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spoke to some high schoolers about news and media literacy in a @calcenter program on civic action the other week. sharing some slides that, I think, are evergreen and relevant to us all
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If you're a business or artist with intellectual property, watch the clock.
10 days until Meta claims the right to scrape your website to develop its AI. Your consent? Apparently unnecessary. All it takes is someone sharing a link on Facebook or Instagram - or you using Meta's services.
hey so if dems don't make inroads with iranian voters sooner than later, many will be reliable republicans like cubans but with the added layer of islamophobia. it's already happening
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The Blue Cross/Blue Shield Association says that AI is already driving *up* healthcare costs, as hospitals use the technology to find instances where they can bill more for the same level of care. bcbs.com/about-us/associatio…
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This statement has been released today in response to the recent controversy around the letter that was signed by prominent world intellectuals in support of Iranian political prisoners.
The statement has been signed by high-profile union activists, analysts, former political prisoners, intellectuals, and members of the Writers' Association of Iran living inside Iran, as well as scholars, families of political prisoners executed in the 1980s, and artists and intellectuals in exile. For those signatories inside Iran, it takes a lot of courage to join the voices of Iranian dissent in exile, especially under the increasingly repressive circumstances in Iran. Prominent figures such as Saeed Madani, Mohamad Habibi, and others have signed the letter.
I urge everyone to read this statement, which echoes the voice of a lot of Iranians who are caught between a brutal war and an unprecedented wave of state repression.
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F…
telling that civil liberties advocates are the lead counter perspective to the cheering of lawsuits against tech giants as the be-all-end-all of accountability
Yeah, all I can say about the Meta settlement is …ugh. This is only going to make AGs & other anti-SM zealots even more insufferable, b/c they'll say it proves they were right. And it will encourage more lawsuits that try to circumvent the 1st Amendment & Section 230 by claiming their problems with social media platforms are not about speech but "product design"
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This is a big, big deal. When people talk about the necessity of a free press, this is what that's all about.
The landlords of rat-infested Alice Griffith are set to pay $9M in city penalties and property improvements — the first settlement of its kind in SF history.
The city attorney says Mission Local's reporting was a big factor.
via @marina_e_newman
missionlocal.org/2026/08/ali…
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A man was in jail for four days after San Francisco police surveilled him with drones, and arrested him over what his attorney said was a handshake.
missionlocal.org/2026/08/sfp…
genuinely can't believe this video is still up
Simone Boyce we got you!
Spot a pothole on your street? Send it our way. Report it to 311, through the MyLA311 app or at lacity.gov/myla311.
"First Amendment lawyers said the city’s letters amounted to an unconstitutional prior restraint on lawfully published journalism. “One would hope that those in the city attorney’s office would know the First Amendment better,” said David Loy, with @FACoalition"
A great story by my colleague Jonah Owen Lamb
After a journalist covered a CEO's arrest, the SF City Attorney tried to get the article removed from the web. It cost the city $45,000.
sfstandard.com/2026/08/12/sf…
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my friend the former NY times reporter in Gaza offered this article to major London, NY and DC newspapers they all turned her down. Haaretz published it
haaretz.com/opinion/2026-08-…
not really breaking, the program website has been live for a bit but is now off to the races and Californians should absolutely take advantage. more info & actual link to do so here -> privacy.ca.gov/DROP/
🚨 BREAKING: Californians can now delete their personal information from hundreds of data broker websites with a single request, under a first-of-its-kind state privacy program.
The new system is designed to make it significantly easier for residents to stop companies from buying, selling, and sharing their personal data.
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For years, Israel was using 2,000lb American bombs to kill Gazan refugees in tents. Both the Biden and Trump administrations permitted it.
A precedent was set.
Now it appears the US is doing the same in Iran.
A 2000lb bomb was dropped on a family house in Qeshm, killing a taxi driver (the father), the mother, and a 2-year-old, according to @nytimes.
Yes, a taxi driver. And a toddler. And his mother.
"The Times found no indication of a military site near the family’s home or any reports of military casualties from the strike."
nytimes.com/2026/07/31/world…
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In one California town, Flock misread license plates in 71% of the alerts it sent to police
By @NicoleEinbinder businessinsider.com/flock-ca…
not not taking the chance to resurface that trump himself called this guy the "loser prince" and now his only hope is to grovel to a ghost newyorker.com/news/the-lede/…
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Fewer than 20% of Trump voters calling college professors and people with grad degrees elites feels like it should end a whole genre of commentary.
Years back, I read a @slatestarcodex piece about bravery debates that I reference all the time.
Basic insight was that in many arguments, people aren’t just debating what’s true, they’re debating which side is actually brave or nonconformist.
That made me curious about three things:
(1) What do Americans actually believe?
(2) What do they think conventional wisdom is?
(3) And do they see elite opinion as different from majority opinion?
Today, @lxeagle17 publishes the first essay from our attempt to answer those questions which argues that basically no one buys the idea that "elite" means left-wing professor or journalist -- not even Trump supporters.
Read the whole essay (and crosstabs available for paying subscribers) at @TheArgumentMag:
theargumentmag.com/p/america…
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This is nuts
The late Sen. Lindsey Graham was even more hawkish on the Iran war than we knew. He strategized with Israel's Benjamin Netanyahu on how to get the U.S. more involved--and Netanyahu was the voice of restraint. He pushed President Trump. He "almost cried" with joy when the U.S. and Israel attacked Iran. And he told a documentary filmmaker that Trump was "jacked" about starting the war: "He loves blowing stuff up." From @jdawsey1 and WSJ: wsj.com/politics/national-se…
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Rubio is saying that U.S. policy is to retaliate disproportionately, and the United States is targeting civilian infrastructure such as power plants and bridges.
That comes close to confessing an intent to commit war crimes.
.@SecRubio on Iran: I saw their foreign minister say something about their policy is an eye for an eye. The President's policy is a head for an eye—honestly. That's what it's going to be. They're paying a very heavy price for the things they're doing.
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Before we sued him, I used to email Blinken's staff the names of AMERICANS including kids and grandparents trapped in Gaza begging for evacuation assistance. The replies were cold & eventually stopped coming. I had clients who were killed while waiting to exit Gaza. Imagine being killed by bombs your tax dollars paid for. Then, during his last week in office, I had someone hand deliver to Blinken a list of Americans still stuck in Gaza despite seeking the US govt's assistance for a year. He said the incoming administration would take care of it. Ofc, they didn't. Salsabeel, an American mother of 3, remains trapped in Gaza. The Stage Dept refuses to evacuate her kids because they're not American.
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We should be long past ‘canary in the coal mine’ territory, but in case anyone needs convincing…
Neville Roy Singham, the wealthy husband of the founder of the progressive non-profit Code Pink and benefactor of far-left political causes, is under criminal investigation by a grand jury in the Southern District of New York, according to multiple sources with knowledge of the matter. cbsn.ws/454WgnN
