Alexis Madrigal
@alexis-madrigal.bsky.social
Book: The Pacific Circuit Job: Co-Host, KQED Forum Life: Local Economy, Oakland Garden Club
Have been searching for this dude I knew in middle school and it’s always wild to encounter someone with literally no internet presence. Among his entire family, they have one obituary, one stub of a LinkedIn profile, and then scammy sites purporting to show his home address.
One of the truly great podcasts
Reo Eveleth@reveleth.com · 4mo agoif you want to know the history of this kind of policy, I made a podcast two years ago that explained why these tests make no sense, how they were already used and eventually abandoned by the IOC in the 80's and 90's, and the devastating impacts they have on real athletes: www.tested-podcast.com
Looking at this chart ... I would not say that these recent years look at all exceptional relative to the years ... 2000-2018? In which I do not recall AI being a major factor.
The New York Times@nytimes.com · 4mo agoThis is the worst spring for college graduates since the depths of the Covid pandemic. Their diminished job prospects are colliding with questions over whether A.I. is destroying the kinds of roles they have long sought. nyti.ms/4t6Euuq
The hype cycle on Sora was one of the most embarassing things I’ve ever seen in consumer tech.
George Pearkes@peark.es · 4mo agoClaude Code killed Sora, we absolutely love to see it
Rarely tip people off to a show that's about to go live, but if you want to learn more about the heat that's about to hit the Bay (and whole west)... Here's the perfect opportunity.
Pam Kan-Rice@ucanrpam.bsky.social · 5mo agoTODAY 9am Join Daniel Swain @weatherwest.bsky.social & @alexis-madrigal.bsky.social to discuss the March heatwave
I'll be live on KQED Forum from 9-10am PT on Mon, Mar 16 (yes, for the full hour!) to discuss what is likely to become a historic March heatwave across Western U.S. We'll be taking listener questions live; you can listen online as well as over the air. www.kqed.org/radio/s...
lots of great gatherings this week in Oakland, including the one I am hosting on Saturday! bsky.app/profile/msat...
Marthine Satris@msatris.bsky.social · 5mo agoOn Saturday 3/14, @heydaybooks.com author/artists Krystle Hickman (The ABCs of California Native Bees), Robin Lee Carlson (The Cold Canyon Fire Journals) & Elissa Callen will join me for a big discussion about the Colors of California at Local Economy in Oakland! Details here: luma.com/e5xpw17e
Unrelated to anything else: someone was recently telling me about a Bay Area musician who incorporated whale song ... or performed near whales. That ring a bell for anyone?
Have to be the auctioneer for a local public school’s benefit tonight… Never done it. A tiiiiiny bit worried? Any tips? Oh, have a martini? I got that one already. What else?
Help me. I’ve become physically addicted to this song and need similar garage rock recorded by 4 teens in the 1960s to wean myself off of it. open.spotify.com/track/7n6FeT...
Hey Lover - 2026 Remastered
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If anyone has ever clicked this button, I would like to meet them. The freakiest of freaks.
It turns out that one of the most popular content types for humans right now is the micro-stereotype. It kind of doesn’t matter if it is deployed as iykyk pride, as comedy, or as object of ridicule. Such a strange, dehumanizing form!Maybe the spiritual opposite of a (good) novel?
This is fantastic. Not the point of the essay, BUT: The most interesting science is all in this complex realm, while the worst politics has harnessed itself to decades-old views of genetics that are also horrifically racist. Ugh.
Kevin Mitchell@wiringthebrain.bsky.social · 5mo agoShould biology put complexity first? www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... - excellent essay by @philipcball.bsky.social. I would add epistasis to polygenicity and pleiotropy as a ubiquitous and fundamental phenomenon, not some optional complication that we can try to account for afterwards
So important for people to understand… no one is immune from the effects of platforms, and that goes double for places where there is such an obvious thumb on the scales.
Hettie O’Brien@hettieobrien.bsky.social · 5mo agoOn this, really interesting piece on X’s “ideological ratchet” by @jwherrman.bsky.social: the platform is pulling users to the right, even elites who thought they were immune to radicalisation nymag.com/intelligence...
Man, I don’t know what anyone is arguing about on here today, but I wore the widest tie you’ve ever seen today.
This is so so good. Not the point of the piece, but it’s also an incredible answer to why college is so expensive, too.
Miriam Posner@miriamposner.com · 6mo agoGotta say, this made me tear up a bit. Just beautiful skating and performance and flow. And the Oaklandness of it all… Fearless, loose, fun. Coming off the ice, elated, and drops “That’s what I’m fucking talking about!” right into the camera. 10/10 no notes youtu.be/VCrFaRsezGo?...
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Honestly, journalism funders should have just handed them 10x this amount, but maybe it’s better to come from the community.
Shot On 35mm@shoton35mm.bsky.social · 6mo agoToday @lataco.bsky.social launched a fundraiser to help me start their investigative news desk. We're hoping to raise $25k to help pay for lab tests, analyze ICE data that the Daily Memo's been compiling + work with more freelancers. Been dreaming of this for years! givebutter.com/la-taco-inve...
Anyone know how muddy it is in Redwood Regional right now? I’m gonna run it regardless, but I definitely want to know how spattered I will be
I'm pretty proud of this poem I made out of the euphemisms that companies used to describe the ICE occupation in corporate communications. Also read the whole story: racketmn.com/corporate-co...
@brockwinstead.bsky.social think my newsletter is gonna be about KJ snd that album
