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
This survey result is pretty interesting to me. According to this, businesses are viewed as more ethical and more effective than governments and NGOs. It has always been my experience that businesses operate based on pretty simple principles, but you hear so much (online?) about how profit is evil.
February 11, 2026 at 1:06 AM
This survey result is pretty interesting to me. According to this, businesses are viewed as more ethical and more effective than governments and NGOs. It has always been my experience that businesses operate based on pretty simple principles, but you hear so much (online?) about how profit is evil.
I am once again begging the mentally ill to abbreviate the declarations they email to the Berkeley City Council, thereby entering them into the public records that are 2 feet thick for every meeting. If you want to litigate, email the City Attorney!
February 10, 2026 at 2:47 AM
I am once again begging the mentally ill to abbreviate the declarations they email to the Berkeley City Council, thereby entering them into the public records that are 2 feet thick for every meeting. If you want to litigate, email the City Attorney!
Oh is that what happened in 2020? People just started riding Caltrain for free? This explains everything!
February 9, 2026 at 9:56 PM
Oh is that what happened in 2020? People just started riding Caltrain for free? This explains everything!
Tin-foil hat fashion models and the kinds of people who buy Faraday cages to sleep inside have long derided this kind of thing as a gross violation of one's bodily fluids. Here's Motor Trend spreading lies about this in 2017.
February 9, 2026 at 7:01 PM
Tin-foil hat fashion models and the kinds of people who buy Faraday cages to sleep inside have long derided this kind of thing as a gross violation of one's bodily fluids. Here's Motor Trend spreading lies about this in 2017.
More dispatches from the universe of things people hate that are actually amazing and good: Google's wide scale telematics via Android Auto predicts road crash danger.
arxiv.org/pdf/2601.06327
arxiv.org/pdf/2601.06327
February 9, 2026 at 6:30 PM
More dispatches from the universe of things people hate that are actually amazing and good: Google's wide scale telematics via Android Auto predicts road crash danger.
arxiv.org/pdf/2601.06327
arxiv.org/pdf/2601.06327
I know people need to hate AI but Gemini in Google Workspace is strictly better than classical information retrieval. 100 times better. Not even a contest. Who prefers word search over this?
February 9, 2026 at 6:03 PM
I know people need to hate AI but Gemini in Google Workspace is strictly better than classical information retrieval. 100 times better. Not even a contest. Who prefers word search over this?
"Soil testing begins this month" is a wild misstatement. People have been punching holes in this parking lot to find novel mixtures of toxic substances for decades. Here's the first contract I could find for W. Oakland BART. It's from 2005!
February 9, 2026 at 5:46 PM
"Soil testing begins this month" is a wild misstatement. People have been punching holes in this parking lot to find novel mixtures of toxic substances for decades. Here's the first contract I could find for W. Oakland BART. It's from 2005!
So there's a local news story that's making me scream inside, about an heiress who now lives at the Y. Anyway we should abolish Prop 13 because the idea that homes are illiquid is a lie. Just look at the name of this financial product. It's right there on the box.
February 9, 2026 at 4:56 PM
So there's a local news story that's making me scream inside, about an heiress who now lives at the Y. Anyway we should abolish Prop 13 because the idea that homes are illiquid is a lie. Just look at the name of this financial product. It's right there on the box.
Life tip: you don't have to rehabilitate Radley Balko just because his clock has struck "I was always against this" o' clock. Radley Balko is a filthy libertarian and shares as much blame for the whole Trump-Miller-Bannon phenomenon as any of the rest of them.
February 9, 2026 at 3:47 PM
Life tip: you don't have to rehabilitate Radley Balko just because his clock has struck "I was always against this" o' clock. Radley Balko is a filthy libertarian and shares as much blame for the whole Trump-Miller-Bannon phenomenon as any of the rest of them.
Real America's halftime concert has broken the Nazi forum.
February 9, 2026 at 1:51 AM
Real America's halftime concert has broken the Nazi forum.
This paper is going around again for some reason and I really cannot over-emphasize that a conclusion that major platforms like YouTube reach only 60% of young people, and falling, is completely bananas and this conclusion does not make the paper interesting, it makes it obviously flawed.
February 8, 2026 at 10:57 PM
This paper is going around again for some reason and I really cannot over-emphasize that a conclusion that major platforms like YouTube reach only 60% of young people, and falling, is completely bananas and this conclusion does not make the paper interesting, it makes it obviously flawed.
You're welcome to plumb the depths of poor reading comprehension, if you want, but what the other guy said was "Most traffic deaths are on rural highways" nothing about rates. And this is extremely false. Not even remotely true.
February 6, 2026 at 8:57 PM
You're welcome to plumb the depths of poor reading comprehension, if you want, but what the other guy said was "Most traffic deaths are on rural highways" nothing about rates. And this is extremely false. Not even remotely true.
It was a warm and sunny January in the East Bay and the Bay Wheels bike share set another record for January ridership.
February 6, 2026 at 7:04 PM
It was a warm and sunny January in the East Bay and the Bay Wheels bike share set another record for January ridership.
$550 is a good start but displaying forged disabled parking placard should be an instant tow, then two weeks in the city jail when you show up to get you Jeep back.
February 5, 2026 at 8:18 PM
$550 is a good start but displaying forged disabled parking placard should be an instant tow, then two weeks in the city jail when you show up to get you Jeep back.
Curse this superior regional city!
February 5, 2026 at 4:04 PM
Curse this superior regional city!
That's not true, Waymo has published several white papers about this. This is from 2020.
Markey is just using a "when did you stop beating your wife" debate strategy, because he's an irrational nonexpert.
Markey is just using a "when did you stop beating your wife" debate strategy, because he's an irrational nonexpert.
February 5, 2026 at 2:58 AM
That's not true, Waymo has published several white papers about this. This is from 2020.
Markey is just using a "when did you stop beating your wife" debate strategy, because he's an irrational nonexpert.
Markey is just using a "when did you stop beating your wife" debate strategy, because he's an irrational nonexpert.
Something like this that I just dashed off.
February 5, 2026 at 2:50 AM
Something like this that I just dashed off.
There should be an ANSI Z535 warning for decaf.
February 3, 2026 at 6:41 PM
There should be an ANSI Z535 warning for decaf.
Whoops no it totally is from the grips. Loctite, rescue me.
February 3, 2026 at 4:33 PM
Whoops no it totally is from the grips. Loctite, rescue me.
This little screw fell out of my bike and I can't figure out what it was. It's about the right size to be the screw from a lock-on grip, but it's not actually that. Help.
February 3, 2026 at 4:28 PM
This little screw fell out of my bike and I can't figure out what it was. It's about the right size to be the screw from a lock-on grip, but it's not actually that. Help.
Do people move into apartments in Berkeley in January? Not much. But to the extent that they did, this year they paid about 7-8% more than last January.
February 2, 2026 at 1:44 AM
Do people move into apartments in Berkeley in January? Not much. But to the extent that they did, this year they paid about 7-8% more than last January.
This is the most organized any Veos have ever been.
January 31, 2026 at 4:07 PM
This is the most organized any Veos have ever been.
There are significant stretches of University where nobody ever bothers parking, that's why I think of these as aspirational. Hence my question of whether these local programs have escape valves to set the rates to zero when it isn't working.
January 29, 2026 at 7:17 PM
There are significant stretches of University where nobody ever bothers parking, that's why I think of these as aspirational. Hence my question of whether these local programs have escape valves to set the rates to zero when it isn't working.