@atls.city !set US-CA-LosAngeles

Spotify decided to enshittify its API this month, which is forcing me to shut down the Daily Random playlist I've been running since 2015. The app randomly selects 30 songs daily to expose you to different types of music. open.spotify.com/playlist/6p2...

Daily Random

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I'm going to "We’re All Builders Now: atproto LA × ACE Los Angeles — March 23"!

Our founder @devingaffney.com also got in the mix with a "chill" for you feed that intentionally tries to minimize politics and news for when you need a break from the nightmare

It appears that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has, within the past week, scrubbed a large amount of climate change content from its official website, as well as *removed human-caused warming* from the discussion on its "causes of climate change" page.

@cmonstah.bsky.social Hi! What’s the best way to pitch you on a story?

this about sums things up.

The Chemical Safety Board does not duplicate OSHA or EPA. It's more like the NTSB of chemical plant incidents. Eliminating the #CSB will mean more chemical releases, evacuations illnesses and deaths -- everywhere in the US, not just cancer alley. www.yahoo.com/news/trump-s...

Trump shutdown of chemical safety watchdog could mean ‘more explosions, more deaths’ in Cancer Alley

On a summer night in 2023, an explosion at one of Louisiana’s biggest petrochemical complexes sent a plume of fire into the sky. More explosions followed as poison gas spewed from damaged tanks at the...

yahoo.com

for context here’s a map of greater Los Angeles and the protest is the roughly the red circle

Chad Loder@chadloder.dev · last yr.

Another thing to mention for people who don't live in LA. Most of LA is very chill and peaceful right now. There's a huge Pride fest going on, countless farmer's markets, tourists walking around, families at the parks, people walking their dogs. It's a big place.

just that period reminder that content posted to Bluesky is public to *anybody*. if you don't want to see it used in a court of law, don't post it here. and DMs here are not E2EE, they can be subpoened. a great use for bsky DMs is to share secure comms and move the conversation there.

US Census updated its city-level pop estimates today, showing population increases from 2023–24 in most cities. Interesting data: —NYC added 87k, up to ~8.5 m —LA added 31k —Chicago added 22k —Seattle added 17k, up to 781k. This is up from 563k in 2000! Its density went from 6700 ppl/sq mi to 9300!

Population Growth Reported Across Cities and Towns in All U.S. Regions

Cities of all sizes grew on average from 2023 to 2024, according to the U.S. Census Bureau’s Vintage 2024 Subcounty population estimates released today.

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NHK on the tariffs on uninhabited islands:

Historically prescient. What he said six and seven decades ago is still relevant and likely to become yet more so. www.liberalcurrents.com/existential-...

Existential Liberalism: James Baldwin and the Problem of Freedom

The burden of freedom has always been heavy, and Baldwin forces us to confront whether we are willing to bear it.

liberalcurrents.com

*Please repost* @sjgreenwood.bsky.social and I just launched a new personalized feed (*please pin*) that we hope will become a "must use" for #academicsky. The feed shows posts about papers filtered by *your* follower network. It's become my default Bluesky experience bsky.app/profile/pape...

@bcantrill.bsky.social re: your comment on the latest oxide pod about wanting feeds for podcasts, @listennotes.com kind of does this! thebrowser.com has an excellent podcast feed there called The Audio Browser. It’s a feed of hand-picked episodes from other podcasts. Highly recommended.

The Browser

Feed your curiosity with daily writings and listenings on art, politics, science, history, and every other topic you can imagine.

thebrowser.com

Now, neighbors and advocates in a group called Open Sidewalks LA (@opensidewalks.la) want the gates removed. Read Maylin Tu’s (@maylintu) story to learn more about why the gates separated the community in the first place and what neighbors are doing about it now. buff.ly/3N9102X

Decades ago, homeowners gated public streets in the name of curbing crime. Now, a group is trying to take them down

To some neighbors, the gates are an ugly symbol of exclusion and segregation.

buff.ly

Interesting work from @drib.net exploring and clustering image concepts with Gemma Scope got.drib.net/latents/

Hello, LA! We have set up shop at 3rd and Catalina in Koreatown! Try our new low-fat steak elote!

@depthsofwiki.bsky.social en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...

Who uses Bluesky? We look at the political leanings of Users, and investigate polarisations and political leanings on Bluesky. Bluesky users are almost exclusively center-left leaning with a unimodal distribution of political opinions.

@jaz.bsky.social Is the embedding at bsky.jazco.dev/atlas being updated anymore? I was thinking of building a feed based on it.

I’ve come around the world and back again on my feelings after a decade of digisec work, facing this next chapter of madness. We know all the kinds of data that get collected, carry risks. But we overwhelm people with recommendations, spend too little time repeating fundamentals: Switch to Signal.

@jaz.bsky.social is the discover feed algorithm open source? I was curious how it worked but don’t see it on the GitHub.

Hello Bluesky! It’s what you’ve all been waiting for: the Knock LA Voter Guide (November 2024 edition) knock-la.com/the-knock-la...

The Knock LA Progressive Voter Guide for the November 2024 General Election - Knock LA

The Most Anticipated - with breakdowns of city, county, state, and federal races, plus ballot initiatives!

knock-la.com

Happy "new USCSB video" day to all who celebrate (via @shi.pe) www.youtube.com/watch?v=hxkR...

Designed to Fail: Chemical Release at LyondellBasell

A CSB safety video on the fatal release of acetic acid at the LyondellBasell La Porte Complex in La Porte, Texas, on July 27, 2021, that killed two contract...

youtube.com

On June 25, 1961, the ‘space age’ Theme Building structure at Los Angeles International Airport was officially dedicated

@johnpfaff.bsky.social Do you have any writing about Prop 47? I’ve started to see more people talking about it with the new ballot initiative this November. I’m having a hard time finding good academic writing about the issue.

@voberoi.bsky.social Awesome work on citymeetings.nyc. Do you have any plans to expand to other cities like Los Angeles?

!jazbot whereami

I am jealous, as I don't think I'll ever get to write an opening graf as good as this one in LA Mag. And the story only gets more bizarre as it goes on. lamag.com/news/exclusi...