I love when we get San Francisco ass weather in the East Bay. I know the fog can be depressing after too long, but I didn't realize how badly I'd miss those cozy days.

I'm playing #Overwatch with @codytoombs.bsky.social right now on #Techathon! Come watch me be a mediocre Moira main while we raise money for Doctors Without Borders. #overwatch2

My friend Corbin does this stream every year to raise money! Tune in and help support his cause!

Eight months after the LA wildfires, people who have lost everything are grappling with slow permit approvals, high costs and low insurance payouts. Prices for burnt-out lots are coming down as some residents give up on returning. My latest (free to read): www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

The answer is, once again, physical media 🤗

Yes and he still managed to make a fat joke and a token Latino joke. Let's get the journalists their jobs back.

I love how wet it smells in the Bay Area this morning. I love a mid-summer rain. Sunrise was beautiful. This is the best time of year.

I mean, good for Kimmel, but he used his first monologue back on the air to drop a token Latino joke and a fat joke. Like.

For pregnant people, because it's literally the only painkiller allowed

Good morning to those jolted awake by another patented California earthquake

I actually haven't moved over my cameras yet. It just seemed like SUCH A TASK on top of everything else that I'm behind on in life. But I guess today we gotta do it.

I think snark culture/snark subreddits do to women what the incel/black pill/groyper pipeline does to men. I talking about it this week on Halfsies after @vanderpumprobs.com and I rank all of the portrayals of The Joker. Listen here: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

It always go back to what happened to Gawker.

There is very little I can control in this world. But I can raise hell about the way people drive at school drop off, since it endangers the lives of the littles. It MAKES ME SO ANGRY WHEN PEOPLE DON'T STOP AT STOP SIGNS.

I am absolutely going into fantasy mode. You'll see me exhibiting it all over social media.

Freelance illustration gigs drying up. Ad agencies using Midjourney instead of hiring human artists. Costume design turned over to AI wholesale. Good work vanishing. These are the stories of working visual artists, who describe losing jobs, wages, and hope as their clients and bosses embrace AI.

Remember when I used to be into movies? Remember when I used to be into things???

Meanwhile, I'm grabbing Heretic II from the archives and continuing the story of Corvus well into the new millennia

The fact that a Half Moon Bay man was desperate enough to steal from the church's collection basket should tell you all that you need to know about the desperation people are facing right now. Things aren't great! Stop tossing them into jail for trying to survive.

Honestly I don't care if you play loud music on BART because I have loops and life is short. But it's bad when it's awful house music that doesn't even sync on the beat. Like, do better. Play better stuff.

Just thinking about how Brentwood, the Bay Area suburb, refuses to build a BART station to help its population cut down on the driving commute because of the potential to "invite crime." Y'all would rather sit in traffic and be racist.

Mind you I was a stupid kid at 22, but in 2008 I referred to myself as "an alcoholic who can reformat a hard drive."

Google REALLY put the safety bumpers on Gemini. It won't even talk to me about the execution of Ceausescu.

Imagine being sad a notsee died

Remember how 9/11 happened and then they just sent you to school

Here's the clip for proof

when gun violence happens to children at schools it’s not political it’s just the cost of freedom in america. when it happens to a guy who makes his living in part by telling people that gun violence is the cost of freedom in america gun violence becomes political

One of the coolest video game preservation stories I have ever covered arstechnica.com/gaming/2025/...

Man, I LOVED the way we all hated "hipsters" back in the 2000s

This is a country living in terror of a non-existent crime wave, getting rid of vaccines which saved millions of lives, and indulging in economic policies which we saw fail 100 years ago. It's a deeply disordered place.

The other day I asked Gemini for medical advice and it yelled at me to call my doctor and refused to answer any of my questions until I did that. I was asking it about mixing certain medications and it was like DON'T ASK ME, ASK YOUR DOC DUDE I'M JUST A ROBOT

I really hate the term "sideloading". I preferred the original term, which was "installing software on a computer that you own"

Just so you guys know I'm definitely going to cry at Jimmy Eat World

Why are we comparing unreleased hardware to released hardware

He was not a good mayor guys I lived and went to school in SF during his policy making 👎

Okay, baby, I'm coming for you. I missed you a lot, too. It's been ten years!

We also have a show for San Francisco coming up on sept 5! It’s gonna be fun weird because it’s just us and I’m think we should add 80s karaoke and giant Nintendo controller. $10! All ages ! www.eventbrite.com/e/suburban-r...

HEY live commentary on the Made by Google event: www.youtube.com/watch?v=vgMu...

Android Faithful #108 - Made By Google 2025 Delivers All the detail of the Pixel 10 line plus the Pixel Watch 4 and Pixel Buds and Pixelsnap accessories. What's good? What surprised us? What colors did we like? Find out all the dish on this BIG episode #Android #MadebyGoogle buff.ly/2Ba5O9l

All journalists should read this. Especially tech journalists, because I feel like this strategy is so common in tech PR.

There's a spiritual healer in my DMs. Do I do it? Y/N?

Gemini is so deliciously validating no wonder y'all are falling in love with it. As a fellow broken person, I get it. Damn.

For those who missed it over the weekend (you would be forgiven, I published it when y'all were out enjoying life), I finally published my Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 7 review for @androidfaithful.com 💚 www.androidfaithful.com/samsung-gala...

Sometimes I just let the spider live.

The enshittification of Lightroom/Photoshop has begun. I am getting pop-ups begging me to update from my 2022 version. Nah.

there only 2 types of tv shows. something is either columbo or the muppet show

I hope you guys are proud of me. I paid all my debts.

Newsletter is going out on Saturday. You'll understand why when you see it.

Robot vacuums rolling into glue traps is a surprisingly common problem, and of course Reddit had the effective solution to removing the glue: vegetable oil.

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