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Every year, I find the San Francisco Pissed Off Voter Guide to be the best and most useful one. I especially like that they show their work.

The California Governor primary is particularly vexing this year because, being an open primary, the top two vote-getters advance to the general election, so it's possible for the mediocre batch of Democrats to split the vote and we end up having to pick between two Republican ghouls in the general. So this year's primary is more game-theoretic than I'd prefer.

You only have one week left (June 2).

Some highlights from the guide:

Governor: Tom Steyer:

The primary for Governor is a clown car filled with seven mediocre Democrats and two scary Republicans. Because there's a real chance both slots for the November election could go to Republicans, we urge you to vote strategically. We skipped over some long-shot progressive candidates in favor of a progressive-enough candidate who has the best shot at beating the corporate Democrats now, and winning in November.

We're going with Tom Steyer: the straight, white billionaire boomer who's juuuuust progressive enough.

At one point we thought about just flipping a coin and choosing between Tom Steyer and Katie Porter. Porter's whiteboard sessions were on point, but we doubt her ability to win: she ran statewide for the U.S. Senate in 2024 and came in third, with only 15% of the vote. As of late April, she's polling at 9%. Porter was progressive but has moved to the right. While she's gone back and forth on supporting the minimum wage increase, we need someone who will stand firm with workers and everyday Californians. And weirdly enough that's billionaire Tom Steyer. [...]

US Congress, District 11: Connie Chan:

[...] it's unclear that Saikat's millions will buy him a victory in the primary, and it's even less clear that he would win in November without the support of the labor unions and community groups that are backing Chan (and may not throw down for a wealthy tech bro). If Saikat ends up being on the ballot in November we'll reassess. But for now, It's a no-brainer: Connie Chan is the only candidate who can beat Scott Wiener in November and bring San Francisco values to Congress. Let's send Connie Chan to DC!

Curious why Scott Wiener is terrible? Click through to read our previous voter guide writeups, but basically: he's madly pro-cop, pro-developer, pro-YIMBY (trickle-down housing) with a gloss of pro-LGBTQ pinkwashing. Oh, and Weiner lost the California SEIU endorsement because he opposes Prop D, the Overpaid CEO tax.

Prop B: Weird Do-Nothing Tweak to Term Limits: No! Why??

[...] So why do we have Prop B? Because the moderates are so scared of Aaron Peskin running again, they think this is the only way to stop him. 🙄

Prop D: Overpaid CEO Salary Tax: Hell Yes!

Between Props C and D, only one can pass. Each has a poison pill that negates the other, so the one that gets the most votes over 50% will go into effect.

Unions and community organizations put Prop D, the Overpaid CEO Salary Tax, on the ballot to fill the gaping hole Trump's Big Bullshit Bill ripped in the City budget. Downtown businesses put Prop C on the ballot as a smokescreen to confuse voters and defeat Prop D.

Prop D is not gonna hurt regular people. It's not gonna drive companies out of the city. It only applies to companies with (a) top executives who earn 100 times their median workers' salary, (b) over 1000 employees, and (c) over $1 billion in revenue. Prop D would generate an extra $300 million in revenue a year to pay for vital neighborhood services, like medical clinics and in-home health care for seniors, that are on the chopping block this year in yet another of Mayor Lurie's "austerity budgets." [...]

If Prop C gets more votes than Prop D, big businesses will have torpedoed a truly progressive "tax the rich" opportunity, losing the City $260 -- 270 million a year. Make sure you vote on both: Vote No on C and Hell Yes!!! on D.

Insurance Commissioner: Jane Kim:

Jane Kim is proposing to create a public insurer for natural disasters, much like the system in New Zealand, and she promises to use the office to rein in the powerful industry and develop new, functional alternatives.

(Jane Kim was the only good supervisor we ever had in District 6 / SOMA -- she's the reason The Oasis still exists -- and so if she thinks Insurance Commissioner is a good use of her skills, I'm gonna take her word for it.)

See also Mission Local's extensive election coverage.

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US Law Enforcement Warns of 'Anti-Tech Extremism' as AI Hatred Grows:

This new effort follows President Donald Trump's National Security Presidential Memo 7, which instructs the Department of Justice to target anyone holding "anti-American," "anti-Christian," and "anti-capitalism" beliefs. [...]

"The chaotic atmosphere that may result from emergent AI technology in the next five years may fuel large-scale protests that devolve into civil unrest and anti-tech violent extremist activity, especially in large urban areas such as New York City," the report reads. [...]

"These intelligence reports are part of a long tradition of agencies identifying protest or even simply having strong opinions as precursors to violence," Spencer Reynolds, senior counsel at the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, tells WIRED. "Suspicious activity reports are incredibly unreliable, often about vague or innocent behavior, issued under permissive standards. These reports, often received in large volumes, allow officers to inject their own biases and see what they want to see in the facts."

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WP 7.0 was just released and apparently this is the "AI" release. Is there a patch to excise this cancer from core, or is there a bugfix-tracking fork that I should switch to instead, or should I just never upgrade again, or what?

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I am constantly getting scrape attempts for avatar-image-JPEG URLs that have not existed on my blog since a restructuring in 2022. They come in bursts of about a 100 per minute, each from a different IP address, and in random order.

I thought: enough is enough, I need to figure out what clown service these are coming from and start blocking whole networks.

Nope, they're almost all from cable modems, not from hosting facilities:

49.43.169.105 "55836 | IN | apnic | 2010-10-27 | RELIANCEJIO-IN Reliance Jio Infocomm Limited, IN" 49.36.222.165 "55836 | IN | apnic | 2010-10-27 | RELIANCEJIO-IN Reliance Jio Infocomm Limited, IN" 49.207.199.34 "24309 | IN | apnic | 2004-12-08 | CABLELITE-AS-AP Atria Convergence Technologies Pvt. Ltd. Broadband Internet Service Provider INDIA, IN" 60.254.88.85 "17488 | IN | apnic | 2000-11-28 | HATHWAY-NET-AP Hathway IP Over Cable Internet, IN" 14.176.188.15 none 113.181.115.52 "45899 | VN | apnic | 2009-08-28 | VNPT-AS-VN VNPT Corp, VN" 222.252.180.57 "45899 | VN | apnic | 2009-08-28 | VNPT-AS-VN VNPT Corp, VN" 14.191.68.81 "45899 | VN | apnic | 2009-08-28 | VNPT-AS-VN VNPT Corp, VN" 203.162.75.165 "45899 | VN | apnic | 2009-08-28 | VNPT-AS-VN VNPT Corp, VN" 113.166.25.40 "45899 | VN | apnic | 2009-08-28 | VNPT-AS-VN VNPT Corp, VN" 14.234.181.48 "45899 | VN | apnic | 2009-08-28 | VNPT-AS-VN VNPT Corp, VN" 14.232.16.94 "45899 | VN | apnic | 2009-08-28 | VNPT-AS-VN VNPT Corp, VN" 14.226.156.45 "45899 | VN | apnic | 2009-08-28 | VNPT-AS-VN VNPT Corp, VN" 14.186.56.201 "45899 | VN | apnic | 2009-08-28 | VNPT-AS-VN VNPT Corp, VN" 123.27.88.193 "45899 | VN | apnic | 2009-08-28 | VNPT-AS-VN VNPT Corp, VN" 123.24.165.158 "45899 | VN | apnic | 2009-08-28 | VNPT-AS-VN VNPT Corp, VN" 123.23.84.13 "45899 | VN | apnic | 2009-08-28 | VNPT-AS-VN VNPT Corp, VN" 113.173.75.211 "45899 | VN | apnic | 2009-08-28 | VNPT-AS-VN VNPT Corp, VN" 14.254.59.191 "45899 | VN | apnic | 2009-08-28 | VNPT-AS-VN VNPT Corp, VN" 14.247.93.88 "45899 | VN | apnic | 2009-08-28 | VNPT-AS-VN VNPT Corp, VN" 134.122.23.167 "14061 | US | arin | 2012-09-25 | DIGITALOCEAN-ASN - DigitalOcean, LLC, US" 113.184.185.188 "45899 | VN | apnic | 2009-08-28 | VNPT-AS-VN VNPT Corp, VN" 14.170.114.205 "45899 | VN | apnic | 2009-08-28 | VNPT-AS-VN VNPT Corp, VN" 14.236.40.167 "45899 | VN | apnic | 2009-08-28 | VNPT-AS-VN VNPT Corp, VN" 14.170.244.63 "45899 | VN | apnic | 2009-08-28 | VNPT-AS-VN VNPT Corp, VN" 113.165.28.93 "45899 | VN | apnic | 2009-08-28 | VNPT-AS-VN VNPT Corp, VN" 163.223.48.0 "138797 | IN | apnic | 2019-02-11 | COASTAL-AS-IN Coastal Broadband And Online Services Pvt. Ltd., IN" 58.249.137.74 "17622 | CN | apnic | 2001-01-18 | CNCGROUP-GZ China Unicom Guangzhou network, CN" 39.68.1.38 "4837 | CN | apnic | 2001-09-17 | CHINA169-BACKBONE CHINA UNICOM China169 Backbone, CN" 14.191.63.98 "45899 | VN | apnic | 2009-08-28 | VNPT-AS-VN VNPT Corp, VN" 113.168.114.54 "45899 | VN | apnic | 2009-08-28 | VNPT-AS-VN VNPT Corp, VN" 14.161.135.60 "45899 | VN | apnic | 2009-08-28 | VNPT-AS-VN VNPT Corp, VN" 14.228.183.221 "45899 | VN | apnic | 2009-08-28 | VNPT-AS-VN VNPT Corp, VN" 14.177.130.34 "45899 | VN | apnic | 2009-08-28 | VNPT-AS-VN VNPT Corp, VN" 14.236.8.100 "45899 | VN | apnic | 2009-08-28 | VNPT-AS-VN VNPT Corp, VN" 144.31.35.211 "401560 | US | arin | 2025-01-03 | ONECABLE - OneCable Network LLC, US" 14.230.66.236 "45899 | VN | apnic | 2009-08-28 | VNPT-AS-VN VNPT Corp, VN" 113.166.3.113 "45899 | VN | apnic | 2009-08-28 | VNPT-AS-VN VNPT Corp, VN" 143.20.253.201 "401560 | US | arin | 2025-01-03 | ONECABLE - OneCable Network LLC, US" 14.172.46.240 "45899 | VN | apnic | 2009-08-28 | VNPT-AS-VN VNPT Corp, VN" 14.191.87.248 "45899 | VN | apnic | 2009-08-28 | VNPT-AS-VN VNPT Corp, VN" 14.240.145.79 "45899 | VN | apnic | 2009-08-28 | VNPT-AS-VN VNPT Corp, VN" 171.250.165.14 "7552 | VN | apnic | 2002-10-08 | VIETEL-AS-AP Viettel Group, VN" 14.230.54.62 "45899 | VN | apnic | 2009-08-28 | VNPT-AS-VN VNPT Corp, VN" 14.180.27.31 "45899 | VN | apnic | 2009-08-28 | VNPT-AS-VN VNPT Corp, VN" 177.137.214.144 "263087 | BR | lacnic | 2012-04-18 | Rawnet Informatica LTDA, BR" 120.140.8.61 "4788 | MY | apnic | 1996-10-20 | TTSSB-MY TM TECHNOLOGY SERVICES SDN. BHD., MY" 49.37.213.156 "55836 | IN | apnic | 2010-10-27 | RELIANCEJIO-IN Reliance Jio Infocomm Limited, IN" 216.75.132.173 "401560 | US | arin | 2025-01-03 | ONECABLE - OneCable Network LLC, US" 144.31.35.77 "401560 | US | arin | 2025-01-03 | ONECABLE - OneCable Network LLC, US" 216.75.132.173 "401560 | US | arin | 2025-01-03 | ONECABLE - OneCable Network LLC, US" 216.75.132.173 "401560 | US | arin | 2025-01-03 | ONECABLE - OneCable Network LLC, US" 144.31.35.77 "401560 | US | arin | 2025-01-03 | ONECABLE - OneCable Network LLC, US" 144.31.35.77 "401560 | US | arin | 2025-01-03 | ONECABLE - OneCable Network LLC, US" 216.75.132.173 "401560 | US | arin | 2025-01-03 | ONECABLE - OneCable Network LLC, US" 216.75.132.173 "401560 | US | arin | 2025-01-03 | ONECABLE - OneCable Network LLC, US" 143.20.253.246 "401560 | US | arin | 2025-01-03 | ONECABLE - OneCable Network LLC, US" 143.20.253.246 "401560 | US | arin | 2025-01-03 | ONECABLE - OneCable Network LLC, US" 14.169.142.16 "45899 | VN | apnic | 2009-08-28 | VNPT-AS-VN VNPT Corp, VN" 14.190.135.174 "45899 | VN | apnic | 2009-08-28 | VNPT-AS-VN VNPT Corp, VN" 113.165.212.210 "45899 | VN | apnic | 2009-08-28 | VNPT-AS-VN VNPT Corp, VN" 113.165.39.79 "45899 | VN | apnic | 2009-08-28 | VNPT-AS-VN VNPT Corp, VN" 14.254.166.139 "45899 | VN | apnic | 2009-08-28 | VNPT-AS-VN VNPT Corp, VN" 14.170.190.94 "45899 | VN | apnic | 2009-08-28 | VNPT-AS-VN VNPT Corp, VN" 123.31.236.195 "45899 | VN | apnic | 2009-08-28 | VNPT-AS-VN VNPT Corp, VN" 14.175.2.197 "45899 | VN | apnic | 2009-08-28 | VNPT-AS-VN VNPT Corp, VN" 14.245.142.32 "45899 | VN | apnic | 2009-08-28 | VNPT-AS-VN VNPT Corp, VN" 113.168.130.126 none 14.234.120.102 "45899 | VN | apnic | 2009-08-28 | VNPT-AS-VN VNPT Corp, VN" 14.187.7.237 "45899 | VN | apnic | 2009-08-28 | VNPT-AS-VN VNPT Corp, VN" 14.169.200.172 "45899 | VN | apnic | 2009-08-28 | VNPT-AS-VN VNPT Corp, VN" 113.187.7.158 "45899 | VN | apnic | 2009-08-28 | VNPT-AS-VN VNPT Corp, VN" 222.253.132.0 "45899 | VN | apnic | 2009-08-28 | VNPT-AS-VN VNPT Corp, VN" 113.179.243.6 "45899 | VN | apnic | 2009-08-28 | VNPT-AS-VN VNPT Corp, VN" 14.189.84.206 "45899 | VN | apnic | 2009-08-28 | VNPT-AS-VN VNPT Corp, VN" 14.189.125.112 "45899 | VN | apnic | 2009-08-28 | VNPT-AS-VN VNPT Corp, VN" 123.27.175.238 "45899 | VN | apnic | 2009-08-28 | VNPT-AS-VN VNPT Corp, VN" 113.179.139.90 "45899 | VN | apnic | 2009-08-28 | VNPT-AS-VN VNPT Corp, VN" 216.75.132.167 "401560 | US | arin | 2025-01-03 | ONECABLE - OneCable Network LLC, US" 216.75.132.167 "401560 | US | arin | 2025-01-03 | ONECABLE - OneCable Network LLC, US" 14.191.192.133 "45899 | VN | apnic | 2009-08-28 | VNPT-AS-VN VNPT Corp, VN" 216.75.132.212 "401560 | US | arin | 2025-01-03 | ONECABLE - OneCable Network LLC, US" 207.180.11.239 "401560 | US | arin | 2025-01-03 | ONECABLE - OneCable Network LLC, US" 207.180.11.239 "401560 | US | arin | 2025-01-03 | ONECABLE - OneCable Network LLC, US" 113.186.16.134 "45899 | VN | apnic | 2009-08-28 | VNPT-AS-VN VNPT Corp, VN" 14.170.25.114 "45899 | VN | apnic | 2009-08-28 | VNPT-AS-VN VNPT Corp, VN" 14.229.9.235 "45899 | VN | apnic | 2009-08-28 | VNPT-AS-VN VNPT Corp, VN" 14.188.28.166 "45899 | VN | apnic | 2009-08-28 | VNPT-AS-VN VNPT Corp, VN" 123.16.224.122 "45899 | VN | apnic | 2009-08-28 | VNPT-AS-VN VNPT Corp, VN" 14.173.194.120 "45899 | VN | apnic | 2009-08-28 | VNPT-AS-VN VNPT Corp, VN" 14.239.74.25 "45899 | VN | apnic | 2009-08-28 | VNPT-AS-VN VNPT Corp, VN" 14.239.32.210 "45899 | VN | apnic | 2009-08-28 | VNPT-AS-VN VNPT Corp, VN" 14.177.207.17 "45899 | VN | apnic | 2009-08-28 | VNPT-AS-VN VNPT Corp, VN" 113.173.255.127 "45899 | VN | apnic | 2009-08-28 | VNPT-AS-VN VNPT Corp, VN" 144.31.35.232 "401560 | US | arin | 2025-01-03 | ONECABLE - OneCable Network LLC, US" 181.213.41.191 "28573 | BR | lacnic | 2003-11-27 | Claro NXT Telecomunicacoes Ltda, BR" 113.182.199.97 "45899 | VN | apnic | 2009-08-28 | VNPT-AS-VN VNPT Corp, VN" 88.235.232.128 "9121 | TR | ripencc | 1998-12-29 | TTNET, TR" 181.191.153.5 "267488 | BR | lacnic | 2017-08-17 | Pronet Construcoes LTDA, BR" 211.241.113.62 "9316 | KR | apnic | 1998-06-03 | DACOM-PUBNETPLUS-AS-KR DACOM-PUBNETPLUS, KR" 152.58.183.66 "55836 | IN | apnic | 2010-10-27 | RELIANCEJIO-IN Reliance Jio Infocomm Limited, IN" 59.184.62.53 "9829 | IN | apnic | 2000-01-19 | BSNL-NIB National Internet Backbone, IN" 14.164.166.200 "45899 | VN | apnic | 2009-08-28 | VNPT-AS-VN VNPT Corp, VN" 152.57.115.213 "55836 | IN | apnic | 2010-10-27 | RELIANCEJIO-IN Reliance Jio Infocomm Limited, IN" 49.34.210.1 "55836 | IN | apnic | 2010-10-27 | RELIANCEJIO-IN Reliance Jio Infocomm Limited, IN" 1.246.164.57 "9318 | KR | apnic | 1998-06-03 | SKB-AS SK Broadband Co Ltd, KR" 31.223.92.91 "12735 | TR | ripencc | 1999-10-18 | ASTURKNET, TR" 103.66.177.245 "135578 | BD | apnic | 2016-06-18 | DIT-AS-AP Muhammad Nasir ta Dhaka Information Technology, BD" 152.42.242.171 "14061 | US | arin | 2012-09-25 | DIGITALOCEAN-ASN - DigitalOcean, LLC, US" 143.20.253.31 "401560 | US | arin | 2025-01-03 | ONECABLE - OneCable Network LLC, US"

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"Use google to sign in to your private jet!"

"and the question every CEO eventually has to answer: who's next?"

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"Maverick, you can ride my tail any time."

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Not The Onion:

Penile implant specialist with history of far-right comments led hantavirus presser:

Before he joined the Trump administration last year, Dr. Brian Christine was an Alabama-based urologist who specialized in penile implants. He has little public health experience and a history of far-right commentary and promoting conspiracy theories. He's said the Covid pandemic led to a wider government plot to control people, compared the Biden administration to Nazi Germany and suggested the Covid vaccine had little effect in stopping the pandemic.

He once hosted a YouTube show called "Erection Connection," a professional YouTube series on erectile dysfunction for fellow urologists.

A CNN review of archived podcast episodes, social media posts and radio appearances found that Christine repeatedly framed public health institutions, the federal government and pandemic-era policies as tools used to target conservatives and religious Americans.

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AI Poop Analysis App Offered to Sell Me Database of Its Users' Poops

The post was advertising exactly what it sounds like: A database of poop images, collected from an AI poop analyzing app that he had launched several years ago. Basically, 25,000 people had been taking images of their poop and uploading them to his app. He'd been collecting, analyzing, and annotating these images and now wanted to sell access to them. [...]

The poop database comes from an app called PoopCheck, an app made by a company called Soft All Things that purports to use AI to analyze images of one's stool in order to give you a "daily gut health score." [...]

The app also features a "community," of 151,317 "shared stools" at the time of this writing and a "leaderboard," where people can share images of their poop for commentary from other users and earn points for participating.

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The brain geniuses securing your passwords just squirted out this statement:

At 1Password, we applied agentic tooling to a multi-million-line Go monolith.

(No I'm not linking to it.) Ok first, how in the everloving fuck did you allow a password manager to reach multiple millions of lines??

(I assume they're not even counting the entire embedded copy of Chrome that lurks inside 1Password.)

And now they sloppified it, so more people are jumping ship.

Welp, I warned you about 1Password's self-immolation in 2023 and posted a migration guide. You're welcome.

Please note: If you have come here to recommend a different password manager, I implore you to not do that, as I just do not care. This is what I did. If something else works for you, good for you. Write it up on your own blog.

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