Rachael Myrow
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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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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
"The A.I. tools can also help people deal with 'decision fatigue from endless options.'" ⁇ This is unthinking PR from @nytimes.com. Chatbots are NOT helpful at deciding who should get what under the 🌲, or where the best price is (they can't guess shipping costs). 🤷🏻♀️ www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/t...
A.I. Can Do More of Your Shopping This Holiday Season
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November 25, 2025 at 4:46 PM
"The A.I. tools can also help people deal with 'decision fatigue from endless options.'" ⁇ This is unthinking PR from @nytimes.com. Chatbots are NOT helpful at deciding who should get what under the 🌲, or where the best price is (they can't guess shipping costs). 🤷🏻♀️ www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/t...
"As long as people are in silos, this idea of the marketplace of ideas, the first amendment concept - the best response to bad speech is better speech - doesn't work." - Retired federal judge Mark Wolf talking with @dahlialithwick.bsky.social. www.youtube.com/watch?v=xqQa...
He Quit the Bench to Raise the Alarm | Amicus With Dahlia Lithwick | Law, justice, and the courts
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November 20, 2025 at 6:09 PM
"As long as people are in silos, this idea of the marketplace of ideas, the first amendment concept - the best response to bad speech is better speech - doesn't work." - Retired federal judge Mark Wolf talking with @dahlialithwick.bsky.social. www.youtube.com/watch?v=xqQa...
“Oh, well, another person got hit, but, you know, it’s common. It’s like it’s part of life right there.” www.washingtonpost.com/business/int... via @washingtonpost.com
November 20, 2025 at 5:48 PM
“Oh, well, another person got hit, but, you know, it’s common. It’s like it’s part of life right there.” www.washingtonpost.com/business/int... via @washingtonpost.com
"I am an American who runs an American company who has American children. I would love to for American manufacturing to flourish, but we also all want cinnamon. Cinnamon comes from India and Sri Lanka." www.kqed.org/news/1206461... via @kqednews.kqed.org @alanmontecillo.bsky.social
Inside One Bay Area Business Rocked by Trump’s Tariffs | KQED
Have Trump's tariffs lived up to their promise for local food businesses?
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November 20, 2025 at 3:44 PM
"I am an American who runs an American company who has American children. I would love to for American manufacturing to flourish, but we also all want cinnamon. Cinnamon comes from India and Sri Lanka." www.kqed.org/news/1206461... via @kqednews.kqed.org @alanmontecillo.bsky.social
“There is a type of mythification of the Franco years that works well on social media, and it has a big impact on young men in particular. They are told there were no problems in that era because there was no radical feminism and no migrants.” www.aljazeera.com/news/longfor... via @aljazeera.com
Amnesia, nostalgia, healing: Spain grapples with Franco legacy 50 years on
Half a century has passed since Franco's dictatorship ended with his death, but some in Spain still valorise his rule.
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November 20, 2025 at 3:34 PM
“There is a type of mythification of the Franco years that works well on social media, and it has a big impact on young men in particular. They are told there were no problems in that era because there was no radical feminism and no migrants.” www.aljazeera.com/news/longfor... via @aljazeera.com
You may have seen #Zoox robo taxis rolling around SF, Foster City and Vegas lately. There’s no steering wheel or pedals. Some on reddit describe them as mini toasters on wheels. They’re notable in another way, too. They’re manufactured in Hayward. www.kqed.org/news/1206472... via @kqednews.kqed.org
November 19, 2025 at 11:17 PM
You may have seen #Zoox robo taxis rolling around SF, Foster City and Vegas lately. There’s no steering wheel or pedals. Some on reddit describe them as mini toasters on wheels. They’re notable in another way, too. They’re manufactured in Hayward. www.kqed.org/news/1206472... via @kqednews.kqed.org
🧵 If you knew that young men were DYING to make that attractively priced kitchen countertop, would you buy it anyway? My guess is not.
November 19, 2025 at 8:01 PM
🧵 If you knew that young men were DYING to make that attractively priced kitchen countertop, would you buy it anyway? My guess is not.
"We’re always hungry for something. We still want another love story told through somebody else’s perspective, and it’s the somebody else’s perspective that we’re actually hungry for, whether we know it or not. And I think most of us don’t know it."
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What Pixar’s ‘WALL-E’ Got Right About the Future of Work
The director and screenwriter had a vision of a dystopian future that now seems disturbingly prescient.
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November 19, 2025 at 2:30 AM
"We’re always hungry for something. We still want another love story told through somebody else’s perspective, and it’s the somebody else’s perspective that we’re actually hungry for, whether we know it or not. And I think most of us don’t know it."
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A delightful conversation on @kqedforum.bsky.social about #dogs with the poet Billy Collins, but he's 100% wrong about cats not looking you in the eye, not staring at you at length, sometimes with love, sometimes indulgence, sometimes obsession. 👀 www.kqed.org/forum/201010...
November 19, 2025 at 1:26 AM
A delightful conversation on @kqedforum.bsky.social about #dogs with the poet Billy Collins, but he's 100% wrong about cats not looking you in the eye, not staring at you at length, sometimes with love, sometimes indulgence, sometimes obsession. 👀 www.kqed.org/forum/201010...
Most of us are familiar with two kinds of persimmon: the apple-sized, crunchy Fuyu and the bulbous Hachiya, best enjoyed when it’s so ripe, it’s gooey. I'm going to go out on a limb here and argue there's an even BETTER persimmon, available only at farms and farmers' markets.
November 19, 2025 at 12:51 AM
Most of us are familiar with two kinds of persimmon: the apple-sized, crunchy Fuyu and the bulbous Hachiya, best enjoyed when it’s so ripe, it’s gooey. I'm going to go out on a limb here and argue there's an even BETTER persimmon, available only at farms and farmers' markets.
“It would be one thing...to check a license plate against a hotlist...But...[cops] can go back and see where a driver went to obtain medical care, where they worked, whether they attended a protest, or where they take their kids to school.” www.kqed.org/news/1206458... via @josephgeha.bsky.social
Civil Liberties Groups Sue San José Over License Plate Reader Use | KQED
A group of civil liberties organizations is suing San José over its use of license plate reader data.
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November 19, 2025 at 12:40 AM
“It would be one thing...to check a license plate against a hotlist...But...[cops] can go back and see where a driver went to obtain medical care, where they worked, whether they attended a protest, or where they take their kids to school.” www.kqed.org/news/1206458... via @josephgeha.bsky.social
Raising 💵 in a place with <30,000 people and a poverty rate 2x the national average is difficult. But that doesn't mean KYUK isn't loved. The GM says one person baked blueberry muffins to support the last fundraiser. Someone else dropped off salmon strips. www.npr.org/2025/11/14/n... via @npr.org
Alaska station that covered devastating storm cuts jobs
A public TV and radio station in Western Alaska serves dozens of villages damaged by Typhoon Halong. But with federal funding eliminated, KYUK makes severe cuts to its staff and news department.
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November 18, 2025 at 5:53 PM
Raising 💵 in a place with <30,000 people and a poverty rate 2x the national average is difficult. But that doesn't mean KYUK isn't loved. The GM says one person baked blueberry muffins to support the last fundraiser. Someone else dropped off salmon strips. www.npr.org/2025/11/14/n... via @npr.org
“For me, as a person of faith, my dignity is not something that somebody in a political power position gives to me. It’s a gift from God. We have been created in the image of God, and that is something that no one can take away from us.” www.kqed.org/news/12063793/ via @tychehendricks.bsky.social
As Enforcement Intensifies, Churches Become Sanctuaries for Immigrants Seeking Peace | KQED
Across the Bay Area, faith communities are creating spaces where immigrants can reclaim dignity and find solace amid escalating ICE enforcement, including a recent Oakland candlelight service that dre...
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November 18, 2025 at 4:11 PM
“For me, as a person of faith, my dignity is not something that somebody in a political power position gives to me. It’s a gift from God. We have been created in the image of God, and that is something that no one can take away from us.” www.kqed.org/news/12063793/ via @tychehendricks.bsky.social
“My whole career, I’ve worn a bandana or sometimes a facial shroud, which was standard practice. But fires are burning thousands of homes, the contents of the homes and vehicles, and you’re sitting in that smoke for weeks at a time.” www.kqed.org/science/1999... via @climatedaddykqed.bsky.social
California Senators Demand PPE, Greater Smoke Protections for Wildland Firefighters | KQED
A new bill sponsored by Sens. Adam Schiff and Alex Padilla would explore landmark respiratory protections to shield wildland firefighters from dangerous wildfire smoke.
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November 18, 2025 at 3:57 PM
“My whole career, I’ve worn a bandana or sometimes a facial shroud, which was standard practice. But fires are burning thousands of homes, the contents of the homes and vehicles, and you’re sitting in that smoke for weeks at a time.” www.kqed.org/science/1999... via @climatedaddykqed.bsky.social
Another year until the midterms. In the meantime, the panels will continue until morale improves. www.washingtonpost.com/style/power/... via @washingtonpost.com
Democrats spent a year at rock bottom. Have they learned any lessons?
It’s been a long year of arguments, wisdom-mongering and profanity for the professional left and its allies.
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November 18, 2025 at 2:05 AM
Another year until the midterms. In the meantime, the panels will continue until morale improves. www.washingtonpost.com/style/power/... via @washingtonpost.com
“It’s a bit like a Netflix show trying to get to the next episode,” said Michael Horrigan, a former associate commissioner at the B.L.S. “You kind of have to back up and say, ‘OK, where were we?’” www.nytimes.com/2025/11/14/b... via @nytimes.com
Government Reopens Without Data That Guides Markets and the Fed
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November 18, 2025 at 2:02 AM
“It’s a bit like a Netflix show trying to get to the next episode,” said Michael Horrigan, a former associate commissioner at the B.L.S. “You kind of have to back up and say, ‘OK, where were we?’” www.nytimes.com/2025/11/14/b... via @nytimes.com
“The fact that workers will not come forward and testify does not necessarily mean that the plaintiffs’ case is weak. It may mean that people are more discouraged and less likely to stick their head up, in the fear that it will get chopped off.” www.kqed.org/news/1206437... via @kqednews.kqed.org
Tesla Dodges Class Action Case, Now Faces Hundreds of Individual Race-Harassment Claims | KQED
A California judge has ruled that thousands of Black workers at Tesla’s flagship Fremont plant cannot sue over alleged racial harassment as a class, reversing an earlier ruling.
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November 18, 2025 at 12:17 AM
“The fact that workers will not come forward and testify does not necessarily mean that the plaintiffs’ case is weak. It may mean that people are more discouraged and less likely to stick their head up, in the fear that it will get chopped off.” www.kqed.org/news/1206437... via @kqednews.kqed.org
🚘📡 Streaming to cars is replacing over-the-air radio in its prominence on dashboards. Most recently, Tesla announced it was removing all radios from its base models. And with driverless cars on the horizon, video may also become a competitor in the car. www.broadcastlawblog.com/2025/11/arti...
December 17 Comment Date Set in 2022 Quadrennial Review Looking at Local Ownership Rules – What is at Stake, Particularly for Radio?
Wasting no time following the reopening of the government, the FCC has published its Notice of Proposed Rulemaking in the 2022 Quadrennial Review in the
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November 17, 2025 at 8:49 PM
🚘📡 Streaming to cars is replacing over-the-air radio in its prominence on dashboards. Most recently, Tesla announced it was removing all radios from its base models. And with driverless cars on the horizon, video may also become a competitor in the car. www.broadcastlawblog.com/2025/11/arti...
"There’s nothing healthy about a share price that looks like a late-stage diagnosis. Nvidia is at the centre of a game of musical chairs that is holding up most of the US stock market...At some point the music has to stop." broligarchy.substack.com/p/peter-thie... via @carolecadwalla.bsky.social
Peter Thiel Gets Out of Dodge
Yesterday, I published on "Great AI Bubble". Today, Silicon Valley's Dr Evil dumps his stock
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November 17, 2025 at 8:28 PM
"There’s nothing healthy about a share price that looks like a late-stage diagnosis. Nvidia is at the centre of a game of musical chairs that is holding up most of the US stock market...At some point the music has to stop." broligarchy.substack.com/p/peter-thie... via @carolecadwalla.bsky.social
"When legislators finally get around to drawing up a new budget for next year, they should also restore funding and staffing for CISA, preferably on a multiyear basis to insulate the agency against future shutdowns." www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...
Cyberattacks Are Up. So Why Are US Defenses Down?
America’s enemies are growing bolder and more sophisticated in cyberspace. To fend them off, the government must stop unilaterally disarming.
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November 14, 2025 at 6:15 PM
"When legislators finally get around to drawing up a new budget for next year, they should also restore funding and staffing for CISA, preferably on a multiyear basis to insulate the agency against future shutdowns." www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...
All that spending on real estate, construction, energy and other massive costs will have to be recouped somehow. The expectation is that increased spending by consumers and businesses on AI-powered products will make that happen. www.wsj.com/tech/ai/when... via @wsj.com @christophermims.bsky.social
When AI Hype Meets AI Reality: A Reckoning in 6 Charts
Record capital expenditures and data-center planning are running up against the ground truths of physical infrastructure.
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November 14, 2025 at 6:12 PM
All that spending on real estate, construction, energy and other massive costs will have to be recouped somehow. The expectation is that increased spending by consumers and businesses on AI-powered products will make that happen. www.wsj.com/tech/ai/when... via @wsj.com @christophermims.bsky.social
Alcaraz’s selection came as a surprise to many, and arrived after Sunset voters recalled their former supervisor Joel Engardio. The 29-year-old was not known to be active in community organizing circles and had never had a role in government before.
November 14, 2025 at 6:10 PM
Alcaraz’s selection came as a surprise to many, and arrived after Sunset voters recalled their former supervisor Joel Engardio. The 29-year-old was not known to be active in community organizing circles and had never had a role in government before.
“There’s been this growing sobering reality of just how much climate is impacting health and how woefully unprepared our systems are...It really demands a new playbook.” www.bloomberg.com/news/article... via @bloomberg.com
Climate Donors Say a Hotter Planet Requires a New Playbook
As the world gathers for COP30 in Brazil, there’s a growing focus on how to protect human health from the intensifying effects of climate change.
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November 14, 2025 at 5:42 PM
“There’s been this growing sobering reality of just how much climate is impacting health and how woefully unprepared our systems are...It really demands a new playbook.” www.bloomberg.com/news/article... via @bloomberg.com
Broadway music in the 1920s, 30s and 40s was a beautiful thing — largely unrecorded, and eventually forgotten in dusty warehouses and basements. Getting serious about our musical heritage requires unearthing — and recording — as much as we can. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/o... via @nytimes.com
Opinion | The Dusty Boxes of Aging Papers That Changed American Music and My Life
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November 14, 2025 at 5:19 PM
Broadway music in the 1920s, 30s and 40s was a beautiful thing — largely unrecorded, and eventually forgotten in dusty warehouses and basements. Getting serious about our musical heritage requires unearthing — and recording — as much as we can. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/o... via @nytimes.com
A similar in-fill station in Fremont will cost just shy of $300 million, much of it secured and managed by the city. Oakland, like BART, has no funding to spare. www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/arti... via @rswansf.bsky.social
BART’s fiscal crisis could close 9 stations. So why are people pushing for a new one in Oakland?
BART is facing a budget crisis of unfathomable magnitude. But that hasn’t stopped political leaders from pressing for a new train station in East Oakland.
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November 14, 2025 at 3:08 PM
A similar in-fill station in Fremont will cost just shy of $300 million, much of it secured and managed by the city. Oakland, like BART, has no funding to spare. www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/arti... via @rswansf.bsky.social