Bay Area Current

Bay Area Current covers working-class life and culture across the Bay Area.

[Bay Area Current @BayAreaCurrent]

Breaking News: San Francisco Homeless Outreach Team workers won their union with @NUHW despite management's anti-union push! Their fight was supported by @DSAEastBay's local @organizeworkers outfit, which mentors workers who want to build shopfloor power. https://t.co/dPQFD7n9UH

[Bay Area Current @BayAreaCurrent]

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[rat king 🐀 @MikeIsaac]

lol

[Bay Area Current @BayAreaCurrent]

@MikeIsaac lol indeed...subscribe to @BayAreaCurrent to get yr very own bumper sticker: https://t.co/azm7m78Pbn

[Bay Area Current @BayAreaCurrent]

Whatever is on Spotify is not all that there is. Music columnist Gabriel Lopez on 'death to Spotify' six months later. https://t.co/jaVCqcZ931

[Bay Area Current @BayAreaCurrent]

"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
https://t.co/vSmILqD6OT

[Bay Area Current @BayAreaCurrent]

The National City Police Department wrote that in one quarter its Flock cameras aka AI license plate cams sent police 364 Automatic License Plate Reader alerts and that 293 alerts were wrong. https://t.co/aXWOyjBxCm

[Bay Area Current @BayAreaCurrent]

Cops across California are getting incentivized to arrest more people for stealing from chain stores with the help of millions of dollars in grant money that they can use to buy surveillance technology from companies like Flock. https://t.co/aXWOyjBxCm

[jimmy @counteroptimize]

actual sf is back: 250+ gather on a random weekday to celebrate luddism, hate on ai billboards and the tech right

[Cihan Tugal @CihanTugal]

"the capitalist system has failed [parents and children]. A new, better system is desperately needed."
Similar to the experience described here, becoming a parent increased my dedication to socialism.
https://t.co/7rKwaQRVJh
Great piece, @BayAreaCurrent

[Noah Sloss @noahsloss]

I’m at the combination @BayAreaCurrent and @machinekillspod event

[jimmy @counteroptimize]

my piece on the right-wing tech intelligentsia, originally in @bayareacurrent, now republished in @jacobin:
https://t.co/r0mQcDT2R8

[Bay Area Current @BayAreaCurrent]

No trad dads here..in 2026, we’re transforming into socialist dads.
https://t.co/PcBYClmr9e

[Jacobin @jacobin]

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: https://t.co/pB4ZSnJbr3

(via @bayareacurrent)

[Bay Area Current @BayAreaCurrent]

“It’s a matter of life and death that we organize.”
Three elderly and disabled Noe Valley tenants recently settled with their landlord in court after a a three-year eviction battle. But organizers say that the fight may be far from over.

https://t.co/GmSuyhqIP5

[This Machine Kills @machinekillspod]

Registration is free, encouraged, but not required: https://t.co/BQoHEWPBAm

[This Machine Kills @machinekillspod]

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!

[Bay Area Current @BayAreaCurrent]

New in our SF Strike Newsletter:

—We hear from pro-strike parents, murmurs about negotiation details
—The NY Post's sad attempted strike take-down
—SFUSD bosses post a $300K/Yr admin job w/ job description that reads: "bring your whole selves to work"

https://t.co/0qSbRP6vca

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[Bay Area Current @BayAreaCurrent]

Meet SF's Billionaire Simps. We wanted to hear directly from the elite-lovers at their “March for Billionaires” in San Francisco — here’s just a few of the "interesting" things we heard.

https://t.co/mISxiJ9Bvs

[Bay Area Current @BayAreaCurrent]

The SF teacher strike follows almost a full year of negotiations and a last-ditch prevention effort by the city’s mayor, Daniel Lurie. We hear from teachers, students, and supporters from across the city about the strike's importance.

https://t.co/UpmuzAkO4B

[Bay Area Current @BayAreaCurrent]

Introducing AFTER SCHOOL, a short-run daily newsletter all about the SF Teachers strike. We'll cover scenes from the picket lines, link to articles about strike updates, and cover all the maladjusted haters and losers who are against the strike. Enjoy!

https://t.co/TPBPGMMsF6