Jeffrey VagleGoogle's Chrome browser is now a thin candy shell of browser interface around a full-time surveillance engine and personal data monetization machine. Find a better browser, folks.
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Mission LocalSF Chronicle workers ink new union contract after two-year battle
After two years of bargaining, the San Francisco Chronicle Guild ratified its new contract yesterday with 99 percent approval, winning its 145 members pay bumps, raise guarantees, and other benefits in “the best contract that the Chronicle's union has had in at least a decade.” That’s according to Dustin Gardiner, the Chronicle’s former state capitol reporter and a main organizer of a…
https://missionlocal.org/2023/08/sf-chronicle-workers-ink-new-union-contract-after-two-year-battle/
Burrito Justice“I’m actually really sad about the Twitter name and identity being tossed. The site has never been what you would call perfect, but there was a good run there when it mattered, and mattered to me. I mourn the thing that mattered” https://whatever.scalzi.com/2023/07/24/preparing-my-x-it/
Jef Poskanzer
ProPublicaHow We Found What the City of Los Angeles Didn’t: #Landlords Renting Low-Cost #Housing to Tourists
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Hotel ads, booking sites and guest reviews. Tourists staying in rooms meant for low-cost housing. Yet the city’s Housing Department has cited few landlords for violating the residential #hotel law.
How We Found What the City of Los Angeles Didn’t: Landlords Renting Low-Cost Housing to Tourists
Hotel ads, booking sites and guest reviews. Tourists staying in rooms meant for low-cost housing. Yet the city’s Housing Department has cited few landlords for violating the residential hotel law.
The Vallejo SunThe city of Vallejo will seek to allow City Manager Mike Malone to “take all necessary actions to address the emergency” of a depleted Vallejo Police Department that cannot adequately respond to calls at its meeting Tuesday.
https://www.vallejosun.com/vallejo-considers-declaring-state-of-emergency-on-police-staffing/
https://www.vallejosun.com/vallejo-considers-declaring-state-of-emergency-on-police-staffing/
Kevin Rothrock“US intelligence officials have warned that Russia is building a drone-manufacturing facility in country with Iran’s help that could have a significant impact on the war in Ukraine once it is completed.” “…a new drone stockpile that is “orders of magnitude larger” than what it has been able to procure from Iran to date.” https://edition.cnn.com/2023/07/25/politics/us-russia-iran-drones/index.html
ScalziI'm going to congratulate my UPS guy when he arrives today; he's getting air conditioning! And a raise!
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/25/business/economy/ups-teamsters-contract-strike.html
Daniel SwainThe fact that there's still this much scientific uncertainty regarding the stability of certain global ocean circulation systems on sub-centennial timescales (not just AMOC, but also in the Antarctic) is not especially reassuring from climate risk perspective. @ProfMattEngland