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Punching, Slamming, Screaming: A Chef’s Past Abuse Haunts Noma, the World’s Top-Rated Restaurant

Hvis du hader indvandrer så meget at du trusler dem med udvisning, er Los Angeles måske ikke stedet for dig, René www.nytimes.com/2026/03/07/d...

In short, the problem here is not that Signal ‘chose’ to run on AWS. The problem is the concentration of power in the infrastructure space that means there isn’t really another choice: the entire stack, practically speaking, is owned by 3-4 players. 11/

Director of European Transport Safety Council: "Europe now risks being flooded with oversized, under-regulated US pick-up trucks and SUVs – heavier, more dangerous to other car drivers, pedestrians and cyclists, and completely out of step with Europe’s vision for safer, more sustainable mobility.”

Who Runs the Internet? Many of us use the Internet every day, but have you ever wondered who keeps this global resource running?For the next six weeks, we’ll be unpacking this ques...

Join us over the next six weeks while we explore "Who Runs the Internet?" youtube.com/watch?v=7gMN...

OpenAI Furious DeepSeek Might Have Stolen All the Data OpenAI Stole From Us OpenAI shocked that an AI company would train on someone else's data without permission or compensation.

What a headline www.404media.co/openai-furio...

The Global Impact of a US TikTok Ban  - Internet Society Banning TikTok would be a dangerous decision putting the security of millions and the open, global Internet at risk.

"Attempting to address security and privacy concerns one app at a time is ineffective and potentially harmful. Countries should instead look to comprehensive privacy and collaborative security measures to protect people online." www.internetsociety.org/blog/2025/01...

Los Angeles Wildfires Will Make a Serious Housing Shortage Worse With so many people displaced and looking for rentals, the region’s housing options could grow even scarcer and more expensive.

Been thinking about this a lot. We are already so far behind on both housing and on climate action. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/09/b...

Socorro Herrera, founder of tiny Los Feliz taco stand Yuca's Hut, dies From a shoeshine booth turned taco stand, Socorro 'Mama Yuca's' Herrera was a taco champion and James Beard Award winner at her Yuca's Hut in Los Feliz.

What a legend. www.latimes.com/food/story/2...

The PM's apology might carry more weight if he weren't in a coalition goverment with the Finnish far right. (Whose fanbase, incidentally, never met a Swedish speaking tradition in Finland that they didn't hate. Until this week.)

A tent encampment rises outside Ojai's stately City Hall. Its residents might break your heart Longtime residents of bucolic Ojai, priced out of their homes, are finding community at a tent encampment taking shape at City Hall.

Peak California: “A septuagenarian member of the City Council was priced out of her rented house, declared herself homeless and was investigated by a grand jury for no longer living within her council district.” www.latimes.com/california/s...

The World Capital of Endangered Languages New York City is home to more threatened languages than anywhere else. One project set out to document them.

“Only in the face of intense political, economic, religious or social pressures do people stop passing on their mother tongues to children.” www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

I saw this shortly after making plans to have coffee at 3:30pm. Good luck to us both!

Editorial: Fear-mongering on Measure HLA ignores what’s really scary — L.A.’s deadly streets Some of L.A.'s most powerful interests are trying to sabotage a March 5 ballot measure aimed at making streets safer for pedestrians, bicyclists and even drivers.

"Last year 336 people were killed in vehicle crashes, more than in any of the last 20 years." Angelenos, please vote for Measure HLA, a very modest step towards less carnage filled streets. www.latimes.com/opinion/stor...

Dismantling public values, one data center at the time | Reimagining public values in algorithmic futures | University of Helsinki In this blog post Julia Velkova discusses the problematics related to data centres from the Nordic perspective: Are the Nordic States too reliant on tech giants to in the critical communication infras...

Yikes: Big Tech has claimed so much electric grid capacity in Sweden for future speculative purposes that "municipalities such as Uppsala can not develop public transport electrification projects because of shortages of grid capacity." www.helsinki.fi/en/researchg...

The rise and fall of robots.txt As unscrupulous AI companies crawl for more and more data, the basic social contract of the web is falling apart.

"For decades, robots.txt governed the behavior of web crawlers. But as unscrupulous AI companies seek out more and more data, the basic social contract of the web is falling apart." www.theverge.com/24067997/rob...

Zig-a-zig-pah: Finland’s ‘Spice Girls’ find joy in misery – and a Kaurismäki collaboration Far from their girl-power namesakes, deadpan duo Maustetytöt have topped the charts at home – and found a kindred spirit in the Fallen Leaves director

I haven't been this excited about any new music since the 90s. Someone pretty please book these legends for a US tour. "Maustetytöt are an unusual thing: a band with an anti-pop attitude that can’t help but churn out great pop songs." www.theguardian.com/music/2024/j...

US hotels: We've gone cashless
Me: Ok, how do I tip housekeeping? Venmo?
Hotels: Cash
Me: Can you help me get cash?
Hotels: Sorry no we're cashless

Mike Johnson Admits He and His Son Monitor Each Other’s Porn Intake in Resurfaced Video Speaker of the House Mike Johnson admitted that he and his son monitored each other’s porn intake in a resurfaced clip from 2022.

One: excuse me what now?

Two: here's an affordable way to access a significant amount of private data of the third person in line for the White House, via a third party app.

Three: 17 year olds are quite good at circumventing their parents' apps of choice.

Opinion: They traveled on Metro for a week and loved it. Can two dozen German journalists be wrong? Twenty-five participants in a journalism fellowship in L.A. used Metro buses and trains to get to multiple meetings a day for a week. Safely. Happily. And on time.

Reader, the two dozen German journalists are not wrong.

An illustration of a cat looking out from a window that is wide open, with curtains flowing outward. The logos for Mozilla and IRL are stacked in a corner.

Episode 1 of Season 7 of Mozilla's podcast, IRL, just dropped. It's called "With AIs wide open."

And behold this amazing cat (inspired by my neighbor's cat that I call Frenchie; brought to glory by my wildly talented colleague).

Find us wherever you get your pods, and at: irlpodcast.org

Newsom vetoes bill that would allow condoms to be freely distributed to public high school students California Gov. Gavin Newsom on Sunday vetoed legislation that would have provided teenagers attending public high school with access to free condoms and prohibited retailers from refusing to sell the...

Disappointed that Newsom's presidential aspirations are resulting in some truly awful vetoes.

These Prisoners Are Training AI In high-wage Finland, where clickworkers are rare, one company has discovered a novel labor force—prisoners.

When I complain that the internet sucks at Finnish this is... not the fix I was hoping for. www.wired.com/story/prison...

IRL Podcast Mozilla’s multi-award winning podcast is back! In Season 7, Bridget Todd meets tech builders who put people over profit in artificial intelligence.

My team at Mozilla has been hard at work on Season 7 of our Webby winning pod, IRL. The season kicks off on October 10. It's all about how folks are putting people over profit in AI.

Check out the trailer, and follow us wherever you get your pods. irlpodcast.org/

I once watched David Brooks lose a fight over a twinkie against a vending machine. Minutes before boarding a private jet. He's got his own brand of folksy, that one!

Santa Barbara Is Burrito Boomtown Where to enjoy seven days of $8 burritos during the Independent’s third annual Burrito Week.

I love it here.

My favorite part about new Slack is the treasure hunt aspect of it: it'll tell you that you have a message, but not give you the slightest clue as to where said message is.

Oh no!

The Early Days of American English | Rosemarie Ostler How English words evolved on a foreign continent.

"Dutch could be heard in both New York and New Jersey until the late nineteenth century. Meanwhile, English speakers adopted several Dutch terms... Boss, originally werk baas, or “work master,” was used both to mean the man in charge and to refer to a master craftsman, for example, boss carpenter."

It’s Official: Cars Are Terrible at Privacy and Security All 25 car brands we researched earned our *Privacy Not Included warning label – making cars the worst category of products that we have ever reviewed

If you get frisky in a Nissan or Kia, know you have an audience. Potentially a big audience.