Jeremy C. Owens
@jowens510.bsky.social
Editor-in-chief of the San Francisco Business Times.
Favorite random reddit comment of the day: "Truly wild how Covid broke so many rich people's brains, while we were all like, 'Well, guess I'll get into puzzles.'"
November 11, 2025 at 6:25 PM
Favorite random reddit comment of the day: "Truly wild how Covid broke so many rich people's brains, while we were all like, 'Well, guess I'll get into puzzles.'"
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To everyone who has been following our puppy fostering adventure, these puppies are now officially up for adoption! If you live in the Bay Area and want to adopt some of the cutest, friendliest, lovely dogs around, now's your chance. Links in the thread 🧵 below to each pup's page!
More pupdates:
November 9, 2025 at 5:16 PM
To everyone who has been following our puppy fostering adventure, these puppies are now officially up for adoption! If you live in the Bay Area and want to adopt some of the cutest, friendliest, lovely dogs around, now's your chance. Links in the thread 🧵 below to each pup's page!
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I lived and worked in SF for over a decade, in media and in the labor movement, and never heard a single person refer to Nancy Pelosi as “mom” wtaf
November 7, 2025 at 6:36 AM
I lived and worked in SF for over a decade, in media and in the labor movement, and never heard a single person refer to Nancy Pelosi as “mom” wtaf
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BillionToOne stands out among biotech IPOs — first, the diagnostic test company has revenue; second, first-day trading popped www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco...
BillionToOne IPO becomes $5 billion explosion as Bay Area medical test maker's stock soars in debut - San Francisco Business Times
BillionToOne? More like $5 billion.
www.bizjournals.com
November 6, 2025 at 9:37 PM
BillionToOne stands out among biotech IPOs — first, the diagnostic test company has revenue; second, first-day trading popped www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco...
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Definitely not going to excuse Waymo on this one, but for perspective: at least 50 precious human lives that we know of have been ended by Tesla's Autopilot/FSD.
Sad as it is, a dead cat is a long, long way from the biggest scandal in this technology.
Sad as it is, a dead cat is a long, long way from the biggest scandal in this technology.
“You can tell by the love and support he’s getting from the community that he was amazing.”
KitKat, known as the "Mayor of 16th Street," was killed by a Waymo cab last week, sparking calls for more regulation of driverless cars.
KitKat, known as the "Mayor of 16th Street," was killed by a Waymo cab last week, sparking calls for more regulation of driverless cars.
A Robotaxi Killed a Beloved Bodega Cat in San Francisco. People Are Pissed
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November 5, 2025 at 8:13 PM
Definitely not going to excuse Waymo on this one, but for perspective: at least 50 precious human lives that we know of have been ended by Tesla's Autopilot/FSD.
Sad as it is, a dead cat is a long, long way from the biggest scandal in this technology.
Sad as it is, a dead cat is a long, long way from the biggest scandal in this technology.
Called before a single vote was cast.
November 5, 2025 at 4:28 AM
Called before a single vote was cast.
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Nikola Jokic messes up Domantas Sabonis' hair with the laser assist to Gordon
November 4, 2025 at 3:21 AM
Nikola Jokic messes up Domantas Sabonis' hair with the laser assist to Gordon
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...and less than 24 hours later Condé Nast has fired Lex and the rest of the Teen Vogue political desk, even as stories like this were bringing huge numbers of readers to the site
dissatisfied by the New York Times coverage of Zohran Mamdani?
great news! I talked to the guy Thursday about his campaign’s success at bringing community together beyond this election, and contextualized how it’s potentially shifted youth engagement with politics by simply listening @teenvogue.com
great news! I talked to the guy Thursday about his campaign’s success at bringing community together beyond this election, and contextualized how it’s potentially shifted youth engagement with politics by simply listening @teenvogue.com
Zohran Mamdani's Establishment-Fighting Campaign Built Community for Young People
“What Mamdani has done is not only inspire and mobilize young people, but he has exposed the establishment and some of their calcified views of participation and inclusion.”
www.teenvogue.com
November 3, 2025 at 8:16 PM
...and less than 24 hours later Condé Nast has fired Lex and the rest of the Teen Vogue political desk, even as stories like this were bringing huge numbers of readers to the site
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Photos from the 30th annual Dia de los Muertos Festival in Oakland, Calif., on Sunday, Nov. 2, 2025. #diadelosmuertos #dayofthedead #photography #photojournalism
November 2, 2025 at 8:20 PM
Photos from the 30th annual Dia de los Muertos Festival in Oakland, Calif., on Sunday, Nov. 2, 2025. #diadelosmuertos #dayofthedead #photography #photojournalism
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I’ve joked before that Rationalism is to Silicon Valley as Scientology is to Hollywood.
And that’s… not a joke, actually.
The rationalist community is very influential and more than a little cult like.
Eliezer Yudkowsky is the L. Ron Hubbard of rationalism.
This book is his Battlefield Earth
And that’s… not a joke, actually.
The rationalist community is very influential and more than a little cult like.
Eliezer Yudkowsky is the L. Ron Hubbard of rationalism.
This book is his Battlefield Earth
October 16, 2025 at 2:21 PM
I’ve joked before that Rationalism is to Silicon Valley as Scientology is to Hollywood.
And that’s… not a joke, actually.
The rationalist community is very influential and more than a little cult like.
Eliezer Yudkowsky is the L. Ron Hubbard of rationalism.
This book is his Battlefield Earth
And that’s… not a joke, actually.
The rationalist community is very influential and more than a little cult like.
Eliezer Yudkowsky is the L. Ron Hubbard of rationalism.
This book is his Battlefield Earth
Why are we allowing Elon Musk to turn his cars into death missiles with guinea pigs at the wheel?
October 30, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Why are we allowing Elon Musk to turn his cars into death missiles with guinea pigs at the wheel?
Apparently, congressional Republicans have gotten tired of *not doing anything*, so now they're moving on to *undoing things that got done years ago*
Mike Johnson: "Every executive action signed by the autopen without written authorization should be voided ... including all the pardons that he signed."
October 28, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Apparently, congressional Republicans have gotten tired of *not doing anything*, so now they're moving on to *undoing things that got done years ago*
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What we're witnessing with #Melissa is ultra rare in the history of known hurricanes in the Atlantic. This level of sustained intensity and feasting on every joule of ocean heat content without any real disruption is incredible.
Not hyperbole: Jamaica is facing a generational catastrophic event.
Not hyperbole: Jamaica is facing a generational catastrophic event.
October 28, 2025 at 2:23 AM
What we're witnessing with #Melissa is ultra rare in the history of known hurricanes in the Atlantic. This level of sustained intensity and feasting on every joule of ocean heat content without any real disruption is incredible.
Not hyperbole: Jamaica is facing a generational catastrophic event.
Not hyperbole: Jamaica is facing a generational catastrophic event.
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There's been endless talk about an AI bubble, but less about exactly how, why, and how much it's a bubble. So I turned to the framework put forward by scholars Brent Goldfarb and David A. Kirsch, authors of "Bubbles and Crashes," for assessing tech bubbles.
Spoiler: On a scale of 1 to 8, AI is an 8
Spoiler: On a scale of 1 to 8, AI is an 8
AI Is the Bubble to Burst Them All
I talked to the scholars who literally wrote the book on tech bubbles—and applied their test.
www.wired.com
October 27, 2025 at 8:58 PM
There's been endless talk about an AI bubble, but less about exactly how, why, and how much it's a bubble. So I turned to the framework put forward by scholars Brent Goldfarb and David A. Kirsch, authors of "Bubbles and Crashes," for assessing tech bubbles.
Spoiler: On a scale of 1 to 8, AI is an 8
Spoiler: On a scale of 1 to 8, AI is an 8
The moment when flash bangs were used at the Alameda Coast Guard Island protest this morning, from a friend who was there.
October 23, 2025 at 4:56 PM
The moment when flash bangs were used at the Alameda Coast Guard Island protest this morning, from a friend who was there.
Put everything you got on the Mariners right now, Maple Leafs curse in effect.
Vladimir Guerrero Jr. is rocking an Auston Matthews jersey for Game 7 of the ALCS 👀🇨🇦
📸 sportsnet/X
📸 sportsnet/X
October 20, 2025 at 9:54 PM
Put everything you got on the Mariners right now, Maple Leafs curse in effect.
Come for the cover of a @missmargoprice.bsky.social song at the #NoKings protest in Alameda, stick around for the special guest in the crowd shot.
October 18, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Come for the cover of a @missmargoprice.bsky.social song at the #NoKings protest in Alameda, stick around for the special guest in the crowd shot.
Somebody got on a plane back to Hawaii and decided he no longer wanted the smoke.
October 17, 2025 at 8:40 PM
Somebody got on a plane back to Hawaii and decided he no longer wanted the smoke.
RIP to D'Angelo - those three albums will be banging in the Alameda bureau of the San Francisco Business Times today.
www.mercurynews.com/2025/10/14/d...
www.mercurynews.com/2025/10/14/d...
D’Angelo, Grammy-winning R&B singer who became an icon with ‘Untitled (How Does It Feel),’ dies
The singer’s family confirmed in a statement Tuesday that he died after battle with cancer. His family called him a “shining star of our family and has dimmed his light for us in this life.”
www.mercurynews.com
October 15, 2025 at 5:53 PM
RIP to D'Angelo - those three albums will be banging in the Alameda bureau of the San Francisco Business Times today.
www.mercurynews.com/2025/10/14/d...
www.mercurynews.com/2025/10/14/d...
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Locking in for oral arguments on the big voting rights case at the Supreme Court.
The next two hours or so will be... incredibly bad.
The next two hours or so will be... incredibly bad.
October 15, 2025 at 1:59 PM
Locking in for oral arguments on the big voting rights case at the Supreme Court.
The next two hours or so will be... incredibly bad.
The next two hours or so will be... incredibly bad.
Here is the gigantic structure Marc Benioff built in the middle of downtown San Francisco for his big, private party this week.
Bunch of rich white folks were chilling on couches here when I got off the bus this morning.
Look like a town that needs a military intervention to you?
Bunch of rich white folks were chilling on couches here when I got off the bus this morning.
Look like a town that needs a military intervention to you?
October 13, 2025 at 10:07 PM
Here is the gigantic structure Marc Benioff built in the middle of downtown San Francisco for his big, private party this week.
Bunch of rich white folks were chilling on couches here when I got off the bus this morning.
Look like a town that needs a military intervention to you?
Bunch of rich white folks were chilling on couches here when I got off the bus this morning.
Look like a town that needs a military intervention to you?
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A thing I have learned from being online since 1995:
If you're a writer, editor, journalist, academic, you have to be ready to go contrarian when you feel it. And if you're feeling it all the time, such that it's become your idenitity, that's a signal. You broke your mind.
If you're a writer, editor, journalist, academic, you have to be ready to go contrarian when you feel it. And if you're feeling it all the time, such that it's become your idenitity, that's a signal. You broke your mind.
October 12, 2025 at 6:58 PM
A thing I have learned from being online since 1995:
If you're a writer, editor, journalist, academic, you have to be ready to go contrarian when you feel it. And if you're feeling it all the time, such that it's become your idenitity, that's a signal. You broke your mind.
If you're a writer, editor, journalist, academic, you have to be ready to go contrarian when you feel it. And if you're feeling it all the time, such that it's become your idenitity, that's a signal. You broke your mind.
Elon talked a lot of trash about the Bay Area while moving Tesla and Twitter to Texas, but as always, don't trust what that man says.
Neuralink now has a big new building in South City:
www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco...
And xAI is looking for Bay Area offices:
www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco...
Neuralink now has a big new building in South City:
www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco...
And xAI is looking for Bay Area offices:
www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco...
www.bizjournals.com
October 9, 2025 at 11:26 PM
Elon talked a lot of trash about the Bay Area while moving Tesla and Twitter to Texas, but as always, don't trust what that man says.
Neuralink now has a big new building in South City:
www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco...
And xAI is looking for Bay Area offices:
www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco...
Neuralink now has a big new building in South City:
www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco...
And xAI is looking for Bay Area offices:
www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco...
Bay Area startups collected roughly two-thirds of worldwide VC investment in AI last quarter - nearly $30 billion flowing into our region in just three months.
www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco...
www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco...
Bay Area AI startups won more than 30% of global venture-capital investment in the last three months - San Francisco Business Times
Artificial-intelligence startups raised $45 billion globally last quarter, and roughly two-thirds of that money landed in the Bay Area.
www.bizjournals.com
October 8, 2025 at 9:37 PM
Bay Area startups collected roughly two-thirds of worldwide VC investment in AI last quarter - nearly $30 billion flowing into our region in just three months.
www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco...
www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco...
The next season of Reachers is going to be him in the UK hunting down the dude who made this list.
lmao a list of the top 20 blues artists of all time where the top 5 are all white guys... hellorayo.co.uk/planet-rock/...
The Top 20 Greatest Blues Artists of All Time
Here at Planet Rock, our resident blues expert Bernard Doherty brings you the...
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October 7, 2025 at 9:15 PM
The next season of Reachers is going to be him in the UK hunting down the dude who made this list.