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History is over. “Dissolution is a very different fate than the one the CHS envisioned back in 2016, when San Francisco tapped the nonprofit to become the lead partner in the potential restoration of the Old Mint, a 100,000-square-foot building that survived the 1906 earthquake and fire.” Also, it’s wild that SF museums are basically taking a lap right now: 

Just up Mission Street, the Contemporary Jewish Museum has closed for at least a year. The Mexican Museum remains empty. And the Museum of the African Diaspora, directly across the street from the CHS, will close March through September to upgrade its interior spaces and galleries.

Drew Magary tested DeepSeek, ChatGPT, Gemini and Claude. They all suck.

“I really enjoyed Orbital,” writes WHM, but other than that, some good shots at what I would call Orbital’s false empty catharses, and what he calls vacillating “between thinking that Harvey is fully in command of her narration and use of metaphor and adjective and the subjects and verbs she chooses to put on the page and wondering if, actually, we’re seeing a writer reach for profundity they can’t quite cohere.”  

“ER is not technically back. Yes, The Pitt is executive-produced by John Wells, an original producer of ER; yes, it’s a serial drama about the high-intensity environment of a hospital emergency room; yes, it stars a grizzled and gentle Noah Wyle who, as a younger, wider-eyed actor, was also one of the stars of ER; and, yes, it was recently subject to a lawsuit from the widow of Michael Crichton—the creator of ER—claiming that it’s an unlawful “derivative work” of that series. But, other than that, it is indeed a totally different thing.” 

This is the paragraph which the LA Times edited out “minutes before sending to press while then also assigning a title and image that suggest an argument entirely opposite to the author’s clear intent” from this column, one of several “making clear that RFK Jr. is essentially a mass murderer in waiting who has no business anywhere near HHS”:

Although RFK Jr. and Luigi Mangione are both responses to the same underlying problem of US healthcare corruption, there is a major difference between them: one operated outside the law to kill one person in defense of millions, whereas the other––via his egomaniacal disregard for scientific evidence––seeks to use law itself to inflict preventable death on those millions.

He has also noted that the LA Times owner has tweeted about how great RFK Jr is. The title they gave this column was “Trump’s healthcare disruption could pay off — if he pushes real reform.” If you want to read the column in full, it is here now. (I’m not sure… I exactly would have phrased things the way he did, tbh, but even so.) 

“After much thought, my editor wasn’t comfortable coming out swinging so hard against the richest man in the world (and to be clear, there are no hard feelings — I’m not trying to get anyone sued). She suggested I pitch it elsewhere, but there weren’t any takers. So I’m publishing it here instead.” 

Back to the 80s: “a collision of economic trajectories, positioned on either side of the Pacific, set in motion forty years ago: Xi Jinping’s attachment to export-driven industrialization, pitted against Trump’s decades-long fixation on protectionist tariffs.” 

“Altman was among the coterie of tech broligarchs at President Donald Trump’s inauguration last week.”

“how Silicon Valley used to be a place where exit was possible and a good thing…The second theme of Cory’s novel is how easy it is to get trapped nonetheless.”

Oakland schools prepare for escalation of immigration enforcement: “You want to reassure people and support them and by doing that, you also know you could be lying to them a little bit.” Yesterday, at Costco, I heard a man on the phone with someone who–from how he was talking–sounded like a kid, explaining that sometimes cops are mean, and they might want to hurt your grandma because of how she looks. Now, in retrospect, I can’t remember if he said “grandma,” or if he said “cops,” either; I was distracted, didn’t get a good listen, but, the substance of what I heard was utterly clear, and awful. How do you explain to kids about ICE? 

“Box by box, the Nicaraguans who milk the cows and clean the pens on Wisconsin’s dairy farms, who wash dishes at its restaurants and fill lines on its factory floors, are sending home their most prized possessions, bracing for the impact of President Donald Trump’s mass deportations.” 

“While Oakland is generally a ghost-free zone (depends on one’s ethnic community I suppose), it’s worth keeping an eye out along the Hayward fault in the name of science.”

Reddit on noncompliance in advance: “This is all going to sound really cheesy, but I feel the need to say this. Taking my oath of office was, to this day, the proudest moment of my life. Since I can remember I wanted to work for the government (dream big kids!). I am a third generation federal employee, and my parents met at work (as federal workers). I am so honored to get to do what I do. I love my job. I love my agency’s mission, and I am passionate about what we do. I’m not delusional in thinking that government is perfect (lmao) or that government meets all the needs of this country’s citizens. But it’s an important job nonetheless. It’s also pretty thankless. I also have a lot of restrictions on what activities/interests I can engage in outside of work (keeping it a bit vague) that can be a real disadvantage to me personally. But I take ethics very seriously — ethics rules are in place for good reason, and it would be a betrayal of public trust to not follow those rules. And the system can never work if it‘a filled with conflicts of interest and self-serving people. I love my job. I love my agency’s mission, and I am passionate about what we do. I really fucking care, and everybody I have ever met at my job really fucking cares. And I am genuinely so insulted and infuriated that a bunch of self-serving, nepobaby freaks with zero interest in serving their country are abusing the system like this.”

Incompetence or sabotage? Why not both. (Make Tulare Lake Great again)

“Staffers at a half dozen U.S.-funded medical facilities in Sudan who care for severely malnourished children had a choice to make: Defy President Donald Trump’s order to immediately stop their operations or let up to 100 babies and toddlers die. They chose the children.” 

“It certainly takes chutzpah to make another’s suffering about you—but it’s outright pathological to recast another people’s obliteration at the hands of your religion as a chance to redeem yourself.” 

“Mundaca is among a group of leftwing leaders who came to power in the last half decade in Chile with grand plans to revolutionize the country’s political economy. His ally, Chilean President Gabriel Boric, pledged to institute sweeping reforms and establish an “ecological government.” This has not come to pass, and the country’s mood has turned. Why has the left fallen short of its lofty ambitions?”