Larry Harnisch
@lmharnisch.bsky.social
L.A. history, movies; out of journalism after 34 years, 27 at the L.A. Times. Fleeing Angry Bitcoin Toddler. WIP: The Black Dahlia. Link to my blog, the L.A. Daily Mirror.
https://ladailymirror.com/
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I was next to a Waymo in traffic. Every stoplight, it signaled a left turn, though I was in the left lane and it was in the right lane. On green, the Waymo went straight, every stop, it signaled a left turn, always from the right lane, even when there was no cross street and a left was impossible.
December 8, 2025 at 11:25 PM
I was next to a Waymo in traffic. Every stoplight, it signaled a left turn, though I was in the left lane and it was in the right lane. On green, the Waymo went straight, every stop, it signaled a left turn, always from the right lane, even when there was no cross street and a left was impossible.
I was looking for the source of a poetry quote and after exhausting all other online resources, tried AI. I got an author and book title. The author existed. The book of poetry existed. The poem? Did not exist. For me this was merely an amusing test. But for actual research? AI is techbro junk.
December 8, 2025 at 2:24 PM
I was looking for the source of a poetry quote and after exhausting all other online resources, tried AI. I got an author and book title. The author existed. The book of poetry existed. The poem? Did not exist. For me this was merely an amusing test. But for actual research? AI is techbro junk.
The Human Betterment Foundation was based in Pasadena (their records are at Caltech). The L.A. Times was a big supporter at one time. web.archive.org/web/20190510...
Forced Sterilization Once Seen as Path to a Better World
In a basement at Caltech , 59 gray boxes contain thousands of documents that reveal in detail how an influential group of California men once hoped to help direct the fate of the human race.
web.archive.org
December 4, 2025 at 1:19 PM
The Human Betterment Foundation was based in Pasadena (their records are at Caltech). The L.A. Times was a big supporter at one time. web.archive.org/web/20190510...
Hi. You might want to do something on the December 1958 fire at Our Lady of the Angels school that killed 92 children and 3 nuns. Maybe before your time but it was a huge story in its day.
December 1, 2025 at 11:34 PM
Hi. You might want to do something on the December 1958 fire at Our Lady of the Angels school that killed 92 children and 3 nuns. Maybe before your time but it was a huge story in its day.