Rachael Myrow
@rachaelmyrow.bsky.social
@KQEDNews | @NPRNews | Experts: "Formidable Provenance"+"The Queen of Succinct"
Seriously, if you're curious what an engaging conversation about the national debt sounds like, give a listen. My guests Scott Horsley, Talmon Joseph Smith and Maya MacGuineas were FABULOUS! 😍 www.kqed.org/forum/201010...
Can Anyone Solve America’s $40 Trillion Debt Problem? | KQED
We talk to economic experts about the current and future impacts, and whether there’s a solution.
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What a week! You'll recall the AGs v Meta trial in Oakland came to a screeching halt with a settlement announced and approved on Wednesday. And as the smoke clears, we ask "IS this a good deal, tho?" For children? For parents?
#ICYMI Meta’s landmark child safety settlement with 47 states+ set a new industry standard for child and teen tech protections, reshaping how young people interact with social media. @agrobbonta.oag.ca.gov warned other tech titans, including the owners of #TikTok, #snapchat and #YouTube.
Do you work at Meta and work on this logo? DM me and let’s talk (anonymously!) ✉️ cyd.01 on Signal
Gazetteer SF@sf.gazetteer.co · 3w ago"This new logo keeps the hokey but adds the corporate soullessness of a salad slop chain, like a down-market Sweetgreen," one designer told us — but their peers don't all agree. We rounded up four design experts and asked what they think about Instagram's much-maligned new logo:
Heading into Week 2 of AGs v Meta in Oakland, the fight moves from what the world's largest social media giant knew to whether social media actually harms kids. San Diego State University's Jean Twenge says the evidence shows a clear causal path.
Whistleblower Arturo Béjar acknowledged that Meta hired highly hundreds of well-qualified people to work on safety. But, he said, the company also elided the psychological harm it caused children behind euphemistic language and misleading metrics. “Safety and security was an afterthought.”
🧵 On #DayOne of the Meta youth-addiction trial in Oakland, Deputy AG for California Megan O’ Neill told Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers (and advisory jury), “We’re not here to hold Meta responsible for bad people who post bad things.”
🎙️TUESDAY at 9 am PST on KQED Forum: In 1962, Rachel Carson warned us that the chemicals we spray on our fields don't stay in the fields. Sixty years later, the pesticides are still with us, and PFAS, and microplastics. So where does that leave us — the public in public health?
🎙️MONDAY at 9 am PST on @kqedforum.bsky.social: Remember when we were all told to bring our full selves to work? That’s in the rear view mirror now. 🫠 Claire Stapleton spent twelve years helping tell Google’s story from the inside.
#isthisatrend #orjustvibes Google's Play Store started opening up to rival app stores in the US under a court order stemming from the case lost to Epic. Then, the European Comm fined Google @$1 Bil. "Google lost. And I think that perception will affect juries going forward." - @tnarecha.bsky.social
#huggingface 🤗 OpenAI and Anthropic are the only two frontier AI developers that have publicly disclosed a containment failure... which is not the same as being the only two to have had one.
"My dad’s fame, especially with Phantasm, is for a particular subset of humanity: Gen X males. Every now and then here at KQED, some guy of a certain age will rush up to me and say, ‘Rachael Myrow, are you related to Fred Myrow?" www.kqed.org/arts/1381319...
An Iconic Horror Soundtrack's Surprising KQED Connection | KQED
The Tall Man has a strange connection to KQED -- are you brave enough to investigate?
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🎙️At 10 AM on @kqedforum.bsky.social Few stories move us the way Homer’s Odyssey does. The ancient Greek epic about a war hero’s circuitous and messy journey home to his wife and son is so provocative, and so weird, it’s inspired multiple translations over the generations.
#RememberWhen Dario Amodei predicted AI would replace software engineers in 6–12 months? And Sam Altman warned entry-level white-collar jobs were about to go the way of the 🦕🦕? Not to throw my compatriots 👩🏻💻🧑🏾💻under the 🚌, but many in the tech press are hard-wired to note the layoffs vs the hirings.
Check out Catherine Breed's progress swimming along the CA coast in July at www.swimcalifornia.com
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Rachael Myrow@rachaelmyrow.bsky.social · 3mo ago🎙️At 10 AM on @kqedforum.bsky.social Catherine Breed will join me to talk about how she plans in July to start to swim along the coast of California, from the Oregon border to the Mexican one. If she succeeds, swimming about 5 hours a day for 3-4 months, she'll be the first to have done this thing.
🎙️At 10 AM on @kqedforum.bsky.social Catherine Breed will join me to talk about how she plans in July to start to swim along the coast of California, from the Oregon border to the Mexican one. If she succeeds, swimming about 5 hours a day for 3-4 months, she'll be the first to have done this thing.
Three years after this 2023 strike, the fight over AI's March on Hollywood has only gotten hotter. Coming up at 10 AM Tuesday on @kqedforum.bsky.social, I'll talk about "The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly" with Steven Zeitchik of The Hollywood Reporter and Peter Murrieta of the @wgawest.bsky.social.
RIP David Hockney, an English immigrant to California, whose saturated, sun-drenched paintings captured the dreamlike, sultry quality so many of us appreciate most about life in the "Golden State." For @kqedarts.bsky.social a few years back, I got to witness him young artists in East Palo Alto.
#WaitingToExhale Since the #H1BVisa program was introduced in 1990, it's been the primary pathway for #siliconvalley companies to take advantage of foreign talent. And vice versa. All of that is now back in play after a federal judge in Boston blocked Trump's $100,000 visa fee Monday.
What does national defense have to do with shipping coal to Asia out of West Oakland? The Trump administration just invoked the Defense Production Act, a Cold War-era law, to revive a terminal this city spent a decade trying to kill. @replsimon.bsky.social weighed in today on @kqednews.kqed.org
Why is a California Republican pushing a federal shield for stone makers in Minnesota + Spain? A CA ban on high-silica stone would stop the next generation of sick workers - IF it happens - but McClintock's bill erases recourse for the young men already dying from cutting our kitchen countertops.
Sarah Wynn-Williams signed a non-disparagement agreement in 2017 and took the severance. Then she wrote a bestselling book about her time at the social media giant. Now Meta is keen to stop her from appearing in public and/or promoting the book. ...
So proud of @faridajhabvala.bsky.social for winning a regional #Murrow for Investigative Reporting (!!!) for one of her stories about #silicosis. We knew (I get to edit her radio features) that this was big when she started pursuing this beat.
California Doctors Urge Ban on Engineered Stone as Silicosis Cases Surge | KQED
California stoneworkers are becoming severely ill from silica dust exposure from cutting engineered stone, prompting urgent warnings from doctors and workplace safety experts as Australia’s 2024 ban u...
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RIP Jerry Neuman, an iconic voice on KQED-FM for 37 years until he retired in 2013. For those of us who remember those pipes, a sad day indeed. 😕https://www.kqed.org/news/106157/kqeds-jerry-neuman-retires-after-37-years
backstabbing! secret affairs! and also a dramatic reading of the texts from the night of the openai coup!
morgan sung@morgansung.bsky.social · 3mo agothis week's ep is so much fun!! rachael spills the tea on the courtroom drama of the century. backstabbing! secret affairs! and also a dramatic reading of the texts from the night of the openai coup! we got it all, minus the fancy butt cushions
TONIGHT! Stanford University isn’t just a leading academic institution in the San Francisco Bay Area. It's where many of Silicon Valley's ruling elite go shopping for protégés, according to the admirably accomplished already investigative journalist Theo Baker.
I was not looking anywhere in the vicinity of their butts! But perhaps I should have been? @morgansung.bsky.social and @goosenaut.bsky.social of the @kqednews.kqed.org podcast "Close All Tabs" help me process what I sat through, and I mean SAT through not too long ago. www.kqed.org/news/1208523...
Musk v. Altman Was Peak Silicon Valley Theatrics | KQED
For three weeks, all eyes were on a salacious courtroom drama unfolding in Oakland, California. The Musk v. Altman trial had everything you’d expect from a favorite soap opera: Backstabbing? Check! Se...
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When even software engineers and scientists are struggling with Bay Area #housing math, something has gone wrong with how this place values people and all the good they bring here. “We have a very hot economy. It’s creating a lot of wealth.... And our housing is too expensive.”
