@cdarwin@c.im2026-03-20 23:37:45
NO KINGS 3
RALLY AND MARCH
SAT. MARCH 28
ALAMEDA PARK
SANTA BARBARA
11 AM: MEET OUR COMMUNITY PARTNERS
12:30 PM: RALLY AND SPEECHES
1:30 PM: MARCH TO DE LA GUERRA PLAZA
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@cdarwin@c.im2026-04-20 21:03:31
Trump’s constant
self-aggrandisement,
his grudges against political adversaries,
the fury at being challenged by the press,
the revenge he promises to wreak on the Iranian regime.
All are ways to erase and avoid what is a permanent terror of humiliation and obsolescence.
“Think of Benito Mussolini,”
wrote the journalist Barbara Grizzuti Harrison in the LA Times,
“jackbooted,
lantern-jawed,
squeakily bombastic,
posturing from…
@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.im2026-03-19 02:10:15
With a stroke of his pen, Trump made the oil flow on behalf of Sable Offshore
— oil that hadn’t flowed for 10 years.
It began flowing from underwater oil wells located seven miles out to sea.
It flowed up to what used to be Exxon’s massive industrial plant along the Gaviota Coast.
And, ultimately, it flowed into two old pipelines that caused the 2015 massive oil disaster,
-- pipelines so corroded that Sable had to spend hundreds of millions of dollars to patc…
@cdarwin@c.im2026-03-13 15:45:36
Hundreds of unionized University of California workers circled the Arbor,
in front of the Library at UC Santa Barbara on Thursday
at what organizers called a “last chance” practice picket
— a visible warning that a strike could be days away if contract talks continue to stall.
…
@cdarwin@c.im2026-03-14 02:17:55
The Trump administration ordered the restart of a Santa Barbara oil pipeline shut since the 2015 Refugio spill -- invoking emergency powers under the Defense Production Act.
California officials say the move defies court orders and state oversight.
Gov. Gavin Newsom said the state will sue.
The order escalates a fight over whether federal authority can override California regulators blocking Sable Offshore’s plan to restart the pipeline.
@cdarwin@c.im2026-04-10 23:23:24
“During Friday’s Artemis II re-entry,
we will be deploying seismic and acoustic instrumentation at sea across the Southern California Bight
to record the sonic boom produced by the capsule’s re-entry,”
the USGS wrote in an email shared by a user on Reddit.
“Modelling indicates that the acoustic signal may be audible on land in some areas of Santa Barbara County and Baja California, including the Channel Islands.”
On its Facebook, the USGS states the sonic booms…
@cdarwin@c.im2026-04-13 02:54:31
The Argentinian president, Javier Milei,
is facing his lowest approval ratings since taking office in 2023
as newly published evidence allegedly reveals a
$5m financial agreement connected to his public endorsement last year of a controversial crypto project.
The scandal has tarnished crypto’s reputation across Argentina
and set back the ambitions of industry insiders who saw the country as fertile soil for the growth of digital money.
Milei’s promotion of…
@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.im2026-03-13 00:45:37
The City of #SantaBarbara released the design for an upcoming public street art project, which will transform the corner of State and Carrillo streets into a vibrant display inspired by Mixtec and Zapotec weaving patterns.
The project is part of Bloomberg’s Asphalt Art Initiative, which selected the city as one of 10 cities in North America to receive a $100,000 grant for a public street art pr…
