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San Francisco’s Ultrarich Are Blocking a Zohran-Style Agenda
For years, democratic socialists in San Francisco have been passing Zohran Mamdani–style policies in the city legislature and through ballot measures, only to see them blocked by Silicon Valley billionaires and powerful real estate interests.
san-francisco
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US proposes new drone rules that could lead to Starbucks, Amazon deliveries
The U.S. Transportation Department is proposing new rules to speed deployment of drones beyond the visual line of sight of operators, a key change needed to advance commercial uses like package deliveries.
drones
writing
Philz Coffee close to closing deal to sell to private equity firm for $145 million
Employee stocks will be canceled as part of the deal; former employees point to culture change across Philz Coffee.
finance
The Open-Source Software Saving the Internet From AI Bot Scrapers
Anubis, which block AI scrapers from scraping websites to death, has been downloaded almost 200,000 times.
artificial-intelligence
BRICS in 2025 | The Polycrisis
Nations meet in Brasilia for the 2025 BRICS Summit. China's rise and US chaos shape the opportunities and challenges for the group.
The BRIC forum was formally established in Russia in 2009. It was in part intended to design a response to the 2008 crash that would allow its four member states to insulate from the shockwaves wrought by the financial crisis. Beyond that, members had a common goal of reforming global governance, redistributing voting rights in the IMF and World Bank, improving South–South trade, and expanding local currency settlement.
But nevertheless, each country is pursuing strategies for dedollarization and green energy and manufacturing. BRICS is inherently about grasping and shaping a post-American world order, there are now many more nations interested in that project. Larry Summers said it best in 2023: “There’s a growing acceptance of fragmentation, and—maybe even more troubling—I think there’s a growing sense that ours may not be the best fragment to be associated with.”
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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.
internet-culture
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.
SPVs, Credit, and AI Datacenters
How a new credit bubble is building in AI data centers
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
software-engineering
Carlos Alcaraz Wins The Match Of A Lifetime | Defector
A match that perfect deserves no restraint, so: Carlos Alcaraz’s 4–6, 6–7 (4), 6–4, 7–6 (3), 7–6 (10–2) French Open final victory over Jannik Sinner is the best tennis match I’ve ever watched, and one of the greatest sporting events you or I will probably ever have the privilege of witnessing. You do not have […]
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What You’ve Suspected Is True: Billionaires Are Not Like Us
Why Elon Musk and other tech billionaires have a different perspective
politics
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.
tech-industry
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.
How To Make Indie Games In 2025 w/ Edmund McMillen — Full Time Game Dev Podcast Ep. 029
Me and my hero Edmund McMillen discuss the games industry, leaning into your "weirdness" in 2025, and so much more! ► Follow Ed: https://x.com/edmundmcmillen...
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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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systemsBook Review: Building A Debugger
A review of the book.
For close to two decades now, I've been telling developers (experts to neophytes) that you need to know "one level below the level at which you work". Knowing how your Java class turns into JVM bytecode, or how that .NET assembly looks like on disk, is often the difference between knowledge and ignorance. How does the yield return keyword work in C#? How did Java do inner classes before adopting nested-access classes in JDK 11 (or 12 or 15 or whenever the hell nested-access was introduced)? Being able to crack open the compiled binary, look at the disassembled output, and have at least a rough idea of what's going on, is a huge skill that every developer must have.
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:
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Ex-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…
film
Report: Crackdown on fare jumpers didn’t make BART safer
The Center for Policing Equity partnered with BART to produce a report that’s skeptical of the agency’s claims.
BART provided no proof for its claim that fare evasion costs up to $25 million a year, with Stout, the advisory firm, estimating that 2023 losses were no greater than $9.5 million. That’s significantly less than the $27.2 million the ramped-up enforcement costs BART in personnel and related fees
— The highly publicized $90 million program of hardened gates didn’t really deal with the main issue of public safety.
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