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Nonconsensual nude generators had another banner year. What will it take to defeat them? Deplatforming the companies, debilitating the technology, and deterring the users

Today on Indicator: 2025 has been a banner year for AI nudifiers. I found another 9,000 ads on Meta since my last report, bringing the total for this year to 25,000. The top 10 nudifying websites got 10 million views in October.

Now is the time to invest in asbestos!!

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Big housing news in San Francisco today: the Board of Supervisors (their equivalent of City Council) votes to upzone the entire western half of the city. Currently much of the westside is houses. Commercial streets get a height boost.

Diagrams & maps below from sfplanning.org/sites/defaul...

Celebrating something more than a decade over due, but celebrating none the less.

Starting Dec 10, most Bay Area transit transfers will be free for two hours. If you take AC Transit to BART then transfer to Muni, your fare today is $9.10. With Clipper 2, the free AC and Muni transfers mean your fare will be just $3.90
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I'd like to commend all my fellow YIMBYs in the trenches on this, knowing full well the preservation of down zoning has been a tool for home owning incumbents to halt new populations from integrating into their neighborhoods. We still have a long way to go, but this is one major obstacle cleared.

Oh whats his source on the 54k pipeline number?

I'm not sure if I ever heard the argument "upzoning alone would fix things" but feel free to point them out. I might have a word with them.

Family Zoning passes the first reading 7-4 at the Board of Supervisors. I've legit been working on this for 3 years. LET'S FUCKING GO.

If you showed up at a hearing, sent a letter, told your friends, or organized to make this happen, THANK YOU

"What are YOU going to do take backsies your country?"

"America is sliding, sliding into the ball pits"

This is a unedited screen cap of a daily wire post with its three hosts in front of mcdonalds lamenting the "fall of America"

You know things are bad at the Daily Wire when they send three grown men to report on the Fall of America at McDonalds PlayPlace

"Coat bath" *rubs eyes, looks again* "coat bath"

I’m at Land Use for the 4th(!) and final hearing on the Family Zoning Plan. It’s mostly NIMBYs here by my eyes but not nearly as full as previous meetings

Today, our new District 4 Supervisor, Alan Wong, was sworn in.

As Sunset residents, we know what our neighborhood needs most after a recall, two ballot measures, and a Supervisor appointee resignation: a leader who can show us the way forward, not work to destroy Sunset Dunes.

I remember when they were dying on a hill for incandescent light bulbs.

Picture of Tyler Toffolli at SAP center.

Canucks v Sharks. Sigh, Toffolli where did we go wrong. #gokingsgo

NEW PAPER w/ @cselmendorf.bsky.social & @jkalla.bsky.social:

An under-appreciated reason why voters oppose dense new housing, especially in less-dense neighborhoods: they think it looks ugly and want to prevent that, even in other neighborhoods.

Some of what we think is NIMBYism might not be!

I actually like the idea, but if housing is dense and situated functionally close to an urban core, there shouldn't be a "conflict with nature" to solve right?

If ewoks, then yes.

High five to Woodside, Sunnyvale, Saratoga, South San Francisco, Santa Clara County Unincorporated, Santa Clara, San Mateo County Unincorporated, San Mateo, San Jose, San Francisco, San Carlos, San Bruno, Redwood City, Portola Valley, Palo Alto, Pacifica, Mountain View, Morgan Hill, Monte Sereno,

Great, I can now look forward to being lectured about "throwing money away on rent" by poor saps saddled with a 50 year mortgage.

The grift game. But it's a water level.

“And I just say, ‘You know, it’s hard for me to care about Riley Gaines tying for fifth when my swim coach is accused of raping my teammates.”

Gen Z is bringing back one of the most divisive dining trends of the 2010s Gen Z, driven by a desire for social connection, is bringing back a divisive dining trend: shared tables and communal dining.

Wonder if this bodes well for Gen Z being more comfortable with transit.
www.businessinsider.com/gen-z-dining...

At Land Use (again) and it's literally all the same people it always is (myself included)...like who are we fooling that the same 75 people showing up every time is "the will of the people"? What a sham public process is sometimes, sadly

CDT report, entitled “Architects of Online Influence: How Creators, Platforms, and Policymakers Shape Political Speech.” Illustration of interlaid speech bubbles, treated as if they’re drawn by an architect, with measurements and angle marks.

CDT’s @isabelalinzer.bsky.social + @beccabranum.bsky.social's new report examines how creators, platforms, and policymakers are redefining political speech in the digital age. cdt.org/insights/arc...

This App Lets ICE Track Vehicles and Owners Across the Country Material viewed by 404 Media shows data giant Thomson Reuters enriches license plate data with marriage, voter, and ownership records. The tool can predict where a car may be in the future.

This should be least among a list of good reasons to take public transit, but alas here we are.
www.404media.co/this-app-let...