Mastodawn

what time is it?

https://www.kqed.org/news/11853891/you-used-to-be-able-to-call-pop-corn-and-get-the-time-what-happened-to-that

#TimeCheck #POPCORN #KQED #LostToHistory

You Used to Be Able to Call POP-CORN and Get the Time. What Happened to That? | KQED

For many years you could dial the numbers corresponding to POP-CORN from any phone and get the accurate time and date. Bay Curious listener George wanted to know, what happened to the POP-CORN lady?

sgt1372 Jun 5

#Politics #CA #Governor . . .

According to #KQED, with 59.64% of the votes counted, Becerra is closing the small gap between him (26%) & Hilton (27.1%) as the front runners in the primary race for governor. Steyer still trails in 3rd at 20.1% and none of the other candidates have any chance.

See: https://www.kqed.org/elections/results/california

2026 California Election Results: City, County & Statewide Primary Elections | KQED

Discover the latest 2026 California election results for primary statewide races on KQED. Get updates on outcomes that shape our communities and analysis from trusted sources.

kcǃ May 28

Did you know the wetsuit was invented in the San Francisco Bay Area? #sfba

#KQED’s #BayCurious #Podcast just did a short piece looking back on the history of cold water #surfing and how the modern #wetsuit came to be! https://www.kqed.org/news/12084476/the-wetsuit-changed-surfing-weve-got-a-berkeley-physicist-to-thank-for-it

The Wetsuit Changed Surfing — We’ve Got a Berkeley Physicist to Thank for It | KQED

Despite its cold ocean water, the Bay Area played a big role in the invention of the wetsuit. Ocean Beach surfers and a UC Berkeley physicist had a part to play.

Display Name May 13

#KQED Brian Watt pronounced Anti-Police Terror Organization as "Anti-Police, Terror Organization". Odd. #

RTN Apr 28

#KQED:
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The View Inside California’s Last Nuclear Power Plant
"
".. danger posed by spent nuclear waste at a site near several seismic faultlines."

".. cooling system kills almost two billion larval fish annually, plus other organisms that aren’t measured."

https://www.kqed.org/science/2000835/the-view-inside-californias-last-nuclear-power-plant

28.4.2026

#AKW #Atomkraftwerk #Atommüll #California #DiabloCanyon #HosgriFault #Kalifornien #Kernenergie #NPP #NuclearPower #NuclearWaste #PGandE #SeismicFaultline #ShorelineFault #SpentFuel #USA

The View Inside California’s Last Nuclear Power Plant | KQED

All eyes are turned to Diablo Canyon Power Plant as the debate about extending its life returns to Sacramento. But what’s it like inside?

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Tito Swineflu Apr 21

He even went down the LLM -> AGI true believers' path: "We need to be nice to claude now, because its children will be super intelligent and they'll look at the logs."

Might as well invite a evangelical preacher on your program to discuss paleontology.

Do better #kqed

Kevin Stevens Apr 6

Did someone say "Waste, fraud, and abuse"?
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/apr/03/trump-alcatraz-prison
#trump #trumpcrimefamily #trumpstein #trumpsteinclass #epsteinclass #alcatrazz #waste #fraud #abuse #abuseofpower #overreach #idiocracy #kakistocracy #plutocracy #sanfrancisco #kqed #bureauofprisons

Trump requests $152m funding to restore Alcatraz as prison

Budget proposal released on Friday outlines president’s desire to revive former federal prison in San Francisco Bay

The Guardian

Donald Ham

Feb 5

Do you ever love a book so much you slow down your reading of it because you just don't want to get to the end and leave those characters behind?

That's how I am with the new season of "All Creatures Great and Small." PBS Passport (streaming access for min $5/month donors) lets me binge watch the whole season, but I'm allowing myself one episode a week so it won't be over yet.

#AllCreaturesGreatAndSmall
#PBS
#KQED

sgt1372 Nov 13, 2025

#TV

The #AmericanRevolution -- new 6 part #documentary series by #KenBurns -- airs on #KQED & other #PBS stations starting on Sun 12/16 @ 8 pm

Burns is an unparalleled documentarian & I have a copy of most of his work on #DVD, including the complete multi disc sets on the #CivilWar #WWII, the #VietnamWar, #Baseball & #Jazz.

I'm looking forward to watching this series & to buying it when it comes out on DVD too.

https://www.pbs.org/about/about-pbs/blogs/news/the-american-revolution-a-new-film-from-ken-burns-to-premiere-november-16-2025/