How was this not headlined Baribarians at the Gate: www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

Parents and teachers saying ”6 7.”

Congratulations to my friends in New York. Now can we please shift the focus to Chicago? (These items are all from today.)

A.I. Algorithm isn't the most prolific writer, but he’s fast.

Which one of you keeps telling the New York Times how much you like their live photos and would you please stop?

“Our interest in this is mostly in the ritual of it and the temporal nature of the VHS.” Among the VHS true believers in the Mission: sf.gazetteer.co/tapeheads

HBO or Max or WTF it's called now has apparently brought back the zooming through a city intro short from 1983 but did it with nauseating CG with zero spacial logic. The original was made with miniatures and was the product of wild ingenuity. It was a classic: www.youtube.com/watch?v=agS6...

Want a rebellion? Stop the scroll and read the print. It's all fine. New podcast up. magazeum.co/content/play...

Hey, Hey, DJT, how many Venezuelans did you kill this week? www.nytimes.com/2025/10/24/u...

“Ha! The idiots spelled ‘surrender’ with only one ‘r’!”

The New York Post was still giving Bill Clinton shit as late as 2024 for his low level staffers causing "$15,000 in damage" by removing the W keys from White House keyboards as a prank back in 2001 but this is, like, fine and dandy? www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Does ZOHRAN Sell Magazines?

When a friend wearing a Dreamforce lanyard spots you around town.

1/Stop everything and read/watch/bookmark this massive investigation between @motherjones.com @lighthousereports.com Le Monde, Der Spiegel, Paper Trail Media a vast global surveillance empire used to target politicians, journalists, tech CEOs, and... Jared Leto. ow.ly/2LUF50Xb7KE

The second worst ”gray [fill in the blank]” journalistic coinage I've seen. (Old heads know): www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/w...

Clever way to co-opt the chant of “Fuck OpenAI”: sfstandard.com/2025/10/14/o...

For Your Consideration: Sean Penn as Stephen Lockjaw, ‘One Battle After Another’https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3bnpTK5mgZQ

“Let’s do the fucking news!”

⌘-F “David Denby” ”Do the Right Thing” www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...

“Why hasn’t *your* Substack sold for $150 million in cash and stock?” is the new “Why couldn‘t you become a doctor like your brother?”

If ‘60 Minutes‘ somehow survives this, Bret Easton Ellis will definitely be made the new Andy Rooney.

Support independent magazines or they will be no more independent magazines. (Also, @thefence.bsky.social happens to be an excellent magazine.)

Targeted @juliaturner.bsky.social content: Walter Thompson on ‘Sneakers,’ a film that “captures a transitional moment in the Bay Area” GIFT LINK: sf.gazetteer.co/the-way-we-w...

THE REAL TIME TRAVELING HIPSTER

Can you imagine who Bari Weiss could be if someone had liked her in Slack?

Tell us about the mags you miss and you might win a t-shirt. Or something else. magazeum.co/mwm

Already dreading the think pieces about the Rapture and it hasn’t even happened yet.

“Wake up babe it’s Kang day” my editor and I say to each other for the tenth time today

When your AI glasses demo fails: www.youtube.com/watch?v=NLTT...

❤️🔥 HOT OFF THE PRESSES! 🔥❤️ COYOTE Media Collective is live!! We’re so incredibly proud of this smart, fierce, unapologetic Bay Area media project. Dive in, see what we’ve been building, read our stories, and join the pack! coyotemedia.org

Opening Bluesky to see what's happening out there.

Reminds me of this video of the president pointing a kid and saying, “I’m going to be dating her in 10 years. Can you believe it?” www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Jz4...

Today we launch a monthly film column by @yourprotagonistwt.bsky.social called San Francisco Plays Itself. First up, Wayne Wang‘s black and white indie “Chan is Missing” from 1982: sf.gazetteer.co/taxi-driver?...

Got some actionable information you want to put in the hands of investigative journalists. Here's how: www.motherjones.com/contribute/h...

Eyes on the road, @marcmaron.bsky.social! www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/dig...

Will pour-over trickle down? Olivia Peluso talked to private equity expert @greenwell.bsky.social about Philz coffee: sf.gazetteer.co/from-one-cup...

We’re all listening to “Tramp the Dirt Down” on infinite repeat, right?

WORST PAPER GOES BEST COAST

Where are the "Vote for Zohran, not the moron" posters?

Gotta hand it to 'em.

Epstein effect is the new Streisand effect.

[email protected] playing the Kinks "Give the People What They Want" on 'Impolitic' made me think of another song: Parliament's "Supergroovalisticprosifunkstication": "Give the people what they want/ When they want/And they wants it all the time": www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q1Y-...

As more journalists are driven out of their jobs, I keep hearing this drumbeat of "it's ok -- they can start their own newsletter or publication." Some can. But becoming your own business is a huge job, and will eliminate many talented reporters from the public sphere. Here's why. (1/5)

“Zippo,” Michael Madsen (2000) I pour another shot of vodka and see my reflection on the back of a silver Zippo. Like a mirror in an amusement park, a little crooked, a little strange. Never underestimate the value of a Zippo.

This Roy Jay PJs thing makes me feel like I'm living in the mid-section of a @harikunzru.bsky.social novel.

Stephen Miller : ICE raids :: Henry Kissinger : Bombing Cambodia

AGI is a snipe hunt.