Radar crashed Snowball's 15th birthday party today, and I cannot stress enough how much a random visit to Lucky 13 in Alameda can improve your worldview.

Excellent reporting by Jakob Rodgers at @eastbaytimes.com, comparing the ICE shooting of Renee Good to multiple police shootings of drivers in the Bay Area. One takeaway: most experts and police leaders say shooting into vehicles is really bad, against policy. www.eastbaytimes.com/2026/01/08/r...

It's a beautiful, clear winter morning in San Francisco - I'll never get tired of this view on my daily bus ride across the Bay Bridge.

Hard to pick what I love most about this Wired story on Craigslist, but I managed to get it down to two options. - This quote: “The real freaks come out on Craigslist. There's a purity to it.” - The only comment, as of now👇 www.wired.com/story/is-cra...

I cannot explain to a normal person just how appropriate it is that the Hawks traded the best player they'd drafted in decades at the absolute bottom of his value for virtually nothing after failing to win anything with him. This franchise is forever a joke.

Definitely a "hug your pups and pray for our country" kinda day. Luckily, Radar is always down for a cuddle.

Great day to have functioning eyes and a working brain

**Graphic Content Warning** This is a longer version of a video of the ICE shooting in Minneapolis. Wisely age-restricted, so you need to watch it on YouTube. Again, **graphic content warning**

As Grok becomes a child porn machine, Elon Musk has raised another $20 billion to fund its growth, with Nvidia and Cisco chipping in. techcrunch.com/2026/01/06/x...

John Fisher should just give the Athletics name and branding to Oakland for an expansion team, just like Art Modell did with the Browns and Cleveland. frontofficesports.com/why-the-as-h...

This list is 30% Bay Area companies

Great work from @caseynewton.bsky.social and an illuminating case study in how journalists authenticate allegations/sources in an age of generative AI www.platformer.news/fake-uber-ea...

This is Herschel. She spent 15 minutes at the gym before deciding to switch her New Year's resolution to self acceptance. 12/10 (IG: cfsbk)

The FIFA Peace Prize used to mean something

One thing I wrote about here is how technology has made buses *way* more convenient while techno-futurists were obsessed with flying taxis and self-driving cars.

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution’s final print edition is today. The 157-year-old newspaper, once the most important news outlet in the South with a massive circulation of 720,000 subscribers, is going all digital. Their article about it is paywalled, which seems like a missed opportunity.

Dec. 26: NYT reports that Peter Thiel is looking to leave California by the end of the year because of a Billionaire Tac proposal deadline. Dec. 31: Thiel Capital announces a new office in Miami. Hmmmmmm ... www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco...

Another great @jeffhorwitz.bsky.social investigation into Meta, this one about the company's secret playbook for deceiving and manipulating the regulators investigating its massive scam problem www.reuters.com/investigatio...

Fascinating story about the later years of the woman who tried to kill Gerald Ford at the St. Regis in San Francisco many decades ago.

The real puzzle is determining which words in that headline are nouns and which are verbs.

Late candidate for "Most 2025 Headline Phrase I've Seen" goes to "Labubu demand concerns." www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

The pop tart ass ain't even the star of this pic - it's this couple right here.

They Broke the SEC open.substack.com/pub/direport... This is a critical update from John Gavin. In particular he notes evolving language in FOIA responses that may signal intentional spreading of disinformation about SEC investigations. I look forward to the remaining entries in this series.

What if three ghosts visited you in the night and taught you to stop compulsively sharing Thomas Chatterton Williams pieces that aren't even interestingly bad

icymi last night waymo said it would be updating its robotaxi fleet (after blackout debacle & chaos gridlock in SF) www.cnbc.com/2025/12/23/w...

The San Francisco Giants bought one of the most historic theaters in the city, and now we know how much they paid for it - roughly half of Willy Adames' annual salary. www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco...

The Associated Press has an excellent story about how FCC boss Brendan Carr bullied a Bay Area AM radio station for the crime of reporting on local ICE activity. facing existential collapse it immediately demoted journalists end replaced political coverage with safe public interest cack:

"Government silence is a statement, not a VETO."

Go back to obsessing about baseball, stats nerds, I am begging you.

After resurrecting Arthur Andersen in his hometown of San Francisco, Mark Vorsatz has taken the company public. Wall Street seems to like Andersen Group - shares rose more than 45% in their debut. I talked to Vorsatz today about SF, Andersen Group and much more: www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco...

Updated with statement from Tesla pr firm& more details from the judge’s order adopted by CA DMV with modified penalty - www.cnbc.com/2025/12/16/c...

'We've really got an opportunity': How Aeovian Pharmaceuticals looks to use fresh $55M to change the course of epilepsy for patients living with TSC @buckinstitute.org www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco...

Great journalism, despicable company.

BREAKING Two people have been found dead at the home of director and actor Rob Reiner. The LA Fire Department said the ages of the two victims is 78 and 68 which matches the ages of Rob and his wife Michele. Full Story: bit.ly/497DhMd

Insane story about Jack Posobiec threatening a reporter over a Pentagon official's cuckolding books on Goodreads. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

One of Twitter's former lawyers is challenging X Corp. in court for the name and branding so he can restart the service. www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco...

Don't stop now Dawgs - step on their face with a hobnail boot! Smash their face!

If the USMNT manages to win its World Cup group, the knockout game would be in the Bay Area. And I would spend waaaaaaay too much to get in the door. www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco...

Different day, hearing a different mayor ...

Sent a text to some other parents last night that said "So Coleman is dead set on seeing Five Nights at Freddy's 2" and inviting them to send their kids along with us to the movies this weekend. Well, turns out one mom reads texts on her watch, which only shows the first four words ...

I stopped by an Oakland business I have loved for 15 years after our Oakland structures event and found it permanently closed. RIP, Kefa Coffee, your breakfast sandwiches will live on in my memory.

Mayor Barbara Lee reminded the crowd at our Oakland Structures event that she first rose to prominence as a small-business owner. "Oakland businesses believe in inclusive growth - not as a slogan but as a strategy."

An interview with rising Bay Area rap star, Michael Sneed – described by Alan Chazaro as "a hybrid cover band of A Tribe Called Quest, Bone Thugs-N-Harmony and The Fugees, performed on a slam poetry stage as a 20-something-year-old idealist." www.passionweiss.com/2025/12/02/m...

Hey EVERYONE who rides #bayarea #transit : you GOTTA read this 👇 for ME, it's GAME CHANGING!!

The Dunkyard Dawgs just beat an ACC team on the road by 30+ points. Get on the bandwagon now, may be full by March.

when someone tells me not to use em dashes because AI uses em dashes

Scoop: They tried to bury this news on Black Friday, but, well... Trump crypto partner Alt5 Sigma told the SEC its auditor quit in Nov. We called the auditor. He resigned in August. That's the second SEC filing with an apparent conflict that Alt5 Sigma has made in recent weeks. 1/

Highlight of the holiday: Getting a tattoo with my mom, sister and nephew - a first for all of them, and my first in literally half a lifetime. Verdict: You haven't truly lived till you've seen your 78-year-old mother get tattooed by a bald man in a leather kilt.