Josh Wolf
A Man Just Won A Court Case Using ChatGPT
For Christopher Brock, ChatGPT isn’t just a cool toy — It’s his personal legal team. After last week’s victory in the courtroom, his $20 a month investment has paid for itself hundreds of times over. The trouble began in May of last year when Brock decided to build a small
Can AI be Used to End Poverty?
By Josh Wolf AI and UBI: A Glimpse into the Future of Wealth and Work In the not-so-distant future, imagine a world where artificial intelligence (AI) has become so advanced that it’s creating a colossal amount of wealth. This isn’t some sci-fi fantasy; it’s the vision of Sam Altman, co-founder and president of
The November 2024 BAS Voter Guide
A Big Change to This Year’s Voter Guide We’ve been doing voter guides for a really long time. I’m pretty sure we put our first one out in like 2010 or something. And I know that thousands of you rely on our voter guides to help you make decision. But
Burning Man 2021: Lawless, Unprecedented, & Just What We Needed
The young, broke and beautiful took over Black Rock City this past weekend after the non- profit organization cancelled their event.
Andrew Yang is Running for President on a Universal Basic Income Platform
In 2018, the impossible has become reality. Cars are driving themselves, Apple is worth more than a trillion dollars and Donald Trump is president. While these may at first seem unrelated, they tell the story of how our country has veered into a dystopian nightmare, and how, if we act
Fugue: The Immersive Performance that Wanders Through the Mission
fugue fyo͞oɡ (noun) (noun: fugue; plural noun: fugues) 1. MUSIC a contrapuntal composition in which a short melody or phrase (the subject) is introduced by one part and successively taken up by others and developed by interweaving the parts. 2. PSYCHIATRY a state or period of loss of awareness of one’s
Why is Samuel L. Jackson Calling San Francisco voters?
You won’t believe who called me the other day, Samuel L. Jackson, yes, the famous Hollywood film actor. Well, he didn’t exactly call me but the robo-call I received from him urging me to vote for the incumbent supervisor of District 5 may have been illegal: Most of us know
The Man Behind Saturday’s Armed Stand-Off at Civic Center Plaza
The man who eventually surrendered to the SFPD after a six-hour stand off in Civic Center Plaza is a former lawyer who was disbarred last year. Patrick Missud, 48, is being held in a San Francisco jail without bail, after he called the police on himself to say that he