"Run for the hills. Leave now. You have to find shelter. They have a cheese sommelier."

The person on Oakland mayoral candidate and former tech exec Bryan Parker's staff who granted this interview made a very serious mistake. No one—you'd hope—is going to vote for a man who thinks the cure for American poverty is Bitcoin.

Pioneering video game designer Bill Budge, who spotted this graffiti in Oakland, said he's "never seen this kind of hate" in 33 years. Image via Twitter.

How does a technologically savvy city respond to rising crime rates? By crowd-funding itself a private security detail.