No more $18 glasses of chenin blanc, we we desperately need a RETVRN to the popina - ancient roman wine bar for the plebs with simple snacks and opportunities to be scurrilous and immoral en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Popina

Unbelievable how dull and hackneyed the AI "taste" conversation is. As though the literary critics hadn't been hashing this shit out for literal centuries!!! "taste, steadily more inured to old stimuli, will constantly ask for more stimuli, ever stronger and more violent" — Schlegel, 1797 💅

Ok my question is why tech guys and VCs hate wearing tops that open all the way up. Luxury knit polos, quarter zips, henleys — what are you scared of little bro??

Just here to update my “Rick Rubin is a loser hack shilling shit with pissbrains” thread

Found an amazing investment company

if you ever make the mistake of looking up a late-period mark kozalek lyric you'll be faced with something like this & never do it again. I guess he's probably the first person to rhyme "brothers quay" with "randy quaid"

32 oz Nalgene clearly the designated water bottle of the 2026 Marxist Literary Group grad student demographic

has someone made a horror movie about digital twins yet?

When academics say "the poetics of _____" what do they mean? I've pretended to understand for too long.

Gwyneth said sorry Oakland you're not brand-aligned "The company has billed the new branch as “Berkeley” but it is operating out of the Adeline Food Hall in Oakland with delivery service to Berkeley, Oakland and Emeryville available Monday through Saturday." oaklandside.org/2026/06/09/g...

In the same way a 14th century peasant would probably digest a dorito just fine, I am confident that I could glimpse codex computer use and come away unmoved.

Just found out my dad was a stevedore at the Auckland docks as a teenager ... why do parents tell you nothing

How is there a track from GBV's Alien Lanes that only has 1116 plays on (sorry) Spotify???

Saw Backrooms, which was utterly unsuccessful as a narrative film but evocative as ... something else, maybe a piece of gamer conceptual art. I enjoyed it on the same level as this cursed booking dot com ad that I got served up a couple years ago.

JPG lives! I worked with JP at UCSD and he was, along with my advisor Babette Mangolte, one of the two old french tyrant-savants who ruined my life for 3 years. JP is an absolute asshole blowhard letch AND YET undeniably a certain genius. Good read: www.screenslate.com/articles/aga...

Before even exiting the 16th/mission BART station I saw a guy walking with his open laptop presumably doing AI agent stuff or whatever, and a hot guy telling a hot girl about his work problems with AWS storage limits fml

Who makes the sexiest glasses frames?? I just got my first prescription (for weak as hell reading glasses) and I'm ready to go ham middle aged style. Need to look incredible while looking at a restaurant menu in the dark.

It’s not new, but this @kellypendergrast.bsky.social piece is the most interesting thing I’ve read in a while dilettantearmy.com/articles/mer...

So, i finally saw the full Backrooms trailer. Need to know if the director child has read Mark Z Danielewski's House of Leaves or if that is one ancient text that has NOT been passed down to the youth

NEWS FLASH: tight tshirts for men are back for summer 2026!! Airism OUT, heavyweight boxy fit OUT, cropped JWAnderson oxford OUT, dredge up your 1982 vintage marathon promo tshirt boys, i want to see this on all physiques. Thanks.

One of my all time faves at the Roxie in a couple of weeks. Slightly insulting to include it as part of "Bleak Week" (Sembène too funny for that) but nonetheless - roxie.com/film/black-g...

Search engines are normally allowed to crawl websites because they offer something useful in return: Directing more traffic to the website in question. If the classic "show a bunch of links" search disappears from Google, it won't be a benefit and there's no reason to still allow their crawlers.

There should be a paid "shazam premium" option where it doesn't open up a big-ass full screen logo, and instead has a small subtle popup so as not to alert people nearby to the fact you're an uncultured rube.

No more giving money to youtubers to make films ok - the experiment is not paying off

Google is transforming Search from a list of links into an AI-powered experience filled with conversational answers, autonomous agents, and interactive interfaces — a shift that could further reduce traffic to publishers across the web.

Never have i felt more out of touch with the zeitgeist than seeing this screenshot... who are you people??

Lodenistas get your tickets now bampfa.org/event/wanda

Has anyone composed a symphony for electric cars??? Their humming and whirring and synthy theremin noises are so fantastic, and I imagine each model/brand is kind of different? Let's line up 20 of em in a parking lot and have a concert!!! Maybe someone is already on it!

Nothing like seeing that first Claude ad as soon as you set foot in SFO after being away for a week somewhere normal 🙂🔫

I HATE and am repulsed by the revival of "smoking cigs is cool actually", but fear this opinion brings me into fellowship with the "alcohol-free day raves with cold plunge are the vibe in san francisco" losers... wish i could be a true libertine

Blessed to get a ride to the airport in my friend’s Nissan Cube, which I was thrilled to find has this deranged ripple effect on the ceiling radiating out from the cab light. What a vehicle!!

Bonne Maman jam jar is a perfect object

I am soooooo obsessed with her aesthetic here. Like... some kind of tactical cowl neck. Murdered out freedom hat. It's Zelenskyy-core. Gamer-core. Podcaster-core. The blue up-lighting???? The campus-poster-sale pious Charlie Kirk hopecore poster?? I'm LOVING it

Question for the chat that I am 100% sure chatgpt could answer instantly but i'll receive more social satisfaction from crowdsourcing, and it's killing me that I can't remember, help:

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Started a new list be I believe in being methodical in 2026, lmk if you should be on it

Shoplifting from wholefoods, is it praxis etc. Not my job to answer that one. But apparently it IS my job to scan my own groceries at WF, and what if I'm bad at my job?? Sorry I forgot to scan those bananas... re-hire the cashiers if you care (they don't).

Reading the new Ben Lerner which is funny to me in the same way as Knausgaard my struggle was - both are “I didn’t know they let men do that sort of writing” kinda books (writing about phone in Lerner’s case)

Looks like Tyler Cowan found the New Aesthetic he was looking for and turns out it’s Helen Dewitt

Hell in Hayes Valley

I saw Sirāt - send in the ravers

This (from Stewart Brand on the progress of his now-published book about Maintenance) is gagging me ... essentially a rewrite of Mierle Ladreman Ukeles' Maintenance Art manifesto. "Maintenance is a drag; it takes all the fucking time" (M.L.U 1969) queensmuseum.org/wp-content/u...

Printing out my tabs so I can read the internet phoneless at the beer garden as is my right

Ew the San Francisco tech dads are posting their Gramicci and Orslow pants on the tl… they’re blowing up your spot boys. Time to get the next military inspired post-gorp trou locked and loaded before this shit starts to read like 4-way stretch joggers by association

i’ve seen things you people wouldn’t believe

i’ve seen things you people wouldn’t believe

WHO GETS TO LOOK AT THE WORLD? The memeification of war and the ubiquity of cellphone cameras makes it feel like we are watching this shit play out live. But the surveillant aerial view is only ever selectively available to lay-people.

Just had this from Planet Labs, the US government have asked satellite imagery providers for "voluntarily" restrictions on access to satellite imagery. Given a lot of them provide satellite imagery to the USG we can probably guess the outcome of not acquiescing to that request.

So many of these "taste" bros are building bodies that are very UNtasteful. Looksmaxxing and creatined to the eyeballs - boys you look TACKY!!

Why is Marshall McLuhan being cited everywhere again all of a sudden? The idea of a Canadian philosopher... it just doesn't sit right