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
Me and @bigblackjacobin 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!
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)
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!
🚨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.
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!
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.
https://t.co/exEiGLe9ET