Tech

05 Dec 2024

Monkeybrains: Providing Free Internet to Low-Income Residents in SF

To this day, Monkeybrains continues to support the 50+ sites that they built during those phases at zero cost to the City.

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02 Dec 2024

How A.I. Killed The Dead Boys

Jake Hout has left the Dead Boys due to internal tensions and disagreements over the use of artificial intelligence to replicate the voice of late lead singer Stiv Bators, with Cheetah Chrome defending the decision and criticizing Hout for his stance.

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03 Oct 2024

The KQED & Noise Pop Festival Looks Awesome

When two wonderful SF institutions get together to throw a block party it’s a great reason to get excited.  KQED has teamed up with Noise Pop and is blocking off the streets in front of its storied SF headquarters and opening up its doors for an all-day, live music-infused, street

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23 Sep 2024

Why Silicon Valley Is Trying So Hard to Kill This AI Bill in California

California’s Senate Bill 1047, which offers protection to whistleblowers and citizens, has been met with opposition from tech companies, startups, and investors, but is supported by prominent AI researchers and whistleblowers.

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23 Jan 2024

Monkeybrains: The Bay Area’s Anti-Corporate, Anti-Monopoly Internet Service

They have been a local, independent internet service provider since 1998 and have developed a rabid following because, quite simply, they rock. And I’m not just saying this because they’re giving me money to do so, I’ve been a very satisfied, paying customer of theirs for over seven years now.

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14 Nov 2023

Why Do I Fantasize About Working At The Post Office?

For those of you who aren’t in the know, I work in tech. I understand the deep irony of this considering I became a micro-niche internet celebrity (or BAYmous as Mario0o0o0o0o calls it) by shitting on tech workers, but I can say this unequivocally, tech saved me from poverty.  Recently

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24 Aug 2023

Amazing Art Structures Being Built at Burning Man 2023

While most people arrive on the Playa after everything is already built, most of the artists have been hauling, digging, hammering, strapping, sawing, and polishing in the dust (and rain) for weeks now, moving thousands of pounds of steel, glass, timber, (and elbow grease) onto a prehistoric lake bed in

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24 Jan 2023

What are Those Boxes Under MUNI Seats For?

Ever wonder why there’s a metal box in the way when you try to tuck your feet under your seat? It’s the one beneath those side-facing, longitudinal seats. There’s a window on the front-right panel, a gauge to assess the volume of its content from outside. When I find myself

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