Business
This is your bot on drugs
A hotline devoted to helping people navigate psychedelic trips has started training volunteers with an LLM that simulates being high
Fog City Flea closes up Mission shop after 9 months
The Mission outpost for crafts and apparel was ‘a great big test’ that didn’t pan out, owner tells vendors in email
Hundreds of ‘sex machines’ delivered across the street from Rainbow Grocery
We really hope the mailman dropped them off by saying, ‘I’m here to deliver a package…’
People are celebrating videos of Safeway security roughing up shoplifters
Thanks to Meta glasses, muscular loss prevention at some Bay Area supermarkets has gone viral
Can you actually buy a house with Anthropic stock? Probably not
‘You can’t just say, I’ll sell my house for a thousand almonds, or, in this case, a thousand shares of OpenAI or Anthropic’
Everybody’s confused about the smoking ban
A haze of conflicting information surrounds the D7 supervisor’s effort to snub out smoking on bar patios
Everlane owes back rent to another landlord
The clothing company will centralize its operations in LA, but the owners of its SF buildings still want to get paid
Reaper’s Remedies wants you to die slowly
While other wellness brands sell eternal life, this San Francisco-born vitamin company admits that you will definitely die some day
Everlane confirms it’s closing San Francisco HQ, but are not getting evicted
The brand assures that the exit from its SF offices was ‘not adversarial’
Is Uber responsible for its drivers’ behavior?
A San Francisco judge weighs whether or not the ride-hailing company is liable when drivers commit sexual assault
