Patreon Preview – 446. Vibe Decoder (ft. Wendy Liu, Jimmy Wu)

Patreon Preview – 446. Vibe Decoder (ft. Wendy Liu, Jimmy Wu)

From This Machine Kills by This Machine Kills

February 24, 2026 · 7 min

About this episode

The episode discusses the rise of right-wing culture in San Francisco with guests Wendy Liu and Jimmy Wu from Bay Area Current.

And we’re back with TMK-as-usual! We are joined by Wendy Liu and Jimmy Wu from the Bay Area Current — a new leftist publication writing about the working class in San Francisco and beyond — as we chat about mapping out the rising milieu of right-wing culture in San Francisco, from the growing scene of tech intelligentsia publications that each have their different flavor of right-wingism to the psychic damage and hostile architecture of an urban landscape overflowing with B2B SAAS billboards. ••• Meet the New Right-Wing Tech Intelligentsia https://bayareacurrent.com/meet-the-new-right-wing-tech-intelligentsia/ ••• Tech Billboard Decoder: The Great Tech Vibe Shift https://bayareacurrent.com/tech-billboard-decoder-the-great-tech-vibe-shift/ ••• AI Company’s Billboards Say Workers Are Disposable. But Are We? https://bayareacurrent.com/ai-tech-company-to-workers-youre-disposable-but-is-it-true/ ••• San Francisco's Billboards Aren't For You https://bayareacurrent.com/the-billboards-arent-for-you/ Standing Plugs: ••• Order Jathan’s book: https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520398078/the-mechanic-and-the-luddite ••• Subscribe to Ed’s substack: https://substack.com/@thetechbubble •••…

People in this episode

Hosts: Jathan Sadowski, Edward Ongweso Jr.

Guests: Wendy Liu, Jimmy Wu

Topics covered

  • right-wing culture
  • tech intelligentsia
  • urban landscape
  • B2B SAAS
  • working class
  • San Francisco

Keywords

  • right-wing culture
  • tech intelligentsia
  • San Francisco
  • urban landscape
  • B2B SAAS
  • working class
  • billboards

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Bay Area Current, AI Company, TMK

Places: San Francisco, Bay Area

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