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Greta Byrum reports back from the Global Gathering, a conference of digital rights and internet freedom advocates and technologists. Amid rising authoritarianism, those who value free expression are ever more dependent on the work of this group, which is increasingly under threat, writes Byrum.

Succession

Nobody asked for it. We did it anyway. If you ever used Winamp during the later years, it had an awesome, awesome visualizer called Milkdrop. The Webamp people implemented a workalike called Butterchurn. Internet Archive now supports Webamp and Butterchurn. Just click on the llama!

Major airlines, including American Airlines, United, and Delta, are selling access to five billion plane ticketing records to the government for warrantless searching and monitoring of peoples’ movements, including by the FBI, Secret Service, ICE. 🔗 www.404media.co/airlines-sel...

someone I used to organize with got disappeared by ice. she was a us citizen.

I have never been more targeted in my entire fucking life

As you wait w/ baited breath for California's new🗺️maps🗺️ expected to drop today, read my/my coworkers' explainer on how redistricting works (w/ @nicolenixon.bsky.social & 🦋Kate Wolffe) www.sacbee.com/news/politic...

"Chinese carbon dioxide emissions fell 2.7 percent during the first six months of 2025, while U.S. CO2 emissions were up 4.2 percent, according to Carbon Monitor, a global emissions tracker led by an international team of academics." www.politico.com/newsletters/...

More and more people are saying it’s bad!

*TSUNAMI WATCH* for the entire West Coast of the U.S., including the Bay Area — this is the result of an underwater M8.7 earthquake off the east coast of Russia. Waves won't reach our coastline until after midnight. Specific magnitude/height of what we can expect is still being calculated.

I feel like we owe Kojima an apology because he’s like “This is my villain, Corrupto Moneyguy. He controls the media and eats children.” As it turns out, this is a nuanced and accurate view of global politics.

It’s official, we secured the Roxie’s future and bought our building!!! Thank you so much for the support💕💕💕 www.sfchronicle.com/entertainmen...

Richmond Fed president asks business leaders about Trump’s tariffs and learns that firms are “raising prices not because they have to, but because they think they can get away with it.” www.wsj.com/economy/tom-...

Half of 2025 is done. Summary of CA stats vs '23; vs '24 40% 18% fossil gas down 216% 65% batteries up 49% 18% solar up 3.7% 0.6% wind up 16.4% 6% WWS up -0.4% +1.1% change in demand '23 '24 '25 48.9% 54.6% 57.1% %demand met by WindWaterSolar 45 104 145 days>100% WWS 0.97 3.21 4.94 h/day>100% WWS

We told Senator Britt this bill would kill working people and she smirked as the elevator doors closed.

why are we arguing about the exact definition of a concentration camp

amtrak’s marketing team gets it

This is a beautiful collection full of archival interviews with Hollywood actors. Beautiful to have it out here and properly preserved

Today’s #NoKings rally in Dublin, CA “Why Dublin?”, you ask. Well, ICE is trying to convert an abandoned prison into an ICE detention facility. This was a prison that was known to be abusive to the people incarcerated there. For more info on stopping this from happening: www.bayresistance.org

it’s a bop open.spotify.com/track/7IdUXT...

I think it's good when people change their minds. I think that we should encourage those who do to speak out about that. Also, I hope someone who knows this person can help them to connect the dots to other horrible things being wrought by Trump.

Schumer stopped the Senate to announce that this happened, in the middle of debate on a bill where Democrats were collaborating with Republicans on crypto legislation. How you can compartmentalize these two things is beyond me.

Pulitzer prize for this Jay L. Clenendin image of LAPD stormtroopers in front of Barbara Kruger's "Untitled (Questions)"

Thank you Brian Wilson - hope your mind is at peace youtu.be/pwzolTeiidU?...

RIP Brian Wilson, Shortenin’ Bread’s #1 Fan

🚨NEWS: Ezra Klein created a viral Jon Stewart clip pretending Dems made broadband funding too complex (it was Republicans & corp lobbyists), so now in the name of abundance, Trump may give the cash to Musk & force states to block AI rules. Abundance!

video of ICE arrests happening now in San Francisco, outside court protesters attempting to stop mini-van from driving off, banging on the hood, opening its sliding doors at least 2 were arrested outside court today

Posting this 1967 Birmingham News editorial cartoon for all the people who don't realize that this is how MLK was viewed by a big chunk of white America.

BREAKING: Sly Stone, leader of funk revolutionaries Sly and the Family Stone, dies at 82.

Almost every protest in my life is described initially as a "peaceful protest" that "devolves" into unrest or vandalism or violence or whatever else. There's a quiet sit-in going on in front of the federal building. All local businesses are still open. But the headline's now "Waymos on fire"

Gavin Newsom is officially asking the DOD to remove Cal Guard members from LA, saying the federal government has overreacted and illegally overrode state authority to purposefully inflame things w/ anti-ICE protestors www.sacbee.com/news/politic...

Here’s the “Presidential Memorandum”: www.whitehouse.gov/presidential... There’s no Insurrection Act invocation; Trump is federalizing 2000 CA Nat’l Guard personnel only to “protect federal functions.” *Without* invoking the Insurrection Act, anything more would violate the Posse Comitatus Act.

newsom in 2020

ELMER FUDD: *inside the criterion closet* miwwahs cwossing... twahmendous, just a twahmendous film ah ha ha ha .. here we go.... muwurhvern cawwahl

Today, in a House Commerce, Justice, Science and related agencies appropriations hearing, Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick said not once, but twice: "...fixed wireless, which we all know is Wifi." This is the man who will determine the fate of $42.5B for broadband in rural America. G-d help us all.

China’s CO2 emissions reaching a turning point is a dramatic historical moment. The fall is driven by the greening of the power sector, which is meeting new demand with renewables. Read more in today’s Chartbook!

Willie Brown Middle School is a San Francisco 6-8 in the Bayview District. For the entire ‘24-‘25 school year, I have been driving the 44 O’Shaughnessy bus that stops there right after school gets out. That trip has been the busiest and most challenging part of my working day.

you will work in the pod. you will accept the 3/2 hybrid. you will commute to the office. you will eat the sad fast casual salad. you will add the avocado for $2.79

Musk says he's done with Washington. But it's more complicated — his lieutenants are running DOGE still, his X feed can upend the Republican agenda, and Trump world is still waiting on promised donations www.nytimes.com/2025/05/28/u...

With all the talk about STEM and the decline in humanities, this discussion between @patrickwyman.bsky.social and Bret Devereaux seemed especially interesting. A decline in or lack of resources for studies of ancient languages means there is a lot of historic material that remains untranslated.

📣 The rush to add AI into everything is a big threat to privacy, as we've been saying. MS Recall's screenshotting everything is a (not) great example of exactly why. So, Signal took steps to protect everyone using Signal on Windows 11 from Recall's privacy invasion.👇 signal.org/blog/signal-...

that fit in the background goes hard as hell

Buried lede in El Tecolote’s story on SFUSD’s layoffs: “Before the reversal, laid-off paraeducators and counselors were presented with a controversial offer: a two-month extension of health benefits — but only if every impacted employee agreed to waive their right to challenge the layoff in court.”

Fentanyl deaths are up by 50 percent in San Francisco after Mayor Lurie replaced harm reduction programs with police and prisons. It's almost like you put lives in danger when you treat a public health problem like it's a crime 48hills.org/2025/05/fent...