Lynchian: This Hot Woman Is Being Weird
If you’re a cinephile, listen up, because the following story is practically a David Lynch film brought to life: This hot woman is being weird.…
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humor
slop
AI and Internet Hygiene
we are going to have to re-learn how to use the computer
internet-culture
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.
san-francisco
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.
history
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, …
cryptoOpinion | The ‘Omnicause’ Is Collapsing
Queers for Palestine? The contradictions are causing a crash at the intersection.
reaction
SignalGate Meets WordPress: Outgoing National Security Adviser's Phone Dumps Messages via Israeli App - UNICORN RIOT
Mike Waltz had a rough Thursday. A photographer caught him using a Signal-like interface to view chats on his phone. TeleMessage copies messages using a forked version of Signal. We found more details about this Israeli app tech.
security
Conner O’Malley Is the Bard of the Manosphere
The comedian’s absurd, poignant work captures the lives of the kind of frustrated young men who helped Donald Trump win the election.
culture
A People’s History of Surfing
From its Hawaiian origins to the postwar surf craze, surfing has been a defiant challenge to the Calvinist work ethic and the commercial pressures of capitalism. But those malign social forces may now finally succeed in extinguishing the spirit of surfing.
Curtis Yarvin celebrated in SF, and at 'Harvard'
Dark Enlightenment and NRx guru Curtis Yarvin celebrated by San Francisco publication and platformed by a Harvard University professor
Failed Techno-Utopias
By Cara H.
Living in the Bay Area means constantly being promised a better world by tech
CEOs and venture capitalists, while simultaneously being constantly confronted
by the failings of capitalism via astronomical rents, massive homelessness, and
the failure of public institutions. If this better world is coming, heralded by
The capitalists perpetuate capitalism through an ideology that stresses that the world will only get better with the right rich people in charge, and they only get louder about that promise when their regime is in crisis. It’s no wonder, then, that in a society where technology represents a substantial share of economic growth and political power, the capitalists that are adjacent to that particular gold rush breathlessly proselytize its utopian potential, promising it most fervently to the ones mining the gold for them.
every worker who could potentially exercise control over the means of production believes their bosses’ stewardship is leading the world to a better place. Another, of course, is a salary that prevents the need for much introspection.
tech-and-socialism
People Are Losing Loved Ones to AI-Fueled Spiritual Fantasies
Marriages and families are falling apart as people are sucked into fantasy worlds of spiritual prophecy by AI tools like OpenAI's ChatGPT
artificial-intelligence
S.F. tennis and pickleball reservations may soon cost you money
San Francisco's parks department has a plan to charge a $5 fee. In a rare alliance, tennis and pickleball players take on the fight.
The group chats that changed America
A loose private network on Signal and WhatsApp helped usher in the new alliance between Silicon Valley and Donald Trump’s new right.
politics
Tennis coach says Waymo stole his rackets
A San Francisco tennis instructor is fuming after a Waymo drove off with his gear in its trunk. “I don't know how they can't find this stuff. It didn't just drive into a black hole," he said.
software-engineering
Kenneth Rainin Foundation Awards $100,000 Grant to Four Bay Area Artists
Brenda Wong Aoki, Christy Chan, Kyle Casey Chu and Vanessa Sanchez are this year's Rainin fellows.
SF is helping nonprofits buy up distressed real estate
After being priced out for years, non-tech tenants like the Bayanihan Equity Center can afford to be in the city again.
35 Years of Twin Peaks: Joan Chen, RaMell Ross, Jane Schoenbrun and more pay tribute to David Lynch
A story on Letterboxd.
film
The B2B Trap: How Silicon Valley is Funding its Own Extinction
Let me be blunt: Silicon Valley Founders and VCs have completely lost the plot. The evidence is overwhelming, and the consequences are…
tech-industry
Tracking Mayor Lurie's first 100 days in office
Mission Local has compiled all of Lurie’s substantive actions from his time in office so far — here are his major moves.
Viable System Model - Metaphorum
A short introduction into the Viable System Model and a few Videos with Stafford Beer to get started.
theory
At Embarcadero Plaza, a Giant Nude Sculpture Nobody Asked For | KQED
Marco Cochrane’s 45-foot-tall sculpture ‘R-Evolution’ will stand at Embarcadero Plaza for up to a year.
Tennis stars accuse governing bodies of ‘cartel’ to deny them more prize money
Players’ group behind lawsuit is affiliated with sports company backed by hedge fund tycoon Bill Ackman
tennis
This skateboarding economist suggests we need more skateparks and less capitalism
A skateboarder presented an unusual paper at this year's big meeting of American economists.
A Childhood Neighbor Terrorized My Family. It Prepared Me for Trump’s Takeover.
It was psychological warfare.
Anyone Can Push Updates to the DOGE.gov Website
"THESE 'EXPERTS' LEFT THEIR DATABASE OPEN."
