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Kurt Nelson

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Kurt Nelson @kurt.nelson.fun · 07/10/2026
Made a thing, except it only updates every 15 minutes.
e-ink MUNI departure board
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Kurt Nelson @kurt.nelson.fun · 02/10/2026
Bunch of undercover SFPD just swarmed these two guys who were clearly tourists in a rental BMW. They walked away with their belongings while SFPD took their car.
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Kurt Nelson @kurt.nelson.fun · 20/09/2026
If I drop in my doordash data, I apparently like Alan Cumming while eating and it gets sillier. Correlation is definitely not causation.
more slop
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Kurt Nelson @kurt.nelson.fun · 20/09/2026
We live in a time where I can ask the robots to correlate my McDonald's orders with my Spotify listening and ask it to make a "tweetable info graphic".
slop
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Kurt Nelson @kurt.nelson.fun · 15/09/2026
While us engineers are currently busy token maxxing, 100 years ago humans put a lighthouse at the bottom of this.
Stairwell up a cliff from a lighthouse.
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Kurt Nelson @kurt.nelson.fun · 15/09/2026
Just what I want to see pop-up on Docusign while confirming a job offer.
Dialog asking if I want an AI-assisted summary.
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Kurt Nelson @kurt.nelson.fun · 14/09/2026
I was sent back to SF with a role of these to hand out last month.
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Kurt Nelson @kurt.nelson.fun · 07/09/2026
The failure message.
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Kurt Nelson @kurt.nelson.fun · 03/09/2026
Fare breakdown, includes new transfer rules.
Clipper app screenshot
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Kurt Nelson @kurt.nelson.fun · 02/09/2026
Took forever, but I've now done the iron loop.
Google maps activity around the whole bay via train.
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Kurt Nelson @kurt.nelson.fun · 18/08/2026
I'm feeling magnetic energy in the morning.
Chicago loop on a map
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Kurt Nelson @kurt.nelson.fun · 12/08/2026
RIP Muni Headlands Express. We really need to bring it back in some form.
Old bus stop at Rodeo Beach
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Kurt Nelson @kurt.nelson.fun · 28/07/2026
I don't think San Francisco wants A.Vs on our streets Laurie. Maybe we should do a ballot prop..oh wait he wants to make that way harder.
SF Chronicle: “San Francisco wants AVs on our streets,” Lurie said. “And we want them to be here safely.”
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Kurt Nelson @kurt.nelson.fun · 28/07/2026
The AI seems to be going well over at Doordash.
Box of 150 eggs listed for $12.99
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Kurt Nelson @kurt.nelson.fun · 27/07/2026
This is why Six Flags got stuck with DC Comics, and the big boys had to fight over Marvel park rights. (Before Disney just bought them entirely)
A peeling sign of superman for the ride.
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Kurt Nelson @kurt.nelson.fun · 25/07/2026
CW: SF police violence SFPD started punching the guy while he was already down.
SFPD punching a guy on the ground
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Kurt Nelson @kurt.nelson.fun · 24/07/2026
Finally made it to 7 Mile house post-McClaren walk.
A dog walking on a path with a missionDog menu
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Kurt Nelson @kurt.nelson.fun · 19/07/2026
Downloaded my entire Spotify history and used Gemini to whip up a probably mostly correct infographic and it's sad.
while streaming was 93% cheaper for the listener ($1,876 subscription vs. $27,687 to purchase), buying the music outright would have paid the artists over 92 times more ($19,381 in purchase royalties vs. $209 in streaming royalties
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Kurt Nelson @kurt.nelson.fun · 17/07/2026
Ok, which editor at The Chronicle let this sentence through? I don't think anyone calls Taco Bell a Mexican chain.
Sentence in the SF Chronicle
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Kurt Nelson @kurt.nelson.fun · 16/07/2026
Seems like a great idea in 2026 to have an unattended buffet room where kids can just go in and touch all the pastries. Notice the middle table now has no pastries.
Buffet room at Hilton Beachside Santa Barbara
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Kurt Nelson @kurt.nelson.fun · 15/07/2026
The Alaska airlines mobile app and website have been like this for days; it seems like they use auth0 under the hood. The subreddit is filled with reports so not just me. If it's not fixed by my flight Saturday I guess I'm going old school paper the whole way.
We can't log you in right now
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Kurt Nelson @kurt.nelson.fun · 12/07/2026
Uh Google, I think the AI broke.
"reviewers say to expect massive portions that can set off car airbag sensors"
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Kurt Nelson @kurt.nelson.fun · 10/07/2026
I see stuff like this constantly. CA DMV needs to make sure CDL holders (esp with passenger endorsement) know how red lanes work. Also how a no left turn sign works.
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Kurt Nelson @kurt.nelson.fun · 05/07/2026
Because this fixes problems
Car barrier blocking nothing
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Kurt Nelson @kurt.nelson.fun · 30/06/2026
At SF MoMA, the fortune of the lobby art piece was mortality today.
Title of a art piece on a wall: "Fortuna and the Immortality Garden (Machine)"Wood from the installation in a junk removal truck.
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Kurt Nelson @kurt.nelson.fun · 29/06/2026
Tiny van, big light.
The gayser launcher
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Kurt Nelson @kurt.nelson.fun · 28/06/2026
I bet Koshland Park has an even better view a block over, but they lock the gate at civil twilight.
A ridiculous amount of lasers.
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Kurt Nelson @kurt.nelson.fun · 17/06/2026
Definitely hot tub weather up in Sonoma right now.
In a hot tub on a foggy day
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Kurt Nelson @kurt.nelson.fun · 15/06/2026
Do we have SYN permit zones you must park in first?
Parking sign requiring an A, C or K permit
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Kurt Nelson @kurt.nelson.fun · 11/06/2026
I've been paying attention to the supply side of the gig economy now that I have a car and might make a buck going somewhere I already was going to. But this, this just makes me sad inside.
Instacart run paying $37 to bring a cat tower from a Petsmart in Daly City to downtown Napa.
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Kurt Nelson @kurt.nelson.fun · 11/06/2026
I was going to take the dog to Marin Headlands for the first time today, but not if it's 90 degrees. People said Mt Tam has shaded trails? But he is a small and it is coyote pupping season.
A small dog asleep in the morning.
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Kurt Nelson @kurt.nelson.fun · 05/06/2026
When you hit unsubscribe on Super Duper.
Tiny tiny less than top third.
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Kurt Nelson @kurt.nelson.fun · 22/05/2026
On the way back to the Bay, but the niners way.
Amtrak roommette
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Kurt Nelson @kurt.nelson.fun · 22/05/2026
I made it.
Truckee Amtrak station
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Kurt Nelson @kurt.nelson.fun · 21/05/2026
IYKYK.
Richmond, CA Amtrak platform
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Kurt Nelson @kurt.nelson.fun · 19/05/2026
Is it part of the signage beef about OAK that none of these signs say San Francisco?
Bart platform sign that says berressa, Millbrae and a tiny SFO on top of the airplane.
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Kurt Nelson @kurt.nelson.fun · 16/05/2026
Something's off here.
The McDonald's app on Android having the icon say "prod US"
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Kurt Nelson @kurt.nelson.fun · 10/04/2026
Hey SF Chron, your email forms are always broken because whoever wrote the code doesn't know how email actually works.
Form rejecting an email address because of the TLD.
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Kurt Nelson @kurt.nelson.fun · 03/04/2026
Quote: we need to get one
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Kurt Nelson @kurt.nelson.fun · 19/03/2026
Sigh, the form is borked again.
A form rejecting a valid email as invalid
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Kurt Nelson @kurt.nelson.fun · 28/02/2026
This current board of supes is no one I voted for but I did not expect this, and this week of utter billionaire supporting moves.
Screenshot of Bilall with the caption of "supporting San Francisco AI companies against federal coercion"
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Kurt Nelson @kurt.nelson.fun · 27/02/2026
Time to close any accounts you have with Square or Cash you can, and talk to your local coffee shop about switching! They laid off 4,000 people today, including many long-time engineers, including many of my former colleagues.
"Your account is now closed" in the Square Cash app
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Kurt Nelson @kurt.nelson.fun · 18/02/2026
Autoload? Nope.
Server error in the clipper app
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Kurt Nelson @kurt.nelson.fun · 16/02/2026
Waymo is slow and expensive from SFO. My HumanPool is a whole $20, which beats paying $11 for rainy BART with a bag up a hill.
The quote from the Waymo app for SFO to Lower Haight.
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Kurt Nelson @kurt.nelson.fun · 15/02/2026
Newark Airport terminal B is so Jersey. Almost no services and you are greeted with this post TSA.
10 plus buckets catching leaky roof water
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Kurt Nelson @kurt.nelson.fun · 12/02/2026
How quaint.
An old museum sign on illegal immigration
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Kurt Nelson @kurt.nelson.fun · 12/02/2026
Surprisingly the 🗽 museum still uses the word immigrant all over. Next up, Ellis Island.
The Statue of Liberty 🗽
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Kurt Nelson @kurt.nelson.fun · 09/02/2026
I've got a couple transit cards.
Transit system NFC payment cards laid out
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Kurt Nelson @kurt.nelson.fun · 27/01/2026
I guess the Dave Chappelle show at The Chapel is going to sell out very very fast.
"you are in line for Dave Chappelle. When it is your turn, you will have 10 minutes to enter the website." "Number of users in line ahead of you: 69207 "
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Kurt Nelson @kurt.nelson.fun · 20/01/2026
Email inbox screenshot
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