TOMORROW NIGHT! Release party for SF Review of Whatever Issue 3. Tragically I won't be there (still deployed in the Antipodes) but everyone else cool will be there. Go buy a mag and a marg and hang out!

We're doing a TMK live show in San Francisco next week with the wonderful folks at @bayareacurrent.bsky.social and @dsasf.org. Come join us for a night of left-wing tech criticism! Registration is free, encouraged, but not required: www.eventbrite.com/e/decoding-t...

"The only ones who need to be worried right now is the Iranians who think they're gonna live" -Pete Hegseth, Very Normal Guy

“More like Cuck Mason” (<—me to every “in the age of AI, taste is everything” midwit SF guy I see

The AI frothers and e/acc fash are constantly writing about their awful parties like they're the only thing happening in the Bay BUT just a few miles away are ACTUAL parties with hot punks who know how to socialize, godbless!! bayareacurrent.com/party-report-east-bay-rats-valentines-fight-party/

Just subscribed to @flaminghydra.com so I can read this @katewagner.wehwalt.net piece. Lots of good twt/bsky threads out there on contemp fascist aesthetics & some longer form work, but I'm so stoked for Kate's series bc this shit is RANCID and needs mucho analysis flaminghydra.com/toward-an-un...

Selective Service System (mentioned below) had a huge impact on me when I first watched it. Made by SF State students, it documents the lengths some young people went to avoid the draft, the violence of those (these) times, and the way wars makes losers of us all. mubi.com/en/nz/films/...

I pretty much think the semi-apocryphal Truffaut truism that "it is impossible to make an anti-war film" is correct when it comes to hollywood narrative cinema. However, it is 100% possible to make an anti-war experimental film. Time to tap back in at the cinephile factory, friends.

The Anton Jager Hyperpolitics cover design works and I like it, but that book jacket style cycle is now complete

It appears that a Polymarket account called "Magamyman" made $515,000 in a single day betting on last night's U.S. strike on Iran, with the first trade placed 71 minutes before the news broke publicly.

Pop culture shock of my life last year, as a 90s kid, was to find out that the guy behind White Town (of "I could never be your woman" fame) is a British Indian communist straghtedger from Darby whose music was an attempt to combine bedroom pop and revolutionary theory

Every time I see either of these men:

A piece of footage I think about every week. An image from the future

Visiting my best friend in New Zealand at his new place (a decommissioned community center he bought & now lives in) and this is the bathroom

Last time I flew to New Zealand I skipped New Year’s Eve entirely thx to crossing the date line. Straight from the 30th to New Year’s Day. This time I get to skip Valentine’s Day! Bye suckers!!! ✈️🚫❤️

The posters who act like it's their job to evangelize AI and get everyone else on board come hell or high water are similar to (but worse than) the people who do ayahuasca and come back convinced it's their job to evangelize mother aya to the nonbelievers. Please! mind your own business.

Caught wind that my manifesto about stew and the social necessity of affordable public dining has influenced the founding of at least one local dinner series ... that's impact baby

Whenever anyone under 40 acts in a way that indicates they think smoking a cigarette makes you look cool, I think less of them - oh wow you had a bowl of cigs at your party????? sorry what is this, dimes square 2022

kind of can't believe rick rubin isn't in the epstein files

Fight Club / Office Space white collar nihilism has RETURNED and it's coming for the tech guys this time. thank you Claude

Ugh Vic Chesnutt is truly the final boss of boyfriend music. After years of aural waterboarding i've come to like Songs: Ohia and love Red House Painters and tolerate Silver Jews but i STILL HATE vic chestnutt - irritating little creep with horrible lyrics

All these TPUSA dorks yelling "you'd never hear these lyrics at the superbowl!!!" (as kid rock sings about the bible) are acting as if the Superbowl isn't an innately propagandist pro-military pro-christian pro-america spectacle. 30 mins of Bad Bunny doesn't change this!!

Official header font of the Trump White House, I guess... www.whitehouse.gov/articles/202...

Really funny how Instrument Serif and related fonts have made a comeback in a way that is vaguely reactionary-coded (healthmaxxxing, retvrn purity stuff) ... well and openly fascistic stuff too I guess!!

i still haven't forgotten Spike Lee's terrible crypto ad and now he's shilling for Meta stupid glasses ick WHAT A SELLOUT you're already rich bro

the Barbara Kruger mural the chase is happening in front of reads: "WHO IS BEYOND THE LAW? WHO IS BOUGHT AND SOLD? WHO IS FREE TO CHOOSE? WHO DOES THE TIME? WHO FOLLOWS ORDERS? WHO SALUTES LONGEST? WHO PRAYS LOUDEST? WHO DIES FIRST? WHO LAUGHS LAST?"

They brought Nick Land to San Francisco to be interviewed by Wolf Tivy and Curtis Yarvin at a shoes-off tech house event. oh lordy lordy. Be cautious if you run into any AI founders this week - they are likely to be very overexcited from the gnostic wisdom that was dropped

I need an update on whether they found a new aesthetic yet

They think we’re fucking stupid Also when will the tech companies move on from this identical warm scandi mcm setting for their ads? As the “tasteful” chatbot company I’d expect a bit more visual innovation from Anthropic

Epstein file EFTA00004012

Before it started the theater did a land acknowledgement for La Grand Jatte (I’m in Berkeley obviously)

People on the more carceral of the two Oakland subreddits are complaining about the trailer for the new Boots Riley movie because "this is a movie glamorizing retail theft - the last thing Oakland needs right now" lol what a bunch of shriveled losers

oh god I'm going to see a Sondheim musical tonight all because I got obsessed with the insane border on Un dimanche après-midi à l'Île de la Grande Jatte when i saw it IRL in Chicago... almost 3 hours of musical. the only Sondheim thing I know about are the lyrics to West Side Story. I'm scared!!!

Oh to be an in-house philosopher for an AI company!! Unfortunately the only kind of tech company where you can still be an in-house theorist in the post-ZIRP era is a dickhead AI company bc those guys are all obsessed with (the idea of) ~~philosophy~~ www.vox.com/future-perfe...

Even when there’s no accountability, the record matters. Credit to the Wikipedia editors maintaining this page.

Another angle clearly showing the victim’s firearm being removed from his person by an agent before he was shot www.reddit.com/r/law/s/TerM...

Footage from the woman in pink (now available) shows the man who was murdered attempting to help someone who was being pepper sprayed by ice agents. He was pulled off the pepper spray victim and beaten, executed

Everyone wants to go to the galley but no one knows how to look at the art

Awful.

Ruined my life by going to gym + sauna every morning - now by 9:15am I've accomplished too much and am too relaxed to work

Wow is cinema back??? Screenings tonight at the PFA in Berkeley, Grand Lake theater in Oakland, and the Roxie in San Francisco are all completely sold out. Happy about it, but what about moi?

Because Wikipedia content is openly licensed for anyone to reuse for free, its servers are currently being hammered by AI scrapers. This enterprise deal gives the companies access to a high speed feed, a privilege they pay for. That’s all. No AI content in Wikipedia. techcrunch.com/2026/01/15/w...

For the past year, I've been quietly doing all sorts of experimenting with different form factors of AI decision legibility. Like all infrastructure-type things, it's just not that interesting when there's so much hype surrounding what's happening.

One thing giving me a grim chuckle these days is that after years of "LEARN TO CODE" snark from smug SWEs who hate reading, wordcels can now create software without ever touching a command line, while software engineers are the ones perhaps most in need of an alternate career path.

damnnnnnnnn www.kqed.org/arts/1398535...

Iran's internet shutdown is systematically crippling Starlink, the satellite internet service from Elon Musk that is said to be almost impossible to jam restofworld.org/2026/iran-st...

Jointed the YMCA and there’s a sauna so I can go to the sauna every day and now my life is too good

I've put together a list of the most helpful activities/visualizations/tools I've found for introducing students to the mechanics of LLMs (which I do every year). miriamposner.com/blog/introdu...

Bill Ackman has now confirmed what I first reported yesterday morning, that he donated $10K to the GoFundMe for Jonathan Ross, in a tweet.

Startup guys once again validating my theory of combinatory slop and cultural stagnation!!