Drew
drewda.bsky.social
Drew
@drewda.bsky.social
A bookish pedestrian in Northern California. Just here to chit-chat (not to represent any orgs, employers, or clients)
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...
November 21, 2025 at 4:26 AM
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...
November 20, 2025 at 5:16 AM
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
November 19, 2025 at 7:53 PM
For better — or worse — California's "Fiscal Outlook" is currently indexed to $NVDA
November 19, 2025 at 7:00 PM
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...
November 18, 2025 at 7:29 PM
One of those kinds of days when I think about ordering the one candy-colored NACTO handbook I don't own...
November 13, 2025 at 7:19 PM
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:
November 10, 2025 at 6:47 PM
Land doesn't vote... graduated symbols do.
November 5, 2025 at 4:49 AM
Any cash you can contribute will be extremely well utilized by the Alameda Food Bank #alamtg

www.alamedafoodbank.org/ways-to-give/
October 30, 2025 at 4:34 PM
The true way to celebrate South Korean and American friendship:
October 29, 2025 at 4:29 PM
left: October 27 / right: October 28
October 29, 2025 at 3:14 AM
"BART murder gates" just reminds me of
October 18, 2025 at 10:12 PM
In which middle-of-nowhere suburb-of-the-future would you rather (not) live?
October 15, 2025 at 6:23 PM
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...
October 14, 2025 at 11:05 PM