I almost think of Hegel like reading a poet. He uses logic and concepts rather than sound or imagery, but even what you don’t understand can provoke a powerful creative state.

once I posted “it’s funny how ‘the Hague’ is like the only city that randomly decided to give itself a definite article” and everyone was like “don’t you live in Los Angeles”

Statement from Scarlett Johansson on the OpenAI situation. Wow:

Am I imagining things, or is there a three-parentheses vibe to how “Neo-Brandeisian” keeps being deployed in the messaging here? uschamber.com/finance/antitr…

A mega-viral video of a man in a hammock on a city bus, viewed more than 100 million times across multiple social media platforms, was a staged prank. Its spread and reception as candid footage reveals a lot about how we fall for phony content.
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Voting is complete at Mercedes in Alabama. As ballot-counting gets underway, the UAW's unofficial vote tracker is here: UAW.org/mercedesvote

A few stories on how we got here:

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If you are a sitting Supreme Court justice for the United States of America, in a time of insurrection, and you drive home and see the nation’s flag hanging upside down outside your residence for God and all the neighbors to see, what’s the first thing you say to your wife?

Axon's AI is now writing police reports directly from bodycam footage. Says cops are actively using it. What could go wrong? This is what it looks like:

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The once-confidential case records in the DWP corruption probe have been unsealed, thanks to Los Angeles Times and Consumer Watchdog. First story w/ Dakota Smith, who has followed this case for years >>

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We Fresnoland signed on in support of this bill. The state uses tax credits all the time to incentivize different priority industries and local journalism should be no exception. TY to Sen. Caballero for her support.

For journalists who have been laid off, SPJ Mental Task Force chair Anastasiya Bolton, Leslie Rangel | IRE JOC Fellow, Patricia Whitehouse and Kati Kokal have put together a video that goes over a variety of resources: youtube.com/watch?v=m-RL_-…

SB 1327 advances in California, which is considering two massive Big Tech bills to fund journalism jobs. Big deal.

This photo from Robert Gauthier shows just a few of the different police agencies that converged at UC Irvine yesterday in response to a group of pro-Palestinian protesters.
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“Our members have been beaten, concussed, pepper sprayed, both by counter-protesters and by police forces. As a union, it is our responsibility to stand beside them,” the union said in a statement.

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UC Irvine student protesters took over a Physical Science building on campus & renamed it 'Alex Odeh Hall' after a Palestinian American activist slain in an '85 Santa Ana bombing.

The university is telling students to avoid the area/shelter in place as more police arrive.

Frank McCourt, the tech critic?

The Los Angeles Times feature on Flashpoint, Knight First Amendment Institute's short doc about protests, the police, and the press, is *amazing*. It's at the top of the LA Times' homepage, and also here: latimes.com/shortdocs

Extractors gonna extract. Tax this stuff to fund journalism jobs.