Aug 31, 2026
A decade ago, the Google bus was a hard-to-escape symbol of the housing unaffordability crisis in SF, as Manissa Maharawal describes in her new book, Anti-Eviction.
Manissa works with the Anti-Eviction Mapping Project and teaches anthropology at American University. Discussed: How politicians coddle the tech sociopaths,...
Aug 24, 2026
One of our tech overlords, Mark Zuckerberg recently published a manifesto in the Wall Street Journal describing why we should cheerlead him on his quest for infinite growth and profits.
Eddie Kim writes for the anti-generative AI outlet Gazetteer SF, and several of his recent pieces contend with why Marc Andreesen...
Aug 17, 2026
What was the filmic movement called mumblecore? Jemma Decristo and dee(dee) c. ardan offer an abridged history of the post-college-centric genre that went mainstream in the early 2000s.
One of few mumblecore movies with a Black director and Black leads is 2008's indie romance Medicine for Melancholy by Barry Jenkins,...
Aug 10, 2026
In 2026, dead internet theory—the idea that most of the internet is bots and AI-generated content—is more reality than theory.
Matthew Lawson co-hosts Eating For Free—a podcast critiquing American culture and politics through the lens of pop culture—with Paper Magazine editor Joan Summers. In their series "It's...
Aug 4, 2026
The government is putting queers on lists and hunting undocumented people at the Home Depot parking lot. Have you ever felt so seen?
Sad Francisco Surveillance State Correspondent Ian Firstenberg returns to talk about our current dystopia, but it's not all bad news: people are destroying FLOCK cameras with abandon,...