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They look like ants from here.

San Francisco Bay Bridge from the top of 401 Harrison.

Photo looking down at the San Francisco Bay Bridge at night. There are a million headlights coming toward the camera. The bay is shiny and black under the clouded sky. Streets and buildings are lit with thousands of souls living their lives in the distance, alone, separate.

There’s a drone high and to the right of Sutro tower, just parked there. Watching… what? It’s too small to be a helicopter, and how often do you actually see those truly hover, fixed XYZ, more nor than a few moments? But it’s also much larger than the little bird I got for a present a while back. If it weren’t, I wouldn’t be able to see it from this distance.

I’m on a bus reading “Accelerando” on a cheap Chinese ereader hacked with open source firmware. Siri in my ears periodically interrupts with a spoken summary of a Slack message from the company lawyer and I shake my head to dismiss it; I’ll be at the office soon anyway. The two guys in Patagonia vests next to me are one-upping each other with AI opinions that aren’t quite based in reality.

Just a regular commute in the Bay Area.

There are entirely too many Yankees hats on BART today. Have these people no shame? No soul?

I saw Frank Chu carrying his sign in Oakland’s Chinatown! This is gonna be a great weekend!

After being hit by a car, she was saved by a lavender bunny : NPR

Just then, a young man approached her. He was wearing a furry lavender bunny suit and riding an electric unicycle.

“Are you OK? Can I help you?” she recalled the young man asking.

“Stunned by the impact, I thought to myself, ‘Wow, when you die in San Francisco, you’re greeted by a spirit animal,’” Moschella said.

This is my favorite place on earth.

When I say there are a lot of self-driving Waymo cars near my work…

Photo of cars on a street moving toward a traffic light. There are 5 white self-driving Waymo taxis, a red car who wandered in, then another Waymo.

With the sun behind me at sunset and reflecting off the buildings, and a perfectly clear pink sky behind them, the San Francisco skyline almost looked like a render.

San Francisco from street level, looking up at tall buildings (including the Salesforce tower). The buildings are blue and shiny. The background is pastel pink. A low wall in the foreground is covered with graffiti.