Warp: Elon Musk keeps boosting this anti-Black racist on X

CEO of X, Tesla and Starlink is a faithful reply guy to a racist troll whose online antics caused a major scandal at a software startup

Trump says he’ll free this Bitcoin drug lord. But Ross Ulbricht belongs in prison

Donald Trump says drug dealers deserve the death penalty. But he has pledged to pardon Ross Ulbricht, the mastermind behind the illegal online drugs and guns marketplace called Silk Road. Ulbricht received a life sentence for his crimes. His case has become a popular cause among crypto bros and libertarians,

Right-wing SF tech rears its head at Heritage Foundation's Reboot

The point: Somehow, last week's Reboot 2024 conference turned out even worse than I expected. Kevin Roberts – the president of the Heritage Foundation and the architect of Project 2025 – emerged as Reboot's "secret special guest." And he had some big plans to unveil. The

Elon Musk, Twitter and Russia: A Love Story in Headlines

Is Elon trying to tell us something?

Reboot: Project 2025, Peter Thiel and right-wing San Francisco

A vision of our future politics?

Próspera, the Network State and the New York Times

Thiel, Andreessen, Balaji and California Forever all mentioned in long New York Times piece on Network State project in in Honduras

'Gollum' for gov? Failed Fox host with foot fetish covets California

Will his Tolkien-derived nickname tempt Thiel?

New York Times erases Garry Tan's 'die slow' tweet explosion

A glowing profile of Tan's success with executive coaching left out a key detail

MAGA Ben Horowitz melts down at SF Standard profile

SF tech figure goes from progressive to pro-Trump. Not weird at all...

Trump's weird 'Freedom Cities' and the Network State cult

Why do Trump, Thiel and Andreessen want to build new cities?

Fraud king Donald Trump goes all-in on crypto politics

The fleecing of Trump's MAGA movement enters crypto phase

Tech fascism: 'What you're dealing with here is a cult'

'Others in San Francisco call it The Nerd Reich'

‘Unhumans’: J.D. Vance and the language of genocide

Trump's VP pick endorses the tactic of dehumanization

The Nerd Reich

Kamala Harris vs. The Nerd Reich of Silicon Valley

The coming battle of 2024

Dystopia

With J.D. Vance on Trump ticket, the Nerd Reich goes national

The Nerd Reich has their man in Washington

Solano County's 'scrappy resistance' defeats California Forever

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

‘Deep Tech’: Did Balaji's San Francisco Network State ‘smoke test’ fail?

Grab the popcorn - it's Gray Tribe movie time

Dystopia

California Forever's biggest PR problem may be its CEO

Jan Sramek has a talent for saying disastrous things

Trump-loving San Francisco?

Those Trump-loving tech 'moderates'

Conspiracy Theory

Y Combinator CEO boosts ‘Soros’ conspiracy theory

Garry Tan veers off into alt-right conspiracy theory

Smear Campaign: Garry Tan embraces strategy of defamation and libel

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

Garry Tan and the violent edge in San Francisco Bay Area politics

Is this a case of 'Small Man Syndrome,' or something more sinister?

California Forever

'Solano Gap': California Forever scrambles to create a need

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

Miracle in Solano: California Forever unites Democrats and Republicans

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