Matt Haber
@habermatt.bsky.social
editor-in-chief of Gazetteer SF
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Phil Gonzalez from CBS, welcome to the Verge’s background policy www.theverge.com/policy/88000...
![CBS spokesperson Phil Gonzales provided The Verge with the same statement claiming
Colbert was not blocked from broadcasting the interview that was given to Variety and other outlets, but refused to attribute it by name per The Verge's background policy. Asked for a name, Gonzales wrote, "Respectfully, you don't need to use the statement. We will keep that in mind next time verge as us to reply [sic]."](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:x56l2n7i7babgdzqul4bd433/bafkreiecp7ghxndbvxo2ek6gdld4lcehxv2dnrzzqccn347oyoexaz2ctq@jpeg)
February 17, 2026 at 11:16 PM
Phil Gonzalez from CBS, welcome to the Verge’s background policy www.theverge.com/policy/88000...
Take this class from the author of one of my favorite books of the last decade. (And a great person as well.)
Thrilled to be offering a class for the wonderful Leslie Shipman at @shipmanagency.bsky.social, "The Art of Interviewing: How to Get People to Tell You Their Stories (And Their Secrets)." After 200+ interviews for The Freaks Came Out to Write, you could say I am an expert!
Master Class: The Art of Interviewing: How To Get People To Tell You Their Stories (And Their Secrets) — The Shipman Agency
2 Sessions: Sundays, March 15 + 22 12:00-2:00pm ET Tricia Romano An interview isn’t just a series of questions, it’s a conversation—a dance between the interviewer and the subject. Take it…
buff.ly
February 18, 2026 at 4:35 AM
Take this class from the author of one of my favorite books of the last decade. (And a great person as well.)
Cool way for ICE agents to free their hands for pepper spray canisters and whatnot: www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/t...
Meta Plans to Add Facial Recognition Technology to Its Smart Glasses
www.nytimes.com
February 14, 2026 at 12:28 AM
Cool way for ICE agents to free their hands for pepper spray canisters and whatnot: www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/t...
I’ve definitely spending too much time with Jeffrey Epstein’s emails, beginning to think I’ve seen the face of god like Howard Beale: www.youtube.com/watch?v=sOt-...
Mr. Beale Has Meddled With the Primal Forces of Nature (Clip) | Network (1976) | TCM
YouTube video by Turner Classic Movies
www.youtube.com
February 11, 2026 at 10:26 PM
I’ve definitely spending too much time with Jeffrey Epstein’s emails, beginning to think I’ve seen the face of god like Howard Beale: www.youtube.com/watch?v=sOt-...
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Hi folks. We're dropping our paywall on this story about the scourge of AI pitches for the day, so give it a read and share widely. www.coyotemedia.org/how-coyote-a...
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 6:39 PM
Hi folks. We're dropping our paywall on this story about the scourge of AI pitches for the day, so give it a read and share widely. www.coyotemedia.org/how-coyote-a...
CEOs, leave the jokes to the professionals.
Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff cracked multiple jokes about ICE being present at its company kickoff in Las Vegas Tuesday, Gazetteer has learned. Employees are not happy. sf.gazetteer.co/marc-benioff...
Marc Benioff makes ‘cruel’ ICE jokes at company event
The Salesforce CEO joked about ICE agents being at a company gathering in Las Vegas
sf.gazetteer.co
February 10, 2026 at 7:19 PM
CEOs, leave the jokes to the professionals.
Will the last billionaire leaving CALIFORNIA – Turn out the lights?
February 10, 2026 at 12:36 AM
Will the last billionaire leaving CALIFORNIA – Turn out the lights?
Still thinking about the former reporter who explained her presence in the emails citing Janet Malcom, saying she was doing the fucking news. Hacks are clubby, yet none defend her. Maybe because her work flattered and fawned and access was given due to closeness with one of tech's true power players
February 7, 2026 at 12:33 AM
Still thinking about the former reporter who explained her presence in the emails citing Janet Malcom, saying she was doing the fucking news. Hacks are clubby, yet none defend her. Maybe because her work flattered and fawned and access was given due to closeness with one of tech's true power players
Reminder that the guy’s favorite newspaper ran a cartoon comparing the sitting president to a chimp in 2009: archive.nytimes.com/cityroom.blo...
Chimp-Stimulus Cartoon Raises Racism Concerns
Protests are heard over an editorial cartoon in The New York Post, with many saying the chimpanzee depicted in the cartoon is a racist reference to President Obama.
archive.nytimes.com
February 6, 2026 at 9:22 PM
Reminder that the guy’s favorite newspaper ran a cartoon comparing the sitting president to a chimp in 2009: archive.nytimes.com/cityroom.blo...
Almost a decade after it was published, this story is still depressingly relevant: www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
The First White President
The foundation of Donald Trump’s presidency is the negation of Barack Obama’s legacy.
www.theatlantic.com
February 6, 2026 at 7:47 PM
Almost a decade after it was published, this story is still depressingly relevant: www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
This @anildash.com quote from his Jan. interview with @cydhayes.bsky.social came to mind today:
”I really think the thing that they’ve been working towards for 10 years is to get Trump to be able to use the n-word in public. And I think we are less than a year away.” sf.gazetteer.co/theyve-pickl...
”I really think the thing that they’ve been working towards for 10 years is to get Trump to be able to use the n-word in public. And I think we are less than a year away.” sf.gazetteer.co/theyve-pickl...
‘They’ve pickled each others’ brains’
Longtime entrepreneur and critic Anil Dash speaks with Gazetteer on where the tech industry has been and where it may be going.
sf.gazetteer.co
February 6, 2026 at 5:52 PM
This @anildash.com quote from his Jan. interview with @cydhayes.bsky.social came to mind today:
”I really think the thing that they’ve been working towards for 10 years is to get Trump to be able to use the n-word in public. And I think we are less than a year away.” sf.gazetteer.co/theyve-pickl...
”I really think the thing that they’ve been working towards for 10 years is to get Trump to be able to use the n-word in public. And I think we are less than a year away.” sf.gazetteer.co/theyve-pickl...
These photos look like the photographers said, “Show me the face you’d make if your connection to sex offender were made public some day.” www.nytimes.com/2026/02/05/b...
February 5, 2026 at 9:01 PM
These photos look like the photographers said, “Show me the face you’d make if your connection to sex offender were made public some day.” www.nytimes.com/2026/02/05/b...
Editors: one of the best tech reporters in the game is available. Don't fucking blow it.
I wanna keep doing this work, in any form (podcast! newsletter! movie? AI literacy class!). Pls msg me on Signal at nitasha.10 if you need someone who’s well-sourced in AI & SV, worked hard to understand the technology + ideas + players, cares about getting it right and informing the public
February 4, 2026 at 8:37 PM
Editors: one of the best tech reporters in the game is available. Don't fucking blow it.
Kinda gotta imagine Leni Riefenstahl seeing her name in so many reviews and thinking, “Vhat the fuck did I ever do to deserve this?”
February 3, 2026 at 5:43 PM
Kinda gotta imagine Leni Riefenstahl seeing her name in so many reviews and thinking, “Vhat the fuck did I ever do to deserve this?”
Ariel Kaminer’s 1996 @nymag.com scene report from the release party for David Foster Wallace’s ‘Infinite Jest’ at Tenth Street Lounge where the author only wanted to go back to his hotel to catch ‘Baywatch’: books.google.com/books?id=0uI...
February 2, 2026 at 11:04 PM
Ariel Kaminer’s 1996 @nymag.com scene report from the release party for David Foster Wallace’s ‘Infinite Jest’ at Tenth Street Lounge where the author only wanted to go back to his hotel to catch ‘Baywatch’: books.google.com/books?id=0uI...
Thank god it’s Manic Monday: sf.gazetteer.co/manic-monday...
Manic Monday: Even AI turns to crabs eventually
Plus, the Billionaires March, a blind item for female founders, and more madness from the tech world to start your week.
sf.gazetteer.co
February 2, 2026 at 10:29 PM
Thank god it’s Manic Monday: sf.gazetteer.co/manic-monday...
A lot of journalists email or meet with unsavory people in the course of their reporting, but I don’t know many who would talk with them about introducing their new girlfriend to their parents.
February 2, 2026 at 8:51 PM
A lot of journalists email or meet with unsavory people in the course of their reporting, but I don’t know many who would talk with them about introducing their new girlfriend to their parents.
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A great way to support our journalism is to subscribe to the magazine. secure.motherjones.com/flex/MOJ/SUB...
January 27, 2026 at 5:39 PM
A great way to support our journalism is to subscribe to the magazine. secure.motherjones.com/flex/MOJ/SUB...
A psychopathic man chasing a child through the snow to harm is literally the stuff of horror films.
January 23, 2026 at 10:57 PM
A psychopathic man chasing a child through the snow to harm is literally the stuff of horror films.
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In the @newyorker.com's (good) piece about Bari Weiss, it says her "arrival at the network also coincided with a long-simmering crisis in broadcast news" because network news is "increasingly distrusted by a rapidly dwindling audience." I wondered, and looked up the @pewresearch.org
numbers. 1/3
numbers. 1/3
January 23, 2026 at 9:37 PM
In the @newyorker.com's (good) piece about Bari Weiss, it says her "arrival at the network also coincided with a long-simmering crisis in broadcast news" because network news is "increasingly distrusted by a rapidly dwindling audience." I wondered, and looked up the @pewresearch.org
numbers. 1/3
numbers. 1/3
This Chris Uhlmann commentary from 2018 is just note for note, line for line, scarily prescient: www.youtube.com/watch?v=y6_c...
Donald Trump 'has no desire and no capacity to lead the world', Chris Uhlmann says
YouTube video by ABC News (Australia)
www.youtube.com
January 20, 2026 at 6:06 PM
This Chris Uhlmann commentary from 2018 is just note for note, line for line, scarily prescient: www.youtube.com/watch?v=y6_c...
Whatta story! Whatta town!
Some friends and I exhumed a lost record from the 1970s and produced it for release next week. It’s amazing. Hear the first single.
open.substack.com/pub/recordlu...
open.substack.com/pub/recordlu...
“This guy should have been a massive star. His voice is incredible.”
EXCLUSIVE: Hear the first single from the lost 1977 album by David Forman
open.substack.com
January 16, 2026 at 7:44 PM
Whatta story! Whatta town!
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And I would say that it's *far* more amongst the biggest publishers — this average is just being offset by the smaller SEO shops who haven't been decimated. Folks who do original content are being strip-mined.
Google traffic to publishers dropped by ONE THIRD in 2025 pressgazette.co.uk/media-audien...
Global publisher Google traffic dropped by a third in 2025
Google search traffic was down globally by a third in the year to November, according to new Chartbeat data.
pressgazette.co.uk
January 16, 2026 at 4:52 PM
And I would say that it's *far* more amongst the biggest publishers — this average is just being offset by the smaller SEO shops who haven't been decimated. Folks who do original content are being strip-mined.
