the european commission wanted 𝕏 to hire a team of people in the eu that would unilaterally oversee the removal of 'misinformation' on the platform, a source with knowledge of the issue told us | Continue reading
free markets are responsible for our prosperity. let’s build more of them. | Continue reading
california relies disproportionately on a tiny handful of ultrawealthy households, which underwrite the state’s massive expenditures. what happens if it taxes them out? | Continue reading
techcrunch’s wild spiral into madness reminds us of the stakes, a brief history of “new” media, and notes from pirate wires — what we knew, what we learned along the way, and where we’re going | Continue reading
a new effort from balaji to curate a meritocracy-focused hiring platform is an antidote to dei | Continue reading
a closer look at newsom’s backdoor maneuver to kill the citizen-led initiative to repeal prop 47, the 2014 law that effectively legalized retail theft statewide | Continue reading
we looked at thousands of silicon valley power broker political donations over the last decade and compared them to this year — here's what the data says | Continue reading
an interview with paul buchheit, the man who built gmail: the story behind his revolutionary product, the gatekeepers’ war against insurgents, and conquering our national decay | Continue reading
paul buchheit on the advent of gmail, insurgents vs. gatekeepers, the future of san francisco, ai, and more | Continue reading
the oakland defund movement seems to have devolved into a get-rich scheme for the well-connected — a case study of what happens when a moral panic produces a windfall for a fringe activist cause | Continue reading
the ceo of aerospace startup hermeus on why having an advantage over the competition isn't enough: you only win by relentlessly creating new asymmetries after you're miles ahead of everyone else | Continue reading
SB 1047, california’s bill to ban open-source AI, the effective altruists behind the bugman politician responsible, and tech's strange bedfellows | Continue reading
the largest tax increase in city history was supposed to reduce homelessness, but 6 years in, their number has only gone up | Continue reading
scientists have tried for years to determine the cause of human sexuality, but female-to-male transsexuals and roided male bodybuilders may have already figured it out | Continue reading
from the christ-like resurrection of america’s frat boy to the chadification of tech, anti-masculinity is over; chad maximalism has arrived | Continue reading
vcs should invest in companies that create hype cycles, rather than those that simply follow them | Continue reading
even though the former reddit ceo's #metoo lawsuit was a dramatic failure, the press still dubbed her a "feminist hero," as tech's decade-long activist takeover kicked into high gear | Continue reading
google concludes (they promise!) a decade of unhinged activism, brian armstrong’s advice for sundar, DHH on his path to mission-first, and the end of tech’s silent winter | Continue reading
a san francisco anti-math zealot's recent attempt to cancel software tutor startup mentava backfired spectacularly — ceo niels hoven is here to tell the complete story | Continue reading
npr’s ceo has has a near perfect record of ideological opposition to silicon valley, even arguing at oxford in 2018 that the rise of tech ‘empires’ are a net negative for society | Continue reading
you can’t live on the internet, and if you could it would be bad; illusion of the 'global perspective,' 'exit' as the path to failure, and paul graham delves into war with nigeria | Continue reading
kindergarteners learn their sex is a ‘guess that grown-ups make’ and ninth graders memorize the definitions of ‘demisexual’ and ‘down low,’ often without parental notification | Continue reading
palantir cto shyam sankar doesn't build high-performing engineering teams, he wins. here's how. | Continue reading
the union has a list of abandoned properties perfect for squatting linked on its website and, through its friends in city government, has spent decades shaping the city's reckless housing policy | Continue reading
yolande beckles’s history of financial scandals in the u.k. and los angeles is easy to find, so why have education policymakers like jo boaler welcomed her in? | Continue reading
the golden state is able to build everything except housing and new walkable communities. jan sramek wants to change that | Continue reading
case in point: the diversity lotto gives visas to 55,000 foreign nationals each year, regardless of whether they can contribute or assimilate, to increase the number of immigrants from Africa | Continue reading
the debate over tiktok’s divestiture reveals a startling decision: trust a standard reading of the bill and ban the spy app, or admit the country has entirely collapsed | Continue reading
a primer on the $900-million project to build a brand new city in the bay area | Continue reading
immigration judges interpret the same asylum laws, but one denies 86% of cases, while another denies only 1.2%. this is happening across the country — what's going on? | Continue reading
the state's math framework is strongly influenced by the academic work of jo boaler, now accused of significantly distorting citations in research underpinning the framework | Continue reading
if you squint, michael beckerman tells you all you need to know about who can see the company’s user data | Continue reading
from doordash-style paraphernalia delivery to legal teams suing the city each time it clears encampments: the grim story of how sf captures drug addicts so they can get high until they die | Continue reading
a florida law that would prevent citizens of foreign adversaries like china from buying agricultural land and land near military bases has been halted by an activist judge for being racist | Continue reading
former congressional tech fellow mike wacker argues the government would have to completely abandon legal precedent to use the tiktok divestiture as a precedent for banning X | Continue reading
is the conservative war on cultivated meat a matter of protecting the beef lobby, protecting consumers, or a third more mysterious thing (owning the libs)? | Continue reading
classified tiktok meeting triggers surprise divestment bill, assessing the criticism, trump’s wild pivot, the real motivation for tiktok’s loudest defenders, & questions pertaining to “america first” | Continue reading
taking stock of the march election results and the city's continued centerward shift | Continue reading
data scraping gone awry triggers backlash, signals escalating conflict in the battle for AI dominance | Continue reading
north face is offering a 20% discount on gear to europeans who take their anti-racism course, and river took it so you don't have to | Continue reading
in a surprise announcement, a bipartisan group of lawmakers introduced a bill that forces tiktok's parent company to divest american tiktok operations | Continue reading
inside the DEI hivemind that led to gemini's disaster | Continue reading
white pill #43 // space perspective's luxury space capsule, varda's re-entry, petabit discs, wearable robotics, spiral diopters, fun stuff | Continue reading
white pill #40 // identifying bacteria for mars, autonomous space robotics, a new venus mission, black hole energy, the herculaneum scrolls, fusion news, custom brain tissue on demand, fun stuff | Continue reading
for years, mayor breed has presided over massive budget increases to a now-$100 million a year DEI clientelism scheme | Continue reading
white pill #39 // 3d printing metal in low earth orbit, new spiral galaxy spics, lichen on the outside of the ISS, the first human gets neuralink, longevity for dogs, fun stuff | Continue reading