Why Silicon Valley Is Trying So Hard to Kill This AI Bill in California
California’s Senate Bill 1047, which offers protection to whistleblowers and citizens, has been met with opposition from tech companies, startups, and investors, but is supported by prominent AI researchers and whistleblowers.
Big Tech’s User Agreements are Even Worse than You Thought
By JohnTaylor Wildfeuer You must not be reading your user agreements either, because if you were you would have little time for anything else. A 2008 Carnegie Mellon University study found that if American consumers read user agreements for websites they visit once per year it would require 76 full
The 90s Are Back! We Have Color Changing Shirts!
As 2024 winds down, we’re reflecting on another incredible year of sharing the stories, art, culture, and nightlife that make the Bay Area so unique. BrokeAssStuart.com wouldn’t be what it is without you—our community of readers, supporters, and believers in independent media. This year, instead of asking you to join Patreon
Elon Musk, Google and Mark Zuckerberg Have Plans For Our Future. Is That A Good Thing?
As time passes, real life appears to be less relevant than ever. The only space that needs to be taken seriously is the digital space. Things like the Metaverse, Elon Musk’s brainchip, and Google’s billion dollar mission to “solve death” are all concepts that sound like plots in science fiction
Self-Driving Cars Getting Stuck In The Richmond Because They Don’t Understand Dead Ends
You are probably seeing a lot of those Google-owned Waymo cars all over town these days, as they’re trying to figure out how to become fully autonomous, self-driving cars. But one tiny dead-end street in the Richmond District is seeing a lot of those Waymo cars, “up to 50” per
Which SF Pride Sponsors Donated The Most To Anti-Gay Politicians?
The corporatization of SF Pride is something we’ve come to expect as a sort of a necessary evil, a source of dollars that are quite necessary for the permits, overhead, staffing, emergency management logistics, and the continued existence of the event that does draw so much tourism and joy to
Punch Line SF Wins Back Lease! Morgan Stanley Backs Down From Eviction
The Punch Line Comedy Club not only avoided getting kicked out this August, but they also scored a multi-year lease and legacy business status on Monday. North Beach Supervisor Aaron Peskin told the press, “The city and the comic community were serious when we said that displacement wasn’t a laughing
Salesforce Employees Join #TechWontBuildIt Fight
The protest and press conference was a response to Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff, The demands of Salesforce employees follow similar actions by workers at IBM, Google, Microsoft and Amazon, who are demanding their company cancel contracts with the federal government in response to Trump administration policies.
The Scourge Of The ‘Congratulations!’ Pop-Up Ad
A despicable “Congratulations!” malware ad has been wreaking internet havoc for the last several months, and websites are confused as hell about what is happening. The ad has appeared on visits to the New York Times and Washington Post, The Verge, Vice and virtually every reputable website. A just-released report