Nine PBS sues Iron Mountain over blocked access to archival data: Nine PBS VP and CCO Leah Freeman confirmed the station's lawsuit against Iron Mountain and its dedication to retrieving the archival materials and programming, which she says span over "70 years of our ...
It was never about the money, it's about the impunity. Google oligarch Brin has now spent $100 million to avoid paying $13 billion in taxes. Google co-founder Sergey Brin has donated another $20 million to Build a Better California, an organization advocating against ...
38 years ago today, Zero Cool hacked all those banks across state lines. From his house. Crashed 1,507 systems in one day. Biggest crash in history. Front page New York Times, August 10, 1988. Naturally, that means it's time for our latest installment of CYBERDELIA. Yo, ...
"Good news! Your dispute wasn't reviewed within 30 days, so the claim on your YouTube video has now been released." Bonnie Tyler died last month, and so the glorious "Total Eclipse of the Heart, Literal Version" by Persephone Maewyn and dascottjr was making the rounds ...
In what-is-now-traditional journalistic malpractice, none of the articles about this have a photo or video of the guillotine. But I found one. Salem Brought a Guillotine To Oppose New AI Data Center. Company Reps Left, Feeling "Unsafe". Someone brought a guillotine to a ...
If you are going to Outside Lands and don't want to install their crappy app, here's a calendar file of the whole schedule. Also, if you are going and we actually know each other in person, lemme know!
You may have noticed that my various sites were nearly unusable for the last 4+ days, and are still maybe not doing great. The current attack by AI scrapers is somehow of an even more harmful character than previous ones. During the last storm, I was able to weather ...
Scott Wiener, Ladies and Gentlemen: Wiener employs Anthropic's tech for an interactive attack ad, but all Chan's campaign sees is desperation: The Wiener campaign was in part inspired to create the chatbot in order to "lean into the AI craze overtaking the city," Arellano ...
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I would love to hear the reason that all San Francisco government email addresses and services are advertised as being on the sfgov.org domain instead of the sf.gov domain. I'll bet the reason is deeply, deeply stupid.
Elon Musk is the world's biggest loser ever, having lost $800 billion in 7 weeks. Apartheid Emerald Mine Space Karen supposedly became a "trillionaire" on June 12 and lost that status 12 days later as nearly half of that money [sic] evaporated. Yesterday SpaceX and Tesla ...
I am currently incandescent with rage about something else entirely that I'm told I can't talk about yet, so let me sublimate that instinct with this unrelated story: The SFPD "Real-Time Investigation Center" is the surveillance nightmare funded by a $9.4 million "donation"
Patel and the Kash Foundation sued Stewartson over a series of allegedly defamatory statements: Among the statements at the center of the lawsuit were claims that Patel "attempted to overthrow the government," "planned January 6," was "guilty of sedition" and was a "Kremlin
[ REENACTMENT ]The organization has stood up to dictators and death squads, but Rowling and the UK's anti-speech laws were apparently too much. On July 8, Amnesty International UK released a report titled "A Growing Threat: The Anti-Rights Movement in the UK." The report ...
It has now been over two and a half years since Google has updated their aerial imagery of -- checks notes -- the sleepy seaside town of San Francisco. Still no QR for you. I guess they've redirected that drone budget into feeding books into the plagiarism woodchipper.
As you may recall, my beloved Gakken World Eye shit the bed during a power failure a couple weeks ago, after having been on 24/7 for nine years. Since these are going for almost a thousand dollars on eBay, my first attempt was to buy the cheapest desktop video projector I ...
Wait, which one of these bottle blonde dirtbags is Igor the Carpathian?
After outcry, Meta reverses suspension of The Stud's Instagram page: Meta Platforms initially suspended its Instagram account after the bar said bad actors flagged old posts with false charges of "human trafficking," striking down a crucial marketing stream ahead of ...
So there's a Neuromancer trailer out and it's exactly the necrophiliac snore you'd expect it to be. I already watched this show when it was called Altered Carbon, and it sucked. Nobody listens to me, but the only way to make this work was to have gone full Lisa ...
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US government targets Cop City protester over phone operating system: The interrogation, including the questions about child sexual abuse images, was "a pretext for a fishing expedition into Mr Tunick's connections" to the movement against Cop City, according to the ...
Do it our way or else! Two inbox items from Thursday, presented without comment: July 23, 2026 Press release from San Francisco District Attorney Brooke Jenkins's office: 18 CHARGED IN CONNECTION TO UNLAWFUL ASSEMBLY ON HOWARD AND WASHBURN STREET. Today, San Francisco ...
Tesla swapped a solar owner's lease contract for the Book of Enoch: A Tesla solar customer went to pull up their lease agreement in their Tesla account this month and found something other than a contract waiting for them: the Book of Enoch, an ancient apocalyptic text ...
Today's VHS find: Pam Doré posted a video of the first night of Club Q at DNA Lounge, back in the distant year of Two Thousand and Two. Wait, we were still using VHS in 2002? Yes. Yes we were. 2002, in case you didn't know, was 24 years ago. How dare it. The nerve.
Scott Wiener, Ladies and Gentlemen: Trans community, allies condemn Wiener for exploiting a march he was asked to leave: State Sen. Scott Wiener was not invited to the Trans March. He was really, really not invited: In fact, Gabriel Haaland, one of the founders of the ...
A one day task turned into a two day task because I'm not buying $7 SD cards for $45, out of principle.
Yet another casualty of last week's PG E antics: the projector in the pizza eyeball no longer lights up. Honestly I'm surprised it lasted as long as it did: it's been on 24/7 for nine years. Sadly, the Gakken World Eye is now going for almost a grand on eBay. So I ...
There's a new WordPress exploit out there but I will show you how I vaccinated myself against it 6+ years ago: remove_filter ('wp_head', 'rest_output_link_wp_head'); remove_filter ('template_redirect', 'rest_output_link_header', 11); remove_filter ('wp_head', ...
Apparently now Google requires you to give them a lock of your hair before allowing you to file a DMCA fair-use counter-claim to a spurious content-ID rejection. "Build history as you grow: Once you have enough history, we'll automatically unlock features." Apparently my ...
I found another 36-year-old VHS tape on eBay! D.O.A.'s final concert, live at DNA Lounge, in 1990.