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Since the age of the Gold Rush, California has lost approximately 60 percent of its coastal dunes
due primarily to human intervention;
By contrast, Santa Barbara County has lost only 10 percent.
That’s according to a recent study released by the UC Office of the President’s Climate Action Research Initiative with active engagement by nine UCSB researchers. 
Statewide the expansion of urbanization and agriculture has gobbled up roughly 442 square kilometers of coastal…

#Meta will analyze all your posts (and images, videos) in detail to find clues about your age.
"This includes using AI technology to analyze entire profiles for contextual clues — such as birthday celebrations or mentions of school grades — to determine if an account likely belongs to someone underage."
Instead of removing known scam which is harmful to all ages.

windsurfers: Windsurfers network (1986)
A network of interpersonal contacts among windsurfers in southern California during the Fall of 1986. The edge weights indicate the perception of social affiliations majored by the tasks in which each individual was asked​ to sort cards with other surfer’s name in the order of closeness.
This network has 43 nodes and 336 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Weighted

Oh, here's one of our docs for anyone in PNW. It's incomplete (also, from 2018):
Running list of disaster risks in the Pacific Northwest:
EARTHQUAKE (Three main faults - Cascadia, Seattle, )
PANDEMIC FLU (Global risk)
Especially high in Seattle compared to many other large US cities due to the high number of international flights and international organizations based in the Seattle.
STORMS
HEAT WAVES
Seattle lacks a familiarity with extreme heat. Less than half of people have air conditioning. Growing wealth inequity, homelessness, and addiction increases the risks posed by high temperatures.
VOLCANIC ERUPTION
Mount. Rainier.
WILDFIRES & WILDFIRE SMOKE
“Harvard University researchers, in collaboration with colleagues at Yale University, have created a watch list of hundreds of counties in the western United States at the highest risk of exposure to dangerous levels of pollution from wildfires in the coming decades. Among them, heavily populated counties such as San Francisco County, Calif., King County, Wash., Alameda County, Calif., and Contra Costa County, Calif., are projected to face the highest level of risk of wildfire smoke exposure in the coming decades.” [source]

Since it was relevant to a discussion I just had on here and is something most people probably haven't thought about much (unless you've taken one of a handful of philosophy classes), I thought I'd try to lay out a key piece of Descartes' Meditations (#philosophy

🔊 #NowPlaying on #BBCRadio3:
#FridayNightIsMusicNight
- Richard Rodgers from the Royal and Derngate Theatre Northampton
Richard Balcombe conducts the BBC Concert Orchestra, with singers Katie Birtill and Patrick Smyth, celebrating the star composer from the golden age of American music theatre.
Relisten now 👇
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002vy3f

The nation’s largest public four-year university may soon be barred from replacing faculty with generative AI
as a bill backed by a union of professors comes nearer to reaching the governor’s desk.
Few examples exist of the California State University’s attempting to replace faculty labor with generative AI tools,
but the faculty union wants to prevent such efforts from ever getting off the ground.
The bill so far has garnered no opposition from lawmakers and may clear…

Cal State faculty push to prevent AI tools from replacing them as schools and staff experiment
The union representing California State University professors is contesting the system's use of artificial intelligence tools and backing legislation that would protect their jobs from the technology.

🔊 #NowPlaying on #BBCRadio3:
#FridayNightIsMusicNight
- Richard Rodgers from the Royal and Derngate Theatre Northampton
Richard Balcombe conducts the BBC Concert Orchestra, with singers Katie Birtill and Patrick Smyth, celebrating the star composer from the golden age of American music theatre.
Relisten now 👇
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002vy3f

California joined 19 other states
on July 16 to take a swing at a Trump administration delay tactic
in approving onshore wind energy projects.
In light of California’s goal for its energy to be 100 percent carbon-free by 2045,
wind plays a large part.
On a hot and humid afternoon like this Friday’s, renewable energy is supplying 70 percent of the 34-gigawatt demand.
Wind makes up 11 percent of that carbon-free renewable energy.
Any project that uses…

California AG Seeks to Intervene in Lawsuit Against Trump Administration over Onshore Wind Projects
Projects nationwide are “frozen” while the Department of Defense conducts “further agency coordination,” said Attorney General Rob Bonta.

The Newsom administration is suing five more California cities
— Calexico, Costa Mesa, Half Moon Bay, Ridgecrest and Turlock — for failing to complete state-mandated housing plans, known as the “housing element.”

Huntington Beach was the first city to face such a legal action, and it recently finalized its housing element plans following a court-order and massive fines.
The law, which has been in place since 1969, requires cities and counties every eight years to d…

Newsom continues crackdown on cities over housing plan requirements. 'No city gets a pass,' governor says
Gov. Gavin Newsom and California Atty. Gen. Rob Bonta filed legal actions this week against five small cities that they say are failing to meet benchmarks required for housing planning.