Pssst: OAKLAND JUST RECEIVED STATE RECOGNITION AS A CULTURAL DISTRICT! #BlackArtsMovementDistrict 🏆 California Arts Council press release: arts.ca.gov/press-releas...

Problems with your landlord? Join OTU's Community Counselors tomorrow on Zoom to get solutions! This event is free and open to all Oakland tenants. Register at buff.ly/YwvAjMk

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Ngoc Nguyen is a gay Vietnamese American multidisciplinary artist based in Alameda. Working primarily in painting, he blends representation and abstraction through portraiture and figurative imagery to explore themes of identity, intimacy, and belonging.

Shreya Shankar’s practice is where ancestral forms and futurisms meet across the mediums of design, place-keeping, production, policy, myth-making and meaning-making. Shreya will be exhibiting artwork at 2727 Art Gallery & Studios.

Guillermo Navarrete Davis is a self-taught painter born and raised in Santiago de Chile, and has lived in the Bay Area since 1998. As an indigenous Latino who has always been drawn to marginalized peoples, his work focuses on their often overlooked stories.

Ren Chanel Patrick is a Bay Area-based multidisciplinary artist working primarily in fiber and installation. Originally trained in visual storytelling through comics and photography, their work weaves together narrative, historical research, and textile traditions.

Laurie Caird is an Oakland-based artist and designer. Her work explores our relationship to time, celebrating the Japanese concept of ichigo ichie – cherishing the present moment, as it will never be replicated. Laurie will be exhibiting artwork at Mighty Mighty Studios. #EmergingArtist #EBOS

Nadir Wright is a visual artist based in Oakland, California, whose acrylic and mixed media work explores color, whimsy, emotion, and alternate realities. Nadir will be exhibiting artwork at The Grand Gallery. www.instagram.com/nadirwright_... #EmergingArtist #EastBayOpenStudios

East Bay Open Studios continues this weekend—Saturday & Sunday, December 13–14, from 11 am–5 p.m. daily This is the perfect event to connect with community, holiday shop and support the arts before the year's close 🎁 www.eastbayopenstudios.com

Enjoy this “cosmic distance ladder” to your weekend 💫

The Diablo Canyon Power Plant will be required to 4,000 acres of surrounding land to mitigate environmental damage caused by its continued operations. bit.ly/494tnLg 📸 Michael A. Mariant, AP

Good list here ❄️ Snowshoeing opportunities abound anywhere off Highway 89 north of Truckee: www.kqed.org/news/12066608

Friends, Romans, countrymen, I read a lot of comics this year and these were the best ones

Another handbag for justice. Another purse against fascism. The famous clobber-a-Nazi image from Sweden 40 years ago.

KQED: Kaiser said in a statement that AI tools hold “significant potential to benefit health care by supporting better diagnostics, enhancing patient-clinician relationships, optimizing clinicians’ time, and ensuring fairness in care experiences and health outcomes by addressing individual needs.”

Yay, a #queer #Oakland market this Saturday (😷):

Here is one from the Diamond district in Oakland. More street art, please.

Super curious if any reporter looking into the #California #groundwater depletion as it relates to the plethora of recent earthquakes in SoCal? 🎙️ www.science.org/content/arti...

The words of the profits are written on BART walls: www.oaklandreviewofbooks.org/surveilling-...

Loved Annie’s first edition of _Women_, so I’m interested to see this new release! youtu.be/KNcNqA3WXHw?...

Not payin’ m’student loans anymore due to this shite:

Earlier this week, 42 state attorneys general sent a warning letter to the major AI companies regarding the dangers and harms created by AI chatbots. It's as forceful an indictment of what's happening that I've found, so here's a short thread to walk you through the evidence they've compiled... 🧵

exceptional garbage

Disney and OpenAI sign a deal to bring 200+ Disney characters to Sora; Disney makes a $1B investment in OpenAI and will become a "major" OpenAI customer (OpenAI) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

".. Oracle did say Wednesday that it intends to preserve its investment-grade rating as it finances its AI buildout. But investors are clearly tiring of seeing the money go only one way." @wsj.com $ORCL www.wsj.com/tech/ai/orac...

This man is so cool it hurts.

We built this together, Oakland. Our Community Championship Ring is here 🏆💍 Celebrating the 73–23 season that made history. Priced at $73.23 so every fan can wear the win. Pre-order yours today. 💛💚 https://shop.oaklandballers.com/products/pre-order-2025-community-championship-ring

“It’s been a story of resistance: We’d get kicked out of one space and find another neighborhood to regroup, and add love and creativity,” Joseph said. “Now, we’re ready to give other artists and collectives a space.” #ThirdSpaces #Art #weirdos 🎨 sfstandard.com/2025/12/10/d...

@orcaconservancy.bsky.social recently sighted orca calves in the K and L pods of the Southern Resident Killer Whales! Fins up for their survival to adulthood and beyond 🐋

A plein air painting I did along the Oakland Estuary. #Oilpainting #oaklandestuary

BREAKING: The DOJ has filed its opposition to my motion for expedited processing of the EPSTEIN TRAINING VIDEOS. They're arguing that there's NO WIDESPREAD PUBLIC INTEREST. My latest: www.muellershewrote.com/p/new-doj-re...

It has been only 15 years and they have never come up with a plan to replace the ACA. The Emperor has no clothes.

Hmm, how about the people decide how to play nice—and not the companies who make AI bots? #regulateAI www.wired.com/story/openai...

“As prices for streaming subscriptions continue to soar and finding movies to watch, new and old, is becoming harder as the number of streaming services continues to grow, people are turning to the unexpected last stronghold of physical media: the public library.”

Absolutely heart-stopping read: data-workers.org/michael/

I'm spending my PhD researching just this question of what careers in tech "for good" or "in the public interest" look like. Just published an op-ed this weekend about one option: go do tech and/or data work for a non-profit! localnewsmatters.org/2025/11/30/b...

One of the many reasons AI can't produce good writing is it can't hate its own writing. It can't think to itself "Maybe I'm illiterate" during the writing process. And that's essential

Sundress Publications (@sundresspub.bsky.social) is open for submissions for microgrant applications from Palestinian writers with a chapbook or full-length book in progress. Projects of all genres are welcome. Learn more and apply by December 31, 2025: sundresspublications.com/news/2025/09...

As AI data centers increase energy usage, private equity firms like BlackRock & Blackstone are buying utility companies to rake in excess profits. Public utilities are a public good, not a cash cow opportunity for shareholders. I’m fighting for accountability on this.

Tech companies used to portray themselves as do-gooders. But as Palintir's new billboard suggests, their commitment to domination was there all along. Welcome to the Great Tech Vibe Shift, our most recent Tech Billboard Decoder column by @dellsystem.bsky.social www.bayareacurrent.com/tech-billboa...

Artist and activist Cat Brooks: “The arts will not get by without this position….Anyone who is in the Town, lives in the Town or loves the Town knows that arts and culture is our heartbeat. So if you’re interested in the heartbeat of Oakland, this position matters to you.” 💚💛🌳🌞🎨

It is being reported that Nvidia’s $NVDA H200 chips will have to undergo a US security review before their export to China, per the WSJ

A fantastic gathering of literary-esque side quests! Choose your own adventure in the #EastBay 📚

I love learning better and more precise wording. This afternoon's discovery is from Anna Mills and Nate Angell, and their paper I missed from February. "Using mirage instead of hallucination enables us to stop anthropomorphizing AI and see the incongruities it generates for what they really are."

EXCLUSIVE: We found that Instacart is using AI algorithms to charge customers different prices for the same items. It's not just online. It's in physical grocery stores too. Our months-long investigation with @consumerreports.org and @groundwork.bsky.social found it could cost families $1200/year.

“‘But you can’t take him in,’ I heard myself saying suddenly, ‘He didn’t do anything.” Why Joan Didion hated the police.

Calling all #creatives: Have a project that feels stuck? #ArtistMutualAid may help you overcome the inertia holding you and your project back. Coming 12/19: ArtistMutualAid.org Subscribe for FREE to 1) receive creative prompts and (2) join bi-weekly generative workshops starting 12/26! —PatsE✨

The trick to being a happy and optimistic person is overwriting all the neurons containing your bad memories with lore