So it's been a month. Looks like we're getting one bad redaction in RECAP per day. Once the detector is a bit more refined, I'll run it against the entire corpus.

I've only been to Barcelona (2023), and I was with my husband who is close to fluent in Spanish (but unfamiliar w/ [ Catalan). Given the rising anti-tourist sentiment, I don't think I was treated badly, but being with a white man who could communicate in Spanish probably mediated my experience.

There are several opportunities to be part of the budget process. Tomorrow night, lil be hosting a virtual Community Conversation to walk through the proposal and answer questions. Details below: Virtual Community Conversation on the City Budget: Tuesday, April 21, at 6:00 PM on Zoom, RSVP HERE. On Friday, the Council begins formal budget hearings, which include public comment. Information on how to submit public comment can be found here. These moments help shape the decisions we will make over the next several weeks.

Budget chair Katy Yaroslavsky is hosting a community conversation tomorrow night at 6pm which is a great way to learn about the new budget and how the process works.

RSVP here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

this is like a miracle

"A perilous shortcut" A small newsletter on legaltech

The latest Lawyer Ex Machina is out: fake disease goes viral via faux papers & AI chatbots; a year's probation for a CA lawyer's fabrications; a NY Senate bill requiring background checks on buyers of 3D printers; and more #law #lawlibrarians #legaltech buttondown.com/LawyerExMach...

"A perilous shortcut" A small newsletter on legaltech

The latest Lawyer Ex Machina is out: 30 days' suspension & a year's probation for CA lawyer over hallucinations; a NY State Senate bill requiring criminal background checks on buyers 3D printers capable of fabricating firearms; & more #lawsky #lawlibrarians #legaltech buttondown.com/LawyerExMach...

Tennessee's First Amendment lawyers prepare to send the state lege a fruit basket in appreciation

I'm a little verklempt at how diversity enriches us in unexpected ways.

Sid Krofft, 'H.R. Pufnstuf' creator and children's TV visionary, dies at 96 Sid Krofft has died at age 96. The Canadian-born entertainment wizard teamed with his brother Marty to create 1960s cult favorites like children's TV show “H.R.

RIP Sid Krofft, who helped make me the weirdo (complimentary) I've become.

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Join Mayor Freddy Puza for Bike Culver City's Earth Month ride! April 18, 9am @ CC City Hall. Explore green infrastructure, native gardens, water reclamation & composting. ~2hrs. Helmets mandatory. Roll at 9:30am.

The Conqueror Worm Read By Ken Nordine Audiobook - Edgar Allan Poe YouTube video by Nick Smith

Yes, I'm one of those #weirdradio freaks. Joe Frank used to warp my brain in my late teens onwards. Discovered Nordine via his voicing The Conqueror Worm. youtu.be/uB409PtVZiY?...

Midnight Sun YouTube video by Ken Nordine - Topic

It's Ken Nordine's birthday ... and for the month of April, it's the perfect time to soak in some word jazz with his sublime voice. youtu.be/Vg7uWS4szYE?...

This is giving Snowpiercer vibes ...

The Confessor, a Batman like superhero from Astro City with a big cross on his chest.

I want a pope who’s not weak on crime

I too have written about white conservatives in southern state legislatures rushing through bullshit changes to the law just to thwart the advancement of literally one black man, but I'm a historian who writes about the Jim Crow era South and not a reporter discussing current fucking events there.

oh, this is very important to know!!

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Captain Wentworth (Ciaran Hinds) meets Anne Elliott (Amanda Root) on the streets of Bath after she's read his letter admitting his continuing love in Persuasion (1995).

This entire thread is healing. Thank you.

A photo of the street artist @liambonini painting a new mural this afternoon in the Northern Quarter Manchester. He is painting a large image of a young man with long dreadlocks, wearing sunglasses and a green jacket. There are multiple cannisters of paint on the ground as he concentrates on painting the facial features.

#10minutesfromhome #BlueskyArtShow #New #SatArtDay
New artwork being painted today in the NQ Manchester by www.liambonini.com

If Los Angeles City Attorney Hydee Feldstein-Soto was written as a character in a courtroom TV drama, nobody would believe it.

With a backstory like this, the writers 100% would have to give her a story arc about a bonkers data leak.

Unfortunately it’s all real.

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Child care that ends at 3 p.m. doesn't work for many working families. So we're changing it.

This fall, our 2-K program will pilot year-round care for 2-year-olds, with a full 10-hour day from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m.

Because truly "universal" child care matches the reality of working people's lives.

I've started seeing Mahan ads this week.

Thank you, Pastor, I needed this.

We need a Nuremberg-style tribunal for Trump and his enablers. Ignore pardons. Strip federal jurisdiction to hear any case related to the tribunal’s work. Make defiance of the jurisdiction strip a crime to be prosecuted before the tribunal.

Former staffer says Rep. Eric Swalwell, candidate for California governor, sexually assaulted her “These allegations are false and come on the eve of an election against the frontrunner for governor,” Swalwell said in a statement.

A woman who worked for nearly two years for Rep. Eric Swalwell, a leading candidate for California governor, said she had sexual encounters with him while he was her boss and alleged he twice sexually assaulted her when she was too intoxicated to consent.

César Chávez’s shadow Revelations that César Chávez sexually abused young girls and women has set off a bomb in Latino communities and movement spaces

For @prismreports.org, co-founder @tinavasquez.bsky.social   wrote about the importance of grappling with Chávez’s true legacy—both as as a civil rights leader and a rapist.

The 3 members of HUNTR/X from K-POP DEMON HUNTERS on a box of Anua’s “Golden Honmoon” beauty masks, found at an Ulta beauty store.

They’ve made it.