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California Gov. Gavin Newsom and lawmakers strike a deal with Uber and Lyft allowing drivers to unionize while remaining classified as independent contractors (Los Angeles Times)
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2

Newsom, California lawmakers strike deal that would allow Uber, Lyft drivers to unionize
Gov. Gavin Newsom and California lawmakers on Friday announced a deal with Uber and Lyft on a bill that would allow hundreds of thousands of rideshare drivers to form unions and bargain collectively while still being classified as independent contractors.

One bill, sponsored by the powerful Service Employees International Union, would allow Uber and Lyft drivers in California to unionize while still being classified as independent contractors
California’s legislative leaders are also backing a bill, sponsored by Uber and Lyft, that would significantly reduce the companies’ insurance requirements

Newsom, California lawmakers strike deal that would allow Uber, Lyft drivers to unionize
Gov. Gavin Newsom and California lawmakers on Friday announced a deal with Uber and Lyft on a bill that would allow hundreds of thousands of rideshare drivers to form unions and bargain collectively while still being classified as independent contractors.

arxiv_collab: Scientific collaborations in physics (1995-2005)
Collaboration graphs for scientists, extracted from the Los Alamos e-Print arXiv (physics), for 1995-1999 for three categories, and additionally for 1995-2003 and 1995-2005 for one category. For copyright reasons, the MEDLINE (biomedical research) and NCSTRL (computer science) collaboration graphs from this paper are not publicly available.
This network has 8361 nodes and 15751 edges.
Tags: Social, Collaboration…

Kyivstar celebrates NASDAQ bell-ringing ceremony in Kyiv: https://benborges.xyz/2025/08/29/kyivstar-celebrates-nasdaq-bellringing-ceremony.html

Explosives? For bumping into an ICE car?
The miller-noem-Nazi's must be stopped.
"Federal agents blast way into California home of woman and small children"
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jun/27/california-h…

I'm apparently one of very many people who really enjoy Arvo Pärt's music. ❤️
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2025/jul/24/the-god-of-small-things-celebrating-arvo-part-at-90

Investigation: California colleges and universities continue to renew Turnitin subscriptions despite the cost, faulty anti-plagiarism tech, and privacy issues (Tara García Mathewson/The Markup)
https://themarkup.org/artificial-intelligence/2025/06/2…

California colleges spend millions to catch plagiarism and AI. Is the faulty tech worth it? – The Markup
Colleges and universities renew Turnitin subscriptions year after year even though its flawed detectors are expensive and require students to let the company keep their papers forever.

California Atty. Gen. Rob Bonta said Tuesday that he believes there is a
“legal pathway” for Democrats to present new congressional district maps directly to voters on a statewide ballot,
without input from the state’s independent redistricting commission.
Such a move, he suggested, would allow the state to counter Republican efforts to tilt next year’s midterm election by pushing redistricting measures that favor the GOP in conservative states such as Texas.
If succes…

California's top prosecutor floats path to boost Democrats in Congress
California Atty. Gen. Rob Bonta said Tuesday that he believes he has found a sound legal strategy to ask voters to tear up congressional boundaries created by the state’s independent redistricting commission.

jazz_collab: Jazz collaboration network
The network of collaborations among jazz musicians, and among jazz bands, extracted from The Red Hot Jazz Archive digital database, covering bands that performed between 1912 and 1940.
This network has 198 nodes and 2742 edges.
Tags: Social, Collaboration, Unweighted
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TK : The bridge between preschool and Kindergarten for California’s children
⭐️California expanded Transitional Kindergarten (TK)
💥to serve all 4-year-olds. 👍
Many educators over the years have called for a developmentally appropriate grade for our youngest learners
— now with the expansion of TK, California is on the cusp of achieving the vision of the Master Plan for Early Learning and Care (MPELC),
which called for a year of
publicly-funded preschool