Chris Carlsson
@chris-carlsson.bsky.social
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“If there’s a lesser-known corner of San Francisco history, chances are Chris Carlsson has peeked into it.”
Hidden San Francisco author @chris-carlsson.bsky.social’s tour of the city reviewed on KQED
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Hidden San Francisco author @chris-carlsson.bsky.social’s tour of the city reviewed on KQED
www.kqed.org/arts/1398317...
A San Francisco History Tour You’ll Feel in Your Quads | KQED
Chris Carlsson of Shaping San Francisco seeks out the traces of labor movements well worth remembering.
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November 5, 2025 at 12:49 PM
“If there’s a lesser-known corner of San Francisco history, chances are Chris Carlsson has peeked into it.”
Hidden San Francisco author @chris-carlsson.bsky.social’s tour of the city reviewed on KQED
www.kqed.org/arts/1398317...
Hidden San Francisco author @chris-carlsson.bsky.social’s tour of the city reviewed on KQED
www.kqed.org/arts/1398317...
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“Carlsson encourages everyone to contemplate their own role in “waking up in the morning and producing this world instead of, potentially, a different world.”
Hidden San Francisco author @chris-carlsson.bsky.social’s tour of the city reviewed on KQED
www.kqed.org/arts/1398317...
Hidden San Francisco author @chris-carlsson.bsky.social’s tour of the city reviewed on KQED
www.kqed.org/arts/1398317...
November 8, 2025 at 12:53 PM
“Carlsson encourages everyone to contemplate their own role in “waking up in the morning and producing this world instead of, potentially, a different world.”
Hidden San Francisco author @chris-carlsson.bsky.social’s tour of the city reviewed on KQED
www.kqed.org/arts/1398317...
Hidden San Francisco author @chris-carlsson.bsky.social’s tour of the city reviewed on KQED
www.kqed.org/arts/1398317...
I wrote and posted this a couple of months ago... still relevant obviously:
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Real Crimes and the Coming Violence - Nowtopian
I just enjoyed a get-away to Europe for almost two weeks. I spent three days with Mona at her place in southern Switzerland where I hadn’t been for 20 years, and another three days in a small town in…
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November 11, 2025 at 9:23 PM
I wrote and posted this a couple of months ago... still relevant obviously:
nowtopians.com/history/real...
nowtopians.com/history/real...
Where are we headed? Here's some ruminations along with a number of other writer/thinkers...
nowtopians.com/work-and-the...
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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…
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June 28, 2025 at 6:53 AM
Where are we headed? Here's some ruminations along with a number of other writer/thinkers...
nowtopians.com/work-and-the...
nowtopians.com/work-and-the...
New blog post up...
nowtopians.com/history/what...
nowtopians.com/history/what...
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…
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June 20, 2025 at 6:11 AM
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!
June 20, 2025 at 5:17 AM
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!
Reposted by Chris Carlsson
📚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
🎟
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
🎟
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…
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April 24, 2025 at 8:25 PM
📚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
🎟
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
🎟
This went up a couple of nights ago and was already ripped down by the next morning...
April 12, 2025 at 7:32 PM
This went up a couple of nights ago and was already ripped down by the next morning...
What I brought to the protest yesterday...
April 6, 2025 at 7:26 PM
What I brought to the protest yesterday...
#teslatakedown protest in San Francisco today... Lots of great homemade signs!
March 30, 2025 at 2:06 AM
#teslatakedown protest in San Francisco today... Lots of great homemade signs!
In the Mission a few days ago...
March 27, 2025 at 9:50 PM
In the Mission a few days ago...
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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.
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.
🔥 Elon Musk & Silicon Valley’s Plan to Dismantle Democracy | The Shocking Truth
YouTube video by The Nerd Reich
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February 11, 2025 at 10:04 PM
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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.
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.
The Shadowy Millions Behind San Francisco’s “Moderate” Politics newrepublic.com/article/1893... via @newrepublic.com
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...
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January 18, 2025 at 9:08 PM
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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January 18, 2025 at 5:00 AM
new blog post up at nowtopians dot com:
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Oligarch farmers and the fires in Los Angeles
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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.
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January 9, 2025 at 7:23 PM
Oligarch farmers and the fires in Los Angeles
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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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I squeezed in a last post to my blog...thoughts on multi-species communication and intelligence among other things...
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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…
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December 30, 2024 at 2:21 AM
Happy New Year!
I squeezed in a last post to my blog...thoughts on multi-species communication and intelligence among other things...
nowtopians.com/nature-and-m...
I squeezed in a last post to my blog...thoughts on multi-species communication and intelligence among other things...
nowtopians.com/nature-and-m...
new blog post up:
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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…
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December 12, 2024 at 5:32 PM
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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Seeing the Elephant in Seattle - FoundSF
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November 30, 2024 at 5:38 PM
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!
www.foundsf.org/index.php?ti...
www.foundsf.org/index.php?ti...
first moment on bluesky... not sure I'll stick around, but I just posted this to my blog:
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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…
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November 15, 2024 at 5:22 AM
first moment on bluesky... not sure I'll stick around, but I just posted this to my blog:
nowtopians.com/general-musi...
nowtopians.com/general-musi...