Chris Carlsson

Whither Modern Life? - Nowtopian I’m immersed in reading all the time, and much of what has attracted my interest in the past year or two are books that try to explain how the structure of capitalism is mutating during this violent…

Where are we headed? Here's some ruminations along with a number of other writer/thinkers...
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What the Hell - Nowtopian I’ve been extremely reluctant to write anything for months. We are drowning in bullshit. The maelstrom of AI-generated slop on all social media platforms is bad enough. But there’s also so many new…

New blog post up...
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Meme proposal: LLM’s = Large Looting Models. Since LLM’s ( so-called Large language models)facilitate mass theft and exploitation ( of knowledge, text, art, music, images, culture, genetic material, personal data etc) I propose LLM should stand for Large Looting Models . Pass it on / repost!

Starts at 6:30!

Hidden San Francisco: A Guide to Lost Landscapes, Unsung Heroes, and Radical Histories — Medicine for Nightmares Bookstore & Gallery Author Chris Carlsson inaugurates the 2nd edition of his unique historical guidebook to San Francisco's overlooked and forgotten histories. Tonight he will read from the new preface to the 2nd…

📚BOOK EVENT📚

Author @chris-carlsson.bsky.social inaugurates the 2nd edition of his unique historical guidebook to San Francisco's overlooked and forgotten histories.

🗓️Thurs, May 8
⏰7 pm
📍Medicine for Nightmares
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This went up a couple of nights ago and was already ripped down by the next morning...

What I brought to the protest yesterday...

#teslatakedown protest in San Francisco today... Lots of great homemade signs!

In the Mission a few days ago...

YouTube video by The Nerd Reich 🔥 Elon Musk & Silicon Valley’s Plan to Dismantle Democracy | The Shocking Truth

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Gil Duran has been doing great work at The Nerd Reich. Here's a 5-minute summary of some of it... Well worth checking out.

It IS Happening Here - Nowtopian There’s a lot of hand-wringing these days over the likelihood of Trump’s return to power. I find it hard to imagine that a majority of voters would choose him. Then again, I find it hard to believe…

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AI, Risk, and Work - Nowtopian I’ve spent a lot of years writing about work, technology, revolution, organizing, politics, etc. From the early days of Processed World (1981-1994) to my book Nowtopia (2008) and in dozens of essays…

I wrote about your book along with Dan McQuillan's and Fressoz's Happy Apocalypse here:
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Looking forward to saying hi in person at City Lights on January 30!

The Shadowy Millions Behind San Francisco’s “Moderate” Politics The city is the epicenter of an anti-progressive movement—financed by the ultrawealthy—that aims to blur political lines and centralize power for the long term. For some, their ambitions don’t stop th...

The Shadowy Millions Behind San Francisco’s “Moderate” Politics newrepublic.com/article/1893... via @newrepublic.com

new blog post up at nowtopians dot com:
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Oligarch farmers and the fires in Los Angeles Beverly Hills billionaires, fires, climate change, and the ecocidal terraforming system that underpins the California way of life.

Oligarch farmers and the fires in Los Angeles
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“Things Are in the Saddle, and Ride Mankind” - Nowtopian So said Ralph Waldo Emerson in the middle of the nineteenth century. As we proceed into the glowering gloom of the coming years, I always find it helpful—if not refreshing exactly—to place things in…

Happy New Year!
I squeezed in a last post to my blog...thoughts on multi-species communication and intelligence among other things...
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Forgotten Futures in Seattle - Nowtopian Had a sweet trip to Seattle for Adriana’s birthday over Thanksgiving weekend. She won some hockey tickets at a curling bonspiel so we went to see “our” San Jose Sharks beat the Seattle Kraken at the…

new blog post up:
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25 years ago today I was wandering through the rainy streets of Seattle with the Committee for Full Enjoyment, drumming and rushing from lockdown to lockdown to support the shutdown of the WTO. We've come a looong way since then! Sheesh!
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Totally agree Jen!

Have you read the wonderful epic novel Q by Luther Blisset? It's a page -turner on the anabaptist revolt around Munster and a secret agent of the pope chasing an "accidental" revolutionary from place to place... A great historical novel.

Autocracy Defeats Neoliberalism - Nowtopian I guess it’s oddly appropriate to find myself two hours into the limbo of the jury duty room at San Francisco’s Hall of (In)justice. The clerks have ordered us to remain here several times while…

first moment on bluesky... not sure I'll stick around, but I just posted this to my blog:
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