This Queer Online Zine Can Only Be Read Via an Ancient Internet Protocol
New Session publishes poetry via Telnet, rejecting the internet’s fast-paced enshittification.
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Tracking every ICE action in San Francisco so far
At least 30 people have been arrested by ICE officers in San Francisco. Mission Local is tracking these arrests.
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SPVs, Credit, and AI Datacenters
How a new credit bubble is building in AI data centers
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artGitHub - jj-vcs/jj: A Git-compatible VCS that is both simple and powerful
A Git-compatible VCS that is both simple and powerful - jj-vcs/jj
What You’ve Suspected Is True: Billionaires Are Not Like Us
Why Elon Musk and other tech billionaires have a different perspective
Solution-space Taste
A graphical representation
WesBurger, which changed how SF eats burgers, will shutter next month
Having graduated from pop-up to brick-and-mortar almost a decade ago, Wes Rowe did more to popularize smashburgers than almost anyone in the city.
The Parks Alliance, now in financial crisis, has a long and sordid history
Private group was linked to corruption scandal and threat to a sitting supervisor—and has very close ties to the head of Rec-Park
When Is a Torched Waymo More Than a Torched Waymo?
The moves of some Los Angeles protestors could be the start of something far bigger. Welcome to the techlash.
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An early Joby Aviation backer might soon be its biggest distributor in Saudi Arabia
Joby Aviation has signed an MoU with investor and Saudi Arabian conglomerate Abdul Latif Jameel (ALJ) to distribute up to 200 electric aircraft valued at about $1 billion over the coming years.
Crypto billionaire's company, nonprofit to give over $9M to S.F. police for surveillance unit
Ripple founder and billionaire Chris Larsen continues prolific donations for police surveillance technology.
Lemmings: How DMA Design Redefined Puzzle Games
A look at one of the greatest puzzle games ever created. Lemmings in 1991 was developed by DMA Design and published by Psygnosis. Originally releasing on the Amiga and Atari ST it has seen ports to 20 different computers and consoles and has sold over 15 million units. In this episode we take a look at Lemmings and how it changed the industry.
Sources/Credits:
► https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MlFnMt3o1as
► https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ChmQBK_EaUQ
► https://web.archive.org/web/20180525191513/http://tle.vaarties.nl/lemmings/versions/
► https://lemmings.info/lemmings-gamehistory/
Music Credits:
► https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EC5AkdCbjuY
► 1988 - Psygnosis
► Composer: David Whittaker
► https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hiWbcws-s4o
► Lemmings (1991) music by Tim Wright.
TimeStamps:
00:00 - Psygnosis in the early days
01:23 - DMA Design
02:29 - The idea/concept
04:03 - Lemmings the game
09:45 - 2 Player Spilt screen mode
11:02 - The Ports
13:58 - Legacy
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Who Does a Supervisor Really Serve? Hayes Valley Deserves an Answer - Hayes Valley San Francisco
In light of recent developments regarding the closure on Hayes Street, we’re answering the two top questions we ask and have been asked as of late:Who does a Supervisor really serve?And have you even talked to Bilal about the closure?Yes, we did. Once. It was a meeting that left the room stunned and the community even more demoralized. What follows ... Read post
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Real Masculinity has Never Been Tried
More info about this below, but I released a new short story on Itch called Soft Hands. It's about masculinity and weakness and sledgehammers. It's pay-what-you-want, so check it out here. On to the newsletter:
I love to write about men. Men with strange ideas and fixations, men who are
cultureEx-cop jailed and deported during holiday to US
A former NSW police officer has described the terrifying ordeal she faced after she was detained, jailed overnight and deported from the United States – despite travelling there legally on a tourist visa to visit her US military husband.
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Still Life: Jia Zhangke on the changing times of Caught by the Tides • Journal
With the release of his decades-spanning new feature Caught by the Tides, filmmaker Jia Zhangke speaks with Jourdain Searles about the necessity to keep going, the freedom of karaoke bars, the…
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The New York Times Really Asked Ms. Rachel If She's Paid By Hamas | Defector
The house style of the New York Times is severely outdated. Depending on the topic, the newspaper’s purportedly impartial tone instead reads as smug, self-amused, and deeply lazy. The results are disastrous when applied to a recent article which sincerely considers the idea that Rachel Griffin-Accurso, the popular children’s entertainer known as Ms. Rachel, might […]
CBP Seizes Shipment of T-Shirts Featuring Swarm of Bees Attacking a Cop
The shirts will be returned to China or will be “destroyed under CBP supervision."
Real Constraints
The Global North talk constantly about the "Finance Gap", but finance for climate is limited by orthodoxy, not reality.
Today’s economic orthodoxy is rooted in neoclassical economics. It treats a lack of public finance as a natural constraint, downplaying the state’s role in shaping the economy and obscuring how money is actually created.[1] In reality, though, the only true constraints lie in the availability of real resources—workers, materials, infrastructure—to meet our collective needs.
These estimates rely on production functions and assumptions about capital that carry through all the problems Robinson identified. In doing so, they offer the illusion of precision while quietly embedding deeply questionable assumptions about technology, efficiency, and pricing that lead ultimately to needlessly inflated headline costs. By collapsing everything into a single variable, these models omit vital questions of coordination and resource planning. They
Export earnings are often volatile, especially for countries dependent on raw materials whose prices fluctuate on global markets. Foreign investment, meanwhile, can be highly selective and short-term, chasing speculative returns rather than long-term development. And borrowing, particularly from institutions like the International Monetary Fund (IMF) or World Bank, is rarely unconditional. Positioned on the margins of this system, many countries find themselves trapped in recurring cycles of debt, austerity, and underdevelopment.
The “Asian Tigers”—Hong Kong, Singapore, South Korea, and Taiwan—and more recently China, did not passively wait for foreign capital. Instead, they followed state-led strategies: implementing long-term industrial policies, investing in infrastructure and education, protecting key sectors during early stages of development, and actively managing trade and capital flows. Their governments treated development as a national project, not something to be outsourced to international markets.
If this chaos has an upside, it is that it presents an opportunity to build an alternative—and radically more just—financial architecture, and to confront the economic orthodoxies that needlessly constrain what is considered possible.
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Why The Qataris Are Happy To Dump Their 747 On Trump
The president may be thirsting for a new four-engine jumbo jet, but many governments and royal families are unloading their fuel-guzzling palaces in the sky.
The Heat of the Moment
In place of paralysis or bland positivity, this is the moment for an honest reckoning with where we stand, what we are up against, and where, already, resistance is underway.
Mainstream climate politics has so far put nearly all its time and energy into correcting the “market failure” of climate change, from attempting to reflect the “social” cost of emissions with a carbon price, to creating markets where none existed and forcing actors to participate. It by now goes without saying that despite some minor improvements at the local or regional level, these efforts have achieved little. This is not to say, however, that they have not been material. To the contrary, in providing the illusion that something is being done, market-based climate policies have had considerable material impact by delaying more effective action.
the belief that those in the luxury cabins would never willingly let the ship sink.
And yet, as Quinn Slobodian has identified, this “new populist right” is in many ways not new. Instead, this new right is simply a warped version of what came before, retaining rather than rejecting neoliberalism’s core tenet: protecting capitalism from democracy.
We are in strange territory. The political no-man’s land of market-based liberalism has proven infertile terrain from which to build responses to challenges from climate change to economic stagnation, and as a result, remarkably fertile terrain for the outgrowth of the new right’s politics and imaginaries.
Hasan Piker detained at the border and questioned for hours over politics
"They straight up tried to get something out of me that I think they could use to basically detain me permanently"
What China Got Right About Big Tech
Unlike Trump, Xi understood that a new class of business titans could hijack his country’s political system.
The Hawk Tuah Memecoin Rug Pull Is The Apotheosis Of Bag Culture | Defector
I can’t ease you into this one, so: Haliey Welch, colloquially known as the “Hawk Tuah girl,” launched a bespoke cryptocurrency token called HAWK last Wednesday, the same day she told Fortune it was “not just a cash grab” and her manager cut off a question in the same interview about its legality (because, he […]
Essay | Meet MAGA’s Favorite Communist
Conservative activists like Christopher Rufo are taking inspiration from Antonio Gramsci, the 20th-century Marxist thinker who drew up a battle plan for winning culture wars.
AI and Internet Hygiene
we are going to have to re-learn how to use the computer
Here’s the list of S.F. art orgs losing federal NEA funding
Programs scheduled for later in 2025 lost support for upcoming events — and organizations are scrambling to find alternative funding sources.
Policing the New Crisis
Ryan Moore weighs the convulsions of our present neoliberalism against the rise of Thatcherism, by way of reference to Stuart Hall and his co-authors' classic text on Thatcherite ideology and hegemony, Policing the Crisis.
Some rough impressions of Worldcoin
Recently a reader wrote in and asked if I would look at Sam Altman’s Worldcoin, presumably to give thoughts on it from a privacy perspective. This was honestly the last thing I wanted to do, …
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