Anyway congrats to Bari Weiss on getting me to watch 60 Minutes for the first time in forever.

'In the isolating, brain-melting age of AI, all sorts of people across the Bay Area are turning — or, returning — to print,' writes @cydhayes.bsky.social. Read our feature on the print wave, now available online: sf.gazetteer.co/print-is-for...

”Let‘s do the fucking news... If Stephen Miller says it’s OK.”

The news coverage every day—exposing our corrupt authoritarian regime that gives only cynical lip service to America’s revolutionary founding principles—reminded me the article we did in Spy in 1989. Kind of prescient. 1/2

“You corporate lackey! Who told you your incompetent little fingers had the requisite skill to edit me?” www.youtube.com/watch?v=8qRy...

Brb building an ark

"One of Ms. Weiss’s suggestions was to include a fresh interview with Stephen Miller, a White House deputy chief of staff and the architect of Mr. Trump’s immigration crackdown." The least they could've done was make room for fourteen words: www.nytimes.com/2025/12/21/b...

2025's Fail Whale

For his latest San Francisco Plays Itself film column, @yourprotagonistwt.bsky.social wrote about David Fincher’s ‘The Game’ (1997), “a fable set in a distorted San Francisco stripped of real neighborhoods and rendered as shadow, echo, and ambient threat.” sf.gazetteer.co/its-a-wonder...

Sounds like one helluva ‘Love Boat’ episode: www.theguardian.com/film/2025/de...

The best magazine subscriptions for kids of all ages that also make great holiday gifts. Magazines include ‘Highlights,’ ‘Anorak,’ ‘Ranger Rick,’ ‘Anyway,’ ‘Kazoo,’ and ‘The Week, Junior.’

Does E. Graydon Carter still edit Vanity Fair?

Are you someone who's Very Online, early in your reporting career, and eager to get clips? We're hiring a Breaking News Reporter at @motherjones.com. $65k-$75k salary. www.motherjones.com/careers/brea...

Starting to see the visual influence of @thefence.bsky.social on U.S. publications. Makes sense: it's a great looking magazine.

Feeling like such a loser for not being in a single one of these: www.nytimes.com/2025/12/12/u...

Ryan Lizza sharing more of his story with an eager public: www.youtube.com/watch?v=CSAL...

Very excited about the first print edition of @sf.gazetteer.co hitting the streets. The cover photo is by the talented Tâm Vũ and reminds me of Perham Nahl’s famous “The Thirteenth Labor of Hercules” poster. Look for copies around the city starting today!

Me enjoying the new Vanity Fair Hollywood issue.

Big news: Gazetteer SF is now in print. Grab your own free copy at one of our drop spots across the city. Subscribe to receive a copy in the mail. sf.gazetteer.co/gazetteer-sf...

Not sure how to feel about Net-Warner Bros.-Discovery-flix, but I’m hopeful that we may finally be able to stream ’Dream On.’

bcc @juliaturner.bsky.social

The footage of Trump nodding off in that meeting reminded me of my 72-year-old editor at an alt-weekly whenever we met to discuss the website in 2004. Could not be bothered to care.

Wrapped, but for gooners.

friends! @coyotemedia.org is dropping our paywall for December so you can see what we’ve been up to even if you have none dollars. All of our posts are currently free to read. Come check us out & spread the word? www.coyotemedia.org

@sf.gazetteer.co is looking for Bay Area freelance reporters who can speak Spanish, Mandarin, and Cantonese to expand our coverage of the city. I encourage folks to contact me directly at mh [a] gazetteer [dot] co. Please share: sf.gazetteer.co/gazetteer-sf...

Preparing for today’s Telos drop.

Men are afraid women will laugh at them. Women are afraid men will kill their career prospects with multi-part Substacks.

This whole two-narrator story (particularly the Olbermann flashback) is like @legroff.bsky.social’s ’Fates and Furies’ for dummies.

Even the Neverending Story ended at some point.

My whole life, I thought this was the oddest Oval Office pairing of all time. No more.

“You’re clearly patterning off Didion, one of my faves, and I say aim high. But the key to her brilliance is compression, elegance: each word a tiny gift, carefully chosen, and most of all, she never indulges.” @anamariecox.bsky.social is a great editor: newsletter.anamariecox.com/archive/note...

Thank you to everyone on this platform for sharing and boosting that man’s call to murder his colleagues. You can stop now.

Kate Sacker: How are things at New York Mag? Olivia Nuzzi: Always good when someone calls with a story... youtu.be/LfYPcwOOPcY?...

Here’s a gift link to my Very Important Analysis of the Warner Bros. Discovery sale and the dynamic duo who should steward Harry Potter, DC Comics, and, most importantly, Entourage: sf.gazetteer.co/a-modest-pro...

Substack is really showing us how important editors are.

Let's talk shopping IRL at Chat Room: Analog

The most revealing thing in that book excerpt is how good the editing is in @nymag.com.

These Homeland Security recruiting videos are getting so dark: www.youtube.com/watch?v=vhzt...

When you're pretty much stuck on one look.

If Elon Musk really is as well read as his bot army claims, he should've replied to Joyce Carol Oates’s attempted ethering with Joan Didion’s utterly devestating response to her critics on the letters page of @nybooks.com: ”Oh, wow.” Woulda been hall of fame worthy: www.nybooks.com/articles/197...

Colin Powell stared at this Platon photo of Elsheba Khan at her son's grave for an hour. “Who could debate that this kid lying in Arlington with Christian and Jewish and nondenominational buddies was not a fine American?" he told Maureen Dowd in 2008. web.archive.org/web/20080930...

Cannot be a coincidence that the editors of The New York Times Magazine ran Parul Sehgal's essay about meaning of Frankenstein's monster (www.nytimes.com/2025/10/31/m...) right before Jesse Barron's story of a kid who fell in love with a chatbot and killed himself.

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.