San Francisco, while architecturally beautiful, is infamous for attracting unattractive people. It was built for the Vidwats and Kevins of the world — engineers and coders — for whom the only nice ...

David Meyer, a founder trying to build small data centers in rural Colorado. All photos by Jonas Du, the author.

On September 5th, Aella, the self-styled “whorelord” of the Bay Area, offered to throw a “reverse gangbang” (one man ...

“This isn’t about gossip, it’s about asymmetric social warfare,” a shopkeeper at Art of Play, in Brooklyn, tells me before going back to helping people play with various adult toys. It’s Tuesday night ...

Enthusiastically backed by DSA-endorsed mayoral nominee Nithya Raman, now up 11 points in the mayoral race, the tax was ...

official endorsements for candidates who don’t want to burn down the city, and for ballot props ...

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On September 8, an AI researcher named Jacob Coxon announced in an exclusive WSJ interview that he was quitting his job at Anthropic because the big labs were recklessly putting the world at risk.

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The Federal Communications Commission plans to eliminate red tape for space projects and a wide swatch of cellular internet infrastructure at the end of the month. One of the FCC’s jobs is to regulate ...

The only clue that Rangeview, a secretive hard tech startup, occupies an aging red brick building on the corner of Center Avenue in El Segundo, CA is a one-inch logo etched on the glass door.

I joined the Pirate Wires team a couple weeks ago to cover LA local politics. Five days into my new job, I received a tip alleging that Skid Row puppies were dying by the litter — used to test ...