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Rachael Myrow
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Rachael Myrow @rachaelmyrow.bsky.social · Jul 9
It’s still too painful for me to listen to the sound of his voice. The white-hot grief I felt in 1999 comes rushing up. But when I turn on that Telefunken Opus 7, I can feel my dad wink from across an otherwise unbreachable expanse of space and time. www.kqed.org/news/1204731... @kqednews.kqed.org
How a 1957 Vintage Radio Rekindled a Daughter’s Bond With Her Dad | KQED
A 1957 Telefunken Opus 7 radio traveled with a daughter from Los Angeles to the Bay Area — sitting in silence and collecting dust for 25 years — before she finally had it restored, rekindling her conn...
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Rachael Myrow @rachaelmyrow.bsky.social · 1h
How @governor.ca.gov made #AB1064 a sacrificial 🐑 to appease #SiliconValley but also signed 16 other #AI bills, some of which have 🦷🦷🦷. “It’s clear Gov. Newsom, and also Jennifer Siebel Newsom...have listened to parents, and advocacy groups.” www.kqed.org/news/1205971... via @kqednews.kqed.org
Newsom Vetoes Most-Watched Children's AI Bill, Signs 16 Others Targeting Tech | KQED
The legislation would have restricted children’s access to AI chatbots, but Newsom sided with the tech industry, saying it would have led to a total ban on some AI tools for adolescents.
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Rachael Myrow @rachaelmyrow.bsky.social · 1h
“No strategic direction, no strategic plan, statutorily required duties gone by the wayside, no backups for things people did when they left … budget questions that can’t be answered, big holes in institutional knowledge...” www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202... via @washingtonpost.com
Historic wave of retirements is putting huge strains on the government
Tens of thousands of federal employees have taken retirement or other voluntary departures on top of the Trump administration’s latest layoffs.
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Rachael Myrow @rachaelmyrow.bsky.social · 1h
#LocalHero Edwin Castro, who bought a $2 Bil lottery ticket at a local gas station in 2022, has spent $10 Mil to buy 15 lots in Altadena after the Eaton fire. “This is for a family that wants to move in. Those are the people that need to be looked out for.” www.wsj.com/economy/hous... via @wsj.com
He Won the $2 Billion Powerball. Now He’s Buying Up Lots Burned in the L.A. Fires.
Edwin Castro is one of the biggest investors snapping up destroyed properties—and he wants to lead in rebuilding his hometown of Altadena.
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Rachael Myrow @rachaelmyrow.bsky.social · 3h
“America’s manufacturing dominance was neither built nor lost overnight — it took decades of concerted investment and supportive policymaking to build up, and decades of lackadaisical and incompetent policymaking to unwind.” www.washingtonpost.com/business/202... via @washingtonpost.com
Two industries were supposed to drive America’s future. One is booming, the other slumping.
The outcome of these trends has huge implications for workers, wealth and the future of America’s economy.
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Rachael Myrow @rachaelmyrow.bsky.social · 4h
A bubble bursts when it becomes evident that way too much has been invested relative to the potential for real-world profits. Smart investors cash out first. Everyone else is left with worthless pieces of paper. Borrowers go broke. robertreich.substack.com/p/beware-the... via @rbreich.bsky.social
Beware the Oligarch's AI Bubble
They’re likely to burst.
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Rachael Myrow @rachaelmyrow.bsky.social · 1d
#whywhywhy “This prank dehumanizes the homeless, causes the distressed recipient to panic and wastes police resources. Police officers who are called upon to respond do not know this is a prank...thus creating a potentially dangerous situation.” www.theverge.com/news/798681/... via @theverge.com
Police are asking kids to stop pulling AI homeless man prank
The AI #homelessmanprank has gone viral, causing headaches for law enforcement.
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Rachael Myrow @rachaelmyrow.bsky.social · 4d
Today, the San Mateo-Hayward Bridge is an unassuming workhorse bridge. But #funfact the OG bridge was once the longest in North America. And one of the skinniest. Two lanes, 30 feet wide, going over the Bay. Terrifying, right? 💀 www.kqed.org/news/1205882... via @kqednews.kqed.org #fromthearchives
Why Are There So Many Motels on San Francisco’s Lombard Street? | KQED
If you’ve ever driven along this stretch through San Francisco's Marina neighborhood towards the Golden Gate Bridge, you might have noticed that dozens of motels dot the thoroughfare. Why so many in o...
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Rachael Myrow @rachaelmyrow.bsky.social · 6d
“I’ve never smoked or used drugs, so I don’t know what chemical addiction feels like, but I feel like I’m addicted to TikTok... It’s so hard to stop, knowing the next swipe might bring me to a truly interesting video.” www.washingtonpost.com/wellness/int... via @washingtonpost.com
How TikTok keeps its users scrolling for hours a day
Washington Post reporters analyzed data from over 800 TikTok users to learn how the app turns people into power users, some of whom spend hours per day scrolling.
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Rachael Myrow @rachaelmyrow.bsky.social · 6d
#ICYMI A billionaire aims to display 100 pieces of large-scale art around San Francisco, which he’s allowed to do simply because he’s paying for it. And the city isn’t saying no to him. www.kqed.org/arts/1398217... via @kqedarts.bsky.social @sahotchkiss.bsky.social
Who Has a Say In the Flood of Public Art Coming to San Francisco?
The Sijbrandij Foundation’s plan to install 100 pieces of large-scale art around the city needs public oversight.
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Rachael Myrow @rachaelmyrow.bsky.social · 7d
Politics was always in their job description. But under this new order, the police — arm in arm with immigration agents, the military, and the rest of the federal agencies — are starting to function more as political police force. theintercept.com/2025/10/04/u... via @theintercept.com
The United Police State of America Has Arrived
The lines between local, state, and federal law enforcement and the military have blurred.
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Rachael Myrow @rachaelmyrow.bsky.social · 7d
Lost in the wave of LOLs is what it actually feels like to lose control of your own face. I could imagine showing it to someone, watching them watch it, seeing the question form in their mind: Did he actually say that? www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2... via @geoffreyfowler.bsky.social
Column | Friends took my face with the viral Sora app. I laughed. Then I got scared.
Lost in the wave of LOLs over OpenAI’s new Sora app is what it actually feels like to lose control of your own face.
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Rachael Myrow @rachaelmyrow.bsky.social · 7d
It’s also unclear how ChatGPT will choose a service between competing companies, such as DoorDash and Instacart. One could imagine how companies could pay to be surfaced in ChatGPT responses. techcrunch.com/2025/10/06/o... via @techcrunch.com
OpenAI launches apps inside of ChatGPT | TechCrunch
OpenAI is launching a new way for developers to build applications that appear directly inside of ChatGPT's conversations.
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Rachael Myrow @rachaelmyrow.bsky.social · 7d
For companies and governments worldwide, cyberattacks seem inevitable lately, and large-scale theft of customer data has begun to feel almost routine. “You should be testing cyberresilience and your cyberincident response plan all the time.” www.nytimes.com/2025/10/06/b... via @nytimes.com
Cyberattacks Upset British Life, Disrupting Car Factories and Grocery Stores
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Rachael Myrow @rachaelmyrow.bsky.social · 7d
A factory worker who loses their job cannot be told to learn to code if artificial labor also takes the coding job. Amazon, which made $59.2 billion in profits last year, has laid off 27,000 people since 2022. www.sanders.senate.gov/wp-content/u... via @sanders.senate.gov
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Rachael Myrow @rachaelmyrow.bsky.social · 7d
In a media world accustomed to ruling dynasties, the Ellisons stand out for the scale of their wealth and scope and diversity of their audience. Larry Ellison’s personal fortune is $345 billion, >30 x Murdoch’s net worth. www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2... via @lisabonos.bsky.social
This school district asked students to draft its AI policy
High-schoolers in Silicon Valley are helping a local school district choose its policies on the use of artificial intelligence in the classroom.
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Rachael Myrow @rachaelmyrow.bsky.social · 7d
Musk, who has been at the forefront of innovation in electric vehicles, rockets and brain-computer interfaces, is in the unusual position of playing catch-up to rivals like Sam Altman’s OpenAI. www.wsj.com/tech/elon-mu... via @wsj.com
Elon Musk Gambles Billions in Memphis to Catch Up on AI
xAI is aiming to win the tech arms race with its “Colossus” data centers, but Memphis is divided over its massive demand for power and water.
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Rachael Myrow @rachaelmyrow.bsky.social · 7d
🎙️ OCT 14: I left @marketplace.org before #KaiArrived and arrived at @kqednews.kqed.org after he #leftthebuilding. Orbiting the same sun, just on different paths. 🛰️ Is it too much to call him the Elvis of business journalism in #publicmedia? I'm gonna ask him. 😜 www.cityboxoffice.com/eventperform...
Tickets | Marketplace Live with Kai Ryssdal | City Box Office
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Rachael Myrow @rachaelmyrow.bsky.social · 7d
#ICYMI @globalwitness.org : set up 7 new TikTok accounts in the UK posing as 13-year-olds, and search suggestions were “highly sexualized,” even though the "13 year-olds" browsed the app using “restricted mode.” www.cnn.com/2025/10/03/t... via @cnn.com
TikTok searches pushed 13-year-olds toward pornographic content, report says | CNN Business
A new report has found that TikTok has directed young users toward sexually explicit content through its suggested search terms, according to an investigation by UK not-for-profit watchdog Global Witn...
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Rachael Myrow @rachaelmyrow.bsky.social · 8d
"Don't it always seem to go that you don't know what you've got till it's gone." - Joni Mitchell www.theguardian.com/news/2025/se... via @samanthsubramanian.bsky.social
Extremely offline: what happened when a Pacific island was cut off from the internet | Samanth Subramanian
A colossal volcanic eruption in January 2022 ripped apart the underwater cables that connect Tonga to the world – and exposed the fragility of 21st-century life
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Rachael Myrow @rachaelmyrow.bsky.social · 8d
Who? California schoolchildren learn about Cesar Chavez and the grape boycott he became famous for, but not about his Filipino-American partner-in-arms, Larry Itliong. (Also, somewhere in heat, Dawn Mabalon would be cheering.) #CA #FilAm #labor www.kqed.org/news/109044/... via @kqednews.kqed.org
Stockton's Little Manila: the Heart of Filipino California | KQED
In the 1920s and 30s, downtown Stockton was home to "Little Manila," the heart of Filipino America.
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Rachael Myrow @rachaelmyrow.bsky.social · 8d
🚦Larry Itliong Way in downtown San Jose? Love it! sanjosespotlight.com/san-jose-pat... via @sanjosespotlight.com
San Jose path could be renamed for Filipino labor leader - San José Spotlight
A group of San Jose Filipino residents want to ensure their contributions to the labor movement won’t be forgotten. The group is pushing to rename Paseo de San Antonio, a downtown pedestrian walkway, ...
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Rachael Myrow @rachaelmyrow.bsky.social · 9d
“Uber and Lyft, because of their vast control of information and algorithms, are always in a position where they have the advantage. … It’s always going to be the house that always wins relative to the drivers." www.kqed.org/news/1205779... via @kqednews.kqed.org @faridajhabvala.bsky.social
California Gives Uber, Lyft Drivers Collective Bargaining Rights | KQED
Critics say the law signed Friday by Gov. Gavin Newsom doesn’t do enough to help level the power imbalance between tech giants and drivers.
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Rachael Myrow @rachaelmyrow.bsky.social · 10d
Immigration attorney Sophie Alcorn called Trump’s proclamation a “huge affront” to people like her clients. “They have advanced degrees from U.S. colleges and universities they forked out full tuition for. They have spouses... They own homes. They volunteer in the PTA. They donate. They pay taxes.”
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Rachael Myrow @rachaelmyrow.bsky.social · 10d
“You cannot buy a house. You cannot raise a family if there is uncertainty,” said the software engineer on an #H1Bvisa. His status is safe, for now. 🙆🏻‍♀️ “I don’t want to be here till the age of 40 or 45, and then this happens, and I have to leave.”
www.kqed.org/news/1205858... via @kqednews.kqed.org
H-1B Workers Fear Uncertainty After Trump Imposes $100,000 Visa Petition Fee | KQED
The Trump administration’s recent H1-B visa changes have rattled thousands of foreign professionals who live in the Bay Area, leaving them to ask hard questions about their future.
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Rachael Myrow @rachaelmyrow.bsky.social · 10d
Am I excited about this conversation, which includes Tino Cuéllar of the @carnegieendowment.org. #funfact, he's also one of the primary authors of Newsom's working group on #AI. What questions would you have me ask?