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Tennessee's elite #Vanderbilt University is taking over a #SanFrancisco art school campus and erecting a #WestCoast edu site to serve 1000 prospective students. The deal for the art school site apparently finishes off th…

Vanderbilt University to establish full-time academic campus in San Francisco
Vanderbilt University today announced plans to establish an academic campus in San Francisco beginning in 2027, subject to necessary regulatory approvals. This is a significant expansion of the university’s national presence and reinforces its commitment to innovative education, interdisciplinary collaboration and global engagement. The planned San Francisco campus expects to serve about 1,000 undergraduate and graduate students and support sustained faculty, staff and academic activity. It r…

How are the hobbled 49ers still in this? They found a different way to be great https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6890676/2025/12/15/san-francisco-49ers-playoff-picture-injuries-resilience/

urban_streets: Urban street networks (2017)
20 urban street networks, corresponding to 1-square-mile maps of 20 cities around the world.
This network has 169 nodes and 271 edges.
Tags: Transportation, Roads, Unweighted, Metadata
https://networks.skewed.de/net/urban_s

Are you kidding me? Taking away the rule that gets us new street trees when sidewalks are being torn up anyway? Daniel Lurie is a cartoon villain. https://abc7news.com/post/san-francisco-considering-changes-building-code-require…

San Francisco considering changes to Public Works code that requires tree planting
San Francisco city officials are hoping to give builders the option to pay a fee instead of planting the required trees.

Checkr, which offers employee background checks, says its revenue grew to $800M, up 14% from 2024, amid a surge in AI-generated CVs and fake financial documents (Iain Martin/Forbes)
http://www.forbes.com/sites/iainmartin/20…

AI Fraud Has Exploded. This Background-Check Startup Is Cashing In.
San Francisco-based Checkr has seen its revenues jump 14% to $800 million as companies try to spot a flood of AI-generated CVs and faked financial documents.

A portion of California’s scenic Highway 1, which winds through rugged cliffs along the coast and has long been a highlight for travelers admiring the ocean views, 🙏🏻reopened on Wednesday after a years-long closure.
A large section of the road in #Big #Sur has been cut off due to landslides
💥 since 2023,
creat…

49ers-Titans takeaways: Brock Purdy shines to keep San Francisco playoff hopes alive https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6889457/2025/12/14/titans-49ers-score-result-takeaways-nfl/

The most San Francisco headline ever.
#SanFrancisco

Arriving at @syncconf.bsky.social
That’s @f0a.org taking a picture, who will be speaking later #SyncConf

A profile of Mercor CEO Brendan Foody, who says Mercor is creating a new category of work; Mercor hit $500M ARR in September and pays contractors $1.5M daily (Rya Jetha/The San Francisco Standard)
https://sfstandard.com/2025/11/07/san-franci…

San Francisco’s youngest billionaires are betting on a new kind of job boom
Mercor’s 22-year-old CEO Brendan Foody imagines a future in which white-collar contractors earn riches teaching machines to behave like humans.

A federal judge has blocked the Trump administration from withholding federal funding and threatening hefty fines against the University of California
amid the administration’s attempts to coerce elite US universities into adopting and promoting conservative ideals.
US district judge Rita Lin of San Francisco issued the preliminary injunction late Friday,
saying the government was not allowed to demand payments from the California school system over the administration’s cla…

This is so much more of a shitshow than even I realized. Alan Wong was making major amendments and sending them to his prospective co-sponsors in literally the last *hour* before the deadline.
https://missionlocal.org/2026/01/sf-great-highway-ballot-measure-…

Roadkill: S.F. measure to reintroduce cars to Great Highway ‘crashes and burns’
San Francisco requires only four supervisors to put a ballot measure before voters. That low bar was too high for Supervisor Alan Wong.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #NickGrimshaw
Arctic Monkeys:
🎵 Fake Tales Of San Francisco
#ArcticMonkeys
https://stephenshero.bandcamp.com/track/arctic-monkeys-fake-tales-of-san-francisco-remix
https://open.spotify.com/track/7BuzJmV2h6eBbSDdRaDY7C

49ers-Eagles on Wild Card Weekend Sunday: What We Learned from San Francisco's 23-19 win https://www.nfl.com/news/49ers-eagles-on-wild-card-weekend-sunday-what-we-learned-from-san-francisco-s-23-19-win

The San Francisco Standard hires Elizabeth Ralph to oversee its Opinion section; Ralph is currently editor of Politico Magazine and Politico managing editor (Chris Roush/Talking Biz News)
https://talkingbiznews.com/media-news/sf-standard-hires-politico-me-ralph/

SF Standard hires Politico ME Ralph - Talking Biz News
Elizabeth Ralph is joining the San Francisco Standard newsroom leadership team to oversee the Opinion section. Ralph is currently editor of Politico Magazine and a managing editor at Politico, where she oversees its publication of features, essays, and opinion pieces profiling the people and ideas disrupting politics and power. She helped found the magazine, which […]

Zahlen, bitte! 250.000 Gummibälle in den Straßen von San Francisco
2005 flogen für einen Sony-Werbespot 250.000 Bälle die Straßen von San Francisco entlang. Um CGI-frei zu bleiben, betrieben die Macher einen enormen Aufwand.

Saturday January 17th 2026
The return of :
Shotwell
"rawkin' da floor since 1994"
plus neu bands:
Ronnie Blaze Band
Robley ;D Variety Show
Make Out Room
22nd & Mission
San Francisco
#LiveMusic
7-10PM
$10 at Door
21

What is missing: info about overall collisions and overall injuries. It's great that there are fewer deaths, it's not great that pedestrian deaths are still high, and it's not clear if we are seeing more, but less lethal collisions.
San Francisco's traffic deaths fall by 42% in dramatic turn

What is missing: info about overall collisions and overall injuries. It's great that there are fewer deaths, it's not great that pedestrian deaths are still high, and it's not clear if we are seeing more, but less lethal collisions.
San Francisco's traffic deaths fall by 42% in dramatic turn

Waymo: we'll create traffic and kill your cat
https://sfstandard.com/2025/10/28/waymo-kills-cat-san-francisco/

Raiders predicted to hire head coach who could bring elite offensive play-caller with him https://www.sportingnews.com/us/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/news/raiders-predicted-hire-head-coach-bring-elite…

49ers sign veteran linebacker who ditched San Francisco for Cowboys in 2024 https://www.sportingnews.com/us/nfl/san-francisco-49ers/news/49ers-sign-linebacker-who-ditched-san-francisco-cowboys-2024/8…

@… any idea who these people are? The no potrero yard thing is weird, also they just seem to be clueless on ops https://www.sanfranciscopeoplestransit.org/

As Mamdani rises in New York, San Francisco turns away from the left (Dustin Gardiner/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/01/02/as-mamdani-rises-in-new-york-san-francisco-turns-away-from-the-left-00701711
http://www.memeorandum.com/260102/p48#a260102p48

#Requiescat For Bottom of the Hill. Saw so, so many great shows there over the years, especially some incredible KFJC presents events. https://www.coyotemedia.org/san-francisco-…

Beloved SF Club Bottom of the Hill to Close at the End of 2026
One of the city’s last independent music venues, Bottom of the Hill has survived waves of gentrification, COVID closures, and more throughout its 35 years. Now, owners say it’s last call — on their own terms.

The U.S. Navy failed to alert the public to high levels of airborne radioactive material detected almost a year ago at the Hunters Point Naval Shipyard in San Francisco
According to a notice warning community groups in neighborhoods around the defunct base,
the Navy notified the San Francisco Department of Public Health only this month about elevated levels of plutonium-239 found last November.
Community groups and at least one San Francisco supervisor called the 11-month…

Navy Took 11 Months to Alert SF to Airborne Plutonium at Hunters Point Shipyard Site | KQED
San Francisco officials and advocates are demanding answers after the U.S. Navy failed to alert the public to high levels of airborne radioactive material found last November.

Stromausfall: Waymos in San Francisco bleiben massenhaft auf der Straße stehen
Nach einem massiven Stromausfall in San Francisco stoppten Waymos selbstfahrende Taxis in der Stadt plötzlich ihren Dienst.

49ers vs. Titans prediction: San Francisco will make the most of golden opportunity to keep pace in NFC West

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/49ers-vs-titans-where-to-watch-pic…

Neuralink returns to South San Francisco as Bay Area neurotech regroups https://www.neurofounders.co/post/neuralink-returns-to-south-san-francisco-bay-area How does a patient registry of roughly 10,000 people compare to well over 500,000 Android app i…

Neuralink Returns to South San Francisco as Bay Area Neurotech Regroups
Neuralink has leased a 144,000-square-foot building at 499 Forbes Boulevard in South San Francisco, placing the company back inside the region’s biotech belt after a period of Texas-focused expansion. The move lands alongside a patient registry of roughly 10,000 people, an initial paper submitted to The New England Journal of Medicine, and ongoing first-in-human work. The signals point to a company accelerating rather than slowing.Details on how the new site will be used have not been disclos…

It was a beautiful day and night in San Francisco today!
#SanFrancisco

Sarah Kirsch Zine Collection at the San Francisco Public Library, San Francisco History Center:
https://oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/c8n01fgf

Niners defeat defending champs for NFC wild-card win https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/47582755/san-francisco-49ers-philadelphia-eagles-nfc-wild-card-nfl-playoffs

"The reason for the carnage? The plant life was overgrown and limiting visibility for drivers, DPW says."
Looking at the photo of median, it's pretty clear that DPW assumes people are driving Go-Karts, not cars. Just one example of why the proposed Street Tree legislation allowing "the Director" to make non-appealable decisions re street trees is based on false assumptions of infallibility.
An artist spent a decade beautifying her Divisadero block. The …

San Francisco guerrilla garden ripped out for Divisadero Street replanting
An artist had tended to plants in NoPa for 10 years until city workers removed the greenery.

"The reason for the carnage? The plant life was overgrown and limiting visibility for drivers, DPW says."
Looking at the photo of median, it's pretty clear that DPW assumes people are driving Go-Karts, not cars. Just one example of why the proposed Street Tree legislation allowing "the Director" to make non-appealable decisions re street trees is based on false assumptions of infallibility.
An artist spent a decade beautifying her Divisadero block. The …

San Francisco guerrilla garden ripped out for Divisadero Street replanting
An artist had tended to plants in NoPa for 10 years until city workers removed the greenery.

The CTO of Amazon's Zoox says the company plans to start charging for rides in Las Vegas in early 2026 and is focused on transporting people, not deliveries (Amanda Gerut/Fortune)
https://fortune.com/2025/12/08/amazon-robotaxi-service-zoox-plan…

Amazon robotaxi service Zoox to start charging for rides in 2026, with ‘laser focus’ on transporting people, not deliveries, says cofounder
Jesse Levinson, Zoox cofounder and CTO, said the robotaxi service needs several more years before it’s “financially interesting.”

Seeing some cool bands tonight 🎸

Robotaxis von Zoox sind in San Francisco im Einsatz
Die Amazon-Tochter Zoox startet mit seinen Robotaxis in San Francisco. Vorerst ist der Dienst aber noch eingeschränkt.
https://www.heise.…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #6MusicArtistCollection
Arctic Monkeys:
🎵 Fake Tales of San Francisco (Radio 1 Live Lounge, 14 Jun 2005)
#ArcticMonkeys
https://stephenshero.bandcamp.com/track/arctic-monkeys-fake-tales-of-san-francisco-remix
https://open.spotify.com/track/7BuzJmV2h6eBbSDdRaDY7C

Niners place Brandon Aiyuk on reserve/left squad list, ending WR's season https://www.nfl.com/news/niners-place-brandon-aiyuk-on-reserve-left-squad-list-ending-wr-s-season

"So imagine the Brownstone startup puts 50 pods in one big room. Once they rent pod #1, that person appears to have the right to the entire room. Renting pods #2 through #50 could violate Section 1950. If they do, they are double letting, and 'every tenant in the building, under the same landlord' could withhold rent for as long as the 'double letting' continues." 👀

Sleeping Pods in San Francisco: Are They Even Legal? — Dean Preston
The rise of sleeping pods as a housing solution in San Francisco raises questions about legality. California Civil Code Section 1950 prohibits double letting, but is the startup Brownstone breaking the law?

Trump promised a San Francisco crime crackdown. His administration did the opposite. (Brad Heath/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-promised-san-francisco-crime-crackdown-his-administration-did-opposite-2025-12-02/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251202/p23#a251202p23

GIBBSMO PRESENTS
The Beat Farmers
FIRST SAN FRANCISCO SHOW IN 30 YEARS! Tix On Sale This AM!
First #BeatFarmers live gig in SF in 30 Years!
SPECIAL GUESTS:
The Seagulls
THE MAKE OUT ROOM at 22nd & Mission
In #SF SATURDAY DECEMBER 13TH
$30 ADVANCE $35 AT DOOR
DOO…

Niners RB Christian McCaffrey (back) added to injury report, questionable vs. Titans https://www.nfl.com/news/niners-rb-christian-mccaffrey-back-added-to-injury-report-questionable-vs-titans

Great new local arts event calendar from the editors of McSweeney's
https://www.sanfranciscoisdead.com/

Niners RB Christian McCaffrey (back) expected to play Sunday vs. Titans https://www.nfl.com/news/niners-rb-christian-mccaffrey-back-expected-to-play-sunday-vs-titans

People tell me that Wiener is a smart guy.
So why does #Friedmanist, devoutly trusting developer to do …

Senator Scott Wiener (@scottwiener.bsky.social)
CA State Senator, representing San Francisco & northern San Mateo County. Chair, Senate Budget Committee. Passionate about health care, climate, making it easier/faster to build good things like housing, transit, clean energy. Democrat 🏳️‍🌈✡️ scottwiener.com

Waymo resumes robotaxi service in San Francisco after a blackout, and says most active trips were completed before vehicles returned to depots or pulled over (CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/12/21/waymo-robotaxi-san-francisco-blackout.html

Waymo resumes robotaxi service in San Francisco after blackout chaos — Musk says Tesla car service unaffected
As power outages spread Saturday, videos shared on social media appeared to show multiple Waymo vehicles stalled in traffic in different parts of San Francisco.

49ers place injured Aiyuk on reserve/left team list https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/47296496/49ers-place-brandon-aiyuk-reserve-left-team-list

Trump calls off San Francisco ‘surge,’
but East Bay braces for action as protests erupt
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-10-23/trump-federal-forces-surge-san-francisco-east-bay

Trump calls off San Francisco 'surge,' but East Bay braces for action as protests erupt
President Trump called off a planned "surge" of federal forces to San Francisco, but officials in the East Bay said they were still gearing up for major immigration enforcement operations in their cities.

Sen. Scott Wiener, proposes #California bond measure to take $23 billion to fund an in-state program to counter #GOP budget cuts and restore taxpayer funding for vital #scientific research programs in the state.
Devastating

Calif. leaders propose $23B plan to protect science research
A proposed 2026 ballot measure aims to offset federal funding cuts amid hundreds of canceled grants.

I couldn't agree more with this essay from Quintin Mecke, director of CCHO, a group of community affordable housing non-profits. When SF "moderate" politicians underfund housing, it's not something they're forced to do. It's not fiscal responsibility. It's a political choice and a disastrous one.

The Fiction of Scarcity: Why San Francisco Must Choose Action Over Austerity in 2026
San Francisco Has the Wealth. It Lacks the Will.

Seahawks vs. 49ers odds: How to bet the Divisional Round matchup, what to know about betting each team

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/seahawk

For the past 15 years, I've observed San Francisco leaders talk about how important climate action is - but not actually do a lot. There now a petition asking the Mayor to take meaningful action at
https://sign.moveon.org/petitions/mayor-lurie-implement-…

Mayor Lurie: Prioritize Climate Action Plan goals as you restructure city government
San Francisco approved a detailed and comprehensive Climate Action Plan in 2021 with a top-line goal of net-zero GHG emissions by 2040. Some progress towards this goal has been made since then, including general fund budget money awarded over the last few years to the SF Environment Department, for the first time ever. But we are now in danger of going backwards in our fight to mitigate climate change. Mayor Lurie and the Board of Supervisors recently approved a 2-year budget that revokes...

Uber plans to launch its first robotaxi in the San Francisco Bay Area in late 2026, built on Lucid's Gravity SUV, after testing 100 cars in the coming months (Dee-Ann Durbin/Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/uber-robotaxi-…

Uber to deploy Lucid-powered robotaxi fleet in San Francisco
Uber said Wednesday that the San Francisco Bay Area will be the first market for its specially built autonomous taxi, which is expected to launch in late 2026. The San Francisco-based ride-hailing company said in July it was developing a robotaxi with the electric car company Lucid and the self-driving technology company Nuro Inc. Uber said it plans to have 100 test vehicles on the road in the coming months. Within six years, Uber plans to deploy 20,000 or more Lucid-based autonomous taxis in m…

Almost dropped my phone out the bus window taking pictures of the view I've seen almost every day for 30 years.
#SanFrancisco

Waymo, which paused its service during blackouts in San Francisco on December 20, says it is updating its fleet to improve navigation during widespread outages (Ari Levy/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/12/23/waymo-updating-fleet-af…

Waymo will update driverless fleet after San Francisco blackout to improve navigation during outages
Three days after blackouts in San Francisco brought down Waymo's service, the company said it's implementing changes for when "infrastructure fails."

The San Francisco Housing Wonk Trying to Become the Next Pelosi (Owen Tucker-Smith/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/politics/elections/who-is-scott-wiener-san-francisco-california-27a26d76
http://www.memeorandum.com/251225/p22#a251225p22

For the past 15 years, I've observed San Francisco leaders talk about how important climate action is - but not actually do a lot. There now a petition asking the Mayor to take meaningful action at
https://sign.moveon.org/petitions/mayor-lurie-implement-…

Mayor Lurie: Prioritize Climate Action Plan goals as you restructure city government
San Francisco approved a detailed and comprehensive Climate Action Plan in 2021 with a top-line goal of net-zero GHG emissions by 2040. Some progress towards this goal has been made since then, including general fund budget money awarded over the last few years to the SF Environment Department, for the first time ever. But we are now in danger of going backwards in our fight to mitigate climate change. Mayor Lurie and the Board of Supervisors recently approved a 2-year budget that revokes...

The US navy knew of potentially dangerous levels of airborne plutonium in San Francisco
for almost a year
before it alerted city officials
after it carried out testing that detected radioactive material in November last year, public health advocates allege.
The plutonium levels exceeded the federal action threshold
at the navy’s highly contaminated, 866-acre Hunters Point Naval Shipyard.
It was detected in an area adjacent to a residential neighborhood fil…

Trump says he canceled plans for a "surge" of National Guard to San Francisco after speaking to "great people like Jensen Huang, Marc Benioff, and others" (Kate Rogers/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/10/23/trump-san-francisco-national…

Trump backs off federal deployment in San Francisco after Huang, Benioff phone calls
Democratic Mayor Daniel Lurie said Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem confirmed that plans for a deployment were called off.

San Franciscans! Here's a petition you can sign asking Mayor Lurie and the board of supervisors to fund social housing. You might have seen the flyers around the city.
We voted to fund it with 2020's Prop I, but for obscure reasons of state law, the use of the revenue wasn't legally binding, only intended. And then-Mayor Breed refused to do it. But we can fund it now!

Fund San Francisco's Social Housing Program with Prop I Property Transfer Tax Revenue, as Promised!
In 2020, San Francisco voters passed Prop I which levied a transfer tax on properties worth over $10 million dollars. The Board of Supervisors unanimously passed a resolution assuring voters it was their intention to spend the revenue from the new tax on a Social Housing Program. Social Housing is housing that is municipally-owned (or non-profit owned), permanently affordable, and available to a wider mix income than traditional public housing. Mayor Breed overruled the Board of Supervisors a…

49ers LB Fred Warner and his wife Sydney welcome newborn daughter, Bella https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/47544383/fred-sydney-warner-san-francisco-49ers-new-baby-born

lovely clear night in San Francisco!

The Trump administration appeared poised to send dozens of federal agents to the San Francisco Bay Area for a major immigration enforcement operation,
prompting condemnation from California leaders.
Details of the deployment were still emerging, but it will reportedly involve more than 100 federal agents.
The agents are reportedly set to begin using the US Coast Guard base in Alameda,
a city located across the bay from San Francisco.
It remained unclear whether …

Facts: “The report shouldn’t be a shock to anyone...because zoning is just one factor of 100. I’m afraid ‘We’re going to sue the government until the capital markets do what we want’ is basically the textbook definition of San Francisco YIMBYism.” - @…

49ers QB Purdy ramps up practice for return https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/46945989/49ers-qb-brock-purdy-aggressive-potential-return

Amazon's Zoox announces that users in San Francisco can now sign up for its Zoox Explorers program to take free rides in its robotaxis in select neighborhoods (Annie Palmer/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/11/18/zoox-begins-offering-robotaxi-rid…

Zoox begins offering robotaxi rides in San Francisco, facing off with Waymo
Riders can sign up to join the "Zoox Explorers" program to take free rides on the company's box-shaped vehicles in certain San Francisco neighborhoods.

More than 20,000 still without power after massive San Francisco blackout
Roughly 110,000 PG&E customers have service again following a major power outage Saturday in San Francisco
that left homes in the dark,
stalled traffic
and shut down restaurants, shops and holiday lighting displays.
PG&E said on social media that the remaining 21,000 without power on Sunday morning are concentrated in
Golden Gate Park,
the Presidio,
the Richmond…

More than 20,000 still without power after massive San Francisco blackout
After Saturday's power shutdown, PG&E said 21,000 are still without power in areas including Golden Gate Park, the Presidio, the Richmond District and small areas downtown.

49ers vs. Seahawks prediction, odds, time: 2026 NFL divisional round Saturday picks by proven model

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/49ers-seahawks-pre…

I knew there used to be a 26 Valencia bus before I got to San Francisco, but this article (and audio snippets at the end) made it real for me. 🥲
https://missionlocal.org/2009/12/26valencia/

Last Call for the 26-Valencia
In 2009, 26-Valencia became a casualty of Muni budget cuts as it picks up its final passengers today.

A cat's killing by a Waymo robotaxi sparked outrage in San Francisco, as some questioned why deaths caused by human drivers don't get the same level of concern (Heather Knight/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/15/us/waymo-san-francisco-kit-kat.htm…

Waymo Was on a Roll in San Francisco. Then One of Its Driverless Cars Killed a Cat.
The self-driving taxis have become ubiquitous in the city, but an uproar ensued when one ran over a beloved feline.

Titans vs. 49ers: Where to watch NFL Week 15, betting odds, score prediction, sportsbook promos, SGP picks

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/titans-

this kind of severe weather is why it costs so much to live in San Francisco.
#SanFrancisco #Weather

Source: 49ers rookie DL Williams has torn ACL https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/46836227/san-francisco-49ers-dl-mykel-williams-torn-acl

A look at an "etiquette camp" for young founders in San Francisco, which teaches them how to dress, act, and talk, amid shifting expectations for tech founders (Lisa Bonos/Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2025/12/07/te…

Tech bros head to etiquette camp as Silicon Valley levels up its style
As Silicon Valley grows in power and prominence, some insiders say it’s time for the tech industry to remake its slobby image. An etiquette camp for founders showed how.

A power outage in San Francisco on Saturday,
which left 124,000 of 414,000 customers in the dark.
🔥also caused a widespread Waymo meltdown,
with apparently all active Waymo robotaxis in the affected parts of the city stuck in robotic comas
-- blocking intersections and choking traffic on some streets.

Blackout in San Francisco Litters Streets with Traffic-Blocking, Deactivated Waymos
Robot chaos in the tech capital of the U.S.

49ers fear first-round pick Mykel Williams tore his ACL, San Francisco prepares to lose yet another starter

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/49ers-f

only 2 more days to get tickets for the SF Transit Riders gala. see you there?
https://sftransitriders.org/2026-giving/

Singapore-based banking and payments startup Airwallex raised $330M at an $8B valuation, after raising $300M at a $6.2B valuation in May, and plans a US HQ (Laith Al-Khalaf/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/925815f6-d1d7-46c4-862d-da39acc712a2

Airwallex plots Silicon Valley expansion after securing $8bn valuation
Payments company opens San Francisco base and reduces Tencent’s holding in US pivot

Over 100 people from Bay Area faith communities
🔥 shut down ICE’s San Francisco Field Office at 630 Sansome Street this morning,
chaining themselves across the two main entrances to stop ICE from kidnapping community members at their immigration check-ins.
 
Between May and October 2025, ICE arrested over 120 immigrants at the San Francisco ICE Field Office and San Francisco immigration court.
 
"We can no longer stand by and watch as our neighbors a…

Bay Area Faith Communities Shut Down ICE’s San Francisco Field Office : Indybay
Call for an End to ICE Kidnappings

"You scored 9 out of 10. Nicely done! Your knowledge is impressive. But there's still room to improve! Of everyone who has taken the quiz, 6 percent had more correct answers, and 91 percent had fewer correct answers."
Got a lucky guess on one.
https://missionl…

A profile of Replit co-founder Amjad Masad, who was shunned in investor circles for his criticism of Israel's war in Gaza before Replit's AI agent took off (Margaux MacColl/The San Francisco Standard)
https://sfstandard.com/2026/01/07/called-t…

He was called a ‘terrorist sympathizer.’ Now his AI company is valued at $3B
“I must apologize to — absolutely nobody”: Replit founder Amjad Masad isn’t afraid of Silicon Valley.

The Trump administration sued two California cities on Monday,
❌seeking to block local laws that restrict natural gas infrastructure and appliances in new construction.
⭐️The lawsuit is the administration’s latest attack on energy policies that seek to rein in the use of fossil fuels to combat the climate crisis.
California, a Democratic stronghold, has among the most aggressive climate change policies in the world.
Republicans, including Donald Trump, for years have …

NFL ignores 49ers playoff scheduling request for divisional round: Why Kyle Shanahan pleaded with the league

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/nfl-ignores-49ers-nfl-playoff-schedul…

Brock Purdy overcomes two INTs, leads 49ers' GW drive in postseason return to Philadelphia https://www.nfl.com/news/brock-purdy-overcomes-two-ints-leads-49ers-gw-drive-in-postseason-return-to-philadelphia

The AI boom has pushed SF's residential rents up by the most in the US over the past year, as AI companies lease apartments and offer rent stipends to employees (Natallie Rocha/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10…

Renting a San Francisco Apartment in the A.I. Boom? Good Luck.
The artificial intelligence gold rush has pushed San Francisco’s residential rents up by the most in the nation, as A.I. companies lease apartments and offer rent stipends to employees.

'Hungry for more': 49ers' petty posts at Eagles tops NFL wild-card trolls https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/47585316/nfl-wild-card-round-2025-trolls

49ers oust Eagles, march on behind Purdy, CMC https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/47585326/49ers-defending-champion-eagles-nfc-wild-card-game

Inside the giddy 49ers locker room, a Grateful tribute from a team that won't die https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6962715/2026/01/12/49ers-beat-eagles-kittle-bob-weir-grateful-dead/

A look at Nvidia's Level 2 driving system, set to roll out to more carmakers in 2026, after a ~40-minute drive around San Francisco in a Mercedes-Benz CLA sedan (Andrew J. Hawkins/The Verge)
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I tested Nvidia’s Tesla Full Self-Driving competitor — Tesla should be worried
Nvidia’s new point-to-point automated driving system is coming in 2026. The company hopes to challenge Tesla and Waymo in the race for self-driving vehicles.

Will Brandon Aiyuk return for the 49ers this season? Answering five top questions https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/47172027/will-brandon-aiyuk-return-san-francisco-49ers-season-faq

Seahawks silence 49ers' offense in Week 18, win NFC's No. 1 seed https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/47496166/nfl-san-francisco-49ers-seattle-seahawks-win-nfc-west-sam-darnold-brock-purdy

On third-and-17, the Seahawks and reality hit the 49ers defense hard https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6938840/2026/01/04/san-francisco-49ers-defense-seahawks-third-and-17-playoffs/

Battle for the NFC's No. 1 seed: Biggest questions for Seahawks-49ers https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/47484418/seattle-seahawks-san-francisco-49ers-nfc-no-1-seed-nfc-west-playoffs

Panthers-49ers on 'Monday Night Football': What We Learned from San Francisco's 20-9 win https://www.nfl.com/news/panthers-49ers-on-monday-night-football-what-we-learned-from-san-francisco-s-20-9-win

49ers vs. Eagles: Where to watch NFL Wild Card, score prediction, betting odds, sportsbook promos, SGP picks

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Niners-Colts on 'Monday Night Football': What We Learned from San Francisco's 48-27 win https://www.nfl.com/news/niners-colts-on-monday-night-football-what-we-learned-from-san-francisco-s-48-27-win

Eagles vs. 49ers prediction, odds, start time: NFL Wild Card Sunday picks from 10,000 simulations

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Seahawks-49ers takeaways: Seattle's defense snuffs out San Francisco to claim NFC's top seed https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6938392/2026/01/03/seahawks-49ers-score-result-takeaways-nfc-west/