Annie Lloyd

“Dude, the Internet.” Prestige Silicon Valley television.

traveled back in time to both 1990s internet-as-utopia culture and 2015 internet-as-dystopia culture via AMC's Halt and Catch Fire for Dirt, which perhaps smartly does not have a bluesky presence.

"A new kind of film studio" Stumbling across entertainment news on a plaintext website

I wrote about Wolfgang Hammer's foray into tech and the frightening prospect of Marc Andreessen-influenced film production

successfully pushing back against AI means telling your bff you will in fact just read lina khan's entire yale law review thesis out loud into an audio file for them

An Underdressed Night at the Symphony Faye Webster, The Paramount, a couple weeks ago

"Fans hastily threw baggy tees with the same design over plaid shirts and satin nighties."

getting @oaklandreviewofbooks.org started with several amazing local writers and editors!

charli’s new single is so good and threatens to make me an angel again. maybe i will become unalienated from the charli xcx logo tattoo that i got in summer 2021. though i remain firmly committed to me analysis that hot girl (summer 2022)-brat (through grammys 2025) marks a low point in her output

zohran winning, rosalía's new album, a single from hilary duff.... it's giving libido. the drive to live life is back on the menu

skeptical of any narrative that says the reason why trump isn't sending the nat'l guard to SF anymore is because of "people power." it was because of the power of capitalists. delusional thinking is not going to help us win

Dancers in the dark With screenings across the city, the San Francisco Dance Film Festival blends movement, music, and the movies

i covered the sf dance film fest for @sf.gazetteer.co. the opening night premiere of the tiler peck documentary is sold out, but i really hope the panelists give some airtime to etoile's untimely demise. sf.gazetteer.co/dancers-in-t...

new coffee/wine place in downtown berkeley rocks from the perspective of buying a cute and tiny good-quality matcha at 10am, triggering from the perspective of overhearing UCB undergrads cosplaying adults and referring to “this stage of life”

i've decided any first-person critique of technology that is resigned to its problems without giving any space towards the very real option to just put your phone down is intellectually bankrupt. addictions are real, social infrastructure is real, but so are choices. no one is coming to save us :-)

i'm writing for the internet again, doing the devil's work (attending tech week)

happy pride

i’ve had to work on-site in downtown oakland for the past couple weeks. feeling the rto > feeling the agi. parking lots full by 9 am. line for banh mis 9 people deep at 12:15. a glimmer of “bustle” at the 12th street/broadway intersection.