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For the planners: mark your calendars, for the type-b chillers, bank this one away in the group chat. Be ready to roll up with the crew, to conspire over another year of blasting the doors off the Bay’s tech-landlord-do nothing elite. Pull up and PARTY for our ONE YEAR BDAY!
Meet the (ecological) Locals: Tiburon Mariposa Lily: A survivor of a transformed California, and a reminder of how delicate our world is.
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For the planners: mark your calendars, for the type-b chillers, bank this one away in the group chat. Be ready to roll up with the crew, to conspire over another year of blasting the doors off the Bay’s tech-landlord-do nothing elite. Pull up and PARTY for our ONE YEAR BDAY!
"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.bsky.social
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Today I learned that the great Wendy Liu aka @dellsystem.bsky.social has a regular column about AI industry billboards in SF in the @bayareacurrent.bsky.social. It's such a great way to examine these companies and AI culture in the valley and the Bay.
I'll be reading them all now:
Vibe with drink in hand over food and vitriol for the enemy. Get a tattoo on site, because its 2026 and the future is either ours for it doesn’t exist. Find your real friends and talk socialism ‘till the dancing starts. Get in for a long night, belong to the present moment 🕯️
Whatever is on Spotify is not all that there is. Music columnist Gabriel Lopez on 'death to Spotify' six months later: bayareacurrent.com/death-to-spo...
Have you heard the news? @afscme3299.bsky.social open-ended strike averted. Union overwhelmingly votes 'yes' on contract with UC system. bayareacurrent.com/strike-threa...
actual sf is back: 250+ gather on a random weekday to celebrate luddism, hate on ai billboards and the tech right
w/ @bayareacurrent.bsky.social This Machine Kills @jathansadowski.com @dsasf.org