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AmyAlexCA @amyalexca.bsky.social · 10h

*tbc: I worry about #MountainCats here in California— they’ve been pushed out by housing developers from nearly all their natural habitats for more than a century—and the past 30yrs of Human-driven climate change has exacerbated their plight. 🥺

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AmyAlexCA @amyalexca.bsky.social · 10h

Good question! Also hilarious to me, a #CA Native: These animals are genetically the same, with distinct (minimal) behavioral variations due to adaptations to regional environments.

Josie Duffy Rice @jduffyrice.bsky.social · 11h

so no one was going to tell me that mountain lions and cougars are the same animal? as are pumas? and panthers?????????

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AmyAlexCA @amyalexca.bsky.social · 13h

Agree. 😑

AmyAlexCA @amyalexca.bsky.social · 13h

🤣 Right? Also, he apparently has subject-matter expertise in an area that Err’body THINKS they’ve figured out. Kinda like all the WannaBe Journalism Experts that now are flooding the zone.

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Golden State Warriors @warriorsofficial.bsky.social · 13h

Tonight’s five

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 14h

This morning I ran the NYC Gaza 5K in Prospect Park for the third time, alongside the Harlem Run Club, to raise money for @unrwausa.bsky.social, which delivers critical humanitarian aid and services to Palestinians in Gaza.

I hope you'll join me in donating: unrwausa.org

Zohran jogging alongside a member of the Harlem Run Club in Prospect Park.

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AmyAlexCA @amyalexca.bsky.social · 14h

Same. Especially those in public, nonprofit and private sector Comms professions.

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Kim Wexler's Ponytail 🐝💛🎗 @madisonkittay.bsky.social · 18h

"Are you the same person who was telling people not to vote?"

💥☠️

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Justin Hendrix @justinhendrix.bsky.social · 15h

California Governor Gavin Newsom "vetoed a bill on Saturday that would have provided more transparency around the water usage of data centers, which regularly require millions of gallons of fresh water to cool their computers."

Gavin Newsom blocks effort to make CA data centers disclose water use. Why?

Data-center water usage can vary from 110 million gallons to 1.8 billion gallons per year.

www.sacbee.com

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 15h

ai is a fascist tool. www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

Ilyasah Shabazz didn’t want to look at the AI-generated videos of her father, Malcolm X. The seemingly realistic clips — made by OpenAI’s new video-maker Sora 2 — show the legendary civil rights activist making crude jokes, wrestling with the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and talking about defecating on himself.

“It is deeply disrespectful and hurtful to see my father’s image used in such a cavalier and insensitive manner when he dedicated his life to truth,” Shabazz, whose father was assassinated in front of her in 1965 when she was 2, told The Washington Post. She questioned why the developers were not acting “with the same morality, conscience, and care … that they’d want for their own families.”

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AmyAlexCA @amyalexca.bsky.social · 16h

Insightful thread on why the rallying cry “Buy American” tends to be hollow, or poorly-informed, as applied to clothing: The math for US’s shrinking garment industry just doesn’t Math. 👇🏾

derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 17h

This two-parter below is exactly why it's hard to make clothes in the United States.

Let's look at how much it costs to produce a button-up shirt in the US. 🧵

Someone on Twitter replies to me: "meh. buy american or stfu."

Two hours later, in a separate thread, the write: "$30 for a single button-up is ridiculous unless it is decent quality silk."

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AmyAlexCA @amyalexca.bsky.social · 16h

In four hours, a robot named Isaac folded this reporter’s laundry. Total bill? $55. Of course this dubious StartUp is located in my hometown. sfstandard.com/2025/10/12/w...

https://sfstandard.com/2025/10/12/weave-robotics-tumble-laundry-folding-robot/🦾

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AmyAlexCA @amyalexca.bsky.social · 16h

….the StratComm and Marketing segment of #SiliconValley’s tech ecosystem hold degrees in Humanities fields, but they are not the builders and owners.

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AmyAlexCA @amyalexca.bsky.social · 16h

fwiw, the fact that #Thiel has a degree in philosophy is not a sign that #SiliconValley’s Tech ecosystem is occupied by lots of Humanities majors. Quite the contrary: From C-Suites to entry-level coders + engineers (before the layoffs happened) are overwhelmingly CompSci or Biz majors. Some of…

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Mark Anthony Neal (@NewBlackMan on X) @markanthonyneal.bsky.social · 19h

“The right’s war on the academy and education is part of a generational war over what young people, especially young white people, will be taught and how they will be socialized."
www.bostonreview.net/articles/bui...

Building a Political Home - Boston Review

Activist and scholar Cathy J. Cohen on winning power in the midst of a “generational war.”

www.bostonreview.net

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Bloomberg News @bloomberg.com · 18h

A new book argues that when easy money ran out, Silicon Valley’s billionaires looked for someone to keep the good times rolling. They found him in Donald Trump.

What Really Drove Silicon Valley’s Shift to the Right

In Gilded Rage, journalist Jacob Silverman argues that a decade of free cash turned tech’s utopians into power brokers and made Trump their unlikely ally.

bloom.bg

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AmyAlexCA @amyalexca.bsky.social · 19h

Nellie Bowles is the privileged heir of a #CA Robber Baron. She wields her sexual orientation (lesbian) as Cover for her RW sensibility. Hence, a Perfect spouse for the unethical #BariWeiss

Sally Jenkins @sallyjenx.bsky.social · 21h

The Free Press has got some interesting writers. Charles Lane, for one. Kat Rosenfield. Nellie Bowles.

Jacob Kramer-Duffield @jaykaydee.bsky.social · 21h

Really just stinks that someone who has done so much great journalism over a long career - including journalism that I grew up reading and enjoying - is running cover for a hack and propagandist who does not give a whit about journalism or its values.

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AmyAlexCA @amyalexca.bsky.social · 19h

TypoCorrex: I don’t care that she is a WW.

AmyAlexCA @amyalexca.bsky.social · 19h

IDK that she is a WW, my objection to her new role is rooted in her lack of professional qualification to be EiC of a major American news org! She is a RW version of a “DEI hire.” Yeeesh.

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AmyAlexCA @amyalexca.bsky.social · 19h

Well, that’s a low bar, in terms of Journalistic standards. What is going on here? #Weiss is DEMONSTRABLY not an experienced Journalist, aka, a practitioner of fundamental reporting —fact-finding and the process of verification. Her having made FP into a cash machine is due to the outlet’s RW bias.

Sally Jenkins @sallyjenx.bsky.social · 20h

Agree. She may become a Chris Licht. But she's no worse of an experiment.

Sara Luterman @slooterman.bsky.social · 20h

Not here to ratio you, but I am here to respectfully disagree. Building something as financially successful as FP is genuinely impressive, but it doesn’t necessarily demonstrate competence at running a real newsroom with real reporting and real journalism standards.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 20h

Finally realized what the freakout over Mamdani becoming mayor reminded me of, and it's the freakout over the first black mayors in southern cities.

New post at CAMPAIGN TRAILS:

"Too Young to Die"

As the seemingly endless NYC mayoral campaign enters its final weeks, the howls of the Democratic establishment in the city are only getting louder. They've really convinced themselves that the elect...

campaign-trails.ghost.io

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 20h

Who cares? God you act like you’re proclaiming how we turn water into wine. So you’re rooting for Bari Weiss. How daring! How bold! Such raw bravery! I bet you wear a hat that says “the NASDAQ” on it

Sally Jenkins @sallyjenx.bsky.social · 21h

Ratio me. Please. It's a badge of honor. If you don't like a link, go follow some chicken-heart who needs the approval of the thought-police. Caitlin Flanagan of @theatlantic.com is a tremendous writer and this piece is an excellent read. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...