Scenes from San Francisco, February 2026
[010] Theseotomy - Dreaming at the Edge of the Apocalypse
Wednesday 3 September 2025
Introduction - SITUATIONAL AWARENESS: The Decade Ahead
Leopold Aschenbrenner, June 2024 You can see the future first in San Francisco. Over the past year, the talk of the town has shifted from $10 billion compute clusters to $100 billion clusters to trillion-dollar clusters. Every six months another zero is added to the boardroom plans. Behind the scenes, there’s a fierce scramble to
IETF127 in San Francisco in November 2026
There are lots of SF locals, I know several people are planning to fly into SF, and the two day hackathon is open for all to join, registration is no charge. Anyone planning on taking the lead on planning some community activities during the week? For AtmosphereConf, we’re going to get Ms Boba @essentialrandom.bsky.social some early sticker / postcard prints to distribute. There’s an RSVP event in the community already https://atmo.rsvp/p/atmosphere.community/e/3miu4s5e2mf2g
Things You Might've Missed: February 2026 - Valerie Rayne Writes
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[009] Folkification - Dreaming at the Edge of the Apocalypse
Sunday 24 August 2025
Things You Might've Missed: March 2026 - Valerie Rayne Writes
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1 Year on the AT Protocol: Part II - Real Housewives of San Francisco
Unpacking the Invisible PDS
1 Year on the AT Protocol: Part II - Real Housewives of San Francisco
Unpacking the Invisible PDS
Things You Might've Missed: August 2026 - Valerie Rayne Writes
You've seen the image, now get the details!
Why we’re still obsessed with 90s aesthetics in 2026
Decoding the visual cycle: how tactile 90s aesthetics bridge the gap between sterile tech and human emotion in 2026.
Weeknote 13, 2026
I went to Vancouver for a few days to meet up with friends and attend the 2026 ATmosphereConf in Vancouver, Canada. I had a lot of fun, and this recaps my experience attending.
Refugees and Searchers Go to the Movies – First of the Month
Spielberg lets the screen go black for about five seconds. The communal experience of film-going then becomes a shared nightmare. With the screen unlit, the emergency lights in the theater are the only source of illumination. If you jump (as I did), you fear for a moment that the movie has stopped—the reel fallen off its plate, the fantasy interrupted by unfunny, drop-dead reality. “Are we still alive?” whispered by Farrier’s daughter Rachel (Dakota Fanning) is an inquiry that invokes our own doubts about our safety, our capacity to dream, our possible awakening to dire reality. It recalls how many people felt after 9/11. Are we dreaming? Are we still alive? Bringing everyday experience and existential contemplation together so forcefully, Spielberg joins the ranks of the most audacious avant-garde filmmakers: He turns the popcorn movie experience into a consideration of the abyss.
Social Capital in Silicon Valley
It’s January 2020. And if you’re a founder just starting out, trying to create something out of nothing, one of the best investments you can make is still a plane ticket to San Francisco. A l…
The Anxious Generation | Jonathan Haidt