What is everyone in SF talking about?

IPOs pushing up housing prices

New Waymo car models rolling out

The laser thing in front of city hall

Pride month, parades this weekend

Antisocial guy harassing Scott Weiner on social media at Dolores Park

Lurie administration, after initially making progress on crime and cleaning up the streets seems to be stalling out

Supervisor Jackie Fielder back from long mostly unexplained absence that was maybe due to her illegally leaking confidential information

Robotics Physical AI.

I believe the World Cup is a hot topic right now.

California Billionaire Tax - November 2026 ballot. One off 5%.

Sergey Brin leading the fight against it, donating millions to try to kill it.

Something something AI

Aside from sportsball, AI and deranged [tb]illionaire behavior is basically it.

edit: autocorrect

Muni is not doing well. They've adjusted service to address a huge budget deficit, and the buses are noticeably more crowded and less frequent.

Given how SF has a big global immigrant population, there's a lot of World Cup spirit in the air. Also because Santa Clara is a host stadium.

Housing demand is back up. Not just single family homes but also condos.

Bars are supposedly closing because the 20-somethings are drinking less. Yet at the same time apparently the youngins have discovered the charm of Vesuvio...? Anchor still has not reopened. Woods (IMO) is now the preferred beer spot for locals.

The recall of the Sunset supe was a big deal. Fight over cars on the Great Highway is ongoing.

Pride is in full swing this weekend. Bay To Breakers was great as always. Weather is decent. The "SF doom spiral" story is being discussed less. I.e. SF seems safer. It's a good time to live in SF.

The Bay Area is slowly discovering an ongoing criminal conspiracy, wherein Larry Ellison leads a criminal organization that makes a structured and ongoing effort to inflict fraud, perjury, conspiracy, spoliation, and obstruction of justice upon San Mateo County Superior Court - see https://salanave-runyon.org/herbie.html#06oracle and https://ca-civ393104.org/ for details. Oracle's Legal Department is helpless because this is the unvarnished truth and because the company is no longer welcome in San Mateo County.