Popular Looksmaxxing influencer Clavicular declined Palantir founder Peter Thiel’s invitation, says Peter blacklisted him.

Shiro Ishii ran Japan’s Unit 731, which tested on 14,000 people from China, Korea and Russia. None survived. After World War II, Ishii and others from Unit 731 were granted immunity by the US, in exchange for some of their research. Jenny Chan explains on the new ep.

BMR (Below Market Rate) housing as an affordability measure is a joke #belowmarketrate #hoafees #rentcontrol

Top Sad Francisco episodes of 2025! I got so excited for 2026 I couldn’t stop waving the lapel mic around wildly

Something that blows about living under capitalism is how public art is used to signal to developers and colonizers that a neighborhood is ready for bulldozing. Jemma DeCristo on ‘The Aesthetic Character of Blackness’ on the new ep.

UN experts, doctors and activists warn that jailed Palestine Action hunger strikers in the UK are facing escalating health crises and an increasing risk of death amid ongoing repression of pro-Palestine political prisoners.

Scott Wiener and Elon Musk are ideologically closer than Scott’s campaign wants anyone to know

Jemma DeCristo's new book is 'The Aesthetic Character of Blackness' (Duke University Press). In it, she deals with the limits of art as a tool for revolution - more on the new podcast ep.

I hope 2026 brings less time spent thinking about the man who spent $10 million on his mayoral campaign (only counting himself and his mom. #daniellurie #haasfamily

Turning Point is committed to making the US a dumber place

it’s: www.patreon.com/sadfrancisco

Janetta Johnson on the increased sweeps of unhoused people that happens in San Francisco before every major public city event. More on the new @sadfrancis.co episode

Millbrae, CA police chief Eamonn Allen commutes to work from Boise, Idaho.

Oakland People’s Arms Embargo: pressuring Oakland’s airport to stop shipping military supplies to you know where. @barbaraleeformayor.bsky.social

The US government is so controlled by corporations, I didn’t think about the possibility of the South Korean government going this hard against product placement in the media. (Presumably there are negative effects of the censorship, though?)

Does the Bay’s reputation as a progressive haven for Black and trans people reflect the reality? Janetta Johnson of TGI Justice Project discusses on the new podcast episode.

SF Deputy Sheriffs Association started running self-congratulatory ads shortly after the loss of a social worker at SF General Hospital.

optimism in the form of kpop stans from the bay

Janetta Johnson (Trans, Gender Nonconforming & Intersex Justice Project) on superficial vs systemic change: “It’s not a movement if the Black trans community is not moving.” New podcast is up!

YIMBYs vs NIMBY: a false dichotomy c/o the astroturfed YIMBY movement

Randa’s Market’s owner released surveillance footage of KitKat’s last moments, after Waymo’s PR team tried shifting blame to KitKat. In Western Addition, the company offered buy the family of Leo a new dog.

Sam Kirchner has been missing since late November, after he parted ways with the group he cofounded, StopAI. #samaltman @stopai.bsky.social

Karlyn Borysenko is a New Hampshire-based Turning Point and Fox News contributor who flies out from New Hampshire to content farm for her rightwing audience.

UC Berkeley loves to celebrate activism around the 1980s struggle against apartheid South Africa. The school’s administrators just suspended Peyrin Kao for bringing attention to the apartheid in Gaza.

My colleague and collaborator Martha Kenney here chatting to Sad Francisco! Martha Kenney and I are perhaps the most dedicated haters of Cal State’s initiative to waste $17M on ChatGPT. We’ve also had quotes in NYT, Merc News, and Current Affairs and essays in Inside Higher Ed and SF Chronicle

The CSUs spent $17 million on a deal with OpenAI during a budget crisis (Sonoma State has already closed entire departments). SF State prof. Martha Kenney, on the new episode.

Waymo confirmed it hit a dog in Western Addition on Sunday.

Martha Kenney cofounded the Science, Technology and Society Hub at SF State. She describes the dumb, dystopian future that lies ahead of us c/o the AI industry (on the new ep of Sad Francisco, now up on all the podcast platforms).

Conor Johnston, Johnny Delaplane and Sean Richard used their connections to Mayor London Breed to game San Francisco’s legal cannabis permitting system. Journalist Chris Roberts explains, on the latest episode of Sad Francisco. #londonbreed #cronycapitalism

RIP Alice Wong 💜

DoorDash delivery drone testing coming to the Mission in San Francisco

San Jose mayor Matt Mahan loves data centers

The real story of the upzoning debate in SF right now is that the mayor and the YIMBY supervisors don’t have the courage (or interest) to take on wealthy single family home owners in rich white neighborhoods (upzone Pac Heights, etc) so they are upzoning demolitions of rent controlled homes instead.

The AI bubble may be about to bust. Peter Thiel has sold all of his Nvidia stock. We all need to say this very clearly: NO BAILOUTS FOR THEFT-TECH! Expropriate their asses instead. They stole from all of us and fully plan to burn the planet. They owe us - not the other way around. 1/3

Manny Yekutiel is running for the Castro District #mannyyekutiel

Re: Billionaire Defenders in the comments who are probably not even getting paid

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Stop AI @stopai.bsky.social subpoenaed Sam Altman in early Nov. Episode with members of Stop AI on all the podcast platforms: “End AGI Before it Ends Us”

On the queer art of library science, with dee(dee) c. ardan. A few landmarks on her way to doing archivist work: Barbara Smith, Joseph Beam, This Bridge Called My Back…

Nerding out with dee(dee) c. ardan on zines, queer media, algospeak, and more on the new podcast ep.

a new genre of photo in the last year is federal agents working for ICE pointing guns directly at photographers

UC Berkeley Turning Point arrests; campus shut down to protect TPUSA fans

Bari Weiss’s wife and cofounder of The Free Press Nellie Bowles was an old money debutante

Melvin Bulauan’s son and mom, TGIJP’s Janetta Johnson and lots of community with Compton’s Coalition testified against Geo Group facility operating in the Tenderloin #prisonindustrialcomplex #comptonscafeteriariot

Compton’s Cafeteria uprising site is now a Geo Group facility — public comment in SF: Government Audit & Oversight Committee Thursday, November 6, 2025, 10 AM, City Hall, Room 272 Show up, provide public comment and hold GEO Group accountable.

Yes all Vice Presidents

Do computer science majors consider the ethics of how their code is used? Asking Peyrin Kao, CS lecturer at UC Berkeley.

Roisin Murphy is committed to a bit where a woke trans mob has her fearing for her life and livelihood