The point: The “Voice of San Francisco,” the “parallel media” project run by Y Combinator CEO Garry Tan’s favorite local blogger, is resorting to false and defamatory attacks. Tan is boosting those attacks to his large X/Twitter following. But these desperate and legally perilous tactics underscore the shakiness
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Is this a case of 'Small Man Syndrome,' or something more sinister?
California Forever
It's looking very, very bad for the tech billionaires' plan to impose a "utopia" city on Solano County. Can the project be saved?
California Forever
The point: The California Forever project appears headed for a massive defeat in November. But the billionaires behind the proposed "tech utopia" have managed to pull off a true political miracle in 2024: uniting Democrats and Republicans – against their project. I got a sneak peak at more detailed
Fascism
The point: Local tech venture capitalist Lee Edwards – a vocal ally of Y Combinator CEO Garry Tan – publicly celebrated a fascist dictator's habit of throwing murdered political opponents from helicopters. It's the latest escalation of violent imagery and rhetoric from San Francisco's anti-progressive tech
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The Point: During a tech podcast last September, Network State leader Balaji Srinivasan appeared to confirm that the California Forever project in Solano County is, indeed, part of the cultish Network State movement. This could further complicate things for the project's developers, who already face strong opposition from
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Maybe you can literally have like the sovereign city of San Francisco and secede effectively ... if you have total control of the city ... maybe it's possible. – B.S. The Point: Like some mustache-twirling cartoon villain, the main tech figure behind the Network State cult lays out a "
garry tan
What if [A.G.] Sulzberger is more like Keyser Söze? What if his employees are highly self-interested professional prevaricators? What if they've always been like that? – Balaji Srinivasan, "The Network State." The point: The New York Times profiled Y Combinator CEO Garry Tan, but failed to
The Point: A candidate for the San Francisco Board of Supervisors got caught puffing up his résumé and – in a highly-anticipated escalation – billionaire-funded tech "mods" declared MAGA-like war on the San Francisco press. There may be a method to their madness. The Background: The story is simple and
doom loop
The Point: The line between truth and lies – and even life and death – gets blurry in San Francisco politics. Avoid hasty conclusions. The Backstory: It is a season of questionable obituaries in San Francisco. First there was Richard Parina, the elderly pro-police law-and-order activist whose sudden death sent SF'
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AI ended San Francisco's Doom Loop. Then Macy's brought it back
The point: Yet another major poll reveals catastrophic numbers for San Francisco Mayor London Breed. With multiple surveys showing Breed's political career in a doom loop, her politically amateur Tech Bro supporters face a simple electoral IQ test: Stick by a failing and flailing incumbent, or to start
