Jeremy Stoppelman
@jeremys
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Co-founder and CEO of Yelp. YIMBY. Pro pedestrians, bikes, and transit.
San Francisco
Joined May 2007
🗳️ We’re down to the wire! 6 DAYS LEFT TO VOTE! 🚪💬 Today's doorknocking update, 9/10: • A couple told me they were leaning recall… • They visited Sunset Dunes & saw it’s thriving • So they flipped to NO on the Recall, NO on A 🙌 Join them in voting NO on the Recall
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🗳️ Ballot tutorial time! Two key things you need to know: 1️⃣ To keep me in office → Vote NO❌ 2️⃣ This is NOT a November election. Election Day = Sept 16, ONE WEEK FROM TODAY! Remember, VOTE NO on the Recall, NO on A and mail your ballot ASAP #sanfrancisco #sf #politics
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I flagged Google claimed "open web is already in rapid decline" in a weekend legal filing to try to stop divestiture of its adtech monopolies. A Google senior exec tried to reframe it yesterday as out of context shorthand when press caught on to it. Lawyers now cleaning up. /1
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There's a wild thing happening across the United States. The cost of car sprawl-oriented land use is starting to hit pocketbooks, with a vengeance. But because of how we allocate costs -- i.e., we hide and externalize them -- it doesn't "look" like it's the cost of sprawl. 🧵
US electricity prices are climbing more than twice as fast as inflation
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Google loves citing… Google 👇 We analyzed 46M citations across 36M AI Overviews in the past 6 months. Here’s who gets cited the most!
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Is the incoming leader of the California senate sneakily trying to kill a proposed 250 unit apartment building in Santa Barbara via a budget trailer bill? It certainly seems like it! 🧵
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Nancy Harrison,Families for Safe Streets member: “It shouldn’t require luck to make it across the street safely. That’s why I’m here today with my wholehearted support for Supervisor Melgar’s Street Safety Act.” To the Board of Supervisors: vote YES on the #SFStreetSafetyAct
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The public’s faith in our economic system depends on the preservation of open and competitive markets. The public’s trust in the wisdom of markets is fraying. Senator John Sherman, the namesake of our antitrust law said 1890:
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My piece in today’s NY Times: “At a time when authoritarian power is on the rise, we must not forget that plutocracy is also its own kind of dictatorship.” https://t.co/Rz3XotgNru
nytimes.com
The message to other companies is plain: It pays to break the law.
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Recently, Engardio knocked on doors. “We are not into recalls,” one resident said. “They are a waste of time.” Another resident recognized Engardio and guessed why he was there. “In this national climate, recalls are such a waste of money and time.” https://t.co/3TtdNFzalo
missionlocal.org
Less than two weeks to the recall election in San Francisco, over 10,000 voters in the Sunset has already cast their ballot.
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We’ve been informed by the Governor’s Department of Finance that it won’t agree before our legislative session ends (on Friday) to finalize a $750M bridge loan to Bay Area transit. This loan was agreed to in our June budget. Without it, BART, Muni, et al will cut service.🧵
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The Google remedy, after more thought = chickenshit. Huge amounts of effort and thinking, but judge went wimpy when it came to actually trying to remedy the problem he had well identified.
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My bills to make SF safer & more vibrant are heading to the Governor! SB 395 authorizes 20 low costs liquor licenses for restaurants opening in Union Square/Yerba Buena. SB 276 gives SF new tool to stop sale of stolen goods on SF streets, which pushes out legit street vendors.
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Totally normal LA headline Having streets this dangerous is a policy choice.
Ambulance carrying a crash victim crashes in L.A., drawing a crash investigator — who also crashes
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Google is going to continue its illegal search monopoly after a judge failed to offer any meaningful remedies to break up the search giant. “The court does not have discretion to preserve Google’s monopoly," @LeeHepner tells @ddayen.
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Judge Mehta's Google remedy ruling of 2025 is going to age as well as Jon Leibowitz's FTC's Google monopoly case closure of 2013.
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It's like a defendant robbed a series of banks and the court verdict found them guilty, then sentenced them to probation under which they may continue robbing banks but must share data on how they rob banks with competing bank robbers.
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Honestly this might be worse than if they’d just won the monopolization case. The message now is “even if you illegally monopolize an industry, and get caught, there are no consequences”
Whoa: Google lost the search antitrust case a while back, but just resoundingly won the remedies phase. They can continue doing all of the stuff the court found unlawful, but with some minor new data sharing obligations limiting search default payoffs to 1-year terms.
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Pelosi said she “strongly” opposed the recall and stands with Engardio “as he continues his important work for the people of the Sunset and San Francisco.”
sfchronicle.com
Pelosi said she “strongly” opposed the recall and stands with Engardio “as he continues his important work for the people of the Sunset and San Francisco.”
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Cloudflare’s CEO wants to save the web from AI’s oligarchs. Here’s why his plan isn’t crazy. https://t.co/xGF0e1GPa3
crazystupidtech.com
AI chatbots are blowing up the 30-year economic relationship publishers have had with search engines. Many think this will kill the web if not addressed. Google needs to change first. It's resisting....
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