Chatham House Rule is suddenly everywhere in the Bay Area(sfstandard.com)

105 points by mrry 1 year ago | 204 comments

New SF public health chief was part of McKinsey opioid-marketing operation(sfstandard.com)

232 points by iancmceachern 1 year ago | 70 comments

Silicon Valley 'nepo baby' publishes scathing first novel about growing up rich(sfstandard.com)

20 points by CalChris 1 year ago | 8 comments

Stanford students want in on the military tech gold rush(sfstandard.com)

8 points by redarguireda 1 year ago | 0 comments

Silicon Valley wants to help me make a superbaby(sfstandard.com)

15 points by user72343432754 1 year ago | 1 comments

Replit founder Amjad Masad isn’t afraid of Silicon Valley(sfstandard.com)

275 points by newusertoday 9 months ago | 423 comments

Find SF parking cops(walzr.com)

826 points by alazsengul 1 year ago | 457 comments

An interactive map of San Francisco listing parking enforcement officers by recent ticket locations, with an officer leaderboard.

How to ask for help from people who don't know you(pradyuprasad.com)

461 points by FigurativeVoid 3 months ago | 68 comments

A personal blog essay offering heuristics for asking strangers for help, centered on putting yourself in the other person's mind and showing proof of work.

US citizens with permanent disabilities get free lifetime pass to National Parks(nps.gov)

371 points by bookofjoe 3 years ago | 250 comments

National Park Service page describing the Interagency Access Pass, a free lifetime pass to federal recreational lands for US citizens with permanent disabilities.

Baby boomers are becoming homeless at a rate not seen since the Great Depression(moneywise.com)

338 points by myshpa 3 years ago | 649 comments

Moneywise news article on rising homelessness among baby boomers, described by experts as a "silver tsunami," and the factors driving it.

Human brains are preconfigured with instructions for understanding the world(news.ucsc.edu)

414 points by XzetaU8 11 months ago | 284 comments

UC Santa Cruz news article reporting research suggesting early developing human brains are preconfigured with instructions for understanding the world.

California spent $17B on homelessness – it’s not working(wsj.com)

404 points by mfiguiere 3 years ago | 948 comments

Wall Street Journal article on California spending $17 billion on homelessness without reducing it, focusing on Oakland's Wood Street encampment.