Over the last 5 years, a network of SF political pressure groups has emerged, secretly funded by a handful of conservative tech and real estate robber barons.linktr.ee/phoenixproject… San FranciscoJoined December 2023
.@OpenAI CEO Sam Altman: "Thank you for being such a pro-business, pro-innovation President. It's a very refreshing change...The investment that's happening here, the ability to get the power of the industry back... I don't think that would be happening without your leadership."
We're in an era where suddenly tech isn't more powerful, but the amount of concentrated wealth it has is very apparent. It thinks it is at the cusp of full-spectrum world domination.
It might even get that, and not bc the tech is innovative, but bc politicians are easy to buy.
I don’t read Esk’s column saying this, it’s noting that the DCCC is caught between conservative often Chinese voters, & the billionaire donors who underwrote them
there’s not just one story to the recall, but there is absolutely a money in politics story
I don’t read Esk’s column saying this, it’s noting that the DCCC is caught between conservative often Chinese voters, & the billionaire donors who underwrote them
there’s not just one story to the recall, but there is absolutely a money in politics story
one last thing: “Abundance” is being used in CA against just-cause eviction protections for tenants returning to wildfire-ravaged communities. no, not rent control. just *telling someone why they’re being evicted.*
if that’s not mindless deregulation, I don’t know what is 🤷🏽♀️
one last thing: “Abundance” is being used in CA against just-cause eviction protections for tenants returning to wildfire-ravaged communities. no, not rent control. just *telling someone why they’re being evicted.*
if that’s not mindless deregulation, I don’t know what is 🤷🏽♀️ https://t.co/DDomJcPZiT
#Abundance for whom? Former SF Board of Supervisors rep @DeanPreston explains why the hot new "movement" is just deregulation for developers and corporate landlords with a friendly name.
Eskenazi nails it. The strange coalition between YIMBYs and law-and-order types is like Humpty Dumpty and can't be put back together again. missionlocal.org/2025/09/engard…
Peter Thiel crony named acting director of CDC.
Jim O'Neill was CEO of the Thiel Foundation and was managing director for Thiel's Clarium Capital and Mithril Capital.
He also co-founded the Thiel Fellowship.
Will he be attending the Antichrist lectures?
Peter Thiel crony named acting director of CDC.
Jim O'Neill was CEO of the Thiel Foundation and was managing director for Thiel's Clarium Capital and Mithril Capital.
He also co-founded the Thiel Fellowship.
Will he be attending the Antichrist lectures?
You can read his ideas about things in his Mission for America. A very Andrew-Yang-esque collection of Big Ideas.
Here we have "generous subsidies" to Tesla, and lots more of this kind of stuff.
newconsensus.com/mfa
We are finding that the Mayor’s Upzoning plan is wildly unpopular with the D4 recall supporters.
TBH that makes sense because Joel & YIMBY alienate long-term residents & small business owners by supporting planning proposals that lack any meaningful community process 💁♀️
Pay attention to what happened at the “moderate” dominated DCCC meeting that weighed in on Prop A - whether or not to recall @JoelEngardio.
The majority of what are loosely considered “moderates” on the @SFDemocrats, aka DCCC, who largely owe their board seats to @Scott_Wiener,…
Pay attention to what happened at the “moderate” dominated DCCC meeting that weighed in on Prop A - whether or not to recall @JoelEngardio.
The majority of what are loosely considered “moderates” on the @SFDemocrats, aka DCCC, who largely owe their board seats to @Scott_Wiener,… https://t.co/Bn9kvrxhHo
Oh yeah, look at that.
The SF mayor is handing over essential SF governance to Marc Andreessen, and using public funding for this, and doing a PR video for how Mr. Andreessen will now have access to everyone's data, and retain it all, to streamline other uses he may have for it
Oh yeah, look at that.
The SF mayor is handing over essential SF governance to Marc Andreessen, and using public funding for this, and doing a PR video for how Mr. Andreessen will now have access to everyone's data, and retain it all, to streamline other uses he may have for it https://t.co/aF9MraCx25
I helped create San Francisco's one-stop permit shop, and I can think of a dozen reforms to further streamline the permit process that don't involve locking in a sole-source contract with a Kushner-backed artificial intelligence firm.
I helped create San Francisco's one-stop permit shop, and I can think of a dozen reforms to further streamline the permit process that don't involve locking in a sole-source contract with a Kushner-backed artificial intelligence firm.
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