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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 · 22h
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 · 22h
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 · 22h
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 · 22h
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 · 22h
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 · 23h
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 · 23h
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 · 1d
🎙️ 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...
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Rachael Myrow @rachaelmyrow.bsky.social · 1d
#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 · 1d
"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 · 1d
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 · 1d
🚦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 · 3d
“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 · 3d
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 · 3d
“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.”
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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 · 4d
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?
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Rachael Myrow @rachaelmyrow.bsky.social · 4d
“A few weeks ago, I was asked an icebreaker question: ‘If you could live anywhere in the world, where would you live?’” Montaño said. “I answered ‘San José, California.’ This is my home. And this is the home that I’m building.” www.kqed.org/news/1205099... via @kqednews.kqed.org
A Day in the Life of San José’s Rapid Response Network, Built to Resist ICE Fear | KQED
In San José, a rapid response network of volunteers and immigrant-led groups is fighting fear of ICE raids by distributing know-your-rights cards, staffing hotlines, and empowering local businesses to...
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Rachael Myrow @rachaelmyrow.bsky.social · 5d
There are still some chess pieces on the board, and a few moves left to be made—but the winner of this game is already obvious. Hollywood, or what’s left of it, will become a subsidiary of tech interests. I don’t see any other outcome. www.honest-broker.com/p/the-war-be... via @tedgioia.bsky.social
The War Between Silicon Valley and Hollywood is Officially Over...
And the tech bros won
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Rachael Myrow @rachaelmyrow.bsky.social · 5d
It’s like peering into the near future of what a post-literate presidential campaign might look like. (In case you have trouble imagining look no further than the side-by-side post of Gov. Newsom and "fellow meme lord" VP Vance, on X.) www.politico.com/news/2025/08... via @adamwren.bsky.social
How Gavin Newsom trolled his way to the top of social media
Inside the MAGA-parodying strategy that has rocketed the California governor to algorithmic dominance — while annoying leading Republicans.
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Rachael Myrow @rachaelmyrow.bsky.social · 5d
In another coincidence, Wednesday marked the beginning of Cybersecurity Awareness Month, when public and private entities strive to educate more people about online risks and how to mitigate them. 🧟‍♀️ www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2... via @joemenn.bsky.social
Shutdown guts U.S. cybersecurity agency at perilous time
The lead U.S. agency for protecting the electric grid, water supply and other critical services from hacking has furloughed most of its staff.
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Rachael Myrow @rachaelmyrow.bsky.social · 5d
“The pendulum has swung toward more short-term revenue considerations versus the long-term health of the platform and the ecosystem,” said a former Meta employee who helped create the ad library. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/01/t... via @stevenleemyers.bsky.social
Spam and Scams Proliferate in Facebook’s Political Ads
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Rachael Myrow @rachaelmyrow.bsky.social · 5d
The new Sora app makes OpenAI the first major tech company to attempt to build a social video platform wholly focused on fake video. “No matter the filters, there are always work-arounds.”https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2025/10/02/sora-openai-video-face-fake/ via @washingtonpost.com
Everything is fake on Silicon Valley’s hottest new social network
The new Sora social app from ChatGPT maker OpenAI encourages users to upload video of their face so their likeness can be put into AI-generated clips.
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Rachael Myrow @rachaelmyrow.bsky.social · 5d
The change means that if users ask Meta’s AI chatbot for nearby hiking recommendations, for instance, they might start seeing ads on Instagram and Facebook for hiking boots or other gear, as well as hiking-related content from creators in their feeds. 🧟‍♀️ www.wsj.com/tech/ai/meta... via @wsj.com
Meta Will Begin Using AI Chatbot Conversations to Target Ads
While users won’t be able to opt out from the new policy, the content of some conversations will be automatically excluded.
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Rachael Myrow @rachaelmyrow.bsky.social · 5d
Imagine designing a 20 mph delivery robot for bike lanes and thinking, “Yes, this is progress.” So cyclists now need to give the right of way to ... burrito wagons?! 🚴‍♀️🤖🌯https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2025/09/30/doordash-dot-robot-delivery/ via @washingtonpost.com
DoorDash’s Dot delivery bots might be coming to a bike lane near you
Instead of short-range city deliveries, DoorDash’s new delivery robot is meant to ferry supplies through suburbia.
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Rachael Myrow @rachaelmyrow.bsky.social · 5d
#mathlesson Even middle class Americans who buy insurance on #ACA exchanges will be gutted by the tax break repeal. Why? Coverage gets more expensive, healthier people drop off, and carriers raise premiums on remaining customers. 🧮🧟‍♀️
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/30/o... via @steverattnerr.bsky.social
Opinion | These 6 Charts Explain Why the Government Shut Down
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