Earlier this week, I watched Sam Altman join Steve Kerr for a conversation about "innovation, leadership, and San Francisco," here's what they said (plus some stray thoughts on SF in the third tech boom) defector.com/an-evening-w...

I'm the last reporter regularly reviewing Council agendas. With a Council committed to avoiding public scrutiny & participation, this is more important than ever, there's never been a more crucial time to support independent journalism, & Oakland Observer.

This is what the police are actually for

Rufus Wainwright singing the national anthem might be the best surprise of the World Series 🇨🇦⭐️❤️

Our annual contests close Saturday......... fc2.org/prizes You know what to do!

10am sharp, episode 378: -Blues Lawyer -Whitney’s Playland -Big Top (Portland) -Crop Top -Otoliths -Liana Warren bff.fm/shows/i-luv-...

NEW: Eric Adams will pack the Rent Guidelines Board with at least 6 new members in an attempt to block Zohran Mamdani's plan to pause rent increases for regulated apartments, the New York Post reports.

I am glad "enshittification" is common parlance now although it is now pretty clear it is synonymous with "capitalism".

Stoked to read at Page Street tonight-- it's sold out but apparently the waitlist works, and ofc you can also show up and try to get in: www.eventbrite.com/e/booksmart-...

Are you enough of a GRINDSET ALPHA to become a SERF?! 💪💪💪💪

I'm gonna be interviewed on the radio THIS FRIDAY 10/24 from 1pm-3pm PST to discuss my new album WAXWORLD, play songs from the album, and play other songs that I like!!! Streaming link below ↓↓↓

Putting this out there: I would love to do more literary events over the next year or so! I’m based in the SF Bay Area, but can Zoom in for remote events. 🧵 for the types of events I’m open to…

Don't F with Kenny, I mean it

Moments away, I Luv Mondays #377: -Free Key Choir -Joel Cusumano -The Goods -Big Top (Portland) -The Telephone Numbers together, on @bff.fm bff.fm/shows/i-luv-...

Bay Beats, through the San Francisco Public Library, has graciously decided to accept three of our releases over their past three entry periods. Their new selections are up as of today. This is what music sounds like in a place with weed supermarkets. baybeats.sfpl.org

Bay Area! Join us and @litquake.org TOMORROW 10/17 @ 6:30 pm at CounterPulse for a listening party debuting 3 audio lit in translation adaptations.This guided event features Camilo Garzón, Noelle de la Paz, Monica Cure, and Amanda Nazareno. RSVP: www.catranslation.org/event/litqua...

This week my newsletter is a response to @davekarpf.bsky.social's "It's Giving Enron," which I think is a helpful narrative but not sufficient to explain the the current state of the industry www.leahreich.com/you-are-inve...

Happy publication day to TRYING TO BE, our 2024 Doctorow Prize winner by John Haskell. This book blurs the line between criticism & confession, art history & personal inventory ~ Get your copy: www.uapress.ua.edu/978157366214...

The last good app was shazam

my latest investigation for @consumerreports.org is based on months of reporting and 60+ lab tests of leading protein supplements we found that most protein powders and shakes have more lead in one serving than our experts say is safe to have in a day (🧵) www.consumerreports.org/lead/protein...

"the solution is still the one that can succeed: to build a new cultural order, a new civilization. To do so, academics must embrace an unusual new role: as knowledge workers, they must seize the means of knowledge production." www.publicbooks.org/academics-mu...

punitive policies had literally nothing to do with homelessness rates declining, if anything it's the exact opposite ccpulse.org/2025/08/29/h...

10am sharp: --The Telephone Numbers --Galore --Preschool --Chime School --Tony Molina --Lothario (Melbourne) and more, it's the Hits of the Bay, every Monday morning on @bff.fm bff.fm/shows/i-luv-...

Works out to roughly $19,656 USD per enrolled musician at a cost of about $7.43 per Irish citizen. In contrast, the US Govt spends only about 59 cents per citizen on the entire national endowment for the arts (across all artistic disciplines).

New Telephone Numbers out today on Slumberland! thetelephonenumbers.bandcamp.com/album/scarec...

Evictions in DC hit record levels last year, with 1,869 households removed from their homes. We don't have final numbers for this year yet but avg. monthly evictions are the highest they’ve been in six years. New investigation from @51st.news @streetsensedc.bsky.social 51st.news/record-evict...

“The Unity Council has proposed a project with 94 affordable apartments at 111 Fairmount Ave., documents show. Work on the project would require the demolition of some parts of the property yet leave other portions of First Christian Church intact.” #Oakland #housing

Come hang out-- I'll be volunteering at Chris Kraus in Oakland this Friday; Brandon Taylor in Berkeley next Tues; Short Stories at Clio's next Weds; and Alta Journal at the Verdi Club on Weds 10/22 I'm reading Monday 10/20 at Page Street-- the theme is "Stories about the Books that have changed Us"

Welcome to the capitalist innovation museum we got - scam machine - psychosis inducing machine - weapons of mass destruction - button you push that makes the planet hotter - markets that intentionally starve people - clothes that fall apart after washing them 1 time - medicine you can’t afford

NEW: @hospitalityhousesf.bsky.social has purchased 1009 Market St., the building housing its fine art studio. In a time of economic insecurity, a rise in anti-homelessness sentiment, and an affordability crisis, this acquisition is a rare win for low-income artists in San Francisco

I am. It is divine.

Sent off the first batch of Alas, So Long CDs and had to add something suitably historical in with them. We've still some in stock if you fancy our CD of music inspired the 19th century & a letter inspired by the 18th Century!

I wrote about Bari Weiss as the grim future of mainstream media under billionaire control: defector.com/bari-weiss-s...

10am sharp, on @bff.fm : --Mox --Sachi's Mirror --Pocket Full of Crumbs --Spa --Joel Cusumano --Whitney's Playland bff.fm/shows/i-luv-...

This worksheet includes content adapted from our Mapping Community Ecosystems of Collective Care toolkit, and also incorporates lessons and ideas from activists and organizers from around the country, including LA and DC. You can check out the toolkit on our website here:

Exclusive: Bay Area university to open $240 million downtown Oakland campus. Here’s a look inside— Samuel Merritt University will bring 2,000 in-person Oakland students and hundreds of faculty and staff to a massive building… www.sfchronicle.com/eastbay/arti... Roland Li @sfchronicle.com

Leave it to Back to the Future II (1989) to actually nail Trump and inequality politics?

Can confirm this is Craven-proof.

Now reading:

“The anthology’s profit is a kind of surplus literariness, an investment in the public literary good. But where does this metaphorical profit flow?” I absolutely adore this essay from @nicksturm.bsky.social

Film, drunkenness, rain, and books are coming! Oakland Review of Books calendar of (not just) literary events, September 30 - October 5: www.oaklandreviewofbooks.org/oakland-revi...

Too often, we talk about homelessness as if it's natural or inevitable. The truth is that it's a political choice. When then-Gov. Cuomo cut the Advantage program rather than tax his wealthy donors, his decision sent thousands of New York families into shelters.

How many colons should I put in this sentence?

10am on @bff.fm: --Ayodele Nzinga --Wife --Credit Electric --Agnes Martian --Jas Stade --Brown Dog bff.fm/shows/i-luv-...

This is kinda incredible that renters from multiple units in a realtor's portfolio are organizing for tenants' rights.

This is fucking horrifying.