Anonymous AI Engineer Funding SF Events, How Startup Decision Making is Like an Outdoor Survival Trip, the Guy Who Reports on Hacks Gets Pwned Himself, and +++ [link blog]
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An Anonymous AI Engineer is Funding the City’s Oddest Events [Zara Stone/San Francisco Standard] — She’s 23, lives in SF, and works at an AI startup, but otherwise we don’t know much about francisco san. But she’s using $50,000 of her own money to fund ideas that organizers send her, such as a foot race where all runners carry flowers. Her website lists the status of stuff she’s funded, and the one time she was ripped off [“hot tubs on ocean beach, $2250”]. More of this please — keep SF weird.
Decision-Making [Molly Graham/Glue Club] — Molly relates her experiences as an instructor at the National Outdoor Leadership School (NOLS) and their decision making framework for groups, to her own experiences as an executive in technology companies.
A Sneaky Phish Just Grabbed my Mailchimp Mailing List [Troy Hunt/Have I Been Pwned] — Troy runs Have I Been Pwned, a useful site to check your personal information against what’s been leaked unencrypted in various hacks. Here he relates a recent story of having his own Mailchimp account hacked via a Spearphish. It’s instructive to read how ever really aware folks can fall victim to well constructed attempts (only going to get worse with AI)
GrandTheftAuto: Real Life [Jonathan Franklin/Businessweek] — Just a crazy overview of current trends in domestic car theft, and why about 10% of them end up being shipped overseas.
How the Irish Pub Became One of The Emerald Isle’s Greatest Exports [Liza Weisstuch/Smithsonian Magazine] — I usually think of the ‘self assembled bars’ as one of those Hard Rock Cafe style joints with just a bunch of memorabilia or other themed crap on the walls. But I never realized how many Irish Pubs are built this way too.
The Burren is one of the most recent projects of the Irish Pub Company, a Dublin-based design group that has created upwards of 2,000 pubs in more than 100 countries on every continent except Antarctica. Germany is its biggest European client, and Switzerland is a close second. In Russia, it has established three venues in Moscow, one in Sochi and one in Novosibirsk, in Siberia. The company’s handiwork is also found in the United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Bahrain, Japan, Nigeria and Mauritius, and at the New York-New York Hotel in Las Vegas. A project is currently underway in a new high-end shopping center in Tashkent, Uzbekistan. This year alone, the company has nine projects in various stages of completion, including in the Canary Islands and Hout Bay, a Cape Town suburb, as well as four under discussion.
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Originally published at https://hunterwalk.com on April 6, 2025.
