Texas Gives Billionaires Millions to Move Their Businesses and Pollute, and Then the Tech Companies Move and Fire

The state of Texas is an inclement cesspool and worsening. Whether it’s Austin, Bastrop, or Boca Chica, Musk is making a mess. He’s messed with Texas, and the State loves it. The Texas government gives billionaires such as Musk and Ellison hundreds of millions of dollars to move their businesses to Texas, and the businesses …

A Tech Festival Where They Boo Tech – SXSW in Texas

South by Southwest 2024, a combined tech conference and entertainment industry festival held in Austin, Texas, a regressive city inhabited by conservatives like Greg Abbott, Elon Musk, and Alex Jones, ran a minute-long promotional video featuring brief clips from panels earlier in the conference. In each clip, the speakers were either explicitly pro-AI or emphasizing the …

The Texas Doom-Loop Continues

Texas: Crime is soaring, mass shootings are a weekly occurrence, office buildings are empty, people are being laid-off in droves, heat and pollution are stiffling, airlines are cutting flights to Austin, those able to leave the state are moving out, and the weather sucks. Looking at cities as a whole, not just the downtown, Houston, …

“Austin is where ambition goes to die. We’d love to be in California.”

Tech workers say they regret moving to the triple-digit city, given its middling tech scene, horid weather and traffic, and “fake” atmosphere. Austin is where ambition goes to die, if the bullets don’t kill it first. People are moving in droves to San Francisco and the city’s buildings are filling again. The much ballyhooed move …

Homicide Rate in Austin, TX is Higher Than That in San Francisco, CA. Both Cities Have Low Rates.

Despite the Right-Wing Media BS, San Francisco is Safe. San Jose, CA is the safest big city, and in my hometown, San Diego, the second largest city in California, the rate was 6.0/100,000. Lower than San Francisco. California is booming, and the state’s tech economy continues to create wealthy people, especially in San Francisco. Nineteen Fortune …

Texas Rated the Worst State to Live and Work

Republican Greg Abbott Creates a Living Hell in a Place Besieged For Months by 100+ Degree Weather. Claiming to be a state full of nice people, Texas is the state where they kill one another at the highest rate in the country, elect misanthropes such as Ted Cruz and Greg Abbott, pollute one another at …

Venture Capital 2022 – California is the land of Innovation

California by far is the leading state for venture funding and for innovation, and San Francisco leads the way. The state’s beauty and diversity (people and habitat), and being the most fun state in the US, are only a part of the attraction. In the first half of 2022, California received $65 billion in VC …