• Apparently seeing the direction in which the wind is blowing, Instacart’s converting some independent contractors into part-time employees. CEO Apoorva Mehta acknowledges that the company's best "shoppers" are the ones who are the best trained, and are therefore more like employees. [Bloomberg]
  • SF Starbucks are still trying to figure out which locations will serve booze. [Hoodline]
  • And speaking of Starbucks, La Boulange lovers have started a petition to dissuade the coffee giant from closing all 23 La Boulange locations, as they announced they would last week. [Change.org]
  • This little house in Oakland, now on property owned by the Children's Hospital, is basically the real-life beginning of Up, and the hospital is hoping someone will buy it and move it somehwere. [Chron]
  • Kind of funny: A Giants bus driver left Bruce Bochy behind in L.A. after the game last night, in "enemy territory," and he had to call himself a cab to the team's hotel. [CBS 5]
  • Twitter makes it clear that Jack Dorsey is just an interim CEO, won't stay forever, and that he would have to give up Square completely if he were to be CEO. [Chron]
  • Water levels in San Francisco Bay could rise 65 inches by 2100? [Contra Costa Times]
  • A Cole Valley neighborhood group rises up in opposition against a private elementary school that wants to move into the beloved Cole Garage space. [Socketsite]