Alameda voters will decide Alameda's next mayor, two council seats, and three school board seats in the November 2026 election.
💡The elected roles of city treasurer and city auditor, with their sinecures of CalPERS Platinum PPO coverage (or their choice of other plans) with $0 premiums for an unlimited number of dependents, plus reserved parking spots in downtown Alameda, are not scheduled for…
After a fiery confrontation in which CBS Editor in Chief Bari Weiss was accused of “murdering” the company’s most popular program, “60 Minutes” correspondent Scott Pelley was fired, joining the list of journalists who have left or been forced out from the 58-season show.
Pelley is now the fourth of seven “60 Minutes” correspondents who have either quit or been fired, including Anderson Cooper,…
Microsoft's CEO seems unaware of what's going on at his own company.
Posts shared to social media in the past week claimed to show video of a Bishnoi gang member firing guns in Caledon, Ont. The claims are false, as the original video was posted by a content creator who appears to be based in California. The Ontario Provincial Police say the video originated from the United States.
THE CLAIM
In a video**** shared to social media last week, a man in a…
Oh man. Same old clown show, awash with boondoggles, each more cringey than the last. As the mad man-child deconstructs DC and slaps his hideous face and name everywhere - historic buildings, fascist arches, garish statues, possibly imaginary gold phones - others have taken his lead with their own patriotic spinoffs. Cue "Fuck You" upgrades, a _Strait to Hell_ arcade for a video-game war, and…
I have decided to redo my website, arbs09.dev.
I wasn't happy with the design and structure of my old site anymore. For the new version, I decided not to use Tailwind CSS because my site looked too "business-like" and not personal enough, so I chose to write vanilla CSS instead. I chose a minimal design for the layout.
I stuck with Zola as my SSG.
I also decided to gradually integrate my…
Authorities have arrested a Florida man on video voyeurism charges after he filmed attendees of Naples Pridefest using the restroom. Now, he claims he wanted to catch men grooming boys.
The Collier County Sheriff’s Office shows Andrew Sheets, 61, was booked on one count of digital video voyeurism and one count of distribution. He must appear in court on June 1.
A Naples Police Department…
I tuned into Sabrina Carpenter’s Weekend 2 Coachella set from bed, in the half-distracted way you watch Weekend 2 livestreams. I wasn’t expecting much different from the last weekend. But about halfway through, before my mind could catch up with my body, I shot up with a start at hearing the first glimmers of Madonna’s “Vogue.” I let out one of those shocked yell-laughs to myself in…
I tuned into Sabrina Carpenter’s Weekend 2 Coachella set from bed, in the half-distracted way you watch Weekend 2 livestreams. I wasn’t expecting much different from the last weekend. But about halfway through, before my mind could catch up with my body, I shot up with a start at hearing the first glimmers of Madonna’s “Vogue.” I let out one of those shocked yell-laughs to myself in…
Would it have been so hard to write a simple “Happy Mother’s Day” message?
Donald Trump unleashed a flood of AI-generated slop on Truth Social Sunday evening to cheer on his own flailing presidency. While Trump may have declined to publicly reference the fact that it was Mother’s Day, the president did share 10 posts from “Women for Trump.”
“I’m a Trumplican,” read one inscrutable…
The Internet Archive, Wikimedia, academics, and hobby archivists are having trouble finding hard drives or are having to pay extremely high prices for them.
On all pages like my about page and even on posts and category pages, there is a Home link that shows up in the navigation. But this home link does not show up on the default Photos and Archive page.
On about page:
On Photos page:
President Trump went on a long, angry social media tirade Thursday night while the entire country was asleep, once again raising doubts about his mental fitness and temperament.
Just after midnight, Trump reposted a message from the Border Patrol union calling on “extreme leftist advocate” Senator Chuck Schumer to resign over his recent comments in which he said “nobody respects” ICE or Border…
Recent scandals hit members of both parties.
People like to use the `box-shadow` property for styling focus outlines, but that can be bad for accesssibility.
President Donald Trump raged against the filibuster and his fellow Republicans Thursday morning.
In a series of posts on Truth Social, Trump urged Republican lawmakers to eliminate the dastardly filibuster once and for all. Republicans have previously fought to maintain the filibuster, which grants significant power to the Senate’s minority, but Trump has repeatedly demanded they get rid of it…
The Trump administration is once again suing Harvard University, contending that “for several years, Jewish and Israeli students endured a hostile educational environment” at the Ivy League school.
The lawsuit, filed in Massachusetts federal court on Friday and first reported by _The Washington Post,_ alleges that students were stopped from entering campus buildings by “antisemitic…
Silicon Valley’s rising right-wing intelligentsia has plenty of money and a willingness to do the intellectual dirty work of some of the world’s most open reactionaries. (Craig T Fruchtman / Getty Images)
The offices…
Firefox version 148 has released, bringing with it the AI killswitch feature that was promised, allowing users to disable all AI features from a single switch.
In a week of incredibly annoying and inaccurate AI discourse, I’m instead drawn to write about metascientific squabbles. Engaging with AI discourse means ignoring ignorant bait articles that falsely cast academia as a unipolar axis defined by a professor in the Pacific Northwest and looking at how AI is shaping or being shaped by our social systems.
So yes, I’m intrigued by this new AI-driven…
I've been enjoying using Aeronaut, a Bluesky app for mac that feels quite native. Still tend to use the site in browser, but it's a nice dedicated option to have.
Dave Filoni is clearly going to continue the Skywalker Saga, but how?...
I just finished up listening to the audiobook version of There Is No Antimemetics Division by qntm. Can safely say that I really enjoyed it and would highly recommend. That said, I loved This Is How You Lose The Time War, loaned it to a few people and don't think any of them finished it....
The Good Internet: How Fandom Can Reclaim the Web. This talk by Sacha Judd at FFConf was stellar. I'm in the process of finding my back to the weird web.
From Requiem For Early Blogging: [I]f you wanted people to read your blog, you had to make it compelling enough that they would visit it, directly, because they wanted to. And if they wanted to respond to you, they had to do it on their own blog, and link back. [...] I think of this...
From Programming is mostly thinking, an article that I meant to post awhile back: If programming is 1/12th motion and 11/12ths thinking, then we shouldn't push people to be typing 11/12ths of the time. We should instead provide the materials, environment, and processes necessary to ensure that the thinking we do is of high quality....
How to put Tailscale on a jailbroken Kindle. Might have been fun to try this, but my aging Kindle seems to have updated itself already. It would be neat to be able to drop books to it on the fly. I end up just using the email epubs to yourself feature, it's a bit fiddly...
I bought a copy of Complete CSS from Picalli.li a few weeks ago, with the intention of upping my CSS game. It's old territory for me, but my layout techniques pre-date flex... floats, clear fixes and IE hacks. Looking forward to learning some new techniques as I update the site. Go beyond syntax expertise and...
The Ship of Theseus, also known as Theseus's Paradox, is a paradox and common thought experiment about whether an object (in the most common stating of the paradox, a ship) is the same object after having all of its original components replaced with others over time. I'm playing around with ThemeSwitcher Pro from WebDevStudios. It's...