Every day I become more convinced: housing (cost, commute time, carbon load) is the greatest failure of California politics.
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Housing, nerdery (pen and paper RPGs, ancient DNA, SF, comics), energy/carbon; queer East Bay GenX native & parent. He/him. Follow me so I can disappoint you.
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I’m glad they specified that the game warden was on the left.
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Game Warden Jake Rowland (left) got a call about an injured bald eagle (right) near Checotah. The eagle seemed pretty lively when Jake arrived but clearly had a wing injury. After a few minutes of “catch me if you can," Jake was able to wrap the eagle in an appropriate blanket--
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When working class kids + grown-ups are being made very poorly by the horrible state of the UK housing stock, it is beyond belief that serious commentators in the built environment are calling to reduce demolitions. 50,000 is not nearly enough for everyone to enjoy nice housing.
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The obliteration of 50,000 British buildings a year is disgraceful – a pattern of myopic greed and unthinking vandalism that is wiping out our heritage while tearing apart communities and accelerating climate breakdown. I wrote about demolition. theguardian.com/commentisfree/
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Oh, man, I LOVED these sculptures as a kid.
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Tyler James Hoare’s art was designed to be as impermanent as life itself.
But he didn’t care that it washed into the sea - he knew the lasting power of symbols and memories.
The OG Emeryville shoreline sculptor is gone. #RIP to a Bay legend.
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Tyler James Hoare’s art was designed to be as impermanent as life itself.
But he didn’t care that it washed into the sea - he knew the lasting power of symbols and memories.
The OG Emeryville shoreline sculptor is gone. #RIP to a Bay legend.
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Ted Chiang is exactly the person you want to hear explaining AI.
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I wrote about the Democratic Party's abandonment of the deficit hawks, who thrive on having both parties leap together so nobody can be held responsible for slashing social insurance.
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Turns out that — like many cartoonists — AI can't draw hands either
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A journalist falling for a very obvious AI generated picture feels like a bad look at things to come. twitter.com/SuaadS/status/…
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Izumo Grand Shrine Administrative Building at Izumo, Japan by metabolist architect Kiyonori Kikutake. Built in 1963, demolished in 2016 due to poor maintenance.
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The Giant Military Cat could be a game-changer on the battlefield, but requires extensive logistics support.
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Yesterday, a bipartisan group of lawmakers introduced legislation to repeal the 2002 Iraq AUMF. "These wars, and the laws that precipitated them, have not provided peace and stability... We must be building peace, not war.” Read more here...
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McConnell says sunsetting Social Security, Medicare is a "Rick Scott plan" only
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The record jobs growth of the last two years isn’t just about recovering pandemic losses: We’re now 2.7M jobs above the pre-Covid payrolls peak.
For comparison: at this point post-Great Recession, we were still 7.5M jobs *below* '07 levels.
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"Emperor Shaddam IV, I have been sent from the Spacing Guild with important information about the planet Arrakis."
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Will Bogenhafen survive our party?
Ehhh.
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Our brave heroes make their move, as we reach the penultimate episode of "Enemy in Shadows". The Enemy Within for #WFRP continues with @aaroninwords from @QueensCourtRPG and @DawkinsMP.
Episode is right here:
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We've already seen streamers and other mid-tier micro-celebs have very-close-to-realistic A.I. porn made of them and passed off as real. And in a world where so many people have an OnlyFans, a lot of people wouldn't even question the veracity. Kinda sucks.
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How long till some celebrity or politician or even regular person has their life destroyed by an AI image? Scary stuff
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Sure, firing an engineer for pointing out that your google searches have plummeted is funny, but even better is the reason for yesterday’s crash.
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NEW: While Twitter is breaking, Elon Musk is holding meetings to interrogate engineers about why his engagement is tanking. On Tuesday, he publicly fired one for showing that the lack of engagement isn’t a bug — he’s just less popular than he used to be: platformer.news/p/elon-musk-fi
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Climate stat of the day: Big Oil's profits were 20x larger than EPA budget in 2022.
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Worst Wordle performance in history, but if you add tiny pedestrians and bicyclists, it could be car-free JFK Promenade? 😆
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twink death is a terrifying thing
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Breaking:
Drunk driving "ok" to avoid male discomfort
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A jury found a Ukiah man not guilty of driving under the influence after deciding his actions were justified after he was caught cheating on his wife, which made his driving “necessary to allow him to escape two angry women." trib.al/2cCqkV9
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Fucking hell. Her GFM says she passed. I am so sad for her family and team.
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“She’s probably not going to make it.” Beloved baker Jen Angel of @AngelCakesSF in Oakland on life support after reportedly being dragged by carload of robbers who had broken into her car near 21st & Webster, @JanaKTVU reports. @oaklandpoliceca investigating
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Gauntlet: My time has passed. I shall fade and pass into the West.
D&D, circa 1980: Not today, my friend. Not today.
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On the left, Republican Senator Mike Lee feigns outrage during the State of the Union when President Biden suggests that some Republicans want to cut Social Security and Medicare.
On the right, Mike Lee says he wants to get rid of Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid.
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The average California household on food aid, called CalFresh, will lose about $200 a month after March.
"A single-person household, for instance, could drop from $281 a month in food aid to as low as $23 in April."
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The political system loves measuring policies by jobs. But outside recessions that makes little sense.
If you announce a new factory will create 5,000 jobs at $150,000 a year there is virtually no chance those are net new jobs--those people would have been employed anyway.
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First-Time-Kitten-Dad: "I'm worried my kitten is sleeping too much."
Me: "No, you just have a cat. Think of them as slightly more active pillows."
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You don’t run against DeSantis like he’s Trump. You run against him like he’s Bob Dole, it’s a playbook Democrats should know well — and that Biden does know well.
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Thousands who lost their homes in a catastrophic earthquake huddled around campfires and clamored for food and water in the bitter cold, three days after the temblor and series of aftershocks hit Turkey and Syria, killing more than 19,300.
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The president of the United States, known for his desire to jail journalists and tear gas peaceful protesters, was regularly trying to get tweets deleted. And these Twitter Files dorks run around like anything they've selectively revealed matters compared to that..
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Raccoona Sheldon everyone!
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She went on safaris as a kid with a guy who was the inspo for Indiana Jones. She dropped out of Sarah Lawrence to get married at 19 & move to Berkeley. Then joined the Air Force in WW2, then the CIA, then was an artist & a famous sci fi novelist and then died in a suicide pact???
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What a gorgeous brick bb, look at the entire thread.
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The chapel and crypt at St. Adalbert cemetery is a remarkable brick building, I am guessing from the 1970s. This multifaceted brick cross is just the start.
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Folks, the last time we let a Yalie into the White House he let Osama bin Laden get away, invaded Iraq for no reason, and the whole world economy collapsed. He also tried to privatize social security and a mid-sized American city was destroyed in a hurricane.
Just say no.
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My proceeds from these will go to the Tyre Nichols Memorial Fund, which includes plans to build a public skatepark in his honor; as our worlds continue to grieve his loss. He was a talented skater among other admirable traits. Let's keep his legacy alive:
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