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Look, if she doesn't want to leave, we can't force her to go. sfstandard.com/2025/09/30/e...

We asked SF high school students how they felt about phone bans in schools and it turns out...THEY LOVE THEM sfstandard.com/2025/10/01/p...

"While ChatGPT use has been linked to suicides and mental-health hospitalizations among heavy users, this appears to be the first documented murder involving a troubled person who had been engaging extensively with an AI chatbot."

WSJ: ChatGPT fueled a 56-year-old tech industry veteran’s paranoia, encouraging his suspicions that his mother was plotting against him.... On Aug. 5, Greenwich police discovered that Soelberg killed his mother and himself in the $2.7 million Dutch colonial-style home where they lived together.

Last night at 9pm my son ran in and announced, "There's a weird lady outside!" I hadn't heard a knock or anything so thought he pranking me. Then I found the front door slightly open. I opened it further and bam, there was a woman standing right there, preparing to knock. I screamed. In her face.

My video about how LLMs are not search engines has led to many, MANY comments telling me that I should be using Perplexity. Some insisting that Perplexity does not hallucinate. Out of a list of 26 papers it just provided me (in "Research" mode) 4 were real. FOUR. 85% hallucination rate.

🐜 🐜 🐜 New from @knibbs.bsky.social: "Inside the world of illicit wildlife trafficking, there’s a growing assumption that nobody in government is paying attention." www.wired.com/story/usda-a...

and now you can’t even back up your own data, which we own

Browsing beauty supplies at the mall: 9yo: Wow, this is so RACIST! Me: What is? 9yo: It says, DESTROYS BLACKHEADS!

All us ADHD kids would win in this type of college class

Neil Young is done with Facebook.

*whispers* He's not going to bargain Alaska away to Putin, right? Right?

Police are requesting the public’s help locating an 11-year-old boy from San Jose who has been missing since Monday. He was last known to be heading to San Francisco on public transportation.

After asking ChatGPT what to eat instead of salt, a man slowly poisoned himself over course of 3 months and gave himself a psychiatric illness that was common in the 19th century, according to a new medical case study: www.404media.co/guy-gives-hi...

once i was walking past a beautiful row of houses in sf and i smelled the overwhelming aroma of opium. i told my husband, "there's a ton of opium in one of those houses." he was like, nah, you can't possibly smell that. a week later the cops announced they seized a bunch of opium from that street!

A new era of dumbness is upon us, where all knowledge and critical thinking is happily offloaded to a machine and our lumpy brains are left to....what? Seek dopamine hits and quietly atrophy.

overheard the 9yo explaining to his friends why he has parental controls on roblox (they don't): my mom is a journalist and reads all these bad stories about bad adults on the internet so she's overprotective

I was struck on a recent trip to Budapest by signs in restaurant and store windows saying Bathroom Available for Use. Such a cultural change from here, where you can't use the bathroom anywhere unless you are a customer. Not excusing this man at all, but I do think the bigger problem is access.

Silicon Valley for years has been shocked, SHOCKED at the suggestion that their devices are listening to us. Now they just brag about it. (via @hypervisible.bsky.social )

Today in luxury surveillance.

Damning @nytimes.com reporting on Uber sweeping sexual assault under the rug. “Our purpose/goal is not to be the police,” stated a 2021 brainstorming document about Uber’s global safety standards. “Our bar is much lower and our goal is to protect the company... " www.nytimes.com/2025/08/06/b...

i was out to drinks with one of the reporters of this story, just catching up and shit-talking, when suddenly she remembered to tell me she was recording everything sfstandard.com/2025/08/05/a...

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San Francisco has been a transit/feet/bikes kind of city since cable cars ruled the Earth. But now transit use is down while car use is back to pre-2020 levels. It's not inevitable, but when cars get dominant in a city, they tend to stay dominant—a vroom loop. sfstandard.com/2025/07/26/s...

My early draft had it down low as a sort of punchline, and the always perspicacious @emilydreyfuss.bsky.social said, um, buddy, why’s your thesis all the way down here?

do art, do crime open.spotify.com/track/3NCwcU...

a brilliant and shy hermit i know worked on this album in secret for a year. every song is a banger open.spotify.com/album/7nJfFy...

Meanwhile, in San Francisco, people are reportedly getting pepper-sprayed over Labubu dolls sfstandard.com/2025/06/11/l...

Oops, I accidentally became an extra in Olivia Wilde's new movie staring Seth Rogan today. If you rode BART, you might have, too. sfstandard.com/2025/05/20/o...

3/ We scraped every malpractice, personal injury, and wrongful death case tied to Steward hospitals in the nine states where they operated. We found 469 cases involving 83 patient deaths. The chain's bankruptcy means many of these patients can't pursue justice bit.ly/455xC7O

my 9 year old and his friends talk about elon musk nonstop like he's the main character in a comic book

i fixed my gmail by setting up a filter that skips the inbox for anything containing the word "unsubscribe" but then i felt bad to be missing everyone's substacks so i turned it off and now my email is trash again and my primary folder is all spam can we end email in 2025 please please please

he's a 10 but he thinks peter thiel raises some good points

Just stunned by this story - the reality of it and the reporting that went into it www.propublica.org/article/thom...

5yo this morning: "Wait, it's a school day? But I just had a WEEK of school days LAST week! And all we do all day is work work work except for lunch!"

I got to visit the world's first library of books written entirely by children, and it was so inspiring. For kids in SF, it's a place they can go read books written by their peers, and just hang out, almost like a kids headquarters.

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