Google’s new “leave your activism at home” policy marks the end of an era. I spoke with Coinbase’s Brian Armstrong, the architect of mission-first, and Rails legend DHH. A retrospective on the policy that saved tech: piratewires.com/p/mission-acco…

Innumerate San Francisco prog inadvertently catalyzes the launch of an ed tech startup by using their slide deck to attempt to dunk on accelerated math curricula 😙✌️

And for those saying “Boudin was investigating Jacobo” that’s a lie — Jacobo worked on his campaign and they were friends.

In addition to routinely deriding her political opponents as 'sociopaths,' NPR's new head also believes tech — America's most dynamic industry — is a bastion of white supremacy whose products allow 'racism to be encoded at scale.'

My latest 👇

“It’s like Tammany Hall, but you don’t even get infrastructure at the end of it. No roads, just propaganda. They give money to their client constituents and plum jobs for a select group of activists who get six-figure city salaries and benefits.” Sanjana Friedman @piratewires

Lot happening but to recap:

—Jon Jacobo resigned from director position at TODCO today.
—Supervisor Hillary Ronen called for hearing on how law enforcement handles sexual harassment & assault cases
—Police Chief Bill Scott said 3 women's reports being 'diligently' investigated

We're pretty chuffed about this one: rising local SF journalism star Sanjana Friedman from Pirate Wires joins us on the 14th episode of the Briones podcast! Give it a listen!

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Yesterday, activists across the country blocked bridges and highways as part of a “coordinated economic blockade to free Palestine.”

Though most participants were arrested, they will likely face few-to-no legal consequences for their actions. In fact, they may ultimately even

8 armed suspects ransacked the legacy Oakland Chinatown business Phuong Jewelry yesterday at around 12:30.

The family tells me, in less than one minute 85-90% of their inventory was taken.

Watch as owner Diane runs to the back & gets her 76-year old husband. He storms out

02-25-2014, SFUSD Chief Academic Officer Luis Valentino introduces SFUSD's new math policy with 'a clearly articulated course sequence, ... experts in the field, such as ... Jo Boaler contributed to this work'

source: tinyurl.com/sfusdboard 02:46:00-- 1/

spent the whole drive down to LA listening to the celebrity memoir bookclub podcast. learned a lot of troubling things about the state of Yolanda Hadid’s intestines…

In SFUSD, health education begins with teaching kids that sex is “a guess grownups make” when they’re born, and ends with memorizing the definitions of words like “skoliosexual” (exclusive attraction to non-binary people, apparently) and “down low.”

My latest 👇

Returning from an experimental ~2 week detox from the internet. Main takeaway is that I didn't realize how unsettled the mind can get when over-stimulating on problems/information (like a stirred liquid), and ~2 weeks is enough to settle into a lot more zen state.

I'm struck by

I'd add to this enlightening thread that we should be clear about what Housing First is: it's a strategy adopted by cities, counties, and states to hide addiction and untreated mental illness from public view and to reduce the expense of chronic hospitalization and incarceration.

The San Francisco Tenants Union, which works with local officials to draft housing legislation, not only has a how-to guide to squatting on their website, it also links to a list of vacant properties available to be taken over by squatters. New report 👇

piratewires.com/p/the-san-fran…