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This 18-year-old is protecting his California farm community – and his own mother – from ICE Cesar Vasquez, who has supported families of undocumented immigrants since age 14, has become a community lifeline – and a known ICE target

21.02.2026 20:29 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

This GOOD BOY ran onto the course during the Women’s Cross-Country Skiing Team Sprint event, crossing the finish line and being automatically recorded by OMEGA’s photofinish camera 😆

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Tong Yan Gaai (Chinatown) - Google Arts & Culture Photographer Morris Lum explores how Chinese identity is expressed in Chinatowns across North America.

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18.02.2026 21:11 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

'A silly idea': How a Bay Area man's hack is saving Costco customers He already has more than 600 preorders.

09.02.2026 15:58 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

YouTube video by 404 Media 404 Media's Super Bowl Ad

@404media.co 's Superbowl Ad!
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09.02.2026 15:52 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Kristen Stewart’s Bold Plan to Bring a Beloved Los Angeles Theater Back to Life How the actor-director is restoring the historic Highland Theatre as a community-centered home for adventurous cinema in LA

05.02.2026 16:54 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

John Chiara Illuminates the World’s Simple Mysteries Building large-scale camera obscuras, Chiara makes wistful photographs that recall the medium’s origins—and our own.

The incredible photography of John Chiara.

04.02.2026 18:47 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

The AI Companies Trying to Make Grief Obsolete You can buy an AI version of your lost loved one. But should you?

02.02.2026 17:16 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

A Galapagos albatross' 3,000-mile detour to California puzzles scientists Scientists on a research vessel off the California coast are marveling at a rare find — a waved albatross was spotted soaring over the Pacific.

30.01.2026 18:40 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

LAFD Foundation says $65,000 went to celebrity PR firm The foundation addressed the controversy in an email blast to supporters after The Times disclosed that charitable donations were used to pay the Lede Co.

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Portraits Of Ygnacio Valley High School Students in Concord, California 1984 - Flashbak In High School, we hang out with the jocks, goths, nerds, cholas, punks, weirdos, stoners and cheerleaders at a California school

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Why Bikes Make Smart People Say Dumb Things An NPR journalist’s fumbled tweet exposes a hole in the debate about urban cycling

Wow this is an amazing summation of this issue.

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'They saw them on their dishes when eating': The mushroom making people hallucinate dozens of tiny humans Only recently described by science, the mysterious mushrooms are found in different parts of the world, but they give people the same exact visions.

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24.01.2026 18:27 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

YouTube video by Architectural Digest Inside a Hidden LA Greenhouse Full of the World’s Rarest Plants | Architectural Digest

Amazing tour of a rare plant greenhouse right in the middle of Downtown Los Angeles:
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92 Street Y Audio Archives:
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Job Applicants Sue to Open ‘Black Box’ of A.I. Hiring Decisions

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Ansel Adams’ pictures of Los Angeles recall an era of war factories and 10-cent hot dogs We’ve all seen Ansel Adams’ luscious black-and-white images of Yosemite. Lesser known are his pictures of life in World War II-era Los…

Amazing cache of WWII era photos of California's aerospace industry. via @califsun.bsky.social

21.01.2026 18:48 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

San Francisco coyote swims to Alcatraz for first time ever "This was the first time our park biologists observed anything like this."

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20.01.2026 17:28 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Bubbling Under Hot 100 History: Billboard’s Chart Overhang The tale of the Billboard Bubbling Under Hot 100 chart, the place where wannabe hits go to die—in some cases, over and over again.

Excellent history of Billboard chart adjacent hits and their long and surprising afterlife:

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YouTube video by Luca Padua SURFING THE BIGGEST DAY IN MAVERICKS HISTORY (FULL BREAKDOWN)

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“The best-performing AI system successfully completed only 2.5 percent of the projects.”

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11.01.2026 23:02 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Blackstar (★) But, lo, as you would quaffoff his fraudstuff and sink teeth through that pyth of a flowerwhite bodey behold of him as behemoth for he is noewhemoe. Finiche! Only a fadograph of a yestern scene. Ja…

Ten years since Bowie's Blackstar. Wonderful anniversary piece from @bowiesongs.bsky.social.
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09.01.2026 23:50 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Andrew Waits : The Middle Distance - LENSCRATCH The Middle Distance, self-published by Andrew Waits through his imprint Semi-Precious, is a photobook about in-between spaces, geographically, emotionally, and artistically. Treasure Island, with its ...

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06.01.2026 18:20 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

How Opera Was More Punk Than You Ever Were And why you should express your opinion even if you are wrong

I have really enjoyed Chris Pitsiokos' ongoing series of essays / blog entries about the state of avant-garde and underground music: chrispitsiokos.substack.com/p/how-opera-...

03.01.2026 21:42 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0