SFist42%

Saturday Links: Cal Acad to Host Phoebe Bridgers Planetarium Listening Sessions 22%

By Zack Ruskin34%

8/8/2026, 9:10:44 AM

BS Summary: This article contains 10 faulty reasoning types, including Attempt to Sell a Product or Service, Confirmation Bias, and Negativity Bias, with Optimism Bias as the most egregious example at 12.5% saturation with 33 hits. Analysis detected 262 faulty-reasoning hits from 265 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 28.5% and a BS Rank of 22% (23,917 of 30,584 articles). This article is better (less manipulative) than 78.20% of the article peer group.

State Assemblymember Matt Haney (D-San Francisco) has introduced a new bill to limit ticket reseller markups on certain concerts and venues. 
If successful, AB 1720  aka the California Fans First Bill  would cap resale prices at 10% above face value. 
[ KPIX ] 
A flea infestation that recently forced Fairfax's Peri Park in Marin County to temporarily close has now spread to a neighboring fire station. 
In response, the town has approved an exemption to its town-wide ban on pesticides to address the issue. 
[ KTVU / Marin IJ ] 
Musician Phoebe Bridgers is inviting fans to hear her new album early at planetariums across the nation, including five listening sessions across three nights at San Francisco's California Academy of Sciences from Aug. 
10-12. 
[ SF Standard ] 
In a 50-49 vote held early Saturday morning, the Senate confirmed Todd Blanche as attorney general following the capitulation of Republican Sen. 
Bill Cassidy and several other key holdouts. 
[ Chronicle ] 
San Francisco welcomed the debut of Mission Bay School on Thursday, marking the city's first new public school to open in over a decade. 
[ KRON4 ] 
A small plane was forced to crash land near downtown Ukiah on Friday, causing road closures but incredibly resulting in no major injuries to the two people aboard. 
[ Chronicle ] 
The daughter of Paul Walker is publicly denying that she sold the late actor's 1998 Toyota Supra, which he drove in the seventh installment of the Fast & Furious film franchise. 
[ KRON4 ] 
Article reasoning-pattern comparisonThis article: 11.7%Zack Ruskin: 1.1%SFist: 1.3%Confirmation Bias11.7%This article: 0.0%Zack Ruskin: 0.5%SFist: 0.4%Anchoring Bias0.0%This article: 8.7%Zack Ruskin: 3.5%SFist: 2.5%Availability Heuristic8.7%This article: 0.0%Zack Ruskin: 0.0%SFist: 0.0%Representativeness Heuristic0.0%This article: 8.3%Zack Ruskin: 0.4%SFist: 0.3%Hindsight Bias8.3%This article: 0.0%Zack Ruskin: 0.0%SFist: 0.0%Overconfidence Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Zack Ruskin: 0.5%SFist: 0.4%Framing Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Zack Ruskin: 0.0%SFist: 0.0%Loss Aversion0.0%This article: 6.8%Zack Ruskin: 0.3%SFist: 0.2%Status Quo Bias6.8%This article: 0.0%Zack Ruskin: 0.0%SFist: 0.0%Sunk Cost Effect0.0%This article: 12.5%Zack Ruskin: 2.2%SFist: 1.6%Optimism Bias12.5%This article: 0.0%Zack Ruskin: 1.4%SFist: 1.1%Pessimism Bias0.0%This article: 10.6%Zack Ruskin: 3.2%SFist: 5.6%Negativity Bias10.6%This article: 0.0%Zack Ruskin: 0.5%SFist: 0.4%Self-Serving Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Zack Ruskin: 0.9%SFist: 0.7%Fundamental Attribution Error0.0%This article: 0.0%Zack Ruskin: 0.0%SFist: 0.0%Actor-Observer Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Zack Ruskin: 0.4%SFist: 0.3%In-Group Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Zack Ruskin: 0.0%SFist: 0.0%Out-Group Homogeneity Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Zack Ruskin: 5.6%SFist: 4.6%Halo Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Zack Ruskin: 0.0%SFist: 0.0%Horn Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Zack Ruskin: 0.0%SFist: 0.0%Dunning-Kruger Effect0.0%This article: 9.1%Zack Ruskin: 1.7%SFist: 1.7%Recency Bias9.1%This article: 0.0%Zack Ruskin: 0.0%SFist: 0.4%Primacy Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Zack Ruskin: 0.0%SFist: 0.0%Blind-Spot Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Zack Ruskin: 0.0%SFist: 0.0%Ad Hominem0.0%This article: 0.0%Zack Ruskin: 0.4%SFist: 0.3%Straw Man0.0%This article: 0.0%Zack Ruskin: 0.0%SFist: 0.0%Appeal to Authority0.0%This article: 0.0%Zack Ruskin: 0.0%SFist: 0.0%False Dilemma0.0%This article: 0.0%Zack Ruskin: 0.0%SFist: 0.0%Slippery Slope0.0%This article: 0.0%Zack Ruskin: 0.0%SFist: 0.5%Circular Reasoning0.0%This article: 0.0%Zack Ruskin: 0.5%SFist: 0.4%Hasty Generalization0.0%This article: 0.0%Zack Ruskin: 0.0%SFist: 0.0%Red Herring0.0%This article: 0.0%Zack Ruskin: 0.4%SFist: 0.3%Bandwagon0.0%This article: 0.0%Zack Ruskin: 0.8%SFist: 0.6%Appeal to Emotion0.0%This article: 0.0%Zack Ruskin: 0.0%SFist: 0.0%Begging the Question0.0%This article: 8.3%Zack Ruskin: 2.3%SFist: 1.7%Post Hoc (False Cause)8.3%This article: 0.0%Zack Ruskin: 0.0%SFist: 0.0%Tu Quoque0.0%This article: 0.0%Zack Ruskin: 0.5%SFist: 0.4%Burden of Proof0.0%This article: 0.0%Zack Ruskin: 0.0%SFist: 0.0%Appeal to Nature0.0%This article: 0.0%Zack Ruskin: 0.0%SFist: 0.0%Composition/Division0.0%This article: 10.6%Zack Ruskin: 2.4%SFist: 1.8%Anecdotal10.6%This article: 0.0%Zack Ruskin: 0.0%SFist: 0.0%No True Scotsman0.0%This article: 0.0%Zack Ruskin: 2.8%SFist: 2.1%Ambiguity (Equivocation)0.0%This article: 0.0%Zack Ruskin: 0.0%SFist: 0.0%Gambler’s Fallacy0.0%This article: 0.0%Zack Ruskin: 0.0%SFist: 0.0%Middle Ground0.0%This article: 0.0%Zack Ruskin: 0.0%SFist: 0.0%Personal Incredulity0.0%This article: 0.0%Zack Ruskin: 0.0%SFist: 0.0%Special Pleading0.0%This article: 0.0%Zack Ruskin: 0.0%SFist: 0.0%Genetic Fallacy0.0%This article: 0.0%Zack Ruskin: 0.0%SFist: 0.0%Unattributed Quote0.0%This article: 0.0%Zack Ruskin: 0.0%SFist: 0.6%Quote-first Misdirection0.0%This article: 0.0%Zack Ruskin: 13.0%SFist: 9.6%Biased Writer Voice0.0%This article: 0.0%Zack Ruskin: 0.0%SFist: 0.0%Indoctrination0.0%This article: 0.0%Zack Ruskin: 0.0%SFist: 0.0%Politically Left Leaning Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Zack Ruskin: 0.0%SFist: 0.0%Politically Right Leaning Bias0.0%This article: 12.5%Zack Ruskin: 1.3%SFist: 1.0%Attempt to Sell a Product or S…12.5%

265 words analyzed.

Speakers

3speakers32%attributed speech180writer words
Selected voice

Phoebe Bridgers

100%flagged-word coverage
33 attributed words39% of attributed speech64% writer coverage
0%50.0%100.0%Attempt to Sell a Product +100.0 ptsWriter: 0.0%Phoebe Bridgers: 100.0%100.0%

Attribution is sentence-level. Pattern percentages are calculated only from words assigned to that voice.

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Analysis

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