Jeff Baker
@jwbee.bsky.social
Notorious GIS reply guy
YIMBY
I will come to your hearing, Berkeley politician
Vuvuzela owner
Father
@jeffinatorator on certain bird sites
YIMBY
I will come to your hearing, Berkeley politician
Vuvuzela owner
Father
@jeffinatorator on certain bird sites
A totally weird fake journalism outfit just started spamming my feeds. It claims to be "local news" for the east bay and central valley - too large an area for any startup to cover. Their alleged newsroom is all fake AI-generated headshots except the first one, who is a doula from Alameda?
November 27, 2025 at 12:04 AM
A totally weird fake journalism outfit just started spamming my feeds. It claims to be "local news" for the east bay and central valley - too large an area for any startup to cover. Their alleged newsroom is all fake AI-generated headshots except the first one, who is a doula from Alameda?
It's funny how one click of the cable adjuster can be the difference between "I am selling this bike as soon as I get home" and "this bike is the ultimate triumph of Japanese technological supremacy" and also how much mental activation energy is needed to stop, get off the saddle, and turn the knob.
November 26, 2025 at 11:10 PM
It's funny how one click of the cable adjuster can be the difference between "I am selling this bike as soon as I get home" and "this bike is the ultimate triumph of Japanese technological supremacy" and also how much mental activation energy is needed to stop, get off the saddle, and turn the knob.
Whoops I blithely walked out the door in short sleeves without even considering that it could be 40° in coastal California.
Guess I have to move to Mexico.
Guess I have to move to Mexico.
November 26, 2025 at 3:52 PM
Whoops I blithely walked out the door in short sleeves without even considering that it could be 40° in coastal California.
Guess I have to move to Mexico.
Guess I have to move to Mexico.
When it comes to some topics, we do not, in fact, have to get to the bottom of them. We can let the bottom remain a quite unexplored mystery forever.
November 26, 2025 at 3:22 AM
When it comes to some topics, we do not, in fact, have to get to the bottom of them. We can let the bottom remain a quite unexplored mystery forever.
Vast and trunkless etc etc
November 25, 2025 at 11:08 PM
Vast and trunkless etc etc
In related news, RealPage settles, admitting no fault and paying nothing, but promising to nerf the price-finding function of their platform. www.justice.gov/opa/media/14...
November 25, 2025 at 7:44 PM
In related news, RealPage settles, admitting no fault and paying nothing, but promising to nerf the price-finding function of their platform. www.justice.gov/opa/media/14...
Recently there was a paper entitled "Shifts in U.S. Social Media Use 2020-24" which arrived at conclusions _extremely_ different from the Pew survey. That author claims that YouTu\be reach is shrinking, aging, and older than all other platforms. Pew says huge, growing, and younger.
November 25, 2025 at 6:18 PM
Recently there was a paper entitled "Shifts in U.S. Social Media Use 2020-24" which arrived at conclusions _extremely_ different from the Pew survey. That author claims that YouTu\be reach is shrinking, aging, and older than all other platforms. Pew says huge, growing, and younger.
Google has (at least) two sites where you can buy a Pixel phone. One of them offered my $160 to trade in my old Pixel, and the other offered $220. It's like "Shipping the Org Chart: The Game", the worst game of 2025.
November 25, 2025 at 5:14 PM
Google has (at least) two sites where you can buy a Pixel phone. One of them offered my $160 to trade in my old Pixel, and the other offered $220. It's like "Shipping the Org Chart: The Game", the worst game of 2025.
Why is the radioactive dump out in the middle of the bay even inside Berkeley's city limit? I'm so glad you asked.
www.berkeleyside.org/2025/11/24/c...
www.berkeleyside.org/2025/11/24/c...
November 25, 2025 at 4:20 PM
Why is the radioactive dump out in the middle of the bay even inside Berkeley's city limit? I'm so glad you asked.
www.berkeleyside.org/2025/11/24/c...
www.berkeleyside.org/2025/11/24/c...
I guess keeping my "bicycling against oil wars" stickers all these years is about to pay off.
November 24, 2025 at 11:19 PM
I guess keeping my "bicycling against oil wars" stickers all these years is about to pay off.
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In 2026, I’m interested in attending fewer bill signing ceremonies & more ribbon cuttings. Because our success isn’t measured by how many bills we pass – it’s measured by how many problems we actually solve.
Read on for more of my 2025 reflections/2026 goals:
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Read on for more of my 2025 reflections/2026 goals:
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It’s too hard to build homes in California — here’s what we’re doing about it
In 2026, I’m interested in attending fewer bill signing ceremonies and more ribbon cuttings. Because our success isn’t measured by how many bills we pass – it’s measured by how many problems we actual...
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November 24, 2025 at 11:11 PM
In 2026, I’m interested in attending fewer bill signing ceremonies & more ribbon cuttings. Because our success isn’t measured by how many bills we pass – it’s measured by how many problems we actually solve.
Read on for more of my 2025 reflections/2026 goals:
www.linkedin.com/pulse/its-to...
Read on for more of my 2025 reflections/2026 goals:
www.linkedin.com/pulse/its-to...
You are hereby reminded that Berkeley could have had Pixar. Steve Jobs wanted to specifically place Pixar HQ near the "creative and intellectual center of Berkeley." But at the same time Berkeley created the West Berkeley Plan to maintain little hobbit workshops instead of attracting real business.
Undoubtedly. Pixar, and the others. Look at my assessment density map. Emeryville sticks out for how many huge, valuable parcels they have.
November 24, 2025 at 7:28 PM
You are hereby reminded that Berkeley could have had Pixar. Steve Jobs wanted to specifically place Pixar HQ near the "creative and intellectual center of Berkeley." But at the same time Berkeley created the West Berkeley Plan to maintain little hobbit workshops instead of attracting real business.
Reposted by Jeff Baker
🚨We analyzed 138 million geocoded property tax records to quantify how municipal boundaries spatially overlap onto economic segregation in every US metro area—creating disparities in localities’ ability to fund public goods. And we made an interactive map of our results! [1/16]
November 24, 2025 at 4:31 PM
🚨We analyzed 138 million geocoded property tax records to quantify how municipal boundaries spatially overlap onto economic segregation in every US metro area—creating disparities in localities’ ability to fund public goods. And we made an interactive map of our results! [1/16]
According to this data, Bay Wheels is the fastest-growing bike share system in America, growing 30% this year through September.
ggwash.org/view/101329/...
ggwash.org/view/101329/...
November 24, 2025 at 3:53 PM
According to this data, Bay Wheels is the fastest-growing bike share system in America, growing 30% this year through September.
ggwash.org/view/101329/...
ggwash.org/view/101329/...
Crazy that you can walk in and get vaccinations at Target and they pay you $10 in store credits and people don't do this?
November 23, 2025 at 11:38 PM
Crazy that you can walk in and get vaccinations at Target and they pay you $10 in store credits and people don't do this?
I'm at the haunted hop yard.
I'm at the bike race.
I'm at the microbrewery.
I'm at the bike race through the haunted hop yard at the microbrewery.
I'm at the bike race.
I'm at the microbrewery.
I'm at the bike race through the haunted hop yard at the microbrewery.
November 23, 2025 at 6:34 PM
I'm at the haunted hop yard.
I'm at the bike race.
I'm at the microbrewery.
I'm at the bike race through the haunted hop yard at the microbrewery.
I'm at the bike race.
I'm at the microbrewery.
I'm at the bike race through the haunted hop yard at the microbrewery.
I know this is pretty far down the endless list of Trump's lies, but Mr. Fill The Strategic Petroleum Reserve Right To The Top is refilling the SPR slower than Biden did, despite crude oil prices plunging. So far only 17 million barrels, half the rate Biden maintained. Clear inflection at Jan '25.
November 23, 2025 at 2:31 PM
I know this is pretty far down the endless list of Trump's lies, but Mr. Fill The Strategic Petroleum Reserve Right To The Top is refilling the SPR slower than Biden did, despite crude oil prices plunging. So far only 17 million barrels, half the rate Biden maintained. Clear inflection at Jan '25.
I wonder if there will be an observable increase in the rate of misspelled emails after some chucklehead on Twitter convinced millions of people that they had to disable the Gmail spell checker, for privacy.
www.theverge.com/news/826902/...
www.theverge.com/news/826902/...
Google denies ‘misleading’ reports of Gmail using your emails to train AI
Google says “we do not use your Gmail content for training our Gemini AI model.”
www.theverge.com
November 23, 2025 at 2:38 AM
I wonder if there will be an observable increase in the rate of misspelled emails after some chucklehead on Twitter convinced millions of people that they had to disable the Gmail spell checker, for privacy.
www.theverge.com/news/826902/...
www.theverge.com/news/826902/...
Bad news about state climate goals.
November 23, 2025 at 1:51 AM
Bad news about state climate goals.
One of the privileges of the Bay Area is being able to bicycle to one or even two or three national parks, not as some epic stunt but just whenever, before lunch.
November 22, 2025 at 9:00 PM
One of the privileges of the Bay Area is being able to bicycle to one or even two or three national parks, not as some epic stunt but just whenever, before lunch.
Whoa. CA DMV expanded Waymo's approved operating area to cover a lot of territory. Yesterday it was just the darker area.
November 21, 2025 at 11:00 PM
Whoa. CA DMV expanded Waymo's approved operating area to cover a lot of territory. Yesterday it was just the darker area.
One of my least favorite things about my neighborhood is the decay and decrepitude that passes for gardening. Earlier today I saw a young woman bleeding profusely from the head after colliding with this low-hanging, sharp tree. People think this is the charm of the neighborhood?
November 21, 2025 at 10:31 PM
One of my least favorite things about my neighborhood is the decay and decrepitude that passes for gardening. Earlier today I saw a young woman bleeding profusely from the head after colliding with this low-hanging, sharp tree. People think this is the charm of the neighborhood?
While reading a lot of obscure documentation I learned that the way Shimano rear derailleurs are attached to most bikes is a bodge, and Shimano designed the thing to use a "direct mount" hanger. Look at the difference between the real hanger and the cheesy b-link adapter, which wears out, it seems.
November 21, 2025 at 7:22 PM
While reading a lot of obscure documentation I learned that the way Shimano rear derailleurs are attached to most bikes is a bodge, and Shimano designed the thing to use a "direct mount" hanger. Look at the difference between the real hanger and the cheesy b-link adapter, which wears out, it seems.
Good enough for me. I officially declare this Berkeley project "under construction".
November 21, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Good enough for me. I officially declare this Berkeley project "under construction".
Privacy enthusiasts and people who have radicalized themselves against machine learning have reached a level of derangement similar to crazy old people in Marin who are antivax and anti-5G, smearing themselves with seaweed and wearing magic crystals for woo woo protection.
November 21, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Privacy enthusiasts and people who have radicalized themselves against machine learning have reached a level of derangement similar to crazy old people in Marin who are antivax and anti-5G, smearing themselves with seaweed and wearing magic crystals for woo woo protection.