Tech
La Victrola : Big Art and Introspection at Burning Man
By Lucie Duffort Bring La Victrola Back to Burning Man, 2017!  Donate Here It’s July now. In under two months there will be swarms of people leaving the city for a desert in Nevada. Burning Man means a ton of things to a ton of people, a chance to go full
Taking Food from the Rich & Feeding the Poor in the Bay Area
As the Bay Area, and many other parts of America, slide into a Late Roman Empire school of excess, the rift between the haves and the have-not’s grows greater by the day. In a world where people sleep on the streets in front of multi-million-dollar homes, trying to find a
The Tech Workers Helping to Unionize Big Tech
about 35 people, most of them software engineers, many from household-name tech companies in Silicon Valley, sitting in a run-down union hall in the Tenderloin, talking about the evils of capitalism and organizing the workers from below to take on the bosses.
WordPress SEO and Your Article: Landing Page BFFs
This is a tutorial “article” that will show writers how to do all their own SEO for each of their own articles. Search Engine Optimization? Sounds scary! Well, it is, scary awesome how easy it is for everyone to be diligent about putting forth the effort so that all articles are
BAS Fiction – Inroads Up Hills
INROADS UP HILLS by John Christopher Nelson The rises and falls distort Celia’s sense of place. Tonight is too cold for May, and the cartilage in her knees stiffens as she navigates the familiar, unsafe path to her apartment. Hosting at a bar means getting stuck at work until the
Prankster Tricks Tech Incubator into Supporting Homeless People
By Matthew Gerring If you’re a regular reader of Street Sheet by Coalition on Homelessness, you might be surprised to hear that the paper’s recent upgrades — full color front pages and a new website — were sponsored by the same people who brought you AirBnB: Silicon Valley’s preeminent startup incubator,
Art that Aims at Awareness : Brian Singer
A few weeks ago someguy put up a piece of art on Division Street. The piece hit home because it was a solemn reminder of the tent city that used to occupy that space in San Francisco, the homeless encampment that has since been dispersed. The tents were confiscated by the city and the homeless were forced off the busy street, but the people and their tents didn’t simply disappear, they are now scattered on side alleys and streets that are more hidden from view.
Virtual Reality Porn Is Literally The Worst
By: Jonas Barnes I remember watching my first porno way before I’d ever even seen a vagina that wasn’t my aunts, as she walked across the room with her robe open. I was about 16 years old, and I had broken into my dad’s porn stash. I saw the regular