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SF's billionaire-backed Hamilton Society, an extension of the Bay's right-wing tech scene, gathered 700 people to debate whether the US needs a dictator. The vibes were as rotten as you would expect.
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Thank you @hasanthehun for reading up on SF's homegrown techno-reactionaries.
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Bay Area technofascists realize they're in the Bay Area:
SF's billionaire-backed Hamilton Society, an extension of the Bay's right-wing tech scene, gathered 700 people to debate whether the US needs a dictator. The vibes were as rotten as you would expect.
bayareacurrent.com/sfs-tech-…
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Late in 2024, hundreds of tech workers at the New York Times waged the first ever official strike in their sector. Roughly a dozen worker leaders reflect on the strike and their campaign, and distill its lessons for their shop and their sector more broadly longhaulmag.com/first-tech-w…
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12 years ago, April 1 2014, a couple dozen activists blocked a private Google shuttle in the Mission ahead of a city vote on charging tech companies for using public bus stops. Organizers made several demands including free MUNI for all and a moratorium on no-fault evictions
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Silicon Valley is openly embracing antidemocratic and reactionary ideas.
Far from being isolated to tech billionaires, such ideologies are now commonplace in Bay Area tech culture: jacobin.com/2026/03/tech-far…
(via @bayareacurrent)
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We are doing a TMK live show in San Francisco next week with the wonderful folks at @BayAreaCurrent and @DSA_SF. Come join us for a night of left-wing tech criticism!
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🚨Premium – 446. Vibe Decoder (ft. Wendy Liu, Jimmy Wu)🚨
We get into the rising milieu of right-wing culture in San Francisco, from the growing scene of tech intelligentsia magazines to the hostile architecture of exclusionary urbanism and psychic damage of B2B SAAS billboards.
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Peter Thiel is rumored to be a major funding source for Palladium magazine—a glossy rightwing outlet that is aestheticizing technofascism. New ep with Jimmy Wu on his piece “Meet the New Right-Wing Tech Intelligentsia” — recently published at @bayareacurrent — is up!
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A tech publication scene, with politics ranging from left-liberal to far-right, has flourished in the Bay Area — @counteroptimize walks us through an intellectual world whose social and political boundary lines have become increasingly blurred.
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Fuck you
We made ChatGPT pretty restrictive to make sure we were being careful with mental health issues. We realize this made it less useful/enjoyable to many users who had no mental health problems, but given the seriousness of the issue we wanted to get this right.
Now that we have been able to mitigate the serious mental health issues and have new tools, we are going to be able to safely relax the restrictions in most cases.
In a few weeks, we plan to put out a new version of ChatGPT that allows people to have a personality that behaves more like what people liked about 4o (we hope it will be better!). If you want your ChatGPT to respond in a very human-like way, or use a ton of emoji, or act like a friend, ChatGPT should do it (but only if you want it, not because we are usage-maxxing).
In December, as we roll out age-gating more fully and as part of our “treat adult users like adults” principle, we will allow even more, like erotica for verified adults.
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this thread stops short of the real problem with new AI data centers - what happens if the bubble bursts in 1-2 years, and this industry which has a history of lying and fraud leaves the rest of us stuck with the costs of half-built substations and lines?
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The mayor is taking $9m from a crypto billionaire to move SFPD’s surveillance control center into the private offices of crypto exchange Ripple, in a building owned by Donald Trump.
315 Montgomery.
Today, I signed legislation moving forward a new headquarters for San Francisco’s Real Time Investigation Center—delivering on our promise to use smart, responsible technology to keep our city safe.
Thanks to philanthropic support, the state-of-the-art RTIC will give us the tools we need. And we’re already seeing results from this technology: car break-ins are at historic lows, and crime is down nearly 30% citywide.
Thank you to Supervisors @RafaelMandelman, @mattdorsey, @JoelEngardio, @DannySauter, and @scsherrill for your partnership.
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Oakland's Police Department is seeking to:
1. More than double its stock of drones.
2. More than double its stock of armored vehicles.
3. Get about $425K worth of assault rifles.
New from me in @BayAreaCurrent
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This was a such a great, wide-ranging interview about my work, new book, and the politics of technology. We should all be Luddites! We need Luddism now more than ever!
We interviewed @jathansadowski and we talked about why the tech industry wants us to believe that we’re not smart enough to understand what they’re making or why!! bayareacurrent.com/we-should…
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Think about what people could be doing instead of wasting a bunch of resources and energy on electoral politics
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LA's Burning Waymos have become symbols for a growing anti-deportation movement.
Some cry chaos—but @veenadubal argues that the flaming robo-taxis represent something else: the public’s fury at tech companies' interests trampling the everyday common good. bayareacurrent.com/the-torch…
