Maya Markovich

The Real-Life Tales Behind ‘Freaky Tales’ A Nazi beatdown, an Oakland rap battle, a hoops miracle — the new Pedro Pascal movie is based on actual people and events.

"Asked about Oakland on the red carpet at the Grand Lake premiere, Pedro Pascal put it simply: “It’s the raddest city in the world.”"

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Why not get off Instagram too??

AI’s push to me was always a response to the awareness of algorithmic injustice and the success of Black content during the racial uprising.

Tech was wise realize that they could side step that discussion by appealing to whistleblowing and academia

As the only interventions

And now here we are

To the Insurance Executive Who Denied My Heart Procedure You may not think it is worth it, but at night, in the dark before morning, my son lays his ear on my garbled heart and tells me it is beautiful music. He doesn't fathom what you did to me, that you've traded our days of playing for a few small pieces of silver. All he thinks is my father's heart is music. I hear. I hear. I knew. Ruler, the children will outlive you. I wish you a long, long life of silences while dreamers hear the living world is singing. The one you have denied a life is you. —Joseph Fasano

"and he overturned the tables of the money-changers"

People are talking about renaming a street in Oakland for Rickey. THINK BIGGER.
The airport has been stupidly trying to change its name to differentiate it from SFO.
OAK should be renamed “Rickey Henderson International Airport.”

Rickey could fly, after all.

Supreme Corruption: Justice Thomas’ family’s lifestyle is subsidized by Harlan Crow: kid’s tuition, wife’s salary, mother’s house, plus luxury private, first class travel. This funding of a judge’s lifestyle is unprecedented, wrong, and just plain awful like Thomas himself. Here’s a PARTIAL LIST:

Clarence Thomas Torn Over Case Where Both Sides Offer Compelling Scuba Trips -The Onion

Clarence Thomas Torn Over Case Where Both Sides Offer Compelling Scuba Trips
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Black student enrollment at Harvard Law drops by more than half The number of Black students entering Harvard Law School dropped sharply this fall after last year's Supreme Court decision banning affirmative action in college admissions, according to enrollment da...

Harvard Law enrolled 19 first-year Black students this fall, the lowest number since the 1960s, following last year's SCOTUS decision banning affirmative action

No words

Speaking as a parent watching kids struggle with boundaries around tech use, this is tricky.

for context NYC offered a $10k reward for any critical information about the homocide which is about the cost of a single 15 minute ambulance ride after UnitedHealthcare denies coverage bc the EMTs responding to the call were out of network

I’m curious how much federal funding he thinks the ACLU receives (it’s none).

Honey, wake up! There's something worse than law students' parents calling the registrar!

'A lot of tears': Bay Area owner of original Round Table Pizza sells business For the first time since 1959, the original Round Table Pizza in Menlo Park will no longer be run by a Larson.

This man is a goddamn champion.

He has been offered $20 million by developers for the plot of land, located just a mile from the most expensive ZIP code in America.

"I’m very proud of the fact that I didn’t sell out. I don’t think anyone would do that nowadays.”
www.sfgate.com/food/article...

This is why we can't have nice things

Joe Cardillo on LinkedIn: #bluesky #bigtech #socialmedia #platformpower #startups | 41 comments Many people are making the leap from Twitter/X to Bluesky – even though the design & experience are currently better, I won't be signing up... I worked… | 41 comments on LinkedIn

Well, that feeling of relief lasted only ONE DAY. www.linkedin.com/posts/joecar...

Any recommended starter packs out there, other than @joshualenon.bsky.social?

So ready for this! Hello BlueSky. Connect with me for #accesstojustice, #legalinnovation, #justicetech, #justiceeconomy, #legalinclusion, and more I'll think of later...