Tech

11 Oct 2018

The Petition to Turn the Salesforce Tower into The Eye Of Sauron

As you may have heard there is a very important petition going around that supports Turning the Salesforce Tower into Eye Of Sauron on Halloween this year.  The Change.org petition currently has almost 7,000 signatures and is looking to get the attention of Salesforce CEO Mark Benioff as well as

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09 Oct 2018

Tech Workers Speak Out in Support of Prop C!

Full disclosure, Brokeassstuart.com wholeheartedly supports Prop C.  As progressives, we believe in addressing the issue of homelessness in real and meaningful ways.  That means funding mental health and addiction services, adding thousands of permanent homes for vulnerable children and families, and helping those who are in danger of eviction.  #YESonC. 

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04 Oct 2018

Dope Art Parties, Outdoor Festivals, & Underwater Experiences in the Bay

witches, drinks, bluegrass, films, photos, prints, performance and even an ‘underwater, multimedia experience’.  So dive in, the waters just right…and it ain’t even Halloween week yet.

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25 Sep 2018

Ask a Tenant Attorney: Can My Landlord Install Surveillance Cameras?

Ask a Tenant Attorney is your chance to learn how to survive as a tenant in San Francisco. Each month Tenant’s Rights Attorney Daniel Wayne addresses a different issue for residential tenants. This month: your landlord’s right to put up surveillance cameras. For more information about Daniel and his firm,

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05 Sep 2018

What it’s Like Being a Black Gentrifier

This is a story about what happens when you are a minority in a city whose minority population is shrinking, and what it means to be part of that gentrification.

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andrew yang
29 Aug 2018

Andrew Yang is Running for President on a Universal Basic Income Platform

In 2018, the impossible has become reality. Cars are driving themselves, Apple is worth more than a trillion dollars and Donald Trump is president.  While these may at first seem unrelated, they tell the story of how our country has veered into a dystopian nightmare, and how, if we act

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07 Aug 2018

Alex Jones Kicked Off iTunes, Facebook & YouTube Last Night

Our new Tech Column was made possible by the fine folks at Mozilla Firefox.  The nonprofit Mozilla Foundation believes the Internet must always remain a global public resource that is open and accessible to all.  And that’s why we love Firefox. Censorship.  99% of the time brokeassstuart.com is against it.  But

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29 Jul 2018

Facebook Lost $123 Billion Overnight…and a Bag Of Skittles Just Overdrew Me

Unless you’ve been living in captivity in the glaciers of Antarctica for the last decade or so, you have a Facebook account. Hell, I’ll be sharing this very article on Facebook within 24 hours, I’m sure. You probably also know that it is one of the richest companies on the

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