Links Nov 11-17 & Nov 18-24, 2018

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Thursday Nov 22, 2018

Students say they don't want jobs at Facebook:*   sfchronicle via nytimes.com

A popular nightclub in San Francisco's Mint Plaza is set to close in 2019 as the landlord raised the rent 600 percent by leading to a tech-office tenant.   sfchronicle.com

Yemen's civil war-caused hunger crisis kills 85,000 children under five.    sfchronicle.com

Wednesday Nov 21, 2018

Indonesian-based owners of a Bernal Heights, San Francisco property they were caught illegally converting into a two-unit dwelling and illegally renting it out on AirBnB to renters who hosted a party that erupted in gunfire, injuring two, after which police recovered 100 bullets and shell casings, were fined just $185,000 in civil penalties.   sfchronicle.com

Oakland escalates fight with developer who plans to build marine terminal for shipping coal.   sfchronicle.com

Federal judge blocks Trump's ban on asylum.   sfchronicle.com

Saturday Nov 17, 2018

Concrete Homes Built for Safety in Severe Weather:   nbcdfw.com



Friday Nov 16, 2018

Editorial says apartment dwellers wanting to buy electric cars need more charging stations to ease range anxiety.   sfchronicle.com Thursday Nov 15, 2018

Responding to an OpEd "Why California burns -- its forests have too many trees," an LTE writer disagrees saying "Malibu is not a forest, but rather a city with homes and beaches as well as canyons, state parks, trees and shrubs."   sfchronicle.com

Wednesday Nov 14, 2018

Responding to Thomas M. Bonnicksen's Nov 13th OpEd "Why California burns -- its forests have too many trees," an LTE writer concurs, and says "overgrown forests" are trapping water, keeping it from creeks and rivers that so desperately need it.   sfchronicle.com

Facebook failed to closely monitor device-makers after granting them access to the personal data of hundreds of millions of people, according to a previously unreported disclosure to Congress last month.   sfchronicle via nytimes.com

Female Muni CFO retires after doubling its budget and "replaving the junked buses of the past with a splashy new fleet".   sfchronicle.com


Tuesday Nov 13, 2018

Marketing companies used Instagram influencers, microinfluencers, and now nanoinfluencers to push product in exchange for peanuts.   sfchronicle.com

Calls for weather apps to add "a new ash symbol" on days the forecast is: "windy, with a likelihood of smoke."   sfchronicle.com

A group calling itself Citizen's Climate Lobby says works to get CO2-emissions-reducing legislation passed at the federal level.   sfchronicle.com


Sunday Nov 11, 2018

"America’s first attempt at regulating radio transmission was the Radio Act of 1912, that was enacted after the sinking of the Titanic. This law didn’t mention or envision radio broadcasting."   dicktaylorblog.com

Recent criminal justice reforms contain the seeds of a frightening system of “e-carceration.”    nytimes.com

Algorithms and Their Unintended Consequences for the Poor:   today.law.harvard.edu







Happy Veteran's Day. Great segment on veterans working at Tesla, knowing electric vehicles reduce CO2 emisssions, on sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com tonight.

Cal Fire Cheif Calls President Trump's Wildfire Claims 'Uninformed':   sanfranisco.cbslocal.com

Suspected looters were impersonating fire service personnel at wreckage in Paradise city, California.   sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com





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