@cdarwin@c.im2026-01-23 20:31:34
Café KITP
The Physics of intelligence
Tuesday
February 17, 2026
SOhO Restaurant & Music Club
6:00-7:00PM
Doors open at 5PM
1221 State Street #205
Santa Barbara, CA 93101
@cdarwin@c.im2025-12-24 16:42:23
"Scores of frogs have been removed, with the remaining sanitized ones displayed like an interior designer was called in.”
I don’t drive on Paterna Road in Santa Barbara often enough to have a good sense of how different it is,
but a Riviera resident said someone has been working on it for months now.
Anyone know more?
@heiseonline@social.heise.de2026-02-09 16:42:00
ChatGPT als Arzt-Ersatz? Studie zeigt ernüchternde Ergebnisse
KI-Sprachmodelle bestehen medizinische Prüfungen mit Bravour – doch wenn echte Menschen sie um Rat fragen, versagt die Zusammenarbeit.
https://www.…
@cdarwin@c.im2026-01-16 03:20:53
The Santa Barbara City Council passed a temporary rent freeze
in a 4-3 vote on Tuesday,
putting a halt on rent increases for up to a year
while the City Council works toward drafting a more permanent rent stabilization ordinance
to be considered later in 2026.
The rent increase moratorium will be officially adopted next week
and would be effective 30 days later.
The council failed to get the fifth vote needed to qualify for an urgency ordinance,
@cdarwin@c.im2025-11-29 18:18:02
How Legalized Bribery Works in America
https://www.inequalitymediacivicaction.org/debunking-myths/how-legalized-bribery-works-in-america
@cdarwin@c.im2026-02-11 06:19:55
The Karpeles Museum,
a true hidden gem of downtown Santa Barbara
and an important free museum for all to visit,
is set to close because the building is being sold.
Perhaps some local collective or organization could buy the building and continue to lease the collection of documents and artifacts from the Karpeles family?
The building has an upstairs and courtyard that would be a perfect venue for all sorts of live events
— in the not-so-distant past the …
@cdarwin@c.im2026-01-04 03:11:42
Santa Barbara County authorities recovered the body of a man who was reportedly swept off a flooded roadway in Goleta Valley on Saturday.
The man was driving near the 1100 block of North San Marcos Road shortly before noon when his vehicle reportedly became stuck on a flooded part of the road that passes over Maria Ygnacio Creek, according to Captain Mike Gray with the Santa Barbara County Fire Department.
The man then exited his vehicle, Gray said, and he was subsequently washed…
@cdarwin@c.im2025-12-02 02:45:27
Water pounded Santa Barbara’s coastline on November 6 for the first king tides of the year — flooding beaches and parking lots and jumping the walls of usually dry lookouts at places like Butterfly Beach and Campus Point.
This weekend marks round two of these extraordinarily high tides,
which occur when the sun, moon, and Earth align, pulling the surf to extreme highs and lows.
They are typically at least one foot above the average high tide, according to the California Co…
@cdarwin@c.im2025-12-07 17:22:19
Trump expects loyalty from those who benefit from him.
Days after issuing him a pardon,
Donald Trump criticized US House member
Henry Cuellar of Texas
for deciding to run for re-election as a Democrat.
Trump pardoned Cuellar and the congressman’s wife on Wednesday as they faced bribery charges.
They were alleged to have accepted thousands of dollars from Azerbaijan and a Mexican bank in exchange for advancing their interests.
Shortly after the pardo…
@cdarwin@c.im2026-01-03 19:33:09
Shortly after 10 a.m., the California Highway Patrol announced on X that #Highway101 is #closed from Winchester in Goleta to State Route 1
“due to debris flow and flooding for an unknown duration.”
#CHP advises motorists to u…
