Cyrus Farivar
@cfarivar.bsky.social
"suh-ROOS" / سیروس 🕵️ Deputy Local Editor, East Bay Times 📰 🎧 Ex: Forbes, NBC, Ars Technica 🖖 Friend of DeSoto 😎 Nice dude 🐻 4th-gen Californian // Oakland, CA 📥 cfarivar@bayareanewsgroup.com 📥 cyrus@farivar.media 📱 +1-341-758-0888 (mobile/Signal)
Oakland reaches tentative deal with SEIU, averting strike www.eastbaytimes.com/2026/10/30/o...
Oakland reaches tentative deal with SEIU, averting strike
The Service Employees International Union Local 1021’s tentative three-year labor contract includes a 9% wage increase over three years.
eastbaytimes.com
Evacuation is becoming a mindset as one climate shock after another rewires our brains. Any spot fire that routinely erupts near my Bay Area home could explode into an urban inferno within minutes. So when Watch Duty calls in the middle of the night, I pick up. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Climate Change Is Teaching Us to Be Ready to Run
As disasters become harder to escape, more people are learning to live in a permanent state of evacuation readiness.
bloomberg.com
This brought me to tears. Thank you, Captain. 😭😭😭 www.youtube.com/watch?v=cKcH...
Patrick Stewart | Star Trek: TNG Picard Tribute
YouTube video by Target Audience
youtube.com
Oakland’s First Fridays street festival may end as sponsors exit www.mercurynews.com/2026/10/30/o...
Oakland’s First Fridays street festival may end as sponsors exit
OAKLAND — A beloved street festival is very likely to permanently end after more than a decade, organizers announced on their website on Oct. 14. Oakland First Fridays began in its current form in 20...
mercurynews.com
We lost a giant today. I've never heard a bad word said against him as an actor or as a person.
NPR@npr.org · 2d agoStewart was raised by an abusive father but became best known for playing kind, paternal leaders who united families of misfits. n.pr/4zhn29Y
It's only been like ten minutes since I found out, just before it hit the press, so I'm staggered and doing my best to process everything, while my phone is blowing up.
I wish I really were a Traveler of all of space and time.
It’s only been like ten minutes since I found out, just before it hit the press, so I’m staggered and doing my best to process everything, while my phone is blowing up. There will be wonderful obituaries and reflections from so many people who knew him. I’m going to do...
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He inspired a whole next generation of star-gazers who looked longingly ahead to a brighter future for all humanity. Our hearts are heavy, indeed. Rest in the heavens, Captain.
Fans across the world mourn the passing of a true and irreplaceable legend. As Captain Jean-Luc Picard, Patrick Stewart took the starship Enterprise to places it had never gone before.
OUSD stopped investing in marketing — and enrollment slowed down oaklandside.org/2026/10/29/o...
OUSD stopped investing in marketing — and enrollment slowed down
A federal immigration crackdown also dramatically eroded enrollment by recent immigrants.
oaklandside.org
TIL: Patrick Stewart performed at the Berkeley Repertory Theater in 2013. 🖖 bsky.app/profile/east...
East Bay Times@eastbaytimes.com · 2d agoHe died Wednesday in Los Angeles, following “a brief and poignant journey” with Alzheimer’s disease and Lewy Body Dementia, a spokesperson said.
Absolutely crushing. May you rest among the stars. 🖖
I’m ugly crying in my office right now. Go hug someone you love.
Captain Picard is one of the greatest characters ever. Brilliantly portrayed by Sir Patrick Stewart. I am devastated. May their memories be a blessing.
You never forget your first captain. 💔🖖 “Make now always the most precious time. Now will never come again.” - Capt. Jean-Luc Picard www.nytimes.com/2026/10/29/a...
Patrick Stewart, Captain Picard on ‘Star Trek: The Next Generation,’ Dies
The British actor was 86. He achieved pop-culture stardom as Capt. Jean-Luc Picard on “Star Trek: The Next Generation.”
nytimes.com
Anthropic Flags Gas Supply as One of Its Biggest Near-Term Risks (by @mollytaft.com) www.wired.com/story/anthro...
Anthropic Flags Gas Supply as One of Its Biggest Near-Term Risks
The data center buildout could cause a massive increase in gas prices as companies scramble for limited supplies and infrastructure fails to meet demand.
wired.com
I just got back from the DMV and boy the last part of the first quarter of that valks game was somehow more painful
Alameda County supervisors approve 10-year Flock Safety drone contract www.eastbaytimes.com/2026/10/29/a...
Alameda County supervisors approve 10-year Flock Safety drone contract
Alameda County’s 10-year contract for Flock Safety drone docking stations aims to speed up emergency responses, but privacy advocates warn of potential surveillance overreach.
eastbaytimes.com
Bay Area leaders remember Dolores Huerta as a mentor whose personal encouragement helped turn their convictions into action.
‘She always showed up’: Bay Area remembers Dolores Huerta
eastbaytimes.com
Reminder that Elon has a security clearance due to SpaceX and other contracts.
Cyrus Farivar@cfarivar.bsky.social · 2d agoElon Musk is a 'real genius', Putin says after satellite talks with SpaceX boss bbc.com/news/article...
Elon Musk is a 'real genius', Putin says after satellite talks with SpaceX boss bbc.com/news/article...
Elon Musk a 'real genius', Putin says after talks with SpaceX boss
The Russian President praised Musk and said they are in "close" contact.
bbc.com
i love when we’re in the cool parts of a William Gibson novel
Highway thieves are spoofing GPS to steal millions in data center-bound cargo
Investigators explain how highway thieves stole $100M in data center equipment.
arstechnica.com
After hundreds protested Google’s northeast Minnesota data center Monday night, preventing any government action, Hermantown city leaders rescheduled it for Tuesday night. Tuesday they canceled it again.
Hermantown postpones critical data center vote for second night
The Hermantown City Council was meant to vote on several agreements for Google’s proposed data center project.
startribune.com
Would you like to know more? I've posted my bibliography: www.adam-rogers.net/insurance
Research materials for "The Race for the Worst Job in California Politics"
A bibliography for the Businessweek article on the race for California insurance commissioner, and the critical connection between climate change disasters, insurance, and the global economy
adam-rogers.net
