absolutely wild and heartbreaking that a city with the literary history of San Francisco is to be run as a side project for the man responsible for degrading the meaning of human language and likely immiserating a generation of writers and artists - ThreadSky

joolia.bsky.social • 111 days ago

absolutely wild and heartbreaking that a city with the literary history of San Francisco is to be run as a side project for the man responsible for degrading the meaning of human language and likely immiserating a generation of writers and artists

Reposted from Adrian Daub

So is being a weird billionaire now the precondition for *any* role in government? techcrunch.com/2024/11/18/s...

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multiversewanderer.bsky.social•110 days ago

These people are not like you or me and have no place in government.

Never forget that Peter Thiel has said he no longer believes democracy and freedom are compatible.

It's not clear exactly what that means, but I can think of no explanation that isn't horrifying.

lauowolf.bsky.social•111 days ago

ugh

sraars.comrades.social•111 days ago

They finally pushed all the artists out so they can build the surveillance society of their techbro dreams. And keep their view of the bay.

3fn.bsky.social•111 days ago

Da faq did y’all do after I left?!

rowyourbot.bsky.social•111 days ago

Another liar forcing unwanted trash on the public for money. His day will come.

averypickford.bsky.social•111 days ago

It would make a lot of SF Democrats uncomfortable to reflect on all the parallels between our recent mayoral election and our recent presidential election.

pwallinga.bsky.social•111 days ago

The problem with the label "SF Democrat" is that it could mean anything from "damn near socialist" to "oligarch who wants to boil the homeless in oil but went to Pride one time"

lauowolf.bsky.social•111 days ago

ouch

averypickford.bsky.social•111 days ago

Big Tent Party is good, right? 😬

pwallinga.bsky.social•111 days ago

I'm of the opinion that the word itself needs to be banned in local politics. We have ranked choice voting, let them find a bunch of new labels with which to argue!

averypickford.bsky.social•111 days ago

Mods & Progs hasn't been particularly revelatory.

davidmt.bsky.social•111 days ago

That sound you hear, from the Russian River to Solead from way past the Farallons, east to Placerville, that quaking in Hienholds, is the collective cries of London, Thompson, Caen, Kerouac,
Hinkle, McFadded, Nolte, and others.

davidmt.bsky.social•111 days ago

As Merchants is overrun with hipster techie bro trash, Oakland gentrifies, the history of San Jose is erased, the North Beach haunts of generations of Seafarers, whores, dreamers, poets, book sellers, musicians, and other assorted riff raff fade into history

davidmt.bsky.social•111 days ago

The Peninsula, once Los Altos had apricot orchards, and scores of workers, sliced them and set them on long roughbwood drying tables, Okie dust bowl refugees replaced by Hispanic refugees are forgotten.

davidmt.bsky.social•111 days ago

Steibecks ghost fades away

And the money on the back wall at Hienholds crumbles to dust.

davidmt.bsky.social•111 days ago

If you read this far, please forgive an aging Seafarer his rambling.
I'm from Oakland, and I loved the Bay Area, I watched it change, and now I know it has no place for me.

ejoe.bsky.social•111 days ago

I presume this will be the #1 agenda item at the next Dashiell Hammett society meeting at John’s Grill.

davidmt.bsky.social•111 days ago

I doubt either Sam Spade or even Nick and Nora could find a home in San Francisco now.

tormentedtoy.bsky.social•111 days ago

This is all a dance until the real game starts showing.

americanmegalo.bsky.social•111 days ago

this is the city of my birth and I'm absolutely numb

pzingg.bsky.social•111 days ago

So SF will get its own mini-Elon, sitting on Lurie’s back and dictating self-serving and dubious ideas to him. So sad. Voters had a better chance of being AI-free if they had chosen Aaron Peskin or if they hadn’t caught recall fever to toss out London Breed.

katrinaelsi.bsky.social•111 days ago

Oh god that’s super gross. I hate the oligarchy.

loremanlear.bsky.social•111 days ago

As soon as Altman steps on Lurie's toes, he'll be out. It's a matter of time.

maaaatttt.bsky.social•111 days ago

sam Altman looks like a rough draft of mark zuckerberg but the editor said “yikes, this is a bit too scary”

brtqueen.bsky.social•111 days ago

People voting for corporations. Citizens United opened the door to our elections, any country any multimillionaire and billionaire have now bought our politicians.

pwallinga.bsky.social•111 days ago

Immiserating is a BRILLIANT word that I haven't come across before, so I'll take that as a silver lining to whatever fresh hell this is.

notgeorgecarlin.bsky.social•111 days ago

Lurie is an oligarch heir of the Levi fortune. We're now a plutocracy, democracy is now fully in the grave.

lateralusian.bsky.social•111 days ago

And let'ss not forget the insane impact on the climate.

jenjoseph.bsky.social•111 days ago

Rich men talk to other rich men. Lurie went to private school; his kids go to private school. SFUSD, good luck. Not sure he’s ever ridden a Muni bus or Bart. Not sure he’s ever waited in line to pick up a prescription at Walgreens or when one register is open at Safeway. Prove me wrong, Daniel.

fosterandflourish.bsky.social•111 days ago

During the election, Lurie wasn't secretive about his tech sycophancy. And he is a dilettante, of the oligarch class and has never had a conventional job. He is wholly untested by life. But he's what voters chose, and this dark choice is just the beginning, I fear.

voodoocabaret.bsky.social•111 days ago

We didn’t chose this.

fosterandflourish.bsky.social•110 days ago

If you mean you voted otherwise, good on you, same here, but the majority of voters chose him, so we all have him now.

jaqrabbit.bsky.social•111 days ago

Just another tech sociopath.

amandasoprano.bsky.social•111 days ago

The anti intellectualism movement was alive and well when I was in school. 70s&80s. They worked hard to make stupid ppl look smart. So other stupid ppl think they're smart. And here we are.

bluememe.bsky.social•111 days ago

Will these entitled overconfident tech bros ever face the music for the untold damage they continue to do to society?

Signs are not good.

fahimadams.bsky.social•111 days ago

Jesus fucking Christ 🤬

oozeley.bsky.social•111 days ago

a just society would've put his head on a pike by now

quephird.bsky.social•111 days ago

This makes me _so_ mad and sad...

andytreadwell.bsky.social•111 days ago

Altman is the PT Barnum of our time, the path to AGI does not lie down this road.

You'll be needing a quantum based inference engine for that.

cstarks.bsky.social•111 days ago

Since Sam Altman has no relevant expertise, this is probably really about “relationship building,” aka getting him to give money to Lurie’s foundation

wrecked9n76e.bsky.social•111 days ago

The foundation Lurie props up to shield ppl from the havoc his fortune has sowed and will sow. Absolutely revolting.

fosterandflourish.bsky.social•111 days ago

BINGO!

sp00pkittn.bsky.social•111 days ago

dystopian

communitycafe.bsky.social•111 days ago

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sparkyharlan.bsky.social•111 days ago

Don’t get me started on Lurie and his agency, Tipping Point. A bunch of rich people with little experience telling nonprofit CEOs how to run their agencies. A waste of time.

redneck72ca.bsky.social•111 days ago

Sf had always been run by elites. It's just this time it's an elite you don't agree with.

monografo.com•111 days ago

This is getting out of control

uwspete.bsky.social•110 days ago

Sam Altman is retro-tech bro. When tech bros ate their own dogfood in earnest.

oujii.bsky.social•111 days ago

to help solve a crisis which manifestly does not exist, just a little bit too on the nose

tokatunk.bsky.social•110 days ago

WHO BETTER TO IMPROVE THE MAJORITY OF LIVES IN THE CITY THAN SOMEONE FURTHEST REMOVED FROM THAT MAJORITY??? 🤡🤡🤡

lex.vaughn.theneedling.com•111 days ago

It really is. Yuck ...

alexanderhay.bsky.social•111 days ago

Why do all these tech barons look like a cross between Burke from Aliens and a really gormless mannequin?

joolia.bsky.social•111 days ago

the tech industry at large is responsible for many crimes and I hate many of them with a passion but there’s something particularly vile about strip mining the collective creative expression of humanity for profit

peoriabummer.bsky.social•111 days ago

I’m not even sure they’ll ultimately profit from all this, which just adds insult to injury.

noneofyourbusyness.bsky.social•111 days ago

I hope against hopes that this can be a Renaissance of weird stories, alternative structure and pacing, and bizarre styles to earn the trust of the public that the art is not soulless and AI generated.