Caroline O'Donovan

@SFStandard tech reporter, ex-WaPo, née BuzzFeed. Labor & the human condition. [email protected]. DM/email to chat on Signal.

[Caroline O'Donovan @ceodonovan]

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[Emily Shugerman @eshugerman]

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[Caroline O'Donovan @ceodonovan]

has anyone ever experimented with displaying bylines in social share previews? feel like this could revolutionize the game

[Josh Eidelson @josheidelson]

New @BW feature: A landmark case was unearthing new revelations about Amazon's intimate, intensive regulation of drivers it claims aren't its employees. Then Trump put Amazon's former lawyer in charge https://t.co/WhkEoRk0JF

Based on 1000s of pages of records and 50+ interviews

[The San Francisco Standard @sfstandard]

In addition to Anthropic, which is valued at $965 billion, OpenAI and XAI are expected to go public. We’re about to see what happens when billions of dollars flood a city at once.

📝: @heatherkelly https://t.co/FszoF93k7a

[Joe Weisenthal @TheStalwart]

Holy crap. On the eve of the IPO, SpaceX employees are organizing! ✊✊✊https://t.co/fghxmDQEeu

[rat king 🐀 @MikeIsaac]

empty homes populated by destructive robots 👍

[Techmeme @Techmeme]

Sources: Amazon has shut down an internal leaderboard that tracked employees' use of AI tools after workers tried to boost their scores with needless tasks (@rafeuddin_ / Financial Times)

(Visit Techmeme dot com for the link and full context!)

[SFist @SFist]

A local Airbnb host says an SF robotics company booked a reservation without telling him that his house would allegedly be used as a testing ground for a robotics prototype, and he claims he was left with over $12,000 in damage. https://t.co/JdWnIPhzoY

[Emily Shugerman @eshugerman]

Good news, The SF Standard is literally doing this! Read The Waggle, folks!

[Daniel Tenreiro @TenreiroDaniel]

@Pontifex Holy Father the post will perform better if you append the url in a threaded reply as opposed to linking it in the tweet

[Jon Steinberg @jonsteinberg31]

One of SF's crown jewels, the CA Academy of Sciences, has faced one crisis after another in recent years: mass layoffs, growing deficits, dodgy decision-making. The @sfstandard's @Sam_Mondros investigated the many missteps that have humbled the academy. https://t.co/fZLIrx7LxS

[Emily Shugerman @eshugerman]

Tech billionaires are throwing themselves into CA politics so aggressively it's surprising even their allies. @hannahcwiley and I break down the flood of spending ahead of next week's primaries: https://t.co/qc0PoLIrRD

[Ali Breland @alibreland]

If Austin wants to be a tier 1, tech city it needs to get serious and stop using this water for frivolous recreation and start using it for data centers. If you don’t understand this, you’re going to get left behind

[The San Francisco Standard @sfstandard]

New: Waymo has suspended all freeway service.

📝: @leahygarrett https://t.co/aK7GA4sIac

[Julia Turner @juliaturner]

L.A. Material is HIRING. We're looking for an excellent and organized editor.

Come help us build something rigorous and revelatory and original and fun! We're having the best time.

Details here:

https://t.co/QwSTnjk2Hk

[Emily Dreyfuss @EmilyDreyfuss]

.@Emily_Sundberg is right. I am hiring a gossip intern for @sfstandard. Please apply if you are obsessed with San Francisco society, power, and culture, get genuine FOMO if you miss a good party, know how to read a room, and are funny. https://t.co/l20K9Batrv

[Caroline O'Donovan @ceodonovan]

i'm a loser baby https://t.co/HlrlyabI6u

[Emily Dreyfuss @EmilyDreyfuss]

Update: This employee was laid off.

"It is a huge financial bummer but the rest of it is honestly great. I’m definitely relieved."

https://t.co/d2nHgTsIe2

[The San Francisco Standard @sfstandard]

Hundreds of Meta employees in the Bay Area woke up on Wednesday without jobs as the social media giant, which owns Facebook, WhatsApp, and Instagram, plans to lay off 10% of its global workforce.

📝: @ceodonovan and @EmilyDreyfuss https://t.co/qR9OS2ExrR

[Emily Dreyfuss @EmilyDreyfuss]

If you work at Meta and are stressed tonight, I want to hear how you are coping and what you plan to do tomorrow. Please get in touch on Signal at emilyrobin.83 or email me at [email protected]. You will be kept anonymous.