Oh, you’re *so* close, bro...

‘This is really serious shit’: OpenAI policy czar thinks ‘doomers’ are playing with fire OpenAI’s global policy chief Chris Lehane sounds off on the AI backlash.

I talked with OpenAI policy chief Chris Lehane about the violence last week and his plan to make you stop hating AI sfstandard.com/2026/04/15/o...

The week the AI backlash turned violent:

sfstandard.com/2026/04/11/a...

sometimes i forget that i do too… lets get coffee!

endorse!!!!

My first story for @sfstandard.com, out today, is a SCOOP about a One Medical doctor who claims in a new lawsuit that the Amazon-owned primary care clinic illegally fired her for raising concerns about patient safety and harassment: sfstandard.com/2026/04/09/a...

This is so bad. The AP was the safety net left after basically every newspaper that wasn’t The New York Times shuttered their bureaus.

Staff Editor WIRED is where a better future is imagined. For three decades, we have been the indispensable guide to a world in constant transformation. We cover humanity’s biggest challenges, from climate change t...

WIRED is doing more hiring! Come be a staff editor and work across our newsroom and with our international editions. Great, dynamic gig, moving quickly so don’t hold off on applying:

Technology Reporter at The San Francisco Standard The San Francisco Standard is the Bay Area’s fastest growing source for news and information.

If you think my new job is cool (and it is) and you think local news is so hot right now (and it is) you can actually apply to come work with me! jobs.sfstandard.com/p/73543436bf...

this is what i'm saying

Thrilled to be joining @kevindelaney.bsky.social @jonsteinberg31.bsky.social @emilydreyfuss.bsky.social @suze.bsky.social and the rest of the team for my first ever job at a West Coast media company!

Exciting job news! I'm hella stoked to be part of what the
@sfstandard.com
is building, to help strengthen the local news ecosystem, and to have a broader remit to cover this baffling era of Silicon Valley!

It's true! This is me and my real face!

Marc Benioff 'Jokes' ICE Is Watching Salesforce Employees Who Traveled to the U.S. "Employees are going absolutely apeshit in internal Slack about how completely awful it was."

New: marc benioff told international employees who traveled to a major salesforce meeting in Vegas that ICE is watching them. Cool joke.

"employees are going absolutely apeshit about how completely awful it was"

Read the Slacks:

www.404media.co/marc-benioff...

Slack messages: some staffers complained about Marc Benioff making jokes about ICE at a Salesforce event, including about ICE surveilling employee travel (Ashley Stewart/Business Insider)

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wait wait wait ...

TUMBLR.

THE PORN BAN GUY FROM TUMBLR IS GOING TO RUN THE WASHINGTON POST.

Look I've been pushing back on the idea that Bezos is intentionally sabotaging the paper but COME ON this is a man who thought he could just take the boobs and dicks off of *Tumblr.*

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'Man down:' Watch Amazon delivery drone crash in North Texas An unexpected collision cut the "life" of an Amazon delivery drone short earlier this week. See the clip.

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halfsies?

sir will lewis welcome to the resistance

i am … guess i need to change my bio tho huh

Great piece. Important reporting. Gift link: wapo.st/4kpCBGc

It’s actually pretty easy to beat Isaac Chotiner if you know what to do (wait until he completes his third attack sequence, roll behind him, use Flame Dart until you’re out of mana, hide under the gargoyle head until his Rage Wing Spin finishes, stun him with a Sylvan Dagger, equip the Thallslayer w

Inside Musk’s bet to hook users that turned Grok into a porn generator Under pressure to boost its popularity, Elon Musk’s xAI loosened guardrails and relaxed controls on sexual content, setting off internal concern.

Exclusive: To increase Grok’s popularity, xAI embraced making sexualized material, rolling back guardrails and ignoring internal warnings about the risks of producing such content, according to more than a half-dozen former employees of X and xAI.

liked from my iphone 13 mini

a microgrid of one's own

pitchbot: golf should be illegal

I got a surprise bag from Whole Foods for $6.99 and it’s all great except for … well, you guess

Why We’re All Trading Happy Hours for the Bathhouse The sauna industry is hot and only getting hotter — but the boom reveals more about happiness than it does about health.

lot going on atm but i have to say — insane to write this entire article and not call these people by their true title: sauntrepreneurs

www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

the r/nursing subreddit altered its profile picture to feature Alex Pretti, seen in scrubs by an american flag.