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  • According to tax documents, the non-profit Burning Man Project earns, and spends, a lot of cash. [CBS 5]
  • The Mission District hacker hostel that was hosting parties and potentially shutting down because the people who ran it could no longer afford the rent appears to have been a pretty wild place — complete with partying gang members and a self-described coke-dealing tenant. [Mission Local] [SFist]
  • Elon Musk tweeted, most likely in jest, about starting a company to bore tunnels under ground for cars to avoid traffic. But, it's Musk, so some people took him sort of seriously. But, even if he did mean it, the idea is pretty much a joke anyway. [Cnet] [Chronicle]
  • Simply because there is plenty of surveillance video of a criminal using a stolen credit card to make purchases doesn't mean the SFPD is going to be inclined to investigate. [NYTimes]
  • While self-reporting from tech companies helps to shine a light onto the companies' efforts to increase diversity among the ranks of their employees, the reports themselves don't really tell the entire picture — and in some cases are misleading. [Gizmodo]