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Dec 1, 2025

Public universities are under constant threat of budget cuts, but somehow administrators find millions to toss at extractive tech, like ChatGPT Edu.

SF State professor Martha Kenney describes how administrators at the CSUs spent $17 million on a contract with OpenAI without asking students or professors if it was a...


Nov 19, 2025

San Francisco tried to atone for the war on drugs with a DEI program for recreational weed store owners. In the end, the real winners were rich white dudes like London Breed's old roommate, Conor Johnston.

Chris Roberts—America's top cannabis journalist and historian reporting from America's number-one cannabis...


Nov 10, 2025

dee(dee) c. ardan is live in the studio apartment for the first episode about trans/queer media from the Bay's past, showing that indeed, this place has been trans as hell for a long, long time.

Starting with issue one of the 1970s zine GAY SUNSHINE, we deduce how the Bay gained a reputation for being the place you come...


Nov 3, 2025

The Tenderloin in 1966: One of the earliest trans/queer actions (that we know of) against police and state violence happened at Compton's Cafeteria. Today, that space (111 Taylor Street) is occupied by Geo Group—otherwise known as the corporation that is America's number-one private prison and ICE profiteer.

Zei...


Oct 27, 2025

For Major, who passed on October 13.

 

Truthout piece

https://truthout.org/articles/to-honor-miss-major-we-fight-for-the-trans-and-queer-spaces-she-built/

 

Miss Major Speaks: Conversations with a Black Trans Revolutionary

https://sfpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S93C5592116

 

A more recent episode with filmmakers...