Until LAX adopts a true traffic solution like congestion pricing, you might want to bookmark this video, which recommends a personal hack to avoid the "horseshoe" entirely.
26.02.2026 16:39
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Saving The Life We Cannot See | NOEMA
Conservation has traditionally ignored the planet’s smallest life forms. Microbiologists are trying to change that — before it’s too late.
“Many of the planet’s microbiomes are under serious threat, with untold numbers of species & ecosystems flickering silently out of existence.”
— @moiradonovan.bsky.social
#microbes #microbiome #conservation #environment
26.02.2026 17:55
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The list of finalists for the National Magazine Awards in the newsletter category. In addition to FOIA Files, the other finalists are: Harper's, New York Magazine, The Spread and Today in Tabs
Some cool #FOIA Friday news! The American Society of Magazine Editors named my newsletter, FOIA Files, as a finalist for this year's National Magazine Awards!!
Sign up for a FREE subscription to FOIA Files @bloomberg.com. New installment dropping in 30 minutes!
www.bloomberg.com/account/news...
27.02.2026 14:56
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Why AI Doesn’t Need A ‘Mind’ To Matter | NOEMA
We’ve been searching for a mind inside the machine. The rise of AI agents suggests its shell may be enough.
When Moltbook emerged as an overnight sensation last month as a Reddit-like platform for AI agents, it revealed our instinctive need to anthropomorphize AI.
But whether agents have a mind of their own isn’t what matters at this stage, Ben Bariach argues.
#moltbook #aiagent #ai
24.02.2026 18:47
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A question: who thought it was a good idea to put an agent in charge of a giant enterprise like this?
Someone too young to remember Ovitz's time at Disney?
20.02.2026 21:26
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The Los Angeles City Charter Assembly, the first such sortition-selected assembly ever convened in Southern California, starts deliberating on Feb. 28.
40 everyday Angelenos will decide what the future of the LA city council should be: its size and its structure.
More details to come soon.
20.02.2026 17:43
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Opinion | How California Is Damaging Faith in Government
According to @nytopinion.nytimes.com California is destroying faith in government and democracy because we make it too easy to vote. Editorial fails to mention CA added 8 million to its registration rolls since 2006, while population grew by only 2.5 million. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/19/o...
20.02.2026 17:41
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Good piece. Wasserman must stay on. He, as an arrogant and self-destructive agent, is the perfect leader for a Games that is shaping up as a disaster—and existential threat to city government.
20.02.2026 17:37
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"Most men think that the happiness of a state depends on its being great... They judge greatness in numerical terms, by the size of the population; but it is capacity, rather than size, which should properly be the criterion." -Aristotle
17.02.2026 17:01
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No, ICE isn’t ‘retreating.’ It’s loading up to invade your town. | Will Bunch
A much-hyped ICE pullback from Minneapolis is a blip in a looming nationwide surge of arrests, concentration camps.
MPLS was a great moral and practical victory for a new Trump-era resistance, but it was only the end of the beginning
15,000 new masked goons. 150 new ICE offices in every state, and a national network of warehouse concentration camps
My column on the battle ahead www.inquirer.com/opinion/ice-...
16.02.2026 12:56
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As Nations Trample Rights, Cities Enshrine Them | Democracy Local
Tyrants Love to Torture Urban Centers. Local Charters and Constitutions Can Protect Democratic Freedoms
Do you feel like you don’t have any rights anymore?
Me, too, writes columnist @californiajoe.bsky.social. He makes the case for why we should all look to city halls to enshrine our rights. zps.la/4rdfwcg
10.02.2026 23:40
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Why Human Intuition Is Still Science’s Greatest Tool In The Age Of AI | NOEMA
Our sense for aesthetics, meaning and embodiment give us a vital advantage over our technological creations.
“Without the cultivated, meaning-laden, embodied intuition of the human scientist who is instinctively driven to ask questions about the nature of the world, AI systems remain rudderless when they enter the realms of uncertainty.”
— @conorfeehly.bsky.social
#ai #science #scientificdiscoveries
12.02.2026 18:15
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Bad Bunny created a cultural phenomenon. Can he spark a political one?
The Puerto Rican superstar’s music has brought Latinos together. Democrats are jealous.
Bad Bunny's Super Bowl halftime show was the largest independence rally ever held in California. Unfortunately, it was a rally for Puerto Rico's, not California's, independence. www.politico.com/news/2026/02...
09.02.2026 20:09
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A Student of Power | Rachel Donadio
In his experiences and chronicles of the great ideological battles of the twentieth century, Curzio Malaparte was a shape-shifter—pitiless, clinical, cynical, unsentimental, indifferent to morality an...
How to run a coup: “In the seizure of power, ideology only goes so far. If a handful of skilled operatives manage to commandeer the mechanisms of the state—infrastructure, communications—a leader can take control without mass support or even favorable circumstances.”
www.nybooks.com/articles/202...
08.02.2026 10:08
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This Buffy Can’t Kill Vampires, But She Can Govern California | Connecting California
State Assemblymember Wicks Is the Chosen One Who Could Slay a Mediocre Field of Gubernatorial Candidates
The next governor of California should be the state’s smartest and most able politician.
That’s why columnist @californiajoe.bsky.social is drafting Assemblymember @buffywicks.bsky.social. zps.la/4ap3uqd
03.02.2026 18:52
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The world no longer properly values intellectual dispositions like introspection, self-criticism, humor, interdisciplinarity, and generosity — e.g., the dispositions needed to perform what George Kennan famously called "a cool and rational analysis in the unfirm substance of the imponderables."
05.02.2026 13:10
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Friday, Feb. 6 is the last day to sign up for the lottery to be part of the historic LA Charter Assembly. Participants will be paid for their time, and help decide on changes to size and structure of the Los Angeles City Council. If you received this card in the mail, sign-up instructions are on it.
06.02.2026 05:15
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What a cold night in Sacramento interviewing homeless people taught us
We volunteered to count the unsheltered people in our community. Our conversations with those who agreed to talk touched our hearts and demonstrated why homelessness is so difficult to solve.
A man who lost his apartment after his father died. A woman going into labor in a parking lot. These are some of the stories Mary Lynne Vellinga and Dan Morain recount from their night volunteering for Sacramento's point-in-time homelessness count.
03.02.2026 18:40
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Letter to L.A.’s Police Chief: How Do I Join a Gang? | Connecting California
By Refusing to Respond to Federal Raids, Jim McDonnell Is Pushing Angelenos Outside the Law
Perfect piece by the wonderful Joe Mathews @californiajoe.bsky.social at @zocalopublicsquare.bsky.social about why Los Angeles has every right to be outraged that we're paying the salary of LAPD Chief McDonnell. @mayor.lacity.gov, will you respond? www.zocalopublicsquare.org/letter-to-la...
31.01.2026 17:14
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The Executive Fetish
Why Moyn and Goldsmith's Roosevelt-Trump analogy fails
Comparing FDR and Trump because they both had disdain for extant liberal constitutional norms is akin to comparing a brain surgeon to Norman Bates in Psycho because they both use knives to do their work.
nilsgilman.substack.com/p/the-execut...
03.02.2026 13:06
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"...if we lose that war, and in so doing lose this way of freedom of ours, history will record with the greatest astonishment that those who had the most to lose did the least to prevent its happening."
-Reagan, 'A Time for Choosing," 1964
02.02.2026 16:54
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Questions: Did this info, which Trump admin had, provide leverage for Trump and allies to stack LA 28?
Why is LA risking its people's safety and its city finances on an Olympics run by this guy and Trump?
31.01.2026 16:40
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Trump: i’m at war with minnesota like i was with venezuela bsky.app/profile/leba...
29.01.2026 22:08
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