Clare Marion

An older woman wearing sunglasses and gloves smiles as she hands out potatoes from a produce box at a food pantry. Sunlight hits her silver hair as she stands beside cardboard boxes filled with fresh groceries. Text on image: Free fresh groceries for the community Free Food Pantry Pop-Up Monday, Dec 8, 2025 | 10:30am–12:30pm.

Know someone who could use a bag of groceries? Tell them to stop by the West Berkeley Family Wellness Center on Monday, December 8, from 10:30am to 12:30pm: berkeleyca.gov/commu...

They just need to bring a bag to take home free produce and pantry items.

Food available while supplies last.

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Without farmworkers we wouldn’t be able to celebrate Thanksgiving. Be thankful for their hard work this holiday season!

Sin los trabajadores agrícolas no podríamos celebrar el Día de Acción de Gracias. ¡Agradece su arduo trabajo en estas fiestas!

#WeFeedYou #Thanksgiving

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Opinion | Jesus Bot Is Always on Demand (for a Small Monthly Fee)

When you see only one set of footprints in the sand, it was then when you were texting with a bot.

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"My mentor always tells me, 'Kim, dogs don’t bark at parked cars." They’re coming after critical race theory, 1619, intersectionality because these ideas mobilized people. They gave them the language to actually articulate what they were seeing with their own eyes," says Kimberlé Crenshaw.

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Yeah, to spell it out, this is about generative AI trying to brute force licensing!

Not cool machine learning tools that help you design a better reactor or something.

No, *generative AI* - the category that includes large language models and other content-spewing algos.

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Sam Altman’s AI empire will devour as much power as New York City and San Diego combined. Experts say it’s ‘scary’ | Fortune Andrew Chien told Fortune he’s been a computer scientist for 40 years but we’re close to “some seminal moments for how we think about AI and its impact on society.”

OpenAI’s planned data centers will use more power than New York City & San Diego use at their peak consumption, combined. More power than the entire nations of Switzerland & Portugal combined. And San Altman’s buddies in this administration have been cutting all of our energy infrastructure upgrades

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This is one of the most beautiful things I have witnessed, the craft here is impeccable.

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Read Black Writers Read Black writers all the time. Always. For the month of Feb we're recommending a book a day to highlight great voices, so compiling here. 

The MF can try to cancel Black History Month

but it's still Black History Month.

(You should always be reading Black writers. All the time. But here's a list if you wanna get in the mood.)

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Sticker with a cartoon face; under it is written the words “let me be silly there’s this dread so ancient in me.”

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