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Zara Stone

San Francisco

Freelance Journalist at Freelance

Culture reporter @sfstandard | tech, biz, + SF life | 🇬🇧➡🇺🇸 | Author "Killer Looks: The History of Plastic Surgery In Prisons." [email protected]

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  • 2 weeks ago | sfstandard.com | Zara Stone

    Possibly the most surprising entry on The Standard’s SF100 is Aella, who sits among better-known talents like George Kittle and Zac Posen in our Performers category. An independent sex researcher, X provocateur, and wildly popular Substacker, Aella is suddenly everywhere: on Lex Fridman’s podcast, featured in The Atlantic, and now, appearing in our guide of the most powerful and influential people in San Francisco.

  • 3 weeks ago | sfstandard.com | Zara Stone

    To court Gen Z, nuclear activists threw an atomic dance party to get down with the meltdown. As an EDM mix of Britney Spears’ “Toxic” blasted on Sunday night, Charles Oppenheimer, grandson of the father of the nuclear bomb, jumped around a packed dance floor in SoMa, wearing a glittery green jacket and a T-shirt printed with a giant white atom. It was his 50th birthday, and he was celebrating at the Nuclear Rave, sponsored by SF Climate Week.

  • 1 month ago | sfstandard.com | Zara Stone

    In March, the line to enter MNT, a new pilates and coworking space in the Marina that bills itself as San Francisco’s “first wellness social club,” wrapped around the block.

  • 1 month ago | sfstandard.com | Zara Stone

    Their baby’s first car ride was fully autonomous. Are they postpartum pioneers — or have they lost their early-adopting minds? Mario Sanoguera had never been so nervous to order a robotaxi. On Dec. 20, just two days after the birth of his first child, Mia, the 32-year-old and his wife, Rachel Wu, stood outside Kaiser Permanente hospital in Anza Vista and summoned a Waymo.

  • 1 month ago | sfstandard.com | Zara Stone

    In November 2023, Joel Reske, a 28-year-old software engineer, received a Venmo for $700 from a stranger. The payment memo was tagged “for the flower run.” Reske, who lives in the Lower Haight, had pitched the idea of a flower run — an unofficial 5K in which people in race bibs and tutus would hand out flowers in Golden Gate Park — a month earlier to a Google form allegedly monitored by a mysterious, altruistic tech worker.

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Zara Stone @AlmostZara
7 May 25

RT @adamgries: Remember: People who want to live indefinitely must by definition like life! Seems better to align with than groups that ha…

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Zara Stone @AlmostZara
7 May 25

RT @jeffbercovici: It was an honor for @sfstandard to be among the collaborators with @nytimes and @BaltimoreBanner on their Pulitzer Prize…

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Zara Stone @AlmostZara
7 May 25

Unclear what's going on, but if this dude faked his death to pump his memecoin, that's all kinds of f'd up.

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Daniele 🟧 ( Meme Quant ) @danielesesta

The dev of Zerebro faked his own suicide. Mortuary websites. Obituaries. Tribute posts. The entire space mourned. But now, proof has surfaced: he’s alive. (1/4)