Yeah, it’s still the slow season in the taxi world. And now it’s cold. Christmas cold. And it’s getting rainy, too. El Niño ‘n all… The good news is, after a short…
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Gregory Ferenstein via Business Insider: In a rare and far-ranging interview, Uber CEO Travis Kalanick and Alphabet’s Eric Schmidt sat down with each other to discuss their vision for the future of…
Just when you thought it was safe to participate in the sharing economy, there’s this: criminals have found an easy way into your life via Uber, Tinder, Airbnb and no doubt some…
So, nothing’s wrong right now. But something’s not right: Is it the changing seasons? That undisclosed wet stuff falling from the sky in San Francisco? Mass shootings? (Nah.) The holidays? I took…
via Sustainable Pulse: The Organic Consumers Association (OCA), IFOAM International Organics, Navdanya, Regeneration International (RI), and Millions Against Monsanto, joined by dozens of global food, farming and environmental justice groups announced today…
Brandon Smith via Activist Post: “The contemporary quest for world order will require a coherent strategy to establish a concept of order withinthe various regions and to relate these regional orders to…
Thanksgiving week is usually slow. Reeeeel s l o w . . . Thanksgiving proper, Citizen’s Cab lowers the gate (cab rental) for us drivers down from $91 to $61, as an…
Compelling stories, ambient recordings, and interesting background music, woven into a radical pagan tapestry with a high audio-geek quotient. Via Gods & Radicals: In episode 3, we hear from several members of…
I’m all Paris-ed and “let’s throw up barbed-wire fences to keep us free“-ed out. Feeling kind of dark. So, please indulge as I pitch this one ride out there, to cheer us…
They’ve been warning of a big El Niño in California. Say it’s gonna cause great landslides in the wake of this historic drought. But of course, they qualify that it won’t do…
I’m just a cab driver. But unlike the current GOP front runner, even I know that the debt ceiling is about paying back the money congress has already borrowed on Americans’ behalf….
Pre-crime policing is happening. Jack Smith IV at Tech.Mic: Every morning, officers across the nation get a predictive map that tells them where crime is likely to happen before it’s committed. When…
It’s dark. It’s early. It’s Monday. And my new “medicine” didn’t keep me from a sleepless night. Still, I am cabbie. And this is San Francisco. There are paratransits, dregs and (yyyaaawwwnn)…
Bernie Suarez via Activist Post: A Senate oversight report just blew the lid on the U.S. military worship ceremonies we all see at sporting events all over the United States. We see…
Tricking Passengers, Your driver spent the week working on a treat, getting San Francisco TAXI: Life in the Merge Lane… (Book 2) out the door. (See cool promo vid at end of…
Rob Virtue via Express: Authorities reported a group of five men hunting without licences was attacked by the big cat at a private game farm near the Kruger. Matome Mahlale, 24,was killed…
Remember the “Purge” that was supposed to happen last Halloween where hordes of bloodthirsty tweens and teens were going to go on a murder spree? This year the Fear Porn Du Jour…
Jim Vorel via Paste Magazine: From the living dead to the walking dead to the typing dead, zombies have completely and utterly suffused 21st century culture. And that’s a pretty weird phenomena,…
It’s 11:30am on Thursday and I’m cruising the Haight for flags, $24 into the green… I’ve been good about not drinking or abusing nighttime cough syrup over the last week to get…
Terrence McCoy via Washington Post: It began with a painting, a biologist and an idea to disprove the widely-held axiom that trees are static. The biologist first affixed a paintbrush to a…
Tuesday 10:28am: I’m cruising east up Market, away from downtown. It’s just me and Citizen’s Cab #137 fishing for fares, as we cross the brink into the Loin… There’s a dude flagging…
Bob Black, “The Abolition of Work” via Primitivism: No one should ever work. Work is the source of nearly all the misery in the world. Almost any evil you’d care to…
I took some days off, for the soul… to “think”. Each time my kid came home from school to find me on the couch staring into space, he gave me crap, “Dad!…
Well this is bizarre. Louise Kelly via Independent: A 24-year-old woman who went missing from her home in 1984, sparking a 31-year-long murder mystery, has been found alive and well. Computer science…
Monday 4:15am: I haven’t slept. Well, I haven’t slept well. Okay, okay, I admit it… I relapsed into nighttime cough syrup abuse. And sedatives of this type are widely reputed to rob…