Scott Lucas

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Author, Last Night in San Francisco (2025, Steerforth Press) https://t.co/Mvm6wSc21a

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Opinion | Super Smash Francisco: Recasting the city's icons as Nintendo characters

May 26, 2024 | sfstandard.com | Scott Lucas |Jesse Rogala

Published May 26, 2024 • 2:00pmOn Friday, beloved video game company Nintendo announced it would be opening its second-ever retail store in the United States in San Francisco. (Doom loop? More like a kaboom loop!) Like many of you, we’re pretty excited. So excited, in fact, we started thinking about which San Francisco icons could play which Nintendo characters. Here, we present our scientifically unimpeachable results. Obviously, the Splash Bros. are the perfect people to stand in for the Smash Bros.
Opinion | 'I, Gavin': Gov. Newsom pens the political memoir of our dreams

May 17, 2024 | sfstandard.com | Scott Lucas

Published May 17, 2024 • 6:00amLast week, California Gov. Gavin Newsom announced he would publish an autobiography sometime after the 2024 presidential election. Newsom’s planned memoir has added to the speculation that he will be running for president, but the book’s contents have not been disclosed—until now. Thanks to The San Francisco Standard’s innovative reporting techniques (we read a lot of fan fiction), we can now reveal these exclusive excerpts from Newsom’s life story.
Opinion | London Breed gets schooled in China: A one-act play

Apr 18, 2024 | sfstandard.com | Scott Lucas

SCENE: EARLY MORNING IN SHENZHEN, CHINA. WEDNESDAY, APRIL 17, 2024. A HUSHED SIXTH-GRADE CLASSROOM. LONDON BREED ENTERS STAGE RIGHT. TEACHER: Good morning, children. Today, our guest is the Mayor of San Francisco, London Breed. She is here in China this week to talk to our leaders about important things, like economic development and cultural exchange. The mayor will now take your questions. CHILD 1: You’re here because you want our pandas, aren’t you? BREED: Well, not just that.
Opinion | A modest proposal: It’s time for North Beach to secede from the city

Mar 29, 2024 | sfstandard.com | Scott Lucas

I have a modest proposal: It’s time to split San Francisco in two. It may seem like a radical solution, but without a conscious civic uncoupling, we’ll be stuck in the current dilemma for the rest of our lives (or at least until the AI kids bring on the End Times). I came to this conclusion this week after the Board of Supervisors overrode Mayor London Breed’s veto of a bill that would downzone parts of the city in and around North Beach.
Briefing: U.S. Authorities Investigating Meta Over Drug Sales on Platforms

Mar 16, 2024 | theinformation.com | Sylvia Varnham O' |Abram Brown |Scott Lucas |Sylvia Varnham O'Regan

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Briefing: HashiCorp Stock Rises 12% Following Report That It’s Looking For Buyers

Mar 16, 2024 | theinformation.com | Abram Brown |Scott Lucas |Martin Peers |Amir Efrati

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Untrue Crime

Feb 8, 2024 | altaonline.com | Scott Lucas

Chalk up one more loop in the city’s doom. The crime scene is predictable, the same thing the bleary-eyed detectives see every week. Only the details are new: tonight’s victim is a well-dressed white man lying dead on the pavement. After a search, the cops find his wallet nearby. They’re shocked. He was a prominent executive at a tech company, the creator of a massively popular cash-transfer app. Immediately, their speculation begins: Was this a robbery gone bad? A random street crime?
Israel-Hamas war: will the US and Iran be drawn into a broader conflict? It's Tehran's move

Oct 30, 2023 | econotimes.com | Scott Lucas

Washington has sent a warning to Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, about Iranian anti-US provocation in the Middle East. This has been going on sporadically for years, but from October 17 to October 25 there was an increase, as Iran-backed militias in Syria and Iraq carried out 16 drone and rocket attacks on bases with US personnel. One contractor died of a heart attack, and 21 troops suffered light injuries. The US warning came in two parts.
Israel-Hamas war: will the US and Iran be drawn into a broader conflict? It's Tehran's move

Oct 30, 2023 | tolerance.ca | Scott Lucas |College Dublin

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The Hackiest Place on Earth

Oct 5, 2023 | altaonline.com | Scott Lucas

Well, it’s another perfect day in New San Francisco, the new Bay Area city brought to you by the fine, fine folks at Flannery Associates, a subsidiary of California Forever, LLC, all rights reserved. This essay was adapted from the Alta newsletter, delivered every Thursday. SIGN UPAs I woke up today, October 5, 2065, the Neuralink 4.0 implanted in my brain during the first term of the Zuckerberg presidency informed me that the Air Quality Index was only 312.