Berkeleyside
• Hope Muñoz
South Berkeley church breaks ground on affordable housing
links.daveverse.org
• Dave Winer
The doctor [Fauci] was thrust into his pandemic-leadership role because of Trump’s deadly dereliction of duty. Amazing this needs to be pointed out. We all lived through it.
Most Migrants Who Crossed Into Ceuta Have Returned to Morocco, Spain Officials Say: Live Updates (Gift Article) (independent.co.uk)
independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/ceuta-map-spain-morocco-migrants-b3025222.html
What’s missing from Northwestern’s new $875 million stadium? Seats in the student section (Gift Article) (nytimes.com)
Opinion | Trump’s Iran strategy is working. His vice president’s isn’t. (wapo.st)
An unwritten federal policy is blocking workers’ discrimination claims (wapo.st)
Who Was The Most Unsettlingly Tan Coach At Preseason Media Days? | Defector (defector.com)
Ars Technica
• John Timmer
Not just Neanderthals: Ghost lineage in Africa left its mark on our DNA
Some group with no modern descendants contributed a lot to our genomes.
WordPress.com Blog
• WordPress.com Staff
WordPress.com Changelog: New Blocks and Better Async Notes
New Tabs and Playlist blocks, self-filling galleries, phrase-level notes with @mentions, and self-service plan downgrades — here's what recently shipped on WordPress.com.
Ars Technica - All content
• John Timmer
Not just Neanderthals: Ghost lineage in Africa left its mark on our DNA
Some group with no modern descendants contributed a lot to our genomes.
Ars Technica - All content
• Beth Mole
Doctors took a look at man's painful shoulder—they found the joint was missing
The term "Milwaukee Should Syndrome" was coined in 1981, based on cases in four women.
Ars Technica - All content
• Ryan Whitwam
Google plans to exempt sanctioned nations from Android developer verification
Someone in Cuba or Iran can keep installing APKs with no new restrictions, but devs will suffer.
Ars Technica - All content
• Ashley Belanger
Reddit keeps its strange DMCA fight over Google search results alive
Reddit advances lawsuit accusing Perplexity AI of conspiring with web scraper.
Latest articles from Crooks and Liars
• Chris capper Liebenthal
Wisconsin Lawmaker Calls For Fauci To Be Publicly Executed
Waukesha County Supervisor Robert Kolb made a Facebook post calling for the public execution of Dr. Anthony Fauci.
When people started to call or send emails to him, he made another post saying, "I stated that Fauci should be executed for his crimes…. I guess these people...
Techdirt
• Eli Lehrer, R Street
What Ukraine’s Battlefield Openness Can Teach Washington About AI Access
On a laptop screen in a dimly lit tent near the Donetsk front, a Ukrainian drone team steers its aircraft into the turret of a Russian T-72 and glimpses the start of an explosion before the picture dissolves into static. The strike is uploaded, verified, and scored against the point value assigned to the tank. […]
Brian Alvey
• Brian Alvey
Antifragile rocks
For decades, ranking on Google was survival. Now ADWEEK reports that some of the biggest media businesses are not-so-quietly making plans to disappear from it. This isn’t just one angry newspaper. The Wall Street Journal lists USA Today, Reuters, Politico, The Economist and People Inc. among the publishers who are considering cutting off Google. AndContinue reading "Antifragile rocks"
Sistine Chapel Ceiling: Sibyl Erithraea, 1512 #highrenaissance #michelangelo
Ars Technica
• Beth Mole
Doctors took a look at man's painful shoulder—they found the joint was missing
The term "Milwaukee Should Syndrome" was coined in 1981, based on cases in four women.
Ars Technica
• Ryan Whitwam
Google plans to exempt sanctioned nations from Android developer verification
Someone in Cuba or Iran can keep installing APKs with no new restrictions, but devs will suffer.
Political Wire
• Taegan Goddard
Hunter Biden Blames Cancer for Father’s Terrible Debate
“Hunter Biden said on a podcast episode published this week that he believed his father, former President Joe Biden was unknowingly suffering from cancer during the disastrous debate performance that led to the end of his 2024 presidential campaign,” the New York Times reports. Said Biden: “He looked blank. And what do I attribute that […]