Ha, Larry Summers replaced with a guest talk by Tony Blair

But it's hard to imagine that these Very Important People are actually that good at teaching undergrads substantive course material, other than showing off their patina of power...

While property taxes may make up ~1/3 of public revenues in the aggregate across the state, on a per-capita basis, property tax revenues vary wildly...

A Californian in Imperial County receives so many fewer public services funded via property taxes than in Marin County

bsky.app/profile/jaso...

In the ideal world, California's public revenues would be a more balanced three-legged stool of

- income tax
- sales tax
- property tax

But unfortunately the third leg of the stool was eaten by mad selfish voters in 1978

For better — or worse — California's "Fiscal Outlook" is currently indexed to $NVDA

This illustrates what I've thought of as one of the most annoying trends of the post-2008 tech boom:

The fact that the dude calls his product "Friend"

Just like "Messenger" and "Marketplace" and "Notes" and "Wallet," trying to squat on the most generic of terms...

One of those kinds of days when I think about ordering the one candy-colored NACTO handbook I don't own...

While working on my laptop in a coffee shop in North Shattuck (nee Gourmet Ghetto), I can't help but use an LLM to poke fun at the somewhat sanctimonious artwork

If Berkeley actually measured its culinary impact by dollar amount, would be a more accurate representation:

Land doesn't vote... graduated symbols do.

Any cash you can contribute will be extremely well utilized by the Alameda Food Bank #alamtg

www.alamedafoodbank.org/ways-to-give/

The true way to celebrate South Korean and American friendship:

left: October 27 / right: October 28

"BART murder gates" just reminds me of

In which middle-of-nowhere suburb-of-the-future would you rather (not) live?

I don't need to have a beer (or a tea or whatever) with the next governor of California — this column by @byrobinepley.bsky.social sounds about right:

www.sacbee.com/opinion/arti...