California’s sclerotic, sociopathic, dogmatically anti-progressive paper pushers scored a win against California Forever — the walkable 400,000-population city proposed for Solano County — by pressuring the org to move a county vote on the project from this November to 2026. Now, with Democratic congressmen openly celebrating the setback, and tech once again facing the suffocating reality of their home state’s bureaucratic monopoly, I humbly suggest we try something new. More specifically, does California need a dictator? For just a little while! Hear me out. Imagine even just a decade of unshackled governance: gutting the administrative apparatus, rooting out corruption, greenlighting every (beautiful) housing project proposed, making crime illegal again, and flooding the Salton Sea. I’m not suggesting we suspend democracy everywhere. I’m a practical man. I think we should try it in California first, and see what happens. Our states were always intended to generate a number of experiments in government. So? Let’s experiment.

In a recent Chronicle op-ed, Nuala Bishari warns that lawsuits against race- and gender-based guaranteed income programs in SF are “a preview of what’s to come under Trump and Project 2025.” Everyone knows giving taxpayer-funded checks to random Pacific Islanders and queer folx is part of a “good faith” effort to address “systemic inequities,” she writes — except, of course, the “radical Republicans” who ruin everything. Now, taken ironically, this is actually an excellent piece of PR for the Trump campaign. But that aside, I regret to inform Nuala that this is not part of a RW conspiracy to punish indigenous mothers. This stuff is just illegal under the California Constitution. Take it up with state voters, not Trump. They were literally asked in 2020 (Prop 16) if they wanted to legalize race- and sex-based discrimination. Their overwhelming response? “Wtf is wrong with you?”

This week, NBER published the results of a UBI study that gave low-income participants $1,000/ month for three years, and found they worked fewer hours, made less money than the control group, and didn’t do skills training or other activities that would presumably grow their future employment opportunities — in other words, the free cash made their lives worse. While many commentators found the results “disappointing,” I’m glad UBI is finally receiving a rigorous takedown. Becoming a chronically unproductive ward of the state is emasculating, and psychologically deteriorating. A society full of broken men like this will shred whatever social fabric we have left. Now, this is not to say I’m against UBI. I’m willing to entertain the program, but only under certain conditions: you get it in a desert tent city, where we provide free food, security, and Netflix (real pirates know). In exchange, productive taxpayers get our cities back, and never have to hear about UBI again.

back in january, george hotz laid out an innovative plan for ending homelessness — a new desert tent city that gives drug tourists exactly what they want

this week, we’re joined once again by comfortably smug who gives us a live report from the republican national convention. plus: we talk the trump assassination attempt, jd vance being selected as vp, elon’s donations to trump, and more.

dan hendrycks, an executive at a firm that co-sponsored scott wiener's ai bill, co-founded an ai safety compliance company that launched on tuesday

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