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San Francisco’s Donald Trump Connection A closer look at how powerful SF figures and institutions have backed Trump — and how they’re shaping local politics.

submitted 8 hours ago • 1 comment

I wonder if people born in the last 20 years know the TV meltdown trope, where our hero flips through channels and they’re all showing the same thing

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

WATCH THIS. He gets it right Nottoway Plantation: the so-called “White Castle”, burned down. With it, a monument to whitewashed brutality. We don’t need romanticized nostalgia for slavery. We need truth. Let this be the end of pretending these places were anything but what they were: crime scenes.

submitted 2 days ago • 393 comments

Hot sauce after 6pm?

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

💡 💡 ⚡ 🧊 !! Inspired by this great new piece on how much water "AI" uses, I have a start-up idea that just zapped me on the head like a lightning strike. It blends modern AI with pretty ingenious historic techniques. 🧵 1/n www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...

submitted 11 days ago • 2 comments

My god I love train travel

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

California can't afford to *not* build High Speed Rail. CA High Speed Rail will save the state $100 billion on airport and highway investments - not including the steep economic costs of air pollution and climate change. #FundHSR

submitted 25 days ago • 3 comments

AI’s only general purpose use is to control labor. Thank you.

submitted 16 days ago • 16 comments

Having already acquired the Republican Party, the Crypto Fascists are now buying Democrats a la carte. Beware the Crypto Democrat — a wolf in wolf’s clothing. Crypto is for crime and Tech Fascism. Period.

submitted 16 days ago • 12 comments

Across the country, a May Day Strong coalition has planned over 1,000 mobilizations between May 1-3 under the banner “For the Workers, Not the Billionaires." Follow for updates on actions. ⤵️

submitted 18 days ago • 3 comments

A Zoox (Amazon’s self driving car subsidiary) car allegedly hit an immigrant food delivery worker on a moped last week in San Francisco. Under Prop 22, the worker neither gets the min wage nor workers’ compensation. What a dystopia!!!

submitted 20 days ago • 5 comments

LLMs are nothing more than models of the distribution of the word forms in their training data, with weights modified by post-training to produce somewhat different distributions. Unless your use case requires a model of a distribution of word forms in text, indeed, they suck and aren't useful.

submitted 25 days ago • 57 comments