The California Forever initiative, a.k.a. East Solano Plan, has been pulled from the 2024 ballot in Solano County, California. From Nick McConnell at The Reporter: In the most stunning turn yet in its months-long saga for a new city in Solano County, California Forever abruptly removed the East
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Dystopia
Jan Sramek has a talent for saying disastrous things
Those Trump-loving tech 'moderates'
Conspiracy Theory
Garry Tan veers off into alt-right conspiracy theory
The point: The “Voice of San Francisco,” the “parallel media” project run by Y Combinator CEO Garry Tan’s favorite local blogger, is resorting to false and defamatory attacks. Tan is boosting those attacks to his large X/Twitter following. But these desperate and legally perilous tactics underscore the shakiness
garry tan
Is this a case of 'Small Man Syndrome,' or something more sinister?
California Forever
It's looking very, very bad for the tech billionaires' plan to impose a "utopia" city on Solano County. Can the project be saved?
California Forever
The point: The California Forever project appears headed for a massive defeat in November. But the billionaires behind the proposed "tech utopia" have managed to pull off a true political miracle in 2024: uniting Democrats and Republicans – against their project. I got a sneak peak at more detailed
Fascism
The point: Local tech venture capitalist Lee Edwards – a vocal ally of Y Combinator CEO Garry Tan – publicly celebrated a fascist dictator's habit of throwing murdered political opponents from helicopters. It's the latest escalation of violent imagery and rhetoric from San Francisco's anti-progressive tech
network state
The Point: During a tech podcast last September, Network State leader Balaji Srinivasan appeared to confirm that the California Forever project in Solano County is, indeed, part of the cultish Network State movement. This could further complicate things for the project's developers, who already face strong opposition from
network state
Maybe you can literally have like the sovereign city of San Francisco and secede effectively ... if you have total control of the city ... maybe it's possible. – B.S. The Point: Like some mustache-twirling cartoon villain, the main tech figure behind the Network State cult lays out a "
