Deputy editor @CalMatters. Formerly of SF Weekly, SF Business Times. “Life’s interesting.” - Gavin Newsom
San Francisco, California
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My bank just asked me what year I started my accounts with them as an identity verification question. Does anyone retain that information in their head? Do any of you know, off the dome, what year you opened your checking account with a particular bank? What an insane ask
My lawyer wants me to pay him through Zelle and I have been on the phone for 45 minutes with my bank trying to authorize one transaction in case anyone at Zelle wants to know why everyone I know wants to use Venmo instead
The YouTuber doesn’t trash it at all, what are you talking about? She makes it very clear the ways in which Disney failed the team and the concept
Am discovering, via You Can See Everything discourse, that many people do not understand what is or is not ethical and many more don’t care
Almost done with my first bell hooks book (All About Love) and have found it quite insightful. Mostly affirming, I suppose, to find that my own discoveries and thoughts about love align with someone smarter than me
Richard Procter retweeted
there's a part of Moby Dick where they hunt and kill a North Atlantic Right Whale not even for oil but to use its severed head to counterweight a sperm whale head hanging off the ship.
there's like less than 500 right whales left in the wild today. almost gone forever.
Seems like “performative” is headed the route of “genuinely” and “lowkey” where the original sense of the word is lost and it is solely used as an interchangeable intensifier. 😔
This is the kind of thing that makes me happy about the internet and then like 10 hours later something like this has a community note saying it’s fake or something. I hope the 500 year old butt jingle is true.
Someone pulled the fire alarm at the kabuki like 2 hr 40 min into the Elizabeth Holmes Nathan fielder thing
The most damning thing I can say about sports pregame shows is that I thought they were great as an 11 year old
I got a lightbar thing that dramatically improves the lighting in my living room. I have to turn it on with an all, tho. The app has ads. I know that advertising seeks to invade every nook and cranny of our lives, but must we? Is nothing sacred?
Also when I was a child, you could pump your gas in peace. Now they play an ad at you while you pump your gas. They make you watch an ad in the Lyft app while you wait to get a driver!