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…
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
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
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 …
"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
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
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…