Emma Silvers
@emmaruthless.bsky.social
Writer, editor, cofounder @coyotemedia.org. Erstwhile culture editor @ KQED, SF Chronicle, various beloved & defunct alt-weeklies emmasilvers.com
today on COYOTE: on ChatTJB, the "startup" "AI" "company" where one guy answers all of your prompts himself so that you stop giving your brain function over to LLMs. www.coyotemedia.org/chattjb-want...
ChatTJB Wants You to Stop Trusting LLMs
A San Francisco poet is answering your prompts badly, slowly, and earnestly.
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"A deep investment in transit research would ultimately accomplish what AI companies have, so far, been unable to materialize: genuine increases in productivity." www.coyotemedia.org/funding-bay-...
A Modest Proposal for Funding Transit Instead of AI
In the ’60s, the Bay Area almost got a high-speed train from Marin to San Jose. What could happen if we dreamed big again?
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truly loved editing this piece from @annaleen.bsky.social on how well-funded public transit systems could transform our lives let’s hear it for journalism that helps us imagine a future that’s not fucking terrible!! www.coyotemedia.org/funding-bay-...
A Modest Proposal for Funding Transit Instead of AI
In the ’60s, the Bay Area almost got a high-speed train from Marin to San Jose. What could happen if we dreamed big again?
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Early on @coyotemedia.org made a list of dream bylines we'd LOVE to have on the site and @annaleen.bsky.social was one of the first on it for me. So stoked to see this piece about ~~speculative transit~~ and big dreams for the Bay Area. www.coyotemedia.org/funding-bay-...
A Modest Proposal for Funding Transit Instead of AI
In the ’60s, the Bay Area almost got a high-speed train from Marin to San Jose. What could happen if we dreamed big again?
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in which @annaleen.bsky.social asks us to dream big: “What if we gave public transportation the same amount of money that investors have given to AI? With billions of dollars, what could transit do? And how might it transform our cities and lives?” www.coyotemedia.org/funding-bay-...
A Modest Proposal for Funding Transit Instead of AI
In the ’60s, the Bay Area almost got a high-speed train from Marin to San Jose. What could happen if we dreamed big again?
coyotemedia.org
I have long wanted to write for the excellent Bay Area publishing collective COYOTE...and they let me write something that honestly no other publication would. All hail independent media!!
Reo Eveleth@reveleth.com · 2d agoEarly on @coyotemedia.org made a list of dream bylines we'd LOVE to have on the site and @annaleen.bsky.social was one of the first on it for me. So stoked to see this piece about ~~speculative transit~~ and big dreams for the Bay Area. www.coyotemedia.org/funding-bay-...
Are you saying the DOJ withdrew that pool vandalism indictment… upon reflection?
friends! do you like a discount? who doesn't like a discount?! @coyotemedia.org is offering annual subscriptions rn at 25% off, which means a full year for just $60 the code to use is HOTDOG, which is reason #458 i love working at this fever dream of an outlet www.coyotemedia.org/summer-2026-...
COYOTE’s Summer 2026 Subscriber Drive
We're having a sale!
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hey LA folks! doing a thing next week @ Dynasty Typewriter! a gonzo thriller in the vein of Wild in the Streets and V for Vendetta that i wrote with my hunky trans boyfriend/partner @mrmahoney.bsky.social tickets are limited! check with someone involved in the production to get in! #transjoy!!!
leaning back in my chair, running a hand over my chin, tapping on the desk for a minute, then clicking "interested"
The team at @coyotemedia.org is running a summer sale, with the goal of adding 100 paid members. Your money goes directly to worker-owners who are publishing fun, interesting, and unique work. With more $ they'll be able to do investigations, events, and more! www.coyotemedia.org/summer-2026-...
COYOTE’s Summer 2026 Subscriber Drive
We're having a sale!
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It’s a good time to support indie news in the Bay Area that won’t salivate over billionaires or throw AI slop all over articles! An annual subscription to COYOTE is 25% til Aug 8 with the code HOTDOG. www.coyotemedia.org/summer-2026-...
COYOTE’s Summer 2026 Subscriber Drive
We're having a sale!
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i cannot handle the number of intrusive AI widgets on every single goddamn website offering to summarize extremely short blocks of text for me in some cases you are adding more text than the original text I am just trying to read??
Some difficult news: Fred, the Oakland baby night heron that @nuala.bsky.social and friends rescued in the course of reporting our herons and housing story, passed away. You can read Nuala's obituary here: petobits.coyotemedia.org#fred0729
Kat Ferreira@katferreira.bsky.social · last wk.Thank you @coyotemedia.org & Nuala Bishari for keeping up with the plight of our heron rookery! 💘 "The kids who asked the city to make the herons the official bird should be able to grow up seeing them in the wilds of Oakland, not just on their library cards." www.coyotemedia.org/herons-or-ho...
In San Francisco, indie theater and the leather community are both struggling. ‘Satyricon’ asks: Combined, can they keep each other afloat? And what better way to find out than with a story about kinky queer people contemplating the decline of civilization? www.coyotemedia.org/gay-situatio...
A Gay Situationship in a Doom Loop: A 2,000-Year-Old Play Makes Everything New Old Again
‘Satyricon’ brings sex, excess, and the decline of an empire to a historic San Francisco leather bar.
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Today, through our partnership with The 19th: The SF Asian Women's Shelter, which provides housing and help to survivors of DV and fields 1,100 calls a year, has lost nearly $500K in federal grants thanks to Trump’s war on ‘gender ideology’ and diversity. www.coyotemedia.org/san-francisc...
This Domestic Violence Shelter Was Told It No Longer Aligns With the Trump Administration’s Priorities
Trump’s war on ‘gender ideology’ and diversity is hurting San Francisco Asian Women’s Shelter’s ability to help victims — many of whom can’t get help anywhere else. It’s already cost them nearly $500,...
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Jordan Catalano being a piece of shit is some of the least breaking news I’ve ever heard
Coyote Condo would legit be an incredible reality show
Los Angeles Times@latimes.com · last wk.Abandoned West Hollywood construction site becomes 'coyote condo' with nighttime howls
You know what's also leaky, erotic, and alive? THIS PLAY we just published a preview of! www.coyotemedia.org/gay-situatio...
A Gay Situationship in a Doom Loop: A 2,000-Year-Old Play Makes Everything New Old Again
‘Satyricon’ brings sex, excess, and the decline of an empire to a historic San Francisco leather bar.
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Reo Eveleth@reveleth.com · last wk.One of the fun parts of running the @coyotemedia.org calendar is that I get to write teaser text like "We’ve also got alien costumes, several forms of magic, bratwurst throwing, Yiddish puppetry, and something described as “intelligent, leaky, erotic, and alive.” The Bay Area is NOT dead, y'all.
editing this theater story by Adam Brinklow was the most capital-c Culture I've gotten in weeks subscribe to @coyotemedia.org so we can assign more freelance stories to people who are experts on topics we don't have covered on staff ya dig www.coyotemedia.org/gay-situatio...
A Gay Situationship in a Doom Loop: A 2,000-Year-Old Play Makes Everything New Old Again
‘Satyricon’ brings sex, excess, and the decline of an empire to a historic San Francisco leather bar.
coyotemedia.org
indie pub cage match when
Oakland Review of Books@oaklandreviewofbooks.org · last wk.Our friends at @coyotemedia.org are doing a subscription drive, so support them if you can (even though they outrageously stole our unique and proprietary idea to be a hyperlocal bay area voice that publishes an events calendar and is mad about tech barons): www.coyotemedia.org/email/ad0d0c...
Fun fact: While reporting this story I helped RESCUE A NIGHT HERON. Their name is Fred and you have to read the piece to find out what happened 👀
Reo Eveleth@reveleth.com · last wk.Really interesting piece by @nuala.bsky.social about the battle for a lot in Oakland. It's a perfect spot for housing, and the planned building seems actually good and will be truly (!!) affordable (!!). It's also going to destroy the homes of a bunch of herons. www.coyotemedia.org/herons-or-ho...
RIP Dick Vivian, one of a kind. anyone wanna share a record he recommended to you? Wanna pull together a little thing for @coyotemedia.org www.kqed.org/arts/1399204...
Dick Vivian, Rooky Ricardo’s Record Store Owner, Dies at 78 | KQED
The Lower Haight shop owner with a contagious love for music had been diagnosed with Stage 3 pancreatic cancer.
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This Is Just To Say I have turned off the AI features that were in the update and which you were probably hoping to monetize Fuck you they were stupid so unnecessary and so annoying
Hacked source code reveals how Suno scraped decades worth of music and podcasts from the internet to train its AI tool. www.404media.co/hack-reveals...
Hack Reveals Suno AI Music Generator Scraped YouTube, Deezer, and Genius
Hacked source code reveals how Suno scraped decades worth of music and podcasts from the internet to train its AI tool.
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Heyyy we’re at the Rock n Roll Flea Market in Alameda all day today! Come say hi and grab a sticker!
I particularly like how he’s had the AI portray Canada as pristine wilderness and his country as a denuded wasteland of terrible urbanism, crowded sprawl, deprived housing, absent privacy and roads that literally go nowhere
