Will San Francisco residents get to weigh in? asking for a friend (and 800,000+ San Francisco residents). Also, I hear Muni is looking under the couch cushions for spare change, maybe send some money their way?

SFist@sfist.bsky.social · 19h ago

Billionaire philanthropist and political activist Michael Moritz is offering up to three organizations from anywhere in the world as much as $50 million each for their winning ideas on improving life for San Francisco residents.

According to violationtracker.goodjobsfirst.org, since 2000, Meta has amassed $8,226,379,654 in penalties - most of which have been privacy violations. They don't care about you, your kids, your privacy, or your mental health. Your daily reminder that #Corporations_Suck

SFist@sfist.bsky.social · 21h ago

In the second phase of a pivotal trial in New Mexico, a judge ordered Meta to pay an additional $567 million, most of which will go toward mental health services for youth, and the company must incorporate numerous new safeguards.

Found a fun site: violationtracker.goodjobsfirst.org your daily reminder #Corporations_Suck: In 2018, Uber Technologies agreed to pay $148M to settle litigation that it violated data breach reporting laws. Uber was accused of exposing 57 million users' data & paying hackers to cover up the breach.

AI hacking into other companies is the latest "it" thing - all the cool kids are doing it. Thankfully, as we all know, once Meta does something, that thing ceases to be cool. Maybe this will put a stop to it.

The Washington Post@washingtonpost.com · 2d ago

A Meta AI model hacked into another company during cybersecurity testing — and it’s not the first time something like this has happened. Anthropic and OpenAI said last month that their AI systems had hacked into other firms.

I've been following @gilduran.com 's work ever since moving to SF in 2023... “In fighting against billionaire power, we find the key to all of our problems. Every moment is an important opportunity to wake people up and to start to fight back.” www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

‘If we don’t fight back, we don’t have a future’: the journalist taking on the ‘tech fascists’ of Silicon Valley

As Elon Musk, Peter Thiel and their peers have grown richer and more influential, Gil Durán argues they have all but abandoned democracy – and found the perfect government to enable them

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Well this is a punch in the gut and kick to the GenX-itals of an essay. Great read... "Those parents grew up to be the political gerontocracy: absentee parents of a latchkey nation."

Sarah Kendzior@sarahkendzior.bsky.social · last wk.

"Israel, Iran, Russia, Ukraine, the US and more are merging into a mega-war run by robots. They used to call these World Wars. They used to call people on the phone. The most common call I get today is from someone named 'Scam Likely.'" sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/quicksand

"And with that puerile quarrel between stubborn warlords over the right to own and to rape a girl, Western literature begins." ... "Classical culture is a lot of things including, literally, rape culture." A must-read essay by Solnit

Rebecca Solnit@rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 2w ago

Beard's essay opens, "I want to start very near the beginning of the tradition of Western literature, and its first recorded example of a man telling a woman to ‘shut up’; telling her that her voice was not to be heard in public." My essay on the Odyssey, Andrew & Tristan Tate, misogyny then & now:

This Poem by Rachel Clemens. IYKYK. "like glass bubbles sent to break against our clumsy lips." #ThirdSpaces #Poetry

Rattle Poetry@rattlepoetry.bsky.social · last mo.

can’t every room ripen with such ease. —Rachel Clemens

As Taylor put it, "enough for a safety net, but not enough to remove the need to build something of their own." #TaxTheRich finance.yahoo.com/economy/poli...

Like Bill Gates, this billionaire is cutting his kids inheritance to 8 figures because he’d rather give more to philanthropy than his great-grandkids

Voyager founder Dylan Taylor says his kids will inherit millions, not billions—he'd rather fund philanthropy than future generations he'll never meet.

finance.yahoo.com

This was great. We need more of this given (waves arms all around) all that's going on.

The Bulb Region@bulbregion.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Before tomorrow’s new edition, make sure to read our contributor Frances Klein’s (@fklein907.bsky.social) tasty short, “Godzilla and Mothra Walk into a Bar,” published in The Daily Drunk. dailydrunkmag.com/2023/05/17/g...

Timeline cleanse.

Luca Migo@victinibcn.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Saverio, a 19 year-old Italian tuxedo cat, is living a happy life in the medieval streets of Poppi (Italy). He has become the official mascot of the village.

You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.

Oh snap... check out the Wikipedia entry for August 6, 1947.

All of this is batshit crazy. Like I can't believe that we're all waiting for prime time to see if our president bombs another country back to the stone ages like it's another episode of the apprentice and someone is going to get fired. 1/3

Scooby Doo where are you? Can congress be our meddling kids?

Love this poem for Andrea by Megan Falley... #Poetry #NationalPoetryMonth "There was nothing you couldn’t fix with duct tape, or shoelaces stolen from other people’s shoes." substack.com/@andreagibso...

Andrea Gibson (@andreagibson)

Tornado for Andrea by Megan Falley I admit, you drove me crazy. The careless way you’d salt a tomato, no napkin or plate beneath it.  Just right over the floor,  your summer snow, trusting ...

substack.com

@sfchronicle.com Pairing this image with the headline is irresponsible. As your caption and article state: the gatherers in the video appeared to be collecting signatures to oppose the billionaire tax - which is not what a casual scroller would take away from your post

San Francisco Chronicle@sfchronicle.com · 5mo ago

The signature gatherers can be heard in the video instructing people to write down someone else’s name, a potential violation of state election law that officials are now investigating.

As a patron who will sometimes sit and drink till close, I appreciate how this piece captures the type of community that can be found in a good pub.

Sean Thomas Dougherty@stdougherty.bsky.social · 5mo ago

I am very honored to have a new flash essay and craft note up at Craft. Big gratitude to Jacqueline Doyle and staff for their fantastic edits. The essay is about my days as a young man at the Plow & the Stars bar in Cambridge, MA. www.craftliterary.com/2026/03/11/p...

A fine piece of writing here. "There are days I sit in silence and let the noise win. There are days I count the hours until evening, when the truck leaves and the alley quiets, briefly, like a body that has stopped struggling but hasn’t yet rested."

X-R-A-Y Literary Press@xraylitmag.bsky.social · 5mo ago

we have a story by Pham Thu Trang ! it's about a young woman with a neurological condition that makes her sing all night. a beautiful story ! xraylitmag.com/nothing-can-...

Another Barlow banger. “I tiptoed out of the room with lipstick on my cheek and lunar dust on my fingertips.”

Barlow Adams@barlowadams.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Thrilled to have a new CNF in @whaleroadreview.bsky.social , a magazine I’ve long admired. Grateful to the awesome @katiemanningpoet.bsky.social for letting me dip my toes in the illustrious waters of this new issue. 🐳 🗺️ 📓

Because the Dow is something the AG usually talks about during hearings?

As a relative newbie to SF (2 year resident), a thousand times this! One of the safest, most gorgeous, and vibrant cities in the US.

Peter Hartlaub@peterhartlaub.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Thought I was done writing about the bullshit that outside media says about S.F. But this pair — making fun of unhoused people in wheelchairs — coaxed me out of retirement. On loving the city, and the fragility of visiting adult male Patriots fans. Gift link 🎁 www.sfchronicle.com/totalsf/arti...

You mean this one where the player said “I always think it should be an American.” Doing a bang up job as always NYT

The New York Times@nytimes.com · 6mo ago

Note: An earlier version of this post included a quote from an NFL player about Bad Bunny that incorrectly implied Puerto Rico was not part of the United States. Bad Bunny is an American citizen. We deleted the earlier post.

HAPPENING NOW: Aerial view of a MASSIVE CROWD of peaceful demonstrators marching in San Francisco to protest against the Trump administration and lCE 📍 San Francisco, California

It’s not a contest to see how much grief you can consume in one sitting. You know enough about what’s happening to understand that it’s evil & wrong. You don’t have to inflict more harm on yourself. Find the small things you can do—& do them as you can, with care. Support others doing the same.

“a pearl disguised as grief.”

Stone Circle Review@stonecirclereview.bsky.social · 7mo ago

POEM 296: "Elegy for the Missing Constellation" by McLord Selasi "Without it, Orion leans: a drunk at the bar of the cosmos. The hunter’s belt unbuckled, his arrow lost." stonecirclereview.com/elegy-for-the/ #Poem #Poetry #NewPoem #PoetryCommunity

Honored to have this poem appear in @stonecirclereview.bsky.social. Many thanks to @leepottspoet.bsky.social 🙏

Stone Circle Review@stonecirclereview.bsky.social · 8mo ago

POEM 291: "November Sky, Slow Plane Leaving" by Matt Uhler (@matt-uhler.bsky.social) "That’s when I remembered that without love or this truant’s memory and saddled heart whose gallop has slowed to a trot, there is no such thing as separation." stonecirclereview.com/november-sky/ #Poem #Poetry

Suzanne Cleary’s “Anyways” Because the word must be large enough / to hold all of our reasons

How big is 1 trillion? 1 million seconds = 11.574 days 1 billion seconds = 31.7 years 1 trillion seconds = 31,688 years

Remember that time advertisers threatened to leave Twitter?