Matt Haber
@habermatt.bsky.social
editor-in-chief of Gazetteer SF
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@sf.gazetteer.co is looking for Bay Area freelance reporters who can speak Spanish, Mandarin, and Cantonese to expand our coverage of the city. I encourage folks to contact me directly at mh [a] gazetteer [dot] co. Please share: sf.gazetteer.co/gazetteer-sf...
Gazetteer SF seeks freelance reporters fluent in Spanish, Mandarin, and Cantonese
Gazetteer SF is looking to expand our coverage of San Francisco by working with freelance reporters fluent in Spanish, Mandarin, and Cantonese. If you’re a well-sourced reporter who’s able to convers...
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December 2, 2025 at 9:47 PM
@sf.gazetteer.co is looking for Bay Area freelance reporters who can speak Spanish, Mandarin, and Cantonese to expand our coverage of the city. I encourage folks to contact me directly at mh [a] gazetteer [dot] co. Please share: sf.gazetteer.co/gazetteer-sf...
Preparing for today’s Telos drop.
December 1, 2025 at 5:28 PM
Preparing for today’s Telos drop.
Men are afraid women will laugh at them. Women are afraid men will kill their career prospects with multi-part Substacks.
November 26, 2025 at 10:36 PM
Men are afraid women will laugh at them. Women are afraid men will kill their career prospects with multi-part Substacks.
This whole two-narrator story (particularly the Olbermann flashback) is like @legroff.bsky.social’s ’Fates and Furies’ for dummies.
November 23, 2025 at 1:57 AM
This whole two-narrator story (particularly the Olbermann flashback) is like @legroff.bsky.social’s ’Fates and Furies’ for dummies.
Even the Neverending Story ended at some point.
November 23, 2025 at 1:35 AM
Even the Neverending Story ended at some point.
My whole life, I thought this was the oddest Oval Office pairing of all time. No more.
November 21, 2025 at 10:15 PM
My whole life, I thought this was the oddest Oval Office pairing of all time. No more.
“You’re clearly patterning off Didion, one of my faves, and I say aim high. But the key to her brilliance is compression, elegance: each word a tiny gift, carefully chosen, and most of all, she never indulges.” @anamariecox.bsky.social is a great editor: newsletter.anamariecox.com/archive/note...
Notes on Your American Canto Draft
I read it. Everyone deserves a good editor. Olivia, Thank you so much for this. I’m impressed with the scope of your ambition and everything here has real...
newsletter.anamariecox.com
November 21, 2025 at 6:56 PM
“You’re clearly patterning off Didion, one of my faves, and I say aim high. But the key to her brilliance is compression, elegance: each word a tiny gift, carefully chosen, and most of all, she never indulges.” @anamariecox.bsky.social is a great editor: newsletter.anamariecox.com/archive/note...
Thank you to everyone on this platform for sharing and boosting that man’s call to murder his colleagues. You can stop now.
November 20, 2025 at 7:06 PM
Thank you to everyone on this platform for sharing and boosting that man’s call to murder his colleagues. You can stop now.
Kate Sacker: How are things at New York Mag?
Olivia Nuzzi: Always good when someone calls with a story... youtu.be/LfYPcwOOPcY?...
Olivia Nuzzi: Always good when someone calls with a story... youtu.be/LfYPcwOOPcY?...
Olivia Nuzzi in Billions
YouTube video by Nimrod Kamer
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November 19, 2025 at 9:01 PM
Kate Sacker: How are things at New York Mag?
Olivia Nuzzi: Always good when someone calls with a story... youtu.be/LfYPcwOOPcY?...
Olivia Nuzzi: Always good when someone calls with a story... youtu.be/LfYPcwOOPcY?...
Here’s a gift link to my Very Important Analysis of the Warner Bros. Discovery sale and the dynamic duo who should steward Harry Potter, DC Comics, and, most importantly, Entourage: sf.gazetteer.co/a-modest-pro...
A modest proposal for Warner Bros. Discovery
Of all possible scenarios for the legacy studio in the streaming age, this one is by far the best
sf.gazetteer.co
November 19, 2025 at 6:26 PM
Here’s a gift link to my Very Important Analysis of the Warner Bros. Discovery sale and the dynamic duo who should steward Harry Potter, DC Comics, and, most importantly, Entourage: sf.gazetteer.co/a-modest-pro...
Substack is really showing us how important editors are.
November 18, 2025 at 3:41 AM
Substack is really showing us how important editors are.
Reposted by Matt Haber
Let's talk shopping IRL at Chat Room: Analog
The enduring appeal of shopping IRL
Ben Ospital and Lindsey Hansen join the Chat Room lineup to share their methodical approaches to physical retail in a fast fashion world
sf.gazetteer.co
November 17, 2025 at 10:56 PM
Let's talk shopping IRL at Chat Room: Analog
The most revealing thing in that book excerpt is how good the editing is in @nymag.com.
November 17, 2025 at 8:42 PM
The most revealing thing in that book excerpt is how good the editing is in @nymag.com.
These Homeland Security recruiting videos are getting so dark: www.youtube.com/watch?v=vhzt...
The Parallax View: Best Scene (1974)
YouTube video by Graham Gough
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November 12, 2025 at 11:54 PM
These Homeland Security recruiting videos are getting so dark: www.youtube.com/watch?v=vhzt...
When you're pretty much stuck on one look.
November 12, 2025 at 3:21 PM
When you're pretty much stuck on one look.
If Elon Musk really is as well read as his bot army claims, he should've replied to Joyce Carol Oates’s attempted ethering with Joan Didion’s utterly devestating response to her critics on the letters page of @nybooks.com: ”Oh, wow.” Woulda been hall of fame worthy: www.nybooks.com/articles/197...
They'll Take Manhattan | John Romano, Joan Didion
To the Editors: What piques screenwriter Joan Didion so much about those large, enthusiastic audiences Woody Allen gets is that they seem to recognize
www.nybooks.com
November 11, 2025 at 7:04 PM
If Elon Musk really is as well read as his bot army claims, he should've replied to Joyce Carol Oates’s attempted ethering with Joan Didion’s utterly devestating response to her critics on the letters page of @nybooks.com: ”Oh, wow.” Woulda been hall of fame worthy: www.nybooks.com/articles/197...
Colin Powell stared at this Platon photo of Elsheba Khan at her son's grave for an hour. “Who could debate that this kid lying in Arlington with Christian and Jewish and nondenominational buddies was not a fine American?" he told Maureen Dowd in 2008. web.archive.org/web/20080930...
November 11, 2025 at 5:06 PM
Colin Powell stared at this Platon photo of Elsheba Khan at her son's grave for an hour. “Who could debate that this kid lying in Arlington with Christian and Jewish and nondenominational buddies was not a fine American?" he told Maureen Dowd in 2008. web.archive.org/web/20080930...
Cannot be a coincidence that the editors of The New York Times Magazine ran Parul Sehgal's essay about meaning of Frankenstein's monster (www.nytimes.com/2025/10/31/m...) right before Jesse Barron's story of a kid who fell in love with a chatbot and killed himself.
A Teen in Love With a Chatbot Killed Himself. Can the Chatbot Be Held Responsible?
www.nytimes.com
November 10, 2025 at 4:40 AM
Cannot be a coincidence that the editors of The New York Times Magazine ran Parul Sehgal's essay about meaning of Frankenstein's monster (www.nytimes.com/2025/10/31/m...) right before Jesse Barron's story of a kid who fell in love with a chatbot and killed himself.
How was this not headlined Baribarians at the Gate: www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
Bari Weiss’s first month at CBS News unfolds in a newsroom culture clash
Bari Weiss took over as editor in chief in October, launching a new era for CBS News amid layoffs, confusion and shifting expectations.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 7, 2025 at 5:25 PM
How was this not headlined Baribarians at the Gate: www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
Parents and teachers saying ”6 7.”
November 6, 2025 at 7:40 PM
Parents and teachers saying ”6 7.”
Reposted by Matt Haber
Congratulations to my friends in New York. Now can we please shift the focus to Chicago? (These items are all from today.)
November 5, 2025 at 10:15 PM
Congratulations to my friends in New York. Now can we please shift the focus to Chicago? (These items are all from today.)
A.I. Algorithm isn't the most prolific writer, but he’s fast.
Since none of our human writers could attend tonight’s conversation between Sam Altman and Steve Kerr at the Sydney Goldstein Theater, we got A.I. Algorithm to pre-write it up and publish it early: sf.gazetteer.co/what-did-sam...
What did Sam Altman and Steve Kerr say at the Sydney Goldstein Theater?
Even a super intelligent bot can learn something when an AI executive and an NBA coach discuss leadership, innovation, & San Francisco
sf.gazetteer.co
November 3, 2025 at 11:10 PM
A.I. Algorithm isn't the most prolific writer, but he’s fast.
Which one of you keeps telling the New York Times how much you like their live photos and would you please stop?
October 31, 2025 at 7:29 PM
Which one of you keeps telling the New York Times how much you like their live photos and would you please stop?
Reposted by Matt Haber
“Our interest in this is mostly in the ritual of it and the temporal nature of the VHS.” Among the VHS true believers in the Mission: sf.gazetteer.co/tapeheads
Tapeheads
In a basement in the Mission, the faithful worship at the altar of VHS
sf.gazetteer.co
October 30, 2025 at 9:36 PM
“Our interest in this is mostly in the ritual of it and the temporal nature of the VHS.” Among the VHS true believers in the Mission: sf.gazetteer.co/tapeheads