location deets thanks to sf chronicle’s article www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/arti...
this is the one, apparently — off the coast of petrolia, CA in humboldt county. earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/...
This is not just embarrassing, it's actively destructive. It's lending legitimacy to a project whose purpose is to gut the state, immiserate public workers, and replace them with political loyalists. It's textbook authoritarianism, and the biggest impediments it faces is anyone taking it seriously
Washington State is the easiest state in the country to vote in. Moved from NY To Seattle in 2017 and I'm still infatuated with being able to vote by mail while still wearing pajamas
costofvotingindex.com
aaand just got a loud tsunami warning on my phone
earthquake! in the east bay, at least. just followed @earthquakebotsf.bsky.social but no updates from it yet.
for my next newsletter and episode i bought the bestselling laptop on Amazon to try and explain how shitty most people's exposure to tech is. Currently at 30 minutes of menus and updates. I have agreed to three privacy policies and created two new accounts. We live in hell
He's a liar. He's lied in the past. He'll continue to lie.
The real question is will the press do their job and call out the lies . . . or will they fold and cower like The L.A. Times, Washington Post, and Joe Scarborough?
This is your daily reminder that this really did happen.
Gonna be cool when they use this to claim they know what marginalized communities want.
Well, he allegedly disrupted a woman’s ability to leave his hotel room and not be raped by him
Why are we talking about self-driving cars again — or robotaxis, as we now call them? Not because they’re about to solve all our transport problems, or even significantly replace existing road trips. It’s simply because AI hype is back — and AV makers are taking advantage.
Remember this guy? Trump just made him director of the Office of Management and Budget.
Shout-out to everyone who tried to convince us he knew nothing about Project 2025.
Crime reporting be like
this is my shocked face
There are, of course, laws about this stuff we could actually enforce, depending on whether we decide the problem is 1) he is not yet a federal employee & therefore this is illegal as hell; 2) he is now a federal employee & therefore this is illegal as hell. But since we're not a serious country 🤷♂️
Reminder that a key strategy of project 2025 is to fire scores of federal employees, then install tons of theocrats to number two positions in all of these departments, so that while the department head role is tied up in Congressional approval, the Deputy Director is de facto running things.
I lived in Greece when the government was hacking phones of journalists, politicians, and activists. @citizenlab.ca checked our phones many times 🙏 it was so stressful!
Surveillance has massive psychosocial impacts - and such targeting will likely grow under Trump
www.newyorker.com/news/news-de...
great thread and this has been one of my obsessions in my column, to point people away from the european example and toward the american one.
Having read a bunch of really sharp critiques of AI, I’ve found myself assuming that AI entrepreneurs must have equally smart arguments. I’m always astounded to find that they don’t: it’s just easily disproven boosterism. But then, of course it is. It doesn’t matter, because capital is behind them.
To review:
ATTORNEY GENERAL: Allegedly paid for sex with multiple women and a 17-year-old girl
SECRETARY OF DEFENSE: Allegedly raped a woman at a conference in 2017
SECRETARY OF HHS: Allegedly sexually assaulted his kids’ baby sitter
basically every pro-consumer regulation we have is on the chopping block and it is very frustrating to see normal people parrot this sort of “regulatory overreach” language when almost every individual regulation that gets rolled back is immensely popular on its own
well great
RFK Jr.: “Thank you [to the NIH] for public service. We’re going to give infectious disease a break for about eight years.”
Kennedy wants to take a “break” from studying infectious diseases like COVID-19 and measles.
www.nbcnews.com/politics/pol...
Meanwhile:
“An estimated 10.3 million cases of measles occurred worldwide last year, up 20 percent from 2022, primarily because of inadequate immunization coverage, the World Health Organization and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.”
www.washingtonpost.com/health/2024/...
If traffic seems to be getting worse, it is. People are driving 12% more than pre-pandemic.
We need to invest in public transit and biking to get cars off the road. Even if you love driving, you should want better public transit and biking so that you aren't sitting behind other cars in traffic.
NEW: The great Trump-Musk crackdown is coming. And it will hit hard & fast. Journalists will be first. But everyone else is next.
I urge you to read my 20 lessons in How to Survive the Broligarchy, inspired by & featuring the great @timothysnyder.bsky.social
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