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Myrna Melgar is joining with the mods to put the Danny Sauter Career Protection Act on the June ballot. https://www.sfexaminer.com/news/politics/sf-mayor-superviso…

SF term limits could hit the June ballot
Proposal seeks to close "loophole" for supes, mayor.

Q&A with Jimmy Wales on Wikipedia's decentralized model, right-wing attacks and political pressure, Elon Musk, protecting volunteer editors, and more (Lulu Garcia-Navarro/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/18/magazin

The Culture Wars Came for Wikipedia. Jimmy Wales Is Staying the Course.
Attacks on the site are piling up. Its co-founder says trust the process.

Als Jimmy Dijk (SP) zegt dat hij wil regeren, zijn mensen verbaasd. ‘Ik denk dat ik bekender moet worden’ | #Trouw
#TK2025 #SP

An interview with Jimmy Wales on Wikipedia's decentralized model, right-wing attacks and political pressure, Elon Musk, protecting volunteer editors, and more (Lulu Garcia-Navarro/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/18/magazin

The Culture Wars Came for Wikipedia. Jimmy Wales Is Staying the Course.
Attacks on the site are piling up. Its co-founder says trust the process.

On Jan. 18, 2026, Chilean President Gabriel Boric declared a state of catastrophe for the Nuble and Biobio regions
as wildfires killed at least 16 people and forced more than 50,000 to evacuate.
A severe summer heat wave and prolonged drought since December created conditions highly favorable to wildfire ignition,
with dry foehn-type winds and 38 C daytime temperatures.
Fire agencies said nearly 4,000 firefighters are battling about 24 active wildfires as blazes have …

Wildfires in Chile Kill at Least 16 People, Force More than 50,000 to Evacuate
At least 16 people are confirmed dead and 20,000 are evacuated as fires rage in two southern regions.

"I'm a technology writer, which means I'm supposed to be encouraging you to throw hundreds of billions of dollars at the money-losingest technology in human history, AI. No one has ever lost as much money as the AI companies."
https://pluralistic.net/2026/01/13/not

1 Issue John Spytek, Raiders Must Solve Immediately https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/onsi/las-vegas-1-issue-john-spytek-must-solve-immediately

Immer mehr #Kommunen arbeiten an ihrer gesetzlich geforderten #Wärmeplanung.
Bis Juni 2026 müssen alle Großstädte ihren Plan vorlegen, kleinere Städte haben bis 2028 Zeit. Auf diese Weise soll Klarheit über künftige

Städte müssen bis Sommer liefern: Kommunen kommen bei Wärmeplanung in die Gänge
Angesichts der geplanten Abkehr vom russischen Gas muss das deutsche Wärmenetz neu gedacht werden. Die Ampel verlangt Städten und Kommunen eine Wärmeplanung ab. Das Planungstempo nimmt zuletzt deutlich zu. Vor allem die Städte haben allerdings nicht mehr viel Zeit.

We couldn't have hoped for a better advertisement for this year’s public lecture series than last night's spectacular show of northern lights!
The talks will deal with all the exciting aspects in the fiery relationship between the Sun and the Earth (in German). So if you want to learn more about the Sun, the aurora borealis, the dangers of solar storms, about space weather forecasting and more, join us for
"Im Feuerwerk der Sonne"

Trump’s takeover of the
John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts
reached its inevitable apogee on Thursday afternoon
when it was announced that the center’s board of trustees had voted to rename it
the Trump-Kennedy Center.
Even though Mr. Trump had already been calling it that for months in trollish posts online,
he acted shocked that his handpicked board had thought to do this for him.
Trump had called into a meeting of the board, which is no…

Kennedy Center Board Moves to Rename It the Trump-Kennedy Center
The board for the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts announced that it would now be named the Trump-Kennedy Center, although a formal change may have to be approved by Congress.