san francisco San Francisco is spending $1.7 million to build a single public toilet Mark Frauenfelder
red tape Innocent people in Humboldt County are being fined millions for cannabis crimes Mark Frauenfelder
india Man overcharged 25 cents for a train ticket in India gets refund after 22-year fight in court Mark Frauenfelder
san francisco San Francisco man gets parking ticket after curb was repainted red while his car was parked Mark Frauenfelder
bureaucracy San Francisco native Jason Yu spent $200,000 trying to open an ice cream shop, but the city's bureaucracy beat him Mark Frauenfelder
red tape The excruciating process of applying for unemployment on a Kafkaesque Massachusetts state website Mark Frauenfelder
tech Vintage 1967 Sony tape recorder ad: 18-pound camera and recorder pack goes 'anywhere you go' – a look at retro technology Popkin
music An AI-generated Beatles album I will actually listen to: "Rubber Soul, but it's Motown" Ellsworth Toohey
Culture Spotify uses ghost artists to "shape listening behavior" and avoid paying real ones Rob Beschizza