Bob Calhoun
@bobcalhoun.bsky.social
Author of The Murders That Made Us, a true crime history of San Francisco. Co-host of Old Movies for Young Stoners, the podcast that pairs cannabis with classic cinema. Former SFWeekly, Incredibly Strange Wrestling. He/him www.murdersthatmadeus.com
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S5E1 My Stoney Valentine w/ Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice (1968) and Victims of Sin (51)
We are back for our FIFTH SEASON!!! Can you believe that we've been at this for five years now??? I know we can't, but we have 58 episodes where we've paired pot with 117 movies as evidence here. Our
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Listening to the Canadian rock god Thor because @chaki.bsky.social, @gregfranklin.bsky.social & I talk a lot about him a lot at the beginning of the latest episode of @oldmoviesystoners.bsky.social. We also pair weed with movies, which is kinda our thing.
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Damn
"Someone had fabricated an identity and put our call for pitches into a large language model like ChatGPT, just to make a fake story that we’d feasibly pay for. When I started asking too many questions, that someone evaporated."
"Someone had fabricated an identity and put our call for pitches into a large language model like ChatGPT, just to make a fake story that we’d feasibly pay for. When I started asking too many questions, that someone evaporated."
Aided by genAI models like ChatGPT, “writers” hoping to get paid for fake stories have become an even bigger problem for publications big and small. One such writer almost pulled one over on COYOTE — until @soleilho.com, who is a nerd, spotted a key idiosyncrasy.
How COYOTE Almost Got Slopped by AI
The sordid tale of the freelancer who never was.
www.coyotemedia.org
February 11, 2026 at 5:06 PM
Damn
"Someone had fabricated an identity and put our call for pitches into a large language model like ChatGPT, just to make a fake story that we’d feasibly pay for. When I started asking too many questions, that someone evaporated."
"Someone had fabricated an identity and put our call for pitches into a large language model like ChatGPT, just to make a fake story that we’d feasibly pay for. When I started asking too many questions, that someone evaporated."
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I love this resistance to journalistic “objectivity” in Noor Tagouri’s presentation at the Knight Media Forum
February 11, 2026 at 4:36 PM
I love this resistance to journalistic “objectivity” in Noor Tagouri’s presentation at the Knight Media Forum
You could replace AI with cocaine in this Harvard Business Review article and it would totally fit. Working at a faster pace into more hours of the day at first soon giving way to "cognitive fatigue, burnout, and weakened decision-making." Sounds familiar.
AI Doesn’t Reduce Work—It Intensifies It
One of the promises of AI is that it can reduce workloads so employees can focus more on higher-value and more engaging tasks. But according to new research, AI tools don’t reduce work, they consisten...
hbr.org
February 10, 2026 at 7:48 PM
You could replace AI with cocaine in this Harvard Business Review article and it would totally fit. Working at a faster pace into more hours of the day at first soon giving way to "cognitive fatigue, burnout, and weakened decision-making." Sounds familiar.
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Just found this awesome article! www.saturdayeveningpost.com/2025/06/desi...
Desi Arnaz: The Man Who Invented Television | The Saturday Evening Post
Desi Arnaz’s story does not begin and end with I Love Lucy.
www.saturdayeveningpost.com
February 10, 2026 at 7:09 PM
Just found this awesome article! www.saturdayeveningpost.com/2025/06/desi...
My mom voted for friggin' Nixon AND Reagan but she danced the mambo to Perez Prado at El Patio in San Francisco in the 1950s. Latin music has been popular in the United States since at least the 1940s, if not way earlier. These people need to get over themselves.
February 10, 2026 at 6:58 PM
My mom voted for friggin' Nixon AND Reagan but she danced the mambo to Perez Prado at El Patio in San Francisco in the 1950s. Latin music has been popular in the United States since at least the 1940s, if not way earlier. These people need to get over themselves.
Listening to the Canadian rock god Thor because @chaki.bsky.social, @gregfranklin.bsky.social & I talk a lot about him a lot at the beginning of the latest episode of @oldmoviesystoners.bsky.social. We also pair weed with movies, which is kinda our thing.
S5E1 My Stoney Valentine w/ Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice (1968) and Victims of Sin (51)
We are back for our FIFTH SEASON!!! Can you believe that we've been at this for five years now??? I know we can't, but we have 58 episodes where we've paired pot with 117 movies as evidence here. Our
soundcloud.com
February 10, 2026 at 6:36 PM
Listening to the Canadian rock god Thor because @chaki.bsky.social, @gregfranklin.bsky.social & I talk a lot about him a lot at the beginning of the latest episode of @oldmoviesystoners.bsky.social. We also pair weed with movies, which is kinda our thing.
“The Hero” by Queen from the end of Flash Gordon.
February 10, 2026 at 5:03 AM
“The Hero” by Queen from the end of Flash Gordon.
Holy shit! Wolfman Jack just showed up in this episode of EMERGENCY! on MeTV right now.
February 10, 2026 at 1:21 AM
Holy shit! Wolfman Jack just showed up in this episode of EMERGENCY! on MeTV right now.
It's utterly bizarre to me that it's after 3 p.m. already.
February 9, 2026 at 11:10 PM
It's utterly bizarre to me that it's after 3 p.m. already.
I can't understand the lyrics!!!
that 60s russian lalala singing guy love him (him = Эдуард Хиль "Edward Gil")
YouTube video by bettyx1138
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February 9, 2026 at 8:41 PM
I can't understand the lyrics!!!
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Jajaja! theonion.com/terrified-co...
Terrified Conservatives Lose Ability To Speak English After Exposure To Bad Bunny Performance (‘¡Dios Mío!’ Cry Millions Of Panicking Republicans)
BOISE, ID—Crying out “¡Dios mío!” and “¡Ayúdame!” as soon as they heard the opening notes of the Puerto Rican superstar’s “EoO,” millions of terrified conservatives reportedly lost the ability to spea...
theonion.com
February 9, 2026 at 6:01 PM
Jajaja! theonion.com/terrified-co...
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Re: The RING commercial - I work in Security & we have been trained on the fact that Ring cameras are most often used in court to prosecute the *owners* of the camera.
February 9, 2026 at 8:42 AM
Re: The RING commercial - I work in Security & we have been trained on the fact that Ring cameras are most often used in court to prosecute the *owners* of the camera.
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Birnam Wood do come to Dunsinane
February 9, 2026 at 2:42 AM
Birnam Wood do come to Dunsinane
Limu Emu and Doug would be an improvement over these ads.
February 9, 2026 at 2:37 AM
Limu Emu and Doug would be an improvement over these ads.
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The AI ads are too dull to even be cringe. Yawn
February 9, 2026 at 2:01 AM
The AI ads are too dull to even be cringe. Yawn
So glad I took a couple of hits of Blue Dream before this.
February 9, 2026 at 1:32 AM
So glad I took a couple of hits of Blue Dream before this.
Bad Bunny will retake this kingdom with an army dressed like trees.
February 9, 2026 at 1:21 AM
Bad Bunny will retake this kingdom with an army dressed like trees.
Fuck off Dunkin! We got Donut Designs here in the Dro.
February 9, 2026 at 1:03 AM
Fuck off Dunkin! We got Donut Designs here in the Dro.
Waiting for Sweet James and Car Shield ads in the second half.
February 9, 2026 at 12:54 AM
Waiting for Sweet James and Car Shield ads in the second half.
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oh so now the "bunny" is "bad" to you, mister president?? we the people brought receipts 😤
February 9, 2026 at 12:46 AM
oh so now the "bunny" is "bad" to you, mister president?? we the people brought receipts 😤
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No Kings includes Draft Kings
February 8, 2026 at 11:49 PM
No Kings includes Draft Kings
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Well, the Patriots literally allow their jets to be used for ICE deportations.
I can't explain it but the Seahawks are the anti-facist team.
February 9, 2026 at 12:09 AM
Well, the Patriots literally allow their jets to be used for ICE deportations.
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I’m not actually watching but I cannot stop my self from saying this:
They should show the Dumbarton Bridge
They should show the Dumbarton Bridge
It's so weird they keep showing the Golden Gate as placesetting scenery for a game in Santa Clara instead of 101.
February 8, 2026 at 11:46 PM
I’m not actually watching but I cannot stop my self from saying this:
They should show the Dumbarton Bridge
They should show the Dumbarton Bridge
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So cool to see our Holy Trinity alive and kicking and being honored at #SuperBowl60
On this the holiest day of the year, we in the San Francisco Bay Area pay tribute to our Father, Son, and Holy Spirit: Joe Montana, Steve Young, and Jerry Rice. Hallowed be thy names. Pic from the altar at Val’s Daly City. #49ers
February 8, 2026 at 11:13 PM
So cool to see our Holy Trinity alive and kicking and being honored at #SuperBowl60