Culture/tech reporter @sfstandard | SF life | 🇬🇧➡🇺🇸 | Author "Killer Looks: The History of Plastic Surgery In Prisons." zstone@sfstandard.com
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5 Jun 2024
exciting update: I'm the new culture reporter for @sfstandard ! fun things in store 😀 Will be covering Bay Area life, biz, tech people.
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Jun 11
dating in sf is wild, one evening you’re grabbing drinks with a billionaire, next you split the bill with a dude who lives in a van.
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Jun 11
Literally no one is surprised.
Jun 9
I just launched a longevity Rx platform. Prescriptions I personally use are there.
v1 is live now.
Includes access to:
Tadalafil (Cialis)
Metformin
Oral Minoxidil
Tretinoin
Estradiol
Acarbose
We’re working with licensed doctors and pharmacies to make these medications accessible. Lots more in v2 coming next week.
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Jun 7
Five years ago, it was rare for escorts to charge more than $1K per hour. Now, a handful of women charge much, much more: $3k, $5k an hour. $23k a day. $30k a weekend.
Inside the shifting economics of intimacy in Silicon Valley:
forbes.com/sites/annatong/20…
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Jun 7
$220K to work on AI research for 3 months. No PhD. Any background. Most people don't know this exists.
Perplexity (@perplexity_ai) just opened their Research Residency:
- 3 months, full-time in SF or Palo Alto
- $220K annualized
- Open to any quantitative discipline
- No PhD or ML background required
- Visa sponsorship available
If you've got serious analytical chops and you've been watching AI from the outside, this is how you get in.
Rolling applications, limited seats.
→ perplexity.ai/hub/ai-researc…
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Jun 2
saw a NY tech week event that's literally
"make the most free throws and win a Rolex" LOL
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May 29
Love love love
May 28
i mounted a tiny microphone on my apartment balcony to listen for any birds passing by and built a site to collage them as they're heard
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May 29
perpetually shocked by how many people bomb the "tell me about a mistake you've made" question
being able to talk candidly about your mistakes/failures without sugarcoating is a superpower (and a huge green flag re: your growth trajectory!)
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May 29
Peptide startup gold rush continues as more & more vcs ok with publicly backing gray market.
May 28
FEEL PEPTIDES RAISES $3M SEED
Feel Peptides closed a $3M seed round led by Sugar Capital.
Most of the consumer peptide market still runs through compounding pharmacies, gray market online sellers, and wellness clinics with minimal transparency on sourcing or purity.
Feel is the brand layer when the FDA clarifies its restrictions on popular peptides, a regulatory reset that's been building since 2023 and has more political tailwind now.
Sugar Capital backed Grüns, sold to Unilever for $1.2B less than three years after launch.
Another peptide startup Protocole just raised a $6M seed led by Rare Capital last month.
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May 25
interesting to see the ~390 fb/ig ads for their peptides supplements from Enhanced post-Games
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May 26
Scoop: Michael Preysman, founder of Everlane, is starting something new in reaction to the company's sale to Shein last week. The landing page: Stillradical.com
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May 21
I like this approach.
May 20
Everyone's trying to fix sleep.
But insomnia isn't the problem. It's the bill.
Burnout, anxiety, panic - they all start the same way: you stop hearing yourself.
Today we're launching Aora. The first device that hears it for you.
@AoraBCI
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May 19
Personal update: I've joined Anthropic. I think the next few years at the frontier of LLMs will be especially formative. I am very excited to join the team here and get back to R&D. I remain deeply passionate about education and plan to resume my work on it in time.
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May 18
Psychedelic pharma booths have arrived!
May 18
Psychedelic drug developers Compass Pathways and Definium Therapeutics at the American Psychiatric Association’s Annual Meeting in San Francisco.
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May 13
Must be good lighting today as Waymo support just called to check I was 18
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Apr 28
K, who would read a deep dive into why dudes really REALLY want laundry folding robots, whereas women want ones that can unload dishwashers?
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Apr 28
At a AI powered Chinese home tech event all promo videos feel AI generated. They probably aren’t . But the line been reality and renders is getting blurrier.
Also, do we need a voice activated washing machine?
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