Back in the south for 12 hours before making it to my happy place on this trip ...

Favorite random reddit comment of the day: "Truly wild how Covid broke so many rich people's brains, while we were all like, 'Well, guess I'll get into puzzles.'"

To everyone who has been following our puppy fostering adventure, these puppies are now officially up for adoption! If you live in the Bay Area and want to adopt some of the cutest, friendliest, lovely dogs around, now's your chance. Links in the thread 🧵 below to each pup's page!

I lived and worked in SF for over a decade, in media and in the labor movement, and never heard a single person refer to Nancy Pelosi as “mom” wtaf

BillionToOne stands out among biotech IPOs — first, the diagnostic test company has revenue; second, first-day trading popped www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco...

Definitely not going to excuse Waymo on this one, but for perspective: at least 50 precious human lives that we know of have been ended by Tesla's Autopilot/FSD. Sad as it is, a dead cat is a long, long way from the biggest scandal in this technology.

Called before a single vote was cast.

Nikola Jokic messes up Domantas Sabonis' hair with the laser assist to Gordon

...and less than 24 hours later Condé Nast has fired Lex and the rest of the Teen Vogue political desk, even as stories like this were bringing huge numbers of readers to the site

Photos from the 30th annual Dia de los Muertos Festival in Oakland, Calif., on Sunday, Nov. 2, 2025. #diadelosmuertos #dayofthedead #photography #photojournalism

I’ve joked before that Rationalism is to Silicon Valley as Scientology is to Hollywood. And that’s… not a joke, actually. The rationalist community is very influential and more than a little cult like. Eliezer Yudkowsky is the L. Ron Hubbard of rationalism. This book is his Battlefield Earth

Why are we allowing Elon Musk to turn his cars into death missiles with guinea pigs at the wheel?

Apparently, congressional Republicans have gotten tired of *not doing anything*, so now they're moving on to *undoing things that got done years ago*

What we're witnessing with #Melissa is ultra rare in the history of known hurricanes in the Atlantic. This level of sustained intensity and feasting on every joule of ocean heat content without any real disruption is incredible. Not hyperbole: Jamaica is facing a generational catastrophic event.

There's been endless talk about an AI bubble, but less about exactly how, why, and how much it's a bubble. So I turned to the framework put forward by scholars Brent Goldfarb and David A. Kirsch, authors of "Bubbles and Crashes," for assessing tech bubbles. Spoiler: On a scale of 1 to 8, AI is an 8

The moment when flash bangs were used at the Alameda Coast Guard Island protest this morning, from a friend who was there.

Put everything you got on the Mariners right now, Maple Leafs curse in effect.

Come for the cover of a @missmargoprice.bsky.social song at the #NoKings protest in Alameda, stick around for the special guest in the crowd shot.

Somebody got on a plane back to Hawaii and decided he no longer wanted the smoke.

RIP to D'Angelo - those three albums will be banging in the Alameda bureau of the San Francisco Business Times today. www.mercurynews.com/2025/10/14/d...

Locking in for oral arguments on the big voting rights case at the Supreme Court. The next two hours or so will be... incredibly bad.

Here is the gigantic structure Marc Benioff built in the middle of downtown San Francisco for his big, private party this week. Bunch of rich white folks were chilling on couches here when I got off the bus this morning. Look like a town that needs a military intervention to you?

A thing I have learned from being online since 1995: If you're a writer, editor, journalist, academic, you have to be ready to go contrarian when you feel it. And if you're feeling it all the time, such that it's become your idenitity, that's a signal. You broke your mind.

Elon talked a lot of trash about the Bay Area while moving Tesla and Twitter to Texas, but as always, don't trust what that man says. Neuralink now has a big new building in South City: www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco... And xAI is looking for Bay Area offices: www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco...

Bay Area startups collected roughly two-thirds of worldwide VC investment in AI last quarter - nearly $30 billion flowing into our region in just three months. www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco...

The next season of Reachers is going to be him in the UK hunting down the dude who made this list.

I don't know how anyone still takes this company seriously.

California's governor says Hollywood-Burbank airport has no air traffic controllers this evening due to the federal government shutdown. www.cbsnews.com/losangeles/ne...

Levine is funny. 😏 @matt-levine.bsky.social @opinion.bloomberg.com $AMD www.bloomberg.com/opinion/news...

Gov. Newsom today signed a bill that will let the state's Uber and Lyft drivers unionize. Here's my recent story about it: calmatters.org/economy/2025...

For my first cover story at the SFBT, Databricks gave me a gift: A statement on their IPO. The pre-IPO statement is a whole thing for IPO nerds, and this one is a classic of the genre - We're ready, but we will go when we want to. Here's the story: www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco...

UC Berkeley spinout Ansa Biotechnologies raises $54 million, talks about a biomanufacturing revolution - San Francisco Business Times www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco...

This song is just not going to leave my head all day.

Wet Leg scorched the walls at the Fox in Oakland last night - if you have the chance to see their second show tonight, definitely take it.

A little update on this crazy story - one of our friends at the Austin Business Journal went to the only Austin address we had for Ethos that may have been an actual office today. It was shut down for renovations, and had been for a while.

The battle between Austin and San Francisco for startups has its avatar: Ethos, which insists to potential employees and IPO investors it is based in San Francisco, but tells regulators and the press it is headquartered in the Texas capital. www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco...

Once again, the Super Bowl comes to the Bay Area, and once again the halftime act has absolutely nothing to do with the Bay Area. For a region with such a storied music scene and a stocked lineup of potential acts, this should be an insult to more than just the members of Metallica.

Didn't even have to look to know the Grand Lake would be there - nice to see the New Parkway too tho. Oakland is the only city besides Los Angeles to get two theaters on the list.

We've been going through by hand to find the Starbucks locations that are closing in the Bay Area - I passed off duties after we found 7 in SF, 3 in Oakland, 1 each in Berkeley and Emeryville and 0 in Alameda. The list has grown from there and will continue to: www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco...

1/ I’m Till Eckert, a ProPublica reporter. For the past 2 weeks, I’ve been going to the same NY immigration courthouse. Nearly every time, I see ICE agents arresting immigrants. Today, a woman was slammed to the ground after begging officials not to take her husband away. Thread 👇

Great to have Mayor Daniel Lurie at our San Francisco Structures event this morning.

This article has 4 reporters on the byline and I'm sure just as many if not more editors had their hands in it. They should all be gravely embarrassed and consider deeply rethinking their news judgment.

The final out 🏆 Holy Toledo, what a night!

OAKLAND WE DID IT!!!! 🏆

San Francisco 49ers kicker Eddy Pineiro (18) reacts after accidentally hitting me with his helmet. It was my fault. I got too close. But he was so nice and apologized.

NEW: This is a story I worked really hard on. I spoke to four American trans people about why they're claiming asylum in Canada or the Netherlands. It's an eye-opening window into just how unsafe people now feel here — and what drove them to that point. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

Schizophrenia-focused MapLight Therapeutics seeks IPO amid biotech industry slump - San Francisco Business Times www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco...

turns out Tesla's Austin "robotaxis" have crashed three times already, apparently within the first ~7,000 miles of operation! two appear to be the Tesla getting hit, but one was clearly the Tesla hitting a stationary object, resulting in minor injuries not great!! www.forbes.com/sites/bradte...

I'm at the S.F. Federal Reserve this morning, where I will interview President Mary Daly as part of a program on AI's effects on lower- and my middle-income workers. You can check out the livestream and send me questions here: www.frbsf.org/news-and-med...