Entry: 2024-04-13 17:48:53.504984+02 California Journalism Preservation Act by Dan Lyke comments 0
“If there are resources to be put to work, we must ask where those resources should come from, who should receive them, and on what basis they should be distributed.”
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Entry: 2024-04-10 19:59:25.967316+02 Hoodline "local news" generated by LLM by Dan Lyke comments 0
Gazetteer: Hoodline using AI to generate news stories and journalist profiles
Following a Gazetteer SF inquiry, the neighborhood news site publicly confirmed its use of artificial intelligence to power an 'In-House Writing Collective'
Broke Ass Stuart: Hoodline caught using AI generated writers to make AI generated articles
To be fair, it seems like maybe they're feeding it things like police press releases and getting overly flowery summaries out, and unlike some other recent breaks, don't appear to be outright spreading lies.
Yet.
But this sure is a consequence of the Google created SEO environment.
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Entry: 2024-03-26 17:24:18.588825+01 Key Bridge Collapse by Dan Lyke comments 0
I'm trying to find a way to share the Washington Post coverage of the Baltimore Key Bridge collapse, but it may just be individual articles.
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Entry: 2024-03-07 00:28:56.487791+01 Road & Track backpedaling by Dan Lyke comments 0
RT Brilliantcrank @Brilliantcrank@mastodon.social
I scooped the media by two days!
https://defector.com/road-trac...e-about-formula-1-power-dynamics
https://www.washingtonpost.com...mula-one-road-track-kate-wagner/
@anildash is right, blogs are where to find out what's going on.
/ @dangillmor
Astute readers will notice that the WaPo link now says "Sorry, we can’t seem to find the page you’re looking for", and searching for "Formula One" and "Kate Wagner" aren't giving me anything interesting, which suggests that maybe the Post's editors are as cowardly as Daniel Pund?Brilliant Crank has fixed the original link, but still makes me wonder why search wasn't turning up the article...
Brilliant Crank: Behind F1's velvet curtain, and Road & Track's delete button.
The other link is to Defector: Road & Track EIC Tries To Explain Why He Deleted An Article About Formula 1 Power Dynamics
Kate Wagner's story on Formula One that was published at Road & Track on Archive.com
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Entry: 2024-02-28 05:50:02.943431+01 As someone who has developed software by Dan Lyke comments 0
As someone who has developed software that shipped to hundreds of tHousands on physical media, how did it take me so long to realize that "devops" means "we test in production"?
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ia8Q51ouA_s
H/T @genehack@dementedandsadbut.social
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Entry: 2024-02-15 18:41:56.246127+01 AI cynicism of the morning by Dan Lyke comments 0
RT Jared White @jaredwhite@indieweb.social
The breathless coverage of AI right now on The Verge is a prime example of how media *choosing* to give oxygen to a technology increases its perception of legitimacy whether they intend to or not.
Imagine a major news publication writing story after story like:
"And here's another person cheerfully going about their day getting work done, and they aren't using any generative AI.”
“How does it feel not to use AI today?”
“I feel pretty great, actually.“
“Aren't you behind?”
“No.”
“Well OK!”
Dan Sugalski @wordshaper@weatherishappening.network
It's pretty clear that the big winners from the AI revolution are going to be those companies who manage to not destroy themselves before the AI revolution flames out.
Josh Collinsworth: I worry our Copilot is leaving some passengers behind
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Entry: 2024-02-07 04:35:03.128199+01 Okay so Snopes and several other by Dan Lyke comments 0
Okay, so Snopes (and several other probably mainstream media sites) says that ExperianIDWorks(dot)com is legitimate, but holy shit this whole data breach notification thing feels like an elaborate phishing scheme.
And, fuuu, I know that there's a huge incentive for the breached companies to not have you sign up, and the whole Experian thing feels super scammy, but... this feels all out of control.
https://www.snopes.com/fact-ch...ax-data-breach-settlement-email/
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Entry: 2024-02-05 18:44:22.771994+01 no VR Porn on the Apple headset by Dan Lyke comments 0
I'm sorry, citizen, are you not content with the family friendly content that Apple has carefully curated for you?
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Entry: 2024-02-03 18:15:03.360301+01 On the one hand it's like Russian by Dan Lyke comments 0
On the one hand it's like "Russian oligarchs getting rich off pump&dump schemes bad", on the other hand, fuck investors who buy into Trump scams...
#GiftArticle Washington Post: The wild probe into investors of DWAC, Trump Media’s proposed merger ally
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Entry: 2024-01-23 18:23:50.174508+01 stories designed to tug at heart strings by Dan Lyke comments 0
In "really? I'd never have suspected that a DA's office might make up bullshit for propaganda purposes." news: Northern California Public Media: Sonoma County DA's fentanyl ad features fake storyline
Via SFGate: Bay Area DA admits 6-year-old's playground fentanyl overdose never happened
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Entry: 2024-01-15 18:07:37.749562+01 Search engine biases by Dan Lyke comments 0
Nature: How online misinformation exploits ‘information voids’ — and what to do about it, an article based on Nature: Online searches to evaluate misinformation can increase its perceived veracity Kevin Aslett, Zeve Sanderson, William Godel, Nathaniel Persily, Jonathan Nagler & Joshua A. Tucker
To shed light on this relationship, we combine survey data with digital trace data collected using a custom browser extension. We find that the search effect is concentrated among individuals for whom search engines return lower-quality information. Our results indicate that those who search online to evaluate misinformation risk falling into data voids, or informational spaces in which there is corroborating evidence from low-quality sources. We also find consistent evidence that searching online to evaluate news increases belief in true news from low-quality sources, but inconsistent evidence that it increases belief in true news from mainstream sources. Our findings highlight the need for media literacy programmes to ground their recommendations in empirically tested strategies and for search engines to invest in solutions to the challenges identified here.
An example: If you hear about Bob Lazar, the UFO hoaxer, and search for "Zeta Reticuli" (the binary star system) and "Moscovium" (the element with atomic number 115), you'll get almost exclusively content backing up his story. And it's now old, but for a while if you used the phrase "sound science" in your searches, it would be biased towards deliberate petroleum producer content.
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Entry: 2024-01-08 18:25:01.93106+01 Shit if swearing really is becoming by Dan Lyke comments 4
Shit, if swearing really is becoming more acceptable, what the fuck are we going to do for impact?
https://www.theguardian.com/me...ptable-linguistics-experts-claim
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Entry: 2024-01-04 05:31:24.925012+01 Crypto hedge fund CEO may not exist by Dan Lyke comments 0
Hahahahahaha! Crypto hedge fund CEO may not exist; probe finds no record of identity
For years, rumors spread on social media that Steven Reece Lewis, the chief executive officer of a now-shuttered cryptocurrency hedge fund called HyperVerse, was a "fake person" who "doesn't exist." After its investigation, The Guardian has confirmed that no organization cited on his resume "can find any record of him."
That picture, tho... has anyone counted his fingers, to see if he's AI generated?
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Entry: 2023-12-28 03:00:05.109626+01 The Modi government has never by Dan Lyke comments 0
"The Modi government has never confirmed or denied using spyware, and it has refused to cooperate with a committee appointed by India’s Supreme Court to investigate whether it had."
But in criticizing Apple for warning opposition politicians and journalists that their phones had been hacked, the Indian government seems to have confirmed that, yes, they are the state actors compromising those devices...
#GiftArticle https://wapo.st/3NEJYub
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Entry: 2023-12-20 18:21:08.063349+01 CSAM in Stable Diffusion by Dan Lyke comments 0
404 Media: Largest Dataset Powering AI Images Removed After Discovery of Child Sexual Abuse Material
The model is a massive part of the AI-ecosystem, used by Google and Stable Diffusion. The removal follows discoveries made by Stanford researchers, who found thousands instances of suspected child sexual abuse material in the dataset.
Washington Post: Exploitive, illegal photos of children found in the data that trains some AI
In a report released by Stanford University’s Internet Observatory, researchers said they found at least 1,008 images of child exploitation in a popular open source database of images, called LAION-5B, that AI image-generating models such as Stable Diffusion rely on to create hyper-realistic photos.
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Entry: 2023-12-08 20:21:38.49809+01 Social engineering Verizon phone records by Dan Lyke comments 0
404 Media: Verizon Gave Phone Data to Armed Stalker Who Posed as Cop Over Email
The news is a massive failure by Verizon who did not verify that the data request was fraudulent, and the company potentially put someone’s safety at risk. The news also highlights the now common use of fraudulent emergency data requests (EDRs) or search warrants in the digital underworld, where criminals pretend to be law enforcement officers, fabricate an urgent scenario such as a kidnapping, and then convince telecoms or tech companies to hand over data that should only be accessible through legitimate law enforcement requests. As 404 Media previously reported, some hackers are using compromised government email accounts for this purpose.
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Entry: 2023-12-07 23:11:09.698473+01 US retail lobbyists retract key claim on 'organized' retail crime by Dan Lyke comments 0
RT Max Kennerly @maxkennerly@mstdn.social
Note to journalists: retail companies never said anything like this on investor calls because they'd get sued by shareholders for securities fraud. It was all a PR stunt. Don't listen to the lobbyists, look at the disclosures to investors.
Reuters: US retail lobbyists retract key claim on 'organized' retail crime
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Entry: 2023-11-29 20:38:03.925277+01 ChatGPT training data by Dan Lyke comments 0
404 Media: Google Researchers’ Attack Prompts ChatGPT to Reveal Its Training Data
“We show an adversary can extract gigabytes of training data from open-source language models like Pythia or GPT-Neo, semi-open models like LLaMA or Falcon, and closed models like ChatGPT,” the researchers, from Google DeepMind, the University of Washington, Cornell, Carnegie Mellon University, the University of California Berkeley, and ETH Zurich, wrote in a paper published in the open access prejournal arXiv Tuesday.
Extracting Training Data from ChatGPT
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Entry: 2023-11-24 17:53:48.133734+01 The Twitter/Media Matters lawsuit by Dan Lyke comments 0
So… within the span of about 2 to 3 pages we are told that Elon Musk and exTwitter are passionate supporters of free speech that allow “all viewpoints” to be shared and that Musk is filing this lawsuit to force Media Matters to take down speech that he admits is absolutely true, but where he doesn’t like how they portrayed things.
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Entry: 2023-11-24 17:12:08.813143+01 AI clownshow today by Dan Lyke comments 0
Because you need a little more "AI is bullshit" in your morning, a long thread from Emily M. Bender saying her usual things, but in the context of current LLM company news:
With the OpenAI clownshow, there's been renewed media attention on the xrisk/"AI safety"/doomer nonsense. Personally, I've had a fresh wave of reporters asking me naive questions (as well as some contacts from old hands who are on top of how to handle ultra-rich man-children with god complexes). 🧵1/
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Entry: 2023-11-15 23:04:32.511667+01 Gamergate as a gateway by Dan Lyke comments 0
8 years ago, I had a run-in with Gamergate. I still wonder about how that all worked out, and second guess my reactions.
KQED: David DePape, on Witness Stand, Details ‘Grand Plan’ to Violently Interrogate Nancy Pelosi
DePape said he had been looking up video game tips on YouTube when he first encountered information about “gamergate,” a nearly decade-old social media harassment campaign led by misogynistic male gamers who targeted and threatened violence against women in the video game industry. He then began intensely researching their many spurious claims about feminist media critic Anita Sarkeesian, which led him to discover additional targets, DePape said.
Ars Technica: At trial, accused Pelosi attacker says Gamergate led him to far-right conspiracies.
As I see people sucked deep into the various hate machines, I'm still struggling with how best to deal with people who are in it.
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Entry: 2023-11-08 23:14:26.911478+01 Cars are spying on you by Dan Lyke comments 0
Court rules automakers can record and intercept owner text messages
A federal judge on Tuesday refused to bring back a class action lawsuit alleging four auto manufacturers had violated Washington state’s privacy laws by using vehicles’ on-board infotainment systems to record and intercept customers’ private text messages and mobile phone call logs.
As cars hoover up more and more driver data, is it time to regulate the industry?
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Entry: 2023-11-08 19:27:18.904597+01 Red dye and the future of search by Dan Lyke comments 0
From 3 years ago, but worth noting: Zelda recipe appears in serious novel by serious author after rushed Google search
If you were writing a book and needed to find out how red clothes dye is traditionally made, you’d probably start with a simple Google search. At least, that’s what John Boyne, the author behind The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas says he “must have” done when it emerged that several fantasy ingredients from The Legend of Zelda have appeared in his most recent book, A Traveler at the Gates of Wisdom.
The problem, as journalist Dana Schwartz notes, is that rather than listing a real-world recipe, the current top search result for “ingredients red dye clothes” links to a guide from Polygon on how to dye clothes in the video game The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild. It’s not an uncommon mistake for Google’s algorithms to make, but in this case the mistake seems to have made its way all the way into a published book by a respected author.
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Entry: 2023-10-18 18:12:35.543101+02 Malware on the blockchain by Dan Lyke comments 0
I've long been of the "own your own data" mindset, as is obvious from this blog that's been going for two and a half decades, and I've long thought that a distributed P2P sort of system that didn't depend on the DNS system for identity, and didn't require explicit hosting, would be a good thing. Decades of link rot have me thinking about archives, the centralization of social media has me thinking about how much of my conversations are guided in directions that "drive engagement" and sell to advertisers.
The growing Fediverse and Mastodon phenomenon are re-surfacing a lot of the issues involved with distributed social media, and the cryptocurrency fad displayed a lot of the problems P2P stuff, but security and safety are filtering higher to the list.
Krebs on Security: The Fake Browser Update Scam Gets a Makeover, on how blockchains are being used to host malware:
“These contracts offer innovative ways to build applications and processes,” Tal wrote along with his Guardio colleague Oleg Zaytsev. “Due to the publicly accessible and unchangeable nature of the blockchain, code can be hosted ‘on-chain’ without the ability for a takedown.”
Beginning to think the Internet was a mistake.
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Entry: 2023-10-13 21:12:55.436829+02 George Cove and early photovoltaics by Dan Lyke comments 0
[George] Cove’s company, Sun Electric Generator Corporation, based in New York, was capitalised at US$5 million (around US$160 million in today’s money). By 1909, the idea had gained widespread media attention. Modern Electric magazine highlighted how “given two days’ sun… [the device] will store sufficient electrical energy to light an ordinary house for a week”.
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Entry: 2023-10-12 20:00:02.096677+02 Wow by Dan Lyke comments 0
Wow, software is hard: MacOS Ventura changed media autoplay behavior in WkWebViews. And holy shit is that annoying.
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Entry: 2023-10-11 19:59:23.201699+02 Israel, Hamas, and misinformation by Dan Lyke comments 0
Bellingcat: Hamas Attacks, Israel Bombs Gaza and Misinformation Surges Online:
Some of the examples above received thousands of views and continue to circulate online. Several of them have been shared by the accounts of NGOs and news organisations on social media, as well as by prominent individuals with verified accounts on the same platforms.
Importantly, these cases did not require sophisticated image manipulation techniques to convince users that the imagery was credible enough to be amplified. They were simply miscontextualised and misrepresented, knowingly or unknowingly, by those who initially posted them.
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Entry: 2023-10-06 18:48:20.594867+02 McKinsey Developer Productivity Review by Dan Lyke comments 0
Dan North: McKinsey Developer Productivity Review
McKinsey recently published an article claiming they can measure developer productivity. This has provoked something of a backlash from some prominent software people, but I have not seen anyone engage with the content of the article itself, so I thought this would be useful.
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Entry: 2023-10-05 01:12:21.758966+02 midwest diners by Dan Lyke comments 0
Let the Right Hon In @danhon@dan.mastohon.com
why not simply send the people in midwestern diners to coastal cities for three months and see what happens and how they react rather than constantly flying coastal journalists to diners
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Entry: 2023-09-30 00:13:06.015171+02 a review of Number Go Up by Dan Lyke comments 0
A review of Number Go Up, on crypto shenanigans. Sounds like an exciting read, but like the reviewer, I think I want to read the book that isn't so much about the scammers running the grift, but the institutions which tried to keep them in check and the media context which gave them so much oxygen.
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Entry: 2023-09-17 22:24:35.76137+02 the purpose of ai by Dan Lyke comments 0
https://social.treehouse.syste...oNinaAnalyzes/111081194382126713
Naw, I figured it out; they absolutely don't care if AI doesn't work.
They really don't. They're pot-committed; these dudes aren't tech pioneers, they're money muppets playing the bubble game. They are invested in increasing the valuation of their investments and cashing out, it's literally a massive scam. Reading a bunch of stuff by Amy Castor and David Gerard finally got me there in terms of understanding it's not real and they don't care. From there it was pretty easy to apply a historical analysis of the last 10 bubbles, who profited, at which point in the cycle, and where the real money was made.
The plan is more or less to foist AI on establishment actors who don't know their ass from their elbow, causing investment valuations to soar, and then cash the fuck out before anyone really realizes it's total gibberish and unlikely to get better at the rate and speed they were promised.
Particularly in the media, it's all about adoption and cashing out, not actually replacing media. Nobody making decisions and investments here, particularly wants an informed populace, after all.
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Entry: 2023-08-29 18:21:23.809187+02 Mushrooms and AI by Dan Lyke comments 0
404 Media: ‘Life or Death:’ AI-Generated Mushroom Foraging Books Are All Over Amazon
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Entry: 2023-08-29 01:05:03.964124+02 So Facebook asks moderators to approve by Dan Lyke comments 0
So Facebook asks moderators to approve someone's participation in a group, without telling us what that participation is supposed to be, and then happily tells us that their post has been made, but damned if I can find the freakin' thing.
How come big social media sites don't provide the tools necessary for volunteer labor to keep our participation there high quality?
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Entry: 2023-08-24 02:04:59.297964+02 Tornado Storm money laundering by Dan Lyke comments 0
United States of America v. Roman Storm and Roman Semenov:
The Tornado Cash founders were aware of the Ronin Network hack on the day that tI was announced, and immediately recognized the likelihood that the hackers would use the Tornado Cash service to launder the proceeds. On or about March 29, 2022, ROMAN SEMENOV, the defendant, sent a message to ROMAN STORM, the defendant, and to CC-1 through the Encrypted App, saying "Have you seen a $600M hack today? Shit might seriously hit the fan now." SEMENOV then sent a link to a Tweet issued by the official Twitter account of the Ronin Network, describing the hack. Later that day, CC-1 sent a message to STORM and SEMENOV through the Encrypted App, saying "Heya, anyone around to chat about axie? Would like to ask a few general questions about how one goes about cashing out 600mil."
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Entry: 2023-08-23 19:54:55.950785+02 TikTok and the US surveillance state by Dan Lyke comments 0
You know all of the racist "OMG, TikTok is a tool of an oppressive Chinese surveillance state" bullshit that's flying around? Yeah, turns out that it's propaganda to try to strong-arm TikTok into being a tool of another oppressive surveillance state.
Gizmodo: The Feds Asked TikTok for Lots of Domestic Spying Features
“As has been widely reported, we’ve been working with CFIUS for well over a year to implement a national security agreement and have invested significant resources in implementing a firewall to isolate U.S. user data,” a TikTok spokesperson said. “Today, all new protected U.S. user data is stored in the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure in the U.S. with tightly controlled and monitored gateways. We are doing more than any peer company to safeguard U.S. national security interests.”
Of course there's lots of stuff in this article about how TikTok is being more cooperative than other sites in sharing info with US intelligence agencies, but I think we can pretty much assume that all of the social media sites are doing so.
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Entry: 2023-08-22 06:20:03.95389+02 I feel like I have managed my social by Dan Lyke comments 0
I feel like I have managed my social media contacts well. I have seen two fake sensationalist pictures that were alleged to be from the tropical storm in southern California, and one of those was in the context of dunking on Ted Cruz for his forwarding of same...
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Entry: 2023-08-14 23:46:33.921776+02 Anton Lazzaro sentenced by Dan Lyke comments 0
Prominent GOP donor who takes “offense” to being called a groomer gets 21 years for child sex abuse
From May to December of 2020, the then-30-year-old Lazzaro allegedly paid $50,000 to his then-19-year-old associate Gisela Castro Medina to arrange meetings with “broken” 14-, 15-, and 16-year-old girls that they found via social media and the “sugar daddy” website Seeking Arrangements.
DOJ: Anton “Tony” Lazzaro Sentenced to 21 Years in Prison for Child Sex Trafficking
In handing down the sentence, Chief Judge Schiltz commented on the “soulless, mechanical nature of Mr. Lazzaro’s crimes, like a sex trafficking assembly line,” adding that the only two people Mr. Lazzaro showed any remorse for were “himself and Jeffrey Epstein, who Mr. Lazzaro called ‘his brother.’”
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Entry: 2023-08-02 20:10:13.904194+02 Veilid by Dan Lyke comments 0
I am intrigued: Veilid Framework for encrypted transmissions, from the cDc (Cult of the Dead Cow), is having a launch party at DefCon 31 on the 11th.
Via Washington Post: Hacking group plans system to encrypt social media and other apps
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Entry: 2023-07-27 17:15:01.868974+02 Interesting discussion at Know Before by Dan Lyke comments 0
Interesting discussion at Know Before You Grow last night, we had a speaker fall through, so we did kind of an open mic night thing, and... it's a strong reminder that Nextdoor (and, to different extents Facebook and the other social media sites) amplify outrage, and externalize the costs of their profits on to the city staff and elected officials, and the rest of us who try to bring reason into the discussion.
It was also a reminder that Petaluma desperately needs a local paper that can help address some of the misinformation flying around. The Grand Jury report on the M Group, if anything, suggests that the incentives are for the outsourced Planning Department to create opportunities for too much public engagement, to bill developers for interminable public meetings and additional public input.
The fact that Petaluma has been experiencing its slowest growth since the Great Depression reinforces that this may be a problem.
It's further a reminder that historical perspective is useful. Before the event, Charlene and I happened to be leafing through Adair Heig's "History of Petaluma: A California River Town" and ran across this picture of downtown in the early '60s. It's amazing how, even in this fairly tight crop, several of those buildings aren't there any more, replaced with parking lots and ugly '70s single story bank buildings.
Even with the Urban Growth Boundary, as the city has sprawled out we've lost downtown.
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Entry: 2023-07-24 20:55:02.626387+02 Jokes on you by Dan Lyke comments 0
Jokes on you, suckers, I'm gonna see y'all on the new Wayland social media site...
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