Links July-August 2021
Aug 31, 2021
"Selling the open space to become housing that only the very wealthiest city residents could afford “seems tantamount to theft of public funds and an illegal use of property designated for affordable housing,” said the group 1900 Diamond For All, which has asked the City Attorney’s Office to investigate." sfchronicle.com 📰
"Dozens of Democratic lawmakers on Capitol Hill sent a letter to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) and House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-MD) on Monday demanding an end to the $20.5 billion in annual fossil fuel industry subsidies as part of the latest round of negotiations of President Joe Biden’s mammoth $3.5 trillion Build Back Better Act." hillreporter.com
The correct spelling of dum-dum contains one hyphen and zero 'b's. merriam-webster.com
A story with an incendiary headline about Apple, Google and privacy. inc.com
Can investors save the Amazon? bbc.com
Aug 29, 2021
Pinchot was a eugenicist. sfgate.com
A photo matching Miur's fire report is on national geographic's site this month. msn.com
Too Many Scientists Still Say Caucasian | Racist ideas of categories for human identity continue to warp research and medicine scientificamerican.com 🐤
New California Law Requires Employers to Offer Jobs to Previously Laid-Off Employees: natlawreview.com
"When Sinclair Lewis accepted his Nobel Prize in 1930, he said that Dreiser, 'marching alone, usually unappreciated, often hated, [had] cleared the trail from Victorian and Howellsian timidity and gentility in American fiction to honesty and boldness and passion of life.'" loa.org
"Attorney General Rob Bonta reported that upon receiving a notice of alleged violation, 75% of businesses acted to come into compliance within the 30-day statutory cure period." latimes.com 📰
Chinese regulators to exercise more control over algorithms: apnews.com 📰
"Here’s what you need to know about the different resources, how to use them and what they can tell you about air quality in your area." sfchronicle.com
A woke-washing headline hides retrofitting crimes which put this violaters' neighbors at risk. sfchronicle.com
"It helped that he was actually here, a resolutely local resource in an increasingly far-flung world. Because that, in the end, was the greatest strength of Michael's legacy—the importance of place, of creating an artistic institution that would mirror and support and be treasured by the community it was a part of." sfchronicle.com 📰
"He once gave a reading for an audience of homeless people on the theme of home. Many wept, it was said." sfchronicle.com 📰
Aug 28, 2021
"Institutional investors are also swooping in again, with degrees more capital than the average buyer, snapping up about 1 in 7 U.S. homes in the first quarter of 2021, according to Redfin, a real estate brokerage. Add all of that together, and the price of starter homes in the U.S. is growing seven times faster than renter income, according to Zillow." cnbc.com
Aug 27, 2021
"If the reporting or writing of the pitch itself gives you pause, that’s even more difficult. But even then, it’s both kinder and more helpful to be honest." theopennotebook.com
Aug 26, 2021
Do Chance Meetings at the Office Boost Innovation? There’s No Evidence of It: nytimes.com
"Privacy law should become a standard part of the first-year law school curriculum." greenbag.org
"In the climate crisis, communities like this face a combustive, destructive 'confluence of vulnerabilities,' as Zachary Lamb, an assistant professor of city and regional planning at University of California, Berkeley, explained: where they’re located (often in places prone to floods, high winds, wildfire, etc.), how the housing itself is constructed (particularly older mobile homes), and the infrastructure that services them (often private)." propublica.org
Aug 23, 2021
"His activism — and refusal to sign a loyalty oath — got him fired from a student job at the Berkeley campus library, and in 1953 he was subpoenaed to appear before the House Committee on Un-American Activities." nytimes.com 🐤
"He believed that genres like folk and the blues presented critical perspectives on American history — and offered a possible escape from what he believed was an otherwise grim fate for a country still beleaguered by white supremacy." nytimes.com 🐤
Editorial: Don’t let Donald Trump win in California ‘Californians can’t risk such disaster. They should vote ‘no’ on the recall ballot’s first question.’ sfexaminer.com 📰
Podcast: What Happened to Naomi Wolf? | Jessica Johnson joins to discuss the journey from The Beauty Myth to covid conspiracy theories jeetheer.substack.com 🎙️
"Sign our petition and tell Apple to stop its plan to scan our phones. Users need to speak up say this violation of our privacy is wrong." act.eff.org
"'This is an amazing opportunity for CDC and public health as we stand up the country’s first government-wide public health forecasting center,' said CDC Director Rochelle P. Walensky, M.D., M.P.H." cdc.gov
Spotlight on math anxiety: ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
"One of the things that makes it magic is it's a bunch of guys playing in a room. That groove, you can't do with ProTools." howardstern.com
Stanley Aronowitz, Labor Scholar and Activist, Dies at 88 | As a self-described “working-class intellectual,” he declared that direct action was more potent than collective bargaining or conventional politics. nytimes.com 🐤
Aug 19, 2021
"The latest Green and Durant comments came on an episode of 'Chips,' which Bleacher Report dropped Wednesday via YouTube and included a little bit of a tell-all feel mixed with a lot of revisionist history as Green interviewed Durant." sfchronicle.com 📰
"Opponents of mask mandates for preschool and elementary-school children have expressed concern that wearing masks will impair children’s ability to learn language and socialize — or worse, that (in the words of one anxious parent in Utah) it will 'rewire their brains.'" nytimes.com 🐤
What I learned from an unlikely friendship with an anti-masker: theguardian.com
Aug 17, 2021
"The main evidence for jurisprudence in the Neo-Assyrian period are documents in cuneiform script and Neo-Assyrian language written down in the context of settlement of private disputes." asor.org 🐤
Why do Tesla cars keep crashing into emergency response vehicles? Federal safety agency is investigating: latimes.com 📰
"And Newsom is about as loved by many Latinos as a stale Mexican Coke." latimes.com 📰
"Macavity’s a Mystery Cat: he’s called the Hidden Paw— For he’s the master criminal who can defy the Law." poets.org
"A 30-acre fire that triggered evacuations last week in Ukiah started at a homeless camp under Highway 101, an investigator said Monday." pressdemocrat.com 📰
"Guillotine All YIMBYS Since Honeybears Always Mean Eviction" datebook.sfchronicle.com 📰
Aug 16, 2021
Paul Krugman can be great, which makes it tragic when he phones it in. nytimes.com
"Hong Kong has for decades provided a safe space for various groups to flourish, he added -- but now, 'all of these actions against unions and associations of various kinds are an attack on civil society.'" cnn.com
"A healthy portion of the winners of the Tournament of Champions have been so-called people of color (mostly Asian Americans), but there have been precious few women or poor people of any racial background." nytimes.com
Aug 15, 2021
Mississippi 8th Grader Dies With COVID Hours After Gov. Reeves Downplays Child Cases (Updated): mississippifreepress.org 🐤
Amy Coney Barrett Strikes Surprising Killer Blow Against Vaccine Mandate Defiance: msn.com
A Year in the Life of a Librarian-Turned-Contact-Tracer: webjunction.org 🐤
"AP’S ASSESSMENT: False. The video, which was filmed in Arizona in July 2020, shows a controlled burn -- a tactic used by firefighters to contain fires." apnews.com
"A group of neighbors recently persuaded the city to cut down a row of invasive tamarisk trees bordering the golf course, planted in the late 1950s as Black families began to settle in Lawrence Crossley." latimes.com 📰
"While some residents of the neighborhood have said they believe the trees were planted decades ago to segregate the historically black neighborhood and have depressed their property values since, city officials said the trees were not planted with any racial animus and they were removing the trees because the invasive species consumed vast amounts of water and presented a potential fire hazard." desertsun.com
Aug 14, 2021
"The region, home to the booming Silicon Valley tech sector and a rising number of billionaires, also has one of the highest numbers of people without homes." yesmagazine.org 🐤
Aug 12, 2021
Scientists petition U.S. Forest Service to drop new fire-suppression policy: sfchronicle.com 📰
"For a group of people who all fight the silent battle of loneliness, we sure are fickle with each other. But when you have so many opportunities before you, it’s easy to avoid commitment, even to a friendship." markmanson.medium.com
"According to the affidavit, Coleman 'explained that he was enlightened by QAnon and Illuminati conspiracy theories and was receiving visions and signs revealing that his wife, A.C., possessed serpent DNA and had passed it on to his children.'" sfgate.com 🐤
Aug 11, 2021
"I’ve been following some batshit romance news lately, including the apparent practice of pretending dead authors are still alive and publishing new titles, the news of which makes me long to be back in grad school so I could write a terribly clever theory-besotted paper on this." notesfromasmallpress.substack.com 🐤
Aug 10, 2021
"In a statement, Facebook says we used 'unauthorized means to access and collect data' and that it shut us out to comply with an order from the Federal Trade Commission to respect the privacy of its users." nytimes.com
Jule 29, 2021
"Residents now swarm police hotlines with reports about disloyal neighbors or colleagues. Teachers have been told to imbue students with patriotic fervor through 48-volume book sets called 'My Home Is in China.' Public libraries have removed dozens of books from circulation, including one about the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Nelson Mandela." nytimes.com
July 7, 2021
"At Clockwork, a new popup in the Marina, AI-assisted robots paint 10 nails in just 10 minutes for less than 10 bucks — $8 to be exact — and the machines won’t even give you a dirty look if you fail to leave a tip. Less than a block away, both Ciao Bella Nails and The New Nails charge $16 for the same service, and gratuity is expected." sfweekly.com 📰
July 1, 2021
"More recently, three Exxon-backed directors were ousted from the company's board following a bruising battle with an activist hedge fund that criticized Exxon's climate stance. The milestone proxy battle was the first at major US company where the case for change was built around the transition away from fossil fuels." cnn.com
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