anti clanker aktion • tech editor @bayareacurrent • @dsacommunists • @tanc_bay • counteroptimize.bsky.social
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12 years ago, April 1 2014, a couple dozen activists blocked a private Google shuttle in the Mission ahead of a city vote on charging tech companies for using public bus stops. Organizers made several demands including free MUNI for all and a moratorium on no-fault evictions
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actual sf is back: 250 gather on a random weekday to celebrate luddism, hate on ai billboards and the tech right
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Mar 18
we're talking shit about tech with some of the best in the business, live in sf tomorrow
expecting great turnout. rsvp via eventbrite
Me and @bigblackjacobin are doing a TMK live show in San Francisco next week with the wonderful folks at @BayAreaCurrent and @DSA_SF. Come join us for a night of left-wing tech criticism!
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Mar 18
my piece on the right-wing tech intelligentsia, originally in @bayareacurrent, now republished in @jacobin:
jacobin.com/2026/03/tech-far…
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Silicon Valley is openly embracing antidemocratic and reactionary ideas.
Far from being isolated to tech billionaires, such ideologies are now commonplace in Bay Area tech culture: jacobin.com/2026/03/tech-far…
(via @bayareacurrent)
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jimmy retweeted
We are doing a TMK live show in San Francisco next week with the wonderful folks at @BayAreaCurrent and @DSA_SF. Come join us for a night of left-wing tech criticism!
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jimmy retweeted
🚨Premium – 446. Vibe Decoder (ft. Wendy Liu, Jimmy Wu)🚨
We get into the rising milieu of right-wing culture in San Francisco, from the growing scene of tech intelligentsia magazines to the hostile architecture of exclusionary urbanism and psychic damage of B2B SAAS billboards.
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jimmy retweeted
Jan 22
Peter Thiel is rumored to be a major funding source for Palladium magazine—a glossy rightwing outlet that is aestheticizing technofascism. New ep with Jimmy Wu on his piece “Meet the New Right-Wing Tech Intelligentsia” — recently published at @bayareacurrent — is up!
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17 Dec 2025
for @BayAreaCurrent, i wrote about my encounters with some of the worst right-wing people in the tech publishing scene
bayareacurrent.com/meet-the-…
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17 Dec 2025
A tech publication scene, with politics ranging from left-liberal to far-right, has flourished in the Bay Area — @counteroptimize walks us through an intellectual world whose social and political boundary lines have become increasingly blurred.
bayareacurrent.com/meet-the-…
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30 Oct 2025
every blog post from the dsa right uses the most bizarre definition of 'ultraleft' — if they even bother to define it
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26 Oct 2025
nothing sparks infighting in my chats like a nominally left-wing popular film
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20 Oct 2025
how a leftist sees the world
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15 Oct 2025
Fuck you
14 Oct 2025
We made ChatGPT pretty restrictive to make sure we were being careful with mental health issues. We realize this made it less useful/enjoyable to many users who had no mental health problems, but given the seriousness of the issue we wanted to get this right.
Now that we have been able to mitigate the serious mental health issues and have new tools, we are going to be able to safely relax the restrictions in most cases.
In a few weeks, we plan to put out a new version of ChatGPT that allows people to have a personality that behaves more like what people liked about 4o (we hope it will be better!). If you want your ChatGPT to respond in a very human-like way, or use a ton of emoji, or act like a friend, ChatGPT should do it (but only if you want it, not because we are usage-maxxing).
In December, as we roll out age-gating more fully and as part of our “treat adult users like adults” principle, we will allow even more, like erotica for verified adults.
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jimmy retweeted
9 Oct 2025
£eland ϟϟtanford is how its officially written from now on
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