Notices by Tracy Rosenberg (twrling@sfba.social)

@jonathankoren Foster City was a close runner-up.

It seems the first Bay Area city that will drown following sea level rise is the Marin county town of San Rafael. https://www.kqed.org/news/12027540/land-sinking-fast-around-bay-area-worsening-effects-sea-level-rise

"The lawsuit has been widely denounced as a classic strategic lawsuit against public participation (Slapp) – a form of civil litigation increasingly deployed by corporations, politicians and wealthy individuals to deliberately wear down and silence critics including journalists, activists and watchdog groups". #greenpeace #antislapp https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/20/greenpeace-energy-transfer-dakota-pipeline-trial

Washington Post #WAPO chickens out on running a Common Cause ad questioning if Trump or Musk is actually running the country. https://www.cnn.com/2025/02/17/media/washington-post-anti-musk-advertising/index.html

There is a bit of a shortage of good news lately, so we should notice when we have some. The compassionate release of Leonard #Peltier is good news. https://ndncollective.org/leonard-peltier-released-from-49-years-of-wrongful-incarceration/

"“There was no leak necessary to figure this one out,” he said, of the operation in Denver. “The worst-kept secret in the world is when you put a bunch of vehicles and personnel dressed in fatigues in shopping-center parking lots.” #ICE https://coloradomedia.substack.com/p/no-leak-necessary-says-denvers-9news

As a result of AP's stand, only USA Today/Gannett of the legacy #news media has knuckled under to "Gulf of America". https://www.niemanlab.org/2025/02/trump-wants-news-outlets-to-get-on-board-with-gulf-of-america-or-else-will-they/

38 news organizations challenge Virginia law giving elected officials and lawyers privileged access to #publicrecords. https://www.courthousenews.com/national-news-groups-challenge-two-tier-access-in-virginia/

SF Public Press digs deep on the historical background behind the Prop K fight in #sanfrancisco https://www.sfpublicpress.org/not-just-the-great-highway-sf-chinese-american-history-freeway-controversies/

"The DOGE website was launched in January, but aside from displaying three lines of text and a cartoony logo that has since been removed, it sat largely empty for weeks". https://www.theverge.com/news/612865/doge-government-website-database-security-open

Some neat stuff happening at the Pacific Felt Factory - the Mission arts and culture building where Media Alliance's terrestrial office is located. https://thebolditalic.com/inside-mr-lobos-secret-horror-movie-night-in-san-francisco-f6180a9ba7cb

If you still have a #tv here is how to turn off its #spying on what you watch. https://www.pocket-lint.com/automatic-content-recognition-explained/

An AI company that used legal reference guide #Westlaw to train an AI loses a legal case where they argued training their #AI was a fair use of Westlaw's #copyright material. https://apnews.com/article/ai-artificial-intelligence-reuters-4a127c5b7e8bb76c84499fe12ad643c8

It was a 25 year old San Franciscan who went to court to establish his birthright #citizenship 125 years ago. It is due to Wong Kim Ark that Trump's orders were stayed earlier this week. https://www.sfchronicle.com/politics/article/wong-kim-ark-birthright-citizenship-20154658.php?

"That's seizing that #camera, and that's seizing that person's property rights...If there isn't a warrant, that's the default, that's not lawful." #immigration https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/us-politics/ice-raid-migrants-civil-rights-video-b2694712.html

"“I don’t care how much toilet paper they stole — unless it was a semi-truck". SF's #DA excoriates judges who reject her office's charging decisions like charging a #felony for toilet paper theft. https://missionlocal.org/2025/02/he-allegedly-stole-toilet-paper-da-charged-him-with-a-felony/

Like everyone else, we struggle with making our #technology choices align with our values. This blog is a reminder to keep working on it. https://progressivetech.org/blog/2025/02/10/offramp-from-bigtech/

A proposed class action settlement with #ClearviewAI is so terrible that 23 state attorney generals signed a brief to protest it. @oaklandprivacy activists flew to Chicago to tell the judge personally why she should not approve this settlement. #FacialRecognition https://takeaction.salsalabs.org/clearviewai

#TV game show nerds. If this description fits you, you might be interested in Media Alliance's newest fiscally sponsored #documentary tracing the history of the world's longest running TV quiz show. https://seedandspark.com/fund/buzzer-beaters-the-story-of-its-academic#story

FCC goes after Bay Area news station #KCBS for reporting what a community #immigration rapid response network had posted on its Internet website. Completely ridiculous. https://barrettmedia.com/2025/02/05/fcc-launches-investigation-into-kcbs-after-host-reveals-details-of-ice-agents-in-area/