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https://sfstandard.com/2024/05/15/cal-academy-layoffs-san-francisco/ What is not said here is that the museum made a choice 15 years ago to create a building for tourists instead of for the collection. I visited the old building 6/8 times a year. I have only been to the new building twice since it opened!
Millions over budget, California Academy of Sciences weighs layoffs

Senior scientists and unionized staff raise alarms over potential layoffs at the deficit-plagued California Academy of Sciences.

The San Francisco Standard
Monkey brains outage 11/11 12:30
I California was rerouted tonight around Nov hill—not sure if this was an early APEC or something else.
Farmers’ market feeling squeezed out by plans for skate space at U.N. Plaza https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/un-plaza-farmers-market-18281498.php
We all know that ads try to target us, but a new investigation by the @TheMarkup's unravels how deep and intense that targeting gets. See the tags for yourself: https://themarkup.org/privacy/2023/06/08/from-heavy-purchasers-of-pregnancy-tests-to-the-depression-prone-we-found-650000-ways-advertisers-label-you
From “Heavy Purchasers” of Pregnancy Tests to the Depression-Prone: We Found 650,000 Ways Advertisers Label You – The Markup

A spreadsheet on ad platform Xandr’s website revealed a massive collection of “audience segments” used to target consumers based on highly specific, sometimes intimate information and inferences

Listening to @michaelshvo talk about the Transamerica Pyramid with @manny_yekutiel —saying real estate must adapt to the future not live in the past.
Public Service Announcement for #wx warnings and alerts. If you are afraid of missing #weather warnings and alerts for your area due to the fiasco over on the birdsite, follow the "IEMBOT" bots we have put up here on the #Fediverse - THESE ARE NOT DEPENDENT ON TWITTER. You need to look up your Weather Service office (for example, mine is Los Angeles, LOX) and find the bot, ie @iembot_lox -- or say Boston, @iembot_box (office abbr. here: https://training.weather.gov/nwstc/sysinfo/sites.html) #NWS #NationalWeatherService
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I last weekend I walked around the new Hunters Point #shipyard project. Lots of new housing 👍But it looks like a good desert. Any plans for a grocery store there? #sfyimby
Read between the lines. The board failed the #TexasObserver . They failed to fundraise but much more critically they failed to communicate. And like so many nonprofit boards they failed to recognize their duty to implement HR policies and procedures.
https://www.sfusd.edu/about-sfusd/sfusd-news/press-releases/2023-03-07-sfusd-takes-immediate-action-address-error-employee-state-tax-filings Sfusd screwing teachers again, this time by somehow failing to file district withholding info on time!
SFUSD Takes Immediate Action to Address Error in Employee State Tax Filings | SFUSD

San Francisco Unified School District (SFUSD) Superintendent Dr. Matt Wayne announced today that SFUSD is taking immediate steps to resolve an error in which the district did not file three quarterly wage reports with the State in 2022.