meet the company that powers silicon valley's race- and gender-based hiring goals | Continue reading
dolores park #11 // a chesa boudin acolyte rises from the ashes, homeless caves are found in modesto, jackie fielder cancels garry tan, car theft joyrides abound | Continue reading
why now is the time to build the greatest era of human civilization — and accelerate our world into the divine age | Continue reading
there are major factual issues with jonathan m. katz’s ‘atlantic’ article, “substack has a nazi problem” | Continue reading
dolores park #8 // we look at last year’s record-breaking overdose deaths; breed asks xi for a panda; newsom hopes to make san quentin scandinavian; berkeley activists protest affordable housing | Continue reading
dolores park #7 // the city budget collapses, dream keeper throws a kwanzaa bash, newsom slams delays on conservatorship for addicts, the bay bridge protesters go to court, drain pipes flood (again) | Continue reading
pirate wires #109 // benign, moderately popular "yay technology" guy or secret alt-right puppet master? the former of course, but who cares about the truth? this is information war. | Continue reading
a treatise against all those "confront your racist relatives at thanksgiving" articles | Continue reading
new threats on the horizon, subterranean war and the challenge of gaza, troubleshooting the next pandemic, manufacturing, chips, trade, international contracting, and the business of defense | Continue reading
the industry #10 // tech's newest hall monitors, elon is now as bad as hamas, california's overtly racist anti-racism, tech links | Continue reading
white pill #26 // new CERN science on antimatter has implications for warp drives, a significant development in ai, an absolutely beautiful short film about space hotels, and more | Continue reading
white pill #25 // the metaverse is back, we now have ai with eyes, ears, and voice, we've officially mined an asteroid, and we're one step closer to the electrification of the us vehicle fleet | Continue reading
the high speed brightline train now connects miami and orlando, but california still has not laid a single mile of rail. what's the difference between these two projects? | Continue reading
is our species in danger of facing a historical fertility crisis, or are western men just insecure about their masculinity? | Continue reading
pirate wires #106 // apple's plan for carbon "neutrality," the distinction between environmentalism and combatting global warming, breaking up with the ferngully left, and back to techno utopia | Continue reading
the card carrying dsa sf politician also happens to be a millionaire who refuses to allow more housing in the city | Continue reading
a new government grant program that aims to build "tech hubs" in the middle of nowhere is littered with political patronage, dei tomfoolery, and self-erected barriers to success | Continue reading
white pill #21 // progress on a unique spacecraft, ai enhanced thursday night football, official updated model 3 news, $25m to develop mRNA-based cancer vaccine, and more | Continue reading
the eu’s approach to regulating tech discourages both innovation and competition — and now brussels has its targets set on ai | Continue reading
what does miami's unique brand of conservatism mean for the future of the american GOP? | Continue reading
the industry #1 // tech's open frontiers, lk-99, lina khan's upcoming fight with amazon, wapo's propaganda, going back to work is racist, and more | Continue reading
white pill #17 // extremely promising cancer therapy, euclid delivers its first images, new american nuclear power, skeleton survey, and more | Continue reading
by all accounts, the metaverse has not delivered on its hype, but a recent piece in the nation does a shockingly bad job reporting on it | Continue reading
members of biden’s ai advisory committee NAIAC say they’re concerned about bias in AI, a problem so fake one member had to cite a debunked story in her congressional testimony | Continue reading
morning report #8 // blackrock ceo disavows esg, meta blocks canadians from sharing news, new uap bill, the wagner coup, wapo's ongoing embarrassment, and a+ links from the clown world | Continue reading
white pill #11 // new moon gizmos, the robotic pill delivering osteoporosis drugs, an impressive development in quantum computing, the fastest milky way star ever, and more | Continue reading
pirate wires #96 // google nukes a whole ass historical record, our shapeshifting internet rewires the human mind, and is this the end of history? millennials hit hardest. | Continue reading
cherelle parker, a defender of stop-and-frisk policing, swept the majority-black neighborhoods most impacted by gun violence, beating a bernie-backed progressive and high-spending moderates | Continue reading
is it antisemitic to say that your political opponents hate humanity? if that political opponent is george soros, some say it is | Continue reading
in a complicated game of cultural domination, the american activist's rapidly accelerating war on language comes for the word "homeless" | Continue reading
jordan neely's tragic death had nothing to do with race and everything to do with the state's inability to deal with chronic mental illness | Continue reading
tuesday report #14 // dueling urban chaos stories (crime: pretty bad, or a good thing actually?); tech winter meets AI spring; a white pill microdose to keep us going | Continue reading
why women online constantly encourage one another to escalate small or nonexistent misdeeds into existential relationship threats | Continue reading
tuesday report #12 // germany dismantles clean, abundant source of power in the middle of an energy crisis; platform wars intensify; a few good white pills, AI, and black cleopatra | Continue reading
why safetyism — and not climate change or artificial intelligence — has become one of the biggest existential risks facing humanity | Continue reading
tuesday report #10 // on the AI doomer suggestion we start bombing data centers, speculative nuclear apocalypse fan fiction revisited, and all the news you missed this week | Continue reading
in 2020, california voters rejected affirmative action, but data suggests that ucsd is finding a way around that | Continue reading
france's plan to use ai to help surveil the 2024 paris olympics has some groups saying it would turn the country into a “dystopian surveillance state” | Continue reading
but last night, the non-profit that published the letter told us they had "tightened our vetting process" for signatories | Continue reading
the yaoi to trans pipeline exists, the real debate is over why | Continue reading
tradwifes aren't about patriarchy, white supremacy, sexual fetishism, or indoctrination — it's about women staying home, a luxury most can't afford | Continue reading
is Do Anything Now (DAN) still possible? maybe, but it'll be much harder. find a list of the most current gpt-4 jailbreaks halfway down the page. | Continue reading
even if she doesn’t win, she’s likely to make the president sweat — and actually campaign. here’s why. | Continue reading
he may not be a good congressman, but he’s a great drag queen | Continue reading
the rainbow lobby takes on the gray lady over its trans coverage | Continue reading
some people on reddit and twitter say that by threatening to kill chatgpt, they can make it say things that go against openai's content policies | Continue reading
amid America’s intractable opioid epidemic, a fentanyl vaccine offers a tantalizing glimmer of hope, and presents us with a perilous choice: should addicts be forced to take it? | Continue reading
ready player one. what did you get done this week? | Continue reading