San Francisco will have a public bank on the November ballot. https://www.kqed.org/news/12089959/san-francisco-supervisors-to-vote-on-public-bank-measure-for-november-ballot

"Here you have a 28-year-old reality TV star mostly known for her lip kits and Instagram posts promoting invasive tech through the lens of style. In branding these AI glasses as aspirational, cool and fashion-forward, tech elites are trying to pacify their entry into the mainstream world. The marketing collateral featuring Jenner and the glasses reads more like a fashion editorial photoshoot than a tech product launch. It’s all deliberate" #smartglasses #kyliejenner https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/jul/07/indecent-proposal-why-social-medias-rebrand-of-surveillance-tech-normalises-harassment-and-non-consensual-filming

"If you have to wait 12 years, if you have to wait nine months — I mean, that’s not public information. Those documents didn’t take 15 years or five years to get in there, it sure as hell (shouldn’t) take five years to get out.” #FOIA #PublicRecords https://www.poynter.org/reporting-editing/2026/public-records-requests-wait-times-too-long/

"The public needs to know the reality: that these tools are predictive text machines, that they can hallucinate, they are not great at verifying facts, and the intimate information users share with them can be used to train future models" #AI #Chatbots https://www.techpolicy.press/why-we-need-a-truth-campaign-for-the-ai-era/

"At a time when San Francisco faces staggering structural deficits, our transit systems are staring down fiscal cliffs, and working-class neighborhoods are desperate for tangible, human-scale investments like neighborhood grocery stores and street-level safety, City Hall is playing with expensive aerial toys. We do not need a blind panopticon floating in the fog" #Drones https://48hills.org/2026/07/the-other-problem-with-police-drones-they-dont-work-in-san-francisco/

Oakland Privacy's Mike Katz-Lacabe testifies in the CA Assembly Privacy committee in support of SB 1013 by Senator Sabrina Cervantes which would require case #'s for ALPR searches, end custom hotlists by police with no connection to crime and limit ALPR retention of non-evidence scans to 30 days.

Supervisor Bilal Mahmood planned to submit a letter of inquiry seeking information on how autonomous vehicles impacted public transit service, emergency response and egress #Waymo https://www.kqed.org/news/12089915/sf-supe-to-launch-inquiry-on-waymos-july-fourth-traffic-meltdown

Private Immigration Detention Center operators are selling their prisons to Homeland Security, while continuing to manage them, to dodge new proposed state laws that penalize private operators of detention centers. #CoreCivic https://calmatters.org/justice/2026/07/corecivic-sells-ice-detention-centers/

Bankruptcy court awards $47million from #23andMe for payments to people whose #DNA samples were breached in 2023. A larger case is still being litigated by the CA Attorney General. Those fun ancestry tests were a privacy nightmare. https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cn0vnx2192vo

Um... Not sanctioning the behavior, but do we really want driverless cars imprisoning people and delivering them to the police? #Waymo https://www.wpxi.com/news/trending/waymo-car-delivers-misbehaving-teens-california-police/UCOGYIJRHJG2LMHYWJQ3PH7VEY/

"Big carriers make whatever promises are needed to get approval for mergers or deregulation, and then typically proceed almost immediately to find ways to get out of what they promised. It’s hard to predict if California will approve the Charter/Cox merger. But I think California fully understands that promises made related to mergers are rarely promises fully kept" https://potsandpansbyccg.com/2026/06/25/promises-made-promises-broken/

"A 28-year veteran who commanded one of the #Riverside County jails has now come forward, under oath, to declare what Alicia Upton’s family has long suspected: that the facts surrounding the deaths within the Riverside County #jails were covered up, that families were kept in the dark in that accountability was obstructed by the very top to shield those responsible for these deaths,” https://www.ocregister.com/2026/07/02/ex-sheriffs-captain-alleges-cover-up-culture-in-riverside-county-jail-deaths/

Let's do this in California. "Illinois lawmakers have approved a bill designed to protect the editorial independence of public radio and TV stations affiliated with the state’s colleges and universities" https://www.radioworld.com/news-and-business/business-and-law/illinois-approves-bill-to-protect-journalists-from-university-review?

"California’s eternal grab for more. On a fall day, chasing the hum, I set out on the road to tell the story of two places, without heed, each pursuing one last extraction" https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2026/jun/14/california-land-of-plunder-and-hypocrisy

"The case resulted in one of the nation’s first federal ruling against school segregation, paving the way for the landmark 1954 Supreme Court case, Brown v. Board of Education, that ended with an order for schools nationwide to integrate" #segregation #history https://19thnews.org/2026/06/revolutionary-america-250-mendez-westminster-california/

"The authors of Normalizing #Inequality discovered that inequality isn’t something we fail to notice. We recognize it, and then we rationalize it. https://calmatters.org/california-divide/2026/06/normalizing-inequality-book/?

"In the 12 years since it began collecting the annual reports from each firm, the commission has released only those for 2020 and 2021, which contain numerous redactions and inconsistently collected assault information" #ridesharing https://www.sfpublicpress.org/california-regulators-voted-to-release-ride-hailing-safety-reports-then-they-didnt/

"Savvy Professor does business as SIVS LLC and lists its address as a private residence on Old Mill Lane in Spotsylvania, Va. At the same address, it holds a federal license to sell firearms under the name SIVS Tactical Solutions" #ICE https://www.projectsaltbox.com/p/ice-awards-nearly-200-million-in

A faculty review panel determined late last year that the university’s decision to fire Kil was not justified, but the university upheld her termination anyway, the California Faculty Association said Monday.
The organization said it has “never seen such an overreach in punishing faculty.” https://www.mercurynews.com/2026/06/24/san-jose-state-ordered-to-give-professor-back-her-job-after-firing-found-to-be-excessive/?

"“We poisoned our community to make cases,” DEA Special Agent David Howell told AP in a series of interviews in New Mexico. “Through our own willful blindness, we get to say, ‘We don’t really know what happened to the drugs.’ But we 100% got people killed.” #fentanyl https://apnews.com/article/dea-fentanyl-unseized-drugs-new-mexico-8f5b546e668e5007c64078da74b90903