Friday news dump
The Gifford Fire air show in Cottonwood Canyon Aug 4th #GiffordFire
When we were kids, hunting for critters at Rainbow Falls was kinda fun.
The tables have turned.
#naga
DOGE fired all the levee level checkers and maintenance workers
Annoyingly Cory Booker proving a very effective advertisement for the vegan lifestyle.
Social media influencer and SF critic Ricci Wynne is in even deeper trouble than previously thought. Prosecutors describe him as a serial sexual abuser of children and say there's video evidence to back it up:
www.mercurynews.com/2025/03/20/f...
They're called public records for a reason. Starting today, WIRED will *stop paywalling* articles that are primarily based on public records obtained through the Freedom of Information Act, becoming the first publication to partner with @freedom.press to offer this for our new coverage.
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Walking with the fishes in San Jose, Calif. a pedestrian passes the Harumo Sato mural, "Celebration Under the Water."
It’s Time.
The ‘Wayback Machine’ is preserving the websites Trump’s White House took down
More photos from President's Day protest in San Jose. Our story: www.mercurynews.com/2025/02/17/n...
San Jose protest
My latest for @techpolicypress.bsky.social, “Anatomy of an AI Coup.” With the takeover of the US government by tech elites underway, we must examine its goals and next steps — and how we will know if it has succeeded. www.techpolicy.press/anatomy-of-a...
In a statement, AP editor Julie Pace said the White House told the AP if it did not align its editorial standards with Trump’s executive order renaming the Gulf of Mexico the Gulf of America, it would be barred from accessing Trump's executive order signing
We are in a war on knowledge, a war on facts, and a war on truth. The atrocious sacking of the 11th Archivist of the United States, Colleen Shogan (which she announced on her LinkedIn account last night) heralds a new era of burning of the books. www.linkedin.com/posts/activi...
All-Star Game signs go up at Oakland Arena.
The old home of the Golden State Warriors will be hosting celebrity game and practice events, while Chase Center will host the 2025 game.
Trump may have pardoned the rioter who viciously attacked officer Michael Fanone on January, but Judge Amy Berman Jackson made a few things clear when she dismissed the case, as she had to:
Anyone need a rainbow?
I found one over Shoreline Amphitheatre.
"I was racist before it was cool"
"I would not mind if Gaza and Israel were wiped off the face of the Earth"
“You could not pay me to marry outside of my ethnicity"
“Normalize Indian hate"
-- Top Musk/DOGE aide; posts discovered by WSJ's @klong.bsky.social
Gift link www.wsj.com/tech/doge-st...
EMERGENCY PIECE: My piece, out at 6 am today, is the exclusive source for the information that Marko Elez HAD fully read & write access and his access got downgraded to "insert only" a "read and limited write" access according to the best available understanding
www.crisesnotes.com/day-seven-of...
The White House said Elon Musk will determine if there are conflicts of interest between his work reviewing federal spending and his overlapping empire of six companies
Government workers when DOGE shows up.
Our deep dive into Musk's takeover: Even some officials who like what Musk is doing feel helpless to hold him accountable. His allies are diving in to agencies, gaining access to systems, planning layoffs, and proposing a sweeping AI initiative to review contracts. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/03/u...
Elon bought America for way less than he did Twitter.
If a 19-year-old Canadian who calls himself Big Balls marches into your federal agency and demands access to your system, telling him to fuck right off should be the mildest reaction you have.
This might give some pause to anyone who thinks of Musk’s DOGE as just a dispassionate accounting firm trying to make everything run more smoothly.
