When that bear don't care...what to do? www.kqed.org/news/1205741... via @kqednews.kqed.org

Across China, tens of thousands of people tagged as troublemakers are trapped in a digital cage by the world’s largest digital surveillance apparatus. Most of this technology came from Silicon Valley companies that have long claimed to support freedom. apnews.com/article/chin... via @apnews.com

Humans have a history of thinking magically about new technologies. As with any form of magic, AI's psychological power lies in what we don’t know but choose to believe. We’re inventing possibilities that don’t yet and may never exist. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/25/o... via @delistraty.bsky.social

Truly impressive number of birds migrating tonight. More than 800 MILLION birds up in the air right now❗ #BirdMigration

#ICYMI @agrobbonta.oag.ca.gov joined a bunch of AGs opposing a proposed class action settlement with Capital One on the grounds $300 million is not adequate given the $3 billion consumers lost. Also, that Capital One wants the deal to close the books on its liability. oag.ca.gov/news/press-r...

If you want to get delusional, #chatbots will take you there. "All this stuff is bordering on anime at any given time." So is that on us as gullible humans? Or #AI developers as profit seeking humans? www.kqed.org/news/1205732... via @kqednews.kqed.org @morgansung.bsky.social @goosenaut.bsky.social

In 1963, 1,000+ people were displaced when 24 city blocks were bulldozed. Now Alameda County is asking: could Germany’s Holocaust restitution model be a guide? “It’s not a matter of taking a particular model and copying it [but] improving on it.” www.kqed.org/news/1205699... via @kqednews.kqed.org

Tech companies really like high user engagement and the advertising revenue it attracts. So we’re probably just going to have to hold our collective breath, hope for the best and try to enjoy those bouncing bunnies. www.bloomberg.com/news/article... via @bloomberg.com

#ICYMI The FAIR Plan, an alliance of insurers in California, has grown to more than 610,000 policies as of June, making it one of the largest insurers in the state as other insurance companies have canceled or stopped issuing new policies here. calmatters.org/economy/2025... via @calmatters.org

“What makes this attack special is that it is the first time that I know of that the attacker tried to hijack the AI running in the victim’s environment.” www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2... via @joemenn.bsky.social

"We define #workslop as AI generated work content that masquerades as good work, but lacks the substance to meaningfully advance a given task." hbr.org/2025/09/ai-g... via @hbr.org

A California attorney must pay a $10,000 fine for filing a court appeal full of fake quotations generated by ChatGPT. “I hope this example will help others not fall into the hole. I’m paying the price." calmatters.org/economy/tech... via @khari.bsky.social

"The day will come when we, too, hand off our cultural heritage to future generations. It would be best if we had something more than memes and brand reboots to give them." www.honest-broker.com/p/is-mid-20t... via @tedgioia.bsky.social

CA's Insurance Commissioner is targeting a financial model used by @consumerwatchdog.bsky.social. Response? “Other than insurance industry, nobody is complaining...People don’t come up to me in the street and say, ‘You greedy !@#...’” capitolweekly.net/lara-proposa... via @capitolweekly.bsky.social

Whoa, that was a shaker! Y'all feel that?

In decades as a crime reporter, I’ve covered psychic scams, sweetheart swindles, real-estate scams, even the “nanny scam.” I should be able to spot a scam in under 16 seconds, I thought. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/18/n... via @nytimes

"Chrome’s cheating tool exemplifies Big Tech’s continuing gold rush approach to AI: launch first, consider consequences later and let society clean up the mess." www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2... via @geoffreyfowler.bsky.social

“Making art and writing have always functioned this way for me. A release, so I can be free for the next experience. And comforted that I have a document. Perhaps a way to also hold onto time. We forget so much.” www.kqed.org/science/1998... via @kqedarts.bsky.social @lauraklivans.bsky.social

“They’ll come into our elevators and inevitably someone just goes, ‘Why do you livestream an alligator?’” www.wsj.com/lifestyle/wo... via @wsj.com

"I then asked how Amazon ensures that all the books it offers for sale are legitimate. He explained that Amazon requests all authors to 'validate' their identities. 'But the supposed authors of these counterfeit books don’t exist.' 'That’s not my department.' open.substack.com/pub/robertre...

#ICYMI @techoversight.bsky.social + Common Sense Media pulled support for #SB243 from (Sen Steve Padilla), saying last minute amendments "dramatically undermine the protections in the bill." 🫣🫠 omny.fm/shows/kqed-s... @kqednews.kqed.org

“I’ve read that invasive wild boars present big problems for endemic wildlife, and for farmers, and for homeowners in the Bay Area. Do mountain lions or perhaps coyotes hunt these wild boars? Could they be convinced to try?” Travis Mowbray asked. www.kqed.org/news/1205532... via @kqednews.kqed.org

“We’re the 13th largest newspaper in the country now. Really stupid, and an indictment on all of us.” @bencollins.bsky.social on the 🚀rise/rebirth of @theonion.com #ona2025

Baig tried to warn Meta’s top leaders, including Mark Zuckerberg, that users were being harmed by the security weaknesses, according to the lawsuit. In response, his managers retaliated and fired him in February, Baig claims. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/08/t... via @nytceciliakang.bsky.social

🫣🧟‍♀️🤫 Freelancers: Jovelle Tamayo of @themarshallproject.org + April Alonso of Cicero Independiente + Jeff Belzil of #IWMF at #ONA2025 ⚠️ about the need to up-level your self protection game. The IWMF handbook can help you pre-protect against #doxxers #stalkers in the digital age. www.iwmf.org/safety

For months, Ledy Ordoñez worried about what she would do if immigration officers arrived at her store in the heart of Oakland’s premier Latino neighborhood. www.kqed.org/news/1205527... via @kqednews.kqed.org @faridajhabvala.bsky.social

“Watching what was going on in LA just broke my heart,” said the woman. “I believe in social justice, I believe in right and wrong, and I can’t sit on my hands and say that’s wrong without doing something about it.” www.kqed.org/news/1205508... via @kqednews.kqed.org @faridajhabvala.bsky.social

@ 5,000 objects from David Lance Goines studio broadens the Bancroft library’s existing collection of his work. “Printing was sacred to him. The tradesman is a temporary vessel, and we are responsible to preserve our process for the next generation.”https://www.lib.berkeley.edu/about/news/goines

"Disasters can strike in blue states and red states alike. We’ve seen deadly hurricanes in the southeast, earthquakes and wildfires in the west, and extreme storms and flooding." — Congressman Kevin Mullin on his "React Act" to boost training, testing for the emergency alerts. @kqednews.kqed.org

"If they think they can get away with this, God knows what they are going to do next. There is reason to believe that this was not a legal action."— former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on President Trump ordering US military to summarily kill 11 alleged drug traffickers. via @kqednews.kqed.org

#ICYMI The DOJ fired a sixth San Francisco immigration judge since President Donald Trump took office. The firing appears to follow a pattern of targeting adjudicators likely to grant asylum or have spent their careers defending immigrants. www.kqed.org/news/1205462... via @kqednews.kqed.org

Tap on the “Clip” button that shows up under the playback bar while you’re watching something on Netflix, then adjust where you want the clip to start and stop. After you’ve it, you can share a link in apps like iMessage, Instagram, and WhatsApp. www.theverge.com/news/769471/... via @theverge.com

Child advocates are greeting OpenAI’s promise of more parental control tools for ChatGPT with faint praise. "They're hard to use, easy to bypass for young people, and they put the burden on parents when, honestly, it should be on the tech companies." omny.fm/shows/kqed-s... via @kqednews.kqed.org

“A lot of national companies want to be in Palo Alto and Stanford Shopping Center. The leasing market in the entire South Bay, including San Jose, is good right now... because retailers and restaurants want to be in this area.” www.siliconvalley.com/2025/08/28/s... via

Too many AI users (just like internet users) assume a certain level of privacy that actually might not be there. “It’s important to avoid uploading photos that you want to make sure nobody but you ever looks at.” www.wsj.com/tech/ai/chat... via @jackiesnow.bsky.social

#ICYMI OpenAI’s lawyers are alleging groups opposed to its conversion to a for-profit may be funded by Musk or working with Zuck. “They’re in this kind of paranoid 🫧... seeing conspiracies and echoes of their enemies in places where [they aren’t].” sfstandard.com/2025/09/02/o... via @sfstandard.com

Job openings are now not only at their lowest level in 10 months, but they’re also below the number of unemployed workers (at 7.2 million) for the first time since April 2021. www.cnn.com/2025/09/03/e... via @cnn.com

🧟‍♀️ Researchers: if carbon emissions continued to rise, 70% of the model runs led to collapse. Even in the case of low future emissions, an Amoc shutdown happened in 25% of the models. www.theguardian.com/environment/... via @dpcarrington.bsky.social

The hacker who helped recover the vehicle crash data in the Miami case warns Tesla is tightening controls over access. “If an accident happened today like this, I won’t be able to extract the data,” he said. www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2... via @washingtonpost.com

“There’s people that come to you angry because they didn’t manage to get it done themselves with #AI. And you kind of have to be empathetic. You don’t want them to feel like idiots. Then you have to fix it.” www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-ne... via @nbcnews.com

🧵 🤖 Algorithmic discrimination. Just about anybody who's been in the job market in recent years suspects it's happening. 🤖 A federal lawsuit in San Francisco — Mobley v. Workday, Inc — attempts to make the case for potentially hundreds of millions of people ...

“These lawsuits are really public policy debates. Debates that, in a better time and place, would be held in Congress. But it’s not, so they’re transported over into the judicial system.” www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/c... via @karenzraick.bsky.social

#ICYMI California lawmakers quietly killed bills that would have reigned in AI-powered profit maximization for everything from apartment rentals to goods and services we buy online. Also, we'll be paying for all those new data centers. 🤖 calmatters.org/economy/tech... via @khari.bsky.social

At 75, he said, “The clock is ticking,” estimating he has about five more years left in him to keep telling these stories. He shook his head, thinking about how much more there is to share. www.kqed.org/news/1205023... via @kqednews.kqed.org

Ceballos credits three main factors for the population increase: maintaining natural protected areas where jaguars can roam freely, reducing the conflict between cattle ranchers and jaguars, and a publicity campaign that has put the jaguar on the map. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

There are few foods as polarizing as the anchovy. In his book A Twist in the Tail: How the Humble Anchovy Flavored Western Cuisine, horror film producer turned food historian Christopher Beckman champions the wee beasties of the ocean. www.kcrw.com/culture/show... via @kcrwevan.bsky.social

"Oakland Chinatown is almost as old as San Francisco Chinatown. It's been in this location for 150 years. So the oral history project is a great way to really understand deeply the neighborhood." abc7news.com/post/oakland... via @abc7.bsky.social

In exchange for Uber + Lyft dropping their opposition to legislation allowing drivers to unionize, the companies get legislation that shrinks insurance coverage mandates. @buffywicks.bsky.social calls it a “win win win.” omny.fm/shows/kqed-s... via @kqednews.kqed.org

#AB1064 now heads for a floor vote in the Calif Senate. Would protect kids from "emotionally manipulative" companion chatbots and other AI systems that "manipulate children's emotions, create harmful attachments, or encourage dangerous behaviors." www.kqed.org/news/1205261... via @kqednews.kqed.org

“A lot of the work that I and many, many, many other people have put into improving food safety over the past 20 or 30 years is just going away.” — director of the Institute for Food Safety and Nutrition Security at George Washington University. www.nbcnews.com/health/healt... via @nbcnews.com