great piece on the collapse of the Tesla cult by @milesklee.bsky.social you should really subscribe to @wired.com www.wired.com/story/the-te...

Alysa Liu and Ryan Coogler, god bless Oakland

My Dunkyard Dawgs about to take it to Larry Blurred here.

If your "Best Bay Area ice cream" list ignores East Bay legends like Fenton's, Loard's and Tucker's and instead gives love to nondairy $8 hipster scoops, maybe take a beat to think about what you're actually trying to accomplish.

New from me: This week is the three-year anniversary of the meltdown and ensuing bailout of Silicon Valley Bank, which saved billions for some of tech's loudest titans. And then they were very grateful to the Biden admin and everyone lived happ-- <earpiece buzzes> Hold on slate.com/technology/2...

Everybody now ...

Two oil tankers have been hit by Iran in the strait of Hormuz.

My son has been asking me what books I liked at his age as he grows into reading, which just made me remember for the first time in decades how much I loved this book.

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Current and former Block workers say AI can’t do their jobs after Jack Dorsey’s mass layoffs: ‘You can’t really AI that’ www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

The WSJ calls it “the most severe energy crisis since the 1970s.” ⛽️ @wsj.com www.wsj.com/world/middle...

A 400mm lens is a photographer's best friend. Especially when you wanna get close to something. Beautiful weather here in Alameda, Calif. #photography

RIP to a Bay Area legend.

Excellently reported and presented. www.wsj.com/us-news/immi...

Is @theathletic.com ever going to do anything about half the articles I open in the app appearing like this? It's been days of this.

Long after leaving Oakland, the A’s are still fighting a West Oakland metal shredder — alongside environmentalists www.eastbaytimes.com/2026/03/08/o...

Bring a dude named Scrubb in, you get what you get. U-S-A!

There are a lot of Four Loko adjectives I could think of before I got to "storied," but you do you, Reuters.

8. But insisting in the face of the evidence that LLMs are useless and that everyone who says otherwise is a dead-eyed cultist - well, it _absolutely_ does provide evidence of who is clinging to a cult's organizing prophecies after the eschaton was supposed to happen but didn't, and who is not.

Me: The president started an illegal foreign war that's killing American servicemembers after starting an illegal domestic war that killed innocent Americans. I have no reason to smile. Tiny Desk: I got u fam youtu.be/5AVYDHTOixU?...

This is actually how I expect the DOD-Anthropic standoff to end: with some unfavorable court rulings against the government and then a quiet retreat some months down the line.

About every 57k miles driven by Musk’s robotaxis one gets into a wreck. That’s four times the rate of humans.

Dog in the sun, Dawgs on the TV - Find your joy where you can in these dark times.

Always find the silver lining - took the train back to downtown Oakland, and I'm visiting an old favorite for the first time in a while before catching the nearby ferry from Jack London once I've had my crab cake benedict.

The train barked "FAILURE" for 10 minutes as we sat on the platform. Then, they had us leave the platform and the station. Uber is surging near $100 a trip. I'm on the streets of West Oakland in a suit, missing our Future of Health Care event. Great way to convince us to raise taxes for BART.

BART just shut down at West Oakland, they have lost all communication through the SF corridor to 24th and Mission so no trains are going to the city for morning rush hour. They just forced my entire train out to the platform and are sending our train back to Antioch. What a cluster.

Proof that you'll never go broke betting against Elon Musk to do what he says he's going to do when he says he's going to do it. www.wsj.com/finance/inve...

It Only Tuesday https://theonion.com/it-only-tuesday-1819569397/

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The technical term for this is “tantrum”.

Would be nice if people stopped restating the false claim that Waymos have live humans driving them. That was based on a misleading Futurism headline that was debunked in its own article. There is way too much hype about AI tech but it does no good to misrepresent the state of things the other way.

The sneaky contender for best breakfast sandwich (or just sandwich period) is the chilaquiles torta at Molcajete.

Anthropic is now worth more than Salesforce and Uber ... COMBINED. And its still No. 2 in valuation for San Francisco AI startups ... www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco...

A correction request on a story Nicole didn't write opened up a mystery of strange bylines and oddly-written stories. aftermath.site/nicole-carpent...

I think people outside of tech don't understand that the workers who have been cut are disproportionately from underrepresented and marginalized groups, are those doing "soft" (more human) roles like design, HR (especially inclusion), and product work, and were often quiet targeting of advocates.

It's been a heck of a week full of Super Bowl events for work, but now the fun starts - me and three 10-year-old boys tearing up the Super Bowl Experience in downtown SF. Wish me luck!

Everybody thought the Hawks were trying to put Trae Young and Anthony Davis together, when it was really the Wizards the entire time. Scooby-Doo ass trade deadline

For years, newspaper journalists would beg for tech billionaires to step in and buy their publications. Jeff Bezos is proving that is not a cure for what ails legacy news orgs.

By the way: anyone hear about the AMD deal or Broadcom deal? Or the SK Hynix and Samsung deals? No? Nobody changed guidance at all? Almost like nothing ever actually occurred? www.wheresyoured.at/the-enshitti....

As Propublica’s editors note, “the policy of shielding officers' identities, particularly after a public shooting, is a stark departure from standard law enforcement protocols. “Such secrecy, in our view, deprives the public of the most fundamental tool for accountability.”

It's hard to overstate how ell-organized the portland march that got gassed was... organizers made the crowd promise to be peaceful, said the march would slow in front of the ICE building but not stop, that we would stick to one chant (ICE Out). They did absolutely everything right and got gassed.

Video thread. Snoooow day edition. ❄️

Sources: Nvidia's plan to invest up to $100B in OpenAI has stalled after some inside Nvidia expressed doubts about the deal (Wall Street Journal) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

Somebody has been decorating my bus stop (I swear it wasn't me)

This was always the plan since the Twitter acquisition - wrap it with SoaceX and other businesses and make the debt more palatable.

Elon Musk says a lot of untrue things, but this is probably true and it will have a huge effect locally - Tesla plans to stop making the Models S and X in Fremont and instead focus on Optimus robots. www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco...

Musk announces the end of the Model S and Model X programs, which were down nearly 50% last year. We expect to wind down production of S and X next quarter, he says. Like every other bizarre Tesla decision, this is justified by Tesla's broader pivot away from cars and toward AI and robotics.

Just to put some numbers to what Zuck is doing after admitting he burned billions like Heath Ledger's Joker in the metaverse effort: Facebook more than doubled its spending on capital expenditures last year, to $72B+. He wants to roughly double it again, to $115B-$135B. ~$200B on another fantasy.

Mark Zuckerberg's metaverse effort lost more than $19 billion last year on revenue of $2.2 billion. Yet investors are still pouring money into Facebook as Zuck spends billions on AI infrastructure with no idea if he will make any money from it. History repeating itself ...

The Timberwolves-Warriors game in Minneapolis has been postponed by the NBA, sources tell ESPN, in wake of a man shot and killed Saturday in a confrontation with federal agents in the city. It's the second shooting there in a week, third this month, involving a federal officer.