Links November 2021

Nov. 30

"Residents told CBS News that Boise's housing market has changed the city. Young people squeezed out of buying their first home are moving away, along with older residents who are cashing out."   cbs.com

"For years, Mendocino Railway and Fort Bragg have battled over land rights, with fights growing increasingly nasty over time. Last year, Mendocino Railway cut down trees on lands owned by residents and had to apologize to the land owners."   sfgate.com  🐤

Even on U.S. Campuses, China Cracks Down on Students Who Speak Out | Students and scholars from China who criticize the regime in Beijing can face quick retaliation from fellow students and Chinese officials who harass their families back home. U.S. universities rarely intervene:   propublica.org  📧

Operation Fox Hunt: How China Exports Repression Using a Network of Spies Hidden in Plain Sight:   propublica.org  📧


Nov. 27

"'No employees showing up today… we are unable to fulfill the orders! We are sorry!' read the sign, which was posted on the establishment's front door, according to The Orange County Register." nbsp; msn.com


Nov. 26

"She mentioned a racial motive just once during the three-week trial, in her closing argument: The men, she said, had attacked Mr. Arbery 'because he was a Black man running down the street.'"   nytimes.com

“I think it's wrong for them to be able to come here and just purchase property for the sole purpose of just making a big buck off of it by transferring the water.”   azcentral.com  📧

"Companies cite the area’s reasonable costs for electricity, available space and lack of natural disasters as reasons why they’re investing here. In east Mesa, Japan’s NTT Ltd. is building a campus with seven data centers and a Facebook data center is going up in the area, too."   azcentral.com  📧

"Lin describes the sculptures that have been her main focus over the past few decades as land but seen through the lends of technology."   wsj.com  📰


Nov. 25

"This new ethos 'stifles the public arena while denying us recourse to private arenas and tells us how not to behave without showing us how to thrive.'"   wsj.com


Nov. 24

How a shaky cellphone video changed the course of the Ahmaud Arbery murder case:   washingtonpost.com  🐤

"Her approach was influenced by German Expressionism, which encouraged the inner feelings of the artist to seep into the portrait."   sfchronicle.com  📰

July 9 Uber and Lyft surge pricing drives angry SF customers back to taxis: ‘We just can’t stop talking about how high the prices are getting. It’s ridiculous.’   sfexaminer.com  📰

"At about this time, too, their cumbersome alphabet was reduced to mainly consonantal elements (thus: thr cmbrsm alfbt w rdsd t mnl cnsntl elmnts) but this was done to facilitate quick reading, and only incidentally did it cut down the mass of Bx (the new spelling) by a full third." - short story "Ms Find in a Lbry* by Hal Draper   folk.universitetetioslo.no

A billionaire boomer blames his generation for ruining the economy for millennials:   msn.com

Torshita Jackson describes to the Mississippi Free Press the difference broadband will make in her school district.   podcast.mississippifreepress.org

"Over the past 10 years, we have seen a striking change in how firearms are carried in public and it is the direct result of these open carry laws. The most striking change has been the appearance of heavily armed men open carrying military style semi-automatic rifles and handguns."   real-psychiatry.blogspot.com

For Decades, Southern States Considered Thanksgiving an Act of Northern Aggression | In the 19th century, pumpkin pie ignited a culture war:   atlasobscura.com


Nov. 22

"The United States for the first time was added to a list of 'backsliding democracies' in a report released Monday by the Stockholm-based International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance."   washingtonpost.com  🐤


Nov. 20

"Social media—particularly Instagram, which displaces other forms of interaction among teens, puts the size of their friend group on public display, and subjects their physical appearance to the hard metrics of likes and comment counts—takes the worst parts of middle school and glossy women’s magazines and intensifies them."   theatlantic.com

"That said, the book does get some things right. The authors do a commendable job of avoiding what I call 'A.I. fatalism' — the belief, sadly common in tech circles, that A.I. is part of an inevitable future whose course we are powerless to change."   nytimes.com

"One year after that rollout, legitimate publishers accounted for only two of the top 10 publishers on Facebook in Myanmar."   technologyreview.com  🐤

Single-family zoning preserves century-old segregation, planners say. A proposal to add density is dividing neighborhoods.:   washingtonpost.com

"The Koch organization first went public with its position last spring, as state lawmakers and conservative groups began passing legislation that bans from classrooms specific concepts, including the idea that racism is systemic in society and the U.S. legal system."   apnews.com

"The Bipartisan Infrastructure Deal signed by President Biden on Nov. 15 granted the Bureau of Indian Affairs $216 million to help tribes adapt to climate change or even relocate as part of an over $11 billion allocation to Native communities."   publicintegrity.org

Barely a cloud in the sky and Portland, Maine, is flooding:   pbs.org

"My joke is that we're the biggest company you've never heard of."   greenpeace.org


Nov. 18

"I didn’t go in coasting it, but I was just like, I love her music, I know her records…[but] you’re doing it over Zoom, there were things that I forgot to ask that I wanted to ask."   wsj.com

Vice's guide to greenwashing terms.   vice.com

‘So Much Ugliness’ as Upper East Siders Battle 16-Story Tower:   nytimes.com

"Automatic price add-ons coded into the company system, including one called the 'gross pricing overlay' that could add as much as 7%, would boost offering prices to get more home sellers to say yes."   wsj.com


Nov. 15

"Those with a circumference between 18 and 24 inches are the main targets, and will be strategically culled."   theguardian.com

"The project allows the use of heavy equipment to log live and dead trees up to two feet in diameter and clear rare old-growth chaparral along six miles of the prominent ridge known as Pine Mountain stretching from Highway 33 to Reyes Peak."   projectpinemountain.org

"Forestry unions and environmentalists are calling on the provincial governments to suspend any approval of new wood pellet mills, because the current mills are using entire logs, instead of just wood waste."   globalnews.ca

Meghan’s texts revealed: Royal family are ‘constantly berating’ Prince Harry over row with my father | In newly-released messages – read them below – Duchess said senior royals 'fundamentally don't understand' situation with Thomas Markle   telegraph.co.uk  📧

"TikTok of an Airbnb guest covering up a Ring camera has sparked debate about guests' right to privacy when renting out someone else's home."   msn.com  🐤

"A share of it will be affordable housing."   sfchronicle.com  📰

"The price: $8,000 a month (or $96,000 a year) for a studio to up to $27,000 month (or $324,000) for a top-of-the-line apartment. And this to spend one’s golden years on Van Ness Avenue."   sfchronicle.com  📰

"The pampering is not unique to Kurve, located near Koreatown, which is attempting to compete in a crowded upper-tier market."   latimes.com  📰

Who is demanding these, the sentence above just said the supply is over-abundant: "Floridly luxurious apartment buildings have a long history in Los Angeles, and the appetite for deluxe living quarters has been unabated by the pandemic as rents continue to rise."   latimes.com  📰


Nov. 13

"A clear majority of adults say that warming is a serious problem, but the share — 67 percent — is about the same as it was seven years ago, when alarms raised by climate scientists were less pronounced than they are now."   washingtonpost.com


Nov. 11, 2021

Fall in love with ‘Unpacking,’ a beautiful, simple story of how we live told via what we own:   latimes.com  📰

"What’s largely absent from the discussion, however, is any consideration of what is arguably the most natural response to the leaks about Instagram’s potential harm: Should kids be using these services at all?"   newyorker.com


Nov. 8, 2021

Chile's desert dumping ground for fast fashion leftovers:   phys.org


Nov. 7, 2021

"Rick Edmonds, media business analyst for the Poynter Institute — who called Hussman’s strategy intriguing — said people who like these 'e-editions' prefer the 'completeness' it provides, much like a finite newspaper."   washingtonpost.com  🐤


Nov. 5, 2021

"Using in-depth interviews with 43 working- and middle-class individuals in the United Kingdom who say they rarely or never access conventional news sources, we find that decisions around when and whether to engage with news are (1) often viewed through a gendered lens, which we call “news-is-for-men” perceptions, and (2) subject to structural inequalities that shape people's everyday media consumption habits."   tandfonline.com

"In media environments where people see news as ambient and ubiquitous (Hermida 2010; Gil de Zúñiga, Weeks, and Ardèvol-Abreu 2017), deliberate avoidance of news may take on outsized importance in shaping what it means to be an informed citizen for news enthusiasts and habitual avoiders alike."   watermark.silverchair.com

"Moreover, news avoidance indeed has a positive effect on perceived well-being."   tandfonline.com


Nov. 4, 2021

"Ugandan climate activist Vanessa Nakate on Saturday visited a vast German open-pit coal mine and a village that is to be bulldozed for its expansion, saying the destruction is “really disturbing” and has implications far beyond Germany."   pressdemocrat.com

Oct. 9 Russians flock to Serbia for Western-made COVID-19 vaccines:   apnews.com  📰

Oct. 4 "The book makes an argument against the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), claiming it favors religion over research."   eastbaytimes.com  📰

Oct. 9 "They would never allow such valuable real estate to be returned to our people, so in 1927 they removed us from a congressionally mandated list of tribes to receive land — after which they claimed we 'withered away' and became extinct because it’s easier to say we don’t exist than having to buy us land or ask our permission to desecrate our sacred sites and cemeteries."   mercurynews.com  📰

"Many Americans are responding that IRS monitoring of their personal financial account information violates their privacy, neglects their right to due process, by assuming taxpayers are guilty until proven innocent, and puts their information at risk of a breach at the agency, which is already investigating a high-profile tax return leak."   wvgazettemail.com  🐤

"But 'carbon intensity' pledges have given companies a framework to keep investing in dirty fuels, while also expanding into pollution-capturing technology and cleaner energy."   theguardian.com  🐤

"It’s an important topic because far too many business leaders are saying all the right things on climate while hiding behind business groups that are sabotaging meaningful climate legislation."   linkedin.com/pulse  🐤


Nov. 2, 2021

"Throughout the last hundred and fifty years, individual Germans have done more to further civilisation than the individuals of any other country; during the latter half of this period, Germans, collectively, have been equally effective in degrading civilisation."   russell-j.com  🐤

Kevin Drum shows ignorance in his statement "From the brownest to the greenest, there is literally not a single country willing to leave fossil fuels in the ground if that requires even a minor economic sacrifice."   jabberwocking.com  🔗  📧

"The state’s youngest residents are seeing an increase in infections and positivity rates as Florida education commissioner Richard Corcoran battles with local school boards requiring students to wear masks, policies opposed by Gov. Ron DeSantis."   tampabay.com  🌐  📰


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