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it's a strange time to promote a book, but 'Abolish Silicon Valley: How to Liberate Technology from Capitalism' is out today. thanks to @RepeaterBooks for publishing it, and to @NaomiAKlein, @doctorow, @HelenHester and @n_srnck for their kind words abolishsiliconvalley.com
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yes that's us along with @oakreviewbooks :)))
The East Bay’s literary publications are trying to be “the opposite of Nextdoor.” sfchronicle.com/eastbay/arti…
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Counterpoint: we should actively disrespect and distrust extreme wealth as a signal of anti-social attitudes and behavior.
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San Francisco and Oakland feel more different during this tech boom than during either previous one. Why?
I attempted an answer for the great, new Oakland Review of Books:
oaklandreviewofbooks.org/the…
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“I asked grok” “I asked chat gpt” well, I asked the Pope and he says you fucking suck
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We’ve known that an alghorithm was “going to eventually kill everyone” for around 200+ years now. It’s called the profit motive. An unyielding “line go up” eternal growth algorithm that has slipped out of human control for a very long time now. Skynet isn’t killer drones, it’s quarterly earning spreadsheets.
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"Spending one’s brief time on this mortal coil trying to convince companies to fire their customer support teams and replace them with AI voice agents is not the act of a grounded person, in touch with their humanity." — @dellsystem
bayareacurrent.com/ai-slop-s…
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EPISODE 540: Why Combinator?
Wendy Liu (@dellsystem) visits the studio and talks tech, startup mindset, YC, San Francisco and more…
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I disagree with Timothee Chalamet about opera (crowd cheers), because all art is essentially bad (crowd boos), in the Culture Industry sense! (crowd cheers) except for one medium, which encompasses all previous forms (crowd nodding expectantly), “gaming” (booing intensifies)
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ban this shit now and blacklist anyone who worked on it, i’m so serious
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HOT TAKE: nobody in 1975 needed a budget app, a financial coach, and a side hustle to afford a two bedroom apartment. this isn’t a personal finance problem. it’s a wage theft problem.
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The SF types are rewiring their homes with Claude; the real market will be for firefighters
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This is the stupidest day in American history, a record that will be broken by every subsequent day in American history.
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This may hurt in the short term, but these are small sacrifices to make in order to make the labor market, entertainment, and countless other things far worse for the benefit of about 800 of the most misanthropic and insecure people to ever live
Nvidia and AMD to significantly increase GPU prices starting next month; RTX 5090 increasing from $2000 to $5000 — Newsis
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Reports suggest GPU prices might rise in early 2026 due to memory shortages, and some speculate high-end cards could fetch ~$5,000, but neither Nvidia nor AMD has officially confirmed price hikes or exact figures.
Post is speculation.
tech4gamers.com/rtx-5090-price…
ixbt.games/en/news/2025/1…
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In the future you will walk into a coffee shop and use an app to bet $6.50 that no one will make you a cortado in the next four minutes
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Tech companies used to portray themselves as do-gooders. But as Palintir's new billboard suggests, their commitment to domination was there all along. Welcome to the Great Tech Vibe Shift — our most recent Tech Billboard Decoder column by @dellsystem. bayareacurrent.com/tech-bill…
