An independent journalist in San Francisco.
Joined June 2008
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29 Sep 2023
Today is my fourth anniversary at @TechCrunch — if it were a startup, I'd be fully vested
29 Sep 2023
TechCrunch Roundup: How to pitch 6 VCs, building AI moats, immigration law Q&A tcrn.ch/46vmE9e by @yourprotagonist
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30 Aug 2023
TechCrunch interview: ‘Palo Alto’ author Malcolm Harris tcrn.ch/3EpRT9r by @yourprotagonist
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4 Aug 2023
Deleting this app from my phone now because I don’t think there’s any ethical way to use it
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4 Aug 2023
Was enjoying a meal in a restaurant with a book until I realized some people a few tables over were watching a sitcom on their phone with a damn laugh track, WTAF
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3 Aug 2023
16 years ago, I created @music and have been running it ever since. Just now, Twitter / X just ripped it away.
Super pissed
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4 Aug 2023
Someone used CGI to add juggling balls to the ball less juggling scene from The Office.
This might be the best video on the internet
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4 Aug 2023
When Emma Thompson says to Alan Rickman, “You’ve made a fool of me” in LOVE ACTUALLY
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3 Aug 2023
Matt Damon is using his strike downtime to develop a script where he plays a cynical sportswriter who rediscovers his passion as he coaches a @LittleLeague team from Bhutan to Williamsport
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3 Aug 2023
reporters have HAD it with the nyt
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3 Aug 2023
It’s flattering to see @nytimes rewrite my feature on two Canadian men switched at birth. You can read the original, exclusively reported @globeandmail story I took months to research and write as a former freelancer here theglobeandmail.com/canada/a…
3 Aug 2023
Two Canadian men who were switched at birth to families of different ethnicities are now questioning who they really are and learning how racial heritage shapes identities.
nyti.ms/3qedVZp
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14 Apr 2023
Clayton near Market, 1917 & recently
This part of Clayton, when it was built, was an extension of Caselli Avenue. Hardly an avenue, it only carried the 18th & Park (now the 33) line streetcar, the second electric line in SF. #sfhistory
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3 Aug 2023
It is bizarre to me that the editorial desk at NYT seems insistent on pretending that no other sources of journalism exist and that sometimes they get a story before them
3 Aug 2023
Just a brief reminder that the @sfchronicle (aka me) wrote about Feinstein's daughter having power of attorney over her two weeks ago. "Katherine Feinstein — who has power of attorney in her mother’s legal matters..." sfchronicle.com/politics/art…
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3 Aug 2023
The Controller's Office released finalized figures for the 2023-25 San Francisco budget yesterday.
Explore the city’s spending, supervisorial addbacks, and revenue streams using our interactive charts.
missionlocal.org/2023/08/exp…
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2 Aug 2023
where we're at
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3 Aug 2023
There is a crew working on the sign at @X.
Notable that the sidewalk is not roped off while crews work above.
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1 Aug 2023
A lot of people I just made up say Trump can't win in 2024. You know what I tell those fake people? Trump can win. Trump can absolutely win.
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I've heard/read multiple anecdotes from Tesla and SpaceX employees who say those companies have firm systems in place to make sure none of Musk's decisions are enacted, and I 100% believe them.
31 Jul 2023
The new X tagline “blaze your glory” is seemingly something that Elon Musk completely made up without consulting anyone and is only meaningful to him, which is basically the same as all of his decisions
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31 Jul 2023
Not many scenes still make me laugh harder than Pee Wee constantly looking at the camera in the movie at the end of Big Adventure
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30 Jul 2023
A San Francisco building inspector was blocked twice from accessing the sign, which the city says violates building codes. trib.al/ORaVAl1
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