There’s a drone high and to the right of Sutro tower, just parked there. Watching… what? It’s too small to be a helicopter, and how often do you actually see those truly hover, fixed XYZ, more nor than a few moments? But it’s also much larger than the little bird I got for a present a while back. If it weren’t, I wouldn’t be able to see it from this distance.

I’m on a bus reading “Accelerando” on a cheap Chinese ereader hacked with open source firmware. Siri in my ears periodically interrupts with a spoken summary of a Slack message from the company lawyer and I shake my head to dismiss it; I’ll be at the office soon anyway. The two guys in Patagonia vests next to me are one-upping each other with AI opinions that aren’t quite based in reality.

Just a regular commute in the Bay Area.

I’ve found the den.

SFO now lets you walk loved ones to the gate without a plane ticket

San Francisco International Airport is now allowing approved visitors without plane tickets to go past security, bringing back a once familiar airport ritual: walking loved ones to the gate and meeting them when they arrive.

This would (almost) win me back from OAK. That’s a brilliant perk.

There are entirely too many Yankees hats on BART today. Have these people no shame? No soul?

I saw Frank Chu carrying his sign in Oakland’s Chinatown! This is gonna be a great weekend!

After being hit by a car, she was saved by a lavender bunny : NPR

Just then, a young man approached her. He was wearing a furry lavender bunny suit and riding an electric unicycle.

“Are you OK? Can I help you?” she recalled the young man asking.

“Stunned by the impact, I thought to myself, ‘Wow, when you die in San Francisco, you’re greeted by a spirit animal,’” Moschella said.

This is my favorite place on earth.

When I say there are a lot of self-driving Waymo cars near my work…

With the sun behind me at sunset and reflecting off the buildings, and a perfectly clear pink sky behind them, the San Francisco skyline almost looked like a render.

San Francisco at night from the Alcatraz ferry.