

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26 Dec 2023

Should San Francisco Have An A.I. Mayor?

I try not to use ChatGPT very often. I take pride in being able to do shit myself, but every now and then, I like to see how artificial intelligence sees itself.  I asked ChatGPT what San Francisco would be like if we replaced the city’s leaders with artificial intelligence.

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29 Aug 2023

Why Are S.F. Politicians Hosting Doom Loop Tours?

San Francisco is a strange place. It’s the per capita billionaire capital of the world, and yet the city is regularly criticized for intense levels of poverty and urban decay. It’s a place where clearly rich people deny being rich while draping themselves in vague progressive mantras to showcase their

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04 Jul 2023

I Asked ChatGPT What San Franciscans Should Do For The 4th Of July

For whatever reason, the last article that I did where I asked ChatGPT some shit about San Francisco did pretty well. I don’t know why, but people seem to be interested in what our robot overlords think. So, due to curiosity, and not at all laziness, I’ve asked ChatGPT to

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12 Apr 2023

Should We Be Worried About Artificial Intelligence? What Does History Say?

From ancient times, mankind has envisioned automation in the form of machines being trained to save labor. According to the Lie Zi text, in the 10th century BCE, a mechanical engineer known as Yan Shi presented King Mu of Zhou with a mechanical humanoid figure that could sing in tune, posture and much to King Mu’s displeasure, attempt to woo a lady.

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